Week 50 Sunny Challenges and Creations

Goodness here we are at week 50. It seems hard to believe that it is almost 12 months ago that Sunny Challenges and Creations was 'born'. This week Kris set the challenge and it was to use the Reflection Technique. There is a wonderful tutorial for this at Splitcoast StampersNow I am the first to admit that when I read what the challenge was I groaned and thought I tried this once and it was a disaster! Michelle Zhindorf has always been an inspiration to me and even though I am not by any means a patch on her wonderful talent I thought that I would try doing a night scape and give the appearance of a deer standing by a lake with trees in the background. I think that I am going to have to make the brayer my best friend for a while to really get the hang of using it. To make the foreground I sponged the bottom and the edges around the 'lake' using Soft Suede and the lake was sponged using Tempting Turquoise. What will we ever do if Lovely as a Tree is retired? This stamp set would have to be one of the most versatile sets and it is loved by one and all. Please to be sure to check out Kris and Vicky's blogs and join us this week and play along and who knows you may be our next Ray of Sunshine.

Sunny Challenges and Creations Challenge 042/12

Hi there stampers, Here we are again with a sketch from Vicky. Along with the sketch the added challenge was to use the baby wipe technique. Now I am ashamed to say I had not done this technique before so it was a learning curve for me too. I decided to do what I hoped would look like a sunset, it doesnt, but I quite like the result. On my baby wipes I used Night of Navy, Tempting Turquoise, Cajun Craze and More Mustard. It took me a while to get the hang of picking up the colours and transferring therm to my card stock. Once I was happy with the result, I then stamped Lovely as a Tree in Early Espresso. The sentiment is from Short and Sweet, and this I stamped in Early Espresso also. It didnt look right on Whisper White card stock (too stark) and Very Vanilla seemed to be lost in the colours. When I was practicing the technique I used some scrap of Whisper White and found a piece of that, stamped the image on it. The sketch also shows a shape in the bottom left hand corner and everything I put there looked to be too big so I punched out a small flower and added a black brad to the centre. Please make sure you go and check out Kris and Vicky's blogs as well as those from our Guest Designers and play along with us this week at Sunny Challenges and Creations. Till next time...

Triple Twisted Easel Wedding Card

A special wedding card for a special couple



Envo Box



Side Panel



Yesterday I shared with you a beautiful photo of my son and his new wife at their wedding ceremoney on Long Island. Today I am going to share with you the Wedding Card that I made for them. I did not know wht the colour scheme was to be other than the men were wearing blue shirts, so that is the colour I used for the card. The base of the card I used White Shimmer cardstock, and the embossed mats were done in Bashful Blue. I absolutely adore the Presto DSP and I brayered that with Bashful Blue to give the look that I was after with it. I embossed vellum cardstock with the Finial Press embossing folder and layered this over the Bashful Blue Cardstock.The hearts were punched out using the large heart punch and my good friend Kris lent me her heart emboslit to give the hearts a final touch.  I placed some basic pearls to hold the easels where they sat naturally on the card base. The champage glasses on the centre easel are not SU. I was asked by so many people how to make the card and I have had the tutorial for the single, double and the triple twisted easels placed on SUDSOL. This lovely card needed a special envelope in which to hold it so I carried the theme though by making one of my 'Envo Box's to hold the card. I used Whisper White cardstock for the body of the box and then used the Baroque wheel and rolled the decorative edge. A strip of the Presto DSP was placed on the box and to that I attached two hearts which co-ordinated with the card that was inside.      

Notice the small pearls the easel is resting against.