Summer cards at Sweet Stampin' Challenge

 Time to share my card for the challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.  Our theme this fortnight is "You are my Sunshine - shows us your summer cards. 

It's winter time here in NZ - but summer to me, means spending time at the beach....

We live very close to a couple of beaches... and spend a bit of time there in the summer time.   My card is made using stamps and dies from Altenew. - Summer Wishes and Be Like a Lighthouse.   The card was inspired by the sample on the packaging.   I used a Penny Black mask/stencil for my sun and a combination of orange inks.   The water was from the Be Like a Lighthouse set, stamped in Starlight ink and then a bit of pale blue blended over it.  The shells and starfish are from Summer Wishes together with the sentiment.  The shells and starfish were stamped and then ink blended using the matching stencils before die cutting.  

Do come and join us with your summer projects 

Summer Time over at StampNation

Yes it's time for my first card as part of the StampNation Challenge design team.   And our challenge is Summer....

Are you a member of StampNation?   If not, please check it out... it's a great place to hang out and craft with friends all over the world.   

Thanks for stopping by.

Summer's Here ~ at last!

The past few weeks have been very un-summer like here in Auckland, but the last couple of days and today in particular have been wonderful.  We had some rainy and humid days, then a wind change brought relief from the humidity and today was very warm and sunny.   With my parents here, we have been doing some fun things.... Saturday saw us going to Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium, Sunday we went to the movies to see "Skyfall", which I thoroughly enjoyed.   Monday we went to watch the Harness racing at Alexandra Park.

With the lovely weather today, we decided to head up the coast about 40 minutes to Wenderholm Regional Park.... along with what seemed half of Auckland.  It was packed.    But the park is huge and we all had a great day. 

I didn't have a swim as in my rush to get ready to go, I left my swimsuit on the bed.  So I paddled and read my book.    We set up our chairs under the shade of a Pohutukawa tree...
Lying back and looking upwards this is what I saw

The sky was clear, the sun shinning and a lovely shady spot.... what more could a girl ask for at the beach!

Now I'm watching an old movie... "An Officer and a Gentleman"

Hope your New Years Day is going well....

Dawn 

Mygrafico Monday Feature ~ Shabby Flowers

Hi there!  Back again with a Mygrafico Feature.  The challenge last week was "Summer" and this week we are featuring Mel's Brushes Shabby Flower Stamps  which has 9 different stamps

  A great set to use.

I started by importing three of the flowers into my word document together with two words from a Hero Arts digital kit ( Say it in Pieces) and printed it out.  I then printed it out onto a scrap piece of computer paper and using some washi tape covered the flowers with PP and reprinted it so that the PP got printed.  I then trimmed them out and paper pieced the flowers.   The two outer flowers were stuck directly to the card and the middle one was popped up on dimensionals.   I finished with some K & Company epoxy stickers for the centres.   Some distress around the edge and layered onto the PP background on the card base.

Visit the blog here to see what everyone else came up with. 

Now I didn't get last weeks card up on my blog so here's it is!

see this post for the digi set we got to use.   Had fun with this card.  Very self explanatory.  Coloured my image with water coloured pencils and an aqua pen.

Hope you take time to visit Mygrafico and join our challenge
 Dawn

Hello Sunshine.

I've been able to say that for the past few days.... albeit that the temperature hasn't been warm...the sun has been shinning.  So much so that during the weekend, we even sat at the outside table to have our lunch.  This morning was sunny ~ and I was stuck in bed with a horrendous headach :-(  and now, mid afternoon, the sun has disappeared and it's very grey and cool....

Summertime is the challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge   Things have changed a bit on the blog.... the challenge is now monthly.

I had stamped the little hedgie ages ago and she was sitting forlornly on my desk. Perfect challenge to use her. Coloured with Copics and cut with a Nellie Snellen die which was offset on a PP die cut. The PP's are from a pad by Craftworkcards called "Vintage Rose" The top stripey one reminds me of wallpaper. A touch of lace along the join. The sentiment is from Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday stamp set. Finished with a sizzix leaf diecut and flowers I made using a Cherry Lyn die.  The leaves were coloured with Mowed Lawn distress to give a nice green similar to the card base.

Also entering this into the following challenges:
Everybody loves Art ~ Summer
Loves Rubberstamps Challenge ~ Sweet Summer Days
Penny Black and More @ Allsorts ~ Summer Blooms

I've started the Stretch Your stamp classes, but no time yet to have a play.  I've got some ideas in mind, so might just save them up for Saturday.  It's stamp group again... missed last month so am looking forward to it.


I'm might even will have some new goodies to play with!  I'm off to SENZ~  NZ Scrapbook, cardmaking and craft Expo... down in Hamilton, on Friday.  Up early to get there by 9.00am and then I'm taking a class at 9.30am - Everything Tim Except for Him with Sue Smith.  
I popped into Scottie Crafts the other afternoon to get some ink and actually meet Sue which was great.  And I'm hoping to see Maxine (aka Kiwime Kreations) who I believe is also taking the class.  No doubt with 27 exhibitors I will find a little lot that I like/need!!!!!  

Enjoy the rest of your week.
Dawn  

Mygrafico Challenge ~ Summer colours.

Sitting here in temperatures of around 10-13 degrees C ( around 50-55F) it was hard to think Summer... but that's this weeks challenge at Mygrafico.  The team got to work with this super Summer Cuties stamp set

And did they come up with some awesome projects.  Too right!

I decided to try something different today... 

My project started as a Slider Box. I made up the box as per the instructions but the slider part didn't work so stuck to a box only.  I printed the strawberries onto some white card - once together and then each one separately. I used a Spellbinders die to cut out the double strawberries.   I coloured in the single strawberries, cut out and layered onto the first double print.  One was laid straight onto card and the other one popped up.  Then  I covered them with glossy accents.   I cut the Labels 4 dies for the top and bottom and trimmed the green paper to fit.  The ribbon is some that the lovely Cathy Andronicou sent me.  It finished off my project perfectly.

Do join us with your summer coloured cards for the challenge. 

Have entered into the Allsorts Challenge blog.... using dies


I'm happy to say I will be continuing with Mygrafico for another 6 months.  I'm enjoying designing for them. 


Thanks for visiting today.
Dawn

SSC Challenge ~ embossing and Wee Memories Summertime.

It's SSC challenge time again... This week our challenge to you is ~ embossing!  Heat embossing, dry embossing, emboss resist - there are literally dozens of ways to enter this challenge!  Come join us here.

this month's fabulous sponsor  ~

Lisa kindly provided us with some wonderful stamps and I got to use two fabulous sets...  “It's a Shore Thing” and “Little Frieda goes to the Sea Shore”.

My embossing was done with my ScorPal around the outside edges of the card.  The PP is a digital download which I re-coloured in PSE8.  I stamped the sand from "It's a Shore Thing" with some Versacolour ink and used a dauber to colour it.  Added distress ink for the sea/sky.  The sentiment and the sea gull are also from the same set.   I stamped Little Frieda onto white card and used Copics to colour it and cut it out.    This was a very fun card to make.
I am entering it into Wee Memories challenge  ~ Summer. 

Thanks for visiting... and do join us over on the SSC blog.  You could win some lovely stamps from The Crafter's Meow.

Cheers

Dawn