Mini Slimline Balloon Birthday Shaker and Floral Cards | Crafty Meraki

Hello again! I am back once again today to share with you a few cards I made to help celebrate Crafty Meraki's Second Anniversary! 

Join me over on Instagram as I am super excited to participate in the Crafty Meraki IG Anniversary Hop. ONE lucky winner will win the FULL RELEASE BUNDLE 💃🏻🎉 and ONE additional winner will win 💵 $100 gift card to redeem towards Crafty Meraki Products!! 

Since it is their birthday I thought a birthday shaker would be fun to make. This mini slimline frameless shaker features the new Party Balloons Mini Slimline Meraki Para-dies that I paired with the sentiments from the Birthday Slimline Tag.

If you are curious about how this shaker was assembled, click HERE for a video I made a while ago. To create the background there was a lot of paper piecing happening here. I die cut the Party Balloons Mini Slimline Meraki Para-dies 3 times, one white layer and two black layers. For the white layer, I ink blended all the balloon colors using distress oxide inks. I then sandwiched the white layer between the two black ones. For the top black layer, I snipped the inside out just using the black frame. 

For the next two cards, I kept them super simple and just focused on the flowers. I sometimes like to keep the sentiments off the card until I am ready to send it to someone. This way they are more versatile. Both finished cards are 5X7s.  

To create this first one I used masking tape to block off a frame, and then added the ink blended grass and sky. Next, I die cut and pieced together the June Meraki Fora Para-Dies.

I then added the Meraki Sparkle Prismatic Green Crystals. To the centers, I also added some tiny beads.

This next card features the Madison Meraki Flora Para-Dies. The fun part about these dies is the cut lines in the flowers. They allow you to easily do some masking for ink blending, which is awesome if you want to use more than one color. I just slipped post-it paper in the cut lines and then blended.

You can see on the left flower my masking wasn't perfect, but I learned from my mistakes when I blended the one on the right. 

To finish up this card I added some Meraki Sparkle Prismatic Blue Crystals, even though they are blue they reflect a lot of purples.

I hope these Merakiversary Cards inspire you today. Happy 2nd Birthday Crafty Meraki, and thank you for inviting me to join you on your special day. To join the Hop click HERE.

Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 🥳🎉

Watch how this last card came together. Lots of little tips and tricks 😉

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Viktoria's Balloon Shaker Card

Hello my crafty Friends!

Today I have a very sweet and simple shaker card to share with you. This one I made for my little niece Viktoria who turns 2 this year! She is such a cutie :)

I wanted to make it a little more personalized, so I used a versamarker pen to write her name on one of the balloons and used some Wow Gold embossing powder to set it. Don't ask where the number 2 stamp came from, I have no clue (if anyone recognizes it let me know ;)

For dies, I used stitched rectangle to create the frame
 and also the balloons that I added to the inside of the shaker.

For the sequin shaker mix I used clear sparkly sequins from Pretty Pink Posh, pink and gold ones from CraftMedley and also some Recollections Thick Glitter and Microbeads. The pattern paper also comes from Craft Smith Paper Pad - Metallic Foil that I picked up at Micheals.

Hoping this sweet personalized Balloon Shaker Card inspired  you today.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting  :)

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