Guest Designer Spotlight: Penguin Party Cards with Anja Bytyqi

Hi everyone, Anja here today with two holiday cards featuring the adorable Penguin Party Stamps.

On my first Christmas card, I used a couple of dies with stitching details and patterned papers from the Joyful Holiday Paper pack. I just love this happy color combo!

I started off with a white card base that is slightly larger than the standard A2 size. I cut out the patterned papers with the stitched rectangle die that is part of the Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Dies set. For the three openings I used the Window Trio Square Die. I did some ink blending in the background with Distress Oxides (Spun Sugar and Kitsch Flamingo). I trimmed the patterned papers, adhered them to the card base and added a pink cardstock strip on top where the papers meet.

Next, I stamped the penguins in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them with Copic markers. I cut them out with the coordinating dies and put each cutie inside a window opening.

To create a custom greeting I combined sentiments from the Santa Claus Lane and Merry Mice sets. I stamped them in VersaMark Ink onto a piece of green cardstock. I heat embossed it with white embossing powder and used the banner die from the Stitched Rectangle Dies set to cut it out. Finally, I adhered the banner onto the center of the pink cardstock strip.

On my second inspiration card I created a winter scene with a purple night sky. This design would work for a winter birthday card as well, right?

First, I cut and scored an A2 sized card base from white cardstock. For the purple background, I blended the Distress Oxide Inks Milled Lavender, Wilted Violet and Villainous Potion onto a lavender cardstock panel. I let it dry and added white paint splatters with a brush.

Next, I die cut two snow hills from white cardstock using one of the Slimline Nature Borders Dies. I applied Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink to the edges and layered the die cuts on top of each other covering the bottom half of the card.

In addition to the penguins and accessories, I stamped the fir tree, igloo and ice block from the Winter Scenes set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored the images with Copics again and used the coordinating dies to cut everything out.

The sentiment from the Inside Greetings Holiday set was stamped in VersaMark Ink onto a dark teal cardstock rectangle and heat embossed in white. I adhered the images and sentiment to finish off the card.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Trio- Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings-Holidays Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Penguin Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Designer's Choice Cards with Gladys and Alma

Hello friends! Gladys here, sharing my card using a bunch of images from different stamp sets and dies to make this cute scene.

First I ink blended the background panel using distress oxide inks and a cloud stencil. I used kitsch flamingo for the pink sky and mowed lawn on the bottom panel.

Next, I stamped the images from Just Bee-cause, tree branch from Little Birdie, flowers and butterflies from Bunnyville stamp sets. I colored them with copic markers and used their coordinating dies to cut them out.

I die cut the Picket Fence Border from white woodgrain cardstock. This die also comes with a grass border which I used to cut from green cardstock. Once I was happy with the placement of all the elements I used foam squares or liquid glue to adhere them onto the panel. I decided to mat the panel on pattern paper to give a nice pink border. I also added the bee trails and star dust stickles on the bees and butterflies wings (after photo was taken).

That is all for me today, thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

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Hi, this is Alma and today I'm going to show you a shaker card.

As a base for my card, I punched 2 cards out of white cardstock using the largest slimline punch from the Slimline Pennant Dies set. I then used the cloud die from the Slimline Nature Borders Dies set to cut out a stencil and swiped clouds in the Distress Oxide Inks Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet  onto both cards.

Then I punched a frame into one of the two cards with the middle slimline die from the Slimline Pennant Dies set and glued a foil behind it. Using 3D tape I finished the shaker card and filled it with Crystal Clear Jewels.

Now I stamped, coloured and cut out the mice from the Harvest Mice Stamps and Merry Mice Stamps sets. Then I stamped the text from the Inside Greetings Congrats Stamps on the cloud background.

I decorated the shaker card with the fence from the Picket Fence Border Dies and the clouds from the Slimline Nature Borders set and glued everything together! Finished!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Just Bee-cause Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Just Bee-cause Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bunnyville Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bunnyville Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Inside Greetings Congrats Shop at: Sunny Studio

Designer's Choice Cards with Catherine and Bobbi

Hello Friends! Catherine here, sharing my last card for the Summer Term. As I have recently moved countries, I will be spending time to settle in. It has been a great pleasure to be part of the amazing Design Team at Sunny Studio Stamps!

For my last card, I wanted to keep summer memories alive so I created a “Happy Summer” card featuring our Wonky Windows Dies for the airplane, Ocean View border for the summer scene along with a few friends for the airplane passengers.

To start, I die cut white card stock sized 4.2” x 5.5” with Wonky Windows Dies, I then ink blended some stripes across the windows with red and blue ink.  I carefully placed a cloud stencil made with Fluffy Cloud Border above and below the windows and ink blended with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I covered the window area and lightly splattered a small amount of the ink with water for texture. I flipped the card over and adhered a strip of acetate for the windows.

I used the Fluffy Cloud Border and die cut a cloud border out of white cardstock. I lightly inked the cloud border with the same ink and splattered a small amount of ink with water. I then stamped the sentiment from Beach Babies with Black Ink in the middle.

I stamped the border from Ocean View and die cut with the coordinating die, Ocean View Dies. I colored the border with Copic Markers and added seashells from the same set and a starfish from Fintastic Friends.

For the cabin, I ink blended cardstock 4.25” x 5.5” with Salty Ocean Distress Oxide. For the airplane seats, I used the hotdog die from Fast Food Dies. I added a few friends from Kiddie Pool and Beach Buddies and that’s it!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! For more details and inspiration, please visit by my blog Craft-Cat! Have a wonderful day!

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Life flies. Days become years and years become decades. Next thing you know, you’ve been married 50 years!  I wanted to share this idea in this “flippin” fun card. It’s Bobbi here with a card for a newly wed couple or a pair celebrating an anniversary. 

This card will work for either. I’m using the following Sunny Studio products:

Wedded Bliss stamp set and coordinating dies

Passionate Penguins stamp set and coordinating dies

Heart Bouquet stamp set and coordinating dies

Inside Greetings Sentiments Congrats

Scalloped Oval Mat dies

Bursting Hearts Die

To create this 5″ X 7″ card, I cut the following pieces from white cardstock. I used a lighter, 80lb cardstock for the pages that flip, to keep it less bulky when stacked. The card base (A7-sized full piece in the back) is made from 100lb cardstock for stability.

White Cardstock pieces:
3-1/4″ wide X 3-1/2″ long, scored 1/2″ from the top (80lb)
3-1/4″ wide X 4″ long, scored 1/2″ from the top (80lb)
3-1/4″ wide X 4-1/2″ long, scored 1/2″ from the top (80lb)
3-1/4″ wide X 5″ long, scored 1/2″ from the top (80lb)
5″ wide X 7″ long (100lb)

I stamped the penguin images from the Wedded Bliss stamp set (bride and groom), the Passionate Penguins stamp set (pair in the car, kissing couple, and dancing pair) and the balloons from the Heart Bouquet stamp set and colored them using the following colors: 100, c9, c7, C5, C3, C1, YR16, R14, YG41, YG45, Y06, Y19, R00, R22, R14, R29, BG15, and BG13. 

These will be featured on each page in this order:
Page one: “first kiss”
Page two: “courting years” in the convertible bug
Page three: “happy together” with the heart balloons
Page four: “wedding day” with the happy couple

I assembled the card by adding pattern paper from the Subtle Grey Tones paper pack to the base (5″ X 6″ top piece and a 5″ X 1″ bottom strip). Next, I attached the flip pages to the base. I stacked the four pages and adhered them together  above the 1/2″ score line. I used other pattern papers as backgrounds on the pages, too. The Bursting Hearts Die, cut from a red cardstock was used as the backdrop on the front page and the Scalloped Oval Mat 2 die was used on the last page as an arch for the wedding couple.

Finally, I added a wedding sentiment from the Inside Greetings Sentiments Congrats on the last page and added the “love” die cut and a 1/8″ strip in black to the bottom to finish the card.

Thanks for stopping by today. If you want to see more ideas and inspiration from me, subscribe to my blog, BobbiHartDesign.com. I’ll send you updates on new posts! You can also find me on Instagram as @BobbiHartDesign and on Facebook as BobbiHartDesign.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Babies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fast Food Fun Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Subtle Grey Tones Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Oval Mat 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bursting Heart Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heart Bouquet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Heart Bouquet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fintastic Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fintastic Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Kiddie Pool Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wedded Bliss Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wedded Bliss Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings Congrats Shop at: Sunny Studio
Wonky Windows Die Shop at: Sunny Studio