Sneak Peek Week: Over The Rainbow, Make A Wish & Miss Moo

Hello and welcome to our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I have been showcasing cards using our new collection for Spring available for purchase today!  :)

Before you run off to shop, I have two more fun mini stamp sets to share: Miss Moo and Make A Wish, along with a versatile new 3x4 Sentiment stamp set called Over The Rainbow and a coordinating Rainbow Word die.

Card No. 1: Up first I have a card featuring the darling little Miss Moo stamp which is a compliment to the cow from our Barnyard Buddies stamps. You could use the image to create a fun spinner since aside from the eyelashes and daisy they are nearly identical, but I chose to pair her with the other cow to form a herd.  This set comes with three new punny sentiments that are so much fun!  I finished off my card with a little die-cut stitched heart from our Warm & Cozy dies.

Card No. 2: For my next Miss Moo card I once again paired her with the cow from our Barnyard Buddies, but this time I have them peeking out from some windows created with our Window Trio Square dies.  For my background I used a piece of red gingham paper from our Classic Gingham Paper pack and cut the stitched zig-zag edge of my kraft paper using our Ric Rac Border dies. For my sentiment, I created a custom greeting pefect for Valentine's Day using our Loopy Letters dies.

Card No. 3: My next card features our new Make A Wish stamps which includes a cake, a slice of cake, the "make a wish" sentiment and a happy face to personalize the cake with.  I paired it with three balloons colored to match from our Birthday Smiles Stamps and two prints from our Spring Sunburst Paper pack.

Card No. 4: I can't help but smile back at the cakes when the little happy face is added to them for these colorful birthday themed gift tags using our Build-A-Tag #1 dies and Spring Sunburst Paper pack. These are the perfect thing to have on hand to add to the top of a kid's birthday present when headed out the door! I finished them with a birthday sentiment from our Happy Thoughts stamps (together with the word "happy" borrowed from our Party Pups stamps which I cut apart to make it more functional). 

To create the look of glowing candles, I used a little finger dauber to sponge on some mustard seed distress ink just below where my candles would go before adhering my cake to the tag.

Card No. 5: Switching gears, for my next card, I wanted to showcase one of the many fun sentiments from our new Over The Rainbow stamps.  For this rainbow girl I am ecstatic to have so many fun colorful phrases to use on my future cards!

I started by stamping my clouds, rainbow & heart raindrops using our Rain or Shine stamps, which I colored to match the checked paper from our new Spring Sunburst Paper pack using Copic Markers.  I then mounted them on an arched panel of white cardstock which I cut out using our Sunny Semi Circle dies, rounding the corners with my We R Memory Keepers corner chomper and sewing around the edge with my sewing machine. I used those same Copic markers to blend a rainbow background onto a piece of scratch cardstock so that my Rainbow Word die would match.  

For my sentiment, I stamped and heat embossed it with white powder onto a pennant created with our Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies.  This die only has the "v" on one end so to create it on the opposite side, I made sure to have the flat end of the die hanging off my cutting plate before making my first cut.  I then turned it around and used the stitching to find a groove where the die felt like it locked into place and repeated the same step for the opposite side. When I was done, I mounted all the pieces onto a piece of coordinating grid paper from our Gingham Pastels Paper pack.

Card No. 6: For my next card featuring the Over The Rainbow stamps, I once again turned out our Rain or Shine stamps, this time repeatedly stamping the umbrella from the set onto paper from our Dots & Stripes Pastels Paper pack. I fussy cut them all out which was super quick since I was able to hide the bottom half of the umbrella with the way I stacked them. I mounted them onto a piece of sun ray paper from our Spring Sunburst Paper pack and them framed them with our Frilly Frames Polka-Dot dies.

For my sentiment I coated a small piece of white cardstock with some VersaMark ink, pressing my paper directly against the pad.  I then sprinkled on some iridescent glittery embossing powder and heat it up to create my own custom glitter cardstock which I used to cut my Rainbow Word from (it is difficult see in the photo, but it's very pretty in person).  To give it the look of thickers, I then cut a second rainbow word from white craft foam and used some liquid adhesive to stack the two together.  I love the results!

Card No. 7: My last Over The Rainbow card of the day uses some very cool Rainbow Foil and Deco Foil PeelnStick Toner Sheets by Therm-o-web.  I started by adhering the foil to the toner sheets using my laminating tool.  I then die-cut my hearts using a combination of the stitched hearts from our Warm & Cozy dies, Window Trio Circle dies and Fancy Frames Circle Dies, popping up a couple of them using the Deco Foil White Foam Adhesive. I am addicted to my scotch foam tape so I was super excited to discover a foam adhesive that can be die-cut to match my cutouts!

For my bottom scalloped edge, I used the long side of our Frilly Frames Lattice dies to cut a border.  Love getting extra life out of my supplies like that!

To help you have a closer look at everything, I created a video recapping the entire Spring Release along with all the cards I shared this week that you can find at our YouTube channel HERE.

I'm so happy you've joined me for sneak peek week and I'd love to give one last $25 gift code to one lucky winner.  If you haven't entered our previous giveaways from earlier in the week, there's still time.  The contests run through Saturday at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, January 6th. :)

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In honor the new release, we have a couple promo codes that will be active through Monday, January 7th at 11:59 pm PST:

• For orders within the USA, use the promo code FREESHIP at checkout to receive free shipping on all retail orders over $25.
• For international orders, use the promo code SAVE4 at checkout to save $4 on your shipping on all retail orders over $25.
• Or use our ongoing promo code SAVE5 to save $5 on any retail purchase over $49.

Plus all orders placed in our online store will automatically include a free mini double heart die while supplies last (no coupon codes needed).

Here's a closer look at the new Miss Moo, Make A Wish & Over The Rainbow stamps & coordinating dies used today... 

    

    

    

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Birthday Smiles Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Smiles Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rain or Shine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rain or Shine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Semi Circles Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Barnyard Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ric Rac Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio
Window Trio- Circles Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Trio- Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Build-A-Tag #1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Loopy Letters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Warm & Cozy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Sunburst 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Polka-Dot Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sneak Peek Week: Love Monkey Stamps & Botanical Backdrop Dies

Hello and welcome to our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  This week I have been showcasing cards using our new collection for Spring available for purchase tomorrow morning.  :)

Today's share includes our new 4x6 Love Monkey stamps & dies, as well as a cool new standalone A2 sized die called Botanical Backdrop.

Card No. 1: For my first card of the day I used the Love Monkey stamps to create a monochromatic Valentine. To create my background, I double stamped our Cascading Hearts stamps in a crisp red ink onto white cardstock and then I sponged on candied apple distress ink with a jumbo dauber to create an ombre effect on my panel, saturating the ink more along the top and fading it towards the bottom to mimic my heart pattern.

I colored my images with Copic Markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies.  As many of you know I love to fussy cut stamped images, but this is one set where you just might want to purchase the dies to save your sanity.  As I learned the hard way, the tree branch and monkey tails are a bit challenging to trim around so if you're on the fence this is one set where I would recommend them (or perhaps stamping the images onto your card background and masking off the monkeys before stamping the tree branch). ;)

I framed my little monkeys using our Stitched Ovals dies and Fancy Frames Oval dies and then stamped my sentiment on a curve to match using a stamp positioning tool.  To play up the scalloped theme, I cut two scalloped borders using our Stitched Scallop dies out of the same white and red cardstock and then offset them for a fun ruffled look.

Card No. 2: Up next is a card using the swinging monkey from the set, together with the extra vines included. To frame my little scene, I used our Frilly Frames Lattice dies without the lattice insert and then masked off a smaller rectangle using Therm-o-web's Purple Tape. Next I inked up my background with tumbled glass and twisted citron distress inks before peeling off the tape. I then paired my little guy with the mailbox & letters from our Sending My Love stamps.  Finally I stamped my sentiment from the set using Versafine Onyx Black ink.  I love the look of the masked background and better yet, it's a great way to keep your card flat for mailing.  ;)

Card No. 3: For this card I thought it would be fun to color the balloons in rainbow colors to match the striped paper from our Rainbow Bright paper pack for a super bright and happy card.  I inked up my cloud background using a MFT stencil and tumbled glass distress ink.  I then colored two houses from our Happy Home stamps in equally bright colors to match the feel of my monkey and framed the little scene using the negative space from our Stitched Ovals dies. To finish my card I used a sentiment from our new Over The Rainbow stamps which I will be sharing more of tomorrow.  ;)

Card No. 4: For this fun card I turned to our new Staggered Circles Die which I shared yesterday for a sweet Valentine's Day card.  I used a piece of red, pink and white striped paper from our Holiday Cheer Paper pack which inspired the colors I chose for my front card panel and circle cutouts. I then added a zig zag border detail with our Ric Rac Border stamps and stamped my sentiment with VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with white opaque embossing powder.

Card No. 5: For my last Love Monkey card of the day, I paired the cute monkey couple together with our Stitched Heart dies and the banner from our Sunny Borders stamps which was then stamped with my Valentine's Day sentiment from our Happy Thoughts stamps. Then I die-cut the polka-dot background using our new Frilly Frames Polka-dot dies, backed them with pink cardstock and paired them with two stitched scallop frames from our Fancy Frames Rectangle dies.

Card No. 6:  I am now completely switching gears with our new A2 sized Botanical Backdrop dies.  Honestly I would have liked more time to play with these because I think there is so much more things that these fun dies can do, but I sadly just ran out of time. 

For this card, I set aside the beautiful leafy frame die that comes with this set and focused on all the cool flower dies that come in the center for a pretty Mother's Day card. I had some striped paper strips from our Dots & Stripes Pastels paper pack leftover from another project so I adhered them onto some copy paper for my own custom print.  I then layered over the top a scalloped mat using our Frilly Frames Lattice dies.  After loosely arranging my flowers in opposing corners, I cut the Happy Word from our Flirty Flowers Paper and stamped the words "mother's day" from our Happy Thoughts stamps. After I had everything placed where I wanted it, I took turns lifting the pieces and applying them to my card with some liquid glue.

Card No. 7: For this card, I took that same medium sized flower used in my last card and this time paired it with some different pieces for the center to create daffodils!  For my background I embossed a piece of blue cardstock with our new Sunburst embossing folder and then distressed it with some blue ink and my jumbo dauber to accentuate the sun rays. To create my stems, I trimmed some thin strips of green cardstock on my paper trimmer and then added the two individual leaves from the set. For my sentiment I stamped the words "thank you" from our Autumn Splendor stamps onto a banner from our Little Angels dies using Versafine Onyx Black ink. A little strip of yellow striped paper from our Dots & Stripes Pastels paper pack and a scattering of Studio Katia Radiant Pineapple Fusion sequins finished off my card.

Card No. 8: My final card of the day uses the Botanical Backdrop frame and flower dies with Therm-o-web's PeelnStick Toner Sheets and their Amethyst Watercolor Foil and Lime Satin Foil.  Due to the foil's reflective nature combined with the dark background, this card was incredibly hard to get a good photo of, but it's so pretty in person! 

The directions on the toner sheets suggest die-cutting and then foiling, but after lots of trial and error I would say I got much better results by foiling small blocks of the toner sheet in the sizes I needed for a particular color and then die-cutting them afterwards.  By doing this the foil was able to get into the stitched grooves of the die (versus leaving black toner paper showing by doing it the other way).  I love these toner sheets though and it took away much of the frustration I have with foiling--It was super fun to be able to create custom colors and die-cuts from a single sheet of toner paper  Even better, I was able to combine these sheets with their foam adhesive sheets to die-cut dimensional flowers with one pass through my machine!

I think the glitz of the foil paper makes it ideal for a classy wedding card.  I added some pretty bling by Queen & Co. to my flower centers and heat embossed my sentiment using our Everyday Greetings stamps with silver embossing powder.

Here's an example of just a few of the fun ways the flowers from our new Botanical Backdrop dies can be layered...

I'm so happy you've joined me for today's sneak peek and I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner.  Make sure to keep checking back all this week for more peeks & prizes for up to five chances to win.  The contests run through Saturday at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, January 6th. :)

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Here's a closer look at the new Love Monkey stamps & coordinating dies and new standalone Botanical Backdrop dies used today (available for purchase on Friday, January 4th).

      

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Autumn Splendor Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Home Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Angels Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending My Love Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sending My Love Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Borders Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sunny Borders Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cascading Heart Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fancy Frames- Ovals Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rainbow Bright 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Happy Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Cheer 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Oval Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunburst Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Over The Rainbow Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Staggered Circles Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Polka-Dot Shop at: Sunny Studio	Everyday Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Pineapple Sequins Shop at: Sunny Studio