For the Green Color Dare Challenge
This week, I am bringing you a little inspiration for the Color Dare Challenge and gifting you with Cricut video tutorial to show you how I made today’s project. Before I show you my Rainy Day Shaker card, I want to remind you how to join this week’s color challenge.
Use ONLY the colors and neutral tones identified. When you are creating for more than one challenge please make sure your project meets our requirement.
Please link up your project to the Color Dare Blog before May 28th
Like the grass in my backyard, this challenge is all green. With the rain we have been having lately, my “desert” home looks more like something from the northwestern states. Each day the clouds roll in, and I am happy to see the rain come down. That is what inspired me to create this Rainy Day Shaker card.
Although it is very hard to see in the photo, this card has quite a bit of green on and in it. The design started out with a card image I found in the Artfully Sent Cricut collection. In my tutorial, I show you how I used the Slice Tool♥ to turn the front of this card into a shaker frame.
Once the images had been cut out, I stamped a sentiment onto the front of the card using Evergreen ink. The sentiment is from another one of my favorite stamp sets in the May/June catalog – A Million Little Things. I can’t wait to show you the other cards I make with this one.
I chose to use vellum instead to acetate to represent the clouds that lay low♥ in my yard each morning after a rain storm. It’s hard to see in the photo, but there is some green plaid paper and Julep sequins hanging out behind that opaque vellum.
The plaid paper is from our new Aurora collection. This collection has an outdoorsy feel and is the perfect complement to this rainy day card. I like how subtle and soft it all feels – just like the morning fog.
For those who would like to make a Rainy Day Shaker card of their own, I have created a simple Cricut Tutorial & Process Video. This video will walk you through creating the card in Cricut Design Space and assembling it afterwards.
I hope that today’s project inspired you to take another look at the Artfully Sent Cricut collection and create a shaker card of your own. We would love for you to share that creation with us at the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge blog.
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Love the vellum look for your shaker card and looks good with the softened green plaid paper…and love that cricut cut. I’m going to have to pull up that cartridge for sure.
Thank you. I think we all forget about that collection sometimes. I am looking through it again for more card ideas.
Fantastic shaker! Love it!
Thank you, Cat.
Oh I love it! The use of vellum is perfect for the feel you were going for with the clouds. Love the flower overlay, too.
Thank you, Michelle. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial.
WOW! What a beautiful card!
Thank you! I had fun making it.
Oh this is gorgeous!
Fabulous make for Color Dare!
Susan
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Thank you, Susan.
I love how you did the shaker window with vellum, I do love that soft muted appearance. I haven’t got Cricut Design Space (I have an old cricut) yet but your tutorial was great and I definitely need to get design space and start playing with all those features so I’m ready when I get myself a new cricut.
Let me know if you would like to join one of my free basic’s classes. I teach them every month.
You entire artistic concept of representing “the clouds that lay low♥ in my yard each morning after a rain storm” was executed perfectly in this design using the vellum. Lovely card.
Thank you, Rebecca. Out in the desert prairie, this season doesn’t last very long and I will miss it when it is gone.