Hexagon tile shaker card

Hello crafty friends; I hope you've had a great start to your week.  I can't believe it's been almost a week since my last post; time flies when you're having fun lol!  

I'm sharing a card I made for my sister-in-law's birthday which was last week.  I saw a lovely card on Pinterest and decided to make my own version including a shaker window.  Here is my card:

a closer look at the details:

I also decorated the inside:

and also the back of the card:

I began by rooting around my paper pad stash and picked out some designs that I liked and coordinated well together.  I used a hexagon die and cut out 3 of each design (for the front but I cut extras for the inside and back too).  I foolishly embossed my white card before I die cut it so the design did get a little flattened but I still liked the look so rolled with it.  I then arranged my hexagons on my white panel and decided where I wanted my shaker window.  I used the same hexagon die to cut the window and added acetate behind with double sided tape.  Before filling my shaker I adhered all the hexagon pieces with liquid glue and die cut the panel using a stitched rectangle die and I stamped the sentiment in black ink.  I placed foam tape around the window and then found some sequins to match my colour scheme to fill.  The white panel was then adhered to a black card panel.  I found a butterfly that I had already die cut from some glitter card which matched my colours perfectly so added this with liquid glue to the bottom left.  I added some black pearls to the butterfly body and some gold pearls scattered around the card.  The whole thing was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I simply added 3 hexagons to the right corner and stamped a sentiment in black ink.  As I had spare card I cut 2 more hexagons for the back of my card and also added my handmade sticker.  An elegant card I think and no colouring at all!!  

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

Can you handle the pressure challenge - ATG embossing option bees/beehives

Seize the Birthday challenge - repetitive die cuts

Triple B challenge - include birds, butterflies or blooms

NBUS challenge - never used die/embossing folder before

Happy Little Stampers ATG with dies challenge - must use dies

Moving along with the times challenge - ATG

I have quite a few birthdays coming up so hopefully will be back soon with some more inspiration for you.  Thanks for stopping by; I really love reading your comments and appreciate them all. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Spellbinders - SDOM Feb 23 Floral mini tiles

Spellbinders - EOM Feb 23 Hydrangea blooms

Honey Bee Stamps - Acorn sisters stamp set (for sister sentiment)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - fabulous fuchsias (for HB sentiment)

Little Things from Lucy's Cards - muted metallics and passion flower sequins for shaker

Tonic Studios - autumn maple 6x6 pearlescent card pad

Honey Bee Stamps - inside birthday sentiments

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 8 (to die cut the panels)

Gina K Designs - black, gold and silver pearl mix

Memory Box - Isabella butterfly die

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

Hobbycraft - Black A4 card

paper pad ? from Home Bargains (not 100% sure)