Ribbon & Lace Border Die Focused Cards with Waleska and Marine

Hello Friends, Waleska here. With this card I wanted to thank each of you that read my blog posts and are very kind to me on social media when I share my Sunny Studio Stamps cards.  My card today features the Ribbon and Lace Border dies and the Garden Fairy Stamps.

To create this card I started with the color palette I wanted something soft and spring and the Spring Fever paper has some beautiful prints and colors. I then cut some stripes with the Ribbon and Lace Border dies. I cut an A2 size card base and used one of the scalloped borders to create a beautiful border on the front, I then used the different color stripes to create a design on the front of this panel.

I stamped two of the cute fairies from the Garden Fairy Stamps and colored them with copic markers matching the colors of the paper I already used. I also stamped the word Thanks from the Big Bold Greetings stamps with Versafine Ink. I adhere the fairies and word on the front of the panel and to finish my card I added some gems to the scalloped border. Again thank you so much for stopping by today! Remember to stay safe and crafty!

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Hello crafty friends, Marine here with you today, back with this Cinderella inspired card. I've had this idea in mind for weeks, so I'm super happy to finally share this card with you. As very often I wanted to feature a bunch of images on my card, so once again I went for a slimline design, but used two Ribbon & Lace Borders to add an extra something else to the very bottom of my card.

So, I started off by cutting an 8,5 x 3,5 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and I used the straight die from Ribbon & Lace Borders to cut an inch out of the bottom of this panel. Next I colored my panel using stencils and oxide inks: mowed lawn + rustic wilderness for the hills, and wilted violet + blueprint sketch + black soot for the night sky.

I stamped my images on Transotype perfect coloring paper using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, cut them all using the coordinating dies, and used my alcohol markers to color everything. Here are the stamps I picked:

the castle, the coach, and a princess from Enchanted
two mice & the pumpkins from Harvest Mice
the tiny hat from Christmas Critters
the flowers from Chubby Bunny + from Chickie Baby
the trees from Spring Scenes
the grass from Garden Critters

Once all the images were colored, I attached them all on my panel using foam squares, and next I worked on the final details. I used another die from Ribbon & Lace borders to cut a scalloped border out of some purple glitter cardstock. I embossed my "Hoping your day is magical" greeting from Garden Fairy in silver on a piece of pink dotted paper from Spring Fever, and I attached those different pieces on a purple card base. And as always I finished my card by adding highlights and details on the images using a white gel pen.

And that's it! I really love how it turned out, with all the pumpkins, the coach, and the mice... I hope you like it too! As always, feel welcome to check the process video for more details! Thank you so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Critters DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chubby Bunny Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chubby Bunny Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Chickie Baby Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chickie Baby Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Enchanted Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Enchanted Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Garden Fairy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Garden Fairy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Garden Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Garden Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Fever Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Spring Bouquet Cards with Catherine and Marie

Hello Crafty Friends! Catherine here, and today I am sharing a friendship shaker card created with the pretty Spring Bouquet Stamps and Stitched Arch Dies.

To start, I embossed A2 white cardstock with Quilted Hearts Embossing Folder. To make the opening, I die cut the embossed panel with the largest arch in Stitched Arch Dies. I then die cut a small arch using the leftover large arch. I then die cut a medium size arch with paper from Gingham Pastels Paper. I adhered the small white arch onto the medium arch and set it aside.

To make the shaker, I flipped my embossed panel over and adhered A2 acetate onto the back. Next, I die cut the large arch using a double-sided foam sheet. I then die cut the medium sized arch with double sided foam sheet. I removed the backing on the foam sheet and adhered the foam arches onto the back of the panel. I nested the medium arch inside the large arch and taped it together with craft tape. I placed the arches onto  A2 white cardstock, and added some Iridescent Clear Jewels inside the space between the two arches. I removed the arches and placed the embossed panel onto the background. I adhered the medium and small arches onto the center.

Using white cardstock, I die cut the flowers from Spring Bouquet and the butterflies from Watering Can with the coordinating dies. I placed the negative die cut cardstock onto my Misti stamping tool, placed the images back inside the negative space, and inked the images with the following Altenew Inks:

Pinks:  Frosty Pink, Cotton Candy, Coral Berry
Yellows: Citrus Burst, Fresh Lemon, Sunkissed
Blues: Iceberg, Ultramarine, Sapphire
Green: Firefly, Grass Field

I adhered the images onto the card front. I added a “Thank You” sentiment from Big Bold Greetings inked with Altenew Persian Blue Dye Ink. I added a White Heat Embossed sentiment from Words of Gratitude and a few sequins from Majestic Fusion Sequins. I wanted to balance the blue arch in the center of the card so I added a border using Gingham Pastels Paper.

Thank you so much for joining me today! Have a wonderful week!

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Hello Crafty friends, Marie here! Today I’m back on the blog and excited to share my latest card creation featuring the beautiful hyacinth flower from the lovely layering Spring Bouquet Stamps alongside the adorable Feeling Froggy Stamp. I love hyacinths and I love frogs and the two combined just makes me smile! 

This springtime birthday box card was crafted using Lawn Fawn’s Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up die. I die cut all the box card components from Bristol smooth cardstock paper for the smoothest ink blending experience. I ink blended the outside of the box in Seedless Preserves distress Ink, and used a cloud stencil to ink blend the back panel with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink. For the grass panels, I used a combination of Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and for the water panel, I used Salvaged Patina with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide. 

After assembling my box card and cutting off the front and side flaps, I stamped out the hyacinth flowers onto 110 lb. Neenah Solar White Cardstock. When stamping each layer of the flower, I used a sponge dabber to lightly add ink to my stamp instead of directly applying the stamp into the ink pad. I do this technique so that each stamped layer is even and not too saturated. I also give each layer time to dry before stamping the next layer. For my blue hyacinth, I used a combination of Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide, followed by Salty Ocean Distress Oxide, and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide. For the purple hyacinths, I used Spun Sugar Distress ink, Cotton Candy Dye Ink from MftStamps, and finally Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide. I stamped out all the leaves and stems with Twisted Citron Distress ink, and shaded them used Copics In Forest Green (G17), Emerald Green (G05) and Yellow Green (YG03). 

Next, I stamped the adorable frog onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock with InkOn3 Fadeout ink, and colored him with PolyChromos Color Pencils, and copics for the lilly pad ( G17, G05, and BG09). For the tiny dragonfly images, I stamped them onto watercolor paper using Antique Linen Distress Ink and colored them with watercolor pencils. To make their dainty little wings pop, I added some Stickles Glitter Glue in the shade Diamond. I then cut out all my flowers and stems with the corresponding Spring Bouquet Dies. I used the Feeling Froggy Dies to cut all the little dragon flies and froggy. I then adhered all my images to my scene with a combination of double sided tape adhesive and Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue. To make all the little dragonflies look like they're flying, I cut super thin strips of thick acetate and attached them to the tip. 

Finally, I stamped out a Happy Birthday sentiment with my favorite Big Bold Greetings Stamps. I used the color Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide to stamp my sentiment and cut it out using the corresponding Big Bold Greetings Dies. I absolutely love how this box card came together!! It's absolutely perfect for a spring or summer Birthday, and luckily for me, I have many Summer birthdays ahead! Thank you for joining me today, friends !!! Until next time, stay crafty and happy cardmaking!!! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Words of Gratitude Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Quilted Hearts Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Feeling Froggy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Feeling Froggy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Watering Can Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Watering Can Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Bouquet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Bouquet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Build-A-Birdhouse Cards with Lien and Isha

Hi crafty friends! It's Lien here, with a great way to add some forced perspective on a card using different-sized images.

To get the most out of this forced perspective effect, I started out by creating a little window or frame for my scene. I die-cut one of the Scalloped Oval Mat 1 Dies from the center of some cream cardstock. This is cut slightly smaller than an A2 card so I'd have a nice margin all around in the end. My background is made from a very pale blue cardstock and I added a little bit of ink blending at the top to darken it up and add some more depth.

 

I propped my frame piece up on foam tape and then assembled two birdhouses from the fun Build-A-Birdhouse dies and also put the two birds together, setting those aside for later. I adhered to the birdhouses in the frame. I also cut the Autumn Tree die from brown cardstock, I'm just going to use the branches and some of the small leaves, tucking the branches underneath the frame. Using a jewel picker it's easy to add all the small leaves and to add more color I also added some tiny flowers on the branches. These flower dies are included in the Wonderful Windows dies. 

 

Because the birdhouses and the branches are quite small, the scene looks to be pretty far away. However, there's no real perspective on a card like this, in the end, these could just be small elements on a card. To force the perspective, to make the things inside the window look small and far away, add something outside of the window that is noticeably larger. A great element to do that with on this card would be some flowers or leaves. I opted for the leaves, using the Autumn Greenery dies to create some larger leaves for the outside of the window.

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Hello everyone! Isha here today with an adorable thanks card featuring the Build-A-Birdhouse dies. Past few weeks I have been using pastel colors on my cards and as you know me I love colors, so for this card, I went with some bold colors.

I started by creating the background using various colors of Distress inks. Sponged them by keeping the darker colors to the edges. Flick, black and white paint to the panel. Adhere the panel to a white card base. Stamp the tree branch from the Little Birdie stamp set, color, and die-cut using the coordinating dies.

Die-cut the images from white cardstock using the Build-A-Birdhouse dies. Color the images using Copic markers. Adhere to various layers to finish the images. Adhere all the images to the card. Stamp the word thanks from the Big Bold Greetings stamp set onto a black card using Versamark ink. Sprinkle WOW! opaque white embossing powder. Heat set. Die-cut using the coordinating dies. Adhere the word to the card. 

Add Nuvo crystal glaze to some of the elements and the card is ready. Thank you for dropping by!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Scalloped Oval Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Autumn Greenery Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Autumn Tree Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Build-A-Birdhouse Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wonderful Windows Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio