Happy Ladybug Shaker
Hello crafty friends, June here! I hope everyone’s as excited about the new Valentine’s & Saint Patrick’s Day release as I am. I always love bug-themed things, so when I laid my eyes on the Ladybug Shaker, I know that this release was gonna be a good one!
I think this die would look amazing in traditional ladybug colors, but I decided on a brown-pink-yellow combo instead. Even though it was very cold when I made this card, I must’ve been in a spring-y mood judging by that color choice. I cut everything out of white cardstock and did some ink blending on those pieces so I could easily get the multi-colored look. I love how there’s the option of either dots or hearts to go on its wings, and since I wasn’t going for the look of a real ladybug anyway, I used the hearts. The shaker bits I added inside were older ones, the Chocolate Shaker Beads and the Paradise Shaker Beads.
I had loads of fun creating this background. I knew I had to include the Layered Ladybugs Stencil that perfectly matches the shaker, but I wanted it to be quite subtle. What I ended up doing is creating a tone-on-tone look using pink inks inside of the Watercolor Oval Mask. I added a bright mustard shade to the outside to bring back the color of the hearts. I also splattered darker yellow ink on the outside for some extra texture. I’m still so in love with both of the Watercolor Mask stencils, they’re a great way to bring a pattern into your card design without having to go for a full patterned background each time. They’re so insanely fun to play around with!

I cut my ink blended panel with the largest of the Pinking Rectangles. I’ve been loving matting my card panels lately, so I trimmed a piece of beige paper to be a bit larger than the rectangle and backed both of those onto my slightly larger cardbase. Lots of little details!
I couldn’t decide on just one sentiment, so I added two! Of course, the ‘Bugs & Kisses’ from Lovely Ladybugs was a must, but I also wanted to use one of the new banner shapes from Banner Greetings 2, so I also picked a fitting sentiment from Valentine Banner Greetings to fit inside. I stamped both of them in brown to bring back the color of the bug’s body.

I feel like I got to use all my favorites from this release on one card! All of the bug-themed products, the new stackable rectangles and the new banner shapes. Valentine’s cards are always so much fun to make, but I feel like these items are gonna be staples for me all year round, even the lovebugs.
I hope you enjoyed reading about my card as much as I enjoyed making it. I hope to see you again soon, bye!
























































