Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Marie Marco

Hello Crafty Friends!! It's Marie back on the blog with two birthday cards featuring the lovely Special Day Stamp. This stamp set features two super adorable layered cake images and number candles perfect for celebrating all the special occasions from birthdays to weddings and everything in between! 

My first card features the gorgeous two tiered floral cake from the set. This design made me want to create a vintage inspired color palette for a friend's 40th birthday. To create this card, I first stamped my images onto watercolor paper using Antique Linen Distress Ink. All my images were colored using Faber- Castell Watercolor pencils. I cut out the images using the corresponding Special Day Dies. To construct my card front, I first die cut an A2 sized base panel from 110 lb Neenah Solar White cardstock paper. I also, cut an A2 sized polka dot pink pattern paper panel which I adhered to the base panel. For a simple elegant touch, I created a gold frame with the Fancy Frames Rectangle Die. 

I really wanted to keep my pattern paper visible while keeping the birthday cake the focal point so I cut out a scalloped panel from vellum paper using the Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies. Taking my cake image, I used double sided tape to adhere it to the vellum paper. Before adhering the vellum to the pattern paper, I apply double sided tape adhesive to the back of the vellum hidden behind the cake so no tape adhesive is visible on the translucent vellum. To finish off this card, I applied foam strips to the back of the number candles to create some dimension and adhered it to the top of the cake. Finally, I used some Nuvo Crystal Drops on the decorative dots of the cake to create dimension. 

My second card features both the Special Day Stamp and the Birthday Cat Stamp. The Birthday Cat Stamp set is too cute for words! The adorable cats in this set inspired me to create a fun a playful pop up box card purrfect for my cat loving friend. To start off, I cut out all my box card elements from Bristol Smooth Cardstock and inked all the edges using Kitsch Flamingo Distress Ink. For all the decorative panels and inside panels, I used the double sided Sunny Studio Dots & Stripes Pastels Paper in the beautiful shade of pink. 

After assembling the box card, I stamped all my images onto watercolor paper and colored them with Faber-Castell Watercolor pencils. I also used party banner images from the Panda Party Stamp. I used the corresponding Birthday Cat Dies, Special Day Dies, as well as the banner dies from Panda Party Dies to cut all my images. I adhered the birthday cake and cats using a strip of cardstock on the backs of all my images so they remain sturdy inside the box. Finally, I stamped my sentiment using VersaFine Onyx Black Ink to the pattern paper and adhered it to the front of the card. I absolutely love how cute this box card turned out that I'm tempted to keep it for myself! 

These two cards were super fun and simple to create! Thank you for stopping by and joining me today! Until next time, Happy Crafting friends!!!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Birthday Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Special Day Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Special Day Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

A Cut Above Card with Cathy

Hey friends! Cathy here today and I’ve got a fun card to share featuring the A Cut Above Stamps. I probably need to make 100 of these to have on hand when I’ve had one of “those” kind of days!

This is an A2 card with a pretty simple design that works up quickly (just in case you might also need 100 of these on hand). I started by die-cutting a paper from the Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones Paper using the frame portion from the Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Die and adhered this to the card front. Next, I die-cut a silver metallic cardstock using the frame portion from the Frilly Frames Chevron Die. To create a frame from this piece, I die-cut the center of it using the second largest Stitched Rectangles Die. I cut a blue paper from the Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones Paper 3 1/2" x 4 3/4", adhered the silver cardstock frame to it and adhered the combined piece to the card front.

Next, I die-cut a piece of black cardstock using a Notebook Photo Corners Die and heat embossed the sentiment and white lines from the A Cut Above Stamps with white embossing powder. To add a scissor-like cut to the notebook paper, I die-cut it in multiple places using a Mini Mat & Tag 4 Die which also coordinates with the Frilly Frames Chevron Die.

To finish, I stamped the scissors from the A Cut Above Stamps and die-cut them using the coordinating dies.

I hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by today! For more inspiration, please visit my blog www.inkredibleadventures.com and you can also find me on Instagram as @cathy.chapdelaine.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Chevron Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
A Cut Above Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Cut Above Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Birthday Cat Card with Tina

Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina and today’s project consists of three adorable mini cards featuring the sweet Birthday Cat stamp and die set. As usual, I browsed through my stash to create a mix and match design. It’s always fun to see how well old and new products can work together!

The cute birthday kitties take center stage in these cards. I love that you can stack them for a fun and whimsical look! I stamped all these images on Neenah Solar White paper, colored them with my Copic markers (trying to create a different fur pattern for each cat) and adding white details with a gel pen.

The card panels were made with a pink, yellow and teal pattern paper from the Dots & Stripes Pastel pad. I used the Mini Mat & Tag 1, Mini Mat & Tag 2 and Mini Mat and Tag 3 dies. Next, I cut three ovals from Neenah paper with the second smallest die from the Scalloped Oval Mat 1 set.

I didn’t want these ovals to be just stark white so I added ink splatters in matching Distress Oxide colors (Squeezed Lemonade for the yellow card, Peacock Feathers for the teal one and finally some pink Kitsch Flamingo). These Oxides were also used to stamp the ‘pun’ word in the sentiments from the Birthday Cat stamp set.

To assemble the cards, I first glued the pastel panels to mini white card bases. Next, I adhered the scalloped ovals directly to the bases. I send most of my cards through the mail, so I am trying to reduce bulk when stacking elements to my cards. But I did mount all the sweet cat images with thin foam tape so they would really stand out! Lastly, I added the sentiment strips at the bottom of the cupcakes.

I found the perfect matching embellishments in the Jewels Pastel Mix and Jewels Bright mix. These mixes contain so many gorgeous colors that I can use them on lots of my cards.

Since I often send birthday cards, I am super happy to have not one but three cute mini cards ready to go! Thank you for joining me and I hope you have fun creating cards with these adorable birthday cats! Happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Oval Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Birthday Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Wanda Guess

Hi Sunny Studio fans! It's Wanda here with a couple of cheerful cards made with the awesome new Sunny Studio Summer Release! I always love it when I'm invited to be a guest here! I made two birthday cards using a mix of new supplies and previously released supplies. Everyone always needs to have birthday cards ready, right?

My first card features the Scrumptious Cupcakes stamps and dies! I made five rainbow shaded cupcakes to make it super festive. I added glitter to the frosting on each cupcake for a bit of shimmer. 

I used the Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace and Frilly Frame Stripes dies in white as my background, layered over a piece of striped paper. 

The sentiment was heat embossed in silver onto a strip of vellum, which I layered around the bottom of the card. I added a few hearts for good measure and love! My finished card is a horizontal A2 size. 

My second card features the adorable Birthday Cats stamps and dies! I stamped and die cut out the sweet kitties and colored them with my Copic Markers. How cute are they in their party hats?! 

I used a piece of rainbow striped paper as my background and layered red with it. My top layer was die cut with the Mini Mat & Tag 4 dies. I ink blended just the top of the white panel with blue ink. I stamped the sentiments directly onto the blue inked portion. 

I finished off with a red balloon, die cut with the new Bright Balloons dies. I want to party with this crew! My finished card is an A2 size. 

Thanks for letting me share some projects with you! Until I see you again - happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Frilly Frames Stripes Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scrumptious Cupcakes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scrumptious Cupcakes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bright Balloons Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Grad Cat Gift Tags with Marine

Hello crafty friends! Marine here, I'm super happy to be back on the blog with those six graduation shaker tags showcasing the ever so cute kitty from Grad Cat. Love this sweet little guy so much I thought it would be fun to create a variety of cats with matching bow ties and books.

I started off by stamping six kitties, books and bow ties, all from Grad Cat, on Transotype perfect coloring paper using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, I cut them all using the coordinating dies, and colored everything using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and Graph'it Brush markers. I colored each kitty in a different way to make each one of them unique, and once the coloring was done, I stamped a star, again from Grad Cat, on each book spine.

Next I created six shaker tags using the same process as the Meow & Furever tags I made back in January. The papers I used are from the Heroic Halftones paper pack, and these are perfect because they look like they're shining a light on each kitty that just graduated. So, I made those tags using the Mini Mat & Tags 3 die set, and to decorate the top I cut and glued a gold glitter star using a die from the Mini Mat & Tags 4 die set, and used gold thread from my stash to make handles.

I attached each kitty and book on their matching tags using 1mm foam squares, and then I created the greetings. I cut six speech bubbles out of matching cardstock using a die from the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles die set, next I cut six more speech bubbles out of gold glitter cardstock, I attached a gold glitter speech bubble behind each colored speech bubble, and then stuck the elements on the tags using 1mm foam squares again.

As always I finished the tags by adding highlights and details on the images and speech bubbles using a white gel pen. And that's it! I hope you like those cute and colorful graduation shaker tags. Thanks so much for stopping by, and see next time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper 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	Mini Mat & Tag 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Birthday Mouse Card with Isha

Hello everyone, Isha here with you! Today I have a fun and adorable card featuring the Birthday Mouse stamp and coordinating dies. This image is very cute so I went with a monochromatic CAS card to keep this image as my focal element.

I started by sponging salvaged patina, salty ocean and blueprint sketch distress oxide inks to a white panel. Die-cut using the Mini Mat and Tag 4 dies. Flick some white paint. Adhere to a white cardbase.

Stamp the image from the Birthday Mouse stamp set, color and die-cut using the coordinating dies. Adhere to the panel using 3d foam. Add some sparkle to the balloons using the nuvo clear sparkle pen.

Stamp the sentiment from the Big Bold Greetings stamp set. I kept the stamping in ombré color. Die-cut using the coordinating dies. Adhere to the card using 3d foam.

Thank you for dropping by and have a nice day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Mouse Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Mouse Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Panda Party Cards with Marine and Waleska

Hey crafty friends, Marine here, so glad to be back on the blog with the loveliest and sweetest pandas from Panda Party. I created a mountain scene for those cute little guys, and to help me complete my scene, I shopped my entire Sunny Studio collection to find the stamps that could fit the theme.

And just like the Garden Critters card that I shared last week, I first stamped all my images on Transotype perfect coloring paper using an alcohol marker-friendly black ink, and die cut them all using the coordinating dies, in order to place them on an 8,5 x 3,5 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel and help me visualize the scene I wanted to build. I used a pencil to mark on my panel the different parts I wanted to create in my scene, from the bottom to the top: two hills, mountains, and the sky, and I used stencils from my stash along with oxide inks to color the entire panel.

Once my mountain landscape was done, I colored all my images using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and Graph'it brush markers. And to create a lovely habitat for my lovely pandas from Panda Party, I picked some extra stamps from different sets:

- the grass from Garden Critters
- the branch from Outback Critters
- the hot air balloon & clouds from Balloon Rides
- two leaves from Fabulous Flamingos
- the tree trunk from Seasonal Trees
- the flowers from Chickie Baby + from Chubby Bunny
- the swirling detail from Country Scenes

I white heat embossed my "Wishing you a pandastic day" from Panda Party at the bottom of the panel, I attached all the images using 1mm foam squares mostly and 3mm glue dots, and as always I finished my card by adding highlights and details to the images using a white gel pen.

And that's it! Love those cute pandas and how they pop on the green landscape, and the one in the balloon is one more proof that Sunny Studio stamp sets are totally mixable, just perfect if, just like me, you love to create stories on cards. Don't hesitate to watch the process video for more details (click on the image above)! Thank you so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

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Hello there, Waleska here! I am happy to be back on the blog to share a happy card featuring the Panda Party Stamps. I also used the Frilly Frames Hexagon and the Mini Mat & Tag #1 Dies.

I started by cutting the biggest of the Frilly Frames with white cardstock and inking another piece to adhere on top of this frame with Oxide Inks in colors Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed and Cracked Pistachio, I did some watercolor splatters for more interest too. I then cut the small scalloped rectangle from the Mini Mat Tag #1 Dies and created a little scene with stencils and oxide inks.

I then stamped and cut the cutest three pandas from the set and adhere them in the scene, I stamped one of the sentiments with white embossing powder on black cardstock, such an adorable card to wish someone you love a pandastic day! Thank you so much for stopping by today have a great rest of your week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Outback Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Outback Critters 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	Seasonal Trees Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seaonal Trees Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Chickie Baby Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chickie Baby Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Country Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Garden Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Garden Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio