Cause for Celebration!

There are so many reasons for celebration! The most important? The celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. I never cease to wonder at how God could leave heaven for this earth, when there is so much suffering and sadness around here, and He knew what was in store even before it happened. He must…

Joy

Hello! It's Donna here, checking in from the sunny side of the world. (Well, for the next few months anyway, until the northern hemisphere has its turn again) I've made a simple Christmas card using the Emmanuel stamp set, and I think it's one of my favourite cards for this year. Christmas time is one…

Encouragement

I have a different kind of blog post for you today, so I hope you enjoy the story. I'm sure that one of the main reasons why Sonshine Stamp Co exists is to encourage Christians in their faith, through bible journalling and through the community that it provides. It's Donna here and I'm here to…

Crafting hacks to stretch your supplies (and a photobombing ant!)

There are so many lovely crafting supplies out there, aren't there? And we see the beautiful stashes and swatch charts of people who do craft for a living, and it can be easy to get dissatisfied with what we have and always be wanting more. And yet we are called to contentment, not envy by…

You are Sweet

Hello everyone! It's Donna here, and I've been enjoying some summer sun here in Australia. With that in mind, I grabbed out an absolute bunch of stamp sets to make a sweet summer card. The background lines were hand drawn, and then I used an unlikely stamp to add the dots. It's the full stop…

Rainbow Christmas

Hi everybody, It's Donna here and I'm back with another card made with the beautiful Emmanuel stamp set. I've been loving rainbow colours lately and this card is no exception. I used watercolour paper to help the colours move and blend, and stamped the Merry Christmas in Versamark ink. Then I heat embossed it in…

Christmas Trees

Do you have a Christmas tree tradition? In our family, we go out on December 1st and select a Christmas tree for our home from the Christmas tree farm. We all separate out, and find the tree we like. Then we have the job of trying to ‘sell’ our tree and its benefits to the…

Joy

Although it’s only the start of November, Christmas advertising is gearing up here in Australia. We don’t really celebrate Halloween here ( Although we did get a little trick or treater last night, only my third ever) and we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving either, so there’s nothing to stop the marketers getting into full Christmas swing…

Loved

Hello all, It’s Donna here again, and I have another card to share with you using a range of stamps. Considering how little the stamped portion of the card is, I may have gone overboard with how many stamps I used! I had a play with some Distress Inks to lay down a background for…

sow. water. harvest. repeat

Hello! It's Donna here, and I've been spending a lovely week in my garden. Spring has just arrived in my part of the world, and it's finally warm enough to plant my vegetable garden. As you may know, I love to grow all our fruit and vegetables for the year, so this is an important…