Rain Showers Pet Sympathy Card with Nancy

Hey there Sunny fans, Nancy here today with a look at the Rain Showers background stamp. I love this compact design with it's intricate rain drops and whimsical feel. Let's take a look at how to make an interesting background pop.

To create this card, begin with a white card base and use the Fancy Frames Circles dies to cut a window in the center. I left the two medium sized steel dies in the center to create this nested design. Next, use pigment ink in light blue and the Rain Showers stamp to cover the front of the card. As you proceed to the bottom of the card use lighter and lighter shades of blue ink to create an ombre effect. This makes it look like the rain is literally fading away at the bottom. 

Stamp the tree branch and flowers from the A Bird's Life stamp set, the kitty from the Purrfect Birthday set and color with Copic markers. Place light blue cardstock in the middle of the die cut opening and layer the stamped icons to create a scene. Lastly, use black Versafine ink to stamp the sentiment from the Pet Sympathy stamp set.

And there you go - an ombre rain shower design that pops and adds interest to a white background. Take a look at the Rain Showers stamp for your next card!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

A Bird's Life Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Bird's Life Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pet Sympathy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rain Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Purrfect Birthday Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Purrfect Birthday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Rain Showers Framed Cattitude Card with Franci

Hi there and happy Wednesday! Franci here with you today with two little cards featuring the new Rain Showers mini stamp set.

First, I stamped the Rain Showers stamp twice with Distress Oxide inks to create an ombrè effect, and also added some orange in one of the two. Then I stamped my little cats, from the Purrfect Birthday set, and their accessories with Memento black ink, colored them with Copics, and die cut them with their coordinating dies.

I die cut two of the new Fancy Frame Squares out of a piece of light grey cardstock and also some of the little hearts with the little die that's free with every order out of some white cardstock. Then I colored the little hearts in pink. I die cut a stitched rectangle twice out of some white cardstock and created two light grey colored coordinated card bases.

I glued my stamped rain showers behind the frames to create a window effect and assembled all the cards. I glued down those little cats and all the decorations and added some Wink of Stella here and there to make my scenes sparkle!!

Hope you like my cards and thank you so much for stopping by! Have a lovely day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Rain Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Purrfect Birthday Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Purrfect Birthday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Rain Showers Valentine's Day Themed Card with Lexa

Hello everyone! Lexa here today with a Valentines card highlighting the brand new Rain Showers Stamps together with the older set, Rain or Shine Stamps. I personally love rainy days when the weather is a little bit damp and chilly, it's nice to stay at home on days like these. 

Speaking of Valentine's Day cards, I think it's okay to use colors other than pinks or reds. For examples, blue and purple like I did. First, I heat embossed the Rain Shower Stamps with clear embossing powder. After that, I blended some Distress Inks (Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves, Tumbled Glass) in gradation from the darkest to the lightest. And the resist gives a really cool effect on my background. Don't you think so?

I stamped the other images with Versafine black ink and watercolored them with Distress Markers. The yellow raincoat makes a great contrast with the rest of the card. I especially love the rainbow colors umbrella, super cute! Last step is to adhere it on top of purple polka dot patterned paper. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you like today's card. Have a wonderful day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Rain or Shine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Rain or Shine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Rain Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Rain Showers Rain Or Shine Card with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I'l be using the new Rain Showers 2x3" stamp set along with the older stamp set Rain or Shine to create a cute love themed card.

To begin, I stamped the Rain Showers repeatedly onto a piece of watercolour cardstock and white heat embossed them. I then used some Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to ink blend over the entire background, fading down to a really light blue. I then pulled the Rain or Shine stamp set out, stamped out the puddle, dog, umbrella and clouds images; coloured them in with Copic Markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Next, I used some hexagon dies from my stash - this part was optional, but I really wanted to add a little extra to my background. I arranged them on my background, the cut them out using my die cutting machine. I cut out five of them in a random pattern, just to give extra dimension to my background.

Once everything was die cut, I stamped the 'I Love You Rain or Shine' sentiment from Rain or Shine with some black ink onto the top smallest hexagon, then added foam tape behind all the hexagons and the dog and umbrella image. I then adhered my die cut background flat down onto my card base, then adhered in all the hexagons. I then adhered my dog and umbrella over top and adhered the puddle underneath his feet and then clouds above also. To finish off my card I adhered a strip of black and white striped paper to the right hand side.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I'll catch you all next time.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Rain or Shine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Rain or Shine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Rain Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Inspiration Week: Introducing Team Player & Rain Showers Stamps

Today's the big day!  Yay!  But before you rush off to shop, we have one last set of sneak peeks, a special discount code and another giveaway...  Today I'm showcasing our new Team Player Stamps & Dies and a fun little 2x3 background stamp set called Rain Showers.

Card No. 1: For my first card I wanted to showcase all the different sports and balls from the set.  The baseball can double as a tennis ball depending on how you color it and whether you chose to include the separate stitching.  I kept everything really simple with some light inking on my background using tumbled glass distress ink, followed by a handful of stars from the set.  The black and white striped patterned paper felt like the perfect finishing touch.  :)

This set comes with 9 unique sentiments and has been designed for ultimate flexibility.  I wanted it to work for thank you cards for coaches, cards to encourage your favorite athletes, father's day cards and even birthday cards for the sports enthusiast.  I have kept the two little faces separate so you can chose whether you want to add the personality to your projects or keep them more plain.

Card No. 2:  Up next is a birthday card for the baseball lover in your life.  I inked up my background with Colorbox Sky Dye Ink after masking it off using dies from our Rain or Shine and Sunny Sentiments sets. I love that by having the baseball stitches separate that you can not only expand the versatility of the ball, but that you can also stamp the stitches in red for a extra touch of realism. I couldn't resist the urge of adding a "manly" scalloped edge with the baseballs.  ;)

Card No. 3:  For my next card I used that same birthday sentiment, this time switching out the words "home run" for "slam dunk".  To create the look of the basketball bouncing, I used the stamp from our Froggy Friends stamps.  For the bottom half of my card I stamped the largest star using VersaMark ink which I heat embossed with white embossing powder.  I then stamp the smaller star in orange to fill in the space around them.  I like the subtle pattern and how it matches the orange of my basketball.

Card No. 4:  Up next is a grid style card that I thought would make a great Father's Day card pairing the ribbon with the football images and a sentiment borrowed from our Stars & Stripes stamps.  The award ribbon and trophy have both been designed so you can stamp the smaller companion words on them so that you can interchange what they say.

Card No. 5:  Up next is a card that is perfect for a coach.  I think you could easily switch out the ball to make this design work for football or baseball.  I cut the grass using the border from our Sunny Sentiments stamps and then added texture by flicking on large strokes of color using my Copic markers.  To create my sentiment I paired some of the words from this set with the word "thank you" from our Autumn Splendor stamps.

The rainy background uses our new 2x3 Rain Showers background stamps which I stamped using a pale blue pigment ink and then heat embossed with Stampendous Kaleidoscope  embossing powder for a glittery shimmer.  When I was done, I used my Fiskars SureCut paper trimmer to cut a square from the center of my panel, which I framed using our Fancy Frame square dies.  I then popped up the entire piece with a piece of craft foam which gives the scene a fun sense of dimension in person.

Card No. 6: For my next card showcasing our new Rain Showers stamps, I wanted to give the look that the umbrella is stopping the rain beneath it, so I masked off a portion of my card panel which was the same width as the umbrella and then repeatedly stamped my raindrops in VersaMark ink which was then heat embossed with powder blue pearl embossing powder.  It creates such a fun shine in person!

To embellish my card I stamped the clouds from Sunny Sentiments and Rain or Shine using Colorbox Mermaid Dye Ink and then stamped the dog from Rain or Shine in a pale tan ink before trying my hand at "no line" coloring with my Copic Markers.  At the advice of Kristina Werner, I stamped an extra dog to have on the side to refer to and then started by coloring in reverse so to speak.  I first colored my shadows and then filled in my image with the lighter colors so I still had a bit of an outline to keep things straight.  I really enjoyed it and I love the results so I'm hoping to try it again soon.  As I final finishing touch, I used a Sharpie White Paint Marker to add shine to the dog's eyes, nose and boots, as well as a polka-dot pattern for my umbrella.

Card No. 7: For my last card of the day I wanted to try a third look for the Rain Shower background stamps so I started by blending distress inks for my background and then when it was completely dry, I heat embossed the raindrop using VersaMark ink with white embossing powder.  I embellished my card with another no line image using that same umbrella from the Rain or Shine set and a sentiment from Color Me Happy.  As a final finishing touch I inked up scraps of cardstock in those same distress ink colors and die-cut small hearts from them using one of the smaller hearts from our Stitched Hearts dies to form my little border.

I'm so happy you've joined me this week for all the sneak peeks and I'd love to give one last $25 gift code to a lucky winner.  If you're just joining us, there's still time to enter the giveaways from earlier in the week.  The contests run through Saturday at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, January 14th. :)

a Rafflecopter giveawayWe also have a special discount code for you! Use the code SPRINGTIME to save 15% off your entire purchase. Hurry!  The sale ends on Monday, September 15th at 11:59 pm PST. (Sorry... This discount is limited to retail orders only).

Here's a full look at the new 4x6 Team Player Stamps & Dies and the Rain Showers 2x3 Background Stamps featured today.

      

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Basic Mini Shape Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Color Me Happy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rain or Shine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rain or Shine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Sentiments Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Stars & Stripes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sunny Sentiments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio

Memento Tuxedo Black Marker Shop at: Sunny Studio

Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio

Autumn Splendor Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Froggy Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio