Inspiration: Queen & Co sketches
I recently stumbled unto sketches that Queen & Co has made to specifically highlight the content of their Foundations die sets. I looked into the Foundation 24 sketches since I have those dies myself and was inspired to pull the Happy Harmony shaker kit to pair with them.
I used the paper pad from the kit and was initially planning to make one card with the pink hues and one with the orange hues, but I ended up making both cards in the same colour scheme because of a designing switch. I wanted to use the guitar along with the "Don't fret! I wouldn't forget your birthday!" sentiment. I started cutting my background pieces, stamped my sentiment, assembled the guitar and then I was shocked to realize just how long the guitar handle is! It was not fitting my card when placing it over the sentiment, so I thought I'd see if the violin would work. I assembled the shaker and was happy to see that I was able to make this instrument work with my original idea.
Since the guitar was all ready to go, I picked another sketch, cut my papers and then went looking for a sentiment. The ones from the kit stamp set were not filling up the space enough. It took me a while to find something that I liked in my stash, but when I saw the "Howdy!" sentiment, I thought this could go well with a guitar, and the size was working out nicely. It looked nicer at an angle that straight on the card, so I added it that way. It was die-cut out of one of the specialty papers from the Silver Opulent cardstock pack from Sizzix, a nice charcoal grey with a very subtle shimmer to it. I switched the flowers from the sketch for stars instead. This is one of the die set I found in the Spellbinders clearance sale and I was very excited about it, as I found those little hand drawn stars will make really great accents for various different projects, and I like the four sizes included in the kit. They worked perfectly here, and I used the same charcoal grey specialty paper for the back and the orange patterned paper for the stars. I added foam adhesive behind to pop them off the card.
Both cards were embellished with Queen & Co embellishments. I picked linen-textured Nautical Blue envelopes and die-cut address blocks using the same die set, adding matching die-cut images to match the cards. This was a fun set to put together and I have to say, those little musical instrument shakers are super detailed and definitely cute.
Supplies
Stamps, Shaker Kit, Patterned Papers, Outline Dies, Toppings: Happy Harmony (Queen & Co)
Ink: Basic Grey (Stampin' Up!)
Cardstock: More Mustard (Stampin' Up!); Silver Opulent Cardstock Pack (Sizzix)
Dies: Foundation 24 (Queen & Co); Hand Drawn Stars (Spellbinders);
Howdy! (Karen Burniston for Riley and Company); Dotted Rectangle Stackables (Lawn Fawn)
Accessories: Assorted Toppings, Orange Pinwheels, Green Epoxy Dots, Iridescent Bubbles,
Orange Jelly Gems (Queen & Co); A2 Linen Nautical Blue Envelopes (Envelopes.com);
Beads (Mill Hill)
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