Guest Designer Spotlight: Love Monkey Cards with Keeway Tsao

Hi friends! It’s Keeway Tsao from Kiwi Koncepts and I’m crashing in to do a little guest blogging today! I instantly fell in love with the recent release of Love Monkey and have a couple of projects to share with you.

The first thing I like to do is stamp all the images, color, and die cut so that I can play around with the pieces. My images were stamped in a dark brown hybrid ink, colored with copic markers, and die cut with the coordinating dies.

The hanging vines in the set create the perfect opportunity for these playful monkeys to hang around frames. I chose to use a frame with three openings, using the top two frames to hang monkeys, and the bottom frame to have one sitting on the ground.

My frame was die cut in white and behind each rectangular opening, I ink blended Evergreen Bough, Cracked Pistachio, and Antique Linen distress oxide inks.

Before I started assembling it all together, I also stamped the sentiment ‘I’m totally bananas for you’ onto the background in the same dark brown hybrid ink. The sentiment was already in three separate sections, perfect and easy to split up for each frame!

Finally, I added the frame and all my images to the card with foam tape to give that beautiful dimension to the card. The two monkeys are vying for the cute little girl’s heart and just showering her with bananas and gifts.

My second card takes a more simple look, but uses the beautiful Frilly Frames Lattice dies to add a delicate texture to the background. I die cut the lattice out of white card stock, and the background was ink blended with Stormy Sky, Shaded Lilac, and Spun Sugar from top to bottom.

The focal point of this card is the pair of monkeys in love. I made use of the balloons held by another monkey image, trimmed off the monkey, and adhered them behind other images as if the bananas and flowers were weighing the balloons down. I surrounded these gifts around the pair.

I heat embossed the sentiment ‘for my little monkey’ in white onto kraft card stock. I trimmed it down to strip and just the same width as the frame. I added the strip to the card first, and then all my images above it after.

These are the cutest little monkeys ever! Sending lots of love and inspiration your way. Thank you for dropping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Everything's Rosy Cards with Lexa and Rachel

Hi everyone! Lexa here today with a greeting card featuring Everything's Rosy Stamps and the coordinating dies. This layering stamps from Sunny Studio always become hits, and I no wonder why. Just take a look at the results, they are so pretty and realistic. This roses stamp is a perfect addition to your flower layering stamps collection. It also goes really well with older stamp sets too. Let's get started because I'm excited!

First I stamped the roses and other elements with the help of stamping tools. It makes the work so much easier especially when I need to double stamp one layer to get the color I wanted. I used Lawn Fawn Dye Inks because they are so crisp and have subtle colors. I'm so obsessed with them!

Ink colors for roses (in order from the lightest to the darkest): MFT Hybrid Ink Pad Cotton Candy, Lawn Fawn Dye Ink Wild Rose, MFT Hybrid Ink Pad Razzle Berry, Lawn Fawn Dye Ink Cranberry, Lawn Fawn Dye Ink Walnut 

Ink colors for leaves (in order from the lightest to the darkest): MFT Hybrid Ink Pad Sour Apple, Lawn Fawn Dye Ink Jalapeno, Lawn Fawn Dye Ink Noble Fir

As for the background, I use the brand new Frilly Frame Polka-Dots and Frilly Frames Lattice dies. Add a layer of vellum behind the lattice to soften the purple patterned paper from Flirty Flowers Paper Pad. The flower's stem is from the older stamps called Timeless Tulips and the Vintage Jar Stamps for the vase. I blend Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to create water illusion on the bottom part of the jar.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you like today's card as much as I do.

Have a wonderful day!

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Hello everyone! It's Rachel Alvarado here and I am showcasing the Everything's Rosy Stamp Set today. This is one of the most gorgeous rose layering stamp sets that I have ever seen. And the fun part is that they are super easy to use!

I have two cards to share with you today. I used both the Everything's Rosy Stamp Set and Frilly Frames Lattice Die Set on both of my cards. For my first card (shown above), I decided to create a shaker card beneath the lattice. I simply added a clear sheet of acetate behind the lattice with a light amount of liquid adhesive. I then added small strips of foam tape around the sides before adding some Studio Katia Crystal Clear Mini Sequins.

Altenew ink colors for the roses: Blue Roses: Sea Glass, Ocean Waves, Dusk, and Desert Night; Sepia Rose: Sand Dunes, Rocky Shore, Mocha, and Espresso; Leaves: Bamboo, Parrot, Olive, and Moss

Lastly, I added a sheet from the Classic 6"x6" Gingham Paper Pad and some Tiny Dew Drops.

For my second card, I used the same sets but different colors. It's amazing how switching up the colors helps to change up the look of your card completely. I first die cut the Frilly Frames Lattice Die Set three times from white card stock and glued them together. I wanted to get bolder look with the lattice and accentuate it by giving it some more depth.

Once again, I used the Altenew Ink Mini Cubes for my roses and leaves. In addition, I also two Mini Ink Cubes from My Favorite Things. I added a beautiful blue sheet of patterned paper from the Gingham Jewel Tones 6"x6" Patterned Paper.

Colors Used: Yellow roses: MFT Lemon Chiffon, MFT Sunshine, Altenew Buttercream, Altenew Caramel Toffee, and Altenew Paper Bag; Leaves: (Altenew) Bamboo, Parrot, Olive, and Moss 

I hope you enjoyed my cards today! If you like flowers, don't hesitate to check out these gorgeous rose layering stamps! You won't be disappointed. See you next week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Timeless Tulips Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Timeless Tulips Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Vintage Jar Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Everything's Rosy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Everything's Rosy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Polka-Dot Shop at: Sunny Studio