Hi there! I hope you all are enjoying a fun and relaxing holiday week. This week our team is transitioning from Christmas to Spring, featuring two new dies perfect for Valentine's Day and so many other everyday occasions. These two dies are available to purchase starting today, with our full Spring Sneak Peek Week kicking off on January 6th (and a January 10th release date for the remainder of the items).
Card No 1: Up first is a sweet Valentine's Day card using our new Window Trio Heart Portrait Dies, which I ran through my die-cutting machine twice to create a vertical grid-style card with the two rows of hearts. I added the adorable pandas from our Bighearted Bears Stamps to fill each window, which I colored with Copic Markers. I completed my card by stamping a punny sentiment from the set onto our Brilliant Banner 1 Dies, which I colored a bit with Copics on the bottom layer to give it more dimension. I should note that I stamped a polka-dot print using new Background Stamps, which I won't officially share until next week's Spring Sneak Peek Week.
Card No. 2: Next up is a sweet card featuring the new Window Trio Heart Landscape Dies. I used each heart opening to frame the sweet birdies and tree branches from our Love Birds Stamps. For my sentiment, I stamped a greeting from our My Heart Stamps. This was such a simple card to create, but I love the sweet simplicity of how it came together with the color scheme.
Card No. 3: For my next card with the Window Trio Heart Portrait Dies, I die-cut them from a piece of hot pink striped paper from our Striped Silly Paper pack and then cut an extra strip of pink dots from our Polka-dot Parade Paper pack, using the die again along the bottom to overlap the trio of hearts running down the right side of my card. I made sure to use a polka-dot strip of paper that was a bit oversized to give me the wiggle room I needed to line it up just right with the other hearts and the extra room to cut off any excess. I then colored the polar bear from our Holiday Hugs Stamps and stamped and colored four of the scalloped hearts from the set, using one for my bear to hold and the other three to layer inside the stitched heart windows. Lastly, I stamped the words "Be Mine" in the center of the bottom heart using the sentiment from our Love Birds Stamps with Versafine Onyx Black Ink.
Card No. 4: Next up is a card using both our Window Trio Heart Portrait Dies and Window Trio Heart Landscape Dies. I used the landscaped heart border to cut a row of hearts from my vertical card, allowing the hearts on either side to bleed off the edge. I then cut the bottom of my panel with a dotted scalloped heart edge using our Heartstrings Border Dies. Before mounting the panel to my card base, I added a strip of hot pink striped paper from our Sleek Stripes Paper pack along the bottom of my card and then filled the openings behind my two hearts on either side with a diagonal grid print from our Classic Gingham Paper pack. For my card's focal point, I assembled the chocolate bonbons from our Window Trio Heart Portrait dies, cutting the wrappers from shiny metallic silver cardstock. I then framed a trio of chocolates with the medium-sized hearts from our Stitched Heart 2 Dies and Scalloped Heart Dies. Lastly, I heat-embedded the sentiment "You're so Sweet" using our Candy Shoppe Stamps with sterling silver embossed powder.
Card No. 5: Continuing with the chocolate theme, I made another card using the bonbon dies from our new Window Trio Heart Portrait Dies, cutting the wrappers from shiny gold metallic cardstock. I turned to a soft pink cardstock in two complimentary shades and die-cut 8 small squares using our Stitched Square Dies to form a grid pattern, centering chocolate in each square. I mounted them onto a scalloped rectangle mat, which had been cut using our Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace Dies, and mounted that onto a pink panel background, which had been impressed with our Dotted Diamond Landscape Dies. Lastly, I heated embossed my greeting using a sentiment from our Candy Shoppe Stamps and Princess Gold Embossing Powder.
Card No. 6: By this point in my cardmaking, I had quite a few white stitched hearts left from cutting all my Window Trio Heart Portrait Dies and Window Trio Heart Landscape Dies from white cardstock panels. It's a nice bonus that nothing needs to go to waste, and these leftover stitched hearts can then be turned around and used on other cards. I inked them up using Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron/Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, and Wilted Violet distress inks before spritzing them with water and splattering them with watered-down picket fence spray stain.
I arranged the hearts onto an A2-sized white cardstock panel, but my sentiment felt like it was competing too much for attention with the brightly background so I then cut an oversized piece of vellum, which I folded around to the back of the panel and stitched in place with my sewing machine so I didn't need to use any adhesive that would show through. I then added a greeting from our Lovey Dovey Stamps which I stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink and heat-embossed with Hero Arts Ultra Fine Clear Embossing Powder. Lastly, I added five tiny hot pink hearts around my greeting (stacking some of them to look like they had been popped up with foam tape or were made of chipboard) using the small heart dies from our Basic Mini Shape Dies 2 set.
I have so many more ideas swirling in my head for these dies that I hope to use with our other new spring products in the coming week. This includes more ideas for the landscape dies, which didn't get enough love in today's post. Please also check back each day this week to see more cute ideas by the rest of the team using these fun dies.
Here's a closer look at the new Window Trio Heart Portrait Dies and Window Trio Heart Landscape Dies which are now available in our store! The rest of our Spring Release will be shared with our Sneak Peek Week starting on January 6th and available to purchase on January 10th.
Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:
 Candy Shoppe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Candy Shoppe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio |
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 Striped Silly 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Polka-dot Parade 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Basic Mini Shape Dies 2 Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio | |
 Heartstrings Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Sleek Stripes Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Lovey Dovey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Lovey Dovey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio | |
 Scalloped Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Brilliant Banner 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio | |
 Holiday Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Holiday Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Love Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Love Birds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio | |
 Bighearted Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Bighearted Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 My Heart Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 My Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio | |
 Stitched Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Hero Arts Ultra Fine Clear Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 Princess Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: Sunny Studio |
 VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at:Sunny Studio | |
 Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio |
