Sunny Creations Guest Designer - 039/12

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 :)

Bright Birthday!

Hi All! I recently posted that I came runner up in a competition that Australian Simply Cards magazine was running. Well I won a prize as well and this stamp set was included. So I just had to have a play and all I could see was bright, kids colours!

I used the DSP 'Big top' which is defiantly stepping out of my comfort zone, but I do love the result. My colours are tempting turquoise, real red, daffodil delight and old olive. The red mat for the sentiment is made from the decorative label punch. 

It's a pretty clean card, but I like the end result - What do you think ? :)

Thanks for looking!

Festive Friday #11

Hello again! It's time for another Festive Friday and we're still all about Easter cards. I think this is my favourite card I have made in a while! 

Here it is...

I'll give you a quick run down of punches I've used. 

The clouds are the small scallop circle cut down to desired size, the fence was made from the word window, then glued onto two thin strips of card. The rabbit is from 1 1/4" circle for the body, the head is 1" circle and the ears are also from the 1" circle (Check further down for detail on how ears were done) The rabbits eyes and nose are from the owl punch. The butterflies are from beautiful wings embosslit, the flowers are the smallest flower on the boho punch and the grass is a strip of certainly celery, which I cut by hand. The 'easter' banner was created using 3/4" circle for the base, and the letters were punched from the 1/2" circle. The banner is then tied to some crochet wool and tied to two tooth picks. I dont own any alphabet stamps, so I used letters from 'Curly Cute' stamp set, to create the word 'easter'. I popped the fence and the rabbit up on dimensionals for added depth and pearls finish it off nicely. 

So there you have it - a 'brief' run down of punches used... still with me? :)

Now to create the ears, I did a few quick photos:

Punch out a circle.

Feed the circle half way into punch, then rotate card and feed other side in.

Here is what you will end up with from the one circle. Use the same method, but a smaller circle for the pink bits of the ear.

So now it's over to you.. pop past Nicole's blog to see what the other design team members have come up with and why not join in? 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!