Designer's Choice Cards with Catherine and Bobbi

Hi Friends! Its Catherine here, sharing another carnival themed card with the fun new release.

To start, I trimmed a piece of white cardstock to 3.5” x 8.5.” I ink blended the sky with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide and sprayed some water. For the grass, I used the Slimline Nature Border to die cut three layers of grass. I ink blended each layer with Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide Ink and splattered some green watercolor onto the grass. I then attached each layer of grass with foam tape and added the adorable bears and all the fun carnival items in the Country Carnival Stamps. I colored all the items with Copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating die set, Country Carnival Dies. I also mirror image stamped some of the bears.

What’s a carnival without a balloon ride? I added the balloon and clouds from the Balloon Ride set and put one of the cute bears in the basket. 

I finished off the card with a stamped sentiment from Inside Greetings Birthday onto a banner from Banner Basics and a white heat embossed sentiment from Kiddie Pool.

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Hello friends! It’s Bobbi back with a fun and fruity card for summer using one of my favorite Sunny Studio Stamps sets called Tropical Paradise Stamps. I have several nieces and nephews that are in the 25+ age range that love to have fun, fruity alcoholic summer drinks at the lake. This birthday card is very fitting for the next gen’s summer birthdays!

To create this card, I started by cutting a 5″ X 7″ front panel from 80lb Neenah Solar White cardstock. I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor paints to splatter bright, summery colors on the background. I also added four 1/4″ strips of color at the bottom in pink, yellow, aqua and deep orange. I like the little extra color it offers this card front.

Next, I stamped in black - two pineapples, drinks, coconut drinks, and flowers - using the Tropical Paradise Stamps. Each one was colored using the following Copic colors. I also used a white gel pen for the pineapple highlights and coconut texture.

Yellows and Oranges: YR68, YR27, YR24, Y38, Y19, Y08

Reds: R27, R24, R17, R14, R22, R20
Greens: YG67, YG03, YG01, YG00
Aquas: BG10, BG11, BG23
Warm Grays (for shading): W3, W1, W0

The images were die cut and attached to the front. I used Scrapbook Adhesives to make a few of the images more dimensional such as the pineapple and one of the drinks. I added some simple shading using W3-W0 Copics below the elements to stand out a bit more. Lastly, I stamped the word "Cheers" from the set right in the center of the images.

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Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Tropical Paradise Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Paradise Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Banner Basics Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Banner Basics Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio
Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings Birthday Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Carnival Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Country Carnival Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio