Guest Designer Spotlight: Baby Elephant & Wedded Bliss Cards with Rachel Alvarado

Hello everyone! It's Rachel here and I'm thrilled to be guest designing today with the latest Sunny Studios Stamps release. I absolutely LOVE this new release and I've created a number of projects to quickly share with you today.

All of my images for each project were stamped onto a piece of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Card Stock with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, colored with Copic Markers, and die cut (when needed) with their coordinating die sets.

For my first three projects, I used the adorable new Baby Elephants Stamp Set along with the Baby Elephants Die Set. For my first project, I created a slimline card by combining my images with the Slimline Scalloped Frame Die Set as well as the Slimline Nature Border Dies. I die cut my grass piece from some smooth white card stock and blended it with some Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink for a pop of green. I also blended my background sky with a mix of Salvaged Patina and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Inks. After stamping my sentiment, I adhered all of my images with some 3D foam adhesive squares for added dimension.

For my next project, I created a fun one-layered card using only one elephant and the umbrella from the set. I first stamped my elephant onto a 4.25" x 5.5" piece of Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock and then stamped it again onto a piece of Gina K Designs Masking Magic Sheets. I then fussy cut my masking piece and then placed the adhesive mask over my elephant prior to stamping the umbrella. I then masked the umbrella and blended the background with some Stormy Sky, Blueprint Sketch, and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Inks. I used a water brush to loosely "paint" in some rain and then added some white accents using a white gel pen to emphasize the rain. My sentiment came from the Spring Showers Stamp Set.

My third project is another one-layer scene that I die cut using the scalloped die from the Frilly Frames Hexagon Die Set. I then adhered this piece to an A2 sized dark blue card base. For my image itself, I used the same masking method that I used above and die cut a Stitched Circle Large from another piece of masking paper. I then placed this handmade stencil on top of my masked elephant and blended the circular area with Cracked Pistachio, Picked Raspberry, Chipped Sapphire, and Black Soot Distress Inks to create a galaxy sky. Once I was finished blending, I lightly splattered the ink-blended area with some diluted opaque white acrylic paint to resemble stars.

Lastly, I created a fun mini slimline box card from scratch to create a beach-themed wedding scene. I combined the new Wedded Bliss Stamp Set and Wedded Bliss Die Set along with the Passionate Penguins Stamp and Die Sets. I love how easily these sets coordinate with each other! I also used the new Ocean View Stamp Set and Ocean View Die Set to create my background and added another palm tree from the Seasonal Trees Stamps and Dies. I also used the Slimline Nature Border Dies again to create some sandy beach slopes for the inside of my box card. For these pieces, I cut them from white card stock and blended them with some Antique Linen Distress Oxide Ink. I blended some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Ink for my sky and lastly added a cute little bouquet of flowers (caught by the adorable penguin on the lower right) from the Love Monkey Stamps and Dies.

Thanks so much for dropping by today! I hope you enjoyed my projects! You can check out the entire, amazing new release from Sunny Studio Stamps HERE. If you liked these cards and want some more crafty inspiration, please feel free to check out my INSTAGRAM feed!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seasonal Trees Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seaonal Trees Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wedded Bliss Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wedded Bliss Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Kiddie Pool Cards with Vanessa and Audrey

Hello to you! Vanessa here with my first take on the new release using Kiddie Pool.

I first die-cut the pool from my white panel of cardstock, inked the edges of the pool and adhered a piece of acetate behind the opening. Now I added foam tape behind the pool, filled the area with sequins and adhered the panel to the card base. I stamped my images, colored the pieces with Copic markers, die-cut everything the matching dies and adhered the elements to the card. 

This is a list of the products I used today:
Kiddie Pool stamps + dies
Silly Sloths stamps + dies (leaves)
Beach Babies stamps + dies (ball)
Swimming Pool dies

Finally, I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of green cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, notched one end and adhered it.

Isn't this release amazing? It's such fun! Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by!

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Hello friend! Audrey here with a summer inspired card to share with you! 

To create this card, I started off by watercolor a background using Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and Mowed Lawn. I cut the panel just a smidge smaller than a A2 card front. I stamped and colored images from Kiddie Pool and die cut them with the coordinating Kiddie Pool dies. For the swimming pool, I stamped and die cut it, then stamped it again on polka dot paper from the Rainbow Bright 6x6 paper pad. I fussy cut that piece and glue it to the die cut piece. To make the pool water sparkle, I added a layer of Glossy Accents and then went around the water's edge with Stickles glitter. 

I stamped a sentiment from the set on a diecut banner, and added a snippet of striped paper from the Rainbow Bright paper pad under the sentiment, and along the bottom edge of the panel before adhering it to an A2 card base. To finish off my card, I added some white gel pen accents.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Beach Babies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Babies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rainbow Bright 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Swimming Pool Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Wedded Bliss Cards with Marine and Marieke

Hey crafty friends, Marine here on the blog today! Summer release is finally available at sunnystudiostamps.com and I'm super happy to be back with a shaker card showcasing the adorable Wedded Bliss mini stamp set. This wedded penguin couple is just so cute!

As always I started off with the coloring. I stamped the images using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, cut them all using the coordinating dies and used my alcohol markers to color everything.

Besides the Wedded Bliss penguin couple, I stamped one of the Balloon Rides banners three times, as well as a bunch of hearts from Fabulous Flamingos. And to create my cute penguin cherub, I picked a penguin from Passionate Penguins, and stamped a bird from Little Birdie two times to use his wings only.

Next I created the shaker background. I cut a 6 x 3" panel out of a Flirty Flowers pattern paper, and I cut a Stitched Arch out of that panel. I white heat embossed my sentiment "Wishing you wedded bliss" from Wedded Bliss at the top of my mini slimline panel, and then I attached the inside arch window remaining piece on a 6 x 3" card base using the open arch window panel as a guide.

I flipped the panel over and added liquid glue all along the arch window, I attached a piece of clear acetate at the back of my panel, and then, to create room for the shaker accessories, I added two layers of foam strips all along the arch window.

I made the foam strips edges non sticky using a powder tool, cleaned the acetate with a microfiber cloth, I also added more foam strips above the window and next I added a mix of jewels inside the window, and finally I placed my card base on the foam strips to totally close my shaker panel. And next I attached the images using 3mm glue dots.

And that's it, we have a super cute mini shaker card with a happy and elegant penguin couple and a cheeky penguin cherub throwing hearts at them. Don't hesitate to watch the process video for information (just click on the image above!). Thanks for stopping by and see you next week!

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Hello Sunny Studio Friends, Marieke here. To kick everything off I'm sharing my first card as a design team member and it is a mini slimline wedding card using the Wedded Bliss Stamps. 

So first off I cut a white panel, die cut it and emboss the panel using the Moroccan Circles Embossing Folder. Cut a rectangle out of pattern paper and glued that on top of the embossed panel. Using the same outer die I cut a small piece of white cardstock and some pattern paper from the same paper pad and adhered them together. Added some twine for some interest. Die cut the heart out of the Cupcake Shape dies twice out of cardstock and pattern paper and glued onto the twine.

Used Copic Colors:
Penguins - N6, N4, N3, N2 / YR04, YR02, YR00 / E53, E51, E50, 0 / R20
Suit - W4, W2, W1, W00
Pink - RV02, RV00, RV000, RV0000
Crown - C3, C1, C00
Rose - YG13, YG11 / R24, R22, R20

Stamped the image, colored it up using my Copic markers and cut them using the Wedded Bliss Die. Die cut a heart out of light gray cardstock and another one out of white cardstock and dry embost the smallest heart. Adhered them together. Heat set all the sentiments using gold embossing powder and cut them. Adhered everything onto a light gray base card.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Cupcake Shape Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Moroccan Circles Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wedded Bliss Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Wedded Bliss Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio