Special Day Card with Cathy

Hey friends! Cathy here today sharing a card featuring this gorgeous cake from the Special Day Stamps! I love a peachy orange/lime green color scheme as the weather gets warmer and I think this would make for a perfect summer wedding congrats card.

I started this card by die-cutting a piece of white cardstock using the largest Stitched Rectangles Die. On the top half of the piece, I stamped a small rose from the Everything’s Rosy Stamps multiple times in Versamark ink and heat embossed them with white embossing powder. I then lightly inked over the roses with Lost Shadow Distress ink.

Next, I die-cut a second piece of white cardstock with the same Stitched Rectangle Die, cut it straight across at 2” and inked it in a gradient from light to dark using Dried Marigold Distress ink. I heat embossed the “congrats” sentiment from the Everything’s Rosy Stamps with black embossing powder 1/2" from the bottom of the cardstock.

For a little extra fanciness, I die-cut an Icing Border Die from white cardstock, adhered it at the top of the Dried Marigold piece and trimmed the excess from the right and left edges. I also die-cut 3 tabs from the Notebook Tabs Dies from white cardstock, adhered one centered on the Dried Marigold piece below the Icing Border and adhered the other 2 tabs to each side, trimming the excess from the edges. To cover where the tabs meet, I stamped a flower from the Fabulous Flamingos Stamps twice on white cardstock using Versamark ink and heat embossed them with white embossing powder. I then used a water brush and painted the inside of the flowers using yellow and orange inks. I die-cut the flowers using the coordinating dies and adhered them where the tabs meet. I adhered the Dried Marigold piece to the bottom of the Stitched Rectangle die-cut, matted the piece on silver cardstock and adhered it to an A2 card base.

Next, I inked 2 pieces of white cardstock (one with Twisted Citron Distress ink and one with Mowed Lawn Distress ink) and die-cut leaves using the Spring Greenery Dies. I adhered these above the Dried Marigold piece. To keep a light and airy feel to the card, I stamped the cake from the Special Day Stamps in light gray ink on Neenah Classic Crest 80lb solar white cardstock, colored it with Copics and die-cut it using the coordinating dies. To make the cake stand out a bit more and balance the black sentiment, I die-cut a piece of black cardstock with the coordinating cake die, cut the top portion of the cake off leaving just the cake stand portion and adhered the colored cake slightly overlapping the black die-cut. I then adhered the cake over the leaves with foam tape.

On the inside of the card, I heat embossed the sentiment from the Special Day Stamps with black embossing powder on white cardstock and die-cut it using a label die from the Sliding Window Dies. I then inked the die-cut with Dried Marigold Distress ink. I stamped a rose from the Special Day Stamps in light gray ink, colored it with Copics and die-cut it using the coordinating dies.

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	Icing Border DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sliding Window Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Everything's Rosy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Greenery Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Tabs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Special Day Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Special Day Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Guest Designer Spotlight: A Cut Above Cards with Leanne West

Hello everyone! Leanne here and I'm excited to be here showcasing some the new stamps and dies from the summer release. I just love anything related to school and crafting supplies. So I was thrilled to see the new A Cut Above stamps, Notebook Photo Corners, and Notebook Tabs dies. 

I'm sharing three clean and fairly simple note cards which would be quick and easy to mass produce. With the end of the school year coming up, we will need lots of teacher thank you cards. These designs would also be great if you need thank you or birthday cards for any of your co-workers.  

First off, I'd like to talk about how I set up my Misti for mass producing layered stamped images. I die cut a bunch of blanks using the coordinating dies from A Cut Above. I then use a template overtop the black Misti pad. I find that I can position the stamps easily using the negative space of my die cut templates because I can clearly see the open area. I close the Misti door with the stamps perfectly placed. I then put the blank die cut pieces into the template and stamp the first layer. I repeat this process until all the layers have been stamped. I did this with different colors so I'd get many completed stamped images as you can see in my colorful scissors mini slimline card.  I love the little scissor image and could not resist stamping them in all the colors of the rainbow. 

I also really love the Notebook dies and line stamp to create realistic mini notebook pages. I simply used one notebook page on each of the A2 sized cards and a greeting plus a few stamped images. This design can be easily replicated and results in a very eye catching card especially with bright happy colors. 

On all my cards today, I have used the Lots of Dots Embossing Folder to create the textures backgrounds. I thought this was a great way to add interest to the cards without distracting from the focal images.  

Other Sunny Studio supplies used were the Thank You Word dies and Inside Greetings Birthday Stamps. 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Thank You Words Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lots of Dots Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings Birthday Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Cut Above Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Cut Above Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Tabs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Perfect Gift Boxes Card with Tina

Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina with a colorful birthday card featuring the beautiful Perfect Gift Boxes dies. I love that these packages have their matching ribbons and festive bows!

To create the illusion of dimension I started by dry embossing three panels of white Neenah cardstock using the Moroccan Circles, Lots Of Dots and Sunburst embossing folders. The last panel will be my background for this card. I used the other two to die cut 3 large and 3 smaller packages. Next, I also cut the bows from plain white paper.

All my coloring was done by ink blending the boxes and bows with distress oxides Kitsch Flamingo, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean and Dusty Concord. I used a blending brush to get a smooth coverage and added extra layers to get a two-toned look.

The lids and the ribbons were cut from matching glitter cardstocks from my stash. The sparkle gives these boxes an extra festive look. Being a big fan of cute critters, I stamped a sweet bear from Panda Party and colored him with my copic markers. I added a small white pompom from my stash to his cute party hat! Now, I could place my boxes and panda onto the Sunburst panel to decide my layout.

There was enough room at the top of the card for a sentiment from the Big Bold Greetings stamp and die set. To give the card an additional festive layer, I cut a rectangle border from a polka dot paper (Spring Fever pad) with two rectangle dies (from this Infinity set). I repeated this step twice from white cardstock for dimension.

I began to assemble the card by gluing the white sunburst panel to a card base, on the bottom of the panel I added a ‘white floor’ piece splattered with Salty Ocean oxide. Next, I adhered the border and arranged all the gift boxes, with the panda playing peek-a-boo! Lastly, I added the sentiment and a few embellishments from the Pastel Mix, Bright Mix and Iridescent Clear jewels.

I hope you will enjoy creating with these fun Perfect Gift Boxes dies! Thank you for joining me and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Sunburst Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lots of Dots Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Moroccan Circles Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Fever Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Perfect Gift Boxes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

A Cut Above Card with Marine

Hey crafty friends, Marine here! I'm so happy to be back on the blog and to start sharing the projects I've made using the new products! So exciting! I'm starting off today with some colorful scissors from A Cut Above. I went for a simple design with the scissors all lined up on my panel, but used bright colors to create a beautiful rainbow.

I first cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and used distress oxide inks to color it. From the left to the right: kitsch flamingo, dried marigold, squeezed lemonade, twisted citron and salvaged patina. I splattered water and white ink on the panel to make it less flat, and set it aside to dry.

Next I created the scissors using distress oxide inks again to match the background. For each scissor, I did the grey metal part using lost shadow + hickory smoke + black soot distress oxide inks. And for each colored handle part, I used:

- pink: kitsch flamingo + picked raspberry
- orange: dried marigold + spiced marmalade
- yellow: squeezed lemonade + mustard seed
- green: twisted citron + mowed lawn
- aqua: salvaged patina + peacock feathers

I used the coordinating die to cut each element, and then I attached them on my panel using 1mm foam squares.

I picked my "You're a cut above the rest" greeting from A Cut Above, and I wanted the word "cut" to pop, so I die cut the letters out of gold glitter cardstock using the Hayley Lowercase Alphabet, glued them below the scissors, and then white heat embossed the rest of the greeting. And finally I added golden heart sequins on each side.

And that's it! I hope you like this super bright card! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

A Cut Above Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

A Cut Above Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Birthday Cat Card with Catherine

Hello Crafty Friends! Catherine here, and I am so excited to share my first card for the new summer release! For my first card, I created a birthday card featuring the adorable Birthday Cat Stamps.

To start, I die cut the background with A2 white cardstock using Quilted Hearts Portrait Die. I cut diagonal paper strips from paper in Rainbow Bright 6x6 Paper and taped the strips to the back of the background. I adhered the background onto another piece of A2 white cardstock.

Next, I made the colorful heart border using paper from the same set. I added a strip of pink cardstock for contrast.

I made the top of the cake stand  by die cutting white cardstock with Ribbon & Lace Border Dies and trimming the border to 3”W x 3/8” H. I ink blended the edges with Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide. For the stand, I used the outer edges of the third smallest oval in Stitched Oval Dies to make the curve shape and I inked blended the edges with the same color. I added a bow from Sweet Treat House Add-On and ink blended the bow with Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide.

I stamped the cuties from Birthday Cat Stamps and die cut the images with the Birthday Cat Dies. I colored the images with Copic Markers listed in my blog link below. I added a white frame from Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies and a White Heat embossed sentiment from Birthday Cat Stamps.

Thanks so much for joining me today! Please feel free to visit me at Crafti-Cat for the list of Copic Markers used. Have a wonderful week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rainbow Bright 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Oval Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sweet Treats House Add-on Shop at: Sunny Studio	Quilted Hearts Portrait Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio