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

Sunny Saturday Share: More Customer Cards

Hey everyone, how are you all doing this weekend? I'm so excited to be popping in today with a Sunny Saturday Share. There have been so many amazing cards popping up on Instagram that have made my jaw drop so I couldn't wait to share them with all of you! 

Special Day card by Sheyla Corredig

Wedded Bliss and Heart Bouquet card by Becky

Passionate Penguins keychain by Nicole Kayaalp

Prancing Pegasus card by Mynn Kitchen

Silly Sloths card by Rosa

Silly Sloths tag by Megan

Panda Party and Mini Mat & Tag 1 tags by Mayumi Adler

Paris Afternoon card by Nadia Lammi

Thank you for sharing all these fabulous ideas with us! I hope you will continue to share your gorgeous projects with us--It always makes my day to see them. You can tag us on instagram with the hashtag #sunnystudiostamps or share your projects with us in our flickr group or on our facebook page. ☺


Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Prancing Pegasus Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Prancing Pegasus Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heart Bouquet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Heart Bouquet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Passionate Penguins Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wedded Bliss Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wedded Bliss Dies 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	Special Day Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Special Day Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Bright Balloons Card with Tina

Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina and today I am featuring the super fun Bright Balloons dies. This set is perfect for lots of occasions, and by keeping the sentiment festive but neutral it’s a versatile card! Although I am a little bit of a hoarder of pretty craft papers, I do have (as many of us!) a large pile of scraps too! These balloon dies are perfect for using up small colorful pieces.  

I love going through my paper pads mixing and matching patterns. All four balloon shapes were cut using scraps from Gingham Pastels, Dots & Stripes Pastels, and yes … even two Christmas pads (All Is Bright, Joyful Holiday)!

My goal is to keep cards relatively flat for mailing purposes. But today, I went all out with foam tape for lots of dimension in this circle tunnel design!

The card panel is a pretty blue paper from Dots & Stripes Pastels cut with the outside border Frilly Frames Stripes Die. I selected three circles from an infinity die set and used the largest one for this panel. I repeated this step with a smaller circle die and a white panel, finally I cut the third circle from a pink paper. Next, I dry embossed a white piece of Neenah paper with the Woodgrain Embossing Folder.

Of course I needed a cute critter to hold the big pile of balloons, I went with an adorable bear from Panda Party. All the coloring was done with Copic Markers. I stamped a combined sentiment from Happy Thoughts onto a small white banner with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Finally, I folded a white card base and adhered all my layering panels using foam tape where needed. I placed the sentiment on the bottom of the blue card panel and added my panda with the party hat. To assemble the balloon cluster, I used some Press ‘n Seal and temporary adhesive so I could easily adjust. I opted to just add one string to the balloons because ten was a bit much! A few Chrystal Clear Jewels were all the embellishment this card needed.

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

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Stripes Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodgrain Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bright Balloons Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Bright Balloons Cards with Catherine

Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Catherine here! Today, I am sharing a colorful birthday card created with Bright Balloons Dies.

To start, I ink blended A2 white cardstock with a stencil I created using the Bright Balloons Dies with Tumbled Glass, Dried Marigold, and Spun Sugar Distress Oxides. I ink blended the bottom of the panel with Spun Sugar Distress Oxide and added some splatters of pink watercolor.  I stamped the confetti and “balloon strings” using the confetti stamps from Bold Balloons Stamps. Using the Nesting Rectangle Infinity Dies, I die cut  a rectangle, 4 5/8” x 3 3/8” in the middle of the panel for an eclipse effect.

For the balloons, I die cut the balloons from alcohol ink backgrounds using the following colors:
Yellow/Orange: Altenew Orange Cream and Mango Smoothie
Pink: Altenew Cotton Candy
Yellow/Green: Altenew Mango Smoothie and Parrot
Blue: Marabou Carribean

I added some gold deco foil onto the background for added details. I adhered some gold string onto the balloons.

As I adore pandas, I added a panda from Panda Party Stamps and a party hat from Party Pups Stamps. I finished off the card with a stamped sentiment from the Party Pups Stamps and some Crystal Clear Fusion for extra sparkle!

Thank you so much for joining me today!  Have a wonderful week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Bold Balloons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pups Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pups Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bright Balloons Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio