Sunny Challenges #64

Hi! Just about to do the school pick up, but thought I'd quickly share this with you. This week at Sunny Challenges they want us to use triple stamping. This is a technique thats been on my 'to do' list for ages. Here's my creation:

And the challenge:

Thanks for looking!

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Good morning! I was honoured once again to be offered a spot on Sunny Challenges & Creations as a weekly guest designer. The challenge that is set is to use the sketch and ribbon.

Here's the sketch:

And here is what I came up with:

For my colours I used crumb cake, not quite navy, bashful blue and very vanilla. The flowers from  'field flowers', which have been two stepped stamped with bashful blue and not quite navy and old olive for the stem. The ribbon is very vanilla seam binding, which I have ruffled - seam binding works great for this effect. I have used some retired bella bleu dsp (I think this is my all time favourite dsp, which I have only just started to cut into, as I was hoarding it for a rainy day :) The crumb cake background panel is embossed with the perfect polka dot EB folder. 

So now go past Sunny Challenges and check out the other amazing creations from the design team and link up your creation.

Thanks for looking :)

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Hi! I was asked to be a guest designer for this weeks challenge at Sunny Challenges and Creations. We were asked to use the sketch along with the colours tempting turquoise, melon mambo and soft suede.

Now the best thing about a challenge is that it challenges you... and these colours threw me for a while :) until I started playing around with them. I dont think I've ever used soft suede with any other colour but old olive... So it was great to step out of my comfort zone. 

I love how diverse this sketch is and is one I will use in the future. I used the pendants from 'Party this Way' and used my 1/16" hole punch, then threaded some crochet twine through to 'hang' my pendants. 

I used the decorative label punch for the mat behind the sentiment. Here's a video to show you how it's done. The tempting turquoise and melon mambo panels are all dry embossed with the 'perfect polka dots' EB folder. 

Go on over to Sunny Challenges and Creations and check out all the other amazing creations the design team have come up with and join in on the fun!

Thanks for looking and have a great day :)

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Good morning! Recently I was asked to be a guest designer on Sunny Challenges & Creations. The challenge this week is to use the sketch and the distressing technique. Now if you have been following me for a while, you would know that I dont do too much distressing, so it certainly was a challenge for me :)

I took my scissors to all the edges of my card to rough them up, then sponged ink on them all. I used 'elements of style' which was stamped in stazon and coloured with my blender pens. The happy birthday is from 'well scripted'. I think it's still a 'clean' card, but I'll have to challenge myself to do more 'distressed/vintage' looking cards. 

Go and have a look at the other design team's beautiful creations and why not join in on the fun!

Thanks for looking.

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Hi all, Sorry it's been a little while since I've popped past - life - it gets busy!
Anyway I have been meaning to play along with Sunny Challenges & Creations for a while now, but just haven't found the time. Their challenge this week is to use the sketch and have a wedding theme... perfect! I needed a money slider for a wedding which is coming up. I flipped the sketch and this is what I've come up with:

Here it is open:

The theme of the wedding this is going to, is black and white. I used my much neglected vintage wallpaper embossing folder. The butterflies were made using the smallest butterfly on the 'beautiful butterflies' die and the black one is from the 'beautiful wings' embosslit. I was pretty happy with the end result, as I struggled to use just two colours. You can find the tutorial for the money slider here. 

Thanks for looking!

Wow I won again!

Hi all! I once again was quite surprised when I jumped on line today and found that I had been this weeks 'Ray of sunshine' over at Sunny Challenges.

 Heres the card I won it with:

Go and pop past to join in on the fun!
Thanks for looking.

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Hi! I found this cute challenge site a while ago now, and finally had a chance to enter a card. The challenge this week at Sunny Challenges & Creations was to use the sketch and the only stamping on the card is the sentiment. This did stump me at first, but then I've been meaning to try the pin wheels, so I grabbed some bright DSP and this is what I came up with.

I was happy with how this card turned out - I wanted something bright and fun. I used perfect plum, rose red and daffodil delight for my pin wheels and old olive to tie everything together. The sentiment is from pendant park. I used a small old olive brad to secure my pin wheels and I also punched out a small circle from the owl builder in old olive DSP to give it a nice center. The old olive ribbon is a retired ribbon that I had tucked away in my stash.
Thanks for looking!