Tranquil Tulips Cards with Marie and Catherine

Hello Everyone, Marie here! Spring is one of my most favorite times of the year because everything is beautiful and flowers are blooming left and right. If I could think of a flower that is the quintessential Spring flower, tulips definitely come to mind first! That being said, I am excited to share my latest inspiration card that features Sunny Studio Stamps' Tranquil Tulips Stamps. This layering stamp set allows you to quickly create gorgeous tulips during their different stages of bloom. This set is perfect for mass producing cards! 

My card today has a very simple design. To start,  I die cut an A2 sized base panel from 110 lb. Neenah Solar White Cardstock. For my background panel I used the Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace Die. I love the scalloped border this die creates! Then taking some Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Ink, I lightly inked a little more than half the panel, and finished distress inking the rest with Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide Ink. I also splattered some Salvaged Patina throughout the panel for a little texture. I then  adhered the background panel to the base panel using double sided tape adhesive. 

Next step was to stamp out all my lovely tulips onto Neenah Solar White Cardstock. Each layering flower stamp is individually labeled so it's easy to follow which order they go in. For each tulip bloom, I used three different colors with 3 different ink tones. For the purple tulip, I used a very light Princess Pink Dye Ink for the base, and then a slightly darker Pink in the shade Cotton Candy Dye ink  for the mid tone.These two inks are from MFTstamps. The darkest shade I used is Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide which is a purple that compliments the pink layers very well. For my full bloom yellow tulip, I used Lemon Chiffon Dye Ink, followed by a darker Lemon Drop Dye ink from MftStamps, and the darkest Ink is Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink. 

To make the base of the flower a little darker giving it a more defined gradient, I added a touch of Wild Honey Distress Oxide Ink only to the base. For the pink tulip, I used Spun Sugar Distress Ink, Saltwater Taffy Distress Ink, and finally Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide as the darkest shade. For all the stems and leaves, I used a bright green Twisted Citron Distress Ink, and then Polychromos Color pencils to add some shading. I cut out all the images using the corresponding Tranquil Tulips Dies.

To highlight their beauty, I kept my design very simple by placing all three tulips inside a white oval frame that I created using two oval nesting dies. I gave the flowers dimension by adhering each one with foam tape. I also used foam tape on all the leaves. For the inside of my card, I lightly inked the center of an oval with Salvaged Patina and added a single stemmed tulip, placed off to the side, to create room for my "You're the Best" sentiment. My sentiment was created using the Loopy Letter Dies which I cut from a gold metallic cardstock. 

That concludes this week's card inspiration using the awesome Tranquil Tulips Layering stamps! I had a lot of fun experimenting with various different inks to create the perfect tulip colors! I hope this inspires you to create more Spring projects especially for the upcoming Easter holiday! Thanks so much for joining me today and until next time, Happy Cardmaking! 

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Hello Crafty Friends! Catherine here, and today I am sharing some floral gift tags created with Tranquil Tulips Stamps and Vintage Jar Stamps.

To start, I die-cut the tulips, leaves, and stems, with white cardstock using the coordinating Tranquil Tulips Dies. I placed the die cut images back into the negative spaces. I stamped the images layer by layer with the following Altenew inks:

Yellows: Citrus Burst, Fresh Lemon, Maple Yellow
Pinks: Frosty Pink, Cotton Candy, Coral Berry
Purples: Soft Lilac, Wisteria, Lavendar Fields
Greens: Firefly, Grass Field

I added some highlights onto the tulips and leaves with a white gel pen.

For the jar, I die cut 6 jars (3 for the front and 3 for the back) out of white cardstock using Vintage Jar Dies. I placed 3 of the jars back into the negative space and stamped the jar using Vintage Jar Stamps with Lawn Fawn Kiddie Pool Ink. I set the 3 jars aside for the back of the tags.  For the front of the jars, I placed the remaining 3 white cardstock jars back into the negative space and stamped the stem images. Next, I stamped the jar on top of the stems using Vintage Jar Stamps and Lawn Fawn Kiddie Pool Ink.

I adhered the tulips, stems, and leaves onto the back of the jar fronts and then glued on the back of the jars. I tied some brown string around the top of the jars. I added tags from Window Quad Square Dies using paper from Gingham Pastels Paper. I added a “thanks” sentiment in the Tranquil Tulips Stamps set using the pennant from Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies.

Thank you so much for joining me today! I would love for you to visit me at Crafti-Cat! Have a lovely day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Vintage Jar Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Vintage Jar Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Loopy Letters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Quad Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tranquil Tulips Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tranquil Tulips Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Hayley Alphabet Die Focused Cards by Isha and Lien

Hello everyone, Isha here with a fun interactive baby card featuring the Hayley Alphabets dies. I used action wobbler to create the interactive element.

To start, I created the clouds in the center of the white panel by sponging pink distress ink through a cloud stencil. I then flicked some pink and white ink splatters.

Stamp the images from the Baby Elephants stamps, color, and die-cut using the coordinating dies. Stamp the banner from the Little Birdie stamp set, stamp the sentiment, color, and die-cut using the coordinating dies. Adhere the center focal image to the card using a mini action wobbler. Adhere to the rest of the images.

Die-cut the word "WELCOME" using the Hayley Uppercase and Hayley Lowercase alphabet. I die-cut it once with white and then with black card. Color the white using pink markers. Adhere the pink alphabet to the black, slightly offset. Adhere to the card.

Adhere the panel to a pink card base. Add some white gel pen details. Add shine to the clouds, crown, and word using a Nuvo shimmer pen. To finish, add some diamond sparkle stars by Studio Katia.

Thanks for dropping by and have a nice day!

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Hi crafty friends! It's Lien here, with some tips to align your custom sentiments and a fun way to add stitching to a border die!

 

Today I finally got to try an idea I had as soon as I saw these beautiful Ribbon and Lace Border dies. I added stitching to them! First, I die-cut one of the borders from a panel of white cardstock and twice more from scraps. I tried to align the die-cut scraps behind the panel and temporarily adhered them together with washi tape once I liked the spacing. I then trimmed the entire piece down to 4 3/4" x 3 1/2".

 

I used three shades of red embroidery thread and stitched french knots in all the circular holes on the border. You can find some great french knot tutorials on youtube, but for stitching on paper, I recommend using all 6 strands of thread and wrapping the thread around your needle at least 5 times for a thicker rose. This takes a little bit of practice, but I promise it's worth it!

 

I traced the borders on some green cardstock with a pencil and quickly trimmed it out with scissors. I can adhere these green scraps behind each white border so it looks like the oval holes in the border die are leaves for each stitched rose. I adhered all these borders together and set the finished piece to the side. 

 

I wanted a longer sentiment on this card and used both the Hayley Uppercase Alphabet Dies and the Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies to cut this out. As I did for my last card, before die-cutting these letters, I covered the back of my cardstock (dark blue) in foam tape to create quick puffy alphabet stickers. 

 

Now for my perfect tip to line up a longer sentiment like this created with alphabet dies: I cut a piece of parchment paper (baking paper works too!) to the size of my empty white space above the stitched borders. I adhered this down to my cutting mat so I could see the grid of it through the parchment paper. This way I could use the grid to space my die cuts. Once I was happy with the spacing, I used a piece of Press 'n Seal to pick all the letters up at once and transfer them to my card. 

I foam mounted the white panel onto a pink card base and added some small flower and leaf dies from the Wonderful Windows dies and the Autumn Tree dies to embellish the sentiment a little bit. That finishes up this stitched card!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Autumn Tree Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hayley Uppercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wonderful Windows Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Clucky Chickens Cards with Bobbi and Cathy

Cluck, cluck…what’s up? Bobbi here with you! It’s the Clucky Chickens stamps and dies! New for spring, these chickens come with all their cute accessories like the hen house, basket, crate with hay, chicks, eggs and more. This stamp set can make all sorts of cards including cards for birthdays. My 5″ X 7″ card features pattern papers from the Classic Sunburst paper pack and the Critter Country paper pack for the background.

To make this 5″ X 7″ card, I attached the pattern papers to create a vibrant background and stamped the birthday phrase at the bottom, in the white space. Next, I stamped the cute images from the set and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I colored the images using the following Copic Sketch Marker colors:

Chickens: E53, E50, YR68, R29, R17
Hen house: Y38, Y19, E55, E59, E49, 100, C9, C7, C5
Chicks: Y38, Y18
Crate with hay: E57, E55, E53, E50, E49
Basket: B04, B02, B00, Y19, Y15, Y08, E53, E50
Shadow color: W5

I don’t love a white border around my cut images, so I generally color the borders using a shadow color such as W5. It keeps the attention on the image instead of the border when creating a scene like this one.

I attached all of the items to the card front. The hen house, crate with hay and three of the chickens were attached with foam tabs, making them stand out a bit. It gives more dimension to the scene. I added one chicken inside the house. There’s a die in the set that cuts out the door opening making this super easy to do! I like that this card has more masculine colors in the background, making the white chickens really pop off the page. It would be a great card for males as well. 

Thanks for stopping by today. If you want to see more ideas and inspiration from me, subscribe to my blog, BobbiHartDesign.com. I’ll send you updates on new posts! You can also find me on Instagram as @BobbiHartDesign and on Facebook as BobbiHartDesign.

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Hey friends! Cathy here today and I’ve got a cute friendship card to share using the Clucky Chickens Stamps. Fast food chicken restaurants inspired my color scheme today but, shhhhh… Don’t tell these chickens!

I started this A2 card by die-cutting a piece of white cardstock with a Stitched Rectangle Die. I then inked the inside of the Woodgrain Embossing Folder with Lost Shadow Distress ink and embossed the die-cut rectangle.

Next, I die-cut the center portion of the Frilly Frames Hexagon Die from white cardstock and inked it with Lost Shadow Distress ink. I cut the hexagon pattern from the cardstock, adhered it to the left half of the stitched rectangle and trimmed the excess from the outside edges. I then repeated this on the right half of the stitched rectangle. Before I adhered the stitched rectangle to the card front, I die-cut a 5 1/2" long piece of black cardstock using the ribbon die from the Ribbon & Lace Border Dies and adhered the stitched rectangle slightly overlapping the ribbon piece. I trimmed the excess black ribbon piece along the right and left edges of the stitched rectangle and adhered the combined piece centered on the card front.

For my chicken scene, I die-cut a piece of white cardstock with the largest Stitched Rectangle Die. With the die-cut rectangle placed horizontally, I taped the second largest Stitched Rectangle Die vertically across the piece and die-cut it again. This gave a stitched edge to all sides. I then masked off a horizon line 1 1/2" from the top edge and lightly inked the sky with Fossilized Amber Distress ink. I removed the masking tape and lightly inked the ground with Antique Linen Distress ink. I stamped a sentiment from the Clucky Chickens Stamps in the top right corner making sure to leave enough room for the chicken coop.

I brought my red and yellow color scheme together with the help of 2 borders on each side of the center panel that I die-cut using the ribbon die from the Ribbon & Lace Border Dies. I overlapped each piece and adhered them to the back of the center panel trimming the excess from the top and bottom edges. I then adhered the combined piece to the center of the card front.

To finish, I stamped the images from the Clucky Chickens Stamps on Neenah Classic Crest 80lb solar white cardstock, colored them with Copics and die-cut them using the coordinating dies. I also deepened the ground around the images with Copic E50 and E51.

I hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by! For more inspiration, please visit my blog www.inkredibleadventures.com and you can also find me on Instagram as @cathy.chapdelaine.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodgrain Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Sunburst Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critter Country Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Clucky Chickens Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Clucky Chickens Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Guest Designer Spotlight: Garden Critters Cards with Kavya

Hi folks, Kavya here. I am back on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog with some fun inspiration using this quarter's release. I absolutely love Spring and Mendi did an awesome job of designing products that pair well with products that were previously released :) 

For my first card, I tried creating a garden scene filled with adorable critters. I started off by ink blending my background using blue and yellow dye ink. For the grass, I used some green ink blended green cardstock. 

I then stamped and colored a bunch of images from Garden Critters stamp, Pink Peonies, Squirrel Friends, Fall Friends and Spring Showers stamp set. 

For my second card, I created a scene depicting a warm autumn afternoon where I am spending my time staring out my bedroom window! I started off by ink bending the brick background using a generic stencil and added some diecut grass at the bottom. 

I then stamped and colored a bunch of images from Garden Critters stamp, A Bird's Life and Kiddie Pool stamp sets. I created the window using Wonderful Windows Dies and added some extra dimension to the windows using a copic markers. 

That's it and I am done! I loved how both these cards turned out and decided to skip the sentiments so that I can use them for any occasion. 

I hope you liked these projects! Happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

A Bird's Life Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Bird's Life Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pink Peonies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Pink Peonies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Kiddie Pool Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Squirrel Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Squirrel Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Garden Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Garden Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wonderful Windows Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio