Sneak Peek: Introducing Special Day Stamps with Summer Release Video

Hello and welcome to the final day of our Sneak Peek Week!  In case you are just joining us, each day this week I have been showcasing projects using our newest Summer collection which is now available to purchase in our store. Before you run off to shop though, I hope you will join me for a closer look at one last new product that I'm super excited for!

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

Card No. 1: I'd like to think I saved the best for last. Today I'm featuring one last new 4x6 stamp set called Special Day. This set includes two different adorable multi-layered cakes, numbered candles, cake toppers, and a fabulously versatile "Happy Birthday" greeting that I have fallen in love with!

For this card, I started by inking my A2-sized card panel with Salty Ocean Distress ink, fading it out towards the top of my panel, and splattering it with water to give my background a speckled appearance. I then added three of our new Crepe Paper Streamers along the top of my card which I cut out from white cardstock and colored with my Copic Markers to match my rainbow ombre cake. I added the "4" and "0" numbered candles to the top of my cake to celebrate my sister's 40th birthday. For my greeting, I used the oversized "happy birthday" phrase from our Big Bold Greetings Stamps and added the phrase "to the best" from our Teacher Appreciation Stamps and the word "sister" from both our Tea-riffic Stamps and Outback Critters Stamps.

Card No. 2: For this card featuring the Special Day Stamps I created a wedding card. I love how these cute cakes can be used for so many different occasions, including weddings, anniversaries and holidays like Valentine's Day! I started by adhering a pink quilted heart print to my card base using a patterned paper from our Flirty Flowers Paper pack and then added the Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace scalloped mat over the top. 

Detail View: The cake and die did most of the heavy lifting for me so I was able to keep the rest of my card fairly simple, just cutting a sentiment strip using the stitched edge dies from our Ribbon & Lace Border Dies and heat embossing my "best wishes" sentiment using our Everyday Greetings Stamps with Hero Arts Brass Embossing Powder.

Card No. 3: Next up, I have an anniversary card pairing the heart three-tier cake & cake topper from our new Special Day Stamps. I started by repeatedly cutting our loopy heart border from teal cardstock using our Heartstring Border Dies which I mounted onto a solid sheet of cardstock in the same color for a textured, tone-on-tone look that almost gives the appearance of being embossed. I then mounted my cake pieces using foam tape and added a curved banner overhead from our Banner Basics Stamps and heat embossed by anniversary sentiment using a greeting from our Happy Thoughts Stamps. It was feeling like missing a little something so I completed my card by adding the scalloped eyelet lace border from our Ribbon & Lace Border Dies.

Card No. 4: For this card using the floral cake from the Special Day Stamps, I colored my cake a mint green color with pink peonies, adding both the flower to the top, along with the set of 5 birthday candles. I heat-embossed my greeting from the stamp set onto a piece of coordinating mint cardstock, inking up the bottom portion to match my coloring and shading for the cake and then die-cutting the ends with our Fishtail Banner Dies. For my tone-on-tone pink background, I die-cut a scalloped mat, combining the pieces from our Frilly Frames Polka-dot Dies and our Frilly Frames Lattice Dies. I then framed my cake using our Scalloped Oval Mat 2 Dies.

Card No. 5: For this card, I colored my heart cake from the Special Day Stamps with chocolate frosting and hot pink accents using Copic Markers. I added the birthday candles to the top and inked behind them using a little Distress Ink to give the appearance of them glowing. I kept the rest of my card very simple. Before adhering my cake to my card panel, I cut out the phrase "you take the cake" using our Chloe Alphabet Dies and filled the negative space hind the letters using a hot pink dotted print from our Polka-Dot Parade Paper pack. Lastly, I added a thin strip of pink striped paper from our Striped Silly Paper pack along the bottom of my card.

Card No. 6: For my last card of the day I combined the numbered birthday candles from the Special Day Stamps with our layered Scrumptious Cupcakes Stamps, stacking a number of frostings in different colors. I wanted my background to match my cupcake so I ended up inking up by background by blending PinkFresh Studio Dye Inks to match. I sometimes forget that I can blend any dye inks to create inky backgrounds and I love the way these inks blended together--It really expands my options in terms of color palettes and they created a gorgeous pastel rainbow! I added a white stitched panel to the center of my card to frame my tall cupcake using our Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies and then die-cut 6 Crepe Paper Streamers from white cardstock and inked them up to match the background.

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 hibiscus die!

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 peeks. I'm so happy you spent some time with me today. I read all your comments and they mean so much!  I'd love to give a $50 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. 

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Here's a closer look at our new Special Day Stamps and Dies used today which are now available to purchase:

Other Supplies Used:

Fishtail Banner Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Teacher Appreciation Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chloe Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio
Striped Silly 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polka-dot Parade 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Polka-Dot Shop at: Sunny Studio	Everyday Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Banner Basics Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Banner Basics Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heartstrings Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tea-riffic Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Oval Mat 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scrumptious Cupcakes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scrumptious Cupcakes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Crepe Paper Streamers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brass Embossing Powder Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio