Showing posts with label City Streets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label City Streets. Show all posts

Monday, June 16, 2025

Truckloads of Love Fourth of July Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi. I am sharing some fun Fourth of July cards using the pick-up trucks from our Truckloads of Love Stamps and Dies. These cards illustrate two different takes on the same design concept.

Sunny Studio Fourth 4th of July Patriotic Pick-up Truck Cards using Truckloads of Love Clear Craft Stamps & Metal Cutting Die

First I have a Fourth of July card using the pick-up truck, flag, bunting, apples, husky dog, and trailing stars from the Truckloads of Love Stamps. I added the neighborhood behind them using the trees, mailboxes, and houses from our Happy Home Stamps. I wanted to keep the focus fully on my pick-up truck, so I colored the scene behind it using only E41, E42, and E43 Copic marker colors. I finished my card with a simple stamped "Happy Fourth of July" greeting from our Happy Thoughts Stamps.

Sunny Studio Fourth 4th of July Patriotic Pick-up Truck Card using Truckloads of Love & Happy Home Clear Craft Stamps & Dies

Next is another patriotic parade card using the Truckloads of Love Stamps with the dog from our Balloon Rides Stamps. To set the scene from my little hometown parade, I stamped a row of buildings from our City Streets Stamps, stamping them in tan ink onto kraft Paper for a subtle tone-on-tone look. For my greeting, I heat embossed my "Happy Fourth of July" sentiment from our Happy Thoughts Stamps onto a piece of blue grid paper from our Classic Gingham Paper pack and then die-cut it using the pennant from our Notebook Photo Corners Dies. I added stitching to the bottom of my card panel using the Slimline Basic Border Dies and layered it over a strip of blue star print paper from our Surprise Party Paper pack.

Sunny Studio Fourth 4th of July Patriotic Pick-up Truck Card using Truckloads of Love & City Streets Clear Craft Stamps & Die

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love and that you have a very happy upcoming Fourth of July holiday with friends and family. 💕

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City Streets Stamps
City Streets Stamps
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City Streets Dies
City Streets Dies
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Happy Home Stamps
Happy Home Stamps
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Happy Home Dies
Happy Home Dies
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Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper
Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper
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Surprise Party 6x6 Paper
Surprise Party 6x6 Paper
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Happy Thoughts Stamps
Happy Thoughts Stamps
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Slimline Basic Borders
Slimline Basic Borders
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Notebook Photo Corners Dies
Notebook Photo Corners Dies
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Truckloads of Love Stamps
Truckloads of Love Stamps
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Truckloads of Love Dies
Truckloads of Love Dies
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Balloon Rides Stamps
Balloon Rides Stamps
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Balloon Rides Dies
Balloon Rides Dies
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Hero Arts White Detail
Hero Arts White Detail
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VersaMark Watermark Ink
VersaMark Watermark Ink
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Versafine Onyx Black Ink
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

City Streets Card with Amanda

Hey crafty friends, Amanda here! Do you ever use masking to create a one layer card? It’s a great way to use your stamps that don’t have coordinating dies! Or, if you just want to try out a different look to your cards! 

Sunny Studio Stamps: City Streets Card by Amanda Fitterer (featuring Foxy Friends, Sprawling Surfaces)

To create this card, I used Heffy Memo Tape for my masking. You can also use sticky notes or other masking tape. For this technique, I start by determining the order in which the images need to be stamped and masked. For this card, the umbrella needs to be stamped first. So, I stamped the umbrella with my MISTI Then, without removing my stamp, I put a piece of Heffy Memo Tape down over top of the stamped image and used the leftover ink on the stamp to stamp the image. This gives me an outline to cut for my mask. Using scissors, I cut out the umbrella and placed the mask over the stamped image on the card panel.

Next, I stamped the fox and birds from the Foxy Friends Stamps. Using the same technique as I did with the umbrella, I created masks for these images and placed them over the stamped images.

The next layer is the Sprawling Surfaces. Then, the City Streets buildings and lamp post. I didn’t need a mask for either of these layers. However, if you wanted to ink blend a sky or background, you could mask off the buildings, lamp post, and street to do this!

Sunny Studio Stamps: City Streets Card by Amanda Fitterer (featuring Foxy Friends, Sprawling Surfaces)

Now that I’ve got all my stamped images done, I can remove all the masks and color the scene with Copic markers. I used tones of brown, gray, blue-green, yellow-green and red.

The final step is to create my sentiment. In stead of stamping it directly onto the background, I decided to put it on a black banner. To do this, I stamped the sentiment with my WOW! embossing pad on black cardstock and then I applied white embossing powder to it. I melted the powder with my heat tool and then trimmed it into a flag banner with my paper trimmer and scissors.

Thank you for coming by the Sunny Studio Stamps blog today! I hope you enjoy the rest of your week and find some time to get crafty!!

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City Streets Stamps
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Sprawling Surfaces Stamps
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Foxy Friends Stamps
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Monday, August 21, 2023

Sneak Peek: Introducing Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies

Hello and welcome to day 2 of our Holiday Sneak Peek Week!  Each morning in the coming week I will be showcasing projects using our newest fall & winter collections which will be available to purchase on August 25th.

Today I'm showcasing our new Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies which includes an adorable vintage pick-up truck, truckloads for different holidays, occasions, and seasons, as well as a number of cute punny sentiments. The set also includes four new mini critter drivers. These are the same critters found in our Fall Friends Stamps, but shrunken down in size to mix and match with the critters from our Balloon Rides Stamps.

Card No. 1: My first card features a fall scene with a load of leaves in the back of an aqua colored pick-up truck using the Truckloads of Love Stamps. I started by blending my autumn sunset background using Wild Honey, Picked Raspberry, & Seedless Preserves Distress Inks. I then arranged three trees behind my truck using our Woodsy Autumn Stamps, layering a stitched hillside over the top cut from dark brown cardstock using our Slimline Nature Border Dies.

When I inked up my sky, I ended up trimming off some of the purple along the top of my cardstock panel so I could see more of the yellow peeking out near the horizon line of my scene so I was able to repurpose that portion by cutting out a stitched strip using the smallest pennant die from our Slimline Pennant Dies to help ground my sentiment. For my greeting, I inked up some white cardstock with Wild Honey ink, cut out a pennant strip using our Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies and heat embossed the phrase "Leaves are falling, Autumn is calling" from our Happy Harvest Stamps. Lastly, I layered the stitched strip with a pile of leaves and rake in the bottom right corner from our Fall Scenes Stamps. The leaves from this set are a larger scale so I thought they matched nicely with the other leaf piles and give the appearance they are in the foreground. 

Sunny Studio Leaves Are Falling Autumn is Calling Pick-up Truck Card (using Truckloads of Love, Fall Scenes, Woodsy Autumn & Happy Harvest Stamps)

Card No. 2: Up next is another fall card, this time focusing on the load of pumpkins from our Truckloads of Love Stamps. For this card, I started by inking a white cardstock panel with Seedless Preserves and Wilted Violet Distress Inks which I then splattered with water to create a speckled look which I thought gave the appearance of a starry sky right before the sun has fully gone down for the evening. With this in mind, I colored my tree border from our Country Scenes Stamps with slightly darker moody fall tones using my Copic markers. 

My dad had an old mint green pick-up truck like this when I was a kid so that was my inspiration when I colored this one, adding a little raccoon as my driver. For my sentiment, I paired the "greetings" word die from our Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies with the word "Autumn" which I spelled out using our Hayley Uppercase Alphabet and Hayley Lowercase Alphabet dies. I didn't realize how closely these matched until I created this card so that was an extra happy surprise!

Sunny Studio Autumn Greetings Pick-up Truck with Pumpkins Fall Card (using Truckloads of Love & Country Scenes Stamps, Hayley Alphabet & Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies)

Card No. 3: I couldn't resist creating one last fall card with our new Truckloads of Love Stamps, focusing on a fall harvest scene using the wood crates, tomatoes and apples from the set. For the barn & windmill in my background, I stamped the border from our Farm Fresh Stamps, added a chicken and some chicks to the foreground using our Clucky Chickens Stamps, and small tufts of grass using our Harvest Mice Stamps. Lastly, I stamped the "happy autumn" greeting in the empty portion of my sky in the top right using our Crisp Autumn Stamps.

Sunny Studio Happy Autumn Pick-up Truck Fall Card (using Truckloads of Love, Farm Fresh, Clucky Chickens Stamps & Crisp Autumn)

Card No. 4:
I took inspiration from the Barbie movie for my next card, creating a bright and happy birthday card, coloring the truck from Truckloads of Love a hot pink color, filling it with a stack of colorful gifts from the set, and adding a bunny driver from our Balloon Rides Stamps. For the background, I inked my sky with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and added the stitched clouds using our Fluffy Clouds Dies. I then layered it with a strip of neighborhood homes from our Scenic Route Stamps, keeping them a monochromatic grey to prevent them from competing with my focal point images. Lastly, I heat-embossed a birthday greeting from the set and added the white dotted line to my street with the border.
Sunny Studio Hot Pink Pick-up Truck Birthday Card (using Truckloads of Love, Scenic Route & Floating By Balloon Stamps, Fluffy Cloud Dies)

Card No. 5: Switching gears, I have a Christmas card using the Truckloads of Love Stamps with the tree & gifts and a husky dog as the driver. I paired them with the houses and trees border from our Winter Scenes Stamps, coloring the trees to match. I like to create a little story in my head when creating cards and I like the idea of them just coming back from cutting down one of these very trees. I inked up my sky to look like the glow of the sun setting with Tumbled Glass blending to Spun Sugar Distress inks and then added dots of Stickles Glitter to my sky to give the look of snow falling. I had been feeling like my card was missing something and I really love the touch of sparkle and extra texture it gives my card in person!Sunny Studio Driving By to Wish You Merry Christmas Pick-up Truck Holiday Card (using Truckloads of Love & Winter Scenes Stamps)

Card No. 6: Progressing through the holidays and seasons, next up I have a Truckloads of Love card perfect for Valentine's Day or pretty much any day you want to let someone know you love them. I started by adding a 5.5" wide x 1" high strip of striped aqua paper from our Sleek Stripes Paper pack to the bottom of my card base. I then cut the row of heart cutouts using our Heartstrings Border Dies, backed them with pink cardstock, and added the stitching and ric rac edge with our Slimline Basic Border dies. I added a little panda bear for my driver from our Balloon Rides Stamps and added a pink speech bubble for my heat-embossed sentiment from our Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies.Sunny Studio Aqua Pick-up Truck with Pink Trailing Hearts Card (using Truckloads of Love Stamps, Heartstring Border, Slimline Basic Border & Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies, & Sleek Stripes Paper)

Card No. 7: It's a bit out of season at the moment, but I couldn't resist rounding out the holidays with a patriotic parade card adding the flag, bunting, and trailing stars to my red pick-up truck from Truckloads of Love with the dog from our Balloon Rides Stamps. To set the scene from my little hometown parade, I stamped a row of buildings from our City Streets Stamps, stamping them in tan ink onto kraft Paper for a subtle tone-on-tone look. For my greeting, I heat embossed my "Happy Fourth of July" from our Happy Thoughts Stamps onto a piece of blue grid paper from our Classic Gingham Paper pack and then die-cut it using the pennant from our Notebook Photo Corners Dies. Lastly, I added a strip of blue star print paper from our Surprise Party Paper pack.
Sunny Studio Fourth of July Pick-up Truck Card (using Truckloads of Love, Balloon Rides & Happy Thought Stamps, Surprise Party & Classic Gingham Paper)

That wraps up today's sneak peeks. I'm so happy you spent part of your day with me today. I read all your comments and they mean so much!  I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. 

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Here's a closer look at our new Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies used today (which will be available to purchase starting on August 25th):

Sunny Studio Stamps: Introducing Truckloads of Love Pick-up Truck 4x6 Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set Sunny Studio Stamps Truckloads of Love Metal Cutting Dies

Other Supplies Used:

City Streets Stamps
City Streets Stamps
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Crisp Autumn Stamps
Crisp Autumn Stamps
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Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
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Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber
Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber
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Fancy Frames- Rectangles
Fancy Frames- Rectangles
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Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper
Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper
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Happy Harvest Stamps
Happy Harvest Stamps
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Happy Thoughts Stamps
Happy Thoughts Stamps
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Fluffy Clouds Dies
Fluffy Clouds Dies
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Surprise Party 6x6 Paper
Surprise Party 6x6 Paper
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Woodsy Autumn Stamps
Woodsy Autumn Stamps
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Woodsy Autumn Dies
Woodsy Autumn Dies
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Scenic Route Stamps
Scenic Route Stamps
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Scenic Route Dies
Scenic Route Dies
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Floating By Stamps
Floating By Stamps
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Floating By Dies
Floating By Dies
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Slimline Basic Borders
Slimline Basic Borders
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Slimline Nature Borders
Slimline Nature Borders
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Slimline Scalloped Frame
Slimline Scalloped Frame
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Farm Fresh Stamps
Farm Fresh Stamps
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Farm Fresh Dies
Farm Fresh Dies
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Winter Scenes Stamps
Winter Scenes Stamps
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Winter Scenes Dies
Winter Scenes Dies
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Balloon Rides Stamps
Balloon Rides Stamps
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Balloon Rides Dies
Balloon Rides Dies
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Country Scenes Stamps
Country Scenes Stamps
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Country Scenes Dies
Country Scenes Dies
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Slimline Pennant Dies
Slimline Pennant Dies
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Fall Scenes Stamps
Fall Scenes Stamps
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Fall Scenes Dies
Fall Scenes Dies
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Clucky Chickens Stamps
Clucky Chickens Stamps
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Clucky Chickens Dies
Clucky Chickens Dies
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Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies
Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies
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Hayley Uppercase Alphabet Dies
Hayley Uppercase Alphabet Dies
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Notebook Photo Corners Dies
Notebook Photo Corners Dies
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Hero Arts Morning Glory Ink
Hero Arts Morning Glory Ink
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Versafine Onyx Black Ink
Versafine Onyx Black Ink
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Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies
Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies
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Heartstrings Border Dies
Heartstrings Border Dies
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Sleek Stripes Paper
Sleek Stripes Paper
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