Guest Designer Spotlight: Lovely Lilacs & Watering Can Cards with Leanne West

Hello everyone, Leanne here with you! I'm so glad to be back here on the blog today. I have two spring inspired cards to share with you. I was so excited to play with the new Lovely Lilacs layering stamp set. We have lilac bushes growing in our backyard and I look forward to seeing them bloom every year in the spring.  

As I was stamping out the lilacs, I could almost smell their wonderful fragrance. I combined the Lovely Lilacs set with another new stamp set, Watering Can, to create two pretty cards that could be used for a spring birthday or Mother's Day.  

For the first design I started with an A2 size note card. I added a big bouquet of lilacs coming out the top of the watering can to make a nice big arrangement. This fills the card front nicely.

You really would not have to add much else but I did decide to take the design up a notch by adding the Frilly Frames Lattice layer behind the arrangement.  I also added a couple butterflies which are included in the Watering Can set. I choose to finish off the card by attaching a small tag, using the Stitched Arch Dies, saying "hello".

The second card is a mini slimline design. This time I've used the Lovely Lilacs and Watering Can sets to create a simplistic garden scene where the can is tilted slightly like it's watering the lilacs.  

I've added a bold greeting to complete the design. I used the Chloe Alphabet Letters to spell out the word "spring". I stamped the word "greetings". This stamp is from another layering set, Timeless Tulips. 

I love how detailed the lilac images turned out on both of these cards. I'll let you in on a little secret ... I only used two different shades of purple ink for the lilacs even though there are more than two stamp layers for each image. The way I was able to get by with only using two inks is the "stamping off" and "double stamping" methods. When stamping the very first lilac layer, I would apply ink and then stamp onto a scrap piece of card stock first. This lightens the ink color when stamped again without re-inking the stamp. I stamped the second lilac layer normally. For the third layer of the lilac image I would double stamp it to create a darker color. The double stamping method is simply stamping the image twice with the same ink. 

You'll find a list of all the ink colors I've used for these cards below:
Lilacs - Catherine Pooler Sweet Sixteen & Sugared Lavender
Butterflies - Catherine Pooler Limoncello, Tiki Torch, & Twilight
Peach Watering Can - Distress Oxide Tattered Rose & Shabby Shutters
Green Watering Can - Altenew Frayed Leaf & Forest Glade
Blue background color - Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Timeless Tulips Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chloe Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lovely Lilacs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Lovely Lilacs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Watering Can Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Watering Can Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Ocean View Cards with Audrey and Vanessa

Hello friends! Audrey here with a fun ocean themed card to share with you using goodies from the new release!  This card showcases both the Fintastic Friends and Ocean View stamp sets. They work beautifully together! 

To create this card, I started off by watercoloring a 4" x 5.25" panel with Peacock Feathers Distress ink. I concentrated the color to the right side of the panel. I stamped the shark and two fish from the Fintastic Friends stamp set along with the coral and ocean pants from the Ocean View stamp set. Everything with colored with Copic markers and diecut with the coordinating Fintastic Friends dies and Ocean View dies. I arranged my scene and popped everything up with foam tape. 

A sentiment from the Fintastic Friends stamp set was stamped in black on a white banner diecut and placed under the images to ground the scene. The panel was popped up on an A2 card base, with a strip of Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones patterned paper along the left edge to draw the eye across the entire card front. To finish off the card, I added some white gel pen accents and used some Morning Dew Nuvo Drops to add some bubbles.

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Hello to you! Vanessa here with a fun beach card using Ocean View.

I first stamped the beach, colored the piece with Copic markers, die-cut it with the matching die, trimmed it and adhered it to a panel of light blue cardstock. Now I die-cut the cloud edge and added it behind the scene. I covered the scene with vellum and adhered it to the white card base. Then I stamped the images, colored and die-cut them and adhered the elements to the card with foam tape. Finally, I die-cut the "hello", colored the word with Copics and adhered it.

Here comes a list of the products I used today:
Ocean View stamps + dies
Sealiously Sweet stamps + dies
Baby Elephants stamps + dies
Slimline Nature Borders Dies
Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies

I love these adorable elephants and seeing them playing at that beautiful beach puts a smile onto my face :) I hope you like them, too! Happy weekend!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio
Baby Elephants Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fintastic Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fintastic Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio