Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Karin Akesdotter

Hi everyone! It's Karin Akesdotter here from Peppermintpatty's Papercraft. I'm so excited to share a new card that I've created with Sunny Studio Stamp's spring 2018 release!

I made a panel by layering striped and polka dot paper. I also added a lacy edged die cut using the Stitched Scallop dies. I die cut the Wishes Word die from white cardstock and adhered a few layers of that to create dimension.

I then stamped, colored and die cut the adorable ballerinas and some sweet roses before adhering them to the card with foam adhesive and adhesive tape. Finally I made a card base and adhered the panel to it with foam adhesive.

For this card I matted a white card base with green polka dot patterned paper and then die cut a panel from Neenah solar white cardstock. I stamped my cats and then masked them so I could ink the background. 

When I was done inking I spattered the background before I removed the masking. I used Copics for the coloring and then added some adhesive dots. I adhered the panel to the card using foam adhesive.

I made a panel from striped paper and adhered it to a scalloped black card base. I also added a lacy edge die cut with Stitched Scallop dies. I die cut the Wishes Word die from white cardstock and adhered a few layers of that to create dimension.

I then stamped, colored and fuzzy cut the adorable ballerina, two pairs of ballerina shoes and some sweet roses before adhering them to the card with foam adhesive and adhesive tape. Finally I made a card base and adhered the panel to it with foam adhesive.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wishes Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tiny Dancers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tiny Dancers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Purrfect Birthday Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Purrfect Birthday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Cascading Hearts Froggy Valentine Card with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here today using the new Cascading Hearts stamp set along with Froggy Friends, Sunny Sentiments, Comfy Creatures and the Stitched Scallop Dies to create a Valentine's Day card.

To begin, I used some Coral Berry ink from Altenew to stamp the Cascading Hearts stamp onto a piece of watercolour cardstock twice. This stamp is super easy to line up next to each other and combines nicely. Once I stamped it twice, I went ahead and cut a piece of masking tape into a hill shape, adhered down the positive piece at the bottom of the cardstock and blended some Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress Ink onto the background, going super light at the bottom as it reaches the hill. 

Next, I removed the mask, replaced it with the negative piece and blended some Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio ink onto the bottom half. Once all my ink blending was done, I used the Froggy Friends stamp set and stamped the water ripple stamp into the blue ink blended piece with some Volcano Lake ink from Altenew. Next, I stamped out all my images from Froggy Friends and Sunny Sentiments, adding in little hearts to the tummies of the frogs and eyelashes to the female frogs also and coloured them in with Copic Markers. Once they were coloured, I cut them out with their coordinating dies.

Next up, I added foam tape and adhesive to all my images and adhered them down in the water ripple. Then, I used the Comfy Creatures stamp set to stamp 'Happy' into the centre of the cloud, then used the 'Valentine's Day' sentiment from Froggy Friends underneath Happy to complete my sentiment. Then I popped it up on foam tape and adhered it above my scene cluster. Lastly, I adhered my entire panel onto a card base, then used the Stitched Scallop Dies and cut out two borders using white cardstock and adhered them on the top and bottom of my card to frame it off.

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

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Comfy Creatures Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Froggy Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Froggy Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Borders Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Sentiments Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sunny Sentiments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cascading Heart Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Christmas Chapel Elegant Merry Christmas Card with Lexa

Hi everyone! Lexa here today with another inspirational idea for Christmas cards. Today, I made a simple, yet elegant, card featuring Christmas Chapel stamp and it's coordinating dies.

When it comes to creating a clean and simple design, I always focus on the color combination and the layout first. Today I chose blue, navy and mint as my color muse. I created my own mask by die cutting a rounded edged rectangle on a piece of acetate. Then I blended some Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks in gradation. Once I was happy with the blending, I stamped the stars from the same stamp set with blue dye ink. The white dots are created with Nuvo Drops, as it adds such amazing dimensions to my card. 

I stamp my images with Versafine black ink and watercolor them with Distress Markers. I also stamp a snowy Christmas tree from Christmas Home stamp set to complete my scene. I also bent the "Merry Christmas" sentiment to follow the banner on top -this one of main reason why I love clear stamps! 

The border on the bottom part is to fill in an empty space, but I still want to keep it simple using the smaller Stitched Scallop Dies on navy cardstock against the mint polka dot patterned paper. 

I really hope you enjoy today's card. Thank you so much for stopping by today, I wish you an amazing day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Chapel Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Chapel Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Barnyard Buddies and Missing Ewe Shadow Box Card with Amy

Hello everyone! Amy here today with a shadow box card that uses the Barnyard Buddies and Missing Ewe stamp sets. These farm animal images are some of the sweetest and the cutest I've ever seen! It's a fun set for sure.

For today's card, I used extra images that I stamped and colored (with copics) from my previous projects. I didn't want it to go to waste, so I made a box card for them. Box cards are great for creating dimensional scenes, and they fold flat for easy shipping. 

I used the smaller Stitched Scallop dies to die-cut green patterned paper for the front of the card as shown. I made the hills inside the box with the wavy die from Oceans Of Joy using the same patterned paper. I stamped the sentiment with Versamark Ink, applied white embossing powder, and heat set it.

To finish, I adhered all the images to the box card. Thank you for stopping by the blog, and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Oceans of Joy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Missing Ewe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Missing Ewe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Missing Ewe Pastel Sheep Trio Thankful Card with Lexa

Hello everyone! Lexa here today with a pastel color card featuring the Missing Ewe stamps and their coordinating dies. These adorable fluffy sheep are new additions to Sunny Studio critter stamps.

I rarely use my patterned papers now days, but as you can guess, I've been hoarding a lot of it. So that's why today I tried to use them as much as possible. The sweet pastel colors are always a smart choice. I stamped all the images with Versafine black ink and watercolor them with Distress Markers. After I finished with coloring, I die cut them at once with the coordinating dies (truly a time saver!). 

I simply put them together to create a little scene. I created a green grass border using Stitched Scallop Dies on green striped patterned paper against the starry pink sky. These cute little sheep have their "pals" from another set, Easter Wishes. I used all three together in one scene. I finished my card with some yellow dots using yellow opaque Nuvo drops. 

Thank you so much for visitting today, I hope you like my card! Have a wonderful day to you and yours.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Easter Wishes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Easter Wishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Missing Ewe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Missing Ewe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Missing Ewe Starry Night Background Card with Amy

Hello there! Amy here today with a card that features the new and adorable Missing Ewe set. 

To begin, I stamped the images and colored them with Copic markers. Next, I cut them out with their coordinating dies. I added accents with white Gelly Roll pen.

I used a window frame to die-cut an opening in my front panel. Then, I used the "Miss" and "Ewe" word dies that are included in the Missing Ewe die set in order to cut out the front panel and removed the negative cuts. I used the word dies again to die-cut black cardstock. After adhering the front panel to a folded card base, I glued in the die-cut black sentiment as shown.

Next, I used the negative die-cut window and inked the background with Distress Inks in Black Soot, Chipped Sapphire and Salty Ocean. I also splattered some water, added white dots with a Gelly Roll pen, and glued on die-cut stars that I made using the star dies from Happy Owl-O-Ween dies. I added Wink Of Stella to the stars for shine. After, I adhered the negative window back into the open area in the card front.

For the scalloped ground, I cut another negative window with Stitched Scallop dies, and inked it with Lucky Clover and Twisted Citron Distress Inks. I also added texture to it by splattering it with water. Lastly, I adhered the scallop ground to the card front and mounted the sheep with foam tape. 

Thank you for stopping by the blog!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Happy Owl-o-ween Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Missing Ewe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Missing Ewe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Missing Ewe Baby Themed Sheep Cards with Eloise

Hi everyone! Eloise here and today I'm using the new Missing Ewe stamp set along with the previously released Baby Bear stamp set to create a baby themed card, in a girl and boy version.

To begin my card I first worked on my backgrounds. I pulled 3 Pinks and 1 Red Distress Ink for my girl themed background and 3 Blues and 1 Green Distress Ink for my boy themed card. I then inked two pieces with the Distress Ink completely in a gradient effect. Once they were both inked I splattered each with water droplets and dried them off with my heat tool.

I then stamped the sheep from Missing Ewe twice and coloured them with Copics and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I also stamped, cut and coloured the bow image from Baby Bear too. One in pink and one in blue.

I used the 'welcome little one' sentiment from Baby Bear and lined them up in my MISTI tool and stamped them down onto my background in black ink and clear heat embossed them so they didn't smudge. I then adhered down my sheep images on each card with foam tape.

To finish off I used the Stitched Scallop dies to cut two white scallop borders and adhered them to the side of each of my panels. I then added fun foam to the backs of both panels and adhered them to coordinating colours of cardstock and added them to card bases.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, these sheep images are perfect for so many uses, night time scenes, baby cards, farm scenes. So many uses, I love them!

I hope you enjoyed my cards today and got inspired.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Baby Bear Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Bear Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Missing Ewe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Missing Ewe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio