Sneak Peek: Party Pets, Doggone Birthday & Inside Greetings Belated Birthday

Hello and welcome to day 4 of our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I have been sharing cards showcasing our newest collection, which will be available for purchase tomorrow morning!

Card No. 1: Today, I'm featuring cards with our new Party Pets, Doggone Birthday, and Inside Greetings Belated Birthday Stamps. The Party Pets Stamps feature adorable cats and dogs ready to celebrate. For this card, I paired the three dogs, balloons, and gifts from the set with the dachshund dog in the center from our Doggone Birthday Stamps. I framed them using our Stitched Rectangle Dies, which I mounted onto a balloon print from our Suprise Party Paper pack. This card is a bit oversized measuring 6" wide x 4.75" high. For my large script Birthday sentiment, I used our Big Bold Greetings Stamps with VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

Card No. 2: For this card, I started by die-cutting three stitched windows from my white cardstock panel using our Rounded Rectangle Window Dies. I then backed each opening using coordinating pink prints from our Gingham Pastels Paper and Flirty Flowers Paper packs. I tried to color the dog, cats, balloons, birthday cake, and party hat images from the Party Pets Stamps in complementary shades of red, pink, and tan using my Copic markers to match the patterned paper and add balance. I then paired the elements so that they each roughly filled the same space within their window and added a greeting by heat embossing the phrase "Happy Birthday to you" from our Happy Thoughts Stamps on a Brilliant Banner 3 Die cut from red cardstock.

Card No. 3: Up next, I used the cute kitty and the set of three-heart balloons from the new Party Pets Stamps with the Tulip Path Background Stamps to form my card scene. I colored the tulips and the windmill in shades of red and pink to match my balloons and give my card a Valentine's Day feel. I even colored my sky a cotton candy pink to match! I completed my card with the sentiment "You make me happy" from our Happy Thoughts Stamps. I love how it all came together!

Card No. 4: Similar to my second card today, I used the Rounded Rectangle Window Dies to create three horizontal windows on a vertically oriented card. I just love how versatile these dies are and how many options and combinations they provide within a single set! I filled each opening with green, yellow, and aqua-blue Swiss dot polka-dot prints I stamped using our new Background Basics 2 Stamps. For the center window, I stamped the bold "Happy Birthday" greeting that comes with the set, and then I built party scenes using the cats and other birthday elements from the Party Pets Stamps. When I was nearly done, I was in the process of adding some white highlights with my Sharpie Paint pen when the pen leaked and splattered a big glob in the middle of my scene, so I decided to disguise the boo-boo and cover it up using PinkFresh Studio Clear Drops in coordinating shades (linked below). As my good friend always says, there's no such thing as mistakes in crafting; it's just an excuse to embellish!

Card No. 5: I used the white cardstock leftovers that popped out when die-cutting my windows for the 2nd and 4th cards using our Rounded Rectangle Window Dies for this card. I couldn't resist the chance to use up every last piece! For my background, I blended a rainbow using distress inks, and then when I was done, I put the panel into my Misti tool and used those same 1" distress ink cubes to ink up our Background Basics 2 Stamps. Because the distress inks don't stamp as crisply as ordinary dye ink, I embraced the distressed look and splattered my panel with water and picket fence distress ink afterward. I also took it one step further and turned some splatters into stars using my Sharpie white paint pen.  I ran a strip of black cardstock through my machine three times with the same window die to form the ground for my critters within each scene. I then stacked the critters from the Party Pets Stamps with gifts and party hats to create the height I needed for each frame. Lastly, I heat-embossed a sentiment from our new Inside Greetings Belated Birthday Stamps onto a black speech bubble from our Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies. This might be the first time I've tried using a black speech bubble, but I really liked how it balanced out the other black in my card and popped against the rainbow background!

Card No. 6: I wanted the adorable pup from the Doggone Birthday Stamps to take center stage for this card. I set him in the center and repeatedly stamped the balloon from the Party Pets Stamps to look like a helium balloon bouquet that just got let go and is flying through the air. I stamped each balloon in colorful shades of Versafine Clair ink to get the no-line coloring look. While the balloon was still in my Misti tool, I carefully inked the balloon string using VersaFine Onyx Black ink. The simplicity of the balloon image made this surprisingly easy to do, and I love the results! I then heat set the images and colored them with coordinating Copic Markers. The only other element I added was a simple blue strip of cardstock with a stitched edge along the top using our Ribbon & Lace Border Dies. The strip not only helped ground the little dog but also gave me a good place to center the greeting from the Doggone Birthday Stamps just below the dog and her present.

Card No. 7: For this last card of the day featuring the Doggone Birthday Stamps, I thought it would be fun to show that it works just as well for holiday cards as it does for birthday cards. In this case, I created a Christmas thank you card and started by inking my card panel background with various green distress inks before sketching in some loose tree branches with my Copic Markers. I then layered in some holiday lights onto my tree using the border from our Scenic Route Stamps and added some ornaments using images from the Happy Owlidays Stamps. To add additional gifts under the tree and to match a similar scale to the gift in the Doggone Birthday set, I turned to the present from our Holiday Hugs Stamps, stamping it three times and coloring the gifts in different festive colors.

For my sentiment, I stamped the phrase "thank you so much" from the Words of Gratitude Stamps, the word "for" from the Enchanted Stamps, the word "the" from the Panda Party Stamps, and the word "gift" from the Inside Greetings Christmas Stamps. I've never pieced together a greeting using so many different stamp sets, but I had something very specific in mind for this card, and I realized we don't have any sentiments that say something similar.

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Here's a closer look at our new Party Pet Stamps & Dies, Doggone Birthday Stamps & Dies, and Inside Greetings Belated Birthday Stamps used today, which will be available for purchase on Friday, January 10th.

Other Supplies Used: 

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Words of Gratitude Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Happy Owlidays Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Owlidays Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Surprise Party 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Enchanted Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings-Christmas Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Brilliant Banner 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Background Basics 2 Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tulip Path Background Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tulip Path Background Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Rounded Rectangle Window Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Clear Drops: Amber Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Clear Drops: Leaf Shop at: Sunny Studio
Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Clear Drops: Turquoise Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio