Red Hot Bunny and Sunflower Spray from Sunshine's Stamps

Well another week has come and gone, did it go as fast for you as it did for me? Thank you to all of you who came and visited during the blog hop and for all your lovely comments. I really love flowers so when Sunshine gave me that particular stamp to use for the blog hop I was extremely happy. So this week I wanted to use the Sunflower Spray again and I have also used Red Hot Bunny this week.

First I will show you Red Hot Bunny. He is rather “Hot”. I do like fire fighters they are heroes in my book.

I have used Red Hot Bunny on a birthday card. You can put as many birthday candles on as you want but I went for lots. I based the design of the card on the Saturday sketch challenge from 365 Cards

Here is my Card:


I have used Sunshine’s Red Hot Bunny Stamp, Stampin’ Up’s Riding Hood Red and Whisper white Card Stock, DP from Creative Memories. The Ink is from Stampin’ Up and is Basic Black, Sahara Sand, Going Grey, Real Red, Yoyo Yellow, Creamy Caramel, Blush blossom and Tempting Turquoise. I also used dimensional and Fiskars Vines Texture Plate on the background to represent water shooting everywhere to put out the candles.

Here is the sketch:

Like I mentioned I have also done another project with the Sunflower Spray from Sunshine Stamp’s. I wanted to cover a little notebook that can be kept in your handbag or purse if you live in North America. In Australia we call a wallet a purse. Just for all of you who look at my blog from the U.S. and Canada, I didn’t want anyone getting confused. My Girlfriend loves to write notes so I thought I would give this to her but my daughter also wants one so I will have to make another one.

This is what it looked like before I covered it: It has a purple plastic cover but for some reason it doesn’t look that purple.

Here is my covered notebook

I have used Stampin’ Up’s Chocolate chip and Very Vanilla card stock, I have also used the same colours as I did for the scrapbook page on the Sunflower Spray. Stampin’ Up Garden Green, Old Olive, Summer Sun, So Saffron, Creamy Caramel, More Mustard and Chocolate Chip. I also used Stampin’ Up Crystal Effects to add rain drops to the sunflowers and leaves. I also used Fiskars filigree texture plate on the chocolate chip card stock. I used very strong double sided tape to adhere the card stock to the plastic cover. I didn’t want to take chances that it would come off.

Well I hope that you like these couple of projects and I will be back again next week with something else to show you.

Thanks for stopping by and spending a little time with me.

Take Care,

Sunshine's Stamps Grand Opening Event

***NOW CLOSED***GRAND OPENING***NOW CLOSED***
Blog Candy Winner and Challenge Winner will be announced on Thursday October 22nd at 7pm Central time (Friday October 23rd 11 am Australian EST) Go to Sunshine's Blog to see if you are the big winner!

Special Thanks to everyone who participated in our first BIG EVENT and we hope you will be back for future events we have planned for November and December.


Welcome to Sunshine's Stamps Grand Opening Event! We are so pleased to show you Sunshine's newest images and treat you to a mini-blog hop, a challenge, an in-store special and of course Blog Candy!



Here are the details: If you arrived here without starting at Sunshine's Blog head on over there to start the blog hop and just follow the links on each blog to the next blog in the hop!! Be sure to leave a comment on every blog as you go because there is MYSTERY BLOG CANDY to be won and you can't win unless you comment on each blog in the hop! No one but Sunshine knows which blogs comments will be chosen to randomly win the Blog Candy!! And it's nice candy too!! So be sure to comment!



Next - we have a great challenge for you to play along with. You don't have to use Sunshine's Stamps images to play either! Head on over to Tami's blog - The Journey of Life http://journeyoflifetamijo.blogspot.com/ to see the challenge! The winner will receive 3 FREE IMAGES of THEIR CHOICE from Sunshine's Store!!



Finally, we are running an in-store special!! Buy any two or more images and receive Sunshine's Autumn Wreath Image FREE!!! http://www.yourspecialdelivery.co.uk/sunshine-stamps.html

Most of all we want you to have some fun! To have the opportunity to win some great images and blog candy and check out the great images Sunshine's Stamps has to offer! There are new images every week, so be sure to become a follower and keep an eye out for some other great events Sunshine's Stamps is going to be involved with between now and Christmas!

Now let’s have some blog hopping fun and get a little inky with the challenge! Have fun everyone! REMEMBER: the Grand Opening Event is Open from October 17th 8AM Central Time - October 20th 9PM Central Time to allow for those folks who are UBER busy on the weekend to have a chance to play early in the week!

If you are looking at this from Australia the starting time is Midnight October 17th and finishes October 21st at 1 p.m. for those of us who have already gone into daylight savings.

The winners will be announced FRIDAY, October 23rd on Sunshine's Blog so be sure to hop on over to see if you are a winner!!Thanks for stopping by and we hope you have fun at Sunshine's Stamps first event!!

Don’t forget to come back to my blog and look at the layout at the end of this post. It has Sunshine’s just released for the blog hop “Sunflower Spray”. Also remember to make a comment on everyone’s blog so you will be in the running for the blog candy.

Sunshine: http://sunshinesstamps.blogspot.com/ START HERE
Chrissy: http://nursechrissy.blogspot.com/
Tami: http://journeyoflifetamijo.blogspot.com/
Heather: http://stampdetails.blogspot.com/
Jenny: http://playingisapassion.blogspot.com/
KY: http://bunnynest.blogspot.com/
Kym: http://nanaskeepsakes.blogspot.com/
Stuffie: http://stuffiestamps.blogspot.com/
Jennifer H: http://inking-obsessions.blogspot.com/
Sharon: http://rhapsodyincraft.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE
Trinity: http://mom2angeljocelyn.blogspot.com/


Here is my layout using Sunshine's Sunflower Spray Stamp



Here is the recipe for my layout
Stamp: Sunshine’s Sunflower Spray
Card and Paper: Stampin’ Up whisper white and very vanilla, Bo Bunny Chocolate Dot, Color Mates Medium Coffee Brown, plus some other card stock that I don’t know the name of.
Ink: Stampin’ Up Garden Green, Old Olive, Summer Sun, So Saffron, Creamy Caramel, More Mustard and Chocolate Chip.
Embellishments: Kaiser Craft rhinestones, K&Company Adhesive Chipboard, Stampin’ Up Crystal Effects.
Other: dimensionals, double sided tape, personal trimmer, sponge dauber.
Technique: Colouring, Tearing and sponging.


Hope you like the layout. I hope you can see the sponging around the photos and also the crystal effects that I used on the sunflowers to make it look like there were raindrops on the sunflowers.


This is the stamp, you can go over to Sunshine's Stamp Store to get it uncoloured.


Thanks so much for stopping by have a wonderful day.

Take Care

Sentiments from Sunshine's Stamps

Hello Lovely Ladies and I assume a few Men as well. Thank you for stopping by to see what I have been up to.

First I want to let you know that Sunshine’s Stamps will be having a blog hop and challenge and blog candy on Saturday 17th of October at 8 a.m. Central Time and finishing on the 20th of October at 9 p.m. central time. That is the U.S. Time and for those of you who want to play along in Australia it will be starting on Sunday 18th of October at 12 AM. And finish on October 21st at 1 AM.. So be sure to stop back at Midnight on Saturday if you are a night owl in Australia for the start of the blog hop. This is all to celebrate the GRAND OPENING of Sunshine's shop.

Well I have some great things to show you today.

I have used 2 of Sunshine’s Sentiments on cards this week and I also promised you some more Boobie Bunny.

First I have used the Sketch from MOJO Monday107 for this first card. Hope you like it.


The Sentiment is from Sunshine and it is called Attitude. I have used Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, and Riding Hood Red Card Stock, Pink Pirouette DSP. Also the Pink Pirouette striped Gosgrain Ribbon all from Stampin’ up. I have also used the Eyelet Border Punch from Stampin’ Up as well. Also I have the self adhesive half pearls and Fiskar’s Filigree texture plate as well as my personal trimmer. The Sentiment has been cut out using Creative Memories Circle cutting system.

Here is the sketch from MOJO Monday 107.

My Second card also using Sunshine’s Sentiment is called God is already there. I have used the sketch from Midnight Madness for this card. I must admit I liked it without the added embellishment around the sentiment but I was trying to stay true to the sketch. So I actually used DMC cross stitch floss in 3 colours and braided it to give it that little extra flare. I have again used Chocolate chip and Whisper White Card Stock and Chocolate Chip DSP from Stampin’ up. I must say I am quite fond of this colour and I just love the DSP. I have also used dimensionals to lift up the sentiment and 2 way glue from Stampin’ Up to add the braided DMC floss. Also the self adhesive half pearls and of course my personal trimmer.

Here is the sketch from Midnight Madness

I also promised you a couple of more things that I had done with Boobie Bunny. I mentioned last week that I was having a “Girls Night In”. We had a games night but not any ordinary games night. I had 9 games for us all to play and we played them much like speed dating. Not having to a speed dating night I am assuming what happens. Anyway we played each game for 10 minutes and at the end the winner got a Boobie Bunny Medal which also had a chocolate coin in the middle. At the end of the night the 2 Girlfriends with the most Boobie Bunny Medals played a game of Celebrity Heads to determine the winner of the Prize Basket. By the way I had help putting the Boobie Bunnies together (THANK YOU) we made 81 of them. It was heaps of fun and we raised a great amount towards Breast Cancer research and support and awareness.

Hope you like the Basket and the Medals. Don’t forget to go over to Sunshine’s Shop so that you can get your own Boobie Bunny to use in helping raise awareness of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Well Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day

Take Care

Boobie Bunny

Hello everyone,

It is that time of the week and I am back with another project using a stamp from Sunshine’s Signature Stamp Collection. I was hoping to show you a couple of more projects using Boobie Bunny but it just hasn’t quite happened. Hopefully I will get them finished this week and have them to show you next Monday.

In Australia it is “Girls Night In” month where groups of girlfriends get together have some fun and instead of going out they stay in. The money that we would usually spend on going out we donate to the Cancer Council to help raise funds towards breast cancer research and treatment.

Well Boobie Bunny from Sunshine couldn’t have come at a better time as my Girlfriends and I are having our “Girls Night In” this coming Thursday.

It is a timely reminder that we should all do our self breast exams monthly. I must admit I don’t always remember to do it but I will this month. We girls really need to take care of ourselves a lot better than we do sometimes.

Well let me show you what I have made. This great little Chinese Take Out Box will be great for giving little gifts to your girlfriend. I am going to use them on Thursday night for my girlfriends to put their donations in. We will tally it all up at the end of the night and they can then take their box home leaving their donations behind for the cancer council of course.

You can find the template for this box here:

I have used Pretty In Pink and Whisper Card Stock
Sweet Always DSP
Ink: Blush Blossom, Pretty in Pink, Pink Passion, Pixie Pink, Regal Rose, Bashful Blue and Ballet Blue
White Grosgrain ribbon
Dimensionals I have lifted both Boobie Bunny and the Sentiment up off the box.
Personal trimmer and scissors.

I hope that you like Boobie Bunny and the Sentiment both from Sunshine. Go over to Sunshine’s new shop location to have a look at the Sunny Bunny Signature Collection.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Take Care

Coaster Box and an Acetate Box decorated using Sunshine’s Stamps

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for dropping by for my second post for the day. Today I am bringing to you 2 new images from Sunshine’s Stamps. I also thought I would have a go at a couple of other projects other than a card or a scrapbook page. I think they came up o.k. I found the templates on Splitcoast Stampers so I will give you the url where you can find them with each project.

The first image that I used was Racy Randyne, she is very cute Motorbike. I know my 18 year old niece would love her in green, however my little girl is into pink so I thought I would colour her in pink. I made a coaster box only I didn’t use coasters. I bought a chipboard mini square album to use. I didn’t need the little tray that comes with the coasters and I could find a square one anyway. This little album already had 2 holes punched so I just evenly spread the other holes that were needed around the 2 holes already there and it came out o.k. I think. I left the coloured markers in the box so that you could see it used for a pencil holder. Of course you could use it as a gift box as well.




Here is the inside of the box for you to have a look at:

Here is what I used:

I used the Sweet Always DSP from Stampin’ Up to cover the chipboard. I also used Pretty in Pink Card Stock for the inside of the box. Instead of Modge Podge which the tutorial from Splitcoaststampers used I just used double sided tape making sure that the paper was secure at the edges of the chipboard before using my emery board to sand of the excess paper and card stock. After each application of the card stock or paper I then re-punched the wholes in the paper. I had already done this in the chipboard before covering. I thought this would be easier as I already had the 2 pre-punched holes. I also used double sided tape to adhere the bottom of the box as I didn’t have strong liquid glue to do this and it has held up quite well. This was quite time consuming but well worth it. I coloured the edges of the chipboard in with a pink marker. Anyway have a look at the tutorial to get the full details on how to make the box itself.

For the image I used Racy Randyne on whisper white card stock and backed her on Pretty in Pink Card Stock and these are the colour that I used for her.
All Stampin’ Write Markers: Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Going Grey, Basic Grey, Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, Only Orange, Pink Passion, Pixie, Pink and Pretty in Pink. I also used some orange satin ribbon to tie the box together.

For the Acetate Box I used Sunshine’s digital stamp, Vanity. No I am not one who wears make up but I’m sure if you have a girlfriend who is into makeup you might be able to use this image on the box to give a s a gift. I left the pens in the box so that you would get the idea. You can also find the tutorial for this box at Splitcoaststampers.

Sorry that the picture is a little dark, it was a grey, wet and very cold day in Melbourne when I took this photo.

I used for this box and overhead transparency, close to cocoa, whisper white and pretty in pink card stock. The DSP is Stampin’ Up’s Pink Pirouette Patterns DSP. The colours I used for Vanity are Close to Cocoa, Chocolate chip, Creamy Caramel, More Mustard, Cameo Coral, Lavender Lace, Bordering Blue, Brocade Blue and Bashful Blue. I also used the Crop-a-dile and some white grosgrain ribbon. Make sure you have left enough ribbon so you can pull the lid up to fill your gift box.

Well that is all for now. Hope that you have been inspired to have a go yourself somewhere in the busy-ness of your life.

Don’t forget to check out the other DT members of Sunshine’s for some more inspiration. You can find them on my side bar as well as Sunshine’s blog and her store.

Have a great day and thanks for spending a little of your time with me.

Take Care

A couple of Card Fronts

Hi Everyone,

thanks for dropping in today. I just wanted to do a quick post to show you the 2 card fronts I made for the September Card Front Swap at SBT50. We were to make a Thank You card and also a flower card.

The card fronts have to be 9 x 13 cm to fit onto the front of a Kaiser blank card.

This is what I came up with:

Here is the recipe:

All Paper and inks are from Stampin’ Up. Check out Claire Daly’s blog if you want to see what else Stampin’ Up has to offer.

Card Stock: Chocolate chip, Close to Cocoa and Very Vanilla
DSP: Close to Cocoa DSP
Stamp: Stampin’ Up’s Elegant Thank You, small branch from the Touch of Nature Stamp Set
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Other: Sponge Daubers, dimensionals, DS tape, personal trimmer

Here is the recipe:

Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Watercolour Paper
Stamps: Hydrangea from Bloomin’ with Beauty, Background stamp is from the Peaceful Wishes stamp set.
Ink: Versa Mark, Basic Grey, chocolate chip. colouring done using watercolour wonder crayons
Ribbon: Brocade Blue Grosgrain 5/8” ribbon
Other: Aqua Painter, Sponge Dauber, personal trimmer, ds tape.

Hope that you like these 2 card fronts.

Take Care and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday from Ref Rodney and Fumble!

Hi everyone,

It is another Monday so time for another look at what Sunshine’s Stamps have on offer. This week I have used 2 images from Sunshine’s Stamps on the one card: Fumble the football and Ref Rodney. I have also used Midnights Madness Sketch #19 for the basis of my card. I printed out 2 Ref Rodney’s coloured them the same, cut out one and popped it using dimensionals. I also popped the sentiment and a couple of Fumble the Football. I haven’t sponged the edges of the sentiment or around the oval as I wanted a very clean look for this card. I know when you are playing football there is nothing that is clean about it! Hope you like it.



Here is the recipe:

Card Stock: Stampin’ Up night of Navy, Bordering Blue and Whisper White
DSP: Stampi’ Up Urban Garden
Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Black, Going Grey, Basic Grey, Creamy Caramel, Blush Blossom, Real Red, Really Rust, Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, Brilliant Blue and Night of Navy.
Other: Black Half Pearls, Dimensional, Double Sided tape, Scissors and Personal Trimmer

Here is the sketch from the Midnight Madness team:

I also promised that I would show you a scrapbooking pages that I had worked on in August but just haven’t had time to post it. I do have more but you can wait until another post for those. This page I did as challenges for SBT50 Australia. It was a fun Cyber Crop in August where we also had to make a card using the scraps from our pages. It was a great idea so here is a page that I came up with for one of the challenges.

This page was a quote challenge as well as a challenge to have stars as the main attraction so to speak. I used Stampin’ Up Pretty in Pink card stock to create the title (which is also the quote we were to use and all the stars. I cut it all out on my Craft Robo. Man did it come in handy for this project. I had seen a similar page where it was almost all the one colour so I thought I would give a monochromatic layout a go and I quite like how it turned out. The background paper is also Stampin’ Up and was from the Berry Bliss DSP pack.

Here is the card I made using the scraps. The stamp is also from Stampin’ Up from the Best Yet set. I also used Pink Passion as the ink on this card.

Well that is all for now, oh alright just because you begged. I will show you one more page and card.

This layout I also did for the Cyber Challenge at SBT50 We each had certain criteria that we had to use. I had to use 2 different ribbons, a one word title, use at least 3 buttons and use something made of chipboard. This is what I came up with. I just love this photo of my Sarah. I had never made flowers with ribbon before so I thought I would give it a go and they came out o.k. The background paper is Stampin’ Up, the green torn paper is creative memories, The ribbon is Stampin’ Up and then we have the sticker alpha’s, buttons and chipboard flourishes to finish it all off.

This card is using the same stamp set as the previous card obviously because it is the same sentiment: Stampin’ Up’s Best Yet set. The paper, ribbon, and buttons are the same as the page as we had to use our scraps to make it as the extra challenge. I also used Stampin’ Up’s scallop circle punch.

Well thanks for stopping by and spending a little of your time with me.

Take Care