Guest Designer Spotlight: Summer Cards with Isha Gupta

I'm so excited to welcome the talented Isha Gupta to the blog today as our special guest!  I love her fun style and all the amazing cards she is sharing with our Fresh & Fruity and Tropical Paradise stamps today.  Take it away Isha...  

Hi there!  For my first card I created the background using a stencil as a stamp. For my images I used the awesome “Tropical Paradise” stamp set. I embossed the images using gold embossing powder and colored them using my Zig markers. I arranged them using a die-cut circle frame. To create some depth, I used 3D foam for various heights.

My second card also uses the stamps from the “Tropical Paradise” stamp set. I created a sunset background using my distress inks. I then stamped the Flamingos and colored them using my Zig markers. To create the scene, I used a vellum circle frame. I stamped and embossed the flowers onto vellum. Once I positioned the flamingos, I adhered the flowers to ground them.

I created my third card using all the yummy fruits from the “Fresh & Fruity” stamp set. I created a background strip using vellum. I stamped the images using memento black ink and colored them using copic markers and fussy cut them out. I then stamped the sentiment onto the vellum background using StazOn ink. Finally I adhered the fruits using 3d foam in various thickness for added dimension. To finish, I added glossy accents on some parts of the fruits.

For my last card I started with creating the background by stamping the watermelon onto the watercolor paper. I colored it using damp brush and some distress ink. I then cut this panel using the Fishtail Banner die. I then sponged some red inks onto a piece of cardstock, flicked some water and white paint. I tied some black twine around the melon panel and adhered it to the base using 3D foam. I then stamped and embossed part of the sentiment onto black cardstock and cut it in a strip. I stamped the word “melon” using red ink and fussy cut it. Finally adhered the sentiment onto the card and adhered some sequins to finish off.

I hope you like my creations as much as I enjoyed creating them! Thank you Mendi for having me as a guest on the blog totally. It was total fun to use your awesome products.

Island Getaway Sushine Card with Lexa

Hello everyone!  Lexa here with a bright summer-y card showcasing the Island Getaway stamp set and coordinating dies. You already know that coordinating dies surely make your life easier, right? :)

I chose to use all bright colors for this one.  It reminds me of one hot sunny day... it's just me and my flip flops walking under the trees' shade. Did you just smile imagining that? Or is it just me? Hehe. First I cut my pink panel to 2.25" x 5.5" and created a tone-on-tone background by stamping some hibiscus images with Hero Arts Pale Tomato. The bigger hibiscus are from Tropical Paradise stamps, while the smaller one (and the leaves) are from Island Getaway. They matched perfectly!

The circle diecut is blended with some Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey Distress Inks on the edges. I die-cut the Sunshine Word Die four times and layered them together to get some dimension. All the images are stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and watercolored with Distress Markers. I also cut a strip of burlap to add an extra fun texture for this card. Last but not least I added my favorite clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

I hope you like today's card. Have a great weekend to you all! 

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Island Getaway Happy Summer Flip Flops card with Vanessa

Hey everybody! Vanessa here with a summer card using "Island Getaway". 

Can you feel the breeze? No? Well, I can't, either :) We are having a break from sunny spring weather in Germany at the moment and instead of a summery breeze it is more like a stormy gust of wind, so summer seems very far away. But I hope my card will bring back the memories of a warm summer day.

I just had to showcase the cute flip flops. First, I trimmed a piece of white cardstock slightly smaller than my card base and inked the middle part with mint ink. Then I added tiny droplets of the same ink to the panel. I stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to the card. Now I stamped, colored and die-cut all the rainbow flip flops and adhered them with foam tape. Voilà! Summer!

I hope you enjoyed today's card! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Vanessa

Fun Island Getaway Monkey & Flip Flops Card with Lindsey

Hi Lindsey here today sharing a card using the adorable and fun Island Getaway stamp set. The little monkey in her bikini is just too cute, and of course I had to make it polka dot! Let's get started!

I began by stamping out the monkey, palm tree, island, and flip flops. I colored all the images using Copic markers and cut them out using the Island Getaway coordinating dies. I added white polka dots to the bikini and flip flops using a white gel pen. Next, I cut a small stitched rectangle out of some wavy patterned paper. I adhered the island, monkey, and palm tree to the rectangle creating a little island scene. The palm tree and island hung off slightly, creating some visual interest. 

I also cut an A2 size rectangle out of teal cardstock for my card base. I adhered the small rectangle with the island scene onto the center of the card base using foam tape. Then I adhered one flip flop to the right corner of the small rectangle and the other flip flop to the right corner of the card base. I stamped my sentiment in black ink on the bottom of my card base. As a finishing touch, I added some white dots around the corners of the small rectangle and some glitter pen to the bikini and flip flops. I just love how cute the little monkey looks on her own private island! Ha ha!

That's it for me today! I hope you enjoyed my card. Check back to the blog for more inspiration using the adorable Island Getaway stamp set. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

Island Getaway: Wish you were here with Anni

Hey stampers, Anni here, sharing a card using the awesome set Island Getaway!  I am totally ready for a summer vacation but mine is still two month away! So I have to create some vacation atmosphere by card making.

I started by stamping, coloring and fussy cutting the palm tree and the island from the set. Copics are my go to coloring medium for fast and easy coloring. What is your favorite way to color an image?

For the background I added some ink blending in turquoise to a piece of white cardstock. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in white on a stripe of black cardstock.
For a visual triangle I adhered a piece of black and white striped patterned paper and finished my card with some sequins.

Thanks for stopping by and have a sunny week.
Anni

Escape with a Watercolor Tropical Island Getaway Card by Eloise

Hello everyone, Eloise here and I’m here to feature the new Island Getaway set. This set has won my heart, it is so super fun and I’ve had so much fun creating projects with it. For today I’m going to create a fun sunset scene using a lot of the images in the set as well as the new Wavy Borders dies as well.

To begin my card I’m going to stamp out all the images I’m going to use in the Island Getaway set. I chose the palm tree and island to create the starting point of my scene and then I thought it would be fun to use the monkey girl in her bathers as well as the thongs (or flip flops) image because it’s going to go well with the sentiment I’m going to use. I stamped out all my images on some watercolour paper in some black ink and clear heat embossed it – my favourite if I’m going to be water colouring. I’m still on my water colouring kick, so I’m gonna be using my Zig Clean Colour markers again to colour in my images, they’re just so easy to use! Once I coloured them all in I die cut everything using the coordinating dies.

For my background today I wanted to create a sunset scene. But before I started colouring I wanted to make sure I had a sun in there. So I took something round in my craft room that was the perfect size and traced around it with a black marker and then went over it with a Versamarker pen to make it sticky so I could clear emboss over it, so it would look like my images – I love everything to match like that. So once the sun was drawn I needed to work on my sunset. So I looked up on google to get the correct colours for a sunset and I found one I liked with purples, pinks and oranges. I grabbed some colours from my Zig Clean Colour markers and scribbled them all over the background and then blended them out with water. For the sun I grabbed a couple of yellows and coloured that in as well. I now needed some water. So I grabbed the waves out of the same Island Getaway set and stamped down my waves on some watercolour paper also. I then coloured them in with some blue Zig markers. I blended out the colour with some water and dried it before sending it through my die cutting machine using the Wavy Borders die, which coordinates perfectly with the waves in the set. I left the waves to the side now and worked back on my sunset. I took some shimmer watercolour and splattered it over to create a fun shimmer look.

Now it was time to put the card together. I cut down all my pieces to fit and then started adhering. My first waves piece I adhered straight down to my card with some runner adhesive I then used some foam adhesive to pop up all my images onto my background. Once they were stuck down I adhered my last waves piece over top of the island scene a little bit. I popped up the entire panel on a piece of fun foam and adhered it to a white card base. Now that everything is adhered I worked on the sentiment. This is where the empty thongs came into it, I stamped out the ‘Wish You Were Here’ sentiment from the Island Getaway set on a piece of black cardstock and white heat embossed it. I adhered it down into my panel behind the little monkey girl. That was my card complete.

I hope you enjoyed my card today, make sure you check out the blog again this week to see all the other design team members projects – they’re going to be great!

- Eloise

Sunny Studio Products Used:

• Island Getaway stamps
• Island Getaway dies
• Wavy Borders dies