Guest Designer Spotlight: Birthday Cards with Michelle Short

Hello there, Michelle Short here and I am delighted to be back guesting here on the Sunny Studio Blog. When I saw the latest release, I fell in love with everything! What an amazing release! I had to narrow down what I wanted to use, so for today’s cards, I am using the fabulous Cupcake Shaped Die, Chloe Alphabet Dies and Looking Sharp. Perfect for Birthday cards, which is what I am sharing with you today.

My first card uses the fabulous Cupcake Shaped Die. I love creating shaped cards, but it is not always easy to get the shape correct. With this set of dies all the work is done for you! You simply need to cut the dies from cardstock or patterned paper and you are good to go! I started off my card by die cutting the cupcake base card twice from white cardstock, as well as the frosting, candle and sprinkles. I then cut the cake and the cupcake wrapper from a kraft cardstock. Using Copic Markers, I coloured the elements to add texture, depth and shading. I also added highlights with a white gel pen.

Although you can adhere the elements directly to the cupcake card base (or leave it off, if you want to add the cupcake to a traditional card base), I decided to piece the elements together first and add tape to the back to hold them in place. I then added foam tape and adhered the pieces, as one, to the cupcake card base. I took the back portion of the card base and made a score line a quarter of the way down. I adhered this piece to the back of the front base, so that the card can stand up and open easily.

I took the sentiment from the Looking Sharp set, masked it off so that only ‘birthday’ would stamp and stamped it on to white cardstock with black ink. I coloured the piece with a matching Copic Marker that I used on the cupcake and cut it in to a strip. It was added to the card with foam tape. I took the Chloe Alphabet Dies and cut them from white cardstock, as well as white glitter cardstock. The letters for ‘wishes’ were layered up so that the glitter letter was adhered to the white cardstock one (for extra dimension) and then added them to the card. This was such a fun card to make and that cupcake is good enough to eat! ;)

 

My next card uses the Looking Sharp set. This is another really fun set! I love that the set has faces that you can stamp on to the cacti. You can stamp them on the cactus themselves, on to the pots like I have or not at all! So versatile! I started off my card by stamping three of the cacti on to white cardstock with black ink. I also stamped the party hat and bow. They were coloured with Copic Markers and die cut out using the Looking Sharp Dies. I set them aside while I worked on my background.

 

I took an A2 white card base and masked off the edges. Using ink blending brushes, I blended on Black Soot Distress Ink at the bottom and Peacock Feathers at the top. I removed the masks and then stamped the sentiment from the set at the top, using more black ink. The cacti were adhered with foam tape at the bottom. I felt like the scene was missing something, so I took the balloon image from the Oceans of Joy set and stamped, coloured and die cut it. I drew a line from the cactus with a black fine liner and then adhered the balloon on top with foam tape. To finish off, I added white gel pen highlights.

 

That’s it from me today but I will be back in a couple of weeks with another guest spot as I have more cards to share! Thanks so much for stopping by, have a great day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Oceans of Joy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Oceans of Joy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Looking Sharp Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Looking Sharp Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chloe Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Cupcake Shape Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Teacher Appreciation Cards with Tammy and Candice

Hello! Tammy here with a fun project, featuring Teacher Appreciation, a versatile sentiment set that can be used not only for teachers, but for so many occasions and people in your life! For my project, I created an A2 card and a fun pencil shaped card.

For the A2 card I started with a white cardstock card base, then layered a green dotted rectangle cut from the Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6X6 Paper. Next, I added some fun notebook looking paper I found in my stash and stamped it with a sentiment from Teacher Appreciation in black ink, then added a little apple from Harvest Mice. To create the pencil, I cut yellow striped paper from the Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6X6 Paper using the Slimline Pennant Die. I cut 3 more pennants using kraft, guava, and silver cardstock. I created a scalloped edge using the smaller border die from the Slimline Pennant Die, then layered it over the kraft pennant. I used the Fishtail Banner Dies to create the pointed edge of the pencil. I then trimmed down the silver and guava pennants and attached to create the eraser and silver band you would find on a pencil. I added a little piece of charcoal cardstock to the end of the pencil to look like the lead. 

I attached the pencil to the card with foam tape for dimension, then white heat embossed the sentiment onto a charcoal cardstock sentiment strip to complete my card.

The shaped card was created exactly as the pencil on the A2 card, but I used the larger pennant from the Slimline Pennant Die to create it. Once the pencil was created, I attached it to a white card base, measuring 2 3/4 X 6 1/2" when folded. I then trimmed the sides along the pencil to create the pointed shape. Next, I stamped the sentiment in black ink from Teacher Appreciation onto some patterned paper and die cut it with the Stitched Circle Dies. I then layered it onto a charcoal Scalloped Circle Mat, added a small apple from Harvest Mice, and adhered to my card with foam tape to complete it!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my projects today! See you next time!

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Hello! Candice with you sharing a fun thank you card today using the multi-purpose Teacher Appreciation stamp set!

I used these Sunny Studio products for my design:

• Teacher Appreciation stamps
• Looking Sharp stamps & coordinating dies
• Comic Strip Everyday dies
• Slimline Scalloped Frame dies
• Subtle Grey Tones 6x6 paper pad
• Gold Jewels

I began with a 6 1/2 x 5 card base. For the background, I die cut multiples of the Comic Strip Frame from grey cardstock and backed with the woodgrain pattern paper. I then die cut multiples of the 'thank you' and layered them adhering the 'thank' with foam tape and gluing the 'you' in the center frame.

Next, I stamped the cacti, colored them with copic markers, and cut out with the coordinating dies. I finished the sentiment with the smaller sentiments heat embossed in white on black banners and the 'brightened' in gold on white cardstock adhered with foam tape. A sprinkle of gold jewels add a bit of sparkle!

Thank you for stopping by with me today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fishtail Banner Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Looking Sharp Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Looking Sharp Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Teacher Appreciation Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Subtle Grey Tones Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Harvest Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio