 Hi stampers! I'm Jill and welcome to Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm here to show you a fun idea with these. I got really inspired with these fun for everything sequins, fancy sequins. And I love these colors, this icy blue and this alike. I'm calling it a Grinch Green because it's kind of a lime-ish green but it's also just really pretty also. And this pink one. So I designed a couple cards just using these sequins as my focus. And normally I do Christmas cards with the red and white. I have a video of red and white cards and I love to do red and white. But I'm doing a little bit different and we're making some alternative ideas for some Christmas cards. Normally pink is not a holiday color but if you notice a lot of the pastels are in the holiday decorations this year. I'm going to use a stamp set that would coordinate with this idea. The a joyful flurry stamp set and the dies. And who doesn't like glimmer paper? I just love anything that sparkles. And I'm going to use the pink ones today. So if you look right here I've got the glimmer paper and I'm using the lighter colors of the glimmer paper to go ahead and punch out these designs. So with these sequins they make an awesome shaker card. But I'm going to use the simplified version of that. I learned this from another fellow demonstrator. So I'm going to go ahead and use the gold as the accent around it. There's a lot of gold in the sequins with the pink. So let me show you. I can decide to use either side of this paper. And this is a hostess paper that you can get at the back of the mini catalog. So I think I'm going to use just the pink and a clear envelope. The way that you do this for the easy way. So I'm going to go ahead and put the paper that I'm not going to use facing up so I can push it right into the corner. Real taut. And then I'm going to fold it over try to get all the air out of the bag so there's no air left behind. And then I'm going to use just a regular tape scotch tape on this to really fold it down and adhere it. Now I'm going to go ahead and open this up a little bit. And I'm going to pour the sequins inside of it that I want to use. There are so many sequins in here and there's pearls. I mean I didn't really realize there was pearls in here. And you can kind of move that around to see how how thick you want it. So that's about that's about the thickness I want. So and you know what I also love about these. You can use them with adhesive and use them for embellishments also for your card. So it gives you a lot of different options. Now I'm going to go ahead and take the adhesive off the back and kind of tuck a fold into a diagonal this way and then pull the whole thing down with the adhesive and then it stays. And if you want to if you feel like that that's too bulky right here you can still use another piece of scotch tape in that corner to hold the whole thing down. Okay so there we have our shaker card our easy shaker card. And then I've basically taken the colors from this and used them as my palette to go ahead and create. I like using the Stampin' Seal Plus for putting this down on your cardstock because it really seals it down. It's super sticky so it's an easy one to be able to use for this purpose. I'm going to go ahead and put before I start this is a ribbon that I want to use. And this is the Glitter Organdy Ribbon that's in the main catalog. And I'm going to go ahead and just go like that. Go ahead and cut it because I'm going to first put it down on my paper because the adhesive's already on it and this way your Organdy Ribbon is stuck to the card with the adhesive already on it. Okay now I'm just going to go ahead and tie a little knot here on the side. And just going to make a little not a bow but just a knot. Okay so that's kind of like it almost looks like a present. So we're going to do the card this way on our bonley blue. So we're using the Polished Pink and balmy blue or the two colors we're using for this Christmas card. Trim these. This balmy blue piece of cardstock is four and a quarter by eleven. The gold cardstock is three and three quarters by five. The pink is four and three quarters by three and a half. And that way you get your edging all the way around the card. Okay so I'm going to go ahead and hear that whole thing down again with my stamp and seal because when it's a little bit more bulky you want it to stick really well. Okay so we've got that going down on the cardstock. And then I'm going to go ahead and do some stamping. This will be the inside of the card. So I'm going to go ahead and do the polish pink first. And polish pink also for our sane. So I'm going to do joyful wishes for the sane on the outside. And on the inside I'm going to do happy Christmas. And let's do a little bit of polished pink and balmy blue on the on the snowflakes just kind of all over the place. This is the inside of the card and the inside of the card is three and a half the same size as the pink piece that we used three and a half by four and three quarters. Oh did you know what I just put my I just made like a purple color on my snowflake. So we've got all the colors right here. Fun inside for the card. So I'm going to go ahead and hear that too on the inside. Go ahead and finish this card up. I want to punch this out with our our rectangle postage punch. Joyful wishes. It's like almost perfect for the sane. And we'll pop that up with some dimensionals. So it almost looks like it's a tag kind of coming off the ribbon. Joyful wishes. I went ahead and already cut this out with the glimmer paper from the frosted flurry dies. And look how cool that looks with the two different colors. Now the way that you would hear this onto our glitter snowflakes here that we've got is I take this and I pull it up and I roll it in my fingers and then I put it in the center of the snowflake. So it kind of pops it up but it really will hold onto the glitter good. And the same thing with these I'm going to go ahead and roll for these two so that they'll also stay down on the really shiny area of the paper. So I'm going to go ahead and put one right here. And I think I'll put a dimensional on this one. And then let's do one down here. Oh my gosh to get this card with all those sparkles. Now wait a minute there's one more one more thing. Okay I'm going to go ahead and pop this open in with your take your pick tool. This is the beauty of these wonderful sequins is I'm going to go ahead and take one of the gold pieces right here and take my take your pick tool pick up the adhesive put it right in the center of where I want it to be and then put this sequin right down on it push it down and it picks it up right here with the sticky stuff from your take your pick tool. And I'm going to do the same thing with another gold piece picked up another gold one roll my adhesive now maybe you don't want to have to deal with adhesive but sometimes you want a certain color that matches and when these are already in the shaker card I think they make an amazing look for the shaker card. So I'm going to use them on the outside of the shaker card too. There's so many pieces that these embellishments can go on any card because you get so many and the pearls are amazing in here too. I didn't even realize the pearls were in here till I started making some of these cards. Okay so there we have the gold coming out and shaker what a fun card to get and it's really a lot simpler just using those clear envelopes as a shaker card. Let me show you some other ideas made with this sequins now the blue ones actually were the first ones that inspired me to actually make the card and I just love this combination I said I thought oh my gosh that looks like such a wintry scene so let me show you what I worked up with the blue and the blue and gold I embossed the season of magic and wonder on there put the sequins on the little dies so that's fun with a little bit of ribbon well actually one more with the blue because I loved the contrast of the blue with the darker the pacific point background paper so just love how these go and I know the kids would love to get these too. Here's the final one I also added some of this on there with the pink now the green because this reminded me of more like the Grinch kind of colors of Christmas I went ahead and did a Merry Grinchmas and made a real fun bling color there's that background paper from the package of the hostess set and it lends itself to these colors so just some fun different Christmas ideas and coloring to use at Christmas time and I just love how this reminds me of the Grinch because our son dresses up as the Grinch and plays the Grinch out in front of our house when people are coming by to see our Christmas lights. I hope you've enjoyed these alternate ideas of Christmas colors if you like any of these products click the links below and we'll see you next time on Watch It Weekly Wednesday. Merry Grinchmas!