Cruising Critters Cards with Angelica and Juliana

Hi friends! Angelica here with a great thank you card featuring the Cruising Critters stamp set.

I stamped and Copic colored the critters, then used the coordinating die to die-cut it. The Cruising Critters stamp set has several words to put together for different themes. I put together a Thanks sentiment, and stamped it in a die-cut speech bubble from the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies. I die-cut a second gold speech bubble, and attached the sentiment on top, exposing a little gold at the bottom.

I picked a blue pattern paper from the Heroic Half Tones Paper Pack, and cut it to 4 x 5.25. I added a strip of gold washi tape to the bottom of the paper, then attached it to a card base with foam adhesive. I attached the critters and speech bubble with thin foam squares to finish the card.

I hope I have given you ideas for this adorable stamp set. Thanks for stopping by!

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Hello friends! It's Juliana here today to share a new for me interactive card featuring a hidden pull tab! I combined this with the adorable Cruising Critters Stamp Set, so that when you pull the tab, the sentiment is revealed and the little critters go cruising along! Let me share with you how it all came together.

To get started, I stamped, colored and die cut the Cruising Critters image and the sun from the Sunny Sentiments Stamp Set and set them to the side. I then began working on how to create the hidden pull tab feature. I watched a few videos to see what might work best and came up with the following plan.

Background Panel: I selected a piece of blue gingham paper (Gingham Pastels) for the background. I then took a blue grid paper (Gingham Pastels) and die cut it using one of the Fluffy Clouds Border Dies. Next, I took a blue polka dot paper (Dots and Stripes Pastels) and cut it with a different Fluffy Clouds Border Die. Then, I took one of the Woodland Border Dies and cut a piece of green grid paper (Gingham Pastels). Finally, I cut a strip of grey polka dot paper (Polka Dot Parade). Put this piece to the side for later.

I then layered each of these to create the scene adhered all of them together EXCEPT for the grey polka dot and then I took the stitched rectangle die from the Frilly Frames Retro Petals and die cut them. The die cut through all 4 layers of paper with no problems! When placing the green grass area, make sure to leave at least 1.75 inches of paper below the top of the die cut so you have room for the pull tab mechanism.

Pull Tab Mechanism: To create this, I used a ruler and pencil to help me draw 2 slits on each edge of the background panel. They are 0.25 inches from the bottom and 0.5 inches from each side. Each slit is 0.5 inches tall and about 1/8” wide. I then used a craft knife to cut through the layers to create the slit.

Next, I took a plastic treat bag and cut a strip of it that was slightly thinner than 0.5 inches and long enough to go through both slits and wrap around the back. I used a tape runner to adhere the ends together and trimmed off any excess. Make sure to place this taped section toward the left slit on the backside of the card. Add double sided foam tape on the outer side of each of the slits and cut a piece in half and place it below the plastic strip.  At this time, you can cut 2 cardstock strips to 0.5 x 1.25” and adhere them to the backside of the plastic strip. Add foam tape to the top of these. This is where the card will be attached. Play around with the exact placement of these tabs so that your car slides.

Flip the panel over and adhere your pull tab. I used a piece of white cardstock trimmed to 0.5” wide and then I trimmed off the excess once I had my card completed and the sentiment stamped on the pull tab. Next, take double sided foam tape, cut it in half and adhere a piece above and below the pull tab on the backside. This helps hold the slider in place. You can also add a piece of fun foam to the backside , above the top piece of foam tape, so the panel is flat against your card base.

Once the pull tab mechanism was completed, I could add the grey polka dot paper. I used the stitched rectangle die from the Frilly Frames Retro Petals to cut the paper and then used my paper cut to trim a strip from this to 11/8 inches tall.

I then adhered the Cruising Critters image to the pull tab mechanism making sure the tires where on the road! I then added the sun and the cruising die cut that comes with the Cruising Critters Die Set. To complete the card, I stamped the sentiment onto the pull tab and then mounted the entire panel onto a piece of green cardstock cut to 4.25x5.5 inches.

I hope you enjoyed learning how I created this hidden pull tab card using the Cruising Critters Stamp Set. Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Sunny Sentiments Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Sentiments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polka-dot Parade 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodland Borders Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruising Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruising Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Retro Petals Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Cruising Critters Cards with Ana and Franci

Hello everyone! It’s Ana here today with a fun card featuring new and so adorable Cruising Critters stamps and dies. These 7 cuties all piled up in a car just make me smile and I couldn’t wait to play with them. 

I started with stamping, coloring and die cutting Cruising Critters image. I decided to do some paper piecing for the car, so I stamped the image on a piece of paper from the Surprise Party Paper Pack. I fussy cut the car image out, as well as the hub caps. I die cut the word CRUISING (Cruising Critters Dies) from the same Surprise Party paper.

To create the sunset I adhered a piece of yellow patterned paper from Spring Sunburst Paper Pack. Next, I used new Fluffy Clouds Border Dies and patterned papers from Surprise Party Paper Pack to create the clouds. I cut grey and black cardstock from Cityscape Border Die.

To assemble the card, I adhered all the die cuts to the background, adhered the word cruising to the clouds and added the sentiment (stamped and die cut with speech bubble die from Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies) in the middle of the panel.

Thank you so much for stopping by and spending some time with us today! I really hope you like today’s card and got inspired. Have a wonderful day!

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Hello there and happy Wednesday! Franci here with you today with a pastel colors card featuring the new adorable Cruising Critters set.

First of all I created my card base out of white cardstock, I inked the front with Distress inks to create my pastel colors city sky/ background and I added some sparkly watercolors splatters. I die cut the Cityscape Border out of white cardstock and I glued it down, I stamped colored and die cut my image and adhered it down as well with some foam adhesive.

Then I die cut part of my sentiment out of gold glitter paper and I also die cut a speech bubble using a die from the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles set, colored it in pink and stamped another part of the sentiment. I glued down all the other elements and added some details with a white gel pen. All those critters are soo cute, aren't they?!

Finally I added some little gold glitter hearts and dots to complete my design. Hope you like my card and thank you so much for stopping by today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Spring Sunburst 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Surprise Party 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruising Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruising Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cityscape Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Cruising Critters Cards with Leanne and Eloise

Hello everyone, Leanne here! I’m very excited to start sharing what I’ve created using the new fall release products. Today’s featured set is so fun. I’ve made a slider card with the car full of cute critters. This card is A2 size with a cityscape background ... so easy to build using some of the new stand alone dies. 

Let’s break it down layer by layer. First I blended some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink onto the top of the card base for the sky layer. Next I cut out a cloud border with the Fluffy Clouds Border Die and adhered to the card front. For the city buildings I used the Cityscape Border Die. I cut this layer out of grey card stock and backed it pale yellow. I then added it onto the card while allowing the top of the clouds to be visible.  

Next I created the road with a strip of black card stock and white heat embossed the dashed line. The dashed line is stamp included in the Cruising Critters stamp set. I Copic colored the car of critters and cut out with the coordinating Cruising Critters die set. I cut out a channel for the slider part along the top edge of the road and centered lengthwise. Since the car is pretty good size, the slider channel gets hidden underneath while still allowing the car to slide from one side to the other.  

Lastly, I added a greeting that is part die cut and part stamped. The “cruising” was created with a die from the coordinating Cruising Critter die set. I built the second half of the greeting with stamps from Cruising Critters.

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Hello friends, Eloise here and today we are using the brand-new Cruising Critters Stamp Set. I’m creating a birthday card with this set and pulling in the Oceans of Joy Stamp Set for a balloon to make it more birthday themed.

To start off I stamped out the image from Cruising Critters and Oceans of Joy and coloured them in with Copic Markers. Once they were coloured, I cut them out.

(Copic Markers Used: Y00, Y11, Y15, Y19 / YR30, YR21, Y23, YR23 / R00, R30, R20 / 0 / YR21, YR23, YR24, YR27 / W2, W3, W5, W7 / W00, W0, W1 / C0, C1, C3, C5 / E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, E59 / E41, E42, E43, E44, E47, E49 / YR12, YR15 / R32, R43, R35, R46)

For my background, I used the new Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies and used partial die cutting to make it a little shorter. I then took a piece of watercolour cardstock cut it down to fit inside and ink blended some blue clouds over the background. I then cut down a rectangle to the same width but 1 ¼” high and stamped the small lines that create the road. I white heat embossed them and then ink blended over the piece with Black Soot Distress Ink. I also cut down another piece and used the Sunny Sentiments Die Set for the grassy border and die cut it. I ink blended some green ink over the piece as well. I then adhered all three pieces together and then onto the scallop frame.

I then added foam tape onto the backs of all my images and adhered them into place. I took a pink piece of cardstock, cut a small strip and white heat embossed the ‘Birthday Smiles’ sentiment on it. I took a little bit of darker pink ink and ink blended it at the bottom of the piece. I added more foam tape onto the back and adhered it over the car image. I tied a small piece of coral hemp cord onto the side of the sentiment for added texture.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I’ll see you next week. 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Oceans of Joy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Oceans of Joy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Sentiments Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruising Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruising Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Cityscape Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sledding By & Cruising Critters Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some cards featuring our Sledding By Stamps and Cruising Critters Stamps. Both of these sets feature a pile of critters in a mode of transportation, so I thought it would be fun to share both a fall and holiday take as we transition between the seasons.

For my first card today, I focused on the adorable critters piled in the sled from our Sledding Critters Stamps. I googled vintage horse-pulled sleighs and noticed a number of them were painted black with red velvet-lined seats so as I started coloring, I found myself limiting my colors to neutrals with touches of Red, White, Blue, and a bit of a rosy pink (which is actually just a lighter version of the red tones). For the background of my card, I inked up a white cardstock panel using a light touch of Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink with the PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes. 

I then stamped the snowflakes around the perimeter of my card using the Snow Flurries Stamps. These mini 2x3 background stamps were designed to line up and stamp multiple times in a grid pattern across a card background to create a seamless background of any size for a great price. However, they also have the added flexibility of stamping around the edges like a frame to keep the center of the card open without having to creatively mask things off for the sentiment like I did here. I added the snowy hillside using the Slimline Nature Border Dies cut from white cardstock and then added my greeting using the stamps from the set and the coordinating "sledding" word from the Sledding By Dies. Lastly, I felt like my card needed a little something to visually balance out the right side of the card, given the angled tilt of my sleigh and sentiment, so I added a red snowflake to my sleigh from the Snowflake Circle Frame Dies.

 

For my second card showcasing a carload of animals using the Cruising Critters Stamps, I created a fall backdrop for the scenic drive, using the tree-lined border from the Country Scenes Stamps and the cobblestone street from the Sprawling Surfaces Stamps. I love that these trees can be colored pink for spring, green for summer, or in fall hues for autumn! I then added some simple cloud outlines to my skyline using the clouds from the Ocean View Stamps. Lastly, I heat-embossed a greeting from the Cruising Critters Stamps and paired it with the die-cut word "cruising" from the Cruising Critters 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 Sledding By Stamps, Sledding By Dies, and Snow Flurries Stamps 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 post tons of card ideas following the product image, so there are lots of ideas to scroll through, organized by set.

Supplies Used: 

Scaredy Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sledding Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snow Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snowflake Circle Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio
Cruising Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruising Critters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sprawling Surfaces Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen 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	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio