Sneak Peek: Introducing Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies

Hello and welcome to day 2 of our Holiday Sneak Peek Week!  Each morning in the coming week I will be showcasing projects using our newest fall & winter collections which will be available to purchase on August 25th.

Today I'm showcasing our new Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies which includes an adorable vintage pick-up truck, truckloads for different holidays, occasions, and seasons, as well as a number of cute punny sentiments. The set also includes four new mini critter drivers. These are the same critters found in our Fall Friends Stamps, but shrunken down in size to mix and match with the critters from our Balloon Rides Stamps.

Card No. 1: My first card features a fall scene with a load of leaves in the back of an aqua colored pick-up truck using the Truckloads of Love Stamps. I started by blending my autumn sunset background using Wild Honey, Picked Raspberry, & Seedless Preserves Distress Inks. I then arranged three trees behind my truck using our Woodsy Autumn Stamps, layering a stitched hillside over the top cut from dark brown cardstock using our Slimline Nature Border Dies.

When I inked up my sky, I ended up trimming off some of the purple along the top of my cardstock panel so I could see more of the yellow peeking out near the horizon line of my scene so I was able to repurpose that portion by cutting out a stitched strip using the smallest pennant die from our Slimline Pennant Dies to help ground my sentiment. For my greeting, I inked up some white cardstock with Wild Honey ink, cut out a pennant strip using our Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies and heat embossed the phrase "Leaves are falling, Autumn is calling" from our Happy Harvest Stamps. Lastly, I layered the stitched strip with a pile of leaves and rake in the bottom right corner from our Fall Scenes Stamps. The leaves from this set are a larger scale so I thought they matched nicely with the other leaf piles and give the appearance they are in the foreground. 

Card No. 2: Up next is another fall card, this time focusing on the load of pumpkins from our Truckloads of Love Stamps. For this card, I started by inking a white cardstock panel with Seedless Preserves and Wilted Violet Distress Inks which I then splattered with water to create a speckled look which I thought gave the appearance of a starry sky right before the sun has fully gone down for the evening. With this in mind, I colored my tree border from our Country Scenes Stamps with slightly darker moody fall tones using my Copic markers. 

My dad had an old mint green pick-up truck like this when I was a kid so that was my inspiration when I colored this one, adding a little raccoon as my driver. For my sentiment, I paired the "greetings" word die from our Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies with the word "Autumn" which I spelled out using our Hayley Uppercase Alphabet and Hayley Lowercase Alphabet dies. I didn't realize how closely these matched until I created this card so that was an extra happy surprise!

Card No. 3: I couldn't resist creating one last fall card with our new Truckloads of Love Stamps, focusing on a fall harvest scene using the wood crates, tomatoes and apples from the set. For the barn & windmill in my background, I stamped the border from our Farm Fresh Stamps, added a chicken and some chicks to the foreground using our Clucky Chickens Stamps, and small tufts of grass using our Harvest Mice Stamps. Lastly, I stamped the "happy autumn" greeting in the empty portion of my sky in the top right using our Crisp Autumn Stamps.



Card No. 4: I took inspiration from the Barbie movie for my next card, creating a bright and happy birthday card, coloring the truck from Truckloads of Love a hot pink color, filling it with a stack of colorful gifts from the set, and adding a bunny driver from our Balloon Rides Stamps. For the background, I inked my sky with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and added the stitched clouds using our Fluffy Clouds Dies. I then layered it with a strip of neighborhood homes from our Scenic Route Stamps, keeping them a monochromatic grey to prevent them from competing with my focal point images. Lastly, I heat-embossed a birthday greeting from the set and added the white dotted line to my street with the border.

Card No. 5: Switching gears, I have a Christmas card using the Truckloads of Love Stamps with the tree & gifts and a husky dog as the driver. I paired them with the houses and trees border from our Winter Scenes Stamps, coloring the trees to match. I like to create a little story in my head when creating cards and I like the idea of them just coming back from cutting down one of these very trees. I inked up my sky to look like the glow of the sun setting with Tumbled Glass blending to Spun Sugar Distress inks and then added dots of Stickles Glitter to my sky to give the look of snow falling. I had been feeling like my card was missing something and I really love the touch of sparkle and extra texture it gives my card in person!

Card No. 6: Progressing through the holidays and seasons, next up I have a Truckloads of Love card perfect for Valentine's Day or pretty much any day you want to let someone know you love them. I started by adding a 5.5" wide x 1" high strip of striped aqua paper from our Sleek Stripes Paper pack to the bottom of my card base. I then cut the row of heart cutouts using our Heartstrings Border Dies, backed them with pink cardstock, and added the stitching and ric rac edge with our Slimline Basic Border dies. I added a little panda bear for my driver from our Balloon Rides Stamps and added a pink speech bubble for my heat-embossed sentiment from our Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies.

Card No. 7: It's a bit out of season at the moment, but I couldn't resist rounding out the holidays with a patriotic parade card adding the flag, bunting, and trailing stars to my red pick-up truck from Truckloads of Love with the dog from our Balloon Rides Stamps. To set the scene from my little hometown parade, I stamped a row of buildings from our City Streets Stamps, stamping them in tan ink onto kraft Paper for a subtle tone-on-tone look. For my greeting, I heat embossed my "Happy Fourth of July" from our Happy Thoughts Stamps onto a piece of blue grid paper from our Classic Gingham Paper pack and then die-cut it using the pennant from our Notebook Photo Corners Dies. Lastly, I added a strip of blue star print paper from our Surprise Party Paper pack.

That wraps up today's sneak peeks. I'm so happy you spent part of your day with me today. I read all your comments and they mean so much!  I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. 

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Here's a closer look at our new Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies used today (which will be available to purchase starting on August 25th):

 

Other Supplies Used:

City Streets Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Crisp Autumn Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Harvest Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fluffy Clouds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Surprise Party 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodsy Autumn Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodsy Autumn Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Farm Fresh Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fall Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Clucky Chickens Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Clucky Chickens Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hayley Uppercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Morning Glory Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heartstrings Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sleek Stripes Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Guest Designer Spotlight: Penguin Party Cards with Anja Bytyqi

Hi everyone, Anja here today with two holiday cards featuring the adorable Penguin Party Stamps.

On my first Christmas card, I used a couple of dies with stitching details and patterned papers from the Joyful Holiday Paper pack. I just love this happy color combo!

I started off with a white card base that is slightly larger than the standard A2 size. I cut out the patterned papers with the stitched rectangle die that is part of the Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Dies set. For the three openings I used the Window Trio Square Die. I did some ink blending in the background with Distress Oxides (Spun Sugar and Kitsch Flamingo). I trimmed the patterned papers, adhered them to the card base and added a pink cardstock strip on top where the papers meet.

Next, I stamped the penguins in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them with Copic markers. I cut them out with the coordinating dies and put each cutie inside a window opening.

To create a custom greeting I combined sentiments from the Santa Claus Lane and Merry Mice sets. I stamped them in VersaMark Ink onto a piece of green cardstock. I heat embossed it with white embossing powder and used the banner die from the Stitched Rectangle Dies set to cut it out. Finally, I adhered the banner onto the center of the pink cardstock strip.

On my second inspiration card I created a winter scene with a purple night sky. This design would work for a winter birthday card as well, right?

First, I cut and scored an A2 sized card base from white cardstock. For the purple background, I blended the Distress Oxide Inks Milled Lavender, Wilted Violet and Villainous Potion onto a lavender cardstock panel. I let it dry and added white paint splatters with a brush.

Next, I die cut two snow hills from white cardstock using one of the Slimline Nature Borders Dies. I applied Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink to the edges and layered the die cuts on top of each other covering the bottom half of the card.

In addition to the penguins and accessories, I stamped the fir tree, igloo and ice block from the Winter Scenes set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored the images with Copics again and used the coordinating dies to cut everything out.

The sentiment from the Inside Greetings Holiday set was stamped in VersaMark Ink onto a dark teal cardstock rectangle and heat embossed in white. I adhered the images and sentiment to finish off the card.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Trio- Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings-Holidays Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Penguin Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio