Teddy Bear Tags - Shakers

Hello.  Jennifer Snyder here sharing a large shaker tag made for my granddaughter to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.  She's 9 months old and this is her first St. Patrick's Day - which happens to be a big deal in my household because my husband is in a band that features Irish music for the local pubs in New York, where we live.  

This is my interpretation of "baby Irish" - using Maja Design's classic Fika collection, still my favorite collection for it's rich chocolate browns, , creams, greens and purples.  Just thinking about it makes me feel like a chocolaty treat.  

Here are the images and papers I used from the collection: Chokadmuffins, Favoriter, Apple, Kärleksmums

Now then, don't those beautiful paper images don't make you hungry? Yum.

Here is a close up of the beautiful papers and the chipboard teddy bear shaker from Creative Embellishments.  It's filled with shaker mix from Buttons Galore, to help make the shaker "come to life".  The shaker mix adds that "bit'o lucky charm", as my husband would say.   

 

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Teddy Bear Shaker Card and Duck Canvas Gift Set for the Baby

Jennifer Snyder here shakin' up projects for kids and baby using some fabulous Creative Embellishments products accented with Rinea Foiled papers- our collaborative crafty partner for the month of March.  

All month, we'll be featuring chipboard creations combined with Rinea products.  

These are the shakers used on my projects.  I created a gift set which includes a baby bath time canvas and card for an upcoming baby shower for a co-worker.  The rubber ducky canvas was the easiest project ever and so adorable.

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Creative Embellishments - Teddy Bear Shaker Set

Creative Embellishments - Shaker Set

Creative Embellishments  - Duck Shaker

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Here is the card made with Creative Embellishments - Teddy Bear Shaker Set and Lovely Lace chipboard border shaker mix from Buttons Galore and More and rich foil  paper from Rinea. 

The bear and border chipboard pieces were painted with acrylic paint and backed with the Rinea foil papers on brown and gold. 

The rich brown foil paper used on the base layer of the bear  is from Rinea Autumn Foiled Paper pack.  It's very interesting because when the shaker is tilted in different angles, the foil appears to take on different shades.  

Every cool successful shaker project needs fabulous shaker mix so I used my favorite mix from Buttons Galore, Rose Garden mix in the Shaker Cube .  I think this is honestly my favorite mix because I love the combination of the gold and various pink buttons, beads and sequins.  

It really is quite delicate.   

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Buttons Galore - Rose Garden -Shaker Cube

Buttons Galore - 3D Buttons - Sheep

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Here is the second project created in the gift set.  This is an 8x8 canvas turned into shaker art.  

I cut a piece of patterned paper to cover the canvas, then added the Creative Embellishments  - Duck Shaker.

The rubber duck is backed with the gold foiled texture paper from Rinea Metallics Foiled paper set and filled with Buttons Galore - Sparkletz - Lucky Charmz  shaker mix.  

This shaker mix is a beautiful soft sequin collection that includes a variety iridescent hearts and stars Kind of dreamy actually. 

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Rinea Metallics Foiled

Buttons Galore - Sequin Tin - Fairy Sparkle - LL30

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Creating the Bubbles...

Bath time means bubbles.  In this case, I don't want these bubbles to ever pop or disappear.  My bubbles just happen to be Bohemian buttons from Buttons Galore.   

 I slathered a generous amount of heavy body gel medium to the canvas and set the buttons in place to dry.   I find using heavy body gel medium as the adhesive on canvas (or any other surface) is a quick and simple way to make sure buttons, sequins and embellishments stick to the project as intended.  This dries crystal clear too so so ugly marks left behind.     

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Buttons Galore - Buttons - Bohemian

Prima - Finnabair - Heavy Body Gel

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Creative Embellishments - Teddy Bear Shaker Set

Creative Embellishments - Shaker Set

Creative Embellishments  - Duck Shaker

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Creative Embellishments -Lovely Lace Border

Buttons Galore - Buttons - Bohemian BCB132

Prima - Finnabair - Art Basics - Heavy Body Gel - 8.5 Ounces

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Rinea Autumn Foiled Paper

Rinea Metallics Foiled paper

Rinea - Foiled Papers

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Buttons Galore - Rose Garden -Shaker Cube LL504

Buttons Galore - 3D Buttons - Sheep BH122

Buttons Galore - Sequin Tin - Fairy Sparkle - LL30

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Mason Jars and Teddy Bears -Christmas Ornament Shakers

Mason Jar and Teddy Bear Shakers Ornaments 

I missed Christmas in July.  So it's Christmas in August.  

This is the perfect time to start those Christmas projects to avoid the holiday scramble. Time seems to speed up once September starts, whether from the bustle of a new school year or just life in general, time seems to accelerate as days get shorter and the lazy days of summer vanish. That's if you even had lazy summer days.  I did not, but I did have fabulous summer days. 

I've taken some "every day" shaker shapes from Creative Embellishments and turned them into fun shaker ornaments for the tree (or to be used as gift tags).  My images below show the brand new Mason Jar Set  shaker design and the adorable, classic Teddy Bear Shaker Set.

First up - the beloved Teddy Bear Shaker Set.  Too cute for words, this shaker is wonderful for so many occasions.  I'm using mine as "Baby's First Christmas" ornament. 

The craftier side of me appreciates that all shaker sets from Creative Embellishments come with the pre-cut acrylic window piece. No more hunting through the house to find acrylic packaging. No more cutting, fitting and re-cutting acrylic to fit the shaker. Creative Embellishments has taken the stress out of shaker making.  

The chipboard pieces have been painted a light brown and dabbed with cream acrylic paint using a dry sea sponge.  This was done to add texture to the piece.  You can also see in the image below that the edges have also been painted for a finished look.  

I used gold jewelers thread/string to hang the ornament and tied it around one of the layers of the shaker BEFORE it was glued together and completed.   I tied the string to one of the chipboard layers after the paint was dry.    This seemed to be the easiest and cleanest way to attached a string to the shaker for hanging purposes.

You can see the string attached to the middle layer int he image below. 

Filling the Shakers

After the shakers are made, fill them with something fun and eye catching.  I found a product that I'm totally loving and is my latest crafty addiction. Shaker mix from Buttons Galore and More comes in a variety of colors, mix combinations and options - with buttons, beads, traditional round sequins, and custom created shapes.

The mix used inside the Teddy Bear is Sparkletz - Angels Song and has beautiful angel and music note shaped pieces added.  

Buttons Galore  -Sparkletz Angels Song SPK155

For the final embellishing touch, I tied with the traditional red plaid bow and topped with a fun 3D button from Buttons Galore and More - a sweet Holly 3D Button .  It adds a fun holiday touch to the piece. 

Buttons Galore and More - Holly 3D Buttons CM129

This is the second fun shaker made with Creative Embellishments chipboard shaker sets.  There are  so many options one can use to decorate the Mason Jar Set  - but for me, the best mason jar is one filled with candy.  YUM.

I love the detail on the lid of the jar.  It's really spectacular.  Because I find the details on the lid so interesting and perfect, I decided to leave the whole chipboard shaker set "as is' with no treatment and no painting.  I wanted the detailed etching to be very apparent and not to get hidden under any treatments or paint.  

The shaker mix on this card is part of a new collection of shaker embellishments from Buttons Galore called Sprinkletz. These resembles tiny mint candies - with the featured Sprinkletz reminding me of small peppermint candies. 

  Sprinkletz are made from polymer clay and tend to resist static cling.  Static is the shaker card's arch nemesis - often making the shaker mix cling to the acrylic window mercilessly.  Sprinkletz seem to resist static cling.  

The little peppermint Sprinkletz are also great for adding to projects as embellishments. I glued some here and there to enrich the evergreen cluster on the ornament.   They are flat and glue really easily by the way - much easier than sequins.
   

Buttons Galore - Sprinkletz - Very Cherry

In addition to the shaker mix, I added a few other embellishments to the front of the shaker once it was assembled.  I added some 3D candy cane buttons, traditional buttons and some sequins from Buttons Galore Shaker Mix - Deck the Halls

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Buttons Galore and More - Peppermint Twist 3D Buttons CM108

Buttons Galore and More Shaker Mix - Deck the Halls L501

Thanks for stopping here today.  Happy Crafting.  Don't forget to check out all the new shaker mixes at Buttons Galore and More/28 Lilac Lane as well as the newly released chipboard shaker sets from Creative Embellishments.  Shop Here ******************************************************************* Creative Embellishments - Teddy Bear Shaker Set Buttons Galore  -Sparkletz Angels Song SPK155 Buttons Galore and More - Holly 3D Buttons CM129

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Creative Embellishments Chipboard Mason Jar

Buttons Galore- Peppermint Twist 3D Buttons CM108

Buttons Galore - Sprinkletz - Very Cherry

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Creative Embellishments - Shaker Set

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