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 Week 49

It was my turn to set the challenge for this week, and I chose anything circles and accordingly called the challenge Around and Around. What I chose to do was stamp circles which were images from the Delicate Doilies set, punch them out, adhere them to Whisper White cardstock and then run the card through the Big Shot using the Square Lattice embossing folder, therefore using the technique of embedded embossing. This was adhered to a Pretty in Pink and then attached to a Whisper White base. This was such a quick card to make and the colours can be changed to suit either a male or female and depending on the shapes that are embedded, it can be made for any age group or occasion. This truly was a five minute card. Be sure to check out the Sunny Challenges and Creations blog each week for a new and exciting challenge.

Sunny Challenges Week 48

I loved doing this challenge. Vicky set the sketch and the challenge was to use Old Olive and Choc Chip. It was good to reach for the old 'comfort' colours and use them for a bit. I think they are the ideal colours for Christmas cards, so that is what I decided to use. I used an Old Olive base and matted that with a piece of Choc Chip. The Brights Collection DP is fantastic and it is one I tend to reach for often. I decided too to emboss the star in gold and sponged the edge with Old Olive ink and this was matted onto Old Olive and Choc Chip. To add a bit of interest I placed a piece of Old Olive grosgrain ribbon around the centre and it was finished off with the sentiment from Teen Tiny Sentiments which I stamped in Real Red (another fabulous Christmas colour) and matted that onto a Piece of Choc Chip card stock. Please check out Vicky and Kris's blogs for more inspiration and we would love you to play along with us each week at Sunny Challenges and Creations

Sunny Challenges and Creations Card Share 047/12

Goodness, another week has passed and here we are with yet another fabulous sketch and challenge from Kris. Along with the sketch this week, Kris set the challenge to use the colours River Rock, Cherry Cobbler and Marina Mist. My card base is of River Rock and I matted it with a piece of Marina Mist and also a piece of Cherry Cobbler that I had punched using the Eyelet Border Punch. The Whisper White mat I randomly stamped the leaves from the Confetti stamp set in all three colours. Using Cherry Cobbler I stamped the main image from Friends never Fade and matted that onto a piece of River Rock and mounted it onto the background using dimensionals. Kris, Vicky and our guest designers would love for you to play along with us this week at Sunny Challenges and Creations. Till next time have lots of fun stamping and creating!

My Helper!

Before settling in my craft room to do some hard core stamping, I vacuumed the house first. One of my little shadows decided that she did NOT want to give up her bed while I did my chores and when I came back into the room with the cleaner this is what I found!

Sunny Challenges Week 46

Hi Stampers,

Here we are another week of Sunny Challenges and Creations. I was the one to set the challenge this week and the card was to be a Fancy Fold, but using any stamp set or colour combination that you wanted. I must apologise for the quality of the sketch picture...but that is another story lol. The stamp set I used was Fresh Vintage from the Sale-a-bration catalogue this year. The card base is Concord Crush from the 2010-12 In Colours. After I had folded my card base I stamped a piece of Whisper White card stock using off stamped Concord Crush and the large blossom from the Fresh Vintage set randomly over the entire piece. I then placed it  into the Very Vintage embossing folder and ran it through the Big Shot, then cut it in half. The focal area was a mat of Melon Mambo, Concord Crush and the Whisper White mat onto which the image was stamped. The image was coloured using Blender Pens and then was sponged with Old Olive around the edges. This is such a pretty card and was so quick and easy to make. Check out Kris and Vicky's entries this week as well as our guest designers and dont forget to have a bit of fun and play along with us each week, and who knows you may well be our next Ray of Sunshine! Till next time.....

Sunny Challenges Week 45

Hello Stampers,

I am posting this challenge a whole week late!! Why you might ask? We changed Telco's, and my haven't things changed since we last did that! No longer it seems are your telephone service and internet services linked. You change your telephone service one one day and your internet you get to have access to up to 14...yes you read that right 14 days later. It is made even more unpalatable by the fact that we werent told this would happen before we signed up with them.............grrrrrrrrrr. Nevermind that is all behind us now so now I can play a bit of catch up for last week and then I will post the challenge for this week. The winners for this challenge have been announced and this week it was given to our two most regular contributors Alison and Margaret who did a wonderful job with the challenge that was set by Vicky. As always please pop on over to Sunny Challenges and Creations and check out the beautiful samples by our very own Miss Vicky and Kris and also those of our guest designers. The challenge was that we had to use ribbon along with the sketch provided. I used Basic Black card stock for the base and layered that with som DP from the Brights Collection. The image I stamped in basic black and very lightly added some Marina Mist sponging in the sky and around the base of the boat. The boat itself I put a coat of Crystal Effects over it and the sails. I threaded a small piece of gold wire from the top of the mast to the boast and then I tied a small Nautical (I hope) knot and placed it on the top right hand corner of the image. Using the Edgelit die I cut 2 one in Basic Black and the other in Old Olive and used black brads to secure it to the Left Hand edge of the card front. The ribbon part of the challenge I laid the Basic Black Taffeta Ribbon onto Whisper White Card Stock into what I thought looked like 'waves'. I hope you like what I have done for this challenge it was a lot of fun. Till next time......