Sunshine Creativity

Can you believe that it is the August 1 already? I cannot. But here we are, believe it or not and today I get to share this DT card that I made for the new Outlawz Progressive Challenge. Remember it is free to join and you will get the new image every month if you have created with the last month's image. This month our sponsor is The Paper Shelter and we are using the digi called It's Tea Time.

Using Silhouette Studio, as I mostly do for card designs, I printed her out onto Canson C' a Grain Drawing paper. This is my favorite paper to use with my pencils. I print onto the smooth side and it has enough tooth to hold the pigment, but two layers of coloring mostly suffices. After coloring her with my Prismacolor colored pencils, I returned her to the Silhouette to cut her out. I cut her shape a second time out of black cardstock. I ran a black marker along the cut edge of the colored digi and glued the two pieces together.

I wanted to go for a sort of vintage look on my card here and so I chose the green plaid paper to back her onto as it reminded me of a tablecloth. I cut the frame from gold mirror cardstock using a Spellbinders die. I ran the green plaid paper through the die cutting machine with the frame die too and then inlayed the center piece into the gold frame. I created a black 5.5x5.5 cardbase and added a piece of patterned paper from a 6x6 paper pad in my stash. The teacups are cut from brown cardstock with a die from my stash and the word Tea is a Spellbinders die. I arranged the elements on the front of my card and trimmed off the part of the frame and the inlay that was hanging over the right edge.

The middle of the month means a new Crash your Stash challenge and this month the cue is Sequins. Sherry West is our sponsor and I am using her image called Fans. I had some purple sequins in my stash and so it was time to get them out.

I printed the elegant lady out onto Canson C' a Grain Drawing paper and colored her with my Prismacolor colored pencils. Here I am going bright again and so I opted for a combo of red and purple. I colored the background with soft pastels in orange and shades of yellow and applied a workable fixative once it was done.

After the fixative was dry, I cut the image out and matted it onto some purple cardstock which I applied to a cardpanel of plaid patterned paper and glued it down onto a purple cardbase. Once all the layers were firmly in place, I laid out the sequins, running along the folds in the lady's dress. When I was happy with the placement, I glued them in place. I completed the card with a sentiment die from a Recollections die set that I have in my stash cut out of gold mirror cardstock.

We look forward to seeing your projects showing off the sequins you have in your stash this month. Join us over at the Outlawz Crash your Stash challenge. You have a month to enter.

It is Friday, and I am here today to show you another project that is part of the ongoing challenge I have with BożenA. This time I chose the topic and decided on "My Homeland" The challenge was to depict the country in which we were born in any positive manner. Language alone did not suffice, but any topic could be chosen, namely scenery, characteristics, traditions, etc. While I now live in the stark, but regal state of Arizona in the USA, I am originally from South Africa, so here goes my project.

My blog has been a little quiet lately. Unfortunately I have not been able to sit on my crafting chair much. But I am on the mend and so I can share this CAS card with you. This is my project for the Outlawz Progressive challenge for July. Our sponsor is Twinkle Lane Designs and the image is Gingerbread Treat - which comes with the image and two sentiments. I used one of them here.