Meow & Furever Cat Love-Themed Cards with Mendi

Hello there! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. This is Mendi popping in to share some love-themed cards for Valentine's Day featuring our adorable Meow & Furever Stamps.

For my first card showcasing the Meow & Furever Stamps, I made the adorable cat peeking through the heart-shaped cutout in his newspaper the focal point. I used a sketch for this card, keeping my card design relatively clean and simple. I relied on the fun, bright striped paper from the Spring Sunburst Paper pack and layered die-cuts to add interest. I landed on this particular color palette and patterned paper because I had colored this tabby cat image years ago, and I was looking for a way to incorporate orange into a Valentine's Day card, which felt like a bit of a challenge.

For my background, I started by die-cutting the diagonal grid print from the Gingham Pastels Paper pack using the Fishtail Banner 2 Dies. I then stacked the Stitched Heart 2 Die, cut from Bazzill's swiss dot cardstock, with a white Scalloped Heart Die inked with a bit of Salty Ocean Distress ink in the center. Lastly, I heat-embossed the punny "Meow You Doin'?" phrase from the Meow & Furever set onto a blue Brilliant Banner 1 Die.

For my second card using the Meow & Furever Stamps, I created another cat love-themed card perfect for Valentine's Day! I had colored all of my cat images and red hearts many years ago, and I was determined to use every last piece for today's cards, so it was fun challenging myself to find the perfect way to use what I had. For this card, I started with a dark kraft cardstock base and layered a blue heart print from the Flirty Flowers Paper pack over the top, which had been die-cut using the largest banner from the Slimline Pennant Dies. I added four of the smallest dies from the Scalloped Square 1 Small Dies into a 2x2 grid and centered my kitties over the top of each of the squares. I completed my card by heat-embossing the greeting from the set onto a red Brilliant Banner 2 Die and sprinkling the five small red hearts like flat mail-friendly embellishments.

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love. 💛

Don't forget to check out the Meow & Furever Stamps, Slimline Pennant Dies, and Fishtail Banner 2 Dies in our online shop, which are 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 ideas to scroll through, organized by set.

Supplies Used:  

Meow & Furever Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Meow & Furever Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fishtail Banner II Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Square 1 Small Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Sunburst 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio

Love Monkey Valentine's Day Cards with Mendi

Hello there! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. This is Mendi popping in to share some love-themed cards for Valentine's Day featuring our beloved Love Monkey Stamps.

For my first card showcasing the Love Monkey Stamps, I created a 3.5" wide x 7" high mini slimline with a polka-dot background stamped using the Background Basics 2 Stamps. For the stitched mat to frame my scene, I elongated one of the rectangles from the Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies by hanging part of the die off my cutting plate and running it through my die-cutting machine a second time. 

I added two tree branches to the top of my scene with three of the monkeys. Originally, the hanging monkey was designed to hang from a vine, but I altered him and cut off the vine so I could wrap his tail around the tree branch instead. I also added the bouquet of flowers to his hands to cover the envelope, as if he were trying to steal the girl monkey's heart. Along the bottom half of my card, I added the Scalloped Fence Die, a bit of grass using the Mini Grass Border Dies, and two little birds perched on the fence from the Little Birdie Stamps.

For my second card using the Love Monkey Stamps, I created a jungle scene. I started by inking my white cardstock panel with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress ink. I then stamped two of the leaves from the Elegant Leaves Stamps around the outside edges using PinkFresh Studio Grassy Knoll Ink. I layered the vines and tree branch to the top of my card with an image from the Tropical Scenes Stamps, and then tucked the same monkey hanging from a vine to blend with the other vines. This time, I trimmed off the envelope and put a banana in his hands to go with the sentiment I stamped. I added a toucan from the Savanna Safari Stamps and a tree branch from the Love Birds Stamps along the bottom of my card for my girl monkey to sit on with her bananas. Lastly, I added the punny greeting from the Love Monkey Stamps, substituting the words "for you" with the script word die cuts from the Gift Card Pocket Dies.

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love. 💛

Don't forget to check out the Love Monkey Stamps and Love Monkey Dies in our online shop, which are 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 ideas to scroll through, organized by set.

Supplies Used:  

Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gift Card Pocket Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Fence Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Savanna Safari Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Birdie Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Birds Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Birds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Elegant Leaves Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Background Basics 2 Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rounded Rectangle Mat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Grass Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Over The Hills Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Passionate Penguins Valentine's Day Card with Hanh

Hello Crafty Friends! This is Hanh on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog today and I am so excited to share a sweet Valentine's Day card featuring these adorable images from the Passionate Penguins set. 

I stamped the images from the Passionate Penguins Stamp on a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and used the coordinating Passionate Penguins Dies to die cut them out. I also used the Stitched Heart 2 Dies to die cut 3 hearts out of the same Neenah Solar White cardstock. I colored the images with Copic markers and accented with a white gel pen.

COPIC COLORS:
Penguins: T4/5/7, Y38 YR04, W00/0/1, R000/20
Hearts: R14/24
Umbrella: R14/24/29/39, C1/3
Car: R14/24/29/39, C1, C1/3, Y11, W5, W7
Pink: RV10/21/13/14

For the background, I took a piece of white cardstock (4.25" x 5.5") and die cut three windows into it using circle the second, third and fourth smallest dies from the Stitched Circle Large Dies. I used the Slimline Nature Borders Dies to die cut a piece of clear acetate to make my own cloud stencil. Next, with the windowed panel as a guide, I used my homemade cloud stencil, the Forest Trees Stencils and Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide ink to ink blend subtle backgrounds onto a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock in the location of those windows. 

For the sentiment, I die cut a banner using one of the banner dies from the Stitched Rectangles Dies out of red cardstock. I stamped the "Happy Valentine's Day" sentiment from the Foxy Friends Stamp set with Versamark Watermark ink onto the red banner and heat embossed with Detail White Embossing Powder. 

I adhered the two panels to each other using foam tape. I adhered the sentiment banner and colored images to the front of the card with foam tape for additional dimension and interest. The card front 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:  

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Forest Trees Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Passionate Penguins Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Foxy Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio