Fresh Lemon Die Focused Tags with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm back with this lovely trio of citrus Scalloped Square Tags showcasing Fresh Lemon, a die set that I like a lot because besides cutting beautiful lemon shapes, it also adds some amazing texture to your die-cut pieces. So fun!

I started off by cutting all the Fresh Lemon bits and pieces out of colored cardstock, assembled them using liquid glue, and then cut everything to build my tags. Each tag was made the same way, so here are the different steps to build one:

1. Cut a large Scalloped Square Tag out of light brown woodgrain cardstock, and cut a window out of it using the fifth smallest Stitched Square die to create a frame

2. Cut a large Scalloped Square Tag out of vellum

3. Cut a large Scalloped Square Tag out of pattern paper (I cut one out of a Summer Splash lemon paper, one out of a All Is Bright red paper, and one out of a Surprise Party green paper)

4. Attach the vellum tag to the pattern paper tag using liquid glue on the very edges

5. Attach the light brown woodgrain frame to the vellum tag using 1mm foam squares

6. Stamp a Punny Fruit Greeting on the upper part of the vellum section using white stazon white (I went for "You're my main squeeze", "Squeeze the day", and "Sending you a big squeeze")

7. Cut a Scalloped Square Tag out of colored cardstock, and stick it at the back of the pattern paper tag to make the back of it nice and clean

8. Add ribbon and twine to make a handle

Next I attached my Fresh Lemon die-cut pieces on each tag using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, added highlights and details using a white gel, and finished each tag by gluing matching clay heart confetti on each side of the greetings.

And that's it! These tags were so fun to make, super easy and quick, and I hope they have inspired you to create your own. Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Summer Splash 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Surprise Party 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Tags-Square Shop at: Sunny Studio	All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Punny Fruit Greetings Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fresh Lemon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Beach Bus Card with Tina

Hi crafty friends, I am Tina and wouldn’t you love to go on a holiday in this fun Beach Bus? The set comes with cute critters and lots of travel essentials!

I started this project by creating a white square card base, layered with a piece of pink striped paper (Dots & Stripes Pastels) cut with the largest of the Scalloped Square 2 Large dies. My background panel is a white square made with one of the Stitched Square Dies. The sky part was inked with a cloud stencil and Distress Oxide Kitsch Flamingo.

Since traveling often is also lots of adventure, I wanted an authentic cobble road for the bus to drive on. I stamped one of the Sprawling Surfaces to achieve that goal! Next, I selected the bus, all the cute critters, their suitcases and surfboard (Beach Bus). To create that ‘party bus vibe’ I also stamped a banner (Panda Party) as fun decoration.

All the coloring was done with my Copics in happy colors, and I added highlights with a white gel pen. The sentiment was selected from the same Beach Bus set and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

To assemble the card, I gave all the critters a place in the bus and mounted the party banner. Then, I stacked the luggage on top and added the surfboard. Finally, I adhered a few Iridescent Jewels for that extra sparkle!

Thank you for visiting the blog and I can’t wait to see your Summer inspired cards! Happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sprawling Surfaces Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Bus Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Beach Bus Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Square 2 Large Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Breakfast Puns Cards with Laura

Hey everyone! It's Laura Vegas here, filling in on the blog for today. I'm sharing a set of clean and simple Breakfast Puns cards that I created for today's post. 

I'm not much of a stamper, so when I do stamp, it's pretty basic. I never really think to use images, sticking more to sentiments and basic shapes, as I wouldn't know where to begin coloring those fun images. The more I thought about it, I realized that I could easily work a single image into my clean and simple card making style, using just black ink and no coloring.

To get my cards started, I selected patterned papers for the background of each card, using both the Polka-Dot Parade paper pack and the Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones paper pack. I cut a slightly smaller piece of white cardstock for each card, embossed them using the Lots of Dots embossing folder, spritzed them with a little bit of black misting spray, and adhered them to the center of each card. I machine stitched along the edges of the white embossed cardstock, since I love how some simple machine stitching can add a finished look to a card.

I stamped each of my Breakfast Puns images onto a small square of white cardstock, and added the smallest of the Fancy Frame Square dies on top to frame the image. I then adhered each of the framed images to a square piece of textured black cardstock and adhered each to my card bases. Sure, these images would look SO much cuter colored - but I'm a huge fan of black and white in general, and I actually love the simplicity of leaving them un-colored.

I die cut banners from black cardstock using the Notebook Photo Corner dies, and heat embossed my sentiments with white embossing powder on each. I adhered these sentiment banners to each card to finish them off. 

I hope for anyone out there seeing these that don't consider themselves to be stampers, or don't know how they would use all of the amazing and fun images without learning how to color them - that this simple idea of just stamping images in black ink and calling them "done" gives you ideas of how to incorporate more stamps into your cardmaking and other paper crafting projects. Thanks for letting me hang with you on the blog today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Breakfast Puns Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polka-dot Parade 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lots of Dots Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Build-A-Bowl Die Focused Card with Leanne

Hello Everyone! Leanne here and today I'm sharing a simple card showing how the Build-a-Bowl dies can be used with something other than fruit. I have die a bunch of little hearts to fill the bowl on my card. 

First I added some light pink shading and splatters to the card front. Next I adhered the bowl that's been die cut from some metallic silver card stock. I then added a bunch of little hearts die cut from several different colors. The heart die I used comes from the Gift Card Envelope set. I arranged the hearts to look as if they were falling into and filling up the bowl. 

I created a custom greeting with stamps from Sunny Sentiments and the Love word die from Gift Card Envelope. Lastly I added a few clear sequins. That's it for quick and easy card. You could customize it even more by adding hearts in the recipient's favorite colors. This card design would also work great for Valentine's Day with red and pink hearts. 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Sunny Sentiments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Gift Card Envelope Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Build-A-Bowl Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Big Panda Card with Cathy

Hey friends! Cathy here today and I’m excited to share a fun tropical card featuring the Big Panda Stamps!

I started this A2 card with the ocean background. I cut a piece of white cardstock 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and masked the bottom 2” of the cardstock. I used a cloud stencil from my stash and inked it with Tumbled Glass Distress ink. I then masked the sky and the bottom 1” of the panel. I inked the ocean with Simon Says Stamp Seafoam ink. I finished by masking all but the bottom 1” and inked the sand with Antique Linen Distress ink. I then adhered the panel to the card front.

Next, I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using the Tropical Trees Backdrop Die and adhered the frame to the background panel. I inked the sand portion of the die-cut with Antique Linen Distress ink and set it aside until I was ready to adhere the panda.

I stamped the panda, beach hat and drink from the Big Panda Stamps on Neenah Classic Crest 80lb solar white cardstock, colored them with Copics and die-cut them using the coordinating dies. I then adhered the panda to the card front and adhered the sand die-cut over top.

To finish, I stamped leaves and flowers using the Radiant Plumeria Stamps/Dies and the Hawaiian Hibiscus Stamps/Dies and adhered them around the frame. I stamped the sentiment from the Tiki Time Stamps, heat embossed it with clear embossing powder and fussy cut it out.

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:

Tiki Time Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hawaiian Hibiscus Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hawaiian Hibiscus Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Plumeria Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Plumeria Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tropical Trees Backdrop Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Panda Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Panda Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio