Fresh & Fruity Layered Fruit Card with Eloise

Hello everyone, Eloise here again today and I’m going to be making another fun card featuring the new Fresh and Fruity stamp set. Today I have a fun sort of layered fruit card.

To begin my card today I started off with creating a ton of masks. I stamped out all the fruit from the Fresh and Fruity stamp set aside from the half watermelon on some full sticky post it notes and then trimmed them all out on the line. I made sure I had two of each, as I figured I would then have enough to mask it all.

Now that I had all my masks ready I began stamping my background. I started off with a piece of watercolour cardstock and started at the bottom of it and started stamping all the way to around the ¾” mark of the piece, using my masks in between so there would be no gaps and they’d all be butted up against each other. I’m also stamping in Versafine Onyx Black ink so I can clear emboss when I’m done. I also decided it would be fun to stamp the little smiley face on top of the lemons. Once I finished all my stamping, I poured over some clear embossing powder and heat set it all.

To colour in my images today I wanted to use some watercolours, so I used my Peerless watercolours – they’re so much fun and I love watercolouring fruit images. Once the colouring was finished I decided I would fussy cut the top portion of the card, so I could have just all the coloured fruit popped up. So I cut along the lines at the top of the fruits and then outlined them with a black marker.

I grabbed a white card base and then adhered my watercoloured fruits piece on top with some fun foam sheets. I then stamped out the sentiment ‘thanks a bunch!’ also from the Fresh and Fruity set and stamped that with the same black ink onto the top of the card base above the fruits panel. That finished up my card for today.

I hope you enjoyed and make sure you stop by the blog tomorrow and the rest of the week for more inspiration!

- Eloise

Sunny Studio Products Used:

• Fresh and Fruity

Guest Designer Spotlight: Summer Picnic Card with Stephanie Klauck

Hello everyone, it's Stephanie here with a card to share using the awesome Summer Picnic stamp set. This is a great stamp set for spring and summer and includes a lot of great images to create endless card designs.

To create my card, I first stamped all of the images that I wanted to use onto a piece of white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then I coloured them in with Copic markers. I coloured the picnic blanket and the napkin to match, using aquas and greys and then I coloured the tree and all of the food items in a traditional colour scheme. Once I had all of the colouring done, I cut out the images using my scissors and set them aside to create my background panel.

To create the background I used Cracked Pistachio, Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers ink and blended them all together on the right side of the cardstock panel. Once the inking was done, I spritzed water onto the panel and then covered it with a paper towel to soak up the water leaving water spots in the ink. I love the look of this and think it adds so much texture to a background.

I let the panel dry for a few minutes and then I adhered all of the images to create my picnic scene. I positioned everything to the right side of the card like I had done with the ink and then I trimmed off the parts of the images that went over the side of the panel. I finished the card by stamping the sentiment under the picnic blanket and also stamped a couple of ants in the scene. 

Thanks so much for joining me today!

Summer Picnic & Comfy Creatures Birthday Picnic Card with Lexa

Hi everyone. Lexa here today with a super fun mix of sets, Summer Picnic and Comfy Creatures. I think both of these sets are a match made in heaven. They go together really, really well. As in this card, the panda and his fellow monkey are having a picnic together under the apple tree.

I started with a 4.25" x 5.5" neenah solar white as my card base and die cut the stitched curve on the top and the bottom. After I got the middle part, I started to blend some Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers Distress Ink from the top towards the middle for my sky. I stamped all my images with black ink, I use Versafine Onyx Black, because I will watercolor all of them with Distress Markers.

One of the best things about working with clear stamps is you can bend your stamps as I did with this card, I bent the "happy birthday" and "from the whole gang" to follow the curve. And the happiest part about making a scene is to arrange them all together..haha.. I adhered some of them with glue and the others with mounting tapes so you can see some dimensions here and there.

I hope you like my card for today! Have a wonderful weekend to all my crafty friends. :)

Sunny Studio Supplies:

• Comfy Creatures stamp set
• Comfy Creatures die set
• Summer Picnic stamp set
• Summer Picnic die set

Comfy Creatures & Summer Picnic Panda Card by Vanessa

Hi sweet Sunny Studio fans! Vanessa here with a cute panda card combining Summer Picnic and Comfy Creatures. 

I love that the sets work all so well together!

I started with a white card base and softly inked the bottom left area with pink dye ink. Then I added tiny drops of pink and white ink with a brush. Now I die-cut a picnic blanket from plaid patterned paper, trimmed it and adhered it to the card. I stamped, colored and die-cut the images and adhered them (using foam tape for some). Finally, I stamped the sentiment. 

It's so fun to create different creatures with the Comfy Creatures set. So many possibilities!

Thank you so much for visiting today! See you next Thursday!

Vanessa

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

• Summer Picnic Stamps
• Summer Picnic Dies
• Comfy Creatures Stamps
• Comfy Creatures Dies

Summer Picnic & Comfy Creatures Monkey Shaker Card with Lindsey

Hi!  Lindsey here today sharing a fun shaker card combining two adorable sets, Comfy Creatures and Summer Picnic. These two sets work so well together. I mean, who better to go on a fun picnic than some adorable critters. My card features two cute little monkeys having a tree top picnic. Let's get started on how I created this card.

To get started, I stamped the tree from Summer Picnic three times in a row. I only stamped the top of the tree because that's where I wanted the monkeys to have their picnic. I had to mask the tree in the middle, so I could overlap the tree top on either side. I colored the tree tops with Copic markers and fussy cut the tree panel out. Next I stamped two of the sitting critter bodies from Comfy Creatures. Then, I stamped one of each of the cute little monkey faces on top of the bodies. I also stamped two soda bottles for the monkeys to enjoy at their picnic. I colored all the images with Copic markers. I fussy cut the monkeys and used the coordinating die from Summer Picnic for the soda bottles. 

In order to create a shaker card I needed a frame, so I cut one from some Kraft cardstock. I then attached a piece of acetate behind the frame so you could see thru to the background and shaker bits. I attached all of my colored images to the front of the frame on top of the acetate and Kraft cardstock. I just used a tape runner for everything except the soda bottle in the front. I popped it up with a little foam tape. For the background, I used a piece of white cardstock that I blended some blue print distress ink on. I also added my sentiment from Summer Picnic and some stars from the Star Border die. 

I added a double layer of foam tape to the back of the frame panel and layed it on top of my background panel which had the shaker bits laying on top of it. By doing this, I trapped the sequins and beads inside so they could now move around. 

That's it for me today! I hope you'll check back to the blog for more inspiration, and I can't wait to see what ideas you come up with. Have a great day!