Guest Designer Spotlight: Love Monkey Cards with Keeway Tsao

Hi friends! It’s Keeway Tsao from Kiwi Koncepts and I’m crashing in to do a little guest blogging today! I instantly fell in love with the recent release of Love Monkey and have a couple of projects to share with you.

The first thing I like to do is stamp all the images, color, and die cut so that I can play around with the pieces. My images were stamped in a dark brown hybrid ink, colored with copic markers, and die cut with the coordinating dies.

The hanging vines in the set create the perfect opportunity for these playful monkeys to hang around frames. I chose to use a frame with three openings, using the top two frames to hang monkeys, and the bottom frame to have one sitting on the ground.

My frame was die cut in white and behind each rectangular opening, I ink blended Evergreen Bough, Cracked Pistachio, and Antique Linen distress oxide inks.

Before I started assembling it all together, I also stamped the sentiment ‘I’m totally bananas for you’ onto the background in the same dark brown hybrid ink. The sentiment was already in three separate sections, perfect and easy to split up for each frame!

Finally, I added the frame and all my images to the card with foam tape to give that beautiful dimension to the card. The two monkeys are vying for the cute little girl’s heart and just showering her with bananas and gifts.

My second card takes a more simple look, but uses the beautiful Frilly Frames Lattice dies to add a delicate texture to the background. I die cut the lattice out of white card stock, and the background was ink blended with Stormy Sky, Shaded Lilac, and Spun Sugar from top to bottom.

The focal point of this card is the pair of monkeys in love. I made use of the balloons held by another monkey image, trimmed off the monkey, and adhered them behind other images as if the bananas and flowers were weighing the balloons down. I surrounded these gifts around the pair.

I heat embossed the sentiment ‘for my little monkey’ in white onto kraft card stock. I trimmed it down to strip and just the same width as the frame. I added the strip to the card first, and then all my images above it after.

These are the cutest little monkeys ever! Sending lots of love and inspiration your way. Thank you for dropping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio