Stampin’ Up! Australia - You Are My Sunshine

Hi!

The inspiration image at The Card Concept's challenge this week is the lovely lyric “You Are My Sunshine”. I sing this song to my boys before bed every night - I love that song!

One of my friends asked me to make a card for a colleague who is leaving work in a few weeks. I also happened to have worked with this person and she is AWESOME!

So I knew I had to use this stamp for her card....but since it is a card from an office full of people, I needed to correct the grammar!

I used my rotary stamp to stamp an ‘OUR’ onto black cardstock, which I then heat embossed in white.

It’s not entirely true to my style of Clean & Graphic since I have a number of layers on the card...but it took on a life of its own in the end. :)

Here’s the inspiration image:

I hope you like my card! :)

Cheers

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Sunshine Shaker Card with Back to Black DSP

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I am vowing to play in more challenges this year and to use more of my vintage & retired stamp sets and supplies.....after all they are still perfectly viable and it is nice to show you how they can be incorporated with new patterned papers and techniques.

I was inspired by a few challenges this week....Freshly Made Sketches, Casology (theme word "LIGHT"), and the colour challenge at Less is More (Black, Metallic + own choice).

Here I used the retired 'Sunshine' stamp and coloured it with Daffodil Delight Blendabilities, and added some new Back to Black DSP. I love how the raindrops on the patterned paper and the clouds on the Cloudy Day embossing folder work with the "You are My Sunshine" story.

This is my second ever shaker card....they are really fun to make actually and I can see why they are so popular. I used the Gold Sequin Trim and took the sequins off the thread to use in my shaker frame, I added some yellow sequins and clear sequins too for effect. :)

 

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Hope you like my card. Visit my my online store to purchase any of the supplies used to make them (although the stamp set and the embossing folder are retired, you can use any square sentiment or embossing folder that you like), or click through the links below. 

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Cheers

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Stampin' Up! Australia - You Are My Sunshine Stamp

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Recently on StampNation, there was a challenge called "Outside My Window"....well I live in Brisbane, Australia and at the moment there is crazy amounts of daily thunderstorm activity and last night there was even a tornado in the next town over. Thunderstorms are commonplace in tropical Brisbane, but tornados are not. 

This photo wasn't exactly "outside my window" but it was taken by a storm-watcher not far from my place last week....look at that amazing storm cell structure!!!

So I set about trying to create a card inspired by this photo.

The other day, I caught a post from CASE Study and realised that I had never entered one of their challenges.....mainly due to a lack of confidence as their CASE Study muses are always SO talented. This week's challenge was no exception, but I took the FB post as a bit of a "sign", got up the courage, and thought about how this card below 'spoke' to me....well, it was the chevrons of course...but also the partially obscured flower features. It is very modern & cool. 

...and so my card was born....the fluffy white clouds against a sunshine-y sky.....with the chevron and  flower references....and a sentiment that promises love despite whatever struggles may appear before us. :)

Hope you all like it! Please comment if you do. :)

Materials used:

Stamp - Sunshine (single clear stamp), Positively Chevrons

Ink - Basic Grey, Stazon

Cardstock - Whisper White, Basic Grey, Summer Starfruit, Silver Glimmer Paper (on button). 

Accessories - Summer Starfruit button & die-cut doily (from a kit that's now retired)

Tools - Big Shot, Cloudy Day Embossing Folder, Edgelits Adorning Accents, Glue Dots, Paper Snips, Stampin' Trimmer, Boho Blossoms Punch, SNAIL.