I am delighted today to be helping Concord & 9th celebrate their first birthday! I love how on trend the Concord & 9th designs are and the owners Angie & Greg are so sweet! I thought a shaker card with the Sweet & Cool set was the perfect way to celebrate an awesome first year! This post is part of a month-long hop, more details of which are below :D All supplies are linked at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used.

I started this card with the Sweet & Cool dies and cut the lolly and stick from Arches cold pressed watercolor card and colored with Zig Clean Color Brush Markers blended out with Wink Of Stella. I added lots of sprinkles in the form of sequins, seed beads and glitter. I also die cut and colored a few hearts from the Sweet & Cool dies and coated those with glossy accents. I added one of these to a twine bow on the lolly and dotted the other two on the shaker section.

For the shaker part of the card I die cut a Stitched Circle from both the front of an Ivory card base and also from a panel of Fog card. I then sandwiched a piece of vellum which I’d white heat embossed with the Tree Ring Background between the layers. I added acetate to the back of the Fog piece which I then adhered with foam adhesive but before doing so I added lots of lovely sequins and beads for the shaker.

Although it is hard to see, because I had cut a circle from the card base as well as from the Fog card, the light shines through the vellum to give a really ethereal look to the shaker – note the difference in the light shining through the upright card to that when the card is laid flat.

For the sentiment I cut the ‘SWEET’ from more watercolor card and gave the letters a light ombre treatment with the Zig Clean Color Markers and then to complete the sentiment added the ‘you’re’ from the Sweet & Cool set with white embossing powder on a Basic Banner of Slate card

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PRIZE & OFFERS

Concord & 9th have kindly offered a $20 gift card to Concord & 9th for one of my readers! Leave a comment below by 23 August and I will pick a winner!

In addition, there’s lots going on over at Concord & 9th, check out their promotions page for all the details. One thing mentioned is a flash sale when they hit 9000 Instagram followers. I’m a big fan of Instagram; it is where I go to relax and flick through to see what everyone has been up to. I’d love it if we could help Concord & 9th achieve this target, so pop on over to Concord & 9th on Instagram and follow them over there :D

SUPPLIES

You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or wording to get taken directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. You can read my affiliate and product disclosure here. I truly appreciate your support.

SSS Concord & 9th SWEET & COOL SSS Concord & 9th SWEET & COOL Dies Concord & 9th TREE RING SSS STITCHED CIRCLES Dies SSS BASIC BANNERS Dies SSS IVORY Card SSS SLATE Card SSS FOG Card Bazzill 40 LB VELLUM Lifestyle Crafts PLASTIC SHEETS Arches COLD PRESS WATERCOLOR PAD 9×12 SSS Kuretake Zig Clean Color at SSS ZIG Wink of Stella CLEAR Versamark WATERMARK INK SSS WHITE Embossing Powder 3M DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Little Things From Lucy’s Cards PEACH SCHNAPPS Sequin Shaker Mix Little Things From Lucy’s Cards JUST PEACHY Sequin Shaker Mix SSS SHAKER SHACK beads Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Dry Glitter ROCK CANDY Ranger GLOSSY ACCENTS Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker PALE PINK Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker LIGHT CARMINE Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker FLESH Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker OATMEAL MINI MISTI Ranger MULTI MEDIUM MATTE Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Martha Stewart MINI SCORING BOARD SSS SMALL TEFLON BONE FOLDER Glue Dots MICRO

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Summary of the project which gives all the views of the card in one photo :D I’d love if you pinned and called by on Pinterest :D