Celebrate Shaker Card by Amber

Hello SRM fans! It's Amber here, today I have a shaker card to share. Recently I have been loving and drooling over all the fabulous shaker cards I have been seeing on social media lately. For some reason that is beyond me I have never created one before today. I had lots of fun creating this fun A2 sized shaker card. Below you will find a few step by step instructions you can follow along with to create your own shaker cards.

Step 1. Cover a white A2 sized card base with some patterned paper.

Step 2. Choose a coordinating piece of patterned paper and cut it slightly smaller then your card base.

Step 3. Die cut or punch a circle or any other shape out of the upper center part of your smaller patterned paper panel.

Step 4. Flip your patterened paper panel over and add some double sided adhesive all around your die cut shape.

Step 5. Before attaching the acrylic take your die cut panel and center it over your card base. With a pencil lightly trace around your die cut window. This will make it easy to center your sentiment.

Step 6. Adhere a piece of clear acrylic to your die cut pattered paper panel. Set aside.

Step 7.  Use the pencil lines you drew in step 5 as your guide and add your sentiment to your card base. I used a clear Celebrate sentiment sticker from the Sentiment/Birthday sticker sheet.

 Step 8. Using the pencil lines as a guide again adhere some foam tape all around the outside edge of your pencil lines.

Step 9. Add a handful of sequins to your card base in between your foam tape.

Step 10. Adhere your die cut patterned paper panel with the acrylic to your card base sealing/locking in all your sequins.

Step 11. Add a cute little fussy cute image to the front of your card. I used Easter Basket Anya from The Greeting Farm to complete my card.

That's it, you now have a fun little shaker card. I hope you enjoyed my card today. Thanks for visiting!

SRM Sticker Supplies

Sticker Sentiment/Birthday

2 Peter 3:18 Bible Journaling and Process Video by Christine

Hi there SRM Stickers Fans - Christine joining you today to share a new Bible Journaling piece and process video.  I can't get enough of the Watercolor Twist Pencils and Blender Pens so I used them to color in another Bible Journaling Page - this one based on 2 Peter 3:18.

All the stamping and coloring took some time but neither were difficult to do thanks to these great stamp sets!  I love the words included in the sets but I also just love the little stars and flowers perfect for coloring!  It's nice to have a variety in size and style too! 

Here's the stamp sets that I used to create this:

The Lord is My Light

Big Amen

The Lord is Kind and Merciful

Just Believe

You can check out the details behind creating it with this video!

We love seeing what you are creating - keep sharing all your beautiful Bible Journaling projects with us!

Thanks for dropping by!  Hope you have a blessed day.

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Party Dress Card Tutorial by Cathy A.

Every little princess must have a party dress to twirl in on her birthday, so why not have a party dress card too!  Hello from Cathy Andronicou sharing with you today a fun and fabulous card I made using SRM's wonderful doilies and clear stickers. 

And here's a photo showing you the card base and doily prepared to be the ruffle on the skirt.

Want to make one?  Here's how you create this card!  

1) Fold  Card and cut out dress shape using template. Cut into the centre of a large white doily and then remove a circle from the middle.

2) Glue doily along the bottom of the dress ruffling as you go and then add left over pieces to the top.

 3) Cut dress out of patterned paper and add sticker stitches to the bottom and waist. I cut the stitches into small sections to allow them to go round the curve easily. Attach to main dress card, creating folds in the skirt to fit the base.  Add a touch of Lilac Solid Twine with a bit of bling.

 4) Add Princess "Make a Wish" sentiment to the skirt, a twine bow and gem to the waist and gems around the top of the dress.

What a perfect card for a little princess.  And now you know how to create it! 

Here's the SRM Sticker products used in this project: 

Princess Sticker 

Sticker Stitches 

Solid Lilac Twine 

6" Lace Doilies

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and that it will inspire you to create one for your little princess!

Doily Thank You Card Tutorial by Shannon

Are you a doily lover?  I am!  Shannon Morgan here today with a tutorial for making a fun and fancy layered card!  Sometimes a thank you is in order for a kind and thoughtful friend or family member, this card is a great way to do just that. The best part? Beautiful SRM doilies!

Start by gathering things to create your card: a card base, some patterned papers, SRM doilies and SRM Fancy Thank You stickers. Take this time to mist your doily if you want to.

The next thing you're going to want to do is add your doily to your card as shown below. Leave some of that card base showing. 

Get ready to add some layers and dimension. You can choose a few different coordinating patterns, or go crazy and add some contrasting colors and patterns. Distress the edges if you want, but this is all personal preference, there's no wrong or right way to do this!

Add one layer off center to the right side. Add a piece of wash tape to the top. Add your next layer on top of that one, slightly off center as well. The vellum layer is optional. If you add the vellum, you can staple it to the previous layer before you stick it down onto the card front. 

I added an additional doily. I misted it, let it dry and then added foam dots to the back. They're black, but it's ok because you'll be covering it up if you don't have white. 

I started adding details like borders, border stickers and the card sentiment base. I added washi tape to the bottom and top. I then measured, trimmed and adhered SRM Sticker Stitches on top of the washi tape. It creates effortless stitching! I also added a little sweet saying from the Thank You Fancy Sentiment sheet. I then added an additional layer on top of the doily. Grab a relatively simple patterned paper and place a heart shape or mask on top and mist. Wait for it to dry. Round the edges if desired and tear along the bottom. Add some sticker stitches across the heart. Add another piece of washi tape and if you're up to it...another staple.

The next step is cutting a vellum heart to go on top of the heart. This step is optional, but it adds a delicate feel to the card. Place it on card as shown. 

You can add the sentiment now. I added one from the Thank You Sentiment sheet. I placed it slightly below the stitches knowing that I was going to add some sequins and other fun little touches. 

I added some sequins, some splotches of mist and ink, a cute little heart at the top and heart sequin above the sentiment. 

This card is all ready to be mailed to someone deserving! Thanks for letting me share! ❤

Flower Power Tube Tutorial by Cathy A

Greetings from Cathy Andronicou!  Today I want to share with you a tutorial using a SRM Mini Tube and some SRM Punched Pieces.  I love how you can make carnation flower shapes out of punched circles, so I thought I would share for any one that hasn't tried it before and the best bit, is you don't have to spend ages cutting circles because they are already done!

1.  Start with 7 Small Hot Pink Punched Pieces.

2.  Ink edges with Memento Lilac Posies and punch a hole in the centre of each circle.

3.  Place in a tray and liberally spritz with water.

4.  Carefully scrunch scalloped circles.

5.  Open back out, they will be delicate while wet so do this slowly.

6.  Place all 7 circles on top of each other and place a brad through the centre.

7.  Fluff up the individual circles around the brad.

8.  Spray with Shimmer Spritz spray sparkle and leave to dry, when dry the flower will be really robust.

9.  Die cut some leaves and create a bow from ribbon add some loops of twine and adhere to top of tube.

10.  Wrap twine around the side of the cap and apply Congrats and pennant border stickers to main body of the tube 

11.  Then fill with goodness.

SRM materials used: 

Hot Pink Punched Pieces Small 

Mini Tube

The Twinery Pink Sorbet Solid

We Got Your Border Birthday

Quick Cards Congrats

Other materials used: Cream Satin Ribbon, Green Cardstock, Penny Black Leaves die, Imagine Craft/Tsukineko Memento Lilac posies ink and Shimmer Spritz spray Sparkle.

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and that you will be making bouquets of paper flower Tubes soon!  These little tubes make the best gift container or party favor.  Pop some candy inside for a favor or some money inside for a gift!

SRM Stencil Vinyl Tutorial by Lorena

Prepare for fun as Lorena Cantó shares SRM Stencil vinyl tutorial with us today.    Let's let Lorena tell us about her project in her own words.  



"Hello, SRM friends! Lorena here waving hello! Today I bring you a photo tutorial for what might be my favorite SRM product: his majesty the Stencil Vinyl. Not kidding, people! Susan and John will confirm how much I drooled over it when they introduced it last January at CHA ;)"

"And what perfect timing to introduce this vinyl! Because stencils were all the rage at the show. They where everywhere! Lots of different designs to suit any style. Now, enter the SRM stencil vinyl + an electronic die cutting machine in the equation. Custom stencils in any design you can dream. Yeah, it's possible! And I'm going to show you how to make them using the Silhouette Cameo/Portrait."

NOTE:  Cilck on these photos to see all the details.  Here's the step by step instructions:

"1. Open the design you want. It can be a cutting file from the Silhouette Store (type stencil on the search feature and you'll find lots of choices) or you can design your own stencil. Also, remember there are lots of freebies out there! I chose to make my own design by drawing a 5 3/4'' square and adding evenly spaced circles."



"2. Here are the cut settings I used: Blade at 9 (don't forget to turn the blade itself to 9 before cutting!), Speed at 3 and Thickness at 33. I also checked Double Cut because the SRM Stencil Vinyl is nice and thick. Before I discovered it, I used to make stencils with transparency sheets, but they were too flimsy. This material? It's a dream with such a heavy weight!"

"3a. Cut a 6x6 piece of stencil vinyl (I used my paper trimmer for this and it cut perfectly) and place it on the cutting mat, rough side down. My mat wasn't very sticky, so I secured the vinyl with some masking tape. Load the mat and send it to cut from the machine. 3b. Once the cutting is done, this is what you get. Remove the vinyl piece from the mat. 3c. As I said above, the stencil material is very sturdy, so you'll need a craft knife to remove the pieces. Just make a slit following the already die cut lines and pull softly. The material will pop cleanly. 3d. Here's the end result! The light that was coming from the window makes it look kind of wavy, but it lays perfectly flat. Promise.  By the way, the SRM Stencil Sheets are adhesive backed. Another nice feature."

"And of course, I had to make something immediately with my brand new stencil! First I made a card blending Distress Inks over the stencil. The stamped sentiment and stars are from Waffle Flower Crafts. I didn't add much more to let that cool background shine!"

"I also made a tag. Again, I blended Distress Inks but this time I also stamped a starry background in gold Delicata ink before removing the stencil. The sentiment word was die cut with the Cameo."

"Phew! It was a long post, right? But before leaving, did you know that the SRM Stencil Material comes in a 12 x 24 inches sheet? Imagine how many different stencils you can make!

Thanks so much for stopping by the SRM blog! See you soon :)"

Doily Rosette Tutorial by Juliana

Juliana Michaels created this beautiful burlap gift bag using SRM's 5 x 7 Burlap Bag, some of SRM's Doilies, some solid Pink Sorbet Twine, a flower and some jewels. 

Love the delicate flower Juliana made with her Pink Sorbet Twine.  YUM!

And here step by step is how you create your doily rosette.  Click on photo to enlarge!

Begin with 3 doilies.  Repeat the following steps with each doily.  

1.  Fold the doily in half.  Then fold in half again and again and again for a total of 4 times.

2.  Unfold doilies and cut a slit along one of the crease lines to the middle of the doily. 

3.  Accordion fold the doily to look like photo 7 in collage above.

4.  Glue ends together to create your rosette. 

5.  Attach doily to front of burlap bag with hot glue gun.  Embellish with twine, flower and jewels. 

Now fill your embellished bag with a small gift and it's ready to give to a friend!

Thanks for the inspiration and the tutorial Juliana.  Doilies are so much fun and you've shown us one more way to make them shine! 

Tutorial: Popcorn Seasoning Set by Michelle

Michelle Giraud was inspired by a post on Pinterest showing a set of seasoning salts for popcorn in glass jars and plastic bags and she thought that the SRM Mini Tubes, Glassine Bags and Cooking themed stickers would be just perfect for her project.  And she was right!




Michelle felt the tubes needed something to hold them together as a set, so she made a top and bottom "box" to set them in.  To make the box you'll need 2 pieces of cardstock 5.25"x3".  Score each side @ 1", cut lines as shown in diagram (not to scale) then glue/tape the box together folding the excess flaps to the inside. Completed box will measure 3.25" x 1".  She decorated both the top and bottom with scalloped trim and stickers from Freestyle Cookin' which were adhered to black cardstock then trimmed.

Michelle used mini tubes to store her seasonings and embellished the little box she created with SRM Cooking Stickers.  Perfect!

Michelle made 3 salt mixes; spicy Mexican, savory garlic & pepper, and sweet cinnamon & sugar.  Each tube holds 1/4 cup of seasoning.  Here are her recipes:

Spicy Mexican Salt
1/4 cup salt
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon cumin

Savory Garlic Pepper
1/4 cup salt
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper

Sweet Cinnamon Sugar
1/8 cup salt
1/8 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 

Michelle mixed each salt and used a small funnel to pour into the tubes.  The Express Yourself Recipe stickers have the perfect square stickers to label the tubes spicy, savory and sweet.

Michelle measured out 1/2 cup servings of popcorn and put them in decorated SRM Glassine bags.  She used stickers from Freestyle Cookin' and red stitches to decorate.   

Michelle finished off the set in a yellow cardstock popcorn box which was made from a template from greensneakers.com  What a great resource Green Sneakers is.  So many templates!  

Here are just a few of the SRM Cooking stickers.  See them all HERE.

What a wonderful gift for a popcorn loving friend!  Thank you Michelle for this delicious inspiration.

Project Life Gift Set Tutorial by Roberta Rosi

For the next few days we are going to share some fun and fabulous ideas for Project Life.Today we are treating you to a PL Tutorial from Roberta Rosi.  For this post Roberta made a set of cards to use in Project Life.  She created these as a gift.  Love this idea.  So sit back and relax and enjoy Roberta's step by step instructions. 

Roberta started with 5 sheets of Becky Higgins Project-Life patterned papers. She cut them in the three classic formats used for Project Life: 4 x 6,  6 x 4 and 3 x 4 making 10 cards for each format.  She then rounded the corners on all cards using a 1/2" corner punch. 

Next, Roberta started decorating the first six cards (4 x 6) with SRM Stickers including the Snappy Months small and Black Sticker Stitches, adding some strips of paper, hearts, butterflies and buttons.  Roberta created cards for January through June.

Roberta did the same with the other six cards (6 x4) using the same stickers and embellishments for the other 6 months of the year, decorating a total of 12 cards, one for each month of the year!

Finally, she decorated the remaining six small cards (3 x 4) with the SRM Sticker Sentiments, Life is Good design, Black Sticker Stitches and paper embellishments.

Roberta now has a total of 30 cards (18 of which are decorated) which are ready to be packed!  

She tied them together with Twinery Charcoal Twine.  

Then she folded and tied with twine SRM's Mini Calendar stickers.

She packed everything in a 5 x 7 1/2" SRM Kraft bag. 

Now her PL cards are ready to be used as gift!! 

What a fabulous idea!   

Thanks Roberta for all the inspiration.  What a wonderful tutorial.  Are you ready to create some Project Life gift bags for your friends?  

Be sure to join us tomorrow for some Project Life goodness from Laurel Seabrook.  See you soon!