Sneak Peek Week: Introducing Clucky Chickens Stamps + Video Overview

Hello and welcome to last day of our Spring Peek Week!  All this week I have been sharing cards showcasing our newest collection which is now available for purchase. Hooray!  However, before your run off to check it out, I hope you will join me for one last card share using our brand new Clucky Chickens Stamps. 

Card No. 1: This adorable farm themed stamp set can be colored to be used for Easter with colorful eggs in your basket or for everyday purposes like the birthday card I created here. The new chicks compliment their adorable chicken friends from our previously released Farm Fresh Stamps which I included one of in the top right corner of my card. To frame each of my little scenes I cut out our Comic Strip Everyday Dies from a red gingham print from our Classic Gingham Paper pack. To create the look of straw, I trimmed several thin strips of cardstock with my paper trimmer and then used my scissors to cut them into shorter sections. I added thin 1/8" wide strips of double sided tape to the back of my frame and quickly pressed the little bits of cardstock "straw" to the frame. I then backed it with the stitched slopes from our Slimline Nature Border Dies and inked up my card base with some tumbled glass distress ink before add the panel to my card front. Since this isn't an Easter card, I kept my basket of eggs eggshell colored and colored it with a big red bow. Lastly I added 4 little red hearts from our Basic Mini Shape 2 Dies, adding Glossy Accents over the top and setting my card aside to dry. I love when I can make oodles of epoxy shapes for a fraction of the cost!

Card No. 2: For my second card I created a fun Mother's Day card by combining the new hen house and roosting box from our new Clucky Chickens Stamps with the barn border scene and two chickens from our Farm Fresh Stamps. I used the yellow and green prints from our Classic Sunburst Paper packs for my sunrise sky and ground, coloring the white space around my barn and fence die-cut with a yellow Copic Marker to blend with the background. Lastly I stamped my punny "So clucky to have you as my Mom" greeting in Gina K. Red Hot Ink on a stitched pennant strip from our Slimline Pennant Dies and added two small hearts from our Basic Mini Shape 2 Dies.

Card No. 3: I'm a sucker for gingham, especially red gingham which my closet is proof of. I knew when I included this print with our Joyful Holiday Paper pack it would be a print I would be hoarding for years to come. With this in mind and in my effort to keep more of it for a future project, I cutout the center using our Stitched Arch Dies as a window. I backed the window with grass which I cut using our Picket Fence Dies and inked with rustic wilderness distress ink. I then inked the front of my card base with some tumbled glass distress ink and adhered the frame with grass over the top. I colored my chickens and hen house from the Clucky Chick Stamps with Copic Markers, adding a little detail with my markers to look like a natural woodgrain on the house. I adore this punny greeting for a new expectant Mom which I heat embossed onto a red stitched strip cutout using our Ribbon & Lace Border Dies.

Card No. 4: Up next is a slimline style card where I lined up three of the hen houses from our new Clucky Chicken Stamps for a fun slimline style card. I chose to keep this one clean and simple, utilizing the stitched rectangle in our Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies. However, the die felt a bit too long for my scene so I shortened it to 7-1/8" long by letting half the die fall off my cutting plate and running it through my die-cutting machine a second time by letting the other side of the die fall off the cutting plate. The finished card ended up measuring 7-5/8" wide x 3.25" high.

The coordinating Clucky Chicken Dies have the cutout for the hen house door as a separate, optional die so in instances where you don't plan to have a large chicken peeking out you can forgo cutting it out like I did for the red hen house in my card. I really love that versatility! I stamped my punny "good cluck!" greeting onto a speech bubble from our Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies using my favorite VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.

Card No. 5: Switching gears, I have an Easter card using the basket of eggs, chicks and individual egg images from the Clucky Chickens Stamps which I combined with the bunnies and greeting from our Bunnyville Stamps. To frame the sentiment I used our Stitched Arch Dies, layering papers from our Dots & Stripes Pastels Paper pack and the blue floral print from our Spring Fever Paper pack. As a backdrop for my little scene, I added a Scalloped Fence and a grassy border with our Picket Fence Dies. When my card was "done" it was feeling unbalanced with all the visually heavy elements grouped at the bottom so I added some white fluffy clouds using the Plane Awesome Dies.

Card No. 6: For my last card of the day I combined the chicks, roosting box, individual eggs, tufts of grass and large basket of eggs from the new Clucky Chickens Stamps with the Chicks from our Chickie Baby Stamps, two Easter baskets and "Happy Easter" banner from our Chubby Bunny Stamps and the box of straw from our Farm Fresh Stamps. I wanted to combine all these elements to create the look of an Easter egg hunt and since they were all different sizes I tried to arrange the largest items near the bottom of my card to appear as if they are closest to the viewer and added the smaller baskets and eggs near the top to feel like they are further back and diminishing in size. 

For my "grass" background I used a green tone-on-tone polka-dot print from our new Spring Fever Paper pack and then trimmed down the sides with the stitched edge die from our new slimline length Ribbon & Lace Border Dies. I then added colorful rainbow gingham strips to either side of my panel (also from the Spring Fever Paper pack) and layered a small white scalloped border between them from our Slimline Basic Border Dies to create a little visual division between the two patterned papers.

With each new collection we always have a new free mini die we include automatically with orders placed in our online store. For this release we have a fun mini paw print die. I shared a card using it yesterday which you can see HERE.

I've also created a special video today sharing the full Spring Release, as well as a closer look at each of the cards I made with it (you can watch it on our YouTube Channel HERE).

When shopping we have two different ongoing promotions you can choose from to be entered at checkout depending on which offer is better for you (limit one discount code per order).

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 using the rafflecopter below. Our daily sneak peek contests run through Saturday, January 14th at Midnight PST with the winners announced here on Sunday, January 15th. :)

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Here's a closer look at the our new Clucky Chickens Stamps and Dies which are now available for purchase.

 

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Chubby Bunny Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chubby Bunny Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Basic Mini Shape Dies 2 Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Chickie Baby Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chickie Baby Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classic Sunburst Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Fever Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scalloped Fence Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Plane Awesome Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bunnyville Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bunnyville Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ranger Glossy Accents Shop at: Sunny Studio