Oceans Of Joy & Magical Mermaids Pop-Up Box Card with Amy

Hello everybody! Amy here today to share a pop-up box card featuring the Oceans Of Joy and Magical Mermaids stamp sets. I love how these two sets can be used together to create a scene that is fun and whimsical.

For this card, I used a box card die. However, you can find lots of great tutorials online to make your own. To begin, I cut out all the pieces for the box card, I used a rectangle die to create a window for the front bottom of the card. With the die-cut rectangle, I added the sentiment "Just Swimming By to Say You're Fintastic" from Magical Mermaids. I heat embossed it with blue embossing powder. I also trimmed acetates to cover the window, and to the two panels that went inside the box to hold the images. This allowed me to create a fun 3D underwater scene.

Before assembling the box, I distressed it with Distress Inks in Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers, and Cracked Pistachios in most areas. I splattered the panels with droplets of water using a brush to add texture, and created clouds with a stencil on the back panel. Once it dried, I put together the box card with double sided tape.

I stamped the images from Oceans Of Joy and Magical Mermaids and colored them with Copic markers. Then, I cut them out with their coordinating dies. To finish, I adhered the sentiment rectangle to the front flap and the images to the card.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed this post and I have inspired you to try creating your own ocean scenes with the two adorable stamp sets.

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Stars & Stripes Patriotic Red, White, and Blue Card with Nancy

Let’s hear it for the red, white and blue! Nancy here today with a patriotic card using the Stars & Stripes stamp set. I love that this set has so many fun sentiments and icons. These are perfect for all those last minute Fourth of July BBQ invitations! Who doesn’t love to get a handmade invite.

I started the card by randomly stamping images on the right side of a white 4-1/2”x5-1/4” card. To create this look, begin with the largest images then fill in the whit spots with the tiny and medium stars.

All of the images were colored with Copic markers. A strip of red cardstock was used to ground the sentiment. The “Happy 4th of July” was created by using white embossing powder and a heat gun. This really makes that sentiment stand out!

A few scattered sequins and a stars completes this bright and patriotic card. Don’t forget to pick up the Stars & Stripes stamp set in the store!

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Pirate Pals Boy Themed Birthday Card with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have another birthday card to share with you using the Pirate Pals stamp set. I'm loving making boy themed cards with this set - it's so nice to have a few in my stash!

To begin my card today I went ahead and first did the background piece. I took a piece of watercolour cardstock and tore all four dies to create that distressed look. I then used Antique Linen, Ground Espresso and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink to colour it. Once it was coloured I flicked on some water and dried it all with a heat tool. 

Next up I stamped out my images from Pirate Pals and coloured them in with Copic Markers. I only used a few colours and just repeated using them to create a simple colour scheme. Once they were all coloured in I die cut them out using the coordinating dies.

I then added fun foam behind my panel piece and adhered it down to a grey striped piece of patterned paper that I adhered onto a card base. I then adhered all my images using foam adhesive too. 

For my sentiment I white heat embossed it onto some green cardstock, cut the end off at an angle and also added a bow with some hemp cord to the other side and adhered it down onto my card also. 

That finished up the card for today, I hope you enjoyed and I'll be back next week! Thanks so much for stopping by. 

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Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Anika Lerche

I'm so excited to welcome Anika Lerche to the blog today as our special guest. She has some gorgeous cards that you are going to just love! 

Hey stampers, Anni here! I am soooo happy, excited and honored to be back as a guest designer for Sunny Studio Stamps again.

Today I want to show you a set of cards I made featuring the super cute sets Oceans of Joy and Magical Mermaids.

I started making these cards by creating the backgrounds. I played with my alcohol inks. I had them for years but haven't used them for a very long time. As I knew I was using ocean critters I chose blues and turquoises for my backgrounds. You never know what you get with the alcohol inks which is what makes it even more exciting.

I stamped all the cute critters from the sets a few times (way more than I used in the end), colored them with alcohol markers and fussy cut them (don't panic - there are coordinating dies available, too).

For all my cards I chose the same layout. There are so many cute sentiments in the sets. So I got a matching one for every image.

I added some bubbles with Nuvo drops and that finished up my cards.

Thanks for stopping by and have a sunny weekend.

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Fresh & Fruity Googly Eyed Fruit Bowl Thank You Card with Lexa

Hello everyone! Lexa here today to share some inspiration with you. I just came back from Bali for my holiday, and I must say that I'm still in a holiday mood. Bali is one of the most popular holiday destination in Indonesia, both for local tourists and foreigners, and everyone loves to be there. I took inspiration from Bali's popular fruit stacks for my card. I used the Fresh & Fruity Stamp Set and it's coordinating dies to create this card.

I started my card with a piece of 4.25" x 5.5" white cardstock and blended Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on the bottom part to create a gradation. It helps to ground my bowl, so that it doesn't look like it's floating on air. I stamped all the fruit images from Fresh & Fruity Stamp with Versafine black ink and then watercolored them with Distress Markers. After I finished with the coloring I cut all of them with Fresh & Fruity coordinating dies. I love the thin white lines around the images ... perfectly cute! 

After I arranged all the fruits in the bowl, I felt somehow this card looked unfinished. I got the idea to create a "roof" so it looks like a fruit stall. I used the bigger scallop from Sunny Borders and drew lines in between each scallop, before coloring them in with red and white. To tie in all the red in my card, I die cut a "thanks" script from Vintage Jar Dies from red cardstock and finished the sentiment with "from the whole gang" using one of the stamp in Comfy Creatures.

Last but not least I adhered some googly eyes on every fruits to add extra cuteness. Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you like my card and have a wonderful day!

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