Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Debbie Olson

Hello there!  I'm so excited to welcome Debbie Olson to the blog today.  I have admired her mad coloring skills and great eye for design for years.  I was over the moon excited to meet her for the first time earlier this year and even more thrilled when she agreed to be our special guest!

Good morning!  Debbie Olson here, privileged to be a guest of Sunny Studio today! When Mendi shared her new release, I knew that I’d love playing with it; so today I have cards using the Sweet Shoppe and Sock Hop stamp sets to share.

First up is Sweet Shoppe—so many fun images to color in this set! I couldn’t decide upon just one, so I chose to use three of them, with a clean and simple layout. I colored my images with Copic markers and die-cut them, airbrushed a splash of YR31 to warm up the white background behind the sweet treats, stamped my sentiment, and them used foam tape to pop up the images.

I used the strawberry again on the inside of my card, along with a continuation of the sentiment.

Shown above are the Copic markers that I used to color the Sweet Shoppe images.

Next is the Sunny Studio Sock Hop stamp set; this set has a TON of possibilities! I chose Cool Cat for my first card, pairing him up with some Lily Bee Design Pinwheel papers.  I stamped the jukebox lightly as a backdrop for Cool Cat, and die-cut both Cool Cat and his guitar to pop up with foam tape in the foreground

Here are the Copics that I used to color Cool Cat.

Finally, I created a “guy card” for someone who loves his Chevys. I had already colored my Sock Hop image before I looked for patterned paper, which turned out not to be such a good idea when I had not a single blue in my stash that went with the blues I had used on my classic car! After several “didn’t quite work” backgrounds, I finally airbrushed a background for my car, using many of the same colors that I had used to color the car. Because I didn’t want the background to compete with the car image, I used a piece of vellum on top of my airbrushed background, gluing it under the car, and also attaching it with the same brads that attached my sentiment panel. 

Shown above are the markers that I used to color the classic car. (If you are looking for color and shading ideas on this car, google ’57 Chevy images—you’ll find an abundance of them!)

I hope that these ideas are helpful with your Sunny Studio Sweet Shoppe and Sock Hop stamp sets. A huge thanks to Mendi for inviting me to Sunny Studio today!

Debbie Olson

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Sweet Shoppe Birthday Wishes Card with Lexa

Hi everyone. Lexa here today with Sweet Shoppe (with coordinating dies) as the star of my card. I fall in love instantly with this set as I'm a sweet tooth myself, I craved for something sweet after I saw all the images. I bet some of you understand how I feel. Hehe.

This card is a very simple one, I started with a 4.25" x 5.5" smooth white cardstock, blended with Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed Distress Inks for the background. Because I needed a "ground" to place my donuts, I cut a strip of plaid patterned paper as the tablecloth. Two donuts have holes on them and the others don't. The trick is I wipe the hole before I stamp the image, easy peasy right? Then I stamped different toppings for each donuts.

For my card I choose the donuts with four different glazing flavors: chocolate, strawberry, mint and vanilla. My favorite will be the mint with crunchy chocolate on it. Yum! I stamped all the images with Versafine Onyx Black ink, watercolor them with Distress Markers after that. I also add some glossy accent to give a real glazing look. Here's a closer look..

Thank you for looking, I hope you like today's card as much as I do. Have a wonderful day!

Sweet Shoppe Rainbow Cupcake Card by Vanessa

Hello everybody! Vanessa here with a card using the Sweet Shoppe Stamps & coordinating dies. The images of this set are so yummy! For my first card, I chose to create a lemon cupcake:

First, I trimmed a piece of watercolor paper slightly smaller than my card base and inked it using yellow, pink and aqua ink. Then I added little drops of water. After it was dried, I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment using silver embossing powder and adhered the panel to the card. Now I stamped, colored and die-cut the cupcake and adhered it with foam tape. I topped it with a slice of lemon from the Tropical Paradise set. Finally, I added matching sequins.

Can't wait to use this set again to "bake" something yummy :) I hope you liked today's inspiration! Thanks for visiting!

Vanessa

Sweet Shoppe Birthday Wishes Card with Lindsey

Hello, Lindsey here today sharing a birthday card using the fun and yummy set Sweet Shoppe stamps as well as the coordinating dies, new Fishtail Banners 2 and Sweet word die. I love all the sentiment combinations in this set and that it coordinates with the new Sweet word die. There are so many options! Let's get started on how I created this "sweet" birthday card.

I started with an A2 size card base of pink patterned paper. I then cut a green piece of cardstock with the scalloped Fishtail Banner 2. Then, I cut a piece of white cardstock and embellished it with the dot detail from the Fishtail Banner 2 die set. I wanted to use the Sweet word die so I made it part of my sentiment. I cut it from both pink and green cardstock and layered them together. I stamped the rest of the sentiment from the Sweet Shoppe set using some green dye ink. 

I also stamped the donut, ice cream cone, and cupcake from the set. I colored all my images with Copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I adhered the sweets to the white part of my card, popping up the donut and cupcake with foam tape. Finally, I added a small strip of green cardstock to the bottom of the card to pull it all together. I added some Wink of Stella to all the sweets and some sequins for a little extra interest and shine. 

I love how this card turned out, and I can't wait to see what you come up with! Thanks so much for reading. Be sure to check back to the blog for more inspiration with this cute set!

A Sneak Peek of Some Baby Bear & Sweet Shoppe Cards

I'm popping in to share a quick peek of a some cards that are being featured on the Simon Says Stamp blog today (there are actually a total of three new cards using Baby Bear, Sweet Shoppe and City Streets).  :)

I hope will stop over to say hi and to see all the cards close-up.  :)