Sunshine Creativity

It is time for a new Crash Your Stash challenge over at Outlawz. These challenges are such fun as the theme is Anything Goes as long as you use the item from your stash that is the current month's cue and that you need to find in that back drawer. This month the cue is Photo Corners.

Well my stash is not old enough to contain photo corners. Most of my crafting has happened in the digital age, so I thought why not combine the old with the new. So, as mostly, I created a cardpanel by creating a rectangle in Silhouette Studio sized at 4x5.5 inches. I filled it with a background paper from the Party Celebration digital paper stack by We Are 3 Digital Shop. I adjusted the hue of the paper so that the blue paper turned pink. I then created an element on my card with a .png digital element from the Tropical Snap Shot collection by We Are 3 Digital Shop. In the clear space that is left for an image, I inserted the sweet precolored image from Imagine That Digistamps called Mailbox Kitties. I created a cutline around the elements and filled the box with a color from the background paper that I chose with the eyedropper tool.

I then moved the square card element, with all the parts of it grouped together, to a separate part of the page so that it would print and cut separately from the main panel. I then printed the page and returned it to the Silhouette to cut the two parts out. Then I made two photo corners out of a 1 inch square of cardstock each using the YouTube tutorial by Wendy. I then added them to opposite corners of my focal element and then popped the whole element up with foam tape.

I completed the card by adhering the panel onto a cardbase and then the focal element onto the panel. I decided the kitties in the mailbox made a perfect Thank you card and so cut the word thanks out twice, once in pink and once in green cardstock and offset them slightly on my card so that the green word has a pink shadow.

If you can find photo corners or feel like playing with making some yourself, we would love to see the result over at the Crash Your Stash challenge on Outlawz.

Today I am sharing a project made with a digi by a new-to-me artist - Lia Stampz. I got to work with this digi called Cozy Christmas for my DT project at the middle of the month sponsor at the Rabisco Challenge.

I opened the digi in my Silhouette Studio and created a cutline around her. I then sized her on a 4x5.25 rectangle in the position I wanted her to be. I printed her out onto Daler-Rowney Drawing paper and colored her with my Prismacolor colored pencils. Once she was colored, I returned her to the Silhouette and cut her out. I cut an additional blank shape out of white cardstock and glued the colored image onto the cardstock for stability.

I cut a piece of white cardstock at 4x5.25 inches and embossed it with a Darice Snowflake embossing folder. I wrapped some 1/8 inch ribbon around the embossed panel before adhering the panel to a dark blue cardbase. I then popped the image up on foam tape and added her to the card over the ribbon. I completed the card by stamping the sentiment from my stash in Versafine Onyx Black ink and cutting it out with an oval die. I ran a blue crayola marker around the edge of the sentiment cutout and glued it to the card.

I invite you to play along with us at Rabisco. The theme is Anything Goes as long as your project has a piece of haberdashery on it.

Supplies Used

Today I have another DT project to share with you as the new challenge over at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge Blog as started. If you are a member of any Design Team in the world, you are invited to enter your project. The theme is always Anything Goes and Julia Spiri is the resident sponsor. I love her images.

Today I combined two of Julia's art pieces - the digi called Waiting on the Prince and a digital paper from her VIP club. You can find a similar one in the Old Rustic Digital Paper collection. I created two squares in Silhouette Studio, one sized at 5.5x5.5x inches and one sized at 5x5 inches. I filled the smaller one with the digital paper and added the princess over the top - positioning her on the right side of the beautiful flower on the digital paper. I added the digital sentiment which comes from the Magical Sparkle sentiment set by We Are 3. I then used the eyedropper tool to choose a color from the flower and filled the bigger square with that color. I then printed the squares and colored the princess on her balcony with my Prismacolor colored pencils and added some details with a silver glitter gel pen.

Once I had colored the pretty lady, I returned the page to the Silhouette and cut out the two squares. I then adhered the top focal panel to the colored cardpanel which I, in turn, adhered to a 5.5x5.5 cardbase. I decided the card was complete as it was and needed no further embellishment.

I invite you to visit our challenge over at the World Wide Open Challenge Blog - where you can see more DT inspiration and enter our challenge to win some of Julia's images yourself.

Supplies Used

Today I wish to share my final project as a DT member of the Scrappers Delight team. It is the middle of the month and that means it is time for Special Deals - which means that the older images off the Scrapper Delights website that the DT team chooses to work with are on sale. Be sure to check them out on the DT Specials page.

I chose to work the beautiful flower background from the Flowers Plants Bundle 1. I created a 5x5 inch square in my Silhouette Studio and filled the whole square out with the flowery background image. I added one of the ladies from the Victorian Lady Bundle into the center of one of the flowers and then added a sentiment from We Are 3 Digital Shop. I printed the image out onto Strathmore Paint Pad paper and then colored the flowers with my Arteza real brush markers. I have an inkject printer and so I was curious how these water color markers would perform next to the printer ink. I had left the image to airdry for a few days after printing and I did not end up having any problems with the markers as long as I did not use any water.

Once the flower petal were completed, I added the centers with a brown glitter gel pen. I colored the lady with my Prismacolor colored pencils, doing the edgings on her skirt and jacket with a red glitter gel pen. I then returned the panel to the Silhouette to cut the square out and then adhered the panel to a pink glitter cardstock 5.5x5.5 inch matte which I in turn, glued to a cardbase.

The DT Special Deals also marks the start of a new challenge over at Scrappers Delights and this month the theme is tic-tac-toe. I opted to use the line with gems, flowers and twine. I completed the card by adding the gems and the twine as I already had a number of flowers.

Be sure to check out the Scrappers Delights challenge and we look forward to seeing you enter your projects there.

Once again I reverted to Silhouette Studio to design my card. I created a rectangle sized at 4x5.5 inches and filled the space with a polka dot digital paper. I used 4 elements from the VIP bundle to design my card - the Leo chibi, the Leo word, the date banner and the star outline frame. I positioned the elements on the card to my liking, added the typed Happy Birthday sentiment and printed the panel out onto Daler-Rowney Drawing paper. I colored the chibi, the word and the stars in the banner with my Prismacolor colored pencils and I colored the star outline frame with a glitter gel pen.

Once I had completed the coloring, I returned the page to the Silhouette and cut the rectangle out. I then adhered the one layer panel to a cardbase.

Be sure to head over to the Scrappers Delights new release page to see the rest of the bundle. Don't forget to enter your project into the ongoing challenge.

This week seems to have flown by, but here I am with another inspiration project for the Colour Crazy challenge blog. The theme is always Anything Goes as long as you have handcoloring on your project. This fortnight our sponsor is Skeepski Designs and I have used the image called Perfect Pointe.

Yes, this is a Christmas card! And that is because the theme over at the new Cute 'N Crafty challenge is Christmas in July. Our sponsor is My Besties and I got to work with this cutie called Bestie Pengiun. The prize for the winner is 3 digis from the shop.