Guest Designer Spotlight: Kiddie Pool Cards with Anja Bytyqi

Hello everyone, Anja here with you today. I’m happy to be back again as a guest designer on the Sunny Studio blog. This time I'm sharing two cards made with the Kiddie Pool Stamps. I love how well these stamps work with other products!

For my first card, I created a colorful scene using the inflatable swimming pool along with two of the kids who are having some splashy summer fun in the garden.

First, I started off with ink blending the faded sky background onto a white A2 panel. I used Tumbled Glass and Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Ink. To create a bit of texture, I splattered on Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink as well as white gouache paint. When everything was completely dry, I stamped the big scripty word 'Summer' from the Radiant Plumeria stamp set in VersaMark Ink and heat embossed it with bright pink embossing powder. The sub sentiment was stamped underneath in VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.

I trimmed down a green dotted paper from the Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper Pack. At the top, I used the grassy border from the Picket Fence Border Die set. I adhered the grass panel flat to the background.

Next, I picked a couple of summer accessories from the Beach Buddies (sun hat, beach bag, rolled towels and suncream) and the Beach Babies (beach ball) set. I stamped all the images in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them with Copic Markers. I cut them out with the coordinating dies and adhered everything with liquid glue and foam tape. To finish off the card, I added some water droplet images next to the girl which has been tucked into the water.

On my second card, I used the Swimming Pool Die in addition to the stamps to create another summer scene.

I created an A2 landscape card base from Naturals White cardstock which has lots of small brown speckles. I die cut the swimming pool from white and grey cardstock (railing). I did the outer piece twice, colored the top one with Copics and then stacked the die cuts together. The water was inked with Tumbled Glass and Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide Ink. I let it dry and inlaid it back into the tiled piece.

Once again, I used some accessory images from the sets mentioned above to complete my pool scene. I stamped them in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and did some Copic coloring. Everything was cut out with the matching dies and adhered with liquid glue or foam tape.

The sentiment is from the Sealiously Sweet set and I stamped it in VersaMark Ink onto a black cardstock strip. I heat embossed it with white embossing powder and adhered the strip at the top of the card.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Wishing you a fun summer time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Babies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Babies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Heroic Halftones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Radiant Plumeria Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Kiddie Pool Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Swimming Pool Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Baby Elephants Cards with Audrey and Vanessa

Hello friends! Audrey here with a girly baby card to share with you using one of my favorites from the summer release, Baby Elephants. 

To create this card, I used a background that I created awhile back. When I am feeling uninspired to create a card, I often create watercolor or stenciled backgrounds to use later when my crafty mojo returns! I used my Zig Clean Color Read Brush markers to watercolor a very pastel background. It's hard to capture how soft and magical it is. 

I used markers in shades of pale pink, peach and light blue, and then I splattered on gold and silver metallic watercolor when the first layer dried. I stamped and colored my favorite image from Baby Elephants, the elephant on the moon, with Copic markers. Two polka dot clouds were stamped with Spun Sugar Distress Oxide. I die cut the images with the coordinating Baby Elephants dies, and popped everything up with foam tape. 

I stamped a sentiment from the set on a white banner and tucked that in along the bottom of the focal point. I popped the panel up on a pale pink card base, and to finish off the card, I added some white gel pen accents, Diamond Stickles on the moon and a scattering of tiny pink clay hearts.

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Hello to you! Vanessa here with a colorful slimline card using the cute Baby Elephants set.

I first die-cut a stitched panel from white cardstock, using the Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies. Now I masked the panel with borders I die-cut using the Slimline Nature Borders Dies, inked the background with Squeezed Lemonade, Carved Pumpkin, Wilted Violet and Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide inks and adhered the panel to the card base. I die-cut the cloud borders from white cardstock and vellum, trimmed them with the stitched rectangle die and adhered the layers to the card. 

For this scene I used these sets:
Baby Elephants stamps + dies
Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies
Slimline Nature Borders Dies
Rainbow Star Confetti
Primary Star Confetti

Now I stamped my images, colored them with Copics, die-cut the pieces with the matching dies and adhered the elements to the card, popping-up some with foam-tape. Finally, I added little stars to finish the card off.

Thanks for visiting and happy weekend! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

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