Guest Designing at the Twofer Challenge!!

Hey everyone - Darnell chose Mac Mable (conventional) and me (non-conventional) as winners for our June Twofer Challenge cards (see Mac Mable's amazing sea creatures here and my crazy Christmas tree and fish here). Now we're both Guest Designers for August's Twofer with the theme of Sun/Moon - how great is that?!! 

Here's my Twofer:

I decided to go with the sun because I have a lot of those images and it's summer - loads of sunshine to inspire me!! My sun stamp in common comes from a 2010 Hero Arts clear set. I had to pull out this cutie (also has the clothes & clothespins) because it really makes me smile every time I flip through my stamp sets!! Literally, I've been thinking I should make something with that set & the time arrived!! Here's a closer look at each with a supply list:

Supplies: Paper - DCWV black A2 card; Lawn Fawn Watercolor;

kraft from an envelope; Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb

Stamps - Hero Arts CL439 A Kiss From the Sun & 

CL438 Let's Chill (both retired)

Dies - My Favorite Things Blueprints (retired);

Pink & Main Happy Birthday Dies

Other - Copic Markers; foam tape

Gloomy day when this was taken so the white reads a bit grey - sorry! You may recognize the beach elements from my Day 6 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge (now over). I bought the layered birthday back in July when I grabbed a few other Pink & Main goodies - love it! As I was cutting it for the first time, it occurred to me that it would make a fun anchor for my beach elements - what do you think?

I recently got the new banner alpha set from HA and suddenly thought it would be cute to put the banners spelling HAPPY among the hanging clothes. Funny thing, when I tested the dies I cut a bunch to spell HELLO!!! So my card ended up being a hello one; I inlaid the letters into the flags. 

Supplies: Paper - Hero Arts pool (retired); various Lawn Fawn &

BoBunny prints; Poptone Black; Michael's green

Stamps - Hero Arts CL439 A Kiss From the Sun & 

CL142 Thank You Messages (both retired);

Cornish Heritage Farms Denim Backgrounder (retired)

Dies - Hero Arts DI199 Nesting Circle Infinity Dies &

DI739 Banner Letterset Fancy Dies

Other - Copic markers; foam tape; Doodlebug string

I wanted a sunny card to send to my friend Heather (Stamping and Stitching). Thought she'd get a kick out of the clothes on the line - I experienced this at her house a year ago when I went to Ireland. Just had to wash my favorite jean capris before I went to England and Heather was gracious enough to help. I just had no clue how different their machines were from mine at home! 

In the stamp set, the words I stamped around the sun actually circle a pair of flip-flops. I just did a bit of surgery and snipped the flip-flops out of the center, stamped the words and put them back around the flip-flops. No worries. Then I stamped the sun in the center and die cut it all with a circle die. Gave it a totally different look from the sun on card one. The bitty flower on the aqua T-shirt came from the Thank You stamp set. And yes, I fussy cut those teensy clothespins!!

And now, a threefer!!

Decided to create patterned paper with the sun outline then color just one. It's been done but it's so fun! Sentiment is from an old Technique Tuesday set "Bring on the Sun"; stamped and white embossed. Inside verse is from the same set " - a James Matthew Barrie quote that says "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." Sent this one to my sister who's helping my parents for the summer.

So, have I inspired you to play along? You have until August 24th to link up here. Just remember to use  the sun/moon theme and follow the rules re: a common stamp/die/stencil, distinctly different designs, and two different occasion! Thanks to the delightful Darnell & her team for a fun challenge and for having me as a Guest Designer this month. And again big congrats to the awesome Mac Mable on her GD slot too!!

Have a wonderful day and thanks for visiting me!!