Sneak Peek Week: Introducing Beach Babies & Window Trio Dies

Hello there!  I have been working around the clock for months on our summer release so I am literally dying with excitement to finally share all the new things coming to Sunny Studio on Friday!  Today I'm kicking things off with four new products in our line-up (available for purchase on April 6).

Up first is a card using our new Beach Babies stamps which come full of so many fun images perfect for summer!  I started by die-cutting a circle from masking paper and using the negative space mask off my card panel to stamp and color my images.  I then used Copic W1 and W0 markers to define the edge and give it a bit of a bubble appearance.  

I finished off the card by die-cutting 4 of the new Hello Word die from white cardstock and then glued them together using a glue pen and colored the top layer with a coordinating Copic marker.  I finished the second half of the sentiment by stamping a word from the stamp set.

For my next card I used our new Window Trio Circle Dies together with the Beach Babies stamps to create a quick and easy card.  A sentiment stamped on the banner from our Little Angels set was the perfect finishing touch.

I had so much fun mixing techniques for this fun beach scene.  I started by creating several masks using the beach umbrella to create a colorful border.  I then masked them all off, along with the top third of the card to sponge on some antique linen distress ink for my sandy beach.  To add interest to my beach, I took my Copic Markers in E30, E31 & E33 to stipple the texture of the sand.  

For ocean waves, I moved the masking material to the sand side of the horizon and inked the top portion of my card using a light application of tumbled glass distress ink.  I die-cut another mask using our Wavy Border dies and rotated and moved them around as I inked on additional layers of tumbled glass distress ink.  As a final finishing touch I used an old toothbrush to pounce on some of Aleene's True Snow to give the look of frothy waves.

Up next is a grid-style card using our Window Trio Square dies.  This time I used the dies on the vertical and cut them twice from the same card panel to form my fun grid design.  

This card also debuts something I'm extremely excited to finally share: Patterned paper!  With this release Sunny Studio is introducing 4 bright and happy paper packs!!!  I'm a huge fan of tone-on-tone papers to add subtle interest to my projects without competing with my focal point images and these papers totally fit the bill.  I hope you fall in love with them as much as I have.  ;)

For my next card I created a little beach scene enclosed in an oval frame using our newest Sunny Studio website exclusive which I will be sharing more of as the week progresses.  The polka-dot background also shows a sneak peek of another set that will be debuting more later this week.  ;)

To form my waves to tuck my kids between, I cut borders using our Stitched Scallop Border Dies and inked on tumbled glass distress ink, fading it towards the top of each wave.  

The trees on the beach in the background were created with a single stamp image which I used together with a stamp positioning tool.  I started by stamping the palms with Colorbox Artichoke Ink and then inked up just the trunk portion with the edge of my VersaFine Clair Acorn ink pad and stamped it again. It was so easy and I love the little detail it adds!

For my last card of the day I created another grid design, this time turning it on the horizontal using the Window Trio Circle Dies.  Rather than using them as windows like I did on the first two cards, I simply backed them with patterned paper from our new Classic Gingham Paper Pack for a fun graphic look.  I love how a small strip of paper from our new Rainbow Bright Paper Pack ties all my colors together.

The Beach Babies stamps come with a little pair of sunglasses that can fit onto all the cute kids.  I fussy cut these out as a last minute addition, but I think they would be really fun used together with masking to look like they were part of the original image.

I'm so happy you've joined me for today's sneak peeks and I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner.  Make sure to keep checking back all this week for more peeks & prizes for up to five chances to win.  The contests run through Saturday at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, April 8th. :)

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Here's a sneak peek at the new Beach Babies stamps & coordinating dies, hello word die and Window Trio Circle & Window Trio Square dies featured today (which will be available for purchase on Friday, April 6th).

    

   

And here's a full look at our four new 6x6 paper packs called Classic Gingham, Rainbow Bright, Polka-dot Parade and Striped Silly (which will also be available on Friday, April 6th).  Each set comes with 24 double-sided patterns in a 12 brilliant colors printed on 65 lb. cardstock.  :)

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Little Angels Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Wavy Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Background Basics Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

*The Background Basics Stamps & other new sets shared today will not be available for purchase until April 6th.