Anniversary shaker card

Happy Saturday friends.  I hope you've had a brilliant week and are ready to enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend.   I cannot believe we are in the last weekend of August; I love autumn, with the cooler weather and crunching leaves beneath your feet, but really don't like the dark nights so much.  I have enough trouble taking good photographs of my cards in the summer, let alone when it's dark and dreary lol!  

Anyway I'm here today to share an anniversary card that I made a little while ago but forgot to share.  It's a bright and cheerful colour scheme and I decided to make a shaker element too.  

Here is my card:

a closer look at the sweet lovebirds:

I stamped the gorgeous floral heart and adorable love birds and coloured them with Promarkers.  There aren't any dies so I fussy cut them out.  I decided to cut the centre out of the heart and make a shaker card so added acetate behind the heart.  I used a beautiful embossing folder for the background as I thought it was really elegant for an anniversary card and matted it onto a pale green card.  I gold heat embossed the sentiment (from the stamp set) and added a few tiny die cut flowers and leaves for decoration and to tie in with the larger floral heart.  To put my card together I added some sequins into my heart and sealed it close with foam tape.  This was then added to the embossed panel with liquid glue.  The birds were added with foam tape at the lower part of the heart and the sentiment was placed middle centre below the birds, again on foam tape.  I didn't added any extra embellishments as the shaker was enough.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin' challenge - wedding/anniversary

Stamping Sensations challenge - mood board (I was inspired by the colours and bird)

Craft Rocket challenge - animals

Krafty Chicks challenge - all occasions

Cardz for Galz challenge - cute animals or insects

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - bright and cheerful

Triple B challenge - I used birds and blooms

Can You Handle The Pressure? challenge - use an embossing folder option poppies

Moving Along With The Times challenge - embossing 

Tic Tac Toe challenge - anniversary/gold or silver/free (my sentiment is gold embossed)

Colorful Options challenge - yellow/green

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Funky Fossil Designs - love birds stamp set

Spellbinders - stylized trellis EOM-Jan 23

Spellbinders - mini blooms & sprigs

Cosmic Shimmer - detail bright gold embossing powder

Promarkers

shaker mix from stash (I think it was a freebie)

pale green card from stash