Berry Bliss & Slice of Summer Fruit Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some fruit-themed cards for Summer using our fabulous Berry Bliss Stamps and Slice of Summer Stamps.

First, I have a card using the layered citrus slice from our Slice of Summer Stamps, which I stamped to look like lemon, lime, grapefruit, and orange slices. I then die-cut a stitched circle using our Stitched Circle Small Dies, where I lightly drew 12 spokes on the back with my pencil and clear ruler like I was slicing a pizza or adding clock tick marks to give me a way to evenly space my fruit slices. Then, on the back of each slice, I drew a pencil through the center at the halfway mark to give me another point to line up each slice. I then arranged each slice, having them overlap the outside edge of my white cardstock circle by 1/2". I used liquid adhesive for this task to have a little wiggle room to adjust them before they dried as I quickly worked around the circle. As I was starting this project, I was nervous about my ability to make it look symmetrical. However, the easy measurement tricks I described worked, and I assembled this summer "wreath" rather quickly. 

I then used our Scalloped Square 1 Large Dies to die-cut the striped paper to match the fruit from our Summer Splash Paper pack. After it was die-cut, I carefully used my paper trimmer to trim off the four scalloped edges and leave a small border around the stitching. This gave me the perfect stitched square to layer over the same scalloped square cut from white cardstock for my card base. I cut a second white scalloped square to score along the top and to adhere to the backside of my card front to form my notecard. Lastly, I stamped the greeting from the Slice of Summer Stamps, substituting the word "slice" from our Hayley Uppercase Alphabet Dies and Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies.

My second card pairs the watermelon from the Slice of Summer Stamps with the strawberries, raspberries, and cherries from our Berry Bliss Stamps. I arranged them in and around our Layered Basket Stamps, wrapping twine around the basket and popping it up with foam tape to help it lie flat with the thickness of the twine. I stamped and heat-embossed the greeting "You're so sweet" from our Punny Fruit Greetings Stamps onto a small tag cut with our Sweet Treats Gift Bag Die, which I topped with a twine bow. I also stamped a subtle pink diagonal grid pattern using our Background Basics 2 Stamps with VersaFine Clair Baby Pink Ink to add some interest to my background.

I am frequently asked which ink colors I used for my layered images. Some of these images were previously stamped using now-retired Colorbox inks; however, I spent considerable time trying to find the closest matches to share them here with you (from lightest to darkest).

Strawberries 
Concord & 9th Honeysuckle
Gina K. Red Velvet
Concord & 9th Cranberry
Gina K. Lucky Clover
PinkFresh Evergreen

Raspberries
Gina K Medium Carnation
Gina K Dark Carnation
PinkFresh Candy Apple
Gina K Cherry Red

Cherries
Gina K Medium Carnation
Gina K Dark Carnation
Gina K Cherry Red

Watermelon
Gina K Medium Carnation
PinkFresh Candy Apple
Gina K Cherry Red
Altenew Limeade
VersaMark Verdant
Gina K Lucky Clover

Layered Basket 
Hero Arts Soft Sand
Gina K. Sandy Beach
Memories Sand
MFT Kraft

Yellow Lemon
PinkFresh Lemon Whip
Versafine Cheerful

Lime Slice
Altenew Limeade
VersaMark Verdant

Orange Slice
PinkFresh Apricot
Hero Arts Tangerine

Grapefruit Slice
C&9 Ballet Slipper
PinkFresh Coral Reef

or Gina K. Innocent Pink
& Lawn Fawn Bubblegum

That wraps up my projects for this morning. I hope I've inspired you in your own cardmaking and that you spread a little happiness by sending out a card to a loved one today.💛

Don't forget to check out our Slice of Summer Stamps and Layered Basket Stamps in our online shop, which are all currently on sale!

Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image so there are lots of ideas to scroll through there organized by set.

Supplies Used:

Berry Bliss Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Berry Bliss Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slice of Summer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slice of Summer Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Summer Splash 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sweet Treats Gift Bag Shop at: Sunny Studio	Layered Basket Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Layered Basket Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hayley Uppercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Punny Fruit Greetings Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Square 1 Large Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Background Basics 2 Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Clair Ink- Baby Pink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Rise & Shine Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Clair Ink- Verdant Shop at: Sunny Studio

Slice of Summer Card with Bobbi

Hello friends, Bobbi here. It’s another summer day and this week I’m filling it with some fresh fruit from the Sunny garden of stamps! I’m using the Slice of Summer stamps and dies to create this fresh card.

To create my 5″ X 7″ card, I started with a card front panel cut from watercolor paper. I use Canson XL watercolor paper (blue pad). I hand colored a large pinkish-red heart using Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor paints. I added splattering in colors to match the fruit of the set – yellows, lime greens, pinks and reds. I wanted the background to be really organic looking and fresh… just like the fruit!

I stamped and cut the fruit following the layering guide on the Sunny Studio Stamps web page. It was a great reference to have while stamping the fruit. Like all layered stamping I do, I can’t help but add a few additional markings using Copics for greater shadows and white Gelly Roll pens for more highlights. However, with this set you really don’t need to because Sunny Studios has already included highlights and shadows within the layers. How cool is that?!

The fruit was attached, over the organic heart shape with one of the watermelon slices popped up using foam dots. Did you notice the bite out of one of the watermelon slices? I created the teeth marks using a scallop circle punch I had stash.

Okay, I’m going to be real with you now. I made a mistake in the lower right corner when stamping the sentiment. My paper shifted in my stamping tool and did not line up exactly with the first layer. Like all mistakes I make, I generally turn it into something I like even better. I tore the watercolor paper at the bottom and added a piece of pattern paper in a lime green sunburst pattern from the Classic Sunburst paper pack to the base and ended up loving the card even more! I stamped the phrase from the same fruit set again and added some white dots for a burst of energy to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by today. If you want to see more ideas and inspiration from me, subscribe to my blog, BobbiHartDesign.com. I’ll send you updates on new posts! You can also find me on Instagram as @BobbiHartDesign and on Facebook as BobbiHartDesign.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Slice of Summer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Slice of Summer Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Classic Sunburst Paper 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! 

Perfect Popsicles card set by Heather Conklin

Perfect Popsicles shaker card by Kim Lackenbach

Panda Party Graduation Card by Jenn L.

Sealiously Sweet tags by Maria

Sealiously Sweet card by Josi

Birthday Mouse and Frilly Frames Herringbone card by Danielle Dunlop

Special Day, Birthday Mouse, Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones, and Striped Silly card by Sheyla Corredig

Clucky Chickens shaker card by Janelle

Passionate Penguins card by Creative Bloom

Tool Time card by Tara Nixon Cox

Slice of Summer card by Марина Косорукова

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:

Perfect Popsicles Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Perfect Popsicles Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Striped Silly 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slice of Summer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slice of Summer Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tool Time Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tool Time Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Herringbone Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Clucky Chickens Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Clucky Chickens Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Mouse Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Mouse Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Special Day Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Special Day Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio