July/August New Product Blog Hop

Hi There!  I am following {Wendy Kessler's blog}   We have 14 Close to My Heart Consultants participating in our July/August New Product Blog Hop. If you lose your place while traveling through our blog hop, the complete list of participants can be found here.  

Have you taken a look at the new catalog?  The artwork is honestly gorgeous and just begs to be scraplifted.  Why invent the wheel?  So I decided to do just that.  Check out this artwork on page 26.

I have used 3 of these pieces of artwork and made cards with them.  I will show you one I used for a card I especially enjoyed making.  Here is my card:

I have an admission to make - I absolutely hate the Baby Shark song.  The song is like a Brain worm that despite being very catchy, won't leave my brain once I hear it.  BUT, my grandson who just turned 4 absolutely loves this song, and being a great grandma, I made him this card.  

As I made this card I had to sing the Baby Shark Card Song - Baby Shark a doodle doo do do baby ............. well I am sure you know the rest.  I used the Z3966 Jawsome Birthday Stamp + Thin Cuts and it was so fun to play with. Check out the "bite" taken out of the backing for the shaker card.  Isn't that fun?

I used a Cricut cut to cut the waves for the card.  My lighting was a bit wonky and I want to assure you that the cardstock I used was: X6037 Bluebird Cardstock;  X6039 Carolina Cardstock; 1385 White Daisy Cardstock; X6047 Black Cardstock; and Z5946 Linen Cardstock.  For the waves I used the light side of Carolina on the front wave and the dark side for the back wave.  I love that our cardstock has a darker and a lighter side.  Gives me more choices!

The shark was stamped with Z4189 Intense Black Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad so that I could color him with a Z2475 Brown Grey TriBlend Marker.  The little sharks above the wave were stamped with Z2825 Mink Stamp Pad.

I made the shaker part of the card with Z4309 Circle Shaker Window Thin Cuts and the 

Z4310 Circle Shaker Window Foam + Acetate.  I put the Z3676 Blue Belle Loose Sequins inside the shaker window.  The circle frame was cut from X5947 Mink Cardstock

and I used Z3561 Black Diamond Stickles Glitter Glue to make the dots on the circle frame.

I attached the waves to the Linen Cardstock and then ran it through my die cutting machine using the X6246 Stitched Rectangle Frames Thin Cuts so I could add the stitching to the outside of the panel.

The shark was added to the shaker with Z2089 Glue Dots Micro Dots.  And I adhered the card front to a card base from X254 White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack

Thank you for visiting my blog.  I would love for you to show me a little love by leaving me a comment and then please go to our next artist, {Brenda Lapp} and see what she has  made with this adorable stamp set.

You can purchase this stamp set as well as any of the supplies listed above on my website.