Grad Cat Card with Amanda

Hey everyone, it's Amanda here. It’s that time of year! Have you made all your cards for your grads of 2025?! I’ve got mine ready! Feel free to steal this idea for your own cards!

First, die cut the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles frame with white cardstock. Keep all of the rectangle cutouts for stamping on. Glue the frame to an A2 card base (4.25”x5.5”).

Take the square from the bottom right corner and stamp the little kitty from the Grad Cat Stamps with your stamping platform. Keep the cat in place and don’t clean the stamp yet! Place a piece of masking tape (like Heffy Memo Tape or a sticky note) over the stamped cat. Using the leftover ink that’s still on your cat, stamp the image onto your masking tape. Using scissors, fussy cut the outline of your cat. Place the mask over the stamped image of the cat. Then, ink up the book and stamp the image so it looks like the cat is sitting on the book.

Use the same process to stamp the other 2 rectangles with the dogs from the Puppy Dog Kisses Stamps and the books from the Grad Cat Stamps. You’ll need to make several masks for the books! Keep the masks you used from your first rectangle to use on the other rectangle!

Place your card base (that has the frame glued to it) in your stamping platform and stamp the sentiments directly onto it. I used a combination of sentiments from both stamp sets!

Remove all your masks from your square and rectangles and get ready to color! I used Copic markers, but you could use any coloring medium you prefer! After I finish coloring my stamped images, I always add some white highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen.

Once they’re all colored in, apply some foam tape to the backs of the square and rectangles and adhere them to your card front. Finally, add some gems! I’ve used one gem each from the Gold Jewels, Bright Jewels, and Pastel Jewels.

That is it for me today! I hope you enjoyed this post and come back tomorrow for more inspiration!!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Puppy Dog Kisses Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Grad Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Super Duper Card with Tina

Hello crafters, it’s Tina and today I am sharing a Birthday card with the fun Super Duper stamp and die set! Such amazing characters and the sentiments in this set are so versatile!

After creating a card base, I cut a white panel with the outer die from Frilly Frames Chevron. To add extra interest, I dry embossed this panel with the Sunburst folder. This is one of my favorite techniques for including quick and easy details to a project.

The next level of this card was made from a red polka dot paper (Polka-dot Parade) cut with the second largest die from the Rounded Rectangle Mat set. I knew I was going for a red Superman suit and this paper was a perfect match. My hero had to make a spectacular entry so I needed to create the space with one of the Stitched Semi Circle dies. Next, I glued this red piece to the white panel and attached the whole to the card base.

I selected my character and a few stars from the Super Duper stamp set and colored everything with my Copic markers.

The add extra ‘drama’ to my sentiment I used the starburst shape from the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles and stamped the ‘Hope your day’ part (Super Duper stamp) with Versafine Onyx Black ink. Next, I used the largest rectangle speech bubble (Comic Strip Speech Bubbles), cut of the little tail and stamped the second part of the message (with red ink from my stash).

To complete the design, I placed the images inside the frame and added the two speech bubbles. As a final embellishment, some Silver Jewels were glued on each side of the sentiment.

I loved creating with this fun Super Duper set and I hope you will enjoy it too! Thank you for joining me and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Polka-dot Parade 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunburst Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Chevron Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Super Duper Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Super Duper Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Semi-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Woo Hoo Card with Tina

Hi crafty friends, Tina here with an adorable graduation-themed card! I have several family members graduating, and I just love this sweet owl from the Woo Hoo stamp and die set!

As usual, I started with a white card base and went on to create a cloudy scene panel. On a white piece of card stock slightly smaller than the outside of the frame die we will be using later on, I ink blended a soft pastel sky with a stencil from my stash and Distress Oxides Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade and Kitsch Flamingo.

Then I cut a white frame with the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles die. Since I wanted the clouds to continue across the little boxes, I just glued the frame on top of the inked background with liquid glue.

After selecting my images from the Woo Hoo and Grad Cat sets, I colored them in fun tones with my copics and added white highlights with a gel pen. To fill in the smaller boxes I also die cut two cloud shapes from the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles die.

I browsed through my sentiment stamps and found the perfect saying in the Happy Thoughts set. It took a bit of masking to get the "wishing you a" sentiment spread over two lines. But I love how it turned out (Versafine Onyx Black ink).

Now it was time to build all the mini scenes, starting with the branches, and adding the owl, books, diploma, clouds, and little leaves. This card has already a lot of details so I kept the embellishments simple, just some White Diamonds Jewels.

Are you making grad cards this year? I am curious to see them! Thank you for visiting the blog and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Woo Hoo Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woo Hoo Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Grad Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Grad Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Happy Hamster Card with Amanda

Hey crafty friends! It’s Amanda here with you on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog today sharing the cutest little hamster card! I had to get a little creative when creating this cage for my little Happy Hamsters! I actually used the Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies to create their little home.  

First, I die cut the frame piece.  I used the stitched border piece as my frame and the sand piece for the “bedding". I also used the “sky” piece  for “bedding” by flipping it over and trimming it down with my paper trimmer. I blended Catherine Pooler Shea Butter ink on these two pieces.  

On a piece of A2 cardstock, I blended Catherine Pooler Cotton Candy ink all around the panel. From the Happy Hamster Stamps, I placed all the little heart images onto an acrylic block. Using the Cotton Candy ink pad, I stamped them all around the background. I glued this panel to an A2 card base.  Next, I glued my “bedding” and frame pieces to the card base.

I stamped all the hamsters, the wheel, and some sunflower seeds with black ink. Using Copic markers, I colored the images. 

Here are the markers I used:
N1, N3, N5
W6, W9
R00, R20, R22, R37
E30, E31, E33, E35, E50
White Gelly Roll pen

Once colored, I die cut them out with the coordinating dies. For the hamsters behind the bedding, I adhered them to my card front with liquid glue. For the other 2, I used 3D foam squares.

And, finally, for the sentiment! I die cut one of the word bubbles from the Copic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies out of black cardstock. I stamped the sentiment with my Wow! Embossing pad and then applied white embossing powder. I melted the powder with my heat tool and then put 3D foam tape behind it and stuck it to the front of the card.

Thanks so much for coming by the blog today! I hope you find some time to get crafty! Come back tomorrow for more inspiration from the Design Team!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Happy Hamsters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Happy Hamsters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Tropical Trees Backdrop Shop at: Sunny Studio

Crisp Apple & Punny Apple Greetings Card with Alma

Hello my dears! This is Alma and today I want to show you my card featuring the wonderful Crisp Apple Dies. When I first saw them, I immediately thought of a delicious apple cider or an apple punch. Can you smell the card?

I die-cut the apples and colored them with Copics. Then I transformed the Summer Jar Mug die into a fall-themed glass and colored that as well. The Fresh Lemon Dies were, of course, a must for my recipe, as they added a really tasty note to my autumn drink!

For the card's frame, I used the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Die. I blended the background with Distress Oxides and for the sentiment, I combined the Punny Apple Greeting Stamps with the "hugs" from the Scalloped Oval Mat 3 Dies. 

As a special touch, I glued a real cinnamon stick and a real star anise onto the card so you can all smell it too! Fall is here!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Oval Mat 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fresh Lemon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Summer Jar Mug Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Punny Apple Greetings Shop at: Sunny Studio
Crisp Apple Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Mini Grass Border Die Focused Card with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm very happy to be back on the blog with this Savanna Safari birthday card inspired by the Bighearted Bears card I made a few weeks ago. Once in a while, I like to look back at my cards to see which design I could recreate. Well, this time, I didn't have to look too far in the past, and thought that the tall and long rectangle windows were just perfect for the giraffe and her friends!

I started off by creating the background using some dies and pattern papers. I cut the frame out of an Amazing Argyle wooden pattern paper using the main die from Comic Strip Speech Bubble. I kept the frame only and attached it on a Sweater Weather turquoise pattern paper using 1mm foam squares. Next I cut another Comic Strip Speech Bubble frame out of a Dots & Stripes Pastels green pattern paper. This time I kept the inside pieces only, and used the Mini Grass Border die to cut four grass borders that I attached at the bottom of each section using 1mm foam squares.

I stamped my images on 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, cut them all using the matching dies, and colored everything using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and Graph'it brush markers. Here is the detailed list of the stamp sets I used:

• Savanna Safari: giraffe, lion, zebra, toucan

• Fabulous Flamingos: tropical leaves

• Love Birds: branch, small leaves

• Chickie Baby & Chubby Bunny: flowers

• Love Monkey: vine

When the coloring was done, I attached the images on my panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares. I also white heat embossed my "Have a wild day" greeting from Savanna Safari on a slim aqua banner I cut using a die from Notebook Photo Corners, and tucked it on the top right hand corner of my panel using foam squares again.

As always I finished my card with highlights and details using a white gel pen, and a little bit of morning dew nuvo drops on the hearts to make them shine. And that's it! 

I hope that my card will inspire you to search for inspiration among your own projects. Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Amazing Argyle 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chubby Bunny Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Chubby Bunny Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Chickie Baby Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chickie Baby Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sweater Weather Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Birds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Mini Grass Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio