Rainy Weekend = Cards, Cards, Cards!

I watched a Mary Gunn video using the CTMH Happy Times stamp set and water colours and was inspired. I don't have that stamp set yet, so I used some SU! and CTMH stamps as replacements.

I'm still not super good with water colours, but I'll continue to work on it! :) This was a super easy card and didn't take very long to do.

Supplies:

Paper: SU! Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White cs
Inks/paints: CTMH Black, SU! Cherry Cobbler and Gumball Green, CTMH water colours
Stamp sets: SU! Secret Garden (flower), CTMH Sincere Expressions (sentiment), CTMH Springtime Wishes

I also did the SU! To You and Yours Shaker Cards project kit, which was gifted to me by a very special fellow card-maker and friend! I only finished the first two so far. Since I don't have the coordinating SU! stamp set, I had to find alternatives for the stamped images.

I used the following CTMH stamp sets to finish the cards: Charming Cascades (stars on the Merry and Bright Card), Holly Jolly Christmas and White Pines Cardmaking Workshop (sentiments on the tree card) and White Pines Scrapbooking Workshop (star on the tree card).

I think they turned out great. Not that it is hard to put together cards from a kit :) But I love shaker cards and am impressed with how the came out!

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