1st Card of the Year!

Today I made a new baby card. It seems a lot of my friends are expecting this year!

The animation shows the steps of my card but I thought I would add some additional information.

I use these Shake IT pouches for my shaker cards. I get them from my local craft store but you can find them in many placed. I find they work the best with the least amount of work. You may need to use a dryer sheet to remove any static before you place the pouches over the sequins. I usually drop a few sequins in to see how much static they have before I attach it.

Also important is where you place your shaker over your image. You want your main image/words to be just above center with a lot of dead space below. This is so when the sequins are sitting they do not cover anything important and you can see the image/words. Ask me how I know ;)  Lastly, using one layer & masking is the only way to go if you don't want sequins getting stuck.

I made the background using the Bokeh technique I saw in one of the Lawn Fawn videos Here. Basically you ink your stamp and then stamp your paper several times (I did three) before you re-ink your stamp.

So that's it, I hope you enjoyed my card.

Entry for Simon Says... Something New