A Sparkly Happy Hanukkah with CAS-ual Fridays!

Wecome!   I'm up on the CAS-ual Fridays Blog today with this one.  It is the holiday season and I thought I'd share with you a quick (and quite sparkly) shaker using some of the vast array of Judaica themed stamp and die products in the CAS-ual Fridays shop!

Have you seen the awesome A2 panels from CAS-ual Fridays?  This is the Stars A2 Panel and I love that it covers the entire front of an A2 card just like the Hearts and Flakey A2 Panel Fri-Dies!  So quick and easy to create a shaker (or not!).

Just cut an A2 Panel, adhere some acetate to the entire back and add foam tape around the outside.  All that's left to do is choose your "filling" and pop it over the top!  I mixed up some of my sequins and beads from my stash and added a few of the glitter paper Star of David cuts that were left after cutting out the panel.

I added my sentiment using the Star of David Fri-Die as a backdrop and then cut the Happy Hanukkah from white cardstock three times and stacked them for dimension.  It also helps the sentiment to stand out against that busy backdrop.

I always add a few sequins to the front... as if they've escaped!

I've got lots of sparkle on this one and I'm playing along over at Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge, Lets Sparkle!

And that's me for today!  Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed your visit!  And don't forget to visit the CAS-ual Fridays shop for all of your Hanukkah and Judaica themed crafty items ... and then some!

I have this for you if you'd like it!

Hope you'll come again soon!

CAS-ual Fridays Release Day 3-Stars A2 Panel

Welcome to Day 3 of the CAS-ual Fridays Release!  Today we're sharing inspiration for the new Stars A2 Panel Fri-Die!  Here's how I was inspired:

For this one, I created my background using some distress oxides in a couple different blues.  Then I cut the Star Panel from some white cardstock and splattered some shimmery watercolors over both pieces.

While that was drying, I cut two sizes of the Bubblebox Fri-Dies and used an embossing folder to emboss the smaller one.   I also cut the Happy Hanukkah sentiment from the Happy Hanukkah Fri-Dies once out of glitter paper and two more times from regular white cardstock and stacked them.  Then I popped up both layers of the Bubble Box and added the sentiment over the top.  I had already cut a Stars panel from glitter paper as well so I used some of the pieces to embellish here.

Love those shimmery watercolors!   And love the design of this die and how some of the stars wandered off into the outer edge!

I was inspired by yesterday's Snowflake embossed panel and decided to the the same with the Stars panel:

I cut the panel from some very thick watercolor paper and only ran it through my die cutting machine once so that it wouldn't cut all the way through (normally with thicker paper, I'll run the die through at least twice-once band and forth and sometimes more if it's really thick or has a coating that I think mmay not cut through easily)  The edges fell right away, but the inside pieces didn't fall apart which was exactly what I wanted.

Once again, I sprayed the front of the panel with water that had some Inkon3 Pixie Dust solution in it and then used my Daniel Smith Glitter Watercolors to first color the panel and then I used the same blues and some white and even a bit of purple to splatter on it while it was very wet.

While that dried, I cut a tag using the largest of the Scallop Tag Fri-Dies from some blue vellum.  I heat embossed a sentiment from the Snowy Sayings stamp set directly onto the vellum and then cut the Happy from the Happy Hanukkah Fri-Dies from some glitter paper and cardstock and stacked them.  I cut some Funky Flakes from glitter paper as well and layered three of those together to add to the bottom of the tag.

So that's me for today!  Be sure to hop over to the CAS-ual Fridays blog and find out how you could win one of three $25 gift codes to the shop and see what my teamies have created for you today!

Should you decide to shop, I have this for you:

Be sure to come back tomorrow for some more Release Inspiration!