Thursday, May 8, 2014

CFS Sunbeams Four Different Ways



Hi folks! Here are four different ways to use the last set of stamps debuting this week at CAS-ual Friday Stamps! The Sunbeams set has a really neat half-sun image. This card uses it in the standard way, as a sun setting or rising on the horizon. I stamped an extra set of rays in yellow to fill out the sun a little more. 

To make the reflection in the water, I turned the sun stamp upside down and stamped it a second time for a lighter image. The sentiment was a little more tricky because it had to be upside down and backwards to act like a true reflection. So I used my old mirror image stamp (just a large, plain rectangle of rubber). This was actually the very first thing I stamped on the card, since the mirror image stamp is not see-through. Everything else was built around it. Since the reflected sentiment was stamped from the mirror image stamp, it didn't hold the embossing powder too well in the middle. How I wish I would have blown more powder off the sides to match ... it looks more like a reflection that way!

The clouds are the Bubble Label Die.


I used two impressions of the half-sun image to make a full sun image on this card. I could have stamped the half-circle a few more times to even out the ink and avoid the seam that shows in the middle, but I decided it looked kinda cool and just left it as-is.


This card took maybe 5 minutes to make (always a HUGE challenge for me, this rarely happens). The smiley face is a tiny stamp meant to go on the sun. Instead, I just cut a wonky circle in copy paper to use as a stencil for distress inks. The face was then stamped in the same ink on the circle. Done!
  

This last card uses the bottom straight edge of the sun design to make a rectangular panel on the card. I was going for a slightly watermelon look, with the pink/dark green/light green colors that were selectively inked on the stamp. This was a fun one to play with, especially with the different patterns the sun rays made in the middle depending on how close you stamped the images together. I had a couple different versions : )

More inspiration waits for you with the rest of the inspiring CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Design Team:


Check back at CAS-ual Friday Stamps for the release of the treble clef, the music note, the playing cards, and this sunshine stamp and die sets! Thanks for looking!
-Kelly

11 comments:

  1. These are all so fabulously ingenious, Kelly ... the first takes the biscuit though ... the reflected sun and sentiment are just awesome! Anita :)

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  2. AWESOME...such fun card Kelly!

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  3. Such fun cards! That first one is my favorite! LOVE the mirrored image/stamping and just loving all the ways you used this stamp set!

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  4. faves are the horizon and the watermelon! All of them are brilliant!

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  5. Love love love Kelly--such cheery cards!

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  6. These are all so fabulous! I really like the watermelon colors!!! :) So fun!

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  7. These are superb!! I like every single way u used this stamp but i cannot get my eyes off it ;)

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  8. What a wonderful way to show off a stamp set. I love the reflection - so unique.

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  9. Happy happy cards Kelly! LOVE the first one, the reflection is such a brilliant idea!!

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  10. Wow! Loving the reflection of the sun and your creative ways to get more out of this set!

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  11. Fabulous cards showcasing that stamp set. I am so intrigued by the first one--it looks like magic to me.

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