Sunbursts and Miracles

I love it when the sun peeks from behind the clouds and makes it look like a miracle. So when I started playing with this sunburst framelit... I saw all sorts of potential. Here are few cards and projects from the past few days...

STARTING THE DAY ANEW WITH A CUP OF COFFEE AND YOU!

This is my Monthly Swap Club card- theme: "New Beginnings"- 

because a cup of coffee and a miracle cloud sounds like a great new beginning!

Stamps and dies from the SU! 2016 Occasions catty… All the words (inside it says "Happy Birthday to You" are from Sunburst Sayings. And the hearts are from A Nice Cuppa. For the cutting, I used the Sunburst and Cups & Kettle Dies as well as my circle punches. 

I used two Splitcoaststamper challenges: Color Challenge SC568: Saffron Gray Sky (So Saffron yellow, Smokey Slate gray, Soft Sky blue) and Sketch Challenge SC579.

SUNSHINY PEEP HELLO!

Stamps and dies from the 2016 Occasions catty… 

SU! Stamps: Sunburst Sayings and Honeycomb Happiness. Inside the card it says "You're so Sweet" from Honeycomb Happiness.

SHARING COCOA WITH MY VALENTINE...

Stamps and dies from the 2016 Occasions catty… 

SU! Stamps: Perpetual Birthday Calendar (hearts), Sunburst Sayings (dots and squiggle lines). and the Cups & Kettle framelits for the cups, heart, and spoon.

I made the straws by stamping the squiggle lines from Sunburst Sayings on paper and then rolling them. 

Thanks for looking! 

Makani

Playing with ink and paper- Tea's on!

I love crafting. I love it all... how it takes 3 hours to make that one card... figuring out how to do some certain effect... finding the perfect sheet of pretty designer paper to go with the card... yup- true love.
So here is the effect of having one day to play... :)

WILLOW WARE INSPIRED - TEA TIME 

My mother-in-law collected tea pots and used blue Willow Ware exclusively for all daily use. 

I loved it. So when I was working on this card, I kept thinking blue and white... 

Stampin' Up! stamp sets: A Nice Cuppa (and matching Cups and Kettle Framelits dies) and some homemade designer paper using the scattered flowers from Perpetual Birthday Calendar.  

TEACUP HERB GARDEN

Stampin' Up! stamp sets: A Nice Cuppa (and matching Cups and Kettle Framelits dies) and Flowering Fields (2016 Sale-A-Bration)

The designer paper is Twitterpated (retired) designer paper.

This next card is another sunburst card... and 

here's how I glued all the "throw away" pieces down without having to piece it all together... 

I cut the paper with the die cut, flipped it over and put liquid glue on the "throw away" pieces. 

Then I put the cardstock over the upside down and gluey pieces and pressed for a while with my fingers and a bone folder to get the pieces to stick to the cardstock. 

In the end I get two cards- the positive and the negative design.

Here is the final card I made with that piece... 

Stampin' Up! stamp sets: Kinda Eclectic (the sun rays and "a little kindness goes a long way", Ray of Sunshine (the sun's face), and Sunburst Sayings ("you brighten my day" and the squiggles and line of dots) with matching Sunburst Framelit Die.

SUNSHINE KINDNESS

And the non-SU! card for the day was using those Tim Holtz Crazy Birds finally...

THANKS FOR ALL MY FRIENDS