Let Your Sun Shine

Good Afternoon friends!  Hope the day is bringing you many blessings.  Currently I am blessed with a quiet house.  2 kids are eating lunch and one is sleeping.  Silence really is golden...

Anyhow here's a card that I made for the current Viva la Verve challenges inspired by the picture I included on the right.  Today I'm trying something knew and adding directions for the card I made.  Not that they aren't straight forward but it's good practice for when I submit my creations for publishing.  Also what may seem straight forward for me might not be for someone else.

Thanks so much for spending some time here with me and I hope you are having a wonderful day!

Steps:

1) Make card from Cardstock (CS) A2 size

2) Punch border on CS; trim and adhere to card

3) Trim pattern paper and adhere to card

4) Mat pattern paper on CS; adhere to card

5) Cut square from CS; stamp sentiment; mat with CS and adhere to card

6) Thread buttons and adhere with glue dots.

Elements

Paper: Whisper White, Tangerine Tango, Tempting Turquoise, floral dp (Chatterbox), Ashville dp (Scenic route)

Ink: Pumpkin Pie

Accessories: Scallop Trim border punch (SU!), linen thread, Hawaiian shores buttons (PTI)

Stamps: Feel the Sun (Verve)

Stamp Therapy

Yesterday was a very long day.  It was one of those days where all three of my kids seemed to be at each other throats the whole day, I heard Momma at least a million times, and the messes to clean up were never ending.  Thankfully my two year old went to bed earlier with his siblings because he hadn't had a nap. Needless to say by the time the kids were in bed I was in desperate need of some stamp therapy.  

Here are my two creations last night that I've already posted on my SCS gallery. I wanted the cards to be bright and cheerful....something opposite to the way I was feeling.  The dp from the Ashville collection by Scenic Route came to mind.  I love the bright orange & mellow yellow.  I recently did a mini album for my mom using the same paper and enjoyed working with such upbeat colours.

The stamp sets that I used were a reflection of my thoughts. The top card uses Spring Solitude, inspired by the idea of me finding that private place to withdraw to when my world gets just a little crazy.  And then the bottom cards use of Delight in Life is to remind me to delight more often in the beautiful life that has been given to me.

Paper:  Whisper White, Scenic Route Ashville dp, bazzil basics

Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Brown, Soft Suede, Night of Navy, Tempting Turquoise, Crushed Curry

Ribbon:  Unknown.  It came in kit so I have no idea who the manufacturer is

Button:  From moms button bin....my daughter loves to sift through that bin.

Accessories:  EK Success edge punch, rhinestones

Stamps:  Delight in Life, Spring Solitude, Just B

YUMMY!!!

Here's my submission for the Limited Supplies Challenge 232 on Splitcoaststampers.com along with a close up of the REAL sugar frosting that I used.  The challenge was to create a food/beverage only theme and you could only use colours that were food related like Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, ect.

For this I challenge I was inspired by the Basic Gray Lemonade dp.  Just looking at those cherries is making me hungry.  I didn't have a cupcake die so it's all done free hand and to give it a little bit of dimension I pleated the cupcake holder and added dimensionals for the frosting part.  I wanted to use glitter for the frosting but then I wouldn't have been following the rules of the challenge so I decided to give sugar a try and it ended up working.  Using less glue is better so that it doesn't dissolve the sugar.  

The cupcake is sponged with purely pomegranate to give texture and the sentiment was given a fake layer by adding pomegranate ink to the sides just to help blend it in. If I had any Very Vanilla I would have used that for the sentiment. The buttons were the only thing that I thought might not fit with the challenge but then the encouraging ladies on SCS reminded me that Burgandy is type of wine.  I couldn't remember if the green buttons were Mellow Moss or Sage Shadow because that's how long I've had them kicking around my craft room.

Paper:  Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Basic Grey Lemonade dp

Stamps: Sincere Salutations

Ink:  Purely Pomegrante, Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Wild Wasabi ribbon, sugar, Basic Grey Lemonade rub-on (cherry), buttons, ticket corner punch.