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Although this card took me way longer than I wanted it too, I love the outcome.
I started by sponging through the stencil in blue ink on the blue card base, moved the stencil marginally, then sponged it with iridescent medium. I think my impression of water moving worked - the stencil I used is called Waving Branches, and should be used vertically, not horizontally!
I then cut a window using the Peek a boo window die from MFT, from white cardstock, sized to cover the card front with a small border. I stamped and silver embossed the fish on a snippet, and then painted it with Iridescent Blue Twinklng H2O paint, which you can just see on the tail flukes. I created an acetate window, and glued the fish across the bottom of the aperture.
The sentiment was also stamped in blue using a vertical stamp. All the edges were sponged with the same ink. I adhered two layers of foam on the back, filled the shaker element with blue and white sequins, and adhered the blue base card over it.
The inside was finished with some blue and silver sparkle tape, and some silver spotted washi.
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34 comments:
Maxine, this is super! So fresh and clean and just crisp and beautiful - love the iridescent look! Fabulous birthday card!
This is quite stunning Maxine, love the techniques you have used
LOVE this Maxine, we both have been on a 'sea' change I see, but your design is just beautiful.xx
Maxine, your shaker card is gorgeous! Love the shimmery feel and the stunning image. WOW! What a great birthday card!
Just so you know I've been to take a peek. Bxx
Oh Maxine this is a stunner! The best ever. CarolG
Really fabulous shaker card, Maxine. I love your gorgeous design.
Such an inspiration for card making amateurs, like me. Thank you so much for sharing the instructions. This is really helpful.
Hugs, my dear friend.
Well Maxine, the time and effort you put in on this card was totally worth it! I love this fun shaker card! The iridescent look of the water makes it look so real and I just love that fish the way you did him. A perfect place for a vertical sentiment too, I don't use mine that much and need to! Hugs, Brenda
But soooooooooooooo worth it, fab LIM make
Kathyk
WOW ! What a gorgeous shaker card. The waves are so beautiful with all this shimmer as well as the fish. Beautiful design too for this CAS card. Unfortunately you entered to many challenges according Less is More rules, anyway thank you to show your card in our gallery and I hope you will come back and play with us again.
Fantastic card Maxine! LOVE the beautiful layered stenciling of your waves. The iridescent ones really shimmer and shine. Great design with your shakes window and beautiful large fish on the corner. Thanks so much for sharing with us at CAS Stencil! xx
Gorgeous card, Maxine! I love the creative way you used your stencil and how you added sparkle to your design! I also love that you chose silver to heat emboss the fish...such a strikingly beautiful card! Thanks so much for playing along with us at CAS Stencil!
You should be so proud of this card - it is simply beautiful. I love how you have placed the fish to frame the water - and the water is gorgeous. An absolutely stunning card. One of my favourites.
Hugs Blessings, Neet x
A Very nice card Maxine. Your moving water is wonderful. I like the window die'cut. It's not one I am familiar with at all. And what a handsome fish. H2Os are just perfect for anything like that. My dad would have liked that. He was a fisherman by hobby, not for work, and he always dreamed of the 'next big one'. Kate xx
Brilliant work Maxine. Its a real eyr catching creation! I've done that moving stencil before and was only thinking the other day I must try it again! Dont have that stencil tho. That's a great fish stamp too!!
Well done.
Shaz in Oz. X
superb Maxine. Well worth the extra time it took you. The water is just amazing looking.
Oh wow, hadn't thought that shaker and needlepoint would work so beautifully together, but you made a fine and elegant card! Hugs, Gerrina
How gorgeous Maxine! And so elegant!
Xoxo Olga
Wow..Maxine! That stencil thing is so creative... love how you have thought and made this card so stunning and interactive too.. lots of patience you have.
What a gorgeous effect with your sparkly moving waves behind your shaker window Maxine! and that embossed fish is beautiful in it's size and iridescence! thanks for joining us in the CAS Stencil Challenge! xx
This is so beautiful! And loving what you have done on the inside!
Wonderful die cut window for your gorgeous shiny stenciled wave background, Maxine. I love your pretty heat embossed fish and sentiment too. TFS and joining us at CAS Stencil Card Challenge:Sponging. Hugs..Nancy
Fun shaker! I love the silver embossed shimmery fish! And, your waves- so awesome! Love the movement you obtained with your technique. Also, love the sentiment in blue.
This is so beautiful. I love the shine in the water and the window is the perfect way to show it. The fish is gorgeous and glimmers like fish do.
Wow this is really fun,
Thanks for playing along at Creative Moments for our firt challenge of 2019,
Hugz Tinz
What a great card, Maxine! love the shaker bit behing the lovely fish.
Must be even nicer in person.
What a fabulous card Maxine! So clever to think of using the stencil on its side and adding the wonderfully iridescent fish is just perfect - plus it's a shaker card as well! So much beautiful detail yet you still kept it fresh, clean and very elegant.
Hugs
Di xx
Oh my goodness! This card is just stunning! Very Nicely done!
Maxine, this is an awesome shaker card. You did a great job. I've been wanting to make one for a long time now but still couldn't find the time to do it...LOL Hopefully, soon! Anyway, I want to leave you with an inspiration from the Bible in Isaiah 55:6-7 which says, "Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon." Have a wonderful week.
JO ANN
https://jatterburycreations.blogspot.com
Beautiful card, lots of shimmer and sparkle and detail, and clever to turn the stencil! Xxx
woow the inside of your Shaker Card so shiny Maxine
loveeeely look
and great fish Image too
I never made Shaker Card and I Always love Looking it
great blue fishy Card Maxine
hugs
Monika
Love the glitter waves in the shaker element. The sparkle and shine on this card is amazing.
Thank you for joining us at Li’l Patch of Crafty Friends for our challenge.
This must be one of your best cards, Maxine. The silvery waves take my heart away. The fish looks so elegant.
Love,
Monica
such a beautiful creation - thanks for joining us at the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Challenge
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