CTMH Technique Blog Hop - Creative with Cards

For this month's CTMH technique blog hop, we have 12 consultants sharing fun art work featuring Picture My Life cards.  I've following Danielle Wagner in this blog hop and am sharing a couple of birthday cards I made:

This first item is a shaker card with some different leftover gems I had on hand.  Did you know you can put baby powder or flour on the back of sticky gems to remove the "stickiness?" I use transparencies for the clear layer behind the Raspberry cut-out on the top part of the card.

For this card, I used a couple of techniques here.  I only had a small piece of this floral paper left in my stash so I cut out a small section that was going to be covered up by the PML card anyway and hand trimmed a few extra flowers to go with the corner floral border.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my cards, Catherine Nowak is up next in the blog hop, feel free to leave a comment then hop on over to see what she has to share.