Sneak Peek: Introducing Sweet As Can Bee Bumblebee Stamps & Dies

Hello, and welcome to the first day of our Summer Sneak Peek Week!  All this week, I am sharing cards showcasing our newest collection, which will be available for purchase this Friday!

Card No. 1: Today I am sharing cards with our adorable new Sweet As Can Bee Stamps! This set comes with so many fun images and four adorable bumblebees, allowing you to create so many different scene-style cards or add darling bee accents. My first card uses all four bees from the new set, along with the beehive and our Tree Branch Dies. I framed my little scene using the outer scalloped border left over after cutting out the Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace Dies. I stamped and heat-embossed my punny sentiment onto a Brilliant Banner 2 Die that had been die-cut from a yellow gingham print from the Gingham Jewel Tones Paper pack. Lastly, I added small highlights to my bee's wings, the hive, and the leaves with a white gel pen.

Card No. 2: Up next is a clean & simple card using only elements found in the new Sweet As Can Bee Stamps and coordinating Dies. I started by masking off the four sides of my card using Spellbinders Masking Sheets, trimmed into strips. These can often be stored safely away and reused for future cards. I then inked up the center with distress inks, blending Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, and Prize Ribbon. I then positioned each of my sunflowers and used a ruler with a paper-piercer tool to mark out the stems for hand-stitching with embroidery floss. At the top of my scene, I added two bumblebees, paired with the heart trail from the set, and heat-embossed the phrase "Bee Happy" in between them. Lastly, I trimmed my panel and mounted it on black cardstock to frame my scene like a piece of artwork and give my card a dramatic pop. I love the way this turned out!

Card No. 3: Next up is another somewhat simple card with the Sweet As Can Bee Stamps, this time using the jar of honey with the honey dipper from the set. For my background, I stamped the hexagon from the set, which was purposefully sized to work together with our Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies. I created a background hexagon template using the Sweet As Can Bee Dies so I could take turns popping the hexagons in from the Frilly Frames die to stamp them in just the right spot each time. I chose to stamp them in two alternating shades of yellow ink to add a slight variation and interest to my background. I found my ink was starting to bleed as it dried, though, so I was able to maintain the stitched edge within the hexagons by heating them up with my heat tool and tweezers. I completed my card with a heat-embossed greeting from the set and added a striped print to the background using a patterned paper from the Striped Silly Paper pack.

Card No. 4: For this card using the Sweet As Can Bee Stamps, I went with a complementary color scheme, inking my background panel with a blend of Seedless Preserves, Wilted Violet, and Villainous Potion Distress Ink. I then die-cut the background using the Dotted Diamond Landscape Die and added a strip of coordinating gingham-patterned paper from the Gingham Jewel Tones Paper pack. I then created a tabletop scene with the honey jar, honey dipper, lemons, sunflowers, leaves, bumblebees, and hexagons from the set. A bee greeting from the set, stamped onto a pennant strip from the Notebook Photo Corners Dies, completed my card.

Card No. 5: Next up is another bumblebee and sunflower card using the Sweet As Can Bee Stamps. I added a strip of green "pattered paper" to the bottom half of my flower border, inked to perfectly match the leaves, using our Background Basics 2 Stamps. I paired the "Buzzin' By to Say" from the Sweet As Can Bee set with the large oversized "Happy Birthday" greeting from the Big Bold Greetings Stamps. Lastly, I added three adorable bees around my greeting.

Card No. 6: For my last card of the day with the Sweet As Can Bee Stamps, I couldn't resist using that same hexagon template from my third card to stamp the hexagons in a rainbow of colors to line up for a fun background. To help me position the hexagons, I used a clear ruler with a pencil to lightly mark the center axis. I then started with the row of yellow hexagons, working my way out on both sides of that center line. When I was done, I heat-embossed a white greeting onto black cardstock using our Color Me Happy Stamps and the Color Word Die. I added three bumblebees and a stitched trail from the Sweet As Can Bee Stamps to complete my card.

These are the ink colors I used to create my rainbow background:

• Gina K. Passionate Pink
• Gina K. Red Hot
• Gina K. Sweet Mango
• Gina K. Wild Dandelion
• Gina K. Lucky Clover
• Gina K. Blue Raspberry
• Gina K. Wild Lilac

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, who will be randomly selected from comments on this blog post and on our Facebook and Instagram posts. Our daily contests will run through Saturday, April 25th, at Midnight PST, with winners announced here on our blog on Sunday, April 26th.

Here's a closer look at our new Sweet As Can Bee Stamps and Sweet As Can Bee Dies used today, which will be available for purchase on Friday, April 24th.

  

Other Supplies Used:

Color Me Happy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Color Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tree Branch Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Background Basics 2 Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio
Striped Silly 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spellbinders Masking Sheets Shop at: Sunny Studio

Designer Choice Cards with Anja and Vanessa

Hello everyone, Anja here with you today. It's Designer's Choice week and I created a geometric CAS card with stitched dies and a pretty color combo.

First, I started off with a white 5" x 5" square card base. I die cut a bunch of stitched circles from five colors of cardstock using the Window Quad Circle Grid Die. The stitched heart is part of the Cupcake Shape Dies set and I cut it 8 times from white cardstock.

I stamped the word 'hello' from the Cheerful Daisies set in VersaMark Ink onto the dark green circle and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Finally, I glued the hearts to the stitched circles and popped them up with circles cut from white fun foam.

Thank you so much for stopping by! See you soon!

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Hello to you! Vanessa here with a rainbow card using the Color My World set. 

I created the background using the ink smooching technique with following Distress Ink colors: Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold, Picked Raspberry, Mowed Lawn, Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean, Dusty Concord. I then stamped the paint brushes onto the die-cut bases. Here I followed the technique Jennifer McGuire showed in this video, it saved me plenty of time and nerves! Her instructions made me enjoy creating layered images in various colors. Find suggestions for color combos/inks in her video, too.

Now I adhered the paint brushes to the card with foam tape and added the sentiment, using the Color Me Happy set, that I had heat-embossed onto a piece of black cardstock.

I hope I have brightened your day with this colorful card! Thank you for stopping by today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Color Me Happy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Color My World Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Color My World Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cupcake Shape Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cheerful Daisies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Window Quad Circle Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sunny Saturday Share: Customer Cards

Hey everyone, how are you all doing this weekend? I'm so excited to be popping in today with a Sunny Saturday Share. There have been so many amazing cards popping up on Instagram that have made my jaw drop so I couldn't wait to share them with all of you! 

Botanical Backdrop dies and Happy Thoughts card by Ana A

Everything’s Rosy card by Dana Kirby

Fabulous Flamingos card and video tutorial (HERE) by Sandy Allnock

Love Monkey card by Toni Maddox

Love Monkey card by Jennifer

Love Monkey card by Lisa

Backyard Bugs card by Miriam Chessum

Critter Campout card by Lisa

Critter Campout card by Lori

Critter Campout card by Carrie

Devoted Doggies card by Christine

Puppy Parents card by Nic

Color Me Happy and Color Word die card by Lio Edmeier

Thank you for sharing all these fabulous ideas with us! I hope you will continue to share your gorgeous projects with us--It always makes my day to see them. You can tag us on instagram with the hashtag #sunnystudiostamps or share your projects with us in our flickr group or on our facebook page. ☺


Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Backyard Bugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Backyard Bugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Color Me Happy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Color Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critter Campout Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Critter Campout Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Devoted Doggies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Devoted Doggies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puppy Parents Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puppy Parents Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Everything's Rosy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Everything's Rosy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Botanical Backdrop Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio