Kiddie Pool Card with Hanh

Hello Crafty Friends! This is Hanh on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog today with a fun summertime birthday card featuring these adorable images from the Kiddie Pool and Ocean View sets. The school year is coming to an end, the first day of summer is just around the corner and these kiddos are all ready for some fun in the sun! Aren't they just the cutest?! The boy leaping into the pool is my favorite!

I stamped the horizon background image from the Ocean View stamps set onto a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock (4.25" x 5.5") with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. On another piece of Neenah cardstock, I stamped the images from the Kiddie Pool Stamps set with the same Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The coordinating Kiddie Pool Dies to diecut them out. I colored all of the images with Copic markers and highlighted them with a white gel pen.

COPIC COLORS:
Skin: E000/00/21/11/93
Blonde: E50/53/35
Light Brown Hair: E50/21/53/35/25
Dark Brown Hair: E30/33/35/37/39/29
Pool: B000/00/02, R05/24/29, Y02/13/15/19, B21/24/28
Chairs/Umbrella: R05/24, C1/3
Clothing: B000/00/02, Y13/15, B00, R05/24, B24/28
Drinks: Y13/15, E23/25
Trees: YG01/03/17, E23/25/29, E31/33/35
Grass: YG01/03

I lightly inked the top edge of the panel with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink for the sky. I trimmed 1/8" off of the edges to clear away any harsh coloring or inking at the edges. 

For the sentiment, I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Party Pets stamps set with Versamark Watermark ink onto a piece of black cardstock and heat embossed with Detail White Embossing Powder. I used the coordinating Party Pets Dies to diecut it out. For the sub sentiment, I stamped the "Make a splash!" sentiment from the Kiddie Pool Stamps set directly onto the panel with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

I adhered the pool and some of the images directly onto the panel with liquid adhesive. I adhered the sentiment, the leaping boy and the girl sitting in the foreground to the panel with foam tape for additional dimension and interest. The panel was adhered to an A2 white card base (4.25" x 5.5"). 

I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and visit today. I hope you liked my card. For more info and ideas, be sure to visit the Sunny Studio Stamps Shop. Please also visit my INSTAGRAM feed for more inspirations.

Have a wonderful and crafty day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pets Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Party Pets Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Country Carnival & Enchanted Theme Park Slimline Card with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi, popping in to share a card for Summer featuring our Country Carnival Stamps and elements from several other fun sets!

I wanted to create an amusement park scene with a parade of princess floats for this card. Knowing all the elements I wanted to include, a 9" wide x 4" high slimline-style card felt like the perfect canvas for my project! I used the Ferris wheel, carousel, castle, bears, and mini balloons from the Country Carnival Stamps to populate my theme park. I added Princess Belle and Cinderella, as well as the castle in the distance from our Enchanted Stamps, and elevated them to look more like a float using the train from our Holiday Express Stamps. To transform my holiday train to a parade float, I colored it in shades of pink and gold and dressed it up with buntings from the Balloon Rides Stamps. A bear from the Beach Buddies Stamps colored to look like he was wearing mouse ears was added as a train conductor.

In the distance, behind my scene, I added the mountains and trees from our Spring Scenes Stamps. I inked up my sky and added the mini cloud dies from our Comic Strip Everyday Dies. I then added another cardstock layer, blending from Antique Linen to Citron Green, and die-cutting the top edge using our Mini Grass Border Dies. To keep my busy scene from becoming too overwhelming, I kept all my elements within a narrow color scheme of pink, yellow, and baby blue, with touches of green for the trees and grass and neutral brown tones for the ground, bears, and mountains. There was a lot of coloring, but I enjoyed this one, and I hope you do too!

That wraps up my projects for this morning. I hope I've inspired you in your own cardmaking and that you spread a little happiness by sending out a card to a loved one today.😊

Don't forget to check out our Country Carnival Stamps, Enchanted Stamps, Balloon Rides Stamps, and Spring Scenes Stamps with their coordinating dies in our online shop, which are all currently on sale!  Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image, so there are lots of incredible ideas to scroll through there, organized by set. 💛

Supplies Used:

Country Carnival Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Carnival 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	Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Grass Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio

Poppy Fields & Big Bold Greetings Floral Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some floral cards for Summer using our fabulous Poppy Fields Stamps.

First, I have a card using our Buffalo Plaid Diagonal Die and our Diagonal & Straight Stripes Stencils to create a red gingham background. I then lined up three stitched Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies in a row to frame four poppies from the Poppy Fields Stamps. I stamped the word "thanks" from the Big Bold Greetings Stamps in versafine onyx black ink and then sprinkled it with clear embossing powder while the ink was still wet to heat emboss it with a glossy finish. I then stamped and heat embossed the phrase "you've touched my life in so many ways" using a sentiment from the Words of Gratitude Stamps, which I stamped onto a black pennant strip from the Notebook Photo Corners Dies.

My second card featuring the Poppy Fields Stamps started by cutting a stitched white frame using our Rounded Rectangle Window Dies.  I then backed my opening with a piece of black cardstock and heat embossed the words "miss you" from the Big Bold Greetings Stamps using white embossing powder with the words "from the bottom of my heart" using a phrase from the Words of Gratitude Stamps on the right-hand side. On the left side of my card, I built up a growing arrangement of poppy flowers utilizing all of the flowers, stems and leaves from the set. I don't typically stack white on black like I did here (it reminds me of wearing white shoes with black tights), but I took inspiration from a sales graphic I found on Google. I love the finished result and how the poppies pop against the dark background!

I am frequently asked which ink colors I used for my layered images.  While I think there are so many great options out there, these are the colors I used today for my poppy images from light to dark:

Red Poppy
Gina K. Peach Bellini
Gina K. Lipstick

Gina K. Coral Reef
Hero Arts Red Royal
Stampin' Up Lovely Lipstick

Dark Red Poppy 
PinkFresh Studio Coral Reef
Hero Arts Pale Tomato 
PinkFresh Studio Candy Apple
Concord & 9th Cranberry
Stampin' Up Lovely Lipstick

Green Leaves
Hero Arts Fresh Lawn
PinkFresh Studio Olive

Dark Green Leaves
Concord & 9th Parsley
PinkFresh Studio Evergreen

That wraps up my projects for this morning. I hope I've inspired you in your own cardmaking and that you spread a little happiness by sending out a card to a loved one today.💛

Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image, so there are lots of ideas to scroll through there, organized by set.

Supplies Used:

Poppy Fields Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Poppy Fields Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Words of Gratitude Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Big Bold Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Big Bold Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Buffalo Plaid Diagonal Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Diagonal & Straight Stripes Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio
Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rounded Rectangle Window Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Rose Petals Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Fresh Foliage Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Ultra Fine Clear Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
PinkFresh Heartbeat Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Over The Hills Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio