Guest Post by Designing Diva: Karen Hasheck - Pretty in Peacock Card

Pretty in Peacock Card

Karen's Kreative Kards

By Karen Hasheck

I recently had a play session with alcohol inks and gold Deco Foil and then I made a card with favorite new dies and the finishing touch of a new Sparkle Blends sequin mix called Peacock Pizzazz from Doodles Paper Playground. I love how this card turned out! 

I started by applying several aqua blue colors of alcohol ink onto Yupo paper quite heavily so there were areas that remained sticky after drying a little while. To those sticky areas, I rubbed on gold Deco Foil and the result is the gold marbling you see. Here is another look:

I die cut Jeanine's Art Floral Hexagon die out of the piece and attached that to a square white card base. I die cut "HI" using Kat Scrappiness Condensed Uppercase Alphabet out of the center of the diecut and then created a shaker with acetate and the beautiful Peacock Pizzazz Sparkle Blend sequin mix from Doodles Paper Playground. 

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Guest Post by Designing Diva: Karen Hasheck - Oh Baby Shakers with Video

Oh Baby Shakers w/ Video

Karen's Kreative Kards

Using Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends Oh Baby

Hello, Karen here! Today I am sharing a new video on my YouTube channel and am also honored to be the guest designer diva at the Doodles Paper Playground blog. I created two cards with the new "Oh Baby" Sparkle Blend and show how to make them in the new video. I also used new Baby Onsie Shaker dies from Lil' Inker Designs to make the cards as well as new Crosshatch Squares dies from Karen Burniston and sentiment dies from Die-Versions and Tonic Studios. Here are a few pictures of both cards:

For more information and instructions on how to make these cute double interactive baby gender reveal or congrats cards, check out my video!

Guest post by Designing Diva: Karen Hasheck - Star Spangled

Karen Hasheck
Karen's Kreative Kards
Using Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends Star Spangled

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Hello, Karen here. It's almost the 4th of July and I made this patriotic shaker card with one of the new Sparkle Blends from Doodles Paper Playground called Star Spangled. 

I started with a patriotic napkin and attached it to cardstock with cling wrap in my Minc machine. Then I cut a stitched star out of the center of the star on the napkin with a die set from Lil' Inker and created a shaker in that star with the Star Spangled sequin mix. I also cut some red and white stitched stars using the Lil' Inker set and attached them with Happy Birthday USA cut out with a Penny Black die and alphabet dies from Tonic Studios.The shaker napkin card front was attached to a red square card base. 

Finally, to bring the outside to the inside of my card, I added a white square of cardstock, with some stitched stars cut out and a strip of the napkin.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and are preparing to have a very happy Independence Day!

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Guest Post by Designing Diva: Karen Hasheck - Glazed Distress Oxide Background

Glazed Distress Oxide Background
Karen's Kreative Kards
Using Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends Peacock Pizzazz & Lilac Luster

Happy Thursday everyone! My name is Karen Hasheck and I am honored to be back today as a Doodles Paper Playground Guest Designing Diva! Sometimes the colors in a background of a card are perfectly complimented by mixing two colors of Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blends.

I chose Lilac Luster and Peacock Pizzazz, two of the new sequin mixes released this month and available here at White Rose Crafts LLC. Just look at how pretty these mixes are: 

I created this card using the Glazed Distress Oxide Technique in my YouTube video you can watch here. I spritzed Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide inks with water and laid a piece of Ranger Alcohol Ink glossy cardstock in them, drying between each layer with a heat gun. 

When I was happy with the layered background, I applied Ranger Distress Micro Glaze to brighten and show each layer beautifully as I learned how to do from videos by Jennifer McGuire and Tim Holtz. I die cut the stitched square “So Very Kind” using a die from Lil’Inker and then created the shaker box with pretty sequins from the new Lilac Luster and Peacock Pizzazz Sparkle Blends. I added some stitched butterflies cut with a die set also from Lil’ Inker and added some pretty sequins to them to finish the card.

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Guest Post by Designing Diva, Karen Hasheck: Baby Rattle

My name is Karen Hasheck and I am honored to be back as a Doodles Paper Playground Guest Designer Diva! I love making shaker cards and the new sequin mixes released this month and available here at White Rose Crafts LLC totally inspired me! Take a look at the Oh Baby Sparkle Blend I used in this shaker card:

Perfect for a baby card, right? I layered a cute baby themed designer paper on a yellow card and created a shaker with a Baby Rattle Die and Circle Shaker from My Favorite Things. Can you see the baby bottles, pins and words in this cute Sparkle Blend mix? Here is another look at my card “all shook up” and the inside of the card with another cute stamp from My Favorite Things. I sprinkled some of the heart and star sequins from the Oh Baby Sparkle Blend sequin mix on the front and inside of the card:

Guest Post by Sparkle Blends Designing Diva, Karen Hasheck: Hello Spring

Hello Spring

By Karen Hasheck

Using Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends Spring Fling

My name is Karen Hasheck and I am honored to be back as a Doodles Paper Playground Guest Designer Diva! I love making shaker cards and the new sequin mixes released this month and available here at White Rose Crafts LLC totally inspired me! Take a look at the Spring Fling Sparkle Blend I used in this shaker card:

Guest Post by Sparkle Blends Designing Diva, Karen Hasheck: Shake It Up

Shake It Up

By Karen Hasheck

Karen's Kreative Kards

Using Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends Ocean View

My name is Karen Hasheck and I am honored this month to be a Doodles Paper Playground Guest Designing Diva! I love making shaker cards and the new sequin mixes released this month and available here at White Rose Crafts LLC totally inspired me! Take a look at the Ocean View Sparkle Blend I used in this shaker card: 

Here is the description of this Ocean View blend: 

“I don’t know about you, but I love a pretty water themed card or layout & we wanted to create a blend that evokes those ever changing colors. This vivid combination of cup sequins, round confetti, faceted crystals and micro beads in cobalt, aqua, teal and a touch of light blue was just the look we were going for. We added a sprinkling of dolphin shaped confetti in a variety of colors to complete the effect.” I am saving the cute dolphins for water themed card I will make later. 

I went with monochromatic blues and punny “shake it” – you know you wanna” stamps from Sudio Calico for this shaker card.