Sneak Peek: Introducing Monkey Business Stamps & Jungle Vines Dies

Hello, and welcome to day 4 of our Summer Sneak Peek Week!  All this week, I am sharing cards showcasing our newest collection, which will be available for purchase tomorrow!

Card No. 1: Today, I'm thrilled to be sharing card ideas using our darling new Monkey Business Stamps and Jungle Vines Dies! For my first card, I started by die-cutting a frame with the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Die, then layered two split philodendron leaves along the top and bottom edges from the Jungle Leaves die set. These dies mix and match nicely with our previously released Summer Greenery Dies and don't duplicate the leaves in that set. I completed my card by adding a piece of aqua cardstock to the background for my sky, adding a number of monkeys to hang, sit, and stand within the frame, and stamping a punny greeting from the set. I can't help but smile back at these cute monkeys!

Card No. 2: For my next card, I started by inking up a cardstock panel with a light touch of Picked Raspberry Distress Ink and then layered in the tree branches, vines, and tropical leaves from the Jungle Vines Dies. I love how the vine was designed to wrap around the tree branch so realistically, and how easy it is to recreate a tropical vacation vibe. I added the stitched label frame from the Icing Rectangle Dies to stamp my punny greeting from the set. I then layered in the monkeys from the Monkey Business Stamps. There is one little monkey that comes with the set in two pieces, allowing you to position him around a tree branch or the large banana that comes with the stamp set. I was having so much fun with that, and I think there are so many fun ways he could be used.

Card No. 3: For my third card, I cut five of the same leafy vine borders from light green cardstock using the Jungle Vines Dies, then inked one side with Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink. I then created a fun background by adding adhesive to the back of each with my favorite Zig Glue Pen and applying them to a green cardstock panel one by one. These vines felt like the perfect surface to tuck three of the hanging monkeys from using the Monkey Business Stamps. I completed my card with a large black-and-white greeting using the word "thanks" from the Big Bold Greetings Stamps and the words "for going above & beyond" from the Words of Gratitude Stamps.

Card No. 4: Up next is a fun and playful card using the large banana image with four of the monkeys from the Monkey Business Stamps. I positioned the groupings in a 2x2 grid and framed them using our Scalloped Square 2 Small Dies and the yellow gingham paper from our Gingham Jewel Tones Paper pack. Lastly, I heated-embossed a punny greeting from the set onto a pennant cut from a green print in the Classic Sunburst Paper pack using our Slimline Pennant Dies. I love the yellow, green, and brown color scheme!

Card No. 5: My next card put my monkeys from the Monkey Business Stamps on a deserted island using the palm tree and island from the Tropical Scenes Stamps and the larger palm tree from the Sending Sunshine Stamps. I inked up a sun behind them with Mustard Seed Distress ink, then inked around it in a circular motion with a light amount of Broken China Distress ink. Lastly, I masked off the bottom portion with Spellbinders Masking Sheets to ink my ocean water using Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. I heat embossed my punny greeting form the set and added some red hearts using one of the dies from our Basic Mini Shape 2 Dies.

Card No. 6: For my last card of the day using the new Monkey Business Stamps, I once again turned to elements from the Tropical Scenes Stamps, this time using the jungle vines and branch border from the set. I added a large birthday sentiment from the Big Bold Greetings Stamps, stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink, and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder to make it extra bold and glossy. I then just tucked the adorable little monkeys and a bunch of bananas into my scene.

That wraps up today's sneak peek. I'm so happy you joined me today! I'd love to give a $50 gift code to one lucky winner, who will be randomly selected from comments on this blog post and on our Facebook and Instagram posts. Our daily contests will run through Saturday, April 25th, at Midnight PST, with winners announced here on our blog on Sunday, April 26th.

Here's a closer look at our new Monkey Business Stamps, Monkey Business Dies, and Jungle Vines Dies used today, which will be available for purchase on Friday, April 24th.

 

Other Supplies Used:

Words of Gratitude Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Sunburst Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Basic Mini Shape Dies 2 Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Square 2 Small Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Icing Rectangle Frame Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spellbinders Masking Sheets Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sneak Peek: Introducing Bundle of Joy Baby Stamps & Dies

Hello, and welcome to day 3 of our Summer Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I am sharing cards showcasing our newest collection, which will be available for purchase this Friday!

Card No. 1: I'm so excited to finally be sharing our adorable new Bundle of Joy Stamps. This set comes packed with adorable images and can be used in so many fun ways! Up first is a card using all the adorable baby clothes with the included hanger. To tie the colors from the clothes together, I inked a pastel rainbow background with distress inks and topped it with a white scalloped mat from our Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace Dies. I then arranged the outfits in a 2x2 grid and added my sentiment from the set to the Brilliant Banner 1 Die. This was where my original idea was complete; however, I still felt like something was missing, so I came back and added the stitched frame using our Stitched Rectangle Dies, cutting out the center with my Fiskars paper trimmer. I was so much happier with my card after adding this simple frame, which gave it a bit more detail and helped the images feel less like they were floating on a vast white background.

Card No. 2: Up next, I turned to the adorable baby buggy and three of the four babies from the Bundle of Joy Stamps. I framed my scene using the Stitched Rectangle Dies cut from pink cardstock and added three stitched clouds with our Fluffy Cloud Dies. I then matted it on white cardstock and added a piece of aqua gingham to my background from the Gingham Pastels Paper pack. Lastly, I heat-embossed my sentiment from the Bundle of Joy Stamps using VersaMark Ink and Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder.

Card No. 3: Next up is a cute clothesline scene using the onesie bodysuit, bib, and bear hat from the set, "hung" up with clothespins from the Bundle of Joy Stamps, and paired with the wood posts from the A Bird's Life Stamps. I added the stitched Fluffy Cloud Dies behind them, along with the grassy hill from our Slimline Nature Border Dies. I then stamped grass tufts using images from the Chickie Baby Stamps and positioned two adorable birds from the Love Birds Stamps on either side of my sentiment from the Inside Greetings Congrats Stamps.

Card No. 4: My next card from the Bundle of Joy Stamps spotlights the darling stork carrying a baby bundle to drop into the baby buggy. I started my card by inking a layered pink cloud background using our Fluffy Cloud Border Dies with Spun Sugar & Picked Raspberry Distress Inks. I then added the Radiating Circle Die to frame my scene, but I wasn't loving how it was covering so much of the clouds I had just spent time inking, so I used the Stitched Circle Large Dies to cut a smaller circle from the center and turn it into a ringed frame. 

I pieced the sentiment together using words from the Bundle of Joy Stamps with the word "congratulations" from the Inside Greetings Congrats Stamps, the word "on" from the Country Carnival Stamps, and the word "your" from the Kiddie Pool Stamps (although with the masking or cutting words apart, both the words can be found in the Country Carnival set). I also added a few hearts that were sitting on my desk from our new Monkey Business Stamps, which will be shared tomorrow. My card was still feeling like it was missing a little something, so my last touch was adding a white scalloped border from the Ribbon & Lace Border Dies and backing it with yellow cardstock to match the baby bundle. I really like how it tied the colors together.

Card No. 5: When I see these two darling babies from the Bundle of Joy Stamps, I envision them on a playdate in the grass and since I didn't have a blanket image to use, I created the feel of a baby quilt around the border of my card, using the square die from the Basic Mini Shape Dies together with patterned paper from Polka-dot Parade Paper and Dots & Stripes Pastel Paper packs. I framed the babies using the scalloped lace mat from the Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies, layered over the Stitched Rectangle Dies, cut from a coordinating blue striped print. Lastly, I added a butterfly from the Spring Scenes Stamps and heat-embossed a trail from our new Sweet As Can Bee Stamps.

Card No. 6: Every time I see the cute baby snuggled up in their sleeper, with their little bum in the air, my first thought is how much I want to pinch it, but my second thought is how adorable the baby from the new Bundle of Joy Stamps would look cradled by a moon. We don't have a moon die this size, but I was able to fashion my own from the Stitched Circle Large Dies by cutting a smaller circle from the set from the side of my larger circle. I added the clouds from the Baby Elephant Stamps and the stars from our Basic Mini Shape 2 Dies. I heat-embossed my greeting on a Brilliant Banner 2 Die, which had been inked to match the clouds using VersaFine Clair Bali Blue Ink. Finally, I added finishing touches with my white gel pen, adding a string for one star to hang from and smaller stars in the background.

Card No. 7: For my last card of the day with the Bundle of Joy Stamps, I die-cut stitched circles across my card front using the Staggered Circles Die, and backed the openings with patterned paper from our Gingham Pastels Paper pack. I filled the openings with the four babies from the set, colored to match the patterned paper behind them. I then added three buttons to match scattered around the circles from the Woolen Mitten Dies. I love how these button dies have the depth and cuteness of a real button, but are flat enough to go through the mail without paying for extra postage. I added a strip of rainbow heart-print paper from the Spring Sunburst Paper pack, then stamped the word "welcome" from the Baby Elephant Stamps and spelled out "baby" using the Sydney Alphabet Dies.

That wraps up today's sneak peek. I'm so happy you joined me today! I'd love to give a $50 gift code to one lucky winner, who will be randomly selected from comments on this blog post and on our Facebook and Instagram posts. Our daily contests will run through Saturday, April 25th, at Midnight PST, with winners announced here on our blog on Sunday, April 26th.

Here's a closer look at our new Bundle of Joy Stamps and Bundle of Joy Dies, which will be available for purchase on Friday, April 24th.

  

Other Supplies Used (please note some links will not work until the new release goes live):

A Bird's Life Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Bird's Life Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sydney Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Staggered Circles Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Basic Mini Shape Dies 2 Shop at: Sunny Studio
Chickie Baby Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chickie Baby Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings Congrats Shop at: Sunny Studio
Baby Elephants Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Carnival Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Love Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Birds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woolen Mitten Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiating Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sweet As Can Bee Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sweet As Can Bee Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Monkey Business Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Monkey Business Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Polka-dot Parade 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Sunburst 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Basic Mini Shape Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio