Friends & Family Coloured Heart Background Card with Eloise

Hi everyone! Eloise here and today I have a card featuring the new Friends & Family stamps, along with the Friends & Family Word dies. I also have a background technique featuring some die embossing with the Stitched Hearts dies as well as masking to create a fun coloured background too.

To begin my card today I pulled a piece of watercolour cardstock and four different pink to red Distress Inks. I then used the Stitched Heart die set and taped the trio of larger hearts together. To do the die embossing onto my cardstock I use an embossing mat - they're inexpensive and super handy to have. I opened my Big Shot tab, I laid down a cutting plate, then the embossing mat, the piece of cardstock, then the dies into place, the cutting plate on top and ran it through and I continued this until the background was covered. This gets a little tricky as the dies are quite large and they can't run through as easy as they're too wide, but if you play with them a bit, you can get them through no problem. Once my background was coloured, I kept my dies taped together and ran them through with some masking paper, but this time I removed the tan mat, put my Big Shot back to normal cutting sandwich and ran it through a couple of times to get all the pieces I needed to mask. Once I had all my pieces I was ready to blend.

I first masked off the outside of the large heart, so the background and then the middle of the trio of hearts. Which revealed the 1st heart and the 3rd heart. I used Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral and Festive Berries in an ombre style to ink blend over the two exposed hearts. I then repeated this step for all four heart clusters. I then reversed the masks and covered the 1st heart and 3rd heart and ink blended the rest with the Spun Sugar - I was going to originally leave it white, but I had a few boo-boos, so I had to cover it up somehow. Once everything was blended I flicked a little water over top to create that fun Distress water splotch look.

For my sentiment I first die cut the 'family' word die from the Friends & Family Word die set out of some white fun foam and white cardstock, adhered them together and then onto my card panel. I then stamped the 'The love of' and 'it's everything' from the Friends & Family stamp set with some black ink above and below my adhered die cut. So the sentiment reads 'The love of family, it's everything'. I really love this stamp and die set, it's super sweet. To finish my card up completely I added some Wink of Stella in the clear onto the Family die cut word and that was it.

I hope you enjoyed my card today - I really love the background, it's so fun to do and with all that extra embossing, just makes it even more wonderful. You could even die cut it and inlay it instead if you would prefer, that makes it have the same effect, you just have to adhere it together - but if you don't have the embossing mat, this would work great!

Make sure you stop by the blog the rest of the week for more inspiration!

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Sunny Saturday Share: More Customer Cards

How are you? I'm so excited to be popping in today with a Sunny Saturday Share. There have been so many amazing cards popping up on Instagram that have made my jaw drop so I couldn't wait to share them with all of you!  :)

That Sucks card by Rebekah Burch Weckerly

Froggy Friends and Turtley Awesome card set by Kine

Vintage Jar, Timeless Tulips, and Fishtail Banners II card by Lisa's Creative Niche

Turtley Awesome cards by Trina Pham

Froggy Friends birthday card by Lorna Le

School Time and Mug Hugs card by Waleska Galindo

Mug Hugs cards by Judy

Froggy Friends and Turtley Awesome card by Kate Deignan

City Streets treat box by Yvonne Morentin

Thank you for sharing all these fabulous ideas with us!  I hope you will continue to share your gorgeous projects with us--It always makes my day to see them.  You can tag us on instagram with the hashtag #sunnystudiostamps or share your projects with us in our flickr group or on our facebook page. ☺


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Sun Ray Dies & Easter Wishes Easter Blessings Card with Lexa

Hello crafty friends! Lexa here today with a card that highlight the Sun Ray Dies and I'm pairing it with Easter Wishes. The Sun Ray dies actually pretty versatile, you can try to think out of the box, your imagination is the only limit.

I start my card with a piece of 4.25"x5.5" white cardstock and blend Tumbled Glass Distress Ink for the sky. I die cut the sun ray on two tones of yellow cardstock, I trace the circle lightly with pencil and adhere the rays one by one. It's actually a lot easier than it seems, mine is far from perfect but after I finished the whole card everything looks alright.

I stamped all the images with Versafine black ink and watercolor them with Distress Markers. After finish with the coloring, I use the coordinating Easter Wishes dies to die cut all the images. I always love to pop everything out, the white border around the images are perfect. The grass border on the front is added the last to add more dimension. The bunnies from Easter Wishes are my favorite, they look so adorable and fluffy. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoy today's post and I wish you all an awesome day!

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The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 2 of "The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge" Blog Hop!  You should be arriving from the blog of Honey Bee Stamps or if you are just joining us you can start at the beginning of the hop at The Daily Marker.  

Kathy Racoosin from The Daily Marker has created this wonderful hop to give your creativity a jump start with some of her favorite stamp companies & Online Card Class partners.

The premise of “The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge” is to color something everyday even if it’s for five minutes. (However feel free to  jump in or out as time permits). Any coloring medium is welcomed. Click here to find out where to share what you are coloring and join the encouraging community of happy colorists PLUS answers to other questions you may have.

Kathy encouraged us today to try and mix in other companies products besides our own into our creations today and I completely embraced that idea.  As a one-woman show I frequently don't find the time to use all the other wonderful stamps that I continue to buy from my favorite companies.  I had fun trying to squeeze a number of different stamps from my stash on my two card examples today.  I think the different companies play nicely together, don't you?  ;)

(supplies: Neat & Tangled Kitty's Favorite Things, Neat & Tangled Falling Hearts, Lawn Fawn Yay Kites, Mama Elephant Lunar Animals, Mama Elephant Framed Tags-Union Square, Sunny Studio Sweet Shoppe)

(supplies: Greeting Farm Purfect Cats, Clearly Besotted Basic Stripes, Clearly Besotted Let's Party, Lawn Fawn Party Animal)

Before I go I thought I would share an exclusive sneak peek of what I started coloring yesterday as part of the 30-day coloring challenge.  I frequently play along, but I often can't share because it's something not yet released.  These images are from five of our seven new stamps sets coming out in mid-April for our summer release.  ;)

GIVEAWAY: Many of us are giving away a prize today. I will select one random winner from the comments on today's post to receive our new Daffodil Dreams & Timeless Tulips stamp sets. I would love to hear which sneak peek you're most excited about. ;)

The full list of ALL winners from the individual blogs will be announced on The Daily Marker Sunday March 12th. :)

I hope you will join in the challenge. It's a great way to gain confidence with your coloring and be a part of a community of positivity and coloring enthusiasts. The challenge is also a great way to get full use of your stamps and coloring mediums. Don't forget to use the hashtag #TheDailyMarker30Day when sharing on social media so Kathy can find your work.

QUESTIONS? Read more on Kathy’s blog post here to see how to share you work and if you have questions, how to share, giveaways etc. Prepare to be inspired with daily posts and many videos for the next 30 days.

Your next stop in the hop is talented and amazing Jennifer McGuire.

The Daily Marker

Hero Arts
Lawn Fawn
Mama Elephant
Concord & 9th
Waffle Flower
Altenew
Avery Elle
W-Plus 9
Neat & Tangled
Stamping Bella
Paper Smooches
Winne & Walter
Power Poppy
Mommy Lhey
Purple Onion Designs
Pretty Pink Posh
Honey Bee Stamps
Sunny Studio Stamps
Jennifer McGuire (Co owner of Online Card Classes)
Kristina Werner (Co owner of Online Card Classes)
Simon Says Stamp

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Timeless Tulips and Vintage Jar Thank You Card with Vanessa

Hi everybody! Vanessa here with a card idea using Timeless Tulips and Vintage Jar. I so love the layered stamps, as it makes it very easy to create beautiful flower bouquets. And that jar is genius, it looks like real glass! 

I stamped the tulips and the jar onto white cardstock and die-cut them with the coordinating Timeless Tulips dies and Vintage Jar dies. For the tulips I used only two ink colors (MFT Dye Ink Coral Crush and Peach Bellini) plus white pigment ink. Since I didn't have a third ink color to pair with them I stamped one layer with the darker color and then white above to tone down the color...

Now I stamped the stems into the jar and onto a panel of white cardstock that I had trimmed a bit smaller than my card base. Then I covered my card base with checked patterned paper and adhered the cardstock panel. 

After I had adhered the jar and the tulips with foam tape, I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment from Daffodil Dreams onto a strip of patterned paper and adhered this to the jar. Finally, I added sequins. 

I hope you like today's idea! Thank you for stopping by!

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