Sunny Challenges & Creations: 2012

Saturday, 8 December 2012

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Congratulations to Monique for being our last Ray of Sunshine for 2012. Monique created this gorgeous card. Please visit her blog as she has some lovely work there & am sure would appreciate your comments.

Monique, please feel free to grab our badge to display on your blog

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As we are taking a small break over the Christmas/New Year break, this was our last challenge for the year,

On behalf of Gwen & Kris, I would like to say a BIG Thank You & wish all our Guest Designers, Weekly Guest Designers, loyal followers AND participants a very Merry Christmas & a Safe & Happy New Year. We have had heaps of fun seeing your beautiful creations & leaving you comments.

We will be back again mid-January for more fun challenges.

We hope you will join us again for 2013.

Stay safe & Happy Stampin'

Gwen, Kris & Vicky

Sunday, 2 December 2012

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This week Vicky has given us a great sketch to work with and all we need to do is make a non-traditional Christmas card. Use non-traditional colours, non traditionals stamps or both! How easy is that? We can all do with an extra Christmas card can't we? Soooo, hopefully you will be able to find the time to join our challenge this week.

Here is the sketch

And here are our Design Team samples.

Vicky

Kris

All you have to do, is create a card, project, scrapbook page using the sketch provided, post to your blog or on-line forum or group, come back & link with Mr Linky. He would love to see all your lovely cards too!

Remember, the challenge closes Friday, 7 December at approx 7.00pm

Australian Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time(AESDT)

Happy Stampin'

Vicky, Gwen and Kris.

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Ray of Sunshine 69

Firstly let me apologise for the lateness of this post but today has been just one event after the other. I guess that everyone else is busy too, because this week we only had two entries. However, they were both so good we have decided to award them both a Ray of Sunshine. So please join me in congratulating

Margaret

and

Alison

Here is our badge for Margaret and Alison to add to their blogs.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow to see our new challenge.

Happy Stampin'

Vicky, Gwen, Vicki and Kris.

Sunday, 25 November 2012

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We would like to say a big Thank You to Vicki who has been our Guest Designer for this month. It has been a real pleasure working with you. Vicki managed to create her cards for our challenges in between packing & moving house.... We hope you will continue to join us in our challenges Vicki & thanks once again.

Our challenge this week has been given to us by Gwen. In saying that, Gwen is still away tending to her hubby plus other "stuff". Why not join us this week, as we have a great sketch this week & that is it - "Sketch Only". It's the perfect time to catch up with your Christmas Cards or get an early start for the New Year.......

Design Team -

Weekly Guest Designer -

Carole

We want to leaves heaps of lovely comments this week so we would love for you to join us. All you have to do, is create a card, project, scrapbook page using the sketch provided, post to your blog or on-line forum or group, come back & link with Mr Linky. He would love to see all your lovely cards too!

Remember, the challenge closes Friday, 30 November approx 7.00pm

Australian Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time(AESDT)

Have a great week of creating!

Gwen, Kris, Vicki & Vicky

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Ray of Sunshine 68

Everyone must be extremely busy at the moment with the end of school year and preparations for Christmas as we only had two entries, both gorgeous cards. Please join me in congratulating Margaret for her winning entry, and don't forget to leave a comment on her blog. We all love receiving comments.

Here is our badge for Margaret to add to her blog.

Don't forget to check in tomorrow and see what we have in store for you.

Happy Stampin'

Gwen, Vicky and Kris.

Sunday, 18 November 2012

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Ready for a new challenge?

This week our challenge is to create a card or project, etc using something from the new Holiday Catalogue. Of course, we have a easy layout for you to play along. The possibilities are endless, especially for those of you who attended Regionals in Brisbane yesterday. You should be full of new ideas from the Holiday Catalogue. We would love to see some of them using our challenge.

Our Challenge -

Design Team -

Guest Designer -

Okey Dokey, now it is your turn. Simply create your card, project or scrapbook page using the sketch above using something from the Holiday Catalogue. It could be something as easy as the new Glitter Paper, Embossing Folder, etc

The challenge closes Friday, 23 November approx 7.00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (AEDST)

Happy Stampin'

Kris, Gwen & Vicky

Saturday, 17 November 2012

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Thank you to all the lovely shaker cards you created this week. Our Ray of Sunshine goes to Alison. Congratulations Alison! Please visit Alison's blog & let her know how much you love her work.

Alison, please feel free to grab our badge & post to your blog

Be sure to check back tomorrow to see our new challenge.

Until then, enjoy your day!

Vicky, Gwen and Kris

Sunday, 11 November 2012

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Our challenge this week has been set by Kris. All we have to do is create some kind of Shaker Card. No sketch, so let your imagination run wild! This should be a simple one for everyone to play along.

Just to get your started here is our design team inspiration.

Vicky

Kris

Vicki

We hope everyone gets a chance to try making these fun cards. Stampin' Up! now sells Shaker Frames in heaps of different sizes, so it should be easy to come up with lots of great designs. We are looking forward to seeing your fabulous work. Don't forget the challenge ends on Friday evening and that we are a Stampin' Up! challenge site.

Happy Stampin'

Vicky, Gwen and Kris

Saturday, 10 November 2012

Ray of Sunshine 66

From the response to this week's challenge it is clear that Perfect Plum is not a colour we are comfortable using. We would however like to congratulate Lisa who we have selected as our Ray of Sunshine this week for this gorgeous card. Don't forget to visit Lisa and let her know how much you love her work, everyone loves to receive a compliment.

Here is our Ray of Sunshine badge for Lisa to add to her blog.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow for our new challenge. We know that everyone is starting to hit that busy time of year -there are end of year concerts, graduations and general preparation for Christmas, as well as all those wonderful Christmas Parties that are starting to kick in - so we really appreciate those of you who have the time to participate each week.

Happy Stampin'

Vicky, Gwen and Kris.

Sunday, 4 November 2012

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We would like to welcome our Vicki, Guest Designer for this month. Vicki belongs to Cardar Tart and hales from the Gold Coast. For those of you who don't know Queensland, it is south of Brisbane. To find out more about Vicki, click onto our Guest Designer Page or pop on over to visit her blog.

Another week and another challenge. This week we have a fantastic sketch from Gwen and all we have to do is add Perfect Plum. We cannot wait to see all your entries this week, and don't forget we need at least ten entries to award two Rays of Sunshine.

Now here is the sketch.

And here is your inspiration.

Vicki

Gwen

Vicky

Kris

Weekly Guest Designer -

Anny

Now it is your turn! Create your card, scrapbook page, etc using the sketch & the colour Perfect Plum. Post your creation on line or to your blog & then link back with Mr Linky.

Our challenge closes Friday, 9 November approx 6.00pm Australian Eastern Time.

Have a great week & happy stampin'

Gwen, Kris, Vicki & Vicky

Saturday, 3 November 2012

Ray of Sunshine 65

Well another hard week to select a winner but a winner we have! Please join us in congratulating Hayley for her beautiful card. Thanks also to all the other entries. We would really love to give out two Rays of Sunshine but we need a few more entries, so how about joining us tomorrow to make it a really big week.

Now don't forget to visit Hayley and let her know how much you love her work.

Here is our badge for Hayley to add to her blog if she wishes.

Tomorrow's challenge will be another good one, so don't forget to check back in the morning and see what we have in store for your.

Happy Stampin'

Vicky, Gwen and Kris.

Sunday, 28 October 2012

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Thank you so much to all our loyal followers & to the lovely ladies who join us each week. We look forward to seeing all your creations each week.

This week's challenge has been given to us by Gwen. It is a really great layout with the 2nd part being "Sympathy". I know we don't like creating these sorts of cards, but it is always good to have one or two stashed in your box for emergencies.

Although Gwen is still away attending to her husband & packing house, she has supplied us with a creation of the challenge.

Design Team -

Gwen

Kris

Vicky

Weekly Guest Designer -

Alison

Now it is your turn. Create your card, link to your blog or on-line forum or group. Return to the challenge blog & link with Mr Linky.

Challenge closes Friday 2 November approx 7.00pm Australian Eastern Time.

Have a great week

Kris, Gwen & Vicky

Saturday, 27 October 2012

Ray of Sunshine 64/12

Well we didn't get the same response to our challenge this week as we did last week, so we can only give one Ray of Sunshine and believe me that is very hard to do. All the entries were fantastic and I hope you enjoyed trying this fun technique. Anyway, please join us in congratulating our Ray of Sunshine, Mel Sharp, for this fabulous card. I must admit I wouldn't have tried two-step stamping with this technique but it looks fabulous and Mel's result is so perfect.

Here is our badge for Mel to add to her blog.

Don't forget to check in tomorrow to see what challenge we have in store for you.

Until tomorrow, Happy Stampin'

Gwen, Vicky and Kris.

Sunday, 21 October 2012

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This week Kris has set the challenge and asked us to create a Triple Time Stamping card. The sketch will give you an idea of what that means.

And here is your inspiration from the Design Team this week.

Vicky

Kris

Weekly Guest Designs -

Carole

Margaret - who has been busy with 2 cards

Once you have finished your creation, please add it to Mr. Linky. These are such fun cards to make and after our record number of entries last week we are looking forward to seeing lots of beautiful creations.

Happy Stampin'

Vicky, Gwen and Kris.

Saturday, 20 October 2012

Ray of Sunshine Week 63

Gwen, Vicky and I are all very excited this week. We had 11 entries for our sketch only challenge and so we get to choose two winners. Now having said that it was still very hard because every single one of our entries was just gorgeous. We would love to give you all our badge but since we cannot I hope that you will join us in congratulating our two winners this week.

Leah