Love Monkey Cards with Leanne & Eloise

Hi everyone! Leanne West here with you today and I’m so happy to be sharing my first post as a Sunny Studio design team member. I've made a Valentine’s card featuring the new and oh so cute Love Monkey stamp set. For those of you interested in the Copic colors used, I’ve listed them at the bottom of the post.

I started with an A2 card base and very lightly sponged on some Festive Berries Distress Oxide Ink around the all the edges of the card front. I then inked up the center with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink. I trimmed a piece of white card stock to be slightly smaller than the card base. I used a die from the Stitched Hearts die set to create three heart shaped cut outs in a staggered vertical arrangement. 

I stamped and Copic colored the images from Love Monkey and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I adhered the vines on the back of the white panel centered within the heart cut outs. The tree branch is also tucked behind one of the cut outs.  After I had all the images in place, I stamped the sentiments. The “swinging by to say” is from Love Monkey. The “happy valentine’s day” is from Happy Thoughts. I then added the completed panel to the card front using foam tape so it's popped up slightly from the card base.  

(Copic makers used: monkeys - E30, E31, E34, E37; brown on vines and tree branch - E43, E44; leaves - YG61, G46; hearts and bows - R22, R24; flowers and envelope - R00, R01)

Thank you for joining me today! I’ll be back next Monday with another card share using products from the new release. Have a wonderful week!

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Hey everyone, it's Eloise here. I started off with stamping out all my images from the Love Monkey stamp set and coloured them in with Copic Markers. I then cut them out using the coordinating dies and added foam tape to the back of them. 

I then die cut the Botanical Backdrop out of some Dots & Stripes Pastel paper. I added foam tape to the back of that as well. I adhered the frame to a blue card base that I has inked with a little Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

(Copic Markers Used: E50, E51, E53, E55, E57 / Y13, Y18, YR23 / R000, R00, R20 / N2 / 0 / R14, R24, R29 / YG61, YG63, YG67)

I then adhered my monkey images over top as well. For the sentiment I used "I'm totally bananas for you" and stamped that in a gap with black ink. 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Botanical Backdrop Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Spring 2019 Release & Seasons of Giving Blog Hop Winners

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate the past week as we counted down to our new release for Spring!  Your excitement and sweet feedback always means so much!

The winners of our $25 gift code for sneak peek week are...

Monday- L Wright

Tuesday- Dena Byerley

Wednesday- Kristie Wilson

Thursday- Kristina Daniels

Friday- Jean Marmo

And the winner of the prize package for the Seasons Givings blog hop is:

Dina Roedel Kowal 

I hope your new year is off to a fabulous start so far!  I'm so excited for you to see what the new team is up to in the coming weeks.  The sharing all begins tomorrow... ;)

Introducing our Newest Design Team Members

So happy to finally announce that our team is doubling in size this year, which means blog subscribers will have twice as many inspiring ideas to look forward to each day!

Here's where you can find the five fresh faces joining us plus the rest of our amazing team.  They have so much talent and I'm giddy to see what cool projects they have up their sleeves!

Angelica Conrad

blog: https://myloveforpaper.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myloveforpaper/
facebook: https://m.facebook.com/myloveforpaper/

Anja Bytyqi

blog: https://littlebutterflycreations.blogspot.com/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anjabytyqi/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/littlebutterflycreations.anjabytyqi

Leanne West

blog: https://oneallgirlstudio.blogspot.com/

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oneallgirlstudio/

Mona Toth

blog: http://craftbymona.wixsite.com/craftbymona
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mona.toth/

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/craftbymona/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtvD0HeJcyqKfIB0aR-3Rw/featured
pinterest: https://sk.pinterest.com/craftbymona/boards/

Rachel Alvarado

blog: https://theunpamperedstamper.blogspot.com/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theunpamperedstamper/

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theunpamperedstamper/
pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/007rachela/

Eloise Blue

blog: http://www.ellaahrawr.blogspot.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellaahrawr/

youtube:  www.youtube.com/ellaahrawr

pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ellaahrawr/

Juliana Michaels
blog: http://www.17turtles.com/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianamichaels/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/17turtles/
pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/julianamichaels/
twitter: https://twitter.com/17turtles

Francesca Vignoli
blog: http://fridayfinally.blogspot.it/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francifridayfinally/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fridayfinally

Vanessa Menhorn

blog: http://www.wingsofabutterfly-vanessa.blogspot.de

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanessamenhorn/

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.menhorn

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/vanessawingsofabfly

pinterest: https://de.pinterest.com/vanessamenhorn/

Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/36859427@N07/

Lexa Levana

blog: http://rainbowjellomakesmehappy.blogspot.co.id/

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexalevana/

flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/96887546@N07/

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexa.levana

pinterest: https://id.pinterest.com/iluvrainyday/

Sneak Peek Week: Over The Rainbow, Make A Wish & Miss Moo

Hello and welcome to our Spring Sneak Peek Week!  All this week I have been showcasing cards using our new collection for Spring available for purchase today!  :)

Before you run off to shop, I have two more fun mini stamp sets to share: Miss Moo and Make A Wish, along with a versatile new 3x4 Sentiment stamp set called Over The Rainbow and a coordinating Rainbow Word die.

Card No. 1: Up first I have a card featuring the darling little Miss Moo stamp which is a compliment to the cow from our Barnyard Buddies stamps. You could use the image to create a fun spinner since aside from the eyelashes and daisy they are nearly identical, but I chose to pair her with the other cow to form a herd.  This set comes with three new punny sentiments that are so much fun!  I finished off my card with a little die-cut stitched heart from our Warm & Cozy dies.

Card No. 2: For my next Miss Moo card I once again paired her with the cow from our Barnyard Buddies, but this time I have them peeking out from some windows created with our Window Trio Square dies.  For my background I used a piece of red gingham paper from our Classic Gingham Paper pack and cut the stitched zig-zag edge of my kraft paper using our Ric Rac Border dies. For my sentiment, I created a custom greeting pefect for Valentine's Day using our Loopy Letters dies.

Card No. 3: My next card features our new Make A Wish stamps which includes a cake, a slice of cake, the "make a wish" sentiment and a happy face to personalize the cake with.  I paired it with three balloons colored to match from our Birthday Smiles Stamps and two prints from our Spring Sunburst Paper pack.

Card No. 4: I can't help but smile back at the cakes when the little happy face is added to them for these colorful birthday themed gift tags using our Build-A-Tag #1 dies and Spring Sunburst Paper pack. These are the perfect thing to have on hand to add to the top of a kid's birthday present when headed out the door! I finished them with a birthday sentiment from our Happy Thoughts stamps (together with the word "happy" borrowed from our Party Pups stamps which I cut apart to make it more functional). 

To create the look of glowing candles, I used a little finger dauber to sponge on some mustard seed distress ink just below where my candles would go before adhering my cake to the tag.

Card No. 5: Switching gears, for my next card, I wanted to showcase one of the many fun sentiments from our new Over The Rainbow stamps.  For this rainbow girl I am ecstatic to have so many fun colorful phrases to use on my future cards!

I started by stamping my clouds, rainbow & heart raindrops using our Rain or Shine stamps, which I colored to match the checked paper from our new Spring Sunburst Paper pack using Copic Markers.  I then mounted them on an arched panel of white cardstock which I cut out using our Sunny Semi Circle dies, rounding the corners with my We R Memory Keepers corner chomper and sewing around the edge with my sewing machine. I used those same Copic markers to blend a rainbow background onto a piece of scratch cardstock so that my Rainbow Word die would match.  

For my sentiment, I stamped and heat embossed it with white powder onto a pennant created with our Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies.  This die only has the "v" on one end so to create it on the opposite side, I made sure to have the flat end of the die hanging off my cutting plate before making my first cut.  I then turned it around and used the stitching to find a groove where the die felt like it locked into place and repeated the same step for the opposite side. When I was done, I mounted all the pieces onto a piece of coordinating grid paper from our Gingham Pastels Paper pack.

Card No. 6: For my next card featuring the Over The Rainbow stamps, I once again turned out our Rain or Shine stamps, this time repeatedly stamping the umbrella from the set onto paper from our Dots & Stripes Pastels Paper pack. I fussy cut them all out which was super quick since I was able to hide the bottom half of the umbrella with the way I stacked them. I mounted them onto a piece of sun ray paper from our Spring Sunburst Paper pack and them framed them with our Frilly Frames Polka-Dot dies.

For my sentiment I coated a small piece of white cardstock with some VersaMark ink, pressing my paper directly against the pad.  I then sprinkled on some iridescent glittery embossing powder and heat it up to create my own custom glitter cardstock which I used to cut my Rainbow Word from (it is difficult see in the photo, but it's very pretty in person).  To give it the look of thickers, I then cut a second rainbow word from white craft foam and used some liquid adhesive to stack the two together.  I love the results!

Card No. 7: My last Over The Rainbow card of the day uses some very cool Rainbow Foil and Deco Foil PeelnStick Toner Sheets by Therm-o-web.  I started by adhering the foil to the toner sheets using my laminating tool.  I then die-cut my hearts using a combination of the stitched hearts from our Warm & Cozy dies, Window Trio Circle dies and Fancy Frames Circle Dies, popping up a couple of them using the Deco Foil White Foam Adhesive. I am addicted to my scotch foam tape so I was super excited to discover a foam adhesive that can be die-cut to match my cutouts!

For my bottom scalloped edge, I used the long side of our Frilly Frames Lattice dies to cut a border.  Love getting extra life out of my supplies like that!

To help you have a closer look at everything, I created a video recapping the entire Spring Release along with all the cards I shared this week that you can find at our YouTube channel HERE.

I'm so happy you've joined me for sneak peek week and I'd love to give one last $25 gift code to one lucky winner.  If you haven't entered our previous giveaways from earlier in the week, there's still time.  The contests run through Saturday at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, January 6th. :)

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In honor the new release, we have a couple promo codes that will be active through Monday, January 7th at 11:59 pm PST:

• For orders within the USA, use the promo code FREESHIP at checkout to receive free shipping on all retail orders over $25.
• For international orders, use the promo code SAVE4 at checkout to save $4 on your shipping on all retail orders over $25.
• Or use our ongoing promo code SAVE5 to save $5 on any retail purchase over $49.

Plus all orders placed in our online store will automatically include a free mini double heart die while supplies last (no coupon codes needed).

Here's a closer look at the new Miss Moo, Make A Wish & Over The Rainbow stamps & coordinating dies used today... 

    

    

    

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Birthday Smiles Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Smiles Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rain or Shine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rain or Shine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Semi Circles Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Barnyard Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ric Rac Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio
Window Trio- Circles Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Trio- Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Build-A-Tag #1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Loopy Letters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Warm & Cozy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Sunburst 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Polka-Dot Shop at: Sunny Studio