Negative Die Cut Lucky Shaker Card

Hi! Remember my Lucky Gnomes card from last week? I die cut the word "lucky" with the Thin Alpha Dies from Pink & Main. I was left with this fun sentiment block that was just too perfect to throw away, so I decided to put it to good use!

This whole card started with the green piece with the word "lucky" die cut from the center. It's technically trash! A leftover piece that for some reason caught my eye. I had blended on some green ink with an Ergonomic Blending Brush and added flicks of black paint and used the Thin Alpha Dies to die cut the word from it for a card I made last week. I looked at this leftover piece and immediately saw a shaker card!

I added a piece of acetate behind the die cut panel and used foam tape to create a traditional shaker well and filled it up with rainbow semi translucent sequins. I wanted to have a fun background, so I adhered the Clover Stencil on top of an A2 card and used an Ergonomic Blender Brush to blend some mustard yellow ink over the stencil. I adhered the shaker panel on top of the card base and I just LOVE how the green and yellow pair together!

I stamped a coordinating sentiment from the Lucky Gnomes stamp set and trimmed it into a banner and added it on top of the word shaker panel. Then I finished off the card with a scattering of dots from the Enchanted Garden Enamel Shapes pack. That's it! I hope this inspires you to look at your "trash" pieces of die cut cardstock in a new way!

Gnomes, and Luck, and Clovers, Oh My!

Hello, everyone! Tis the season for everything lucky! The Lucky Gnomes stamp set and the Clover stencil from Pink & Main pair together so PERFECTLY I couldn't not use them together!

I decided to use the Clover stencil along with the new Mask It Oval stencil. I love this whole new line of masking stencils! There are a bunch of different shapes and lines etched in to the stencil so you know just where to position an A2 sized card! Fabulous! I lined up my card with the etched lines at the back of the Mask It Oval stencil and taped it in place. Then I added the Clover stencil over that and taped the two stencils together. I added green ink over the top of the two stencils with the Ergonomic Blending Brush. When I removed both stencils I have clovers stenciled in the shape of an oval! Yay!

I stamped two gnomes from the Lucky Gnomes stamp set and colored them with traditional colors and die cut them with the Lucky Gnomes dies. I wanted to have a big green sentiment, so I blended some green ink onto a piece of cardstock with an Ergonomic Blending Brush and then spattered on some black ink for contrast and die cut the word "lucky" with the Thin Alpha Dies. I decided to add some black paint spatters over the clovers, so I replaced the Mask It Oval stencil and added the paint spatters. I adhered the "lucky" sentiment with liquid adhesive and the gnomes with foam tape. I also stamped a coordinating sentiment from the Lucky Gnomes stamp set and added that with foam tape.

I finished off the card with a few green hearts from the Enchanted Garden enamel shapes set and added liquid glitter to the gnomes for sparkle! See you soon!