Bright Sunny Days - Stampin' Up!® Month By Month

   I saw the Addicted to CAS challenge the other day and thought it was was a fitting prompt for this time of the year; Sunshine.  It was blazing hot so it was easy to get inspired for a hot sunny card!  I had a great time with this one mixing and matching supplies from different stamp sets and bundles. 

 I had two small sun stamps from different sets but they were so small I was having a hard time envisioning how to use them for a CAS card.  After poking through my supplies I realized I had this burst stamp that was in the Virtual Album Retreat stamp set the Month by Month set.  I could work with that!

  I started with a Basic White thick base then cut a Textured Notes dies out of Basic White and backed it with a panel of Timid Tiger.  I stamped the burst stamp twice.  Once in Daffodil Delight and once in stamped off Timid Tiger to make my sun rays.

  For the sun face I punched a 1" circle out of Daffodil Delight and sponged the edges with the same ink.  I used the Bee My Valentine stamp set to make the mouth.  I used one of the bee face stamps and just inked the mouth with my Basic Black Stampin' Write marker.  

  The sunglasses are die cut using the glasses in the Poppin' By die set.  I used Blueberry Bushel and Basic Black.  The lenses are colored over with clear Wink of Stella for a fun sparkle.  Once that was all adhered I popped the circle up on dimensionals over the rays.

  The sentiment is from the Spring Corners stamp set that is currently on sale on the Last Chance List.  Finally I added a few retired blue glass dots that coordinated with the blue of the sunglasses. 

  I was happy with how all my mixing and matching of unrelated stamp sets and dies turned out.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Month by Month (Virtual Album Retreat), Spring Corners (Online Exclusives), Bee My Valentine

Ink: Daffodil Delight, Timid Tiger, Memento Black

Paper: Basic White, Basic White thick, Timid Tiger, Basic Black, Blueberry Bushel

Accessories: Textured Notes dies (Online Exclusive), circle punch, Poppin' By dies, dimensionals, adhesive-backed milky dots (retired)