Cat Antics card with Tina

Hi crafty friends, Tina here and I had so much fun creating this sweet birthday card with the adorable Cat Antics stamp and die set! I love these kitties so much that I initially colored five of them! But sometimes you have to adjust your design plans since I only had room for three. So, I put the other two aside for a future card!

For this project, I kept to a strict color scheme of beige, brown, coral, and red tones. I started by coloring the big celebration cake (Special Day), the banners (Panda Party), presents, party hat (Party Pets) and the sweet cats with their ball of yarn (Cat Antics stamp). I added some white details to make the images pop.

To match the color scheme, I create a cream card base. Next, I cut a white panel with the largest of the Rounded Rectangle Mat dies. Since I wanted a white border around my scene, I used a smaller die from the same set. This provides you with the border and a smaller rectangle mat for scene building.

First, I stamped my background onto this smaller mat panel. For the bottom part (after masking of the top part with some Post It tape) I used the wood floor stamp (Sprawling Surfaces) and a brown ink from my stash. Using a small blending brush to add more brown ink to the planks.

Then I lowered the Post It tape to stamp the ‘wallpaper’ part of the card with a light pink ink and the fun diagonal grid stamp (Background Basics 2). You can only see it on the left side of the card, but I drew in a baseboard with a black pen and colored it with a dark brown pencil.

My sentiment consists of a large die cut (Wishes word) and a Happy Birthday stamp (Punny Fruit Greetings, Versafine Onyx Black ink). Next, I could build the entire scene.
Adding a few Crystal clear Jewels finishes this sweet project.

I can’t wait to see all these adorable kitties featured in your projects! Thank you for visiting the blog and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Wishes Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Special Day Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Special Day Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sprawling Surfaces Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Punny Fruit Greetings Shop at: Sunny Studio	Background Basics 2 Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cat Antics Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Cat Antics Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pets Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pets Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Wood Barrel Die Focused Card with Tina

Hello crafters, it’s Tina and today I am creating a colorful Fall themed card using the beautiful Wood Barrel Die. I wanted to use some non-traditional hues and I knew that idea would match perfectly with the fun layering dies from Pumpkin Patch. I love that you get three different shaped and sized pumpkins with this set.

Starting with a white square card base, I added a layer of dark pink by ink blending the edge of a white panel cut with the largest of the Scallopped Square 1 Small Dies. Next, I created another white panel slightly smaller with one of the Stitched Square Dies which was embellished by using the Dotted Diamond Portrait die.

After creating all the layers of the pumpkins, the leaves (Pumpkin Patch), two grass borders (Mini Grass Border) and barrel (Wood Barrel Die), I put all the pieces on a grip mat and started blending with several ink color from my stash, I went with yellow, pink and teal blue shades.

Now it was time to put the card together! I first added the grass borders to the white panel. I added foam tape to the lower one so I could tuck the barrel between the two borders. Next, I started playing with the positioning of all the pumpkins and leaves. I like to use repositionable tape for this!

For this bold Fall scene, I selected a combined sentiment consisting of the big Wishes Word Die and the smaller ‘Autumn’ banner (Fall Kiddos).

I love finishing a card with some embellishments and today I chose some sparkling ones from the beautiful Iridescent Jewels. Thank you for joining me and I am looking forward to seeing your gorgeous creations with this fun rustic barrel die! Happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Wishes Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Kiddos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pumpkin Patch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Portrait Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Grass Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Square 1 Small Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wood Barrel Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Black Friday Exclusive: Merry Mocha Card Ideas with Mendi

Hello & welcome!  I'm excited to be joining in the Black Friday fun with several card ideas featuring our new little Merry Mocha Stamps and Dies which aren't available for purchase this year but can be received as a free gift with a $45+ purchase through Monday, November 27 (see below for full promotion details). 

Card No. 1: For my first Merry Mocha card I started by cutting out my red striped, scalloped mat by combining the inside portion of our Frilly Frames Stripes Dies with the outside portion of our Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies. I then backed it with white cardstock and mounted it onto an A2-sized kraft cardstock panel. I then cut a Large Stitched Circle and mini gift tag from our Sweet Treats Gift Bag Dies, inking them both along the edges using Tea Dye Distress ink.

To create my grouping of three unique hot drinks, I paired the Merry Mocha mug with the cups and sugar cookie from our Mug Hugs Stamps. I then heat embossed the "warm wishes" greeting from our Alpaca Holiday Stamps, tying the tag with red baker's twine to slip around one of my mug handles and securing it on the back before adhering the mug to my card with foam tape.

Card No. 2: For my next card featuring the Merry Mocha Stamps, I used the cute script greeting from the set with the coordinating dies (that come with purchases of $75 or more). I paired the drink with an extra candy cane and gingerbread man from our Baking Spirits Bright Stamps and mounted them onto a scalloped mat cut using our Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies. I layered a slightly smaller piece of green cardstock beneath to peek out behind the eyelet lace scallops and then mounted them onto a red and white snowflake print from our Joyful Holiday Paper pack.

Card No. 3 & 4: Up next is a card set featuring the same card design with the Merry Mocha Stamps in two different color palettes. For both cards, I started by adhering a small pale grey striped patterned paper to my background using a print from our Subtle Grey Tones Paper pack. 

I then cut an elongated Scalloped Tag from Joyful Holiday tone-on-tone snowflake patterned papers using our Scalloped Square Tag Dies. To achieve this I partially cut the top portion of the tag while hanging the bottom portion of the die off the cutting plate, I then flipped the die over and hung the top half off my cutting plate, matching up the scallops and securing the die with washi tape to help me keep them straight. Once you've done this trick a couple times, it becomes super easy to do, looks like the die came that way, and really makes you look at your die stash with a fresh eye.

Blue Card: For my sentiments on each card, I heat embossed the word "warm" using our Heartfelt Wishes Stamps, pairing them with our Wishes Word Die cut from a pink Pastel Gingham Paper to match my pink mug.

Pink Card: To add a little interest behind each of my mugs, I framed them with our Small Stitched Circle Dies and added some twigs and leaves from our Winter Greenery Dies. For this particular card, I matched my aqua mug to the Wishes Word cut from an aqua grid print from our Classic Gingham Paper pack.

Which color combination is your favorite? Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend. ❤

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The Merry Mocha Stamps used today are not available for purchase this holiday season but rather will be automatically included with all retail orders of $45 or more from our online store through November 27th at Midnight PDT. Here are all the details:

Receive free shipping on U.S. orders of $40+

+ Receive the exclusive mini "Merry Mocha" stamp set with a $45+ purchase.

+ Receive the coordinating "Merry Mocha" dies with a $75+ purchase.

+ 10% of retail sales will be donated to the Maui Strong Fund with the Hawaii Community Foundation.

*Please note: No discount codes are needed. All offers will be applied automatically and cannot be combined with additional discounts at checkout. Purchases are based on order subtotal, prior to shipping & tax.

Other Supplies Used:

Heartfelt Wishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mug Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mug Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wishes Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Stripes Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Subtle Grey Tones Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Tags-Square Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sweet Treats Gift Bag Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Baking Spirits Bright Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio