Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Barnyard Buddies Funny Farm Themed Card with Nancy

Hey Sunny Studio fans, Nancy here today with a funny farm card using the new Barnyard Buddies stamp and die set. I love that this set has so many versatile sentiments and icons. I'm using it here for a non-themed, "hello" card but I could've easily added a bouquet of balloons and the birthday sentiment for something a little bit different.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Barnyard Buddies Funny Farm Themed Card by Nancy Damiano

I started the card with two circles to corral the colored icons. The horse in the larger circle and the cow in the smaller one are magnified by the circular shape. While the barn in the lower left corner sets the stage. A simple sentiment in the center connects the design. All of the images were colored with Copic markers.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Barnyard Buddies Funny Farm Themed Card by Nancy Damiano

The cute little peep (which comes facing in both left and right directions - yay!) was stamped just above the sentiment. If you look closely, you can see a trail of tiny footprints where our peep has walked back and forth across the card. A sprinkle of tiny sequins to fill in the space between the horse and the peep completes the card.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Barnyard Buddies Funny Farm Themed Card by Nancy Damiano

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Don’t forget to pick up the Barnyard Buddies stamp set - it's a good one! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Barnyard Buddies Dies
Barnyard Buddies Dies
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Barnyard Buddies Stamps
Barnyard Buddies Stamps
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

CASology 5th Anniversary Blog Hop with Cards by Amy


We at Sunny Studio are super excited to be helping celebrate the CASology Challenge Blog's 5th Anniversary today!  Each week they host a fresh challenge featuring an inspiration cue card and this week's challenge is Balloon.  

You should be arriving from Kimberly's Blog or if you are just joining the fun you can start at the beginning at the CASology Blog.  There's tons of cool prizes up for grabs so make sure to read more details at the end of this post.  ;)




Hello everybody, it's Amy here! In the honor of the CASEology's challenge blog's 5th birthday blog hop, I created two cards to share with you. My cards feature the balloon theme, with two of the cutest farm animal from Sunny Studio Stamps newest release for fall.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Missing Ewe and Barnyard Buddies CAS Balloon Themed Cards by Amy Yang

For the first card, I trimmed a top folding A2 card base using Neenah 110 cardstock. I stamped adorable sheep from Missing Ewe stamp set to the front of the card base. Then, I used a balloon stamp from Oceans Of Joy and applied the masking technique to make the blue balloon appear in front of the other two.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Missing Ewe and Barnyard Buddies CAS Balloon Themed Cards by Amy Yang

To make the sheep look like it's flying, I drew in the strings with a black Copic liner and colored the images with Copic markers. I stamped the sentiment "Thank Ewe" from the Missing Ewe set with Versamark ink on a small strip of black cardstock and heat embossed it in white. I mounted the sentiment with foam tape.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Missing Ewe and Barnyard Buddies CAS Balloon Themed Cards by Amy Yang

For the second card, I made a 4-1/2" square card base using the same cardstock. This time, I stamped the pig from Barnyard Buddies with a balloon from Birthday Smiles. I added white accents with a Gelly Roll pen. 

Sunny Studio Stamps: Missing Ewe and Barnyard Buddies CAS Balloon Themed Cards by Amy Yang

I drew in the strings with a Copic liner to make the pig look like he's flying too. Lastly, I stamped the sentiment "Happy Birthday" from Barnyard Buddies.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Missing Ewe and Barnyard Buddies CAS Balloon Themed Cards by Amy Yang

Enjoy the hop! Thank you for stopping by!  You're next stop is Jacquie's Blog


Details
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  • To be eligible for the sponsor prizes, participants must comment on all stops included on the hop list.  Winners will be selected randomly using random.org.
  • To be eligible for the CASology prize, participants must comment on all stops included on the hop + link up a BALLOON themed card to the gallery.  Winner will be selected randomly using random.org.
  • The hop will go through Monday, July 31, at NOON (CDT) and winners will be announced on the CASology blog on Tuesday, August 1.
Prizes:

CASology - $50 gift certificate to the online craft store of winner's choice
Altenew - $30 gift certificate to the online store
Sprinkle Berry$30 gift voucher
Avery Elle - $20 gift certificate to the online store
Cindy B Designs - $25 gift certificate to online craft store of winner's choice
Concord & 9th - $25 gift certificate to the online store
DeNami Designs - $20 gift certificate to the online store
Lawn Fawn - $35 gift certificate to the online store
Neat & Tangled - $25 gift certificate to the online store
Poppystamps - $20 gift certificate to the online store
Precious Remembrance Shop - stamp set of winner's choice
7 Kids College Fund - $20 store credit
STAMPlorations - $15 gift certificate to the online store
Sunny Studio - Color Me Happy set + matching Color Word Die
The Ton - $20 gift certificate (for The Ton brand stamps, dies, inks & gilding products)
Uniko Studio - and in stock clear stamp set of winner's choice
Waffle Flower - $25 gift certificate to the online store
Your Next Stamp - $20 gift certificate to the online store

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Birthday Smiles Stamps
Birthday Smiles Stamps
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Oceans of Joy Stamps
Oceans of Joy Stamps
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Barnyard Buddies Stamps
Barnyard Buddies Stamps
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Missing Ewe Stamps
Missing Ewe Stamps
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Monday, July 24, 2017

Autumn Greetings Layered Pumpkins Card with Eloise

Hi everyone! Eloise here and today I have a fall card for you all, using the brand new Autumn Greetings and Pretty Pumpkins stamp sets. I'm also pulling in the new Quilted Hexagons set as well. I am absolutely loving this new release - Mendi has knocked it out of the ball park once again with her amazing designs. Also, this Pretty Pumpkins is the newest layering set in the collection, which I am so super excited about - since the layering sets are always so so amazing!


Sunny Studio Stamps: Autumn Greetings Layered Pumpkins Card by Eloise Blue

To begin my card today, I first clear heat embossed the large hexagon line image from the Quilted Hexagon stamp set three times at a diagonal on the bottom of my watercolour piece. Once that was heat embossed, I used some green watercolour to watercolour over top to reveal the embossing. I dried it off with a heat tool and moved on to stamping my images.

I used four different orange inks to stamp the layers of my pumpkins. I did one of each size included in the Pretty Pumpkins stamp set. I also stamped some leaves and vines also. Then before stamping the stems on the pumpkins, I die cut all my images using the coordinating dies. Once the pumpkins were die cut I used some brown inks to stamp out the stems - it's easier this way since you then know exactly where you want to stamp the stems. Once everything was stamped I could arrange my card.


Sunny Studio Stamps: Autumn Greetings Layered Pumpkins Card by Eloise Blue

I used foam tape and liquid adhesive to adhere down all my pumpkins, leaves and vines. Once they were all adhered I stamped the 'Autumn Greetings' sentiment from the Autumn Greetings stamp set out onto my background with black ink and clear heat embossed that too. To finish up my card I added fun foam to the back of my panel and adhered down my panel to some orange cardstock and then onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed my card today and are enjoying the new release!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Autumn Greeting Stamps
Autumn Greeting Stamps
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Pretty Pumpkins Dies
Pretty Pumpkins Dies
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Pretty Pumpkins Stamps
Pretty Pumpkins Stamps
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Quilted Hexagon Stamps
Quilted Hexagon Stamps
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Sunday, July 23, 2017

Fall 2017 Inspiration Week Winners


Hi there!  I hope you're having a happy Sunday!  Just wanted to pop in and share the five $25 gift code winners from this week's giveaways.  :)
  • Monday- Deepa Earnshaw
  • Tuesday- Beth Haubach
  • Wednesday- Nichole Frey
  • Thursday- Gail Scott
  • Friday- Lydia Che' Lee

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and helped us celebrate this week.  Your sweet comments completely made my week. I read each one of them and they all mean so much to me.  

Friday, July 21, 2017

Inspiration Week: Introducing Pretty Pumpkins & Autumn Greetings

Hello!  Today's the big day!  All 8 new stamp sets and coordinating dies are now available for purchase in our online store.  Before you run off to shop though, I hope you will pull up a chair for one last "peek" of two new stamp sets for Autumn, enter our last giveaway for the week and check out a couple special offers we have this weekend.  ;)

I would love to formally introduce you to our newest layering set called Pretty Pumpkins.  The stamps come with three unique pumpkins that stamp in three separate layers, the coordinating stems, a layered leaf and three little vines.  As a companion to the Pretty Pumpkins set, we also have a gorgeous new 3x4 sentiment set for fall called Autumn Greetings.

For my first card I inked over some clouds cut from masking material using our Sunny Sentiments and Rain or Shine stamps.  I finished my card with a crisp white scalloped edge using our double stitched scallop dies.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Pretty Pumpkins & Autumn Greetings Blessing Card by Mendi Yoshikawa

For my next card I created a pop-up box card pairing the new stamps and dies with Lawn Fawn's adorable box card die set.  I love how the pumpkins look in a 3-D setting like this one to create the look of a pumpkin patch!

The new stamps are also perfect for creating gorgeous tags for Fall!  For these I created my tags using our Crescent Tag Topper dies and then stamped the pattern on the bottom using our Quilted Hexagon stamps shared on Tuesday HERE.  I topped them with little jute cording and a pretty grosgrain bow which I adhered with some of my favorite Beacon's 3-in-1 liquid adhesive. 
Sunny Studio Stamps: Pretty Pumpkins & Autumn Greetings Fall Gift Tags by Mendi Yoshikawa


For my next card I decided to go a bit more rustic, pairing the pumpkins with a piece of burlap.  To keep it from fraying too badly, I sprayed the back with 3M Spray Mount in a cardboard box and then adhered it to a piece of brown cardstock before trimming it and adhering it to another larger brown cardstock.  For my sentiment, I stamped both the sentiment and dotted line from the set with versamark ink and then heat embossed them using brown embossing powder.   I then cut the end of my sentiment strip using our Sunny Semi Circle dies before stitching around the edge on my sewing machine.

Sunny Studio Stamps: Pretty Pumpkins & Autumn Greetings Layering Fall Pumpkin Thank You Card by Mendi Yoshikawa
My last card for the day pairs the sentiment and leaf stamp (used for my subtle background print) from Autumn Greetings with the stamps and dies from last year's popular Autumn Splendor set.Sunny Studio Stamps: Autumn Splendor & Autumn Greetings Fall Leaves Thank You Card by Mendi Yoshikawa

Here's a full look at the new 4x6 Pretty Pumpkins and 3x4 Autumn Greetings clear stamps and coordinating dies available for purchase on Friday morning (please note: images are not shown to scale).


    

I have created a stamping guide to help you in layering the stamps.  When working with dye inks I have found that it is often easier to layer the the images "backwards" by starting with the smallest stamp in your darkest color and working back to the lightest overall image.  It has helped me tremendously in seeing where to line up my images.  To use the guide, the dark black outlines show where the image touches the edges of the previous stamped layer.
You can download or print your own PDF layering guide HERE.

I frequently am asked what ink colors I've used.  While I have used a variety of brands in my samples, there's a good chance you can achieve similar results with inks you probably already have in you stash.  I highly recommend stamping your inks out and creating a swatch book to aid you in choosing two or three inks that compliment each other.  These are the ones I happened to use here today from lightest to darkest:

Oranges
Hero Arts Orange Soda
Papertrey Ink Orange Zest
Stampin' Up Tangerine Tango

Greens

2021 UPDATE: While the green inks outlined above have been discontinued by Colorbox after going out of business, we have since added a variety of new inks to our store that make beautiful layered combinations for green and orange. For leaves I share a variety of good green ink color combinations with examples which you can find HERE

For orange I now would highly recommend one of these beautiful combos shared below:

True Orange Combo:
Gina K. Sweet Mango (or Hero Arts Orange Soda could also work--It's just a tad darker)
Gina K. Tangerine Twist
Gina K. Tomato Soup

Yellowish Orange Combo:
PinkFresh Apricot
PinkFresh Clementine
PinkFresh Persimmon

I hope you've enjoyed today's sneak peek.

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used Today:


Autumn Splendor Dies
Autumn Splendor Dies
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Autumn Splendor Stamps
Autumn Splendor Stamps
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Rain or Shine Dies
Rain or Shine Dies
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Stitched Scallop Dies
Stitched Scallop Dies
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Sunny Sentiments Dies
Sunny Sentiments Dies
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Tag Topper Dies-Crescent
Tag Topper Dies-Crescent
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Quilted Hexagon Stamps
Quilted Hexagon Stamps
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Sunny Studio