Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Wanda Guess

Hi everyone! Wanda Guess here! I'm always happy and excited to be the guest designer on the Sunny Studio Blog! I'm so delighted to work with the beautiful and fun stamps and dies from Sunny Studio! I'm in love with everything SUMMER in the Sunny Studio storefront right now. 

It was hard to decide what to feature today, so I used, oh, about 10 stamp sets! LOL. I was dreaming of the beach and palm trees, and flowers. I had so much fun creating two cards to share with you. Grab a pina colada and take a look! Please visit me on my blog sometime! You can find me at A Blog Called Wanda! Or find me on Instagram. Let's get started. Aloha!

First up is this coastal cutie, swimming by on her floatie! On the shore, some happy little crustaceans and swaying palm trees. This finished card is a 5x5 inch square made from white cardstock. I used the Stitched Semi-Circle dies to create a frame for the waves and sand. I built my card around the semi circle. I also used a layer of hot pink striped paper from the Striped Silly Paper Pack. The sand was stamped and die cut onto Kraft cardstock. The waves were die cut from aqua cardstock. All the images were stamped and die cut with the matching dies and then colored with Copic Markers. 

I added bits of Diamond Stickles to the images for some sparkle. To finish off the card, I created a sweet bouquet of a pineapple and Monstera Leaves. The sentiment was heat embossed with white onto black cardstock. Everything was assembled using foam dots for dimension. I also really like to use a white gel pen to add accents over my Copic coloring. I love that little parrot sitting in the tree watching everything! These stamps make me smile.

Next up is an elegant floral card that reminds me of my vacation to Hawaii several years ago. I used the Radiant Plumeria stamp set and the Hawaiian Hibiscus stamp set to make this card. Again, it's a 5x5 inch square card made from white cardstock (one of my favorite sizes for cards). I die cut the gorgeous Frilly Frames Retro Petals dies over pretty green paper from the Gingham Pastels Paper Pack. The sentiment was heat embossed in gold onto a strip of vellum. 

These florals are 3-4 step stamping and they are PERFECTION! I used a MISTI to get everything lined up just perfectly. (Be sure to refer to the stamping guides on the Sunny Studio website). I used shades of the islands....greens, pinks and yellows. I layered everything and attached the images with foam squares. Aloha indeed!

Big thanks to Mendi for having me as a guest! I'm very blessed that she always invites me back! Wishing you a happy Summer!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Striped Silly 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Catch A Wave Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Best Fishes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Coastal Cuties Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Coastal Cuties Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hawaiian Hibiscus Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hawaiian Hibiscus Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Retro Petals Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Plumeria Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Plumeria Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Semi-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Stitched Semi-Circle & Arch Die Focused Cards with Rachel and Candice

Hello friends! Rachel here today! I have a fun underwater-themed shaker card to share with you today featuring the new Stitched Semi-Circle Dies. 

I love how versatile these dies are! I used the biggest one in the set to create a large window in the center of a 5" x 5" square card base. I then stamped some images from both the Sea You Soon and Best Fishes Stamp Sets. All of my images were colored with Copic Markers and cut using the coordinating Sea You Soon and Best Fishes die sets.

For my ocean background, I blended some Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire, and Black Soot Distress Inks and splattered this blend with water to give it more interest. I also added a beach floor by cutting a piece of white card stock, blending it with Antique Linen Distress Oxide Ink and then splattering it with both diluted white and brown paint to add some texture. 

I adhered all of my images with to my base with liquid adhesive and then added some Studio Katia Majestic Mini Sequins for my shaker embellishment combined with some clear seed beads. Lastly, I stamped my sentiment onto my front panel with Tuxedo Memento Black Ink prior to attaching it to my card base.

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Hi my crafty friends! It's Candice sharing a cool summer shaker card with you highlighting the Stitched Arch dies!

I used these awesome Sunny Studio products for my shaker:

• Stitched Arch dies
• Summer Sweets stamps & coordinating dies
• Radiant Plumeria stamps (Summer)
• Sliding Window dies (awnings)
• Dots & Stripes Pastel 6x6 paper pad
• Iridescent Pastel Confetti

I began my card with an 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 card base which fits wonderfully into your standard size envelopes.

For the shaker windows, I first die cut 3 arch windows on a piece of thick white cardstock and adhered a strip of acetate behind them. I then put strips of foam tape all around the back of windows and filled with sequins. On the card front, I added trimmed yellow pattern paper, lined up under the windows, and adhered vellum over the them to make it softer. I then added the card onto the foam tape to create my shaker card.

Next, I created my awnings using the same yellow pattern paper and adhered above the windows with foam tape. I then stamped all the different ice creams, colored with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I added some accents using a white gel pen.

To finish the card, I created the sentiments by first stamping the "Summer" in Altenew Silver Stone ink and fussy cutting out and then heat embossing the other sentiment in white on a grey banner. I adhered both of them with foam tape and added some different colored nuvo drops around the windows.

Thank you for visiting today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Sliding Window Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Plumeria Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sea You Soon Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sea You Soon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Summer Sweets Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Summer Sweets Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Semi-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Savanna Safari Cards with Vanessa and Anja

Hello to you! Vanessa here with a birthday card using Savanna Safari. To showcase this cute set, I decided to create a tri-fold card:

Folded, it's the same size as a normal card, but it opens to this:

I first inked the background of the card base with Distress Oxide Inks and applied ink droplets before folding it twice. Then I die-cut the little hill from Tropical Scenes, inked it and applied ink droplets before adhering it to the card. Now I stamped the images onto white cardstock, colored everything with Copics, die-cut the elements with the matching dies and adhered them to the card.

For this card, I used various stamp sets + dies:

Savanna Safari + matching dies (critters, sentiment)

Silly Sloths + matching dies (leaves)

Magical Mermaids + matching dies (rock)

Tropical Scenes dies (sandy island)

Fabulous Flamingos + matching dies (feathered leaves)

Spring Showers + matching dies (clouds)

Purrfect Birthday + matching dies (party hat)

Finally, I stamped the sentiment onto dark brown cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, trimmed the strips from the panel and adhered the pieces to the card.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful week!

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Hi everyone, Anja here and today I'm sharing a birthday card made with the adorable Savanna Safari Stamps. Of course I had to create a sunset scene.

I started off with a light brown A2 card base and an extra panel from where I cut out a window with the biggest Stitched Semi-Circles Die. For the sunset background, I blended together the Distress Oxide Inks Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral and Picked Raspberry. The grass was done with Bundled Sage and Mowed Lawn.

Next, I stamped the critters and a couple of leaves (Fabulous Flamingos Stamps) in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them with Copic Markers. I added details to the lion with Prismacolor pencils and cut out the images with the coordinating dies. The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark Ink onto a black cardstock strip and I heat embossed it with white embossing powder.

I adhered the window panel over the ink blended background with foam tape. I tucked the leaves behind the window and popped up the zebra and toucan as well. To finish off the card, I added two black die-cut hearts.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Hope you're having an amazing day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Magical Mermaid Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Magical Mermaid Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Purrfect Birthday Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Purrfect Birthday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Showers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Semi-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio