Yukon - Midnight Sun

This week...the Yukon!

Midnight Sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the Yukon each year. It occurs in the summer months and the sun stays out until midnight on some nights (usually around June 11-July1); toward the poles the midnight sun sticks around for more days. Around the summer solstice each year it stays light out for 24 hours! If you visit the Yukon during these days you’ll be able to stay out longer, see more sights, and go on more adventures.

Here are some midnight sun adventures that you can partake in:

The 24 Hours of Light Mountain Bike Festival which occurs during the midnight sun days each year. It’s the only 24 hour bike race where lights are not allowed.

The Midnight Sun Golf Tournament tees off at midnight and you play until the morning!

The 30 Mile Historic Yukon River Tour.

You could go on midnight hikes on many of the trails located in the Yukon.

Try camping during the midnight sun.

There’s even a two week road trip through the Yukon which lasts the duration of the midnight sun. On this tour you will explore the Klondike, Dawson, The Kluane Mountain Range, Miles Canyon, and the Southern Lakes.  

Here is a link to the Yukon Tourism website with many things that you can see and do in the Yukon during the midnight sun weeks or you can of course do them in at different times as well.

And take a look at some of the cool midnight sun photos that I found.

Island Paradise Cards

“Island Paradise is a refreshing aqua that calls to mind a change of scenery. A cool blue green shade that speaks to our dream of the great escape, Island Paradise is emblematic of tropical settings and our desire to unwind.” – Pantone 14-4620

We’re getting close to the end of our Pantone Spring colours blogs. The final two colours that we have left are blues, two very different blues, so we are going to do two very different things with them.

This week we chose Island Paradise (I wish I was relaxing at an Island Paradise about now!) and we thought about the beach, palm trees, relaxation, and sunshine, so we are going to incorporate those things into a card that you can send to people just because and transport them to a little island paradise.

Check out what we have come up with...

We decided to go with all blues with the exception of the sun and we decided to make two versions. One version will be with a Silhouette (or any other brand) cutting machine and the other will be cut by hand by tracing images onto the cardstock. All the colours will be the same, but we just want to show that you can easily make this card even without a fancy cutting machine.

Pick out some images of palm trees, the sun, and waves to cut out on your machine. Then pick your shades of blue. If you’re doing it by hand then print off some images and trace them onto the cardstock and cut out. We went for a yellow sun, dark blue palm trees, and bright blue waves. We opted to use the closest shade that we had to Island Paradise as our layer on top of the navy blue card.

Version Number 1:

Version Number 2:

 

Now if you’re using a machine, then pick a font and colour pen that you want your words to be printed in. We chose to print on the Island Paradise blue layer. If you’re cutting by hand, then choose some words that you want to stamp on the Island Paradise blue layer and stamp in a shade of dark blue and emboss.

Lastly you are going to glue all of the parts on the light blue layer and then finally you will have two similar, but slightly different in looks and make, Island Paradise cards.

Version Number 1:

Version Number 2: