Shake it up for The Friday Mashup!

This week at The Friday Mashup, Lisa is our host and is challenging us to create a shaker card with an animal. I love shaker cards!

My "animal" is the sweet little red cardinal sitting on the tree.

Check out the cool new stamp set from the Holiday catalogue (which was just released yesterday!) that I used on my card this week.

Here's this challenge this week:

1. Create a Project using "Animals"
2. Create a "Shaker card" project
3. or Mash it Up! and create a "Shaker card with an Animal"

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Tara

xox

Bokeh technique for The Friday Mashup!

Over at The Friday Mashup, Holly has a super fun technique for us. I had never seen it before, and it looks super cool. Be sure to stop by and check out what the rest of the Design Team did - all fabulous!

I started with a piece of watercolour paper and did a wash of Night of Navy, Marina Mist and Soft Sky. In hindsight, Soft Sky may have been to light for this technique, but it was all a big learning process! Next, I made myself a mask using different sized circle punch cut outs. I sponged white Craft ink.

The cute little houses are from the new Holiday catty, which is going live very, very soon (I promise)! There are so many amazing goodies in there that I don't even know what to do with them all.

The second part of the mashup challenge was to use die cuts. I thought I had ordered the bundle for this fab stamp set, but when I search my box (and then my order slip, and then the actual order) I realized I hadn't. So let's pretend the houses were die cut, because they could have been ;)

Check out the challenge this week:

1. Create a project with the "Bokeh Technique"
2. Create a project with "Die Cuts"
3. or Mash it Up! and create a "Bokeh project using a Die Cut"

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Tara

xox