Welcome to Fabulous Friday! This week on the Sisters in Stamping blog we are featuring the new shaker frames found in the Holiday Mini catalog - these dimensionals make it so easy to create a shaker frame accent for your paper crafting projects. I decided to go with a 4-1/4" square card this week - they still fit in our medium envelopes but don't require extra postage!
When I first got my Peekaboo Frames bigz die from the Holiday Mini catalog I thought that there were so many more things you could do with this die besides creating an advent calendar. The rectangular shape reminded me of a big picture window and I thought wouldn't it be neat if you used the openings as hinged wooden blinds... that was the inspiration for my card. I must admit that this was a collaborative effort and I owe many thanks to my downline Gaylyn Pantana who graciously agreed to stay after our downline meeting last night and help me create the card that was starting to come together in my head. Thanks so much, Gaylyn!!! The trees are from the Funky Forest wheel and I colored them with my stampin' write markers in soft suede, cajun craze, garden green, soft suede, always artichoke and pumpkin pie and wheeled it across a piece of scrap whisper white card stock. I then attached a piece of medium window sheet behind the early espresso card stock "window" with SNAIL and then added the Shaker Frame pieces cut into long strips to frame the opening. I attached three sides of that to the stamped card stock, leaving one short end open so I could slip in some champagne glass glitter (Gaylyn thought they looked like tiny leaves). Once they were in, I pulled the adhesive off the short side and secured them inside. I then trimmed down the whisper white card stock so you couldn't see it any more. Once that was done I added it to a piece of 4" square DSP from the Nursery Nest package that reminded me of wall paper.
The banner was Gaylyn's idea - I used a sentiment from the Falling Leaves stamp set along with a partial leaf image and anchored it to a scallop circle punched from pumpkin pie card stock that mimicked the shape of one of the tree foliage from the stamped image.
Thanks so much for visiting me today! I hope you'll stop by the Sisters in Stamping blog next to check out some other great ideas for the Shaker Frames. We are offering blog candy this month to celebrate our two year blog anniversary so please leave a comment to be entered in the drawing! You can even go back and leave a comment on last Friday's blog post to enter a second time. Leave a comment each week and you'll get four chances to win!! We are giving away four different prizes so make sure you enter.
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