Puppy Parents Card with Catherine

Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Catherine here! Father’s Day is just around the corner and I am sharing a card dedicated to all Dads created with Puppy Parents!

To start, I ink blended A2 white cardstock with a stencil created with Frilly Frames Stripes Dies using Salty Ocean Distress Oxide. I splatted some blue watercolor onto the panel for added interest.

Next, I die cut three 1 ¾” squares. I ink blended the squares with the following distress oxides: Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass and Dried Marigold, Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass, and Spun Sugar, and Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass, and Twisted Citron.

I adhered square frames from Fancy Frames Square Dies on top of each square. I stamped the cute doggies from Puppy Parents Stamps and die cut with the coordinating dies Puppy Parents Dies. I added hearts from Passionate Penguin Stamps. I colored the images with Copic Markers listed in my blog link below.

I adhered a white frame onto the back panel and glued all the images on top. I finished off the card with a White Heat Embossed sentiment from Puppy Parents Stamps and the word “dad” die cut from Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies with black cardstock.

Thank you so much for joining me today! For a list of Copic markers used, please visit me at Crafti-Cat. Have a wonderful week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puppy Parents Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puppy Parents Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Stripes Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Introducing New Puppy Love Stamps 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 Puppy Love that is perfect for Valentine's Day, however as my cards will illustrate this set is not limited to only a single occasion. Let's jump right in, shall we?

Card No.1: This mini set comes with two heart toting dogs with 4 mini hearts and one punny "You're Pawsome!" greeting. For my first card I paired the Puppy Love dogs with the doghouse, food bowl and bone from our Puppy Parents Stamps and the greeting from our Meow & Furever Stamps. To start I created my own handmade pattered paper by repeatedly stamping the bone onto a piece of kraft paper, drawing faint pencil lines on the diagonal with a clear grid ruler that I could erase away when I was done. 

I then trimmed the bottom of my panel and added a stitched edge using the die from our Slimline Basic Border Dies set. To frame my pups I cut a scalloped circle from red cardstock using the Scalloped Circle Mat 2 Dies and Stitched Circle Large Dies. Finally I cut a straight scalloped edge to match to adhere along the bottom using those Slimline Basic Border Dies. 

Card No.2: Next up is a grid style card alternating the dogs from the new Puppy Love Stamps with the cats from our Meow & Furever Stamps. To form my square card base, I layered a piece of red cardstock with a white stitched panel cut using our Stitched Rectangle Dies. To elongate the rectangle die into a square shape, I had part of my die fall off the cutting plate to not cut all the way through on that one side and then ran it through a second time doing the same thing on the opposite side.

To make my card feel cohesive, I chose to keep a very simple color palette by coloring all my images in tan, brown, pink and red tones using my Copic Markers.  To fill the ninth space in my square grid, I added a red Scalloped Heart die-cut to the top right corner which I heat embossed with the punny sentiment from the Puppy Love Stamps.

Card Set No. 3: Next up is a set of two dog sympathy cards using the new Puppy Love Stamps, together with the sentiments from our Pet Sympathy Stamps. To start I inked up two 4.25 x 5.5 inch white cardstock panels with Picked Raspberry distress ink. I then randomly stamped the four mini hearts from the puppy love set to once again create my own handmade patterned paper that perfectly compliments the dogs and other hearts which I also colored with Copic Markers.

Version 1: For this card I cut a scalloped frame for my simple scene using our Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies. To form the grass and sky behind my dog I cut the grass border from our Picket Fence Dies from a piece of masking material, keeping both the positive and negative portions. This allowed me to use one side to the ink the grass and then the other side to ink my sky using distress inks. I was carefully to only ink near the middle so that it would fade out to white along the edges of my scalloped mat.

Version 2: For this card I alternately cut a scalloped frame using our Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies. For both cards I added sweet sentiments from our Pet Sympathy Stamps which come with greetings for both cats and dogs (and other furry critters) using Versafine Onyx Black Ink.

Here's a closer look at the new Puppy Love Stamps and Puppy Love 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 9th and available to purchase on January 13th. 

 

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:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Pet Sympathy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puppy Parents Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puppy Parents Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio
Meow & Furever Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Meow & Furever Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scalloped Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio
Pet Sympathy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Introducing Dashing Dachshund + Blick Studio Brush Markers Review

Hello & welcome!  I'm excited to be kicking off Black Friday week with several card ideas featuring our new little Dashing Dachshund Stamps and Dies which you can receive as a free gift with a $45+ purchase starting today through November 28, 2022.

Card No. 1: This 2x3 mini stamp set comes packed with a leaping dachshund pup, a dog sweater, two hat options, a pair of reindeer antlers, and a punny sentiment. For this card I stacked three of the dogs, alternating the lines of the sentiment between them. For my card base, I added colorful scalloped patterned paper to either side of my portrait-style card from our Joyful Holiday Paper pack. I then added stitching on my white cardstock panel and the scalloped edge along the bottom of my card I used our Slimline Basic Border Dies, cut from our Classic Gingham Paper. All my dogs and their sweaters were colored to match the patterned paper using the Blick Studio Brush Markers.

Card No. 2: Next up is a card that shows these cuties dashing through the snow. I used the Blick Studio Brush Markers to ink my sky, color the dogs with their accessories and to add a blue glow to the snow. I curved my greeting from the stamp set on a piece of acetate in my MISTI tool so that it would follow the curve of my hand-cut snow hill and stamped it using VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad.

I then mounted my scene on the colorful hexagon patterned print from our Holiday Cheer Paper pack and added some snowflakes cut from our Classic Gingham Paper using our Snowflake Circle Frame Dies which I topped with our Red Zircon Jewels, Peridot Green Jewels and Blue Topaz Jewels. 

I created a 2-minute sped-up reel for instagram of my coloring using these markers for this card. However, if you would like to see how I made this card at a less frantic pace, I have also uploaded the 5-minute version that you can watch on our YouTube channel HERE.

Card No. 3: For my last card I paired the Dashing Dachshund with the doghouse and other dogs from our Puppy Parents Stamps, with the butterflies from our Spring Showers Stamps and our Picket Fence Dies. For my background I inked up my sky with Salty Ocean Distress ink, flicked on some water and then die-cut the stitched clouds using our Fluffy Cloud Dies. I completed my card by adding the greeting stacking a few of our Hello Word Die. For my grass I flicked on blades of grass using the Blick Studio Brush Markers.

As noted for all my images today, I colored them using Blick Studio Brush Markers. To provide a little backstory, my mom received a small set of these markers as a Christmas gift last year. I was immediately intrigued by their high-end quality and their amazing price point. Testing out her set I realized she had a number of colors I didn't have in my stash and after that I really wanted to know what other colors they made that I might not have. It became a bit of an obsessive thought that I couldn't shake. Months later I still was thinking about them, searching google every couple weeks to see if a color chart had been posted that that would give me the information I so desperately wanted. When nothing ever materialized I finally reached out to Blick Art Materials to see if they would be willing to collaborate with Sunny Studio and I'm so happy they took me up on my offer! I'm really hoping this information will help others who have also been searching for more information about these awesome markers.

The Blick Studio Brush Markers measure 5-11/16" in length, have high quality replaceable flexible brush and chisel tip nibs, and are also refillable. At this moment, there are only refills for the original 96 colors, but I'm praying they will add them for the full 144 pen line-up in the future.

If you purchase their complete 144-Marker Set, the pens come in a premium storage box with magnetic closure lid and full color chart for reference. It's quite impressive and nice to work with. Even better this set makes each individual marker a pretty unbeatable price point!

I have created a swatch chart to fit all 144 colors in the order that they come brand new in the box (download and/or print a blank chart HERE). You can click on my image to view it larger.

I also created a second chart rearranging them into rainbow order, grouping them by color blend families. However, there were a few colors that I couldn't get to fit in with their preferred rows (hello Magenta) so I had to do my best to plug them in their next best option. You can download and/or print the blank version of this chart HERE.

The black dots on my chart indicate colors that are unique to this line of alcohol markers. I was delighted to discover that many of them don't overlap and they fill so many color gaps I've been dying to have filled! I'm particularly tickled by many of the pinks, yellows, greens, purples and periwinkles. I'm also very excited for the Lt. Cerulean Blue which is a shade lighter than B21 and has been high on my wish list.

I love that Dick Blick also offers mix-and-match quantity discounts on their open stock markers so you can take advantage of a cheaper everyday price, even when buying different individual colors you may need. They also have some pretty sweet deals on their 6-pen sets!

Other Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hello Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Holiday Cheer 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puppy Parents Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puppy Parents Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Snowflake Circle Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Red Zircon Jewels Shop at: Sunny Studio	Peridot Green Jewels Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Blue Topaz Jewels Shop at: Sunny Studio