A few weeks ago, a cute little girl I know turned 1. It’s amazing how time flies.

To go along with Sadie’s gift, I made a cute shaker card (in the hopes that she’d have fun shaking it), and a watercolored envelope to match.

For the card, I cut a panel using a stitched rectangle die and then used a stitched circle die to cut the shaker window. I stamped a cute little cupcake on another panel, to sit right in the window.  To fill the shaker, I used an assortment of sequins, seed beads and die-cut stars. I then added the “HOORAY!” sentiment on a strip of slate cardstock that I cut to fit across the bottom of the window. The sentiment is heat embossed and the strip is popped off of the window using some foam tape.

Before adding the shaker panel to the card base, I decided to put some of pink vellum polka dot paper on the card base to give it a little more interest.

For the envelope, I used some Canson watercolor paper and my We R Memory Keepers envelope punch board. I found a scripty font that I liked (check out my post about free calligraphy fonts here), and replicated it on the envelope front using a versa mark pen. Then I added some gold embossing powder over the versa mark ink and heat embossed it. Then, I added a water color wash over the top (the heat embossing resists the watercolor). After the first watercolor wash dried, I added another wash, just to give it a little more depth and interest.

I had so much fun putting this gift bag together. Pink, pink and more pink!

• Stamps: Sweets & Treats (Wplus9), Birthday stamp set (similar here)
• Dies: Stitched Rectangles (SSS), Stitched Circles (SSS), Lots of Stars (Mama Elephant)
• Paper: Canson watercolor paper, Neenah Solar White, pink vellum polka dot paper (Studio Calico – similar here), acetate
• Embellishments: Moonshine sequins, shaker beads (SSS), silver sequins
  
• Other: Sweet Nectar dye ink, Hero Arts white pigment ink, Versamarker watermark emboss pen, Ranger Gold Embossing Powder, transparent watercolor paints, 3M foam adhesive