You Make Life Sweet Shaker Card

This month our sponsor for Twisted Thursday is Time for Tea. The optional twist for this week is Something Sweet.

The image is Baker Girl. I colored her with Copics and Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut her out. The card was created using a shaped cupcake card from My Scrap Chick. That one doesn't seem to be available any longer, but she has lots of other ones. I used my Scan n Cut to cut the pieces out. The frosting is very sparkly white paper from DCWV Metallics. I used a Fluffy Clouds die from Polka Doodles to make the cut out for the shaker portion of the frosting. The sentiment is from Inky Antics, Chocolate.

I made a huge error when I assembled the card. I had used an embossing folder to make creases in the paper portion of the cupcake and it wound up on the back;
I had to draw the lines on the front. I used some glossy accents on the cherry just for fun.

Copic Markers Used

Time for Tea

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Happy Snowman Shaker Card

Our sponsor this month is My Creative Scoop. I selected the image Happy-Snowman to use in our optional twist on Twisted Thursday, Shake Your Confetti!

I added some second generation snowflakes behind him and used the first generation stamping to cut out the sentiment from Paper Smooches set called Warm Hearts. The wood grain paper is from Stampin Up, and a sparkly bow and a few more of the shaker snowflakes were added for some more interest.

Copic Markers Used

Mindy, My Creative Scoop, has lots of Copic marker information, classes, and free digis like this little snowman. Do pay her a visit!





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Swish the Angelfish

This month, our sponsor for the Freebie Progressive Monthly Challenge over at The Outlawz is "me"! Some of you may know that I am a Certified Zentangle Teacher, so I designed an angelfish using some tangles. I also created one without tangles so that participants can skip the tangled parts or add their own. I hope you all enjoy Swish the Angelfish.
This one was colored with Copics and mounted on an Oxide Distress Ink background. Swish is full of tangles in this version.

It important for you to know that these images, while using some of the patterns of Zentangle are in actuality ZIA’s (Zentangle Inspired Art). The Zentangle® method is an easy to learn, relaxing and fun way to use structured patterns to create beautiful images. Find out more about this method from the founders of this meditative approach to art on their website. Zentangle.com

If you are interested in seeing what I do with Zentangle, I invite you to visit my other blog, Tangle Street.

Here is a simplified version of Swish with some organic tangles added as water foliage. (Colored pencils with Gamsol.)

And, finally, I wanted you to see what fun it is to use digital images by resizing and flipping so that Swish can go in both directions in this shaker card. (Watercolored fish with a texture paste through a stencil for the background.)

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Cold Days Shaker Card

Twisted Thursday's optional twist on The Outlawz is to make a Christmas Card. You don't have to ask me twice. I love doing Christmas cards, especially with images from our sponsor PPinkyDolls! My image, Cold Days, was perfect to use in a winter globe shaker card! I colored her using Polychromos colored pencils. The base of the snow globe is by Darice but I used larger circle dies for the globe itself. The sparkly snowflakes were die cut using Mini Snowflakes from Lawn Fawn. The sentiment is also die cut with the Merry Christmas die from Elizaeth Dies.

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Coral Corner Shaker Card

This month, the sponsor for Twisted Thursday, is Digistamps4Joy. This week is an anything goes! I selected Coral Corner and made it into a shaker card. I used an embossing folder and colored it with Distress Inks. I cut out a couple of the pieces that were left over from the center and flipped them over and colored with an orange ink. The bottom shell is popped up for dimension. Sentiment is from Tim Holtz Saying Stuff. A few sequins and some tiny beads finished the card.

Copic Colors Used

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Hot Chick Flamingo Shaker Card

From the Heart, i {heart} card sketches w/ a tWiSt #153 offered a sketch and an optional twist to fussy cut the image. I wasn't able to fussy cut this sweet flamingo because his legs were just to skinny LOL! However, I did flip the image because I had something totally different in mind when I began this card. This image is called Hot Chick Flamingo and I knew I wanted to make a shaker card. Then, everything went sideways on me. Ever have one of those days? At least I followed the sketch, and it turned out fine (but different) in the end. The image was colored with Polychromos pencils. The sentiment comes with the set.

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Spooky Owl Shaker Card

For the last twist of the month, Twisted Thursday at The Outlawz is an anything goes. Our sponsor this month has been Stitchy Bear, and I found this wonderful spooky owl silhouette digital stamp that just begged to be turned into a shaker card. I only used three Copics to color this one, Y11,Y13, and Y15. I added a few yellow sequins and some gold and clear fine glitter. The sentiment is from Recollections which I heat embossed with black embossing powder from Ranger.  I also added some gold button brads.

Hello Kitty and Happy Birthday Owen

This month, Twisted Thursday, over at The Outlawz, is pleased to have Stitchy Bear as a sponsor. My great-grandson just turned one and I thought a shaker card with this adorable little "hello kitty" would make him smile. The kitty was given texture with the rough fabric and Copic blender technique and a bit of Wink of Stella was added to his eyes, nose, mouth and bow. The background stripes under the sequins were made with Copics. I even made a banner with his name on it and added a balloon die with his year.

Copic Colors Used

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Tulip Shaker Card

The optional twist this week for Twisted Thursday over at The Outlawz is to "use dies". I used a die to cut out the shape of my opening for a shaker card. The pretty little image is from Sami Stamps and is called Tulip Easter Egg. It works nicely for a summery card as well.

Shaker Card

"Anything Goes" over at Twisted Thursday, The Outlawz. Always a favorite. I am loving using our sponsor, Bestie Designs', images. This time, I used Image #064,
and made a shaker card.

Spectrum Noir Colors Used