Shaker card and Valentines giveaway

Hi everyone!  Today's card was VERY different for me.  I stepped way outside my box and I am still not sure how I like it, but after 2 days of futzing here it is.  I did some water coloring using water color pencils and Gelatos AND built a mini scene within a shaker card.  Water color and scene building? Who me? Yep!  

You should have seen my attempts to water color backgrounds -yeah it was pretty bad. So rather than coloring the entire background, I settled on die cutting water color paper into grass and cloud shapes and water colored those.  This was a more "clean" approach to water coloring and suited my style (and talent level) better.
My card features one of the Die D-Lite dies called Delightful Tree, which I die cut in green, cut the birds in blue, birdhouse in brown and added some hot pink gems for a pop of color.

Thanks to the suggestions of my lovely readers after my last shaker card, I made this shaker card differently and it was easier!  I bought some adhesive backed foam at Michaels and die cut and trimmed it to fit almost the size of my card front.  TIP: when die cutting foam, don't use the regular sandwich with the Grand Calibur, instead use the cutting plate and the pink embossing plate.  Using the regular sandwich compressed the foam to 1/2 the thickness!

I adhered the foam to my card base, "built" the scene inside and filled it with my sequins and beads.  I strategically glued some sequins and leaving the rest loose to shake around.  Next I adhered the acetate paper behind my frame and glued everything down.  Lastly I adhered my tree on top of the window.
Here is a pic of my window before the tree.  You can see which sequins I glued down, the others are behind the grass.

****Giveaway info****
I have put together an assortment of Valentines themed goodies to give away to one lucky person.  In the package:
-brand new set of Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Hearts dies
-variety of pink Prima and assorted flowers
-heart and misc embellishments
-variety of sequins
-assortment of gorgeous pink and Valentine themed ribbons
-gently used Love themed stamp sets from Flourishes and JustRite Stampers
-gently used patterned paper from Gina K Designs

To enter in my giveaway, leave me a comment on this post and I will chose 1 winner on Saturday, February 14th -Valentine's Day!!  You don't have to be a follower of my blog, but if you are leave me two comments to be entered twice!

Thanks for stopping by and good luck!  Here's a close up picture of the Delightful Tree.

Card Deets:   
Spellbinders Dies: S2-107 Delightful Tree, S2-152 Flower Field (for the grass) Shapeabilities®; SCD-009 Sunny Days (for the clouds); S4-408 Rounded Squares Nestabilities®  
Stamps: Spellbinders Celebra'tions, My Friend stamp set 
Other Supplies: White, green, brown and blue cardstock; My Mind's Eye, Wood Necessities 6x6 pattern paper; Cartwright's sequins, white and moonshine sequins; Gelatos in gold, green and blue; water color pencil in blue  
Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares     
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders dies at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.