Introducing Love Birds Stamps & Tree Branch Die For Valentine's Day!

Merry Christmas!  I hope you all are enjoying a fun and relaxing holiday with your loved ones today. This week our team will be transitioning from Christmas to Spring, featuring a new mini stamp set called Love Birds that is perfect for Valentine's Day, however as I think my cards will illustrate this set doesn't have to be limited to a single holiday. Let's jump right in!

Card No.1: For my first card featuring the Love Birds Stamps, I started by creating my pastel rainbow cloud background by inking on alternating distress inks together with masks I had cut from our Fluffy Cloud Border Dies. I then trimmed down my panel to 3.5" wide and added the stitching and scalloped trim to the edges with our Slimline Basic Border Dies. 

The love bird set comes with a bare tree branch and individual leaves making it easy to customize for both winter and spring scenes and to best position the leaves to suit your card. In this case, I was able to use the same tree branch three times, but by rotating it and placing the leaves in different spots for each of them, I was able to give my card a bit more personality. Finally, I heat-embossed a punny greeting from the set onto our Brilliant Banner 1 Dies which I had inked with a coordinating shade of Picked Raspberry distress ink to tie in with the pink cloud below.

Card No.2: Next up I paired two of those same adorable birds from the new Love Birds Stamps with our new Tree Branch Dies and the birdhouses from our A Bird's Life Stamps and Little Birdie Stamps. To create my cloud background, I used the coordinating cloud dies from our Plane Awesome Die set which I cut from masking material and then inked over using my favorite Jumbo Dauber. I then added the stitched edge along the bottom of my panel using that same Slimline Basic Border die.

To give my birdhouses the appearance they were hanging from the tree, I poked holes in my background panel and used a fat needle with some embroidery floss to string them on, taping the ends of the floss to the back of my panel before adhering the panel to my card base. I then was able to adhere my birdhouses onto my card and hide any holes. Before doing this though, I first adhered a 1" thick strip of red gingham patterned paper to the bottom of my card from our Classic Gingham Paper pack and layered a lacy scalloped edge from our Eyelet Lace Border Dies. 

Card No.3: For my next card featuring the adorable Love Birds, I paired them with a greeting from our new My Heart Stamps (which won't be fully unveiled or available to purchase until next week). This greeting was designed to perfectly fit within our Stitched Heart 2 Dies and Scalloped Heart Dies.

In this case, I stamped the greeting first with dye ink, and then while it was still in my MISTI tool, I stamped it again with VersaMark Ink so I could sprinkle the greeting with a little bit of clear embossing powder. In this case, my dye ink wasn't matching my cardstock as well as I would have liked, and heat embossing it warmed up the tones just enough to make them match better. It also has the added bonus of lending a bit of shine and sparkle to my card in person. 

To complete my card, I pierced my background using our Dotted Diamond Landscape Die, added the new Tree Branch Die for my birdie to perch on, and our Pink Spinel Jewels to the center of each stamped flower blossom. It was a fairly quick and simple card to create, but I love how adding the little flowers with the jewels gave it just the touch of oomph it was missing.

Card No.4: For my last Love Birds card of the day, I paired them with our larger Out On A Limb tree branch die which I thought was a better scale to match the new free Cherry Blossom die that will automatically come with all retail orders placed in our store starting today! I repeatedly cut the blossoms from white cardstock, inked them with Spun Sugar Distress Ink, and then accentuated the veining detail using my Copic Marker before adding the little center portion which I had also colored with my Copics over a piece of scratch paper. For my background, I inked it up using the same masks I had cut from our Fluffy Clouds Border Dies for my first card.

Here's a closer look at the new Love Birds Stamps, Love Bird Dies, and Tree Branch Dies. While these are available in our store now, the rest of our Spring Release will be shared with our Sneak Peek Week starting on January 1st and available to purchase on January 5th. 

I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and will continue to check back each day this week to see more fun ideas using this cute set by the rest of the team. :)

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

A Bird's Life Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Bird's Life Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Plane Awesome Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Plane Awesome Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Eyelet Lace Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Out on A Limb Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scalloped Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio
My Heart Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	My Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pink Spinel Jewels Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cornflower Blue Jewels Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Ultra Fine Clear Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Garden Critters Cards with Waleska and Marine

Hello it is me, Waleska! Today's inspiration project features the oh-so-cute Garden Critters Stamp Set mixed with the Just Bee-cause stamps I hope you like it!

I have to admit I am not so much of a bug kind of person but this cute little garden bugs are just too cute. I wanted to create a scene for all this critters so I decided to use the Out On a Limb dies to create some branches for the bugs. I used kraft cardstock and Vintage Photo Oxide ink for the branches and copic markers for the leaves. 

I stamped and cut with the coordinating dies all the bugs, but I also wanted to add some bees to this scene. I used a cloud stencil to create a cloudy background and started assembling the scene. There were some spaces left so I stamped and cut three clouds. I finally stamped the sentiment at the bottom of the scene and add it to a pattern paper base from the Spring Fever paper pad.

So cute don't you think? I just love all this adorable friends having a good time on a spring day! Thank you for stopping by have a great day!

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Hello crafty friends, Marine here, super happy to be back on the blog with the cutest little bugs from Garden Critters. To fit as many as I could on my card, I went for a slimline design, which is definitely my favorite size when I want to showcase a whole bunch of images. And that happens very often!

I started off by stamping all my images on Transotype perfect coloring paper using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, and I cut them all using the coordinating dies. Next I cut an 8,5 x 3,5 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and placed all my non colored images on top to help me visualize the different parts of the scene I wanted to create. For this card, I wanted most of the panel to be clouds, and to have a pond and a grass border at the bottom. So I marked those different parts on my panel using a pencil, and then I colored it using stencils from my stash and oxide inks.

Once the panel was done, I colored the images using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and Graph'it Brush markers. And as written above, I stamped a bunch of images from different sets:

the bees, ladybugs and fireflies from Garden Critters
the beehive from Just Bee-Cause
the branch from Little Birdie
the frog and flies from Feeling Froggy
the cattails and water lilies from Country Scenes

I white heat embossed my "Sending bugs & kisses" greeting at the very bottom of my panel. The word "Sending" is from Bear Hugs, and the words "Bugs & kisses" are from Garden Critters. And next I stuck the images on my panel using a combination of 1mm foam squares, liquid glue and 3mm glue dots.

The last final step was to add highlights and details on the images using a white gel pen, and that's it, super adorable, I hope that you like this lovely scene. Feel welcome to check the process video for more details (click the image above)! Thank you so much for stopping by, and see you next time.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Bear Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Just Bee-cause Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Just Bee-cause Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Feeling Froggy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Feeling Froggy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Out on A Limb Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Garden Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Garden Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Build-A-Birdhouse Die Focused Cards with Vanessa and Tina

Hello to you! Vanessa here with a card using the adorable Build-a-Birdhouse Dies.

I trimmed a panel from the cloud patterned paper from the Spring Fever Paper pad slightly smaller than my blue card base and adhered it. Now I die-cut all the pieces for my birdhouses and flowers using the Wonderful Window Dies, colored them with Copics, assembled the elements and adhered them to the card. 

Then I stamped the sentiment from Big Bold Greetings, die-cut it with the matching die and adhered it. Finally, I added highlights with a white gel pen.

These dies are so cute and versatile. Love them! Enjoy your weekend and thanks for stopping by!

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Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina and today I am featuring the super cute Build-a-Birdhouse dies. This set is perfect for lots of occasions, and I decided to create two sweet mini cards for Easter.

First, I die cut both panels from white Neenah cardstock with the Mini Mat & Tag 1 and Mini Mat & Tag 4 dies. Next, I transformed these panels into frames using a smaller rectangle from the Rectangle Infinity set. 

I wanted to create a little Spring scene using the Picket Fence Border Dies and Out on a Limb dies. Next, I cut the birdies and houses with the Build-a-Birdhouse dies.

The tree branches were colored with gray Copic markers, for all the other shapes and the background panels I blending Distress Oxides in the shades of Tumbled Glass, Prize Ribbon, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade and Fossilized Amber. I used a cloud stencil from my stash for the sky and added lots of splatters with a paintbrush for extra texture.

I folded two white card bases and started assembling the scenes. I glued the branches and fence directly to the background with liquid glue. Next, I popped up the frames with foam tape and finished the cards with the leaves, birds, and cute houses.

For my sentiment I combined the ‘Happy Easter’ from the sets Clucky Chickens and Little Birdie. As a little embellishment, I added a few yellow stars from the Canary Sprinkletz pack.

I hope you will enjoy creating sweet birdhouses with this cute set too! Thank you for joining me and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Out on A Limb Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	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	Clucky Chickens Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Build-A-Birdhouse Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Wonderful Windows Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Fever Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio