Rainbow Inspired Birthday Cards | Crafty Meraki

Hello friends and Happy Thursday!

Today I have a couple of colorful rainbow inspired cards to share with you as I recently took part in Crafty Meraki's 2nd Birthday Hop, and what better way to celebrate than with a couple of birthday cards🎉🥳 If you want to join in on the fun and participate in the IG Hop for a chance at winning $100 GC to their shop, click 👉 HERE. Winners will be announced on June 10th.

CARD RECIPE

For this frameless/infinity/edge to edge card, lol... whatever you want to call it 😂 I began with ink blending the CRAFTY MERAKI BIRTHDAY BALLOONS STENCIL using Atelier Inks. Once I had blended the first layer I repositioned the stencil and then blended the balloons out again to create the overlapping effect.

I then used a shaker pocket to create the frameless shaker. I used Assorted Moonshine Sequins to fill the shaker. Then once sealed I glued it onto an A2 card base.

I then stamped out the cute images from the CRAFTY MERAKI MAGICAL DAY STAMP SET out and colored them in with Copics and then added white gel pen details and sparkle glitter to some areas. 

For the sentiments, I just stamped them out in white ink and heat embossed them using white emb. pwd.

For my second card, I used the CRAFTY MERAKI LOVE POTION STAMP SET. I stamped it out onto watercolor paper using Fadeout Ink and then colored the beautiful image using Zig Real Color Brush Markers.

Once the coloring had dried, I added white gel pen highlights and prepped the paper for heat embossing using an anti-static tool.

I then stamped the sentiment using watermark ink and heat set it using gold emb. pwd. I used the same products to add a gold edging around the panel.

To finish this beauty, I added a few Gold Pearls.

Here is another close-up of this beauty!

I hope both of these birthday cards inspired you. Thank you for stopping by and until next time... Happy Crafting!

Ilda 💗💛💚💙💜

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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