Saturday, May 13, 2023

Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Wanda Guess

Hi Sunny Studio fans! It's Wanda here with a couple of cheerful cards made with the awesome new Sunny Studio Summer Release! I always love it when I'm invited to be a guest here! I made two birthday cards using a mix of new supplies and previously released supplies. Everyone always needs to have birthday cards ready, right?

Sunny Studio Stamps: Scrumptious Cupcakes Birthday Card by Wanda Guess (featuring Frilly Frame Dies)

My first card features the Scrumptious Cupcakes stamps and dies! I made five rainbow shaded cupcakes to make it super festive. I added glitter to the frosting on each cupcake for a bit of shimmer. 

Sunny Studio Stamps: Scrumptious Cupcakes Birthday Card by Wanda Guess (featuring Frilly Frame Dies)

I used the Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace and Frilly Frame Stripes dies in white as my background, layered over a piece of striped paper. 

Sunny Studio Stamps: Scrumptious Cupcakes Birthday Card by Wanda Guess (featuring Frilly Frame Dies)

The sentiment was heat embossed in silver onto a strip of vellum, which I layered around the bottom of the card. I added a few hearts for good measure and love! My finished card is a horizontal A2 size. 

Sunny Studio Stamps: Birthday Cat Birthday Card by Wanda Guess (featuring Mini Mat & Tag Dies, Bright Balloons Dies)

My second card features the adorable Birthday Cats stamps and dies! I stamped and die cut out the sweet kitties and colored them with my Copic Markers. How cute are they in their party hats?! 

Sunny Studio Stamps: Birthday Cat Birthday Card by Wanda Guess (featuring Mini Mat & Tag Dies, Bright Balloons Dies)

I used a piece of rainbow striped paper as my background and layered red with it. My top layer was die cut with the Mini Mat & Tag 4 dies. I ink blended just the top of the white panel with blue ink. I stamped the sentiments directly onto the blue inked portion. 

Sunny Studio Stamps: Birthday Cat Birthday Card by Wanda Guess (featuring Mini Mat & Tag Dies, Bright Balloons Dies)


I finished off with a red balloon, die cut with the new Bright Balloons dies. I want to party with this crew! My finished card is an A2 size. 

Thanks for letting me share some projects with you! Until I see you again - happy crafting!

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Frilly Frames Stripes Die
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Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace
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Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies
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Birthday Cat Stamps
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Birthday Cat Dies
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Scrumptious Cupcakes Stamps
Scrumptious Cupcakes Stamps
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Scrumptious Cupcakes Dies
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Bright Balloons Dies
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Friday, May 12, 2023

Grad Cat Card with Tina

Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina with a colorful graduation card for you today! It’s that time of the year when we all need such a congratulations card. Mine is for my niece who will receive her bachelor’s degree in bioengineering sciences. I am sure she will love this sweet cat with the hat and diploma! 

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Card by Tina Henkens (featuring Woo Hoo, Happy Thoughts, Scalloped Oval Mat Dies, Crepe Paper Streamer Dies)

My white card panel is dry embossed with the Sunburst Embossing Folder. I really love the extra texture this gives to a simple base. To highlight my scene I die cut the largest oval from the Scalloped Oval Mat 1 set and turned it into a frame with a smaller oval die from an infinity set. The sweet pink paper is from the Gingham Pastels pack.

Next, I stamped and die cut all my images for this card using the Cat Grad and Woo Hoo sets. These products work so well together! I colored everything with my Copic markers.

As an extra festive detail I also die cut three Crepe Paper Streamers and used the same markers to make them match the color scheme. I added some golden and white details with gel pens from my stash.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Card by Tina Henkens (featuring Woo Hoo, Happy Thoughts, Scalloped Oval Mat Dies, Crepe Paper Streamer Dies)

As a sentiment, I combined the ‘happy graduation’ from Happy Thoughts which is a very versatile set to have at hand for lots of occasions.

I glued my embossed panel to a card base and started layering all the images, creating a pile of books for the sweet cat to sit on. I tucked the diploma under the tail and added the streamers to the background. Lastly, I adhered the sentiment and some Gold Jewels.

I hope you got inspired to make some fun grad cards with this cute Grad Cat! Thank you for joining me and happy crafting!

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Woo Hoo Dies
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Woo Hoo Stamps
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Happy Thoughts Stamps
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Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper
Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper
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Sunburst Embossing
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Grad Cat Stamps
Grad Cat Stamps
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Grad Cat Dies
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Scalloped Oval Mat 1 Dies
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Crepe Paper Streamers Dies
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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Grad Cat Gift Tags with Marine

Hello crafty friends! Marine here, I'm super happy to be back on the blog with those six graduation shaker tags showcasing the ever so cute kitty from Grad Cat. Love this sweet little guy so much I thought it would be fun to create a variety of cats with matching bow ties and books.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Shaker Tags by Marine Simon (featuring Mini Mat & Tag Dies)

I started off by stamping six kitties, books and bow ties, all from Grad Cat, on Transotype perfect coloring paper using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, I cut them all using the coordinating dies, and colored everything using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and Graph'it Brush markers. I colored each kitty in a different way to make each one of them unique, and once the coloring was done, I stamped a star, again from Grad Cat, on each book spine.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Shaker Tags by Marine Simon (featuring Mini Mat & Tag Dies)

Next I created six shaker tags using the same process as the Meow & Furever tags I made back in January. The papers I used are from the Heroic Halftones paper pack, and these are perfect because they look like they're shining a light on each kitty that just graduated. So, I made those tags using the Mini Mat & Tags 3 die set, and to decorate the top I cut and glued a gold glitter star using a die from the Mini Mat & Tags 4 die set, and used gold thread from my stash to make handles.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Shaker Tags by Marine Simon (featuring Mini Mat & Tag Dies)

I attached each kitty and book on their matching tags using 1mm foam squares, and then I created the greetings. I cut six speech bubbles out of matching cardstock using a die from the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles die set, next I cut six more speech bubbles out of gold glitter cardstock, I attached a gold glitter speech bubble behind each colored speech bubble, and then stuck the elements on the tags using 1mm foam squares again.

As always I finished the tags by adding highlights and details on the images and speech bubbles using a white gel pen. And that's it! I hope you like those cute and colorful graduation shaker tags. Thanks so much for stopping by, and see next time!

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Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper
Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper
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Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies
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Grad Cat Stamps
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Grad Cat Dies
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Mini Mat & Tag 3 Dies
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Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Grad Cat Card with Catherine

Hello Crafty Friends, Catherine here with you! It’s graduation time and today, I am sharing a card created with the cute Grad Cat Stamps and the new Notebook Tabs Dies.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Card by Catherine Cohen (featuring Notebook Dies, Stitched Rectangles Dies, Slimline Dies)

To start, I die cut white cardstock with the largest die in Stitched Rectangle Dies. I ink blended the panel with Squeezed Lemonade and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxides. I splattered some orange watercolor onto the bottom of the panel and blue watercolor onto the top of the panel. I sprayed some Gold Shimmer onto the panel for added interest.  I set the front panel aside to dry.

To make the notebook paper, I die cut some lined cardstock with Notebook Tabs Dies. I adhered black cardstock under neath the lined cardstock and glued the notebook paper onto the front panel at a slight angle.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Card by Catherine Cohen (featuring Notebook Dies, Stitched Rectangles Dies, Slimline Dies)

I stamped the images from Grad Cat Stamps and die cut with the coordinating Grad Cat Dies. I added a mortar board and diploma from Woo Hoo Stamps, confetti from Bold Balloons, and stars from School Time Stamps. I colored the images with Copic Markers listed in my blog link below.

I finished off the card with a Congrats sentiment from Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies and a White Heat Embossed sentiment from Grad Cat Stamps.

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

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School Time Dies
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School Time Stamps
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Woo Hoo Dies
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Woo Hoo Stamps
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Stitched Rectangle Dies
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Bold Balloons Stamps
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Bold Balloons Dies
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Grad Cat Stamps
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Grad Cat Dies
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Slimline Scalloped Frame
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Notebook Tabs Dies
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Grad Cat Card with Isha

Hello everyone! Isha here with a graduation theme card featuring the Grad Cat stamps and dies. The rainbow colors are because there are many various subjects and books during the school/Uni years :)

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Card by Isha Gupta (featuring Slimline Dies)

I started by creating a fun pastel color background by sponging tattered rose, worn lipstick, kitsch flamingo, tumbled glass and salvaged patina onto a white card. Flick some water and white paint to it. Stamp the solid stars for added interest. 

Stamp the books and the kitty image, color using copic markers and die-cut using the coordinating dies. I then added some details using a white gel pen.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Grad Cat Graduation Card by Isha Gupta (featuring Slimline Dies)

Adhere this panel to a white card base. Stamp the sentiment and adhere the images using 3d foam. For the word "YOU", I used the thank you die from the Slimline Scalloped Frame die. Die-cut the word three times and stack it. Adhere to the card.

Thank you for dropping by and have a nice day!

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Grad Cat Stamps
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Grad Cat Dies
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Slimline Scalloped Frame
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