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Thursday, November 16, 2017

25 days of christmas tags!


I'm so excited to be joining in Tracey McNeely's annual 25 Days of Christmas Tags! And I'm excited to share some shaker tags I made with my Fuse Tool and the Essentials by Ellen Concertina Tags die.

To start I die cut the tags from plastic. It can be hard to cut plastic using wafer thin dies but I found that the Avery Elle storage pockets work when left whole (so there are two layers of plastic). Using a metal adaptor plate helps too.

 If any plastic is uncut by the die, just use scissors and use them to cut the tags apart too.
I used a pre-heated Fuse Tool to seal the bottom and both sides before filling with sequins from the top and sealing too.

 Once my shaker tags were made, I used shapes die cut from Craft-A-Board to decorate. I love Craft-A-Board for the dimension it adds to projects and also because it is a great surface for Nuvo Mousse. I used Aquamarine and Pink Flambe mousse.

 I didn't have the right shade of aqua cardstock so I used my Copic BG32 to color white cardstock. Then I used it to make little "to" strips and loops to attach twine.
Thanks so much for stopping by and come back soon!
Carly

 supplies:
Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Modern Christmas
Essentials by Ellen Dies, Modern Christmas
Essentials by Ellen Dies, Concertina Tags
Copic Marker BG32
Nuvo Mousse Aquamarine & Pink Flambe
Avery Elle Storage Pockets
Fuse Tool
Pretty Pink Posh Sequins Sparkling Clear Snowflakes, Heart Confetti, Sparkling Clear Confetti & Holiday Snowflake Mix
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Thursday, September 29, 2016

today...

Have you played with a FUSE tool yet? I love mine and today I'm over in The CLASSroom at Ellen Hutson LLC with a little FUSE-made Halloween treat...
Come on over!

 xo,
Carly
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

confetti shaker + essentials by ellen pin-sights challenge

have you seen the pin-sights challenge over in the classroom at ellen hutson llc? i know i'm a little biased (or maybe a lot lol!) because i'm part of the eh team but i think it's a pretty cool challenge. each month the talented & wonderful laurel beard chooses a pinterest piece as inspiration for the challenge. june's pinterest piece and cards from the talented designers playing along, inspired me to create this card:
i created a full panel shaker card with ink splatter on the background, sequins, confetti and acetate butterflies inside. and for fun, i folded and adhered an acetate butterfly on the outside of the shaker too.

xo,
carly
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Saturday, October 3, 2015

happy world card making day + shaker card

happy world card making day! i'm celebrating today by sending out a few cards to friends, including this one that is completely inspired by julie ebersole's adorable hello monday card this week. i loved julie's card so much i had to make one too!
-to create the insert for my shaker, i used ranger watercolor paper cut to 2-1/2 x 4, a my favorite things ray stencil and cracked pistachio distress ink. i applied the ink with a mini ink blending tool and then sprayed a little heidi swapp gold lame color shine on top. then i stamped "sending" from the mama elephant happy everything set and "hugs" from the mama elephant bella letters set.

-for my shaker confetti, i stamped and colored the heart from the lawn fawn milk and cookies set. then i die cut it from the coordinating die set. i also die cut taylored expressions love confetti and hearts & stars from essentials by ellen designer dies home & hearth, all from gold foil paper.

-with my fuse tool, i made a 2-3/4 x 4-1/4 pocket, leaving the top open. i inserted the background, colored hearts, confetti and lots of gold sequins, then i sealed the pocket.

-then i adhered the pocket to a 3-1/2 x 5 card made from solar white cardstock.



have a great day!

xo,
carly
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