Guest Designer Spotlight: Savanna Safari Cards with Nicky Meek

Hey everyone, it's Nicky Meek here with you. Safari anybody? Today I'm happily guest designing for Sunny Studio Stamps again and I'm featuring the fun new stamp set Savanna Safari for my two cards I'm sharing here.

My first card is a slimline card with finished dimensions of 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. I prepared the base and set it to one side and then took a panel and stamped and ink blended it using several colours in the yellow and orange family for a sunset scene.

On Copic friendly cardstock the cute critters from the stamp set were stamped and Copic coloured, die cut with the coordinating dies, and applied to the scene with foam tape. Points were highlighted with a white gel pen.

The sentiment was stamped and applied with foam tape and I finished the card by using a black gel pen to dot in some ground texture and add the birds to the sky.

I wanted to create something quite a bit different for my second card which is a standard A2 finished size.

Again I ink blended a panel using Distress Oxides and distressed it just a little. I took the 'watering hole' die and die cut the opening in the panel. I took the cut out piece and ink blended it and then die cut a little 'wave' opening so that the hippo's head could poke through. The panel was backed with foam tape and applied to the card base and then I recessed the 'water' in the gap created and adhered it.

I stamped the greenery around the pond directly and also stamped and die cut some of the images for some dimension, backing them with foam tape and applying them. All other images were stamped on Copic friendly cardstock and applied with more of the foam tape and as planned the hippo was placed in the watering hole to cool off!

To finish out the card I dotted in some ground texture, stamped and applied the sentiment and added some tiny sparkling clear sequins in the water for a little interest.

Many thanks for stopping by today.

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Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Savanna Safari Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Savanna Safari Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Grad Cat Cards with Rachel and Candice

Hello friends! Hope you are all doing well! It's Rachel here and I have a slimline card to share with you today featuring the new Grad Cat Stamp Set. 

To start, I first stamped all of my images with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto a sheet of Neenah Solar White 110 lb Card Stock. I added some graduation caps from the Woo Hoo Stamp Set as well as some other feline friends from the Purrfect Birthday Stamp Set. I colored all of my images with Copic Markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

I then trimmed some smooth white card stock to 3.25" x 8.25 and lightly blended the center of it with some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. I then splattered this blending with both some water as well as diluted teal watercolor paint. Once this piece was dry, I then stamped my sentiment with black ink as well as some stars using the small Round Acrylic Block. Lastly, I added my images with some 3D Foam Adhesive Tape for some added dimension.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by! Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

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Hello my crafty friends! Candice here with you today! I have some fast and last minute mail friendly graduation cards using the Grad Cat stamp set for those graduates this year who are stuck with virtual graduations. 

For the background, I first die cut some slimline scalloped frames using the partial die cut method with the Frilly Frames Hexagon dies. I then taped the edges and inked with Barn Door, which happens to be the high school colors for the graduates I am giving these to. You could easily change it to the colors of the high school your graduate is from!

I then stamped the "con-cat-ulations" in Versafine black in the top left corner. For the table, I trimmed black cardstock and heat embossed the "mew did it!" in white on the right side.

Next, I stamped all my images from the Grad Cat stamp set, colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I adhered them to the card front with glue and foam tape for dimension. To finish the card, I added some stars and white Nuvo drops. I used a gold pen to fill in some stars and the stripes on the books.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope this can help for some last minute grad cards!

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Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Woo Hoo Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woo Hoo Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Purrfect Birthday Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Purrfect Birthday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Grad Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Grad Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio