Designer's Choice: Panda Party Card with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm super happy to be back with this extra busy slimline card that combines two of my favorite things: a stenciled background and alcohol marker coloring. I've had this idea of pairing the pandas from Panda Party with the panda umbrellas from Spring Showers for quite some time, and I'm thrilled to finally be able to share it with you!

I started off by stamping all my images on 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, I cut them all using the matching dies, and colored everything using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and my Graph'it brush markers. Obviously I used my black and light gray markers a lot to color my cute pandas and umbrellas, as well as greens, yellows and aquas for the leaves and flowers.

Here is a detailed list of the products I used: • Panda Party + Bighearted Bears - pandas • Seasonal Trees - log • Spring Showers - umbrellas • Fabulous Flamingos - leaves • Tiki Time - toucans • Bunnyville - butterflies • Tropical Birds - leaves, ivy, flowers • Silly Sloths - flowers, leaves.

To fit all my images in one single scene, I cut an 8.5 x 3.5 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and colored it using stencils from my stash. On the lower part, I created a grass border using a slimline hillside stencil along with mowed lawn and rustic wilderness oxide inks. I then mixed some rustic wilderness oxide ink with water and used a small brush to make splatters on my grass border.

Next I covered the whole upper part with salvaged patina oxide ink, and used a bamboo stencil along with peacock feathers oxide ink to create a bamboo forest. I also applied a little bit of peacock feathers oxide ink on the edges of my panel, and added texture, starting with water droplets that I dried using a paper towel. Next I mixed some peacock feathers oxide ink with water, added splatters on my bamboo background using my small brush, and then did the same with copic opaque white ink. And finally, I used a rainy background stencil along with sparkling clear paste to make rain.

Once my panel was dry, I attached all my images on the panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, and then worked on my greeting. I started off by white heat embossing the banner from Little Birdie on vellum, next I embossed "You're pandastic" from Panda Party inside the banner, cut that banner using the matching die, and attached it to my panel using clear foam squares. And as always I finished my card by adding highlights and details to the images using a white gel pen.

And that's it! I had so much fun making this card, it turned out so stinking cute, don't you think? Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Tiki Time Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tiki Time Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seasonal Trees Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Seaonal Trees Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Showers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bunnyville Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bunnyville Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bighearted Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bighearted Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Birds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Designer's Choice: Sealiously Sweet Card with Tina

Hi crafty friends, Tina here and today we are going to the beach! The sun is out and so are the cute seals from the Sealiously Sweet set. Totally adorable with their little floaties!

To set the scene, I die cut a panel of white card stock with the beautiful Tropical Trees Backdrop dies. This die makes it super easy to create a beachy vibe in no time. I kept the frame part white and started inking up the sand with Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide.

The top part of the background was colored with Salty Ocean ink. I added an extra dark ‘line’ with a blue Copic marker to define the separation between sea and sky.

One of the seals will be playing in the ocean so I used a small wave die from my stash to cut an opening. Next, I glued the white frame to a card base and added the two other pieces which fit like a puzzle.

After stamping three adorable seals and some accessories I did all the coloring with Copics. I used the same green and brown markers for the palm tree die cuts from Tropical Trees Backdrop dies.

The curved banner from Brilliant Banner 2 die was perfect to add to this tropical scene. The sentiment was taken from the versatile Heartfelt Wishes set and stamped in pink ink.

After I glued the palm trees in place, I added the sweet seals and accessories. The white ‘waves and foam’ were created with a Snow Pen which I normally only use on winter cards, but it delivered for this summer scene as well! I finished this project by sprinkling a few Crystal Clear jewels.

I had a lot of fun creating this sweet card and I hope to see your creations soon! Thank you for visiting the blog and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Heartfelt Wishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Trees Backdrop Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Designer's Choice: Radiant Plumeria Card with Isha

Hello everyone, Isha here today with a CAS floral card. This is designer's choice week for me, so I decided to use some of my all time favorite things :)

I started by stamping some pretty plumeria flowers from the Radiant Plumeria layering stamp set. It is so easy to line-up the layers and the result is beautiful. I used some yellows and pinks for the flowers and greens and teal for the leaves. Die-cut using the coordinating dies. Next, stamp the sentiment from the Beach Bus stamp set, die-cut using the coordinating dies.

Die-cut a window onto white card panel using the Stitched Arch dies. Die-cut once again using glitter cardstock. Sponge pink ink to the two sides, where we want to have the cluster. Adhere this piece to a white cardbase using 3d foam. Add the glitter die-cut and adhere to the cardbase using adhesive. Add the floral cluster and the sentiment. 

Hope you like the fun glittery CAS card. Thanks for dropping by and have a nice day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Radiant Plumeria Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Plumeria Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Bus Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Bus Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Designer's Choice: Little Birdie Card with Leanne

Hi there! Leanne here with a tweet card design to share featuring super cute images from the Little Birdie stamp set. 

You may have noticed right away that the backdrop for my birdie scene is a fun grid style layout of partial scalloped squares. I wanted to do something different than the usual plain ink blended background. I used the Scalloped Squares 1 Small die set to cut out four. I masked off the scalloped edge with tape and lightly blended blue ink to the center of each square.

Then I just played around with the arrangement so the squares would mostly fill my A2 sized kraft card. I trimmed off the two outer sides of each square so there would be a little space between them and the edge of the card base. 

I used images from Little Birdie and Chickie Baby (the tiny flowers) to create the scene.  I Copic colored the images with the following: B41, B45, B97, YG11, YG13, YG17, YG61, YG63, R21, R35, R39, W1, W3, W4, W6

Once I had all the images in place, I stamped the words to fill in the open spaces on the squares. These words are included in the Little Birdie set. 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Chickie Baby Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chickie Baby Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Square 1 Small Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Designer's Choice: Beach Bus Card with Cathy

Hey friends! Cathy here today and I'm excited to share a cute beach scene with you!

I started this A2 card by die-cutting a piece of white cardstock using the frame portion of the Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Dies. I inked a soft sunset sky on the top half with Dried Marigold, Spun Sugar and Tumbled Glass Distress inks and adhered it to the card front.

Next, I cut a piece of Neenah Classic Crest 80lb solar white cardstock 5" x 6" and stamped the palm tree/ocean stamp from the Ocean View Stamps towards the top of the cardstock. I masked the stamped image and inked below it with Antique Linen Distress ink. I die-cut a slit on the right side approximately 1" below the image to tuck the surfboards in the sand using a die from the Tropical Scenes Dies. After coloring the image with Copics, I die-cut along the top edge using the coordinating dies. I then positioned the frame die from the Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Dies over the cardstock, die-cut it and adhered it to the sky background piece on the card front.

To finish, I stamped the remaining images, colored them with Copics and die-cut them using the coordinating dies. I used the following stamps/dies:

Beach Bus Stamps/Dies
Passionate Penguins Stamps/Dies
Penguin Party Stamps/Dies
Tropical Birds Stamps/Dies (hibiscus)
Fabulous Flamingos Stamps/Dies (leaves)
Beach Buddies Stamps/Dies (beach hat)

I stamped the sentiment on strips of white cardstock using stamps from the Tropical Birds Stamps, Beach Bus Stamps and Passionate Penguins Stamps. I heat embossed them with clear embossing powder and inked the strips with Spun Sugar Distress ink.

I hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by today! 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:

Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Beach Bus Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Bus Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Birds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio