Sneak Peek: More Ideas using New Spring 2022 Release Available Today

Hello and welcome to the final day of our Sneak Peek Week!  Each morning this week I have been showcasing cards using our newest Spring collection which is now available to purchase! 

While I don't have any additional new products to reveal today, I do have a handful of new cards to share with you that I didn't have time to complete earlier in the week so I thought today would be a perfect day to share some more inspiration using the new release as a bit of a review.

I also have created a video sharing a closer look at all 25 of our newest products along with the cards this week I made using them. 

You can also watch in HD from our YouTube Channel HERE.

Sadly I ran into some technical issues with my new phone after much time spent already filming the video so I hope you can forgive the fact that I shot it in the wrong mode with the wrong dimensions. I promise to do better next time.  Also it was a super gloomy day here with very poor lighting so I brought in some extra lamps which turned out to be less than ideal. Sorry...

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Card No. 1: For my first card I have the scarf wearing, scooter riding giraffe. Of course I couldn't have this release pass by without using one of my favorite critters for our new Critters on the Go Stamps! I kept the rest of my card fairly simple using a tone-on-tone effect for my background with the new Bursting Heart Die. I love how it almost looks embossed this way. To frame my little scene I layered our Scalloped Circle Mat 1 dies with our Small Stitched Circle Dies and cut the stitched hillside using our Slimline Nature Border Dies. For my background I added the little tree from the Critters on the Go set and some clouds from our Comic Strip Everyday Dies.

Card No. 2: Up next is another French inspired card combining images from our Paris Afternoon Stamps and the Arc de Triomphe from the Charming City Stamps. To create my background I started with a white piece of cardstock, stamping the images from the sets using PinkFresh Studio Summer Shower Ink. I then inked up the outside edges of my panel working lighter towards the center with that same ink using my Jumbo dauber. When I was done, I trimmed off a bit from each side so that I could have a little space available to include thin strips of black cardstock and some blue striped paper along each edge from our Dots & Stripes Pastels Paper pack. My patterned paper actually turned out to not be a perfect match in the end so I helped disguise the slight difference by inking right over the top using that same Summer Shower ink to bridge the gap. Now they look like they are an exact match and custom made to go together! 

Before adhering my card panel to my card base, I added a sheer organza black & white polka-dot ribbon to my card about 1/3 of the way down from the top, using adhesive where I knew my label would hide it from showing and wrapping the ends to the back of my card panel where I could tape them down. For my sentiment, I die-cut a label using our Scalloped Oval Mat 2 Dies and stamped my "bonjour" greeting onto a piece of white cardstock once again with the Summer Shower ink. Before adhering my label to my card, I cut a second oval from black cardstock to fill in the holes behind my white oval and show through. Finally I added a bow to the side of my label to dress up this fairly simple card.

Card No. 3: Continuing with my apparent blue theme today I have a clean & simple Valentine's Day card featuring the two adorable poodles & the little beret hat from the Paris Afternoon Stamps. I started by cutting & layering the largest hearts from our Stitched Heart 2 Dies and Scalloped Heart Dies to frame the pair, adding a little pink heart between them from our Heart Droplets. For my background, I cut our new Quilted Hearts Portrait Dies using a piece of blue patterned paper from our Gingham Pastels Paper pack, which I then backed with a coordinating piece of pink cardstock. For my greeting I cut a pennant using our Stitched Rectangle Dies and heat embossed the "For One of My Favorite Humans" Sentiment from our Devoted Doggies Stamps.

Card No. 4: For this card I layered the Stitched Heart 2 Dies and Scalloped Heart Dies again to frame my focal point, this time stacking two of the three sizes on a pink patterned paper from our Flirty Flowers Paper pack. I then added in green ferns stemming from the center using our new Spring Greenery Dies with the Cherry Blossoms Stamps in the Center. It was then that I realized I had backed myself into a bit of a corner with very few places to stamp my sentiment. After going back and forth with a few different options though, I realized it might be fun to stamp a sentiment on a curve so I used the "thanks" greeting from our Daffodil Dreams Stamps, curving it on a piece of acetate over my finished card and quickly closing my MISTI lid over the top before it tried to spring straight again.

With each new collection we always have a new free mini die we include automatically with orders placed in our online store. For this release we have a super versatile little daisy die!

Card No. 5: I couldn't resist putting the new die to good use so I have a card to share that I created using it. For my card I started by coloring the sky and grass background using Caran D'Ache Luminance colored pencils onto sketch paper with a little "tooth" designed for colored pencils. I then used Gamsol odorless mineral spirits with a cotton swab to blend the sky and pull color towards my open cloud spaces to give them a fluffy appearance. For my grass I also used the Gamsol to smooth out the lightest color before layering on the blades of grass in a variety of pencil colors.

I then cut down my background using the middle sized die from our Stitched Rectangle dies. For my daisies I cut two white portions for each daisy flower so that I could layer and offset them to look fuller with more petals before topping them from a center cut from yellow cardstock and speckled with more dots using my colored pencils. Before adhering my flowers to my panel, I pierced holes below them using a sharp paper piercer so I could run some embroidery floss for stems and tape the excess strings on the back of my panel. For the butterfly and little leaves I used the dies from our Basic Mini Shape II Dies which I also cut from colored cardstock and embellished with the pencils. I used that same paper piercer to add a trail for my butterfly and then mounted the finished panel onto a piece of white cardstock which had been die-cut with a matching stitched edge using our Frilly Frames Quatrefoil dies.

When shopping we have a couple different ongoing promotions you can choose from to be entered at checkout depending on which offer is better for you (one discount code per order).

I'm so happy you joined us this week. I read all your comments and they mean so much!  I'd love to give a $50 gift code to one lucky winner using the rafflecopter below. Our daily contests this week run through Saturday, January 8th at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, January 9th. :)

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DAY 1: Passionate Penguins Stamps, Quilted Heart Dies, Bursting Heart Dies, Scalloped Heart Dies & Stitched Heart 2 Dies
DAY 2: Cherry Blossoms Stamps, Lovey Dovey Stamps, Out on A Limb Dies & Spring Greenery Dies
DAY 3: Paris Afternoon, Charming City & Critters on the Go Stamps
DAY 4: Little Birdie & Bunnyville Stamps

Thank you so much for your sweet support! ♥️

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Basic Shape Dies II Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bursting Heart Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Critters on the Go Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critters on the Go Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Quilted Hearts Portrait Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heart Droplets Mix Shop at: Sunny Studio
Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Devoted Doggies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Basic Shape Dies II Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Oval Mat 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Critters on the Go Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critters on the Go Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Quilted Hearts Portrait Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heart Droplets Mix Shop at: Sunny Studio
Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cherry Blossoms Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cherry Blossoms Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Greenery Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Daffodil Dreams Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Morning Sky Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sneak Peek: Introducing Little Birdie & Bunnyville Easter Stamps

Hello and welcome to day 4 of our 2022 Sneak Peek Week!  Each morning this week I am highlighting cards using our newest collection for Spring which will be available to purchase on January 7th.

Today's cards showcase a new bird themed set called Little Birdie that compliments our previously released A Bird's Life Stamps. The set includes a new birdhouse to coordinate the others, a new tree branch going the opposite direction, a nest, 10 adorable birds, a small banner and a number of punny sentiments. The second new set is a Spring and Easter themed bunny stamp set called Bunnyville featuring 7 cute bunnies and a variety of carrot images.

Card No. 1: Up first is a Little Birdie card which I paired with our new Out On A Limb Dies I shared on Tuesday. For my card I started by cutting the tree branch from white cardstock and then coloring it with my Copic Markers to add extra shading and details. I did the same for my leaves which already come embossed with the veins, but I accentuated them by adding a little extra pen detailing as well. I colored my birds to resemble robins and then inked up my background using distress inks, splattering on some of the coordinating reinker and water to give it a speckled look like robin's eggs. I cut my mat behind the tree branch using our Stitched Rectangle Dies inking on a light amount of Peacock Feathers distress ink behind them and splattering on some more of the watered down reinker with an old toothbrush. A sentiment from the stamp set, stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink, completed my card.

Card No. 2: For my next card I inked up my white cardstock with pink clouds using Picked Raspberry distress ink together with homemade masks created using our Slimline Nature Border Dies. I then cut the panel down using our Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies which I paired with the Hot Pink Striped Silly Paper. To make the 6 x 6 paper fit my 4" x 9" card, I trimmed them down using a very sharp paper trimmer right next to the edge of the stripe and adhered the pieces side by side almost making the seam completely disappear. 

This card uses both the tree branches & bird houses from our new Little Birdie Stamps together with our A Bird's Life Stamps. I used my ruler with a hot pink sharpie for the string for my birdhouses to hang from and then found a matching ink in my stash to stamp the bows from the set. I colored the banner from the set with Copic Markers and then heat embossed a punny sentiment from the set using VersaMark Ink together with Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder.

Card No. 3: For this Little Birdie card I once again used the Out On A Limb Die, but this time I embossed the tree branch using our Woodgrain Embossing Folder. I inked the edges of the leaves using Mowed Lawn Distress ink to accentuate the embossed vein details and paired the birdhouse from the Little Birdie set with two of the birdhouses from A Bird's Life. For my backdrop, I die-cut the cloud paper from our Summer Splash Paper pack using our Stitched Rectangle Dies and double mounted it onto white and kraft cardstocks. A punny Mother's Day greeting nestled between the hanging pink bird houses completed my card.

Card No. 4: For my last Little Birdie card I started by die-cutting my background from blue cardstock using our new Quilted Hearts Landscape Dies which I backed with a piece of navy blue cardstock. I then cut the largest stitched heart from our Stitched Heart 2 Dies from that same blue cardstock, layered over a white heart cut with our Scalloped Heart Dies. A trio of stitched clouds using our Fluffy Cloud Dies and three mini hearts from that same Stitched Heart 2 Dies helped embellish my little scene. I then stamped a punny greeting onto the smaller banner from the Little Birdie set. These last two cards involved zero distress ink, but sometimes I think it's fun to mix things up and utilize patterned paper or colored cardstock to speed up the creative process.

Card No. 5: Switching gears my next card showcases our new Bunnyville Stamps and the darling carrot house from this set. I started by adhering the lavender flower print paper to my cardbase from our Flirty Flowers Paper pack. I then cut a scalloped mat using our Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace Dies which I inked up with Tumbled Glass and Twisted Citron distress inks. I followed by stamping some tufts of grass using our Chickie Baby Stamps and set to work layering my scene using all the images from the Bunnyville set. Lastly I stamped the greeting "hi cutie" from our Happy Hamsters Stamps using VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.


Card No. 6: My next Bunnyville card focuses on the cute carrot balloon image from the stamp set. I used some Embroidery Floss for my balloon strings taped to the back of each balloon and then tied them in a knot which I tucked behind a gift from the Holiday Express Stamps. I positioned my bunny on a tree stump from our Fall Friends Stamps and arranged my scene on an arched mat from our Stitched Arch Dies. I added a bow to my bunny's ear from our Little Birdie Stamps. Finally I mounted my scene on a piece of orange patterned paper from our Gingham Pastels Paper pack.

Card No. 7: Next up is an Easter card featuring the egg, tulips, butterflies and greeting from the Bunnyville Stamps. I started by cutting my window from the rainbow striped Spring Sunburst Paper using our Stitched Semi-Circle Dies. I then heat embossed my greeting from the stamp set using VersaMark Ink with Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder on a blue polka-dot print from our Dots & Stripes Pastel Paper pack. For my grass I used our Slimline Nature Border Dies cut from our Classic Sunburst Paper pack. Finally I just layered all the darling images from the set around my sentiment, popping up the butterflies with foam tape.

Card No. 8: For my last card of the day I created a slimline card by stretching our Stitched Rectangle Dies and then lining up our new Stitched Heart 2 Dies to cut out a row of heart windows. To get my hearts to line up perfectly I drew a faint pencil line down the center of my card panel and then positioned the heart points on the line and securing them with a little washi tape before running them through my die-cutting machine each time. I then backed the windows with an aqua polka-dot print from our Dots & Stripes Pastel Paper pack and filled the windows with the bunny rabbit images from the Bunnyville set and a sentiment from our new Lovey Dovey Stamps.

That wraps up today's sneak peeks. I'm so happy you spent part of your day with me today. I read all your comments and they mean so much!  I'd love to give a $50 gift code to one lucky winner using the rafflecopter below. Our daily contests this week run through Saturday, January 8th at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, January 9th. :)

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Here's a closer look at the our new Little Birdie Stamps & Dies and Bunnyville Stamps & Dies used today (which will be available to purchase starting on January 7th):

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

A Bird's Life Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Bird's Life Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Striped Silly 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Sunburst 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Flirty Flowers 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Dots & Stripes Pastels 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fluffy Clouds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Summer Splash 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodgrain Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
Chickie Baby Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Semi-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Out on A Limb Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Quilted Hearts Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fall Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cottontail Embossing Powder Tool Shop at: Sunny Studio