Vintage Valentine Card with Janneke

Hello crafty friends, Janneke here. Today I’m sharing this tropical Valentine card featuring the new Vintage Valentine stamp set.  

For the background, I ink blended a bright green ground and a blue sky to set the scene. Next, I stamped the typewriter and a few envelopes with little notes from the Vintage Valentine stamp set and added the sentiments on it.  

I wanted to give the card a fun tropical twist, so I created a playful scene using the cute sloths from the Silly Sloths stamp set. To bring in lots of lush greenery, I added plants and leaves from the Tropical Scenes and Fabulous Flamingos stamp sets. 

As a finishing touch, I included the colorful parrots from the Tiki Time stamp set and added some highlights with a white gel pen. I love how all these elements come together to create a cheerful tropical Valentine card.

Card done, ready to send joy! Thanks for joining me, and see you next week.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

 

Tiki Time Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tiki Time Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Vintage Valentine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Vintage Valentine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Love Monkey Valentine's Day Cards with Mendi

Hello there! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. This is Mendi popping in to share some love-themed cards for Valentine's Day featuring our beloved Love Monkey Stamps.

For my first card showcasing the Love Monkey Stamps, I created a 3.5" wide x 7" high mini slimline with a polka-dot background stamped using the Background Basics 2 Stamps. For the stitched mat to frame my scene, I elongated one of the rectangles from the Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies by hanging part of the die off my cutting plate and running it through my die-cutting machine a second time. 

I added two tree branches to the top of my scene with three of the monkeys. Originally, the hanging monkey was designed to hang from a vine, but I altered him and cut off the vine so I could wrap his tail around the tree branch instead. I also added the bouquet of flowers to his hands to cover the envelope, as if he were trying to steal the girl monkey's heart. Along the bottom half of my card, I added the Scalloped Fence Die, a bit of grass using the Mini Grass Border Dies, and two little birds perched on the fence from the Little Birdie Stamps.

For my second card using the Love Monkey Stamps, I created a jungle scene. I started by inking my white cardstock panel with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress ink. I then stamped two of the leaves from the Elegant Leaves Stamps around the outside edges using PinkFresh Studio Grassy Knoll Ink. I layered the vines and tree branch to the top of my card with an image from the Tropical Scenes Stamps, and then tucked the same monkey hanging from a vine to blend with the other vines. This time, I trimmed off the envelope and put a banana in his hands to go with the sentiment I stamped. I added a toucan from the Savanna Safari Stamps and a tree branch from the Love Birds Stamps along the bottom of my card for my girl monkey to sit on with her bananas. Lastly, I added the punny greeting from the Love Monkey Stamps, substituting the words "for you" with the script word die cuts from the Gift Card Pocket Dies.

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love. 💛

Don't forget to check out the Love Monkey Stamps and Love Monkey Dies in our online shop, which are 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, organized by set.

Supplies Used:  

Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gift Card Pocket Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Fence Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Savanna Safari Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Birds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Elegant Leaves Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Background Basics 2 Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Grass Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Over The Hills Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Holy Night Nativity Christmas Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi popping in to share some nativity Christmas cards featuring our Holy Night Stamps.

My first card showcasing the Holy Night Stamps utilizes as many images from the set as I could squeeze onto my A2-sized card panel. Before adhering any images, however, I started by inking the center of my card panel with Mustard Seed Distress Ink. I then hand-cut a curved mask, taking turns using both halves. For the ground, I inked the bottom of the card with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Inks. For the sky, I added Mermaid Lagoon around the glowing yellow center and then layered on Prize Ribbon and Chipped Sapphire Distress ink around the outer edges. To add additional layers to the nativity scene, I incorporated the palm trees from the Sending Sunshine Stamps and the Tropical Scenes Stamps. I then heat-embossed the glimmering star above the baby Jesus and the sentiment from the Holy Night set, before adding white dots for stars to the sky with a gel pen.

For my second card, I used that same curved mask I had fussy cut with my scissors for the first card to ink the light ray layers for the shining Star of Bethlehem. I first started by inking the center of my card panel with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I then took turns inking the two outer corners with Chipped Sapphire and re-adjusted the mask to rotate down on each corner before inking each side again with Salty Ocean. Finally, I removed all the masks and inked from the outside edges of the panel with Mermaid Lagoon, fading towards the center to leave it lightest with the Tumbled Glass ink peeking through. When I was done, I thoroughly dried the cardstock panel with my heat gun and used anti-static powder to prepare the surface for embossing the stars.

Next, I cut a curved stitched hill using the Slimline Nature Border Dies and blended Antique Linen with Vintage Photo along the bottom corners, which would be darker and further from the light. Once I had the stable, Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus roughly laid in place from the Holy Night Stamps, I took turns stamping the stars from the Baby Elephants Stamps and heat-embossing with White Detail Embossing Powder and Wow! Opaque Pastel Blue embossing powder. I then added the smallest two twinkly star images from the Holy Night set and filled in with some white dots, which were added with a gel pen. Lastly, I heat-embossed a sentiment in white from the Inside Greetings Christmas Stamps.

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love. 💛

Supplies Used: 

Holy Night Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holy Night Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings-Christmas Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio