Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Leanne West

Hello and happy September! Leanne here with you today. We are just a few weeks away from the official start of fall and I can't wait! In the mean time, I enjoyed creating a couple of fall cards in anticipation of sweater weather and pumpkin spice lattes.  

I've used two new standalone die sets to help build my scenes - Pumpkin Patch and Autumn Tree. I just love a card with lots of layers and texture. These new die sets made it so easy to achieve that. 

Both of my cards started out with the same ink blended background which is a combination of Tattered Rose and Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide Inks. I then added a khaki green die cut grassy hill to each.

To make the pumpkins and Jack-o-lanterns, I die cut the pieces from light orange card stock. For shading on each piece, I used Carved Pumping, Vintage Photo, and Peeled Paint Oxide Ink. The shading is important because I feel this really gives the pumpkins more dimension when the pieces are all layered together. For the Jack-o-lanterns, I die cut the faces into the top pumpkin layer and backed it with black card stock. The face pieces are tiny and I felt this was the easiest way to assemble them. 

After I had the pumpkins and tree placed into the scene, I used lots of leaves for embellishment. I die cut the leaves from white card stock. I used a small blending brush with Shabby Shutters, Carved Pumpkin, Vintage Photo, and Peeled Paint Oxide Inks to color them. I scattered the leaves on the tree and pumpkins and even some in the air on the Happy Fall card. The little dashed lines have been stamped. These stamps come from the Backyard Bugs set. They are meant for bug trails but work just as well for blowing leaves. 

For the Halloween card I added the stamped sentiment and tiny spider. These are from a new set called Too Cute To Spook. I hand drew the line the spider is hanging from. For the fall card, I added a part stamped, part die cut greeting. Happy Thoughts and the Chloe Alphabet were the sets I used. Finally to complete my cards, I added some frames. I wanted these frames to be fairly thin so they wouldn't cover up too much of the scenes. I used two different Frilly Frames dies - Chevron & Stripes. With a craft knife and straight edge, I was able to thin the sides of each frame.   

I hope my cards have inspired you to get started on your fall projects. Thanks for stopping by! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Backyard Bugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Backyard Bugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chloe Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Chevron Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames Stripes Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Too Cute To Spook Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Too Cute To Spook Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Autumn Tree Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Pumpkin Patch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Autumn Tree Die Focused Cards with Vanessa and Tina

Hello to you! Vanessa here with a CAS card using the new Autumn Tree Dies.

I first die-cut the tree from the white cardstock panel and then all the leaves and the apple. This took a while, using the three single leaves of the tree. After I had colored the leaves and the apple, I adhered the panel and the elements to the card. 

Then I stamped the sentiment using the Words Of Gratitude stamp set onto a strip of white cardstock, notched one end and adhered it to the card. For a bit more dimension, I slightly bend up the ends of the twigs and didn't adhere them.

I hope you like my simpler version of this tree! It is so versatile. Happy weekend, see you next week!

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Hello crafty friends, Tina here with my first blogpost as a DT member for Sunny Studio Stamps! I am super excited to be a part of this amazing team! Today I am sharing a card featuring the new Autumn Tree Dies. This die is so amazing and versatile. It can be used all year round and I also love that it comes with different kind of leaves and even some cute little apples!

I started by die cutting the Fancy Frames Rectangle Die from a piece of Neenah Solar White Card Stock. I left the outer frame white and colored the second one in a teal color with my Copic Marker.

For my background I selected a pink plaid patterned paper from the new Joyful Holiday Paper Pad and glued it directly to an A2 size card base. Next, I added the white and the teal frames to the base.

To create my little Autumn scene, I first die cut an arch with the largest die from the Stitched Arch Dies set. I ink blended some Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxides over a cloud stencil to create a soft pink sky.

As a sentiment, I stamped one of the Autumn Greetings in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto the arched panel, then I added the panel to the card base with foam tape.

For my tree and leaves, I decided to cut them all from the same white Neenah card stock and color them with my Copics. I kept to a pink, orange, and teal palette for the leaves and dark to medium browns for the tree itself. I then stamped, die cut and colored a cute fox and several pumpkins from the Fall Friends Stamp and die set.

Lastly, I adhered all my images to create this colorful Autumn scene. To finish off the card, I added a few details with my white gel pen.

Thank you so much for joining me and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Words of Gratitude Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Autumn Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Autumn Tree Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Squirrel Friends Cards with Marine and Waleska

Hey crafty friends, Marine here, I'm back this week with a new super cute and busy scene featuring the lovely Squirrel Friends from the Fall & Winter 2022 collection. I love those sweet and fun little guys so much, I can't wait to showcase them on other projects!

So, as often happens, 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 then colored everything using my alcohol markers. Like I said, I created a busy scene with images from different sets, so here is the supplies list: 

Squirrel Friends - tree trunk, nuts and squirrels
Seasonal Trees - small bird
Balloon Rides - banner
Happy Harvest - sunflowers
Spring Showers - butterfly net
Harvest Mice - cart
Country Scenes - swirling thing

Once everything was colored, I created a house for the squirrels to live in using the Nutty for You die set for the base of the house, and the Gingerbread House die set for the door and two windows. I cut the different pieces and colored them using my alcohol markers again.

Next I did the background. I cut an 8,5 x 3,5" bristol panel and used scattered straw + spiced marmalade oxide inks to create a light autumn sky. And then I created a grass border to ground the scene. I cut another 8,5 x 3,5" bristol panel and cut a slim grass border out of it using a die from the Picket Fence Border die set. And I colored this border using shabby shutters and peeled paint oxide inks.

Once the background panel and grass border were dry, I started to assemble everything, starting with the nut house pieces, and then all the elements on the slimline panel using foam squares mostly to bring dimension to the scene.

And last but not least I created my sentiment. I white heat embossed the banner from Little Birdie on vellum, along with the phrase "Nuts about you" from Squirrel Friends inside of it, and I attached it at the top of the nut house using a clear foam square.

And done! This card was so fun to make, and those squirrels are really adorable, love their unique design! Please feel welcome to check the process video for more information. Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next week!

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Hello Friends, Waleska here!! It is starting to feel like fall and today I have the cutest card to celebrate love for the coming season!

For my card today it was super easy to figure out the colors of my card because I used the new Critter Country Paper and their beautiful colors inspire me to color this cute squirrels orange.

I stamped a bunch of the Squirrel Friends Stamps and started coloring them with the following copic markers: YR18/YR07/YR04 and E43/E42/E41. They are the cutest I love putting them around different scenes because they all have different positions.

This can also be a valentines card too! I then cut the front panel with the Fancy Frames Rectangle dies and started to have fun adding all the squirrels playing around. I cut a frame from kraft cardstock and added the entire front panel to a matching color paper from the same paper pad I used. To finish this card I added some little hearts to the cute couple that is sharing the acorn and I stamped the sentiment with black Versafine ink.

This colorful paper pad and squirrels are so beautiful I hope you liked this idea, thank you so much for stopping by today! Remember to stay crafty because today is only lived once, do what you love and enjoy it!!!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingerbread House Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Harvest Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Harvest Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Nutty For You Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seasonal Trees Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seaonal Trees Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Showers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Squirrel Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Squirrel Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critter Country Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio