Border Dies Focused Cards by Leanne and Mindy

Hello everyone! Leanne here today. I live in Iowa where the winter days can often be overcast and gloomy. I find myself wanting to add lots of color to my cards to compensate for the lack of outside this time of year. So I have a very colorful rainbow card to share today. I've combined two new Sunny Studio products to create the rainbow which covers the length of my slimline card. 

I used two different border dies. The scallop is from Eyelet Lace Borders and the hearts are from Heartstrings Borders. Now you could create your own rainbow ink blended card stock to die cut these borders out of, but you don't have to. It's already been done for you! I used a piece of patterned paper from the Spring Fling Paper Pad. It works out perfectly to die cut enough border strips to fill the front of the card. I alternated adhering the two border styles onto a separate panel and then trimmed narrower than the slimline card base which measures 8.5" tall by 3.5" wide.  

For the focal images on this card, I've used the balloon bouquet from Floating By and a monkey from Love Monkey. The monkey image is originally hanging from a vine.  After I die cut the monkey out, I simply fussy cut the vine part off. When I adhered the balloon bouquet to the monkey tail, it covers any odd lines left from the vine. I stamped the greeting, also from Floating By, in one of border gaps just below the monkey. For a bit of embellishment, I added some tiny clay heart confetti.

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Hello! It’s Mindy from My Creative Scoop. Today I’m sharing a Valentine’s card set using the new Spring Showers Stamp set and the coordinating die set. I’m also using the new Heartstrings Border Die and created this Ombre effect, which I’ll share how in the video below.

I’ve stamped all my images onto my Copic Xpress it Blending card using Memento Black Ink. Copic colors used: Skin – E13, E11, E00, R32, R30; Hair – E43, E42, E41, E74; Dress and Shoes – R85, R81, RV10

I die cut 3 of the Sweet Word Die which and layered them all together so my sentiment is thicker and stands up off the card a little, the with love is also from the Spring Showers Stamp set – I just trimmed off the ‘you’. 

These cards were so much fun and simple to create. I can’t wait to make more and change the ombre cardstock to rainbow! Thank you so much stopping by. Have a great day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Sweet Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Love Monkey Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Eyelet Lace Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heartstrings Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Fling Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Alphabet Stamp Focused Cards by Lynn and Ashley

Hello, crafty friends, Lynn here! Today I’m sharing a card that I created to highlight the new Phoebe Alphabet stamp set. This stamp set is such a great set to have on hand for either personalizing a card with the recipients name, creating your own sentiment or enlarging a sentiment from a stamp set to create a title like I’ve done with my card today.

To create my card, I not only used the fun Phoebe Alphabet stamp set but I used the adorable new Spring Showers stamp set and the coordinating dies to create a springtime scene. I started out by stamping two of the characters, an umbrella, some clouds and some flowers from the Spring Showers set and coloring them using Copic markers then die cut them out. 

Next I die cut a stitched circle and blended on some Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink along the top half, I also used the raindrop stamps from the Spring Showers set and tumbled glass ink to filled my background with raindrops.  After that, I used the new Spring Scenes stamp set and coordinating dies and stamped, die cut and colored the picket fence/grass image for along the bottom of my circle. For the grass image, I colored it with Copic markers but also blended on some Lucky Clover Distress Oxide ink along the bottom edge. 

Next I created my title sentiment by using the Phoebe Alphabet stamp set and the Banner Basics stamp set and coordinating dies. The sentiment “Showering” and “You with Love” comes in the Spring Showers stamp set but but I wanted to enlarge the Showering portion for more of a bang and it was easy to do. I lined up all of my letters to spell out Showering onto my banner and used my Misti tool to stamp them out. I adhered my images and banner to the die cut circle, popping up the boy and girl with foam tape and adding double foam tape to the umbrella. 

For the background panel of my card, I used two pieces of the new Spring Fling patterned paper and die cut them using the Frilly Frames Retro Petals dies. I added my die cut circle with more foam tape, tucked in some clouds above the circle and glued on some of the pretty Iridescent Pastel Confetti.

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Hi everyone! It's Ashley with a super cute new card that combines an older set with a brand new one! I just love the Silly Sloths set, but sometimes when you've had a set for a while, you need new ideas for it. So, I used the new Phoebe Alphabet and Banner Basics sets to make my own sentiment!

I started by blending Distress Oxide ink in Twisted Citron and Distress ink in Mowed Lawn for my background. I splattered water and some gold watercolor for a bit of texture and shine, then put the panel on a white card base.

I stamped several sloths and leaves from the Silly Sloths stamp set in Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink and colored with Copics before cutting out with the matching dies. I stamped a banner from Banner Basics in Jet Black and added a bit of Copic shading before using the Phoebe Alphabet, Jet Black ink, and an acrylic block to spell out "lazin' around". 

I attached the sloths and banner to the card using foam squares for dimension. I used the "I love" and "with you" from Silly Sloths to complete the sentiment. "I love lazin' around with you" - perfect for a homebody like me! I finished the card by tucking the leaves around the sloths and adding a few to the corners.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Retro Petals Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Banner Basics Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Banner Basics Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Phoebe Alphabet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Showers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Fling Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio