Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Sneak Peek Week: Puppy Parents, Puppy Dog Kisses & Staggered Circles

Hello and welcome to our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I will be showcasing cards using our new collection for Spring coming out on Friday, January 4th.  :)

Today I'm sharing our new 4x6 Puppy Parents stamps & dies, 2x3 Puppy Dog Kisses stamps & dies and a new standalone Staggered Circles die.

Card No. 1: For my first card I used 4 for the 6 puppy and Dog parent pairs from our Puppy Parents stamps and grounded them on my card using some stitched circles from our new Staggered Circles die.  

This die comes with 5 small circle dies in 5 unique sizes and as the name suggests, have been staggered for perfect placement both vertically, horizontally and diagonally.  It has been over-sized so that you can have two of the circles overlap off the edge or four of the circles on the card perfectly.  The beauty of this die is that you don't have to carefully measure out where to put individual circles using traditional nesting circle dies.  Also because there is stitching on both sides of the cut line, both sides are useful.  Plus, it includes some extra sizes that some traditional nesting sets might not offer because it's physically impossible to nest the circles in smaller increments.

For my card, I cut four of the largest 1-3/4" circles out of paper from our Classic Gingham paper and Gingham Jewel Tones paper packs.  For my sentiment I used the die from our Little Angels dies and paired the stamped sentiment from the Puppy Parents set together with the word "mom" which I spelled out using our Loopy Letters dies.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Puppy Parents Red, White & Blue Mother's Day dog themed card (using Loopy Letters, Staggered Circles & Little Angel dies)

Card No. 2: Up next is a card combining the sweet sheep dogs & dog house from Puppy Parents together with the sheep dog, balloons, party hats and sentiments from our Party Pups stamps. To frame my little scenes, I have used our Comic Strip Everyday die cut from black cardstock.  The Comic Strip die comes with some little clouds which I cut from 1.5" wide iCraft Purple Tape and used as a mask before inking up my background with tumbled glass distress ink.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Puppy Parents Birthday Card (using Comic Strip Everyday Die & Party Pups Stamps)

Card No. 3: For this card I used some of the stitched circles leftover from another card using our new Staggered Circles die.  I then colored each one in the center using a finger dauber with mustard seed, twisted citron, candied apple & broken china distress inks.  For my patterned papers I mixed a variety of papers from our Polka-dot Parade Paper and Rainbow Bright Paper packs. The party hat and dog balloon were borrowed from our Party Pups stamps and the sentiment from our new Puppy Dog Kisses stamps. For the stars of the show, two of my doggies came from our new Puppy Parents set which coordinate with our previously released Devoted Doggies stamps.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Puppy Parents & Devoted Doggies Birthday Card (using Rainbow Bright & Polka-dot Parade Paper, Staggered Circle Dies & Puppy Parents Stamps)

Card No. 4:  For this card I positioned the Staggered Circles die on the diagonal, so that I could fully fit all four circles on my card panel without bleeding off the edge. To back my circles I punched slightly larger circles from the grid print in our Gingham Pastels paper pack and then for my decorative edge using our Ric Rac Border dies.  I then colored my little dachshund puppies with Copics and positioned them within the circle cutouts, stamping the little paw print from the set using some pink ink.  It's a pretty simple card, but I love the soft and sweet color scheme!
Sunny Studio Stamps: Puppy Parents New Mom Pink, White & Lavender Weiner Dog Card (using Ric Rac Borders & Staggered Circle dies and Gingham Pastel Paper)

Card No. 5: Up next is a card combining the dog house and two of the dogs from Puppy Parents with our new 2x3 Puppy Dog Kisses stamps. I used those same cloud masks that I created for the Comic Strip style card above for my card here, inking up my sky around them with some broken China ink and then removed some of the starkness by inking the clouds lightly with some tumbled glass distress ink after my masks had been removed.

For my grass, I started by inking it up using some twisted citron and mowed lawn distress inks and then loosely and quickly sketched in some blades of grass with a variety of green Copic markers that complimented my distress inks.  This is far from perfect, but I love that it doesn't matter once you layer it with the pieces from the stamp sets.  

I completed my card with a sentiment from our Puppy Parents stamps.  In order to squeeze this extra sentiment on the stamp set, I had to break it apart and separate the words so I wanted to make sure I created a card that showed it off.  It's nice having words separately sometimes though to increase the different ways they can be used.  :)
Sunny Studio Stamps: Puppy Dog Kisses & Puppy Parents Home Is Where You Card Dog House Card by Mendi Yoshikawa

Card No. 6: For my last card of the day I have a card once again combining the dog house, bowl and tennis ball from Puppy Parents stamps with the Chihuahua from Puppy Dog Kisses.  To create my fun background, I added strips of Therm-o-web Sticky Lines adhesive to a piece of red cardstock and then heat embossed them using Wendy Vecchi's red geranium embossing powder. I am so in love with the results!  To keep things looking clean on my edges, I cut the panel I created down the center and put the clean cuts on the outside edges of my card, hiding the seam down the center with my white panel.  I then added a decorative edge using my favorite zig-zag die from our Ric Rac Border dies.

My mom has a Chihuahua that is her pride and joy so I wanted to make sure I created a card specifically for her with this little set.  While the images in Puppy Parents set can be used year 'round, many of the sentiments center around showing gratitude to moms and dads which is perfect for Mother's Day and Father's Day cards.  For my card here I finished off my card with a Happy Mother's Day sentiment on the inside using our Happy Thoughts stamps and a few Iridescent Star Crystals by Studio Katia.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Puppy Dog Kisses & Puppy Parents Favorite Mom Chihuahua Card by Mendi Yoshikawa

I'm so happy you've joined me for today's sneak peek and I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner.  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, January 6th. :)

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Here's a closer look at the new Puppy Parents and Puppy Dog Kisses stamps & coordinating dies, as well as the new Staggered Circle dies used today (available for purchase on Friday, January 4th).

Sunny Studio Stamps: Introducing Puppy Parents 4x6 Photopolymer Clear Dog Stamps   Sunny Studio Stamps: Introducing Puppy Parents Coordinating Dog Metal Cutting Dies   Sunny Studio Stamps: Introducing Staggered Circles Stitched Cutting Dies

Sunny Studio Stamps: Introducing Pup Dog Kisses 2x3 Photopolymer Clear Stamp Set   Sunny Studio Stamps: Introducing Pup Dog Kisses Coordinating Metal Cutting Dies

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Little Angels Dies
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Versafine Onyx Black Ink
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Ric Rac Border Dies
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Devoted Doggies Stamps
Devoted Doggies Stamps
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Devoted Doggies Dies
Devoted Doggies Dies
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Party Pups Stamps
Party Pups Stamps
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Party Pups Dies
Party Pups Dies
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Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper
Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper
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Gingham Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper
Gingham Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper
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Comic Strip Everyday Dies
Comic Strip Everyday Dies
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Loopy Letters Dies
Loopy Letters Dies
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Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper
Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper
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Iridescent Star Jewels
Iridescent Star Crystals
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Sneak Peek Week: Everything's Rosy, Everyday Greetings & Frilly Frames

Hello and welcome to our Spring Sneak Peek Week (for Season's Giving Blog Hop please click HERE)!  All this week I will be showcasing cards using our new collection for Spring coming out on Friday, January 4th.  

Today I will showing some fun ways to use our new Everything's Rosy stamps & diesEveryday Greetings stamps and two new mix and match Frilly Frames Dies.  :)

Card No. 1:  Up first is a card featuring all three products in a soft and pretty Sympathy card.  The sentiments in this new scripty set come with four phrases to compliment the beautiful roses in our newest layering set.  Our Everything's Rosy stamps creates two Roses, one trio of leaves and a small baby's breath type flower.

To frame my roses, I turned to our new Frilly Frames Polka Dot Dies.  These dies have two separate pieces so you can cut a scalloped mat, a polka-dot background or both at the same time.  For this background, I actually took my X-acto knife and cut a window around the stitching so that I could add my polka-dot background behind it as a separate piece for extra dimension. I then adhered them to a piece of pink gingham paper from our new Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Pack.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Everything's Rosy Rose Sympathy Card (Using Everyday Greetings Stamps & Frilly Frames Polka-Dot Dies)

Card No. 2:  For my next card I paired the roses with a new leafy frame that will be featured more on Thursday.  ;)  I inked up my background with a little tumbled glass distress ink and sprinkled some Crystal Clear sequins by Studio Katia.  They are such a pretty iridescent color that pick up both the blues and pinks in person.  I finished off my card with the birthday sentiment from our new Everyday Greetings stamps.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Everything's Rosy Layered Rose Birthday Card (using Everyday Greetings Stamps & Botanical Backdrop Dies)

Card No. 3:  Up next I switched up my colors for the Roses and put a Valentine's Day spin on them, pairing them with the Quilted Hearts Embossing Folder shared yesterday.  For my sentiment I heat embossed it with opaque white powder using a sentiment from our Happy Thoughts stamps.  I completed my card with a couple of small drops from Studio Katia's Clear Drop Mix 2--I love how they look like beautiful dew drops which feels so perfect for roses!
Sunny Studio Stamps Everything's Rosy Layered Rose Valentine's Day Card (using Happy Thoughts Stamps & Quilted Hearts Embossing Folder)

Card No. 4: For this card I took the inner background from our new Frilly Frames Lattice Dies and positioned it vertically on my horizontal card panel, first running it through my die-cuttting machine aligned on the left side.  I then aligned it on the right side feeling the grooves of my first cut before running it through my machine a second time for a full coverage background.  I then framed the lattice using our Comic Strip Everyday dies (cutting out the inside frames to leave just the outside stitched border).  

I cut apart the words "thank you" from our new Everyday Greetings stamps so that I could stack them to fit in the space I had and then framed them with a stitched scalloped circle from our Fancy Frames Circle dies.  This card design looks fabulous with any rose color so I had a hard time deciding which one to use, but in the end I went with yellow roses which I think are a beautiful compliment.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Everything's Rosy Yellow, Black & White Layered Rose Thank You Card (using Everyday Greetings & Frilly Frames Lattice Dies)

Card No. 5:  Up next is another soft and sweet card mixing a couple different colored roses with the jar from our Vintage Jars Stamps and dies and the stems from our Daffodil Dreams stamps.  To create the look of water in my jar, I used the little oval ring that comes with the jar stamps and then created a mask from a post-it note to ink in the "water" with tumbled glass distress ink.

For my background, I used both dies from the Frilly Frames Lattice dies at the same time to create a single layer mat with both the scalloped edge and lattice cutouts.  I then tucked in a piece of white cardstock below which I had inked up with some more tumbled glass distress ink.  I completed my card by mounting them onto a piece of patterned paper from our new Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Pack and sprinkled on some of my favorite Studio Katia Crystal Clear Mini Sequins.  My sentiment from the Everything's Rose set was stamped onto a piece of coordinating striped paper from our new Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper and popped up with a piece of foam tape.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Everything's Rosy Congrats Rose Card (using Vintage Jar Stamps, Frilly Frames Lattice Dies & Flirty Flowers Paper)

Card No. 6: For my last card of the day, I used a similar color scheme as I did for my Valentine's Day card, this time making a wedding card using another sentiment from the Everyday Greetings stamps.  This time I inked up the water in my jar using Colorbox Sky Ink and used our new Quilted Hearts Embossing Folder to add some extra texture to my background and continue the love theme.

For the black and white striped pattern I used our Background Basics stamps together with my favorite VersaMark Black Onyx ink.  To get really full coverage, I stamped it repeatedly using a stamp positioning tool and then made sure to zap it pretty good with my heat gun so my fingers wouldn't smudge it.
Sunny Studio Stamps: Everything's Rosy Red, Black & White Rose Wedding Card (using Background Basics, Everyday Greetings, Vintage Jar stamps & Quilted Hearts embossing folder

Here's a closer look at the two new Frilly Frames dies mix and match sets.  The inner patterns of each are separate making it possible to either use just the outer frame as a scalloped mat sized 4" x 5.25", use just the inner portion as a background or mix the two like shown here.  These look awesome when paired with our Fancy Frames Rectangle dies and have so many possibilities!  I found myself turning to them over and over for my cards this week.  ;)
Sunny Studio Stamps Frilly Frames Lattice & Polka-dot Mix and Match Stitched Scalloped Lacey Mat Die Examples

To help you line up our Everything's Rosy stamps like a pro I've created a special layering guide (you can click on the photo below to view it larger).  For all the Roses I started by stamping them with the darkest ink color, working towards the lightest.  The black outline indicates where that layer touches the previously stamped layer.  :)
Sunny Studio Stamps: Everything's Rosy Layered Rose Layering Guide

I will note that this particular set requires 4 to 5 ink colors for each rose and 3 inks for the leaves so the only downside is it requires a decent stash of inks for best results (in addition to a stamp positioning tool).  

I frequently am asked which ink colors I used for my layered images.  While I think there are so many great options out there, these are the colors I used today for my stamped images (in the ordered shared from darkest to lightest)...

Darkest Pink Roses
Colorbox Gooseberry
Colorbox Dark Cherry
Colorbox Very Berry
Versafine Charming Pink
Colorbox Candy


Medium Pink Roses
Colorbox Dark Cherry
Simon Says Stamps Doll Pink
Hero Arts Ultra Pink
MFT Cotton Candy
Hero Arts Soft Pink


Light Pink Roses
Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz
Papertrey Ink Hibiscus Flower
Ranger Pink Gumball
MFT Cotton Candy

Hero Arts Soft Pink

Red Roses
Colorbox Cranberry
Colorbox Candy Red
Stampin' Up Watermelon Wonder
Simon Says Stamps Hot Lips
Lawn Fawn Bubblegum


Yellow Roses
Stampin' Up Crushed Curry
Colorbox Dandelion
Colorbox Banana
Versafine Cheerful
Colorbox Lemonade

Light Green Leaves
Colorbox Artichoke
Colorbox Tree Frog
Colorbox Kiwi


Dark Green Leaves
Colorbox Golf Course
Colorbox Green Apple
Colorbox Grasshopper


Mason Jar 
Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass
Simon Says Stamp Maliblue

2021 UPDATE: While many of the colors used for this post have now retired after Colorbox went out of business, you can find my newest ink color recommendations for red flowers HERE, pink flowers HERE and for yellows I adore the set of PinkFresh Studio inks HERE.

I'm so happy you've joined me for today's sneak peek and I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner.  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, January 6th. :)

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Here's a closer look at the new Everything's Rosy stamps & coordinating dies, Everyday Greetings 3x4 Stamps and the two new mix and match Frilly Frames used today (available for purchase on Friday, January 4th). 


Sunny Studio Stamps: Introducing New Everything's Rosy 4x6 Layering Rose Photopolymer Stamp Set   Sunny Studio Stamps: Everything's Rosy Coordinating Metal Cutting Dies   Sunny Studio Stamps: Everyday Greetings 3x4 Photopolymer Sentiment Stamps (including Sympathy, Birthday, Thank You & Best Wishes on Your Wedding Day)

Sunny Studio Stamps: Frilly Frames Lattice Stitched Scallop Mix & Match Background Mat Dies   Sunny Studio Stamps: Frilly Frames Polka-Dot Stitched Scallop Mix & Match Background Mat Dies

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Daffodil Dreams Stamps
Daffodil Dreams Stamps
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Vintage Jar Dies
Vintage Jar Dies
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Vintage Jar Stamps
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Fancy Frames-Circle Dies
Fancy Frames-Circle Dies
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Background Basics Stamps
Background Basics Stamps
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Happy Thoughts Stamps
Happy Thoughts Stamps
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Clear Drops Mix 2
Clear Drops Mix 2
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Crystal Clear Mini Sequins
Crystal Clear Mini Sequins
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Iridescent Clear Confetti
Crystal Clear Confetti
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VersaMark Watermark Ink
VersaMark Watermark Ink
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Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper
Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper
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Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper
Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper
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Quilted Hearts Embossing
Quilted Hearts Embossing
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Botanical Backdrop Die
Botanical Backdrop Die
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Monday, December 31, 2018

Seasons Givings Blog Hop with Love Themed Cards & Giveaway


Hello!  We're so excited to be hopping today with the Seasons Givings blog hop!  We are so thankful for all of our loyal followers and this hop is all about showing our thanks with a fun gift package for one lucky winner (see details below).  You should be arriving here from Indigo Jade Art or if you are just joining in the fun, you can start at the beginning of the hop HERE.

In honor of the hop and with Valentine's Day quickly approaching, I thought I would share a handful of past love themed cards that are fun to revisit.


Froggy Friends
Valentine's Day Card by Amy Yang (see original post HERE)


Sunny Studio Stamps: Froggy Friends Valentine's Day Frog Card by Amy Yang

Breakfast Puns Heart Shaker Card by Franci Vignoli (see original post HERE)

Breakfast Puns I Donut Know What I Would Do Without You Heart Shaker Card by Franci Vignoli

Timeless Tulips & Vintage Jar Card by Mendi Yoshikawa (see original post HERE)
Sunny Studio Stamps: Timeless Tulips & Vintage Jar Red Love Themed Shaker Card by Mendi Yoshikawa


Stitched Heart Card by Eloise Blue (see original post HERE)

Sunny Studio Stamps: Stitched Hearts Red & Pink Love themed card by Eloise Blue

Thank you for visiting today.  It just so happens that this hop coincides with our Spring Sneak Week so I hope you will visit our other blog posts this week to see sneak peeks of our new products coming on Friday.  If you are new to our brand, we would love for you to join our mailing list HERE to be notified of future sales and promotions (or you can sign up for daily blog updates in the top left hand corner). 

For our giveaway today, we have a prize package which includes our Sweater Vest Dies, Happy Thoughts Stamps, Happy Word Die & Holiday Cheer paper. Please use the rafflecopter below to enter--You have up to five chances to win! 
Sunny Studio Stamps: Seasons Giving Blog Hop Giveaway
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Your next stop in the hop is 
Paper House Productions.  If you ever get lost along the way, here's a full list of everyone hopping today.  That's a whole lot of prizes up for grabs so I hope you will join in.  ;)

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