Summer Picnic: Relax Card with Anni

Hey stampers, Anni here!   It's another tuesday and I am here to show you another card! This week we are featuring the cute set Summer Picnic.

This set is so versatile! It has all the yummy food in it but also this beautiful tree I knew I wanted to use for this card.  And the cute little apple is just the little extra a card needs. I love that Mendi adds those smiley faces to a lot of her sets. That's so cute and I was able to make my apple smile!

As always I started by stamping, coloring and fussy cutting the tree and the apple from the set. To create a "stage" for the tree I cut a banner from white cardstock, To make it a little bit more interesting I used the Fishtail Banners dies. They are so great, don't you think? And the scalloped one is my favorite.

I added some ink blending in green for the grass and in turquoise for the sky!

I adhered the banner to my card base and finished the card with some faux stitching.

Thanks for stopping by and have a sunny week.

Anni

You're My Hero Card + The Last Day of Our Memorial Day Sale

Happy Memorial Day!  I hope you all have been enjoying a wonderful 3-day weekend with your friends and family!  For those of you who might not be on our store mailing list, I thought I would share with you a special card I created with a mini star die that automatically comes free with every order placed from our online store in May and June.

You can download a PDF for this card idea with step-by-step instructions HERE.  For my sentiment I used a stamp from our Stars & Stripes set.

Also, there's still time to take advantage of the 25% off sale in our online store using the code "MEMORIAL", but you must hurry!  This offer expires tonight at midnight PST.  ;)

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day and don't forget to scroll down to see the Eloise's adorable card for today.  :)

Comfy Creatures Heart Themed Thank You Card Set by Eloise

Hello everyone! Eloise here today and I’m here to share a fun set of cards featuring the new stamp sets – Comfy Creatures, Summer Picnic and Fresh and Fruity. I’m also using some little heart dies from the Stitched Heart Dies to create something fun and using the Sending my Love stamps too. I had so much fun creating these four cards for you all today and they’re just great little thank you notes to give to someone. Plus the punny sentiments make them all the more fun too!

So to begin my cards today, I created two 4” x 5 ½” side fold card bases out of some white cardstock. I then took a trimmer and cut them both long ways at 2 ¼” – so I created 4 top-fold mini cards. My thought for these mini cards was having something easy to pop on a box of chocolates or a small gift, just something simple to say thank you. So once my card bases were cut, I moved on to decorating them. I decided it would be fun to create a stencil out of some of the small simple heart dies from the Stitched Heart Dies, so I took all three small ones that didn’t have the stitching detail and adhered them randomly together with some washi tape, I then ran this through many times on top of some acetate to create my own re-useable stencil. By all means you could do this with cardstock of course, but acetate will last longer. Once it was all die cut out – just enough to cover the card base I adhered it over the top just using some washi tape along the sides and used some red distress ink to blend over the top. I was heavier handed towards the bottom and lighter at the top to create a fun ombre pattern without having to use several shades of red.

I completed this on all four cards and then worked on the images. I stamped out the bodies, tails and a couple of the heads from the Comfy Creatures stamp set and then stamped a couple of other heads from the Sending My Love set. I also stamped out some of the fruit images from the Summer Picnic stamp set. I decided to use my Copic markers this time around to colour in all my images. Once they were all coloured I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out – so super easy!

Now that I had everything together I decided to figure out what body I wanted with each head and fruit. Once I figured that out I adhered them together. I then stuck the critters on each card with some foam adhesive and then took the Fresh and Fruity stamp set and figured out which sentiments went with each fruit and then stamped them directly on the card base with some black ink and that finished up all of my four cards.

I hope you enjoyed a look at my cards today. I had a lot of fun making them and I hope this inspires you. Make sure you check by the blog this week as the other ladies are going to have some amazing projects as always!

- Eloise

Sunny Studio Products Used:

• Stitched Heart Dies 
• Fresh and Fruity 
• Summer Picnic 
• Summer Picnic Dies
• Comfy Creatures 
• Comfy Creatures Dies 
• Sending My Love
• Sending My Love Dies

Guest Designer Spotlight: Woo Hoo Owl Graduation Card by Chari Moss

I'm so excited to share a second card by the lovely Chari Moss using our Woo Hoo Stamps and coordinating dies.

Loving her lavender owl (why didn't I think of that?!) and the addition of the wiggle eyes.  Her beautiful color scheme with the blended background and sequins is so stunning too!

Thank you Chari for sharing more of your wonderful talents with us!  

Guest Designer Spotlight: Summer Cards with Isha Gupta

I'm so excited to welcome the talented Isha Gupta to the blog today as our special guest!  I love her fun style and all the amazing cards she is sharing with our Fresh & Fruity and Tropical Paradise stamps today.  Take it away Isha...  

Hi there!  For my first card I created the background using a stencil as a stamp. For my images I used the awesome “Tropical Paradise” stamp set. I embossed the images using gold embossing powder and colored them using my Zig markers. I arranged them using a die-cut circle frame. To create some depth, I used 3D foam for various heights.

My second card also uses the stamps from the “Tropical Paradise” stamp set. I created a sunset background using my distress inks. I then stamped the Flamingos and colored them using my Zig markers. To create the scene, I used a vellum circle frame. I stamped and embossed the flowers onto vellum. Once I positioned the flamingos, I adhered the flowers to ground them.

I created my third card using all the yummy fruits from the “Fresh & Fruity” stamp set. I created a background strip using vellum. I stamped the images using memento black ink and colored them using copic markers and fussy cut them out. I then stamped the sentiment onto the vellum background using StazOn ink. Finally I adhered the fruits using 3d foam in various thickness for added dimension. To finish, I added glossy accents on some parts of the fruits.

For my last card I started with creating the background by stamping the watermelon onto the watercolor paper. I colored it using damp brush and some distress ink. I then cut this panel using the Fishtail Banner die. I then sponged some red inks onto a piece of cardstock, flicked some water and white paint. I tied some black twine around the melon panel and adhered it to the base using 3D foam. I then stamped and embossed part of the sentiment onto black cardstock and cut it in a strip. I stamped the word “melon” using red ink and fussy cut it. Finally adhered the sentiment onto the card and adhered some sequins to finish off.

I hope you like my creations as much as I enjoyed creating them! Thank you Mendi for having me as a guest on the blog totally. It was total fun to use your awesome products.

Island Getaway Sushine Card with Lexa

Hello everyone!  Lexa here with a bright summer-y card showcasing the Island Getaway stamp set and coordinating dies. You already know that coordinating dies surely make your life easier, right? :)

I chose to use all bright colors for this one.  It reminds me of one hot sunny day... it's just me and my flip flops walking under the trees' shade. Did you just smile imagining that? Or is it just me? Hehe. First I cut my pink panel to 2.25" x 5.5" and created a tone-on-tone background by stamping some hibiscus images with Hero Arts Pale Tomato. The bigger hibiscus are from Tropical Paradise stamps, while the smaller one (and the leaves) are from Island Getaway. They matched perfectly!

The circle diecut is blended with some Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey Distress Inks on the edges. I die-cut the Sunshine Word Die four times and layered them together to get some dimension. All the images are stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and watercolored with Distress Markers. I also cut a strip of burlap to add an extra fun texture for this card. Last but not least I added my favorite clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

I hope you like today's card. Have a great weekend to you all! 

Sunny Studio Stamps 25% off Memorial Day Sale!!!

Just popping in to let you know that today we are celebrating Memorial Day weekend with a special 3-day sale at our online store using the code: MEMORIAL

As an added bonus all orders placed in May and June will automatically receive a mini star die. Happy Shopping!  :)

Island Getaway Happy Summer Flip Flops card with Vanessa

Hey everybody! Vanessa here with a summer card using "Island Getaway". 

Can you feel the breeze? No? Well, I can't, either :) We are having a break from sunny spring weather in Germany at the moment and instead of a summery breeze it is more like a stormy gust of wind, so summer seems very far away. But I hope my card will bring back the memories of a warm summer day.

I just had to showcase the cute flip flops. First, I trimmed a piece of white cardstock slightly smaller than my card base and inked the middle part with mint ink. Then I added tiny droplets of the same ink to the panel. I stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to the card. Now I stamped, colored and die-cut all the rainbow flip flops and adhered them with foam tape. Voilà! Summer!

I hope you enjoyed today's card! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Vanessa

Fun Island Getaway Monkey & Flip Flops Card with Lindsey

Hi Lindsey here today sharing a card using the adorable and fun Island Getaway stamp set. The little monkey in her bikini is just too cute, and of course I had to make it polka dot! Let's get started!

I began by stamping out the monkey, palm tree, island, and flip flops. I colored all the images using Copic markers and cut them out using the Island Getaway coordinating dies. I added white polka dots to the bikini and flip flops using a white gel pen. Next, I cut a small stitched rectangle out of some wavy patterned paper. I adhered the island, monkey, and palm tree to the rectangle creating a little island scene. The palm tree and island hung off slightly, creating some visual interest. 

I also cut an A2 size rectangle out of teal cardstock for my card base. I adhered the small rectangle with the island scene onto the center of the card base using foam tape. Then I adhered one flip flop to the right corner of the small rectangle and the other flip flop to the right corner of the card base. I stamped my sentiment in black ink on the bottom of my card base. As a finishing touch, I added some white dots around the corners of the small rectangle and some glitter pen to the bikini and flip flops. I just love how cute the little monkey looks on her own private island! Ha ha!

That's it for me today! I hope you enjoyed my card. Check back to the blog for more inspiration using the adorable Island Getaway stamp set. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

Island Getaway: Wish you were here with Anni

Hey stampers, Anni here, sharing a card using the awesome set Island Getaway!  I am totally ready for a summer vacation but mine is still two month away! So I have to create some vacation atmosphere by card making.

I started by stamping, coloring and fussy cutting the palm tree and the island from the set. Copics are my go to coloring medium for fast and easy coloring. What is your favorite way to color an image?

For the background I added some ink blending in turquoise to a piece of white cardstock. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in white on a stripe of black cardstock.
For a visual triangle I adhered a piece of black and white striped patterned paper and finished my card with some sequins.

Thanks for stopping by and have a sunny week.
Anni

Escape with a Watercolor Tropical Island Getaway Card by Eloise

Hello everyone, Eloise here and I’m here to feature the new Island Getaway set. This set has won my heart, it is so super fun and I’ve had so much fun creating projects with it. For today I’m going to create a fun sunset scene using a lot of the images in the set as well as the new Wavy Borders dies as well.

To begin my card I’m going to stamp out all the images I’m going to use in the Island Getaway set. I chose the palm tree and island to create the starting point of my scene and then I thought it would be fun to use the monkey girl in her bathers as well as the thongs (or flip flops) image because it’s going to go well with the sentiment I’m going to use. I stamped out all my images on some watercolour paper in some black ink and clear heat embossed it – my favourite if I’m going to be water colouring. I’m still on my water colouring kick, so I’m gonna be using my Zig Clean Colour markers again to colour in my images, they’re just so easy to use! Once I coloured them all in I die cut everything using the coordinating dies.

For my background today I wanted to create a sunset scene. But before I started colouring I wanted to make sure I had a sun in there. So I took something round in my craft room that was the perfect size and traced around it with a black marker and then went over it with a Versamarker pen to make it sticky so I could clear emboss over it, so it would look like my images – I love everything to match like that. So once the sun was drawn I needed to work on my sunset. So I looked up on google to get the correct colours for a sunset and I found one I liked with purples, pinks and oranges. I grabbed some colours from my Zig Clean Colour markers and scribbled them all over the background and then blended them out with water. For the sun I grabbed a couple of yellows and coloured that in as well. I now needed some water. So I grabbed the waves out of the same Island Getaway set and stamped down my waves on some watercolour paper also. I then coloured them in with some blue Zig markers. I blended out the colour with some water and dried it before sending it through my die cutting machine using the Wavy Borders die, which coordinates perfectly with the waves in the set. I left the waves to the side now and worked back on my sunset. I took some shimmer watercolour and splattered it over to create a fun shimmer look.

Now it was time to put the card together. I cut down all my pieces to fit and then started adhering. My first waves piece I adhered straight down to my card with some runner adhesive I then used some foam adhesive to pop up all my images onto my background. Once they were stuck down I adhered my last waves piece over top of the island scene a little bit. I popped up the entire panel on a piece of fun foam and adhered it to a white card base. Now that everything is adhered I worked on the sentiment. This is where the empty thongs came into it, I stamped out the ‘Wish You Were Here’ sentiment from the Island Getaway set on a piece of black cardstock and white heat embossed it. I adhered it down into my panel behind the little monkey girl. That was my card complete.

I hope you enjoyed my card today, make sure you check out the blog again this week to see all the other design team members projects – they’re going to be great!

- Eloise

Sunny Studio Products Used:

• Island Getaway stamps
• Island Getaway dies
• Wavy Borders dies

Sunny Saturday Share: Summer & Graduation Customer Cards

Hello there!  How are y'all doing?  After a pretty sunny April and May (so far) we are experiencing some pretty depressing rain here today.  Fortunately these fun cards by our customers extra bright and happy and completely brighten my mood.  ;)

Summer Picnic Card by Jamie Peters at Not2Shabby.com (@jamie_scrappinstampers on instagram) 

Fresh & Fruity Card by Creations Galore (@creationsgaloregb on instagram)

Woo Hoo Owl Graduation Card by crafty_m0chi

Woo Hoo Owl Graduation Card by crafty_m0chi

Tropical Paradise & Comfy Creatures Soak Up The Sun Watercolor Card by Sarah Corkrey-Elliott (@sarahelliott76 on instagram)

Woo Hoo Owl Birthday Card by Lindsey Sams (@baileyl5 on instagram)

Woo Hoo Owl Thank You Card by Roree Rumph created for Stamp & Scrapbook Expo

Summer Picnic & Comfy Creatures Card by Jamie Peters at Not2Shabby.com 

(@jamie_scrappinstampers on instagram) 

Woo Hoo Owl Graduation Card by Migdalia Rodriguez

Thank you to all the wonderful designers of these fabulous cards!  Seeing projects pop up with our stamps makes me happier than you can imagine.  Have you created something with one of our sets?  I would love for you to tag it with the hashtag #sunnystudiostamps and share with us on Instagram, our facebook page or in our flickr group!  

Hope you all enjoy your weekend!  :)

Comfy Creatures Happy Graduation Card with Lexa

Hello everyone!  Lexa here again with another graduation card but this time I use a sweet koala from Comfy Creatures as the star of my card. The hat from Woo Hoo fits perfectly on her.  She looks sooo cute!

I made the background by cutting black cardstock into 1/2" stripes and arrange them on the white 4.25" x 5.5" card base. It might takes some time, but in the end it's all worth it. I stamped all the images on a piece of watercolor paper with my black Versafine ink and watercolored them with Distress Markers. I die-cut the tags on a pink and green paper to match the color of the koala, and I also die-cut the Star Border Die with a pink patterned paper for more fancy look.

Finally I arrange all the pieces together, stamped the sentiment in a piece of white cardstock and layered it with vellum underneath it. As you know that I love sequins, so I can't miss that for this one as well. :)

I hope you like it and thank you so much for reading.

Comfy Creatures Bananas For You Monkey Card with Vanessa

Hey everybody!  Vanessa here with a happy banana card :) 

The Comfy Creatures set is so cute with its adorable images and fun sentiments. Here is my card for today:

I started with a panel of watercolor paper that I had trimmed slightly smaller than a Kraft card base. I stamped the banana from the Comfy Creatures set and the banana from Summer Picnic repeatedly using archival ink, colored the panel with Peerless Watercolors and adhered it to the card. Now I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment onto a strip of turquoise cardstock and adhered it with foam tape. I stamped, colored and die-cut the head and the tail of the monkey and adhered them. Finally, I added yellow sequins to the card.

Bananas! It's so fun to create your own background with small stamps. I hope you liked today's inspiration, thank you so much for stopping by! Hope to see you again next week :)

Vanessa

Comfy Creatures Monkeys & Rainbows Birthday Card with Lindsey

Hi, Lindsey here again! Today I'm sharing a cute birthday card featuring the adorable stamp set Comfy Creatures. This set is full of adorable critters that you can mix and match with different bodies and accessories, and there are plenty of sentiments to make different kinds of cards. You get a lot of bang for your buck with this set. 

I used the little monkeys with the beach bodies for this card. I started by getting my background ready. I cut some sunburst paper with a stitched rectangle for the top half of my card. For the bottom part of the card, I used the Wavy Border dies to create the water with two different colors of teal cardstock. 

I also added a rainbow I made using different colors of cardstock and circle dies. I drew and cut out the clouds myself. Next, I stamped and colored the island and monkeys. I used the coordinating dies to cut the island, monkey tails, and flower on the girl monkey's head. I fussy cut the monkeys. The next step was to put together the scene. I used regular adhesive to attach everything but the monkeys and clouds. I popped them up a bit with foam tape. Lastly, I added some Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen to the rainbow, clouds, flower, and the clothes on the monkeys.

That's it for me today. Be sure to keep checking back to the blog for more inspiration, and thanks for reading. I hope you'll try your own card using this sweet, fun set!

Supplies Used:

• Comfy Creatures Stamp Set
• Comfy Creatures Die Set
• Island Getaway Stamp Set
• Island Getaway Die Set
• Wavy Borders Dies

Comfy Creatures: Celebrate Birthday Card with Anni

Hey stampers, Anni here!  Today I'd like to share a card I made using the set Comfy Creatures. For the stars in the background I used the Star Border Die and the sentiment is from the set Sunny Borders Die.

I stamped and colored the little monkey. I chose colored pencils for the coloring. I really love to use colored pencils but it takes a little bit of time. Coloring with Copics is so much faster. But when I have the time I prefer to use colored pencils.

I paper-pieced the sweater of the monkey. Hey, a monkey in a polka dot sweater - it couldn't get cuter, could it?

For the panel I cut a tag from white paper and a bigger one from patterned paper with stars, added a hole and twine bow.

For the sentiment I die-cut the word Celebrate once from yellow cardstock and a few times from black cardstock and stacked it up.  I finished the card with some die cut stars in the background to complete the theme.

Thanks for stopping by and have a sunny week!
Anni

Comfy Creatures Island Retirement Card with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here and I’m going to be creating a fun retirement card that would be perfect for someone going to retire on a island somewhere, or I guess someone that’s dreaming about it would work too! I’m going to be using the new Comfy Creatures stamp set as my focal point, but I’m also going to be pulling in the kitty head from the Sending My Love set (a previously released set) and the island from the new Island Getaway stamp set too, since it works perfectly with the two little summery bodies in their bathers from the Comfy Creatures set.

To begin my card I chose the two summery looking bodies, the monkey’s head, flower and the two tails from the Comfy Creatures stamp set. I also took the little island from the Island Getaway set and the cat head from Sending My Love to stamp and colour too. To colour these in, I’m going to be using watercolours. I’ve been completely obsessed with water colouring everything lately!  I stamped out my images in black ink and clear embossed over them and then coloured in my images with Zig Clean Colour markers. To cut out all my images I used the coordinating dies from all three sets.

For a little bit of a different background I decided to cut down a piece of watercolour cardstock and then cut it at a diagonal to create two different angled panels. I thought it would be fun and a little bit of a different look. I used some Distress Inks on both pieces using various yellows on the top panel and blues on the bottom panel. I sort of figured it looked like sand and water I guess. I the splattered some water on to give a splotchy look – I love doing this! I adhered the two angled pieces together with some washi tape on the back side to make sure they don’t shift and then I added some fun foam at the back to permanently adhere them together and then adhered it onto my card base. I then took my images and mounted them all on foam adhesive and placed them down into the bottom right corner of my card. To finish off my card I stamped out the ‘Happy Retirement’ sentiment from the Comfy Creatures set and white heat embossed it on a strip of black cardstock. I also adhered this using foam adhesive.

I hope you enjoyed my project today. I just love creating island scenes and I think those little bodies from the Comfy Creatures set is just perfect and I also love how it works so well with other stamp sets and you can mix and match from previously released sets – just makes it that much more versatile!

Make sure you check back tomorrow and the rest of the week to see what the other design team ladies have designed! I’m sure they’re going to be fantastic. 

- Eloise 

Sunny Studio Products Used:

• Comfy Creatures Stamps
• Comfy Creatures Dies
• Island Getaway Stamps
• Island Getaway Dies
• Sending My Love
• Sending My Love Dies 

Guest Designer Spotlight: Tropical Paradise Card with Chari Moss

I am so thrilled to welcome the talented Chari Moss to the blog today with an incredible card using our Tropical Paradise set!  Take it away Chari...

For this card I used masking to create a one layer plumeria heart with leaves.  I then colored it with my colored pencils blending with a blender pencil then carefully fussy cut the outside and inside of the heart.  I used the same technique to color the flamingos then layered them over top using foam adhesive to pop them up off the card a bit to make them stand out from the flowers better. Since the coloring is focal point of the card I kept it simple with a kraft card base and a simple sentiment banner at the bottom.  

Didn't this incredible?! I am so in love with this idea!  Thank you Chari for sharing your wonderful idea with us.  :)