Welcome New Design Team Member Emily Leiphart!

Please help me in welcoming a new member to our creative team: the talented Emily Leiphart!  I'm thrilled she agreed to share her talents with us and I know you're going to fall in love with her adorable designs as much as I have!  I asked Emily to share a bit about herself today, along with a card showing off her fun style.  I'm so excited to see more!

Hi!  I’m married to a bicycle designer and have a very energetic eight-year-old son who has made numerous appearances in my videos!  I have a background in corporate research but I’m also an accomplished makeup artist so I still draw a lot of my inspiration from the fashion world.

I'm so excited to be joining Sunny Studio Stamps as a design team member! I love fun, quirky stamps and Mendi's illustrations are perfect for me. Of all the stamps currently in the Sunny Studio collection, my favourites are the critters with mix-and-match heads and bodies. I had to use the silly raccoon for today's card.

To create my scene, I picked the two main images; the mailbox from Sending My Love and the raccoon from Woodsy Creatures, then stamped and cut masks for them. I created two asks for the raccoon, one for the entire body for stamping the mailbox and another, just for the paws, so I could stamp the apple from Summer Picnic behind the digits.

After stamping the main part of the scene, I stamped the sentiment and added falling leaves - also from Woodsy Creatures - to create movement down and across the card. After colouring everything with Copic markers, I used the same colours from the leaf on the apple and the mailbox to create a pointillist anchor to ground the scene.

Thank you, Mendi, for this wonderful opportunity!

Blog:  http://leiphartonart.blogspot.com
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/leiphartonart/
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/leiphartonart

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Fishtail Banners II Week: Fall Fox Card with Vanessa

Hello friends!  Vanessa here with an autumn card mixing the wonderful Fishtail Banner II dies, Woodsy Creatures, Harvest Happiness and Comfy Creatures.

For my card I used one of the pretty sketches Mendi provided here. First, I die-cut the Fishtail banner from a panel of woodgrain patterned paper and a circle from its center. Then I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder. Now I stamped the pumpkins, masking the first ones before stamping the next, and colored them with Copics. I backed the circle window of the panel with vellum to tone down my background and adhered the panel to the card. Then I stamped, paper-pieced and colored the fox, die-cut him with the matching dies and adhered him to the card.

I might repeat myself, but it is so fun to combine the various stamp sets to create new, cute creatures! Thank you for visiting today!

Vanessa

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Woodsy Creatures Love You Card by Lexa

Hello there crafty friends!  Lexa here with a happy fall card, featuring my favorite stamp set from the new release, Woodsy Creatures. I looove critters, so you can guess why this one won my heart. Fall is around the corner, even if there's no fall where I live. But I do really love fall colors--They're so pretty!  Maybe I should visit a four seasons country the next time I travel in the fall. :)

I started by making my own patterned paper.  Using a piece of green cardstock, I stamped some of the smaller images from Harvest Happiness and Woodsy Creatures with a tone-on-tone technique. Then on a smaller panel I blended some Distress Inks as the background for my images to sit. I use Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers for the sky and Mowed Lawn for the grass.

All the images are stamped with black Versafine ink that works perfectly for watercolors. Creating a scene is one of my most favorite processes in cardmaking.  It's so much fun! I also added a flower wreath on the girls' head and I think it's super cute. After I finished my scene, I layer it with a piece of burlap to add texture plus it matches all the brown and natural colors on my card.

Here's the close up look, I hope you like this card as much I do. Thank you so much for reading until the end. Wishing you a great day!

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School Time Thank You Teacher Card by Lexa

Hello everyone!  Lexa here today with a back to school inspiration card starring School Time stamp.  It's an older set from Sunny Studio but I totally love this. This set is perfect for encouragement cards and even a thank you card just like I made today. I hope you enjoy the whole post. Happy reading!

I started with a 4.25" x 5.5" white cardstock panel.  My favorite is Neenah Solar White because it's so smooth and works perfectly with alcohol markers and stamping with dye inks, etc. I made my own striped patterned paper by drawing yellow lines with my alcohol markers. It doesn't need to be perfectly straight, a little bit imperfection is beautiful. After I finished my background panel, I decided to add a watercolor border on the left and I think it looks better with it.

I stamped all the images with black Versafine ink and watercolored them with Distress Markers. For extra cuteness, I want a critter on my card so I choose the racoon from Woodsy Creatures to sit on the pencil. Isn't he so adorable?? A little trick for you, I always to decide the color scheme I want for my card in the begining so that I can match the whole card and keep on track. As for this one, I choose yellow and red as the main color. I white embossed the sentiment on a stripe of red cardstock to match my apple.

I hope you like today's card. Have a great weekend!

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A Sneak Peek of some Fall Cards Created for Simon Says Stamp

I'm on the Simon Says Stamp blog today with a couple more cards using our newest stamps.  I hope you will swing by to see the full reveal.  ;)

I used the following sets to create my projects:

                 

Also make sure to keep scrolling down to see Anni's wonderful card today.  :)

Sunny Saturday Share: Projects by Our Wonderful Customers

Hello everyone!  How have you been?  I hope you all had a great week!  I'm so excited for next week when I will be sharing ideas for our new Fall release. On Friday we have some BIG things lined up to celebrate our first birthday including a blog hop with some of my favorite talents in the industry, a special sale and $20 gift certificate prizes at every stop!!!

In the meantime I thought I would pop in and share a handful of fabulous cards that caught my eye over the past couple of weeks...  

Backyard Bugs Card by Eloise Blue (with video tutorial on her YouTube Channel)

Comfy Creatures Card by Creations Galore (@creationsgaloregb on instagram)

Tropical Paradise Card by Rachel Bergfeld (@rbergfeldcarddesigns on instagram)

Backyard Bugs Card by Tracy Crafty (@inkyfingersandribbon on instagram)

Tropical Paradise Card by Vanessa (@vanessa.amann on instagram)

Sweet Shoppe Card by GSacht (on flickr)

Thank you everyone for sharing your talents & beautiful projects with us!

Don't forget to tag us with the hashtag #sunnystudiostamps and share your beautiful projects with us on Instagram, our facebook page or in our flickr group!  

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