Welcome New Design Team Member Emily Leiphart!

Please help me in welcoming a new member to our creative team: the talented Emily Leiphart!  I'm thrilled she agreed to share her talents with us and I know you're going to fall in love with her adorable designs as much as I have!  I asked Emily to share a bit about herself today, along with a card showing off her fun style.  I'm so excited to see more!

Hi!  I’m married to a bicycle designer and have a very energetic eight-year-old son who has made numerous appearances in my videos!  I have a background in corporate research but I’m also an accomplished makeup artist so I still draw a lot of my inspiration from the fashion world.

I'm so excited to be joining Sunny Studio Stamps as a design team member! I love fun, quirky stamps and Mendi's illustrations are perfect for me. Of all the stamps currently in the Sunny Studio collection, my favourites are the critters with mix-and-match heads and bodies. I had to use the silly raccoon for today's card.

To create my scene, I picked the two main images; the mailbox from Sending My Love and the raccoon from Woodsy Creatures, then stamped and cut masks for them. I created two asks for the raccoon, one for the entire body for stamping the mailbox and another, just for the paws, so I could stamp the apple from Summer Picnic behind the digits.

After stamping the main part of the scene, I stamped the sentiment and added falling leaves - also from Woodsy Creatures - to create movement down and across the card. After colouring everything with Copic markers, I used the same colours from the leaf on the apple and the mailbox to create a pointillist anchor to ground the scene.

Thank you, Mendi, for this wonderful opportunity!

Blog:  http://leiphartonart.blogspot.com
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/leiphartonart/
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/leiphartonart

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Guest Designer Spotlight: A Sweet Halloween Card With Stephanie

Hi everyone, it's Stephanie and I'm thrilled to be guesting on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog. I have a fun Halloween themed card to share that I created by combining the Halloween Cuties stamp set with the Sweet Shoppe stamp set. I thought it would be fun to mix and match the Halloween images with some of the sweet treats and colour them all in with Halloween colours.

I stamped out all of the images that I wanted to use on white cardstock and then coloured them all in with Copic markers. I used mainly purples, oranges and greens so they would all match and look Halloween themed. Once I had them all coloured, I used my scissors and fussy cut everything out. I used a glue pen to add glue to each piece and adhere them all together on a white cardstock panel.

I layered all of the images together to create my sweet scene and then once I had them all adhered, I added some detail to the images. I added clear sparkle to the icing on the donuts and the cupcake and I added some white highlights to various images using a white gel pen. I also added some sprinkles to both of the donuts using a black gel pen. I completed the card by adding the sentiment which was a combination of two different sentiments from each of the stamp sets.

Thanks so much for joining me today! ;)
Stephanie

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Harvest Happiness Thank You Card by Lexa

Hello Sunny Studio friends! 

Lexa here with another Haverst Happiness inspiration card.  I believe it's almost fall somewhere out there. Imagining all the beautiful leaves and weather makes me want to travel to where you are. But since I don't celebrate Thanksgiving or the fall season, I tried to make a thank you card with all the pretty fall colors.

I started my card with a 4" x 5.5" white cardstock and die-cut a circle window on the top center of my card. I blended Spiced Marmalade and Wild Honey Distress Inks on my circle panel and also stamped two sizes of pumpkins with an orange ombre ink pad, that matches the pumpkin border on the bottom. I mixed the sentiment from two stamp sets, Autumn Splendor and City Streets, just because I need to thank someone for spending their time with me. I hope it will make someone's day.

Rather than watercoloring my images as I usually do, I choose to paper-piecing the pumpkins instead. And I'm glad I did because I think it looks so cool with all-patterned pumpkins. :) I colored the stems, leaves, and tiny hearts with my alcohol markers to make them look more solid. To add some sparkles to this card, I also add some clear sequins along with the pumpkin border.

I hope you enjoy today's post and I will see you next time. Have a wonderful crafty day! :)

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Harvest Happiness Watercolor Thankful For You Card with Vanessa

Hello everybody! Vanessa here with my Harvest Happiness card. We do not celebrate Thanksgiving here in Germany, so I chose to create a more neutral autumn card. The colors of fall make me so happy! 

First, I trimmed a piece of watercolor paper slightly smaller than my Kraft card base and stamped/heat-embossed the small leaves from the set with white embossing powder. Then I applied watercolors around the embossed images and added droplets of color around them. After it was dried, I adhered the panel to the card. I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment onto a strip of purple cardstock and adhered it. Now I stamped and heat-embossed the pumpkins onto watercolor paper, colored them with watercolors, fussy-cut them and adhered them with foam tape. To finish the card off, I added matching sequins.

Autumn is in full swing here and I am happy the pumpkin season has started! Nothing like a good Pumpkin Risotto :) What's your favorite pumpkin recipe?
Thank you so much for stopping by!

Vanessa

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Harvest Happiness Thanksgiving Card with Lindsey

Hi, Lindsey here today with a fun Thanksgiving card featuring a stamp set from last year called Harvest Happiness. This set is just filled with sweet little images, so I decided to incorporate many of them in my card today. Let's get started!

I began with some fall plaid paper in an A2 sized stitched rectangle. Next, I cut another slightly smaller stitched rectangle from some Kraft cardstock. This is the panel I did my stamping on. I simply laid out the stamps I wanted to use on top of my Kraft cardstock and then stamped them out. I had to stamp some of the smaller images more than once to fill in some gaps. 

Next, I colored all my images with Copic markers and added some detail with a white gel pen. I outlined each image with a light gray marker to give a slight shadow around the images and really make them pop. To finish, I added foam tape to the back of the Kraft cardstock panel and attached on top of the plaid card base. That's it! This was a pretty simple yet fun card to create.

Thanks for reading! I hope you'll keep checking back to the blog for more great ideas using this fun set. I can't wait to see what you guys create. Have a great day!

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