Thursday, April 23, 2020

Sneak Peek: Cruisin' Cuisine, Summer Sweets & Stitched Arch Dies

Hello and welcome to day 4 of our Summer Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I'm showcasing cards using our newest collection which will be available to purchase tomorrow, April 24th

Today's sneak peeks include two new 4x6 food themed stamp sets for Summer (and even throughout the entire year), along with their matching dies and a new standalone die set. Let's jump right in!

Card No.1: Up first is a card using our new Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps which come with a food truck and various foods to add to the top, along with a bunch of tiny cute names to name your food trucks and several punny greetings too. The food and sentiments of this set mix and match perfectly with our previously released Fast Food Fun Stamps which I love! For this card I decided to borrow the Pizza and Taco image from that set to pair with the new cheeseburger & fries with the new Cruisin' Cuisine set.  

I was ecstatic to discover the little stitched rectangle die that comes with our Wrap Around Box dies is the perfect size to add three little scenes to a slimline style card!  I sponged on a bit of broken china distress ink the center of each one with my Jumbo Dauber and then layered them with my individual trucks.  As you will see as you scroll through my cards with this set there are three good spots where you can add the name of your food truck.  There are also some mini condiment bottles, ice cream, popsicles & donuts to decorate your truck with or add to the counter.

To add a little interest to my background I created my own patterned paper by cutting the three mini clouds from our Comic Strip Everyday dies from masking material. I cut approximately 3 of each and then worked section by section, inking up my surface with the broken china distress ink until the entire panel was covered. I then added another lighter layer of that same ink over the entire surface to give a cool tone-on-tone effect that is a bit less distracting than if the clouds were left pure white.
Sunny Studio Blog: You've Stolen A Pizza My Heart & You're the Burger To My Fries Punny Taco Food Truck Card (using Cruisin' Cuisine & Fast Food Fun Stamps, Sliding Window & Comic Strip Everyday Dies)

Card No. 2:
 Up next is a card where I turned the food truck into an ice cream truck using the Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps.  For my neighborhood scene I used a border from our Scenic Route stamps.  I thought I would be clever and curve the border on my Misti tool to match the curve of my stitched cardstock (which I die-cut using our Woodland Border Dies), but in hindsight I wish I would have left it straight because it's driving me nuts that the houses are looking crooked now. Have I ever mentioned I have a mild case of OCD?  


To help my ice cream on the top of the truck stand out against the backdrop of busy houses directly behind it, I chose to add a layer of vellum over the scene to keep the focus on my truck. Several designers on our team have been experimenting with this technique lately and I love how it makes objects in the foreground really pop!
Sunny Studio Blog: Have A Sweet Day Ice Cream Truck Neighborhood Card (using Cruisin' Cuisine & Scenic Route Stamps and Woodland Border Dies)

Card No. 3:  For my third card with the set, I went with an Asian theme and added some sushi with chopsticks to the top of my Cruisin' Cuisine Truck. To create my circular backdrop, I started by cutting a 4.25" wide circle from a heavy yellow cardstock. I then inked up one side of my Sunburst Embossing Folder with an ink brayer and some pigment ink, carefully laying my cardstock on the uninked side and closing the inked side down on it.  I held it tight to make sure it didn't shift and then ran it through my die-cutting machine. By adding ink only to the raised surface on the one side, I was able to get the two different tones for my sunrays. Pigment ink works best for this technique because it will stick to the slick plastic surface without beading up. I just make sure to quickly scrubbed my embossing folder with a little dish soap and a scrub brush and it's as good as new.  :)

For my city scene, I die-cut our Cityscape Border die from Grey Cardstock, added some strips white cardstock behind it to fill in the windows (which I had colored with my B000 copic marker) and then die cut the border again with that same circle die I used in my first step.  A cute punny sentiment from the set stamped onto our Banner Basics Stamps completed my scene. You can also switch around the phrases in the set to say "You're Soy Awesome". Lastly I mounted my scene onto a 5" x 5" square card base.
Sunny Studio Blog: Soy Happy We're Friends Punny Sushi Food Truck in the City Card (using Cruisin' Cuisine & Sunny Borders Stamps, Cityscape Border Die & Sunburst Embossing Folder)

Card No. 4:
  I love the idea of using several different food trucks all on one card. However they are large enough that it's no easy feat when it comes to an A2 sized card. I was able to get around this by stamping a truck and cutting it in half before coloring it and having half of it bleed off on one side and half on the other side.  It turned out to be a great way to show them off and I think they look cute all parked bumper to bumper like they are lined up on a street for lunch time.  For my background I used our stitched Fluffy Cloudy Dies. This die set comes with two options on how to die-cut clouds and I used the stitching only option for my card here.
Sunny Studio Blog: Hope You Have A Sweet Day Food Truck Card by Mendi Yoshikawa (using Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps & Fluffy Cloud Dies)

Card No. 5:  For my last card featuring the Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps I thought I would go clean and simple and show that the food images don't always have to be used with the truck.  

To create my card I cut three rectangles that are 4" wide by 1-5/8" high from our Classic Gingham Paper. I rounded the corners for each of them and lightly inked up the edges with Picked Raspberry, Broken China & Twisted Citron distress inks. To my eye at this point my card still looked a bit too plain so I decided to use a paper piercer to poke some small holes around the edges. It took a bit of extra time, but I did it while watching tv so it wasn't too bad and I was happy with how it added a little something extra to my simple card. Another alternative would be to stitch around them with your sewing machine (with or without the thread), but sadly my machine is out of commission right now so I had to do it by hand. 
Sunny Studio Blog: Treat Yourself Cheeseburger, Fries, Hotdog, Ice Cream & Donut Clean & Simple Handmade Card (using Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps & Classic Gingham Paper)

Card No. 6: 
 Switching to our other new food themed stamp set, I have a card using our new Summer Sweets stamps. I started by cutting a frame using the new Frilly Frames Herringbone Dies. Rather than cutting a mat like most of our Frilly Frames dies, the outer portion of these dies cut a thin stitched frame or opening when used on an A2 sized card panel (or a wider frame when used on a larger A6 or A7 sized card). I cut a piece of acetate that was 4.25 x 5.5 inches and used some thin sticky tape to adhere it to the back of my frame before adding a layer of foam tape around the entire perimeter to form a large shaker that spans my entire background.

I then used our new Stitched Arch Dies to cut three little arched mats from our Classic Gingham, Rainbow Bright and Striped Silly Paper packs. I adhered them to my acetate and then added more foam tape behind them to give my card more stability and make it so I didn't need to use as many Neapolitan Sprinkles for my shaker.


I colored my ice cream images with Copic markers to match the sprinkles and added glossy accents to the portions of each image that I thought would be shiny. I finished off my card with a sentiment from the set, pairing it with our older Sweet Word Die.
Sunny Studio Blog: Sweet Birthday Ice Cream Cone, Sundae & Popsicle Shaker Card by Mendi Yoshikawa (using Summer Sweets Stamps, Sweet Word Die & Stitched Arch Dies)

Card No. 7:
  For my next Summer Sweets Card I used the cute little milkshake images from the set. I wanted to recreate the look of a malt shoppe awning so I used the smallest Stitched Arch Die, alternating white cardstock with a pink print from our Polka-dot Parade Paper pack. The only problem is the smallest die comes with a little hole in it so you can use it as a mini tag so to solve that problem I hid the hole with a row of cherries from the set.  

For my card base, I mounted a stitched mat from our Frilly Frames Retro Petal dies onto a piece of hot pink striped paper from our Striped Silly Paper pack. I then cut a scalloped Fancy Frames Oval from some pink patterned paper from our Classic Gingham Paper pack, inking up just lightly in the center with some tumbled glass distress ink to help my ice cream sodas stand out.  A little banner for my sentiment that I colored with Copic markers using a no-line coloring technique completed my card.
Sunny Studio Blog: You Make Me Melt Milkshake Ice Cream Soda Card by Mendi Yoshikawa (using Summer Sweets & Banner Basics Stamps, Stitched Arch & Stitched Oval Dies, Polka-dot Parade, Striped Silly & Classic Gingham Paper)

Card No. 8: I don't know what it is about the little popsicles in the Summer Sweets set, but I found them so much fun to color!  I colored them all the colors of the rainbow to match our Surprise Party Paper, radiating them around our new Stitched Semi-circle Dies. A little punny sentiment from the stamp set completed this fun, asymmetrical design.

Sunny Studio Blog: Rainbow Polka-dot & Stripes Popsicle Card by Mendi Yoshikawa (using Summer Sweet Stamps, Stitched Semi-Circle Dies & Surprise Party Paper)

Card No. 9: Boba tea anyone? The cute little drink cup from 
Summer Sweets set has the option to be stamped and colored in a variety of ways whether you want boba tea or a smoothie. The little boba pieces & happy faces are separate images that you can chose to add or omit. I colored mine in happy pastel colors to match the heart print from our Spring Sunburst Paper pack and inked a glow behind them with some worn lipstick distress ink to match the small Ric Rac Border cut from Gingham Pastel Paper.
Sunny Studio Blog: Hey Cu-tea Punny Boba Tea Rainbow Heart Card by Mendi Yoshikawa (using Summer Sweet Stamps, Ric-Rac Border Dies & Spring Sunburst Paper)

Card No. 10: For my last card of the day I took the soda pop bottle and turned them into orange soda by first coloring them with Copic markers and then heat embossing the little orange slice from the set with white embossing powder.  I then went over them with my copic marker again which allowed me to give the look of orange embossing powder without having to go buy the perfect shade.

For my background I created my own patterned paper by inking up my background with some carved pumpkin distress ink and then stamped the citrus slice from our Slice of Summer Stamps and added a cute border using our Ric Rac Border diesTo create the look of a vintage crate for my bottles, I cut a small strip of kraft cardstock which I colored with a woodgrain print using my Copics. I don't do monochromic cards very often and orange doesn't usually top my list of favorite colors, but I actually had a ton of fun with this one and am happy with how it turned out.
Sunny Studio Stamps: You're Soda-lightful Punny Orange Slice Soda Pop Card (using Summer Sweets & Slice of Summer Stamps and Ric Rac Border dies)

Birthday Tag Set:
I couldn't resist creating some birthday tags with our new Stitched Arch Dies. Love that these dies are so versatile! There are times when I just want to tie a quick tag to a kid's birthday gift and these will totally fit the bill. I cut the tags from our Surprise Party Paper and layered them with a circle cut from a coordinating tone-on-tone print to stamp a punny birthday greeting mixing in some words from our Savanna Safari Stamps.  For the little heart reinforcement I used a mini die from our Crescent Tag Dies.
Sunny Studio Blog: Rainbow Birthday Gift Tags Set (using Stitched Arch Dies, Surprise Party Paper, Cruisin' Cuisine & Summer Sweet Stamps)

That wraps up today's sneak peeks.  I know that's quite a bit of information and it means so much to have you hang out with me today. I'd love to give a $40 gift code to one lucky winner using the rafflecopter below.  Make sure to keep checking back all this week for more peeks & prizes for up to five chances to win. The contests run through Saturday at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, April 26th. :)

a Rafflecopter giveaway Here's a closer look at the new Cruisin' Cuisine stamps & coordinating dies, Summer Sweets stamps & coordinating dies and the new Stitched Arch Dies used today (available for purchase on Friday, April 24th).

Sunny Studio Blog: Cruisin' Cuisine Food Truck 4x6 Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set    Sunny Studio Blog: Cruisin' Cuisine Coordinating Metal Cutting Dies Set

Sunny Studio Blog: Summer Sweets Ice Cream Cone, Sundae, Popsicle, Smoothie, Pop & Boba Tea 4x6 Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set    Sunny Studio Blog: Summer Sweets Coordinating Metal Cutting Dies Set

Sunny Studio Blog: Stitched Arch Nested Metal Cutting Dies

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Fast Food Fun Dies
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Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper
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Striped Silly 6x6 Paper
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Rainbow Bright 6x6 Paper
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Comic Strip Everyday Dies
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Woodland Borders Dies
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Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper
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Spring Sunburst 6x6 Paper
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Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper
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Sunburst Embossing
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Fluffy Clouds Dies
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Cityscape Border Dies
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Frilly Frames Retro Petals Dies
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Scenic Route Stamps
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Banner Basics Stamps
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Fast Food Fun Stamps
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Sneak Peek: Sea You Soon, Tropical Scenes & Savanna Safari Stamps

Hello and welcome to the third day of our Summer Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I am showcasing cards using our newest collection which will begin shipping on Friday, April 24th

Today's sneak peek includes 3 new stamp sets and their matching dies for Summer. I've created quite a few cards for today's peek so let's dive right in!

Card No. 1:  Up first is the latest set in our scenic border series called Tropical Scenes. This set includes a wonderful ocean floor border that takes the guesswork out of trying to place your coral and kelp just right--With a single impression it's all done for you!  However for this particular extra long slimline card I stamped it twice, hiding the seam behind my hermit crab (although with a tiny bit of masking they actually match up pretty well--I just had already cut and colored these planning them for shorter A2 sized cards)

For my background, I started by inking it up with some salty ocean distress ink. I then used Mermaid Lagoon & Blueprint Sketch distress ink with Studio Katia's Underwater Sun Rays Stencil. I masked off the rays that didn't extend to the bottom of my card and then rotating the stencil for each section until my entire card base was covered.  When my entire background was done, I then spritzed on some water to created the look of bubbles.

For my scene, I paired the ocean border with the shark, fish and octopus from our new Sea You Soon Stamps which coordinate well our Best Fishes Stamps which I also used here.  For my sentiment I paired our Loopy Letter Dies with our Kinsley Alphabet Stamps. This is actually a greeting inspired by a phrase from the Best Fishes set, but I was looking to duplicate it on a larger scale.


Sunny Studio Blog: Under The Sea Ocean Themed Slimline Card (using Tropical Scenes, Sea You Soon, Best Fishes & Kinsley Alphabet Stamps and Loopy Letters Dies)

Card No. 2:   For my next card I once again used the little fish from our new mini Sea You Soon Stamps together with the coral border from Tropical Scenes, but this time I took them out of the ocean and into a fishbowl.  

To create my fishbowl, I started by cutting my bowl shape by using our new Stitched Semi-Circle Dies with a piece of starfish patterned paper from our Summer Splash Paper pack.  For the lip of my fishbowl, I used the scalloped border from our Sweet Treats House Add-on Dies and for the base of my bowl, I elongated the oval handle die from our Sweet Treats Bag Dies, adding a little detail to them both with my Copic markers and a white gel pen.  For my shaker element, I used Studio Katia's Crystal Clear Fusion sequins which have just the right iridescent shine to look like bubbles.

Sunny Studio Blog: Rainbow Fish in Fishbowl Sequin Shaker Card (using Sea You Soon & Tropical Scenes Stamps, Summer Splash Paper, Stitched Semi-circle, Sweet Treats Bag & Sweet Treats House Add-on Dies)

Card No. 3: I wanted to experiment with going black and white with my stamped border to keep things from being too visually overwhelming with my rainbow background which I created by blending distress inks. I actually really enjoyed coloring all my images with my N0, N1, N3 and N5 Copic Markers. It was freeing knowing that if I overlapped a bit on one portion of my border, it was OK because it was going to be grey too.  ;)  

For my focal point I turned to our Magical Mermaids Stamps and created a template to hand stitch my heart with using our Stitched Heart Dies. I started by die-cutting the heart from some scratch paper and then used my paper piercer to poke holes around the perimeter of the die-cut heart pattern. I really love the look of contrasting a colorful backdrop with black & white and I think I will try this technique again sometime soon!
Sunny Studio Blog: Let's Shell-e-brate Rainbow Punny Mermaid Card with Stitched Heart (using Tropical Scenes, Magical Mermaids Stamps & Stitched Heart Dies)

Card No. 4:
  My next card is a clean & simple design pairing our new Stitched Semi-Circle Dies together with our Sea You Soon Stamps and Tropical Scenes Stamps. I love how the opening looks a little bit like an aquarium window to me. I finished off my card by heat embossing my sentiment with white embossing powder onto a little banner strip which I die-cut with our Fancy Frames Rectangle dies.
Sunny Studio Blog: Under the Sea Ocean Aquarium Card (using Sea You Soon, Tropical Scenes Stamps & Stitched Semi-Circle Dies)

Card No. 5:  Switching gears I have a couple of cards using another border from our Tropical Scenes card which is a tree branch with hanging vines. I've been wanting an image like this for a long time as it's a perfect compliment to several of our past sets. For my card here I paired it with our Love Monkey Stamps and the leafy frame from our Botanical Backdrop Dies.

For my greeting I used the word "swinging by to say" from the Love Monkey stamps and then combined it with our Hello Word die, stacking several die-cuts together to give the look of chipboard. When I was done, I just couldn't get over the nagging feeling that the bottom right-hand corner of my card was empty and a bit unbalanced so I added the small palm tree from the Tropical Scenes stamps (which is the smallest of all our palm trees) and paired it with the palm tree from our Sending Sunshine Stamps.
Sunny Studio Blog: Swinging By To Say Hello Monkey Card (using Tropical Scenes, Love Monkey Stamps, Botanical Backdrop & Hello Word Dies)

Card No. 6:  Up next is another card featuring the Tropical Scenes jungle vines. This time I turned to our Silly Sloths Stamps. To give the look that my little sloths hands are wrapping around the vine, I stamped a second set of hands and fussy cut them out to layer over the top--It didn't take long, but it's a small detail that I think goes a long way.

For my card background I masked off both above and below the band of my scene, as well as some cloud masks I created using the Sunny Sentiment Dies and Rain or Shine Dies.  I then inked up my sky with some tumbled glass distress ink.  A little sentiment from our Silly Sloths stamps and a few butterflies from our Spring Showers stamps completed my scene.  My kids thought it looked a bit unfinished or overly simple so I decided to mix in some more color by adding a small strip of striped paper along the bottom from our Striped Silly Paper pack and rounded the corners with my We R Memory Keeper corner chomper.
Sunny Studio Blog: How's It Hanging Sloth Card (using Tropical Scenes, Spring Showers, Silly Sloths Stamps, Sunny Sentiments & Rain or Shine Dies, Striped Silly Paper)

Card No. 7: For another take on our Tropical Scenes stamps, I created a card focusing on the small palm tree and island from the set (which I cut in half to put on each side of my card). For card I stamped and colored two of the palm trees from the new set and two from our Sending Sunshine set.  After I adhered them I had to cut off some excess leaves that went off the edge, but rather than just toss them out I thought it would be fun to adhere them on opposite sides of the card to give the look that there are more trees and the scene continues past the confines of the card.


The tropical scenes stamps come with a number of waves to mimic the shape of the island which if you look closely you can see I used here. The stamp set also comes with some additional "waves" and coordinating dies to cut openings for critters or objects whether they be used in the sand or the water.  


I decided I would pull out my favorite Fabulous Flamingo Stamps for my focal point, tucking their legs in the shallow waves. I also used a sentiment from the set, adding a little heart between them (which I coated in glossy accents) from our Basic Mini Shape Dies II set and yet another striped strip from our Striped Silly Paper pack to tie in with my hot pink heart.
Sunny Studio Blog: Tickled Pink For You Palm Trees Island Themed Card (using Fabulous Flamingos, Tropical Scenes & Sending Sunshine Stamps and Striped Silly Paper)

Card No. 8: My next set of cards introduces our new Savanna Safari Stamps. I just couldn't resist stacking all these critters and the slimline card dimensions (4" wide x 9" high) are perfect for this.


I started by freehand cutting a curve in the middle of some masking material. I then put the bottom half the mask on the bottom of my card and inked up my sky in Tumbled Glass distress ink and then took the other half of the mask and covered my inked sky to ink up the ground using Tea Dye distress ink.  The cute punny sentiment "Thanks A Ton" seemed appropriate for this heavy stack of creatures. I finished by adding a small strip of gingham patterned paper from our Gingham Pastels Paper pack to tie in with my sky and add a little extra interest to this clean & simple card design.

Sunny Studio Blog: Savanna Safari Stacked Zoo Animals Slimline Card (using Gingham Pastels Paper)

Card No. 9:  For those of you that don't enjoy coloring or just want to make a quick card, I have just the card for you!  This card came together so quickly and I really love the results!  I wanted to recreate the look of a glowing African Sunset as the sun slips behind the horizon so I started by inking up the center of my card panel with squeezed lemonade distress ink.  I then worked around the center with mustard seed distress ink and finished the outside edge with carved pumpkin distress ink.

To create the silhouette of animals, I stamped the giraffe, lion, elephant and bird from our new Savanna Safari stamps and then set to work coloring them in with a black Copic marker. I replaced the chisel end on my black Copic with a fine nib for detail work like this and I haven't missed my chisel tip even a tiny bit. If you don't have Copics, I think Sharpie's Fine Point pen would also work really well. When I was done, I flicked on some blades of tall grass below them. To save myself some black ink and once again add some extra detail, I trimmed off the bottom of my card panel and tucked in a strip of paper from our Heroic Halftones Paper pack.
Sunny Studio Blog: Savanna Safari Giraffe, Lion, Elephant Animals Silhouette with Sunset Wild Birthday Card (using Heroic Halftones Paper)

Card No. 10: Up next is a fun card featuring more of the tropical leaves from our Radiant Plumeria Stamps which I shared on Monday. This leaf is super easy to layer without a stamp positioning tool that you can quickly create a patterned background like this one in about 15 minutes.  My best tip for stamping them is to start with the darkest layer and work towards the lightest layer. For some reason I just I find it's easier to line up that way. Also for crisper images, I like to wait a bit between each of my layers so the the layers don't bleed together. If you're just anxious to do it without pausing between steps, working in the same order in which they were stamped each time naturally gives the ink a little time to dry completely before switching layers too.

To create my focal point, I die-cut my loopy circle using our Snowflake Circle Frame Dies from dark green cardstock. I then took the extra cardstock that popped out of the center of my die-cut to use as a template to trace around on my stamped background. From there I used a circle punch to punch inside my traced circle (just to get my cut started) and then took my scissors and fussy cut along my traced pencil lines. This gave me the perfect opening to adhere my loopy circle to with a glue pen and a window for my animals to peek through.  I then took another square of green cardstock and adhered it to the back of my card panel along the edges before adding everything neatly to my card base. You could also design it to be an actual physical window with the critters adhered to the inside of the card, but I decided I wanted to allow more room to write on the inside.
Sunny Studio Blog: Zoo Animal Hi Greeting Card (using Savanna Safari & Radiant Plumeria Stamps and Snowflake Circle Frame & Loopy Letters Dies)

Card No. 11: I couldn't let today pass without creating a scene style card with the little tree and grass tufts from our Savanna Safari Stamps set. I started by die-cutting a ric rac style mat for my card using our Frilly Frames Chevron dies, masking off the outside edge using some Purple Tape. I then cut half of an oval from masking material with our Stitched Oval dies, using both sides of the mask to ink up my pool of water and the ground around it. I also masked off a straight line for my horizon to ink up the sky as well. I then stamped my grass around the pool and added some quick freehand waves with my Copic marker. I also added just a little faint texture to the brown grass with another Copic Marker and stamped three of the Baobab trees in the distance.

For my hippo enjoying his bath, I used the longest of the small wave dies from the Tropical Scenes die set and then lengthened it just a little bit more with my scissors to slip my hippo into the water. To add another layer to my scene, I adhered the tree branch with vines from our Tropical Scenes Stamps to the top of my card. A little party hat from our Party Pups Stamps to go with the cute punny "Hippo Birthday" sentiment from the Savanna Safari stamps completed my card.
Sunny Studio Blog: Hippo Birthday Puns Punny Hippopotamus Card (using Tropical Scenes & Savanna Safari Stamps and Frilly Frames Chevron Dies)

Card No. 12: I couldn't resist the urge to make a sweet baby card using the adorable elephant in our new Savanna Safari Stamps. I started by coloring my elephant pink with Copic Markers and then used a White Sharpie Extra Fine Point Paint Pen to add my polka-dots. I mounted her on a floral print paper from our Flirty Flowers Paper pack which I die-cut using our Fishtail Banner & Fishtail Banner II dies. I then heat embossed a sentiment from our Sweet Shoppe Stamps and tied a bow using some American Crafts ribbon I had in my stash. A gingham background from our Gingham Pastels Paper pack was the perfect finishing touch for this monochromatic card. Now I want to make more of these in yellow, aqua and blue!
Sunny Studio Blog: Hello Sweet Baby Girl Polka-dot Elephant Handmade Card (using Savanna Safari & Sweet Shoppe Stamps, Fishtail Banner Dies I & 2, Gingham Pastels & Flirty Flowers Paper)

Card No. 13: 
For my last card of the day I used our new Frilly Frames Herringbone dies to emboss a basket weave inspired texture onto my card panel using a Spellbinders rubber mat in place of my bottom cutting plate. The rubbery surface of the embossing mat doesn't allow the die to cut through the paper and instead turns your dies into embossing plates. This is a fabulous technique to use with all of our Frilly Frames dies and one that I sadly don't remember to use often enough.  


I then added a strip of patterned paper from our Gingham Jewel Tones Paper pack and a sentiment from the sent which I heat embossed with white embossing powder onto a pennant from our Banner Basics Stamps. I wasn't able to fit the hippo on this particular card, but I did manage to fit the rest of the zoo crew.
Sunny Studio Blog: Have A Wild Day Elephant, Giraffe, Zebra & Lion Card (using Savanna Safari, Banner Basics Stamps, Gingham Jewel Tones Paper & Frilly Frames Herringbone Dies)

That wraps up today's sneak peeks. I know this was a long post with a lot of information. It truly means so much to have you hang out with me and I'd love to give a $40 gift code to one lucky winner using the rafflecopter below. Make sure to keep checking back all this week for more peeks & prizes for up to five chances to win. Each contest runs through Saturday at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, April 26th. :)

a Rafflecopter giveaway Here's a closer look at the new Sea You Soon stamps & coordinating dies, Tropical Scenes stamps & coordinating dies and Savanna Safari stamps & coordinating dies used today (available for purchase on Friday, April 24th).

Sunny Studio Blog: Sea You Soon Punny Shark, Octopus & Fish 2x3 Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set)   Sunny Studio Blog: Sea You Soon Coordinating Metal Cutting Dies
Sunny Studio Blog: Tropical Scenes Jungle, Ocean Coral, Island & Palm Tree 4x6 Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set   Sunny Studio Blog: Tropical Scenes Coordinating Metal Cutting Dies
Sunny Studio Blog: Savanna Safari Zoo Animals Lion, Giraffe, Elephant, Hippo & Zebra 4x6 Clear Photopolymer Stamp Set   Sunny Studio Blog: Savanna Safari Coordinating Metal Cutting Dies

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Stitched Heart Dies
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Sunny Sentiments Dies
Sunny Sentiments Dies
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Sweet Shoppe Stamps
Sweet Shoppe Stamps
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Fancy Frames- Rectangles
Fancy Frames- Rectangles
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Party Pups Stamps
Party Pups Stamps
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Party Pups Dies
Party Pups Dies
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Hello Word Die
Hello Word Die
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Striped Silly 6x6 Paper
Striped Silly 6x6 Paper
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Gingham Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper
Gingham Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper
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Loopy Letters Dies
Loopy Letters Dies
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Stitched Oval Dies
Stitched Oval Dies
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Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper
Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper
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Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper
Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper
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Love Monkey Stamps
Love Monkey Stamps
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Love Monkey Dies
Love Monkey Dies
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Botanical Backdrop Die
Botanical Backdrop Die
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Mini Basic Shape Dies II
Mini Basic Shape Dies II
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Frilly Frames Chevron Die
Frilly Frames Chevron Die
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Best Fishes Stamps
Best Fishes Stamps
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Best Fishes Dies
Best Fishes Dies
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Fabulous Flamingos Stamps
Fabulous Flamingos Stamps
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Fabulous Flamingos Dies
Fabulous Flamingos Dies
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Sending Sunshine Stamps
Sending Sunshine Stamps
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Sending Sunshine Dies
Sending Sunshine Dies
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Silly Sloths Stamps
Silly Sloths Stamps
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Silly Sloths Dies
Silly Sloths Dies
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Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper
Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper
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Snowflake Circle Frame
Snowflake Circle Frame
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Sweet Treats Gift Bag
Sweet Treats Gift Bag
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Sweet Treats House Add-on
Sweet Treats House Add-on
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Banner Basics Stamps
Banner Basics Stamps
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Banner Basics Dies
Banner Basics Dies
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Kinsley Alphabet Stamps
Kinsley Alphabet Stamps
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Spring Showers Stamps
Spring Showers Stamps
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Spring Showers Dies
Spring Showers Dies
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Radiant Plumeria Stamps
Radiant Plumeria Stamps
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Radiant Plumeria Dies
Radiant Plumeria Dies
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Frilly Frames Herringbone
Frilly Frames Herringbone
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Stitched Semi-Circle Dies
Stitched Semi-Circle Dies
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Crystal Clear Fusion Sequins
Crystal Clear Fusion Sequins
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