Sneak Peek: Introducing Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies

Hello and welcome to day 2 of our Holiday Sneak Peek Week!  Each morning in the coming week I will be showcasing projects using our newest fall & winter collections which will be available to purchase on August 25th.

Today I'm showcasing our new Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies which includes an adorable vintage pick-up truck, truckloads for different holidays, occasions, and seasons, as well as a number of cute punny sentiments. The set also includes four new mini critter drivers. These are the same critters found in our Fall Friends Stamps, but shrunken down in size to mix and match with the critters from our Balloon Rides Stamps.

Card No. 1: My first card features a fall scene with a load of leaves in the back of an aqua colored pick-up truck using the Truckloads of Love Stamps. I started by blending my autumn sunset background using Wild Honey, Picked Raspberry, & Seedless Preserves Distress Inks. I then arranged three trees behind my truck using our Woodsy Autumn Stamps, layering a stitched hillside over the top cut from dark brown cardstock using our Slimline Nature Border Dies.

When I inked up my sky, I ended up trimming off some of the purple along the top of my cardstock panel so I could see more of the yellow peeking out near the horizon line of my scene so I was able to repurpose that portion by cutting out a stitched strip using the smallest pennant die from our Slimline Pennant Dies to help ground my sentiment. For my greeting, I inked up some white cardstock with Wild Honey ink, cut out a pennant strip using our Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies and heat embossed the phrase "Leaves are falling, Autumn is calling" from our Happy Harvest Stamps. Lastly, I layered the stitched strip with a pile of leaves and rake in the bottom right corner from our Fall Scenes Stamps. The leaves from this set are a larger scale so I thought they matched nicely with the other leaf piles and give the appearance they are in the foreground. 

Card No. 2: Up next is another fall card, this time focusing on the load of pumpkins from our Truckloads of Love Stamps. For this card, I started by inking a white cardstock panel with Seedless Preserves and Wilted Violet Distress Inks which I then splattered with water to create a speckled look which I thought gave the appearance of a starry sky right before the sun has fully gone down for the evening. With this in mind, I colored my tree border from our Country Scenes Stamps with slightly darker moody fall tones using my Copic markers. 

My dad had an old mint green pick-up truck like this when I was a kid so that was my inspiration when I colored this one, adding a little raccoon as my driver. For my sentiment, I paired the "greetings" word die from our Slimline Scalloped Frame Dies with the word "Autumn" which I spelled out using our Hayley Uppercase Alphabet and Hayley Lowercase Alphabet dies. I didn't realize how closely these matched until I created this card so that was an extra happy surprise!

Card No. 3: I couldn't resist creating one last fall card with our new Truckloads of Love Stamps, focusing on a fall harvest scene using the wood crates, tomatoes and apples from the set. For the barn & windmill in my background, I stamped the border from our Farm Fresh Stamps, added a chicken and some chicks to the foreground using our Clucky Chickens Stamps, and small tufts of grass using our Harvest Mice Stamps. Lastly, I stamped the "happy autumn" greeting in the empty portion of my sky in the top right using our Crisp Autumn Stamps.



Card No. 4: I took inspiration from the Barbie movie for my next card, creating a bright and happy birthday card, coloring the truck from Truckloads of Love a hot pink color, filling it with a stack of colorful gifts from the set, and adding a bunny driver from our Balloon Rides Stamps. For the background, I inked my sky with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and added the stitched clouds using our Fluffy Clouds Dies. I then layered it with a strip of neighborhood homes from our Scenic Route Stamps, keeping them a monochromatic grey to prevent them from competing with my focal point images. Lastly, I heat-embossed a birthday greeting from the set and added the white dotted line to my street with the border.

Card No. 5: Switching gears, I have a Christmas card using the Truckloads of Love Stamps with the tree & gifts and a husky dog as the driver. I paired them with the houses and trees border from our Winter Scenes Stamps, coloring the trees to match. I like to create a little story in my head when creating cards and I like the idea of them just coming back from cutting down one of these very trees. I inked up my sky to look like the glow of the sun setting with Tumbled Glass blending to Spun Sugar Distress inks and then added dots of Stickles Glitter to my sky to give the look of snow falling. I had been feeling like my card was missing something and I really love the touch of sparkle and extra texture it gives my card in person!

Card No. 6: Progressing through the holidays and seasons, next up I have a Truckloads of Love card perfect for Valentine's Day or pretty much any day you want to let someone know you love them. I started by adding a 5.5" wide x 1" high strip of striped aqua paper from our Sleek Stripes Paper pack to the bottom of my card base. I then cut the row of heart cutouts using our Heartstrings Border Dies, backed them with pink cardstock, and added the stitching and ric rac edge with our Slimline Basic Border dies. I added a little panda bear for my driver from our Balloon Rides Stamps and added a pink speech bubble for my heat-embossed sentiment from our Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies.

Card No. 7: It's a bit out of season at the moment, but I couldn't resist rounding out the holidays with a patriotic parade card adding the flag, bunting, and trailing stars to my red pick-up truck from Truckloads of Love with the dog from our Balloon Rides Stamps. To set the scene from my little hometown parade, I stamped a row of buildings from our City Streets Stamps, stamping them in tan ink onto kraft Paper for a subtle tone-on-tone look. For my greeting, I heat embossed my "Happy Fourth of July" from our Happy Thoughts Stamps onto a piece of blue grid paper from our Classic Gingham Paper pack and then die-cut it using the pennant from our Notebook Photo Corners Dies. Lastly, I added a strip of blue star print paper from our Surprise Party Paper pack.

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 $25 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. 

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Our daily contests will run through Monday, August 28th at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Friday, September 1st. :)

Here's a closer look at our new Truckloads of Love Stamps & Dies used today (which will be available to purchase starting on August 25th):

 

Other Supplies Used:

City Streets Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Crisp Autumn Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Harvest Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fluffy Clouds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Surprise Party 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodsy Autumn Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodsy Autumn Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By 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	Farm Fresh Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Farm Fresh Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fall Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fall Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Clucky Chickens Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Clucky Chickens Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hayley Uppercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Morning Glory Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Heartstrings Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sleek Stripes Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sneak Peek: Introducing Turkey Day Stamps & Brilliant Banner Dies

Hello and welcome to the first day of our Sneak Peek Week!  Each morning in the coming week I will be showcasing projects using our newest Holiday collection which will be available to purchase on August 25th.

Today I am sharing card ideas using our adorable new Turkey Day Stamps & Dies, and the Brilliant Banner 1 Dies and Brilliant Banner 2 Dies.

Card No. 1: Up first is a card using all five of the cute turkeys & two pumpkins from the Turkey Day Stamps. I think they are such an adorable bunch and arranged the one holding the sign in the middle, like a group ringleader. The set comes with four mini greetings to stamp on his sign so I used the "happy harvest" sentiment here after coloring them with my Copic Markers. I kept the rest of my card very clean & simple in design, adding a stitched edge to my white cardstock panel using our Slimline Basic Border Dies. Finally, I mounted two thin strips of orange cable knit patterned paper to the top and bottom of my card from our Sweater Weather Paper pack. My finished mini slimline card measures 6" wide x 3-1/2" high.

Card No. 2: Up next is a little sunset scene style card using the mountain and trees border from our Country Scenes Stamps with the turkeys, pumpkins, and "Autumn Blessings" greeting from our Turkey Day Stamps. I inked up my background using various distress inks, masking off the bottom of the trees with masking material so I could apply Vintage Photo Distress Ink right up to the edge of my Copic coloring.

Curving Trick: For my greeting, I started by inking up the various pieces of the new Brilliant Banner 2 Dies in progressively darker shades using Distress inks and then used the cardstock background piece leftover after cutting out the pieces to put into my Misti to hold my banner perfectly in place for stamping. I then added a clear piece of acetate, cut down to fit into my Misti, to help me curve my sentiment to match the curve of the banner. The slick surface of the acetate gives the photopolymer stamp something to stick to, to hold its shape so that I can then hurry and pick it up with my Misti lid in a curved shape with very little effort. As a bonus, the two words are connected in this set making it even easier to perfectly match the curve. This little trick opens up your sentiments to a whole new world of options!



Card No. 3: For this Thanksgiving-themed card, I used our Turkey Day Stamps together with the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Dies cut from dark brown cardstock to frame my little vignette scenes. For my background I inked up my white cardstock panel, blending Salty Ocean Distress, Seedless Preserves, and Picked Raspberry inks. I then added the pierced diamond texture to the background using our new Dotted Diamond Landscape Die (which I will be sharing more of later in the week). For my greeting in the top right corner, I stamped it using blue ink onto a small Stitched Oval and arranged some of the smaller leaves, pumpkin, pie, and mug from the Turkey Day set around it. The rest of my comic strip frames were filled with the cute little turkeys which I colored with my Copic Markers.

Card No. 4: For another Thanksgiving card, I started by cutting a panel from tone-on-tone brown polka-dot patterned paper from our Critter Country Paper pack to adhere to my card base. I then layered it with a stitched scalloped border cut from kraft cardstock using our Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies, inking the edges using Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Next, I cut a 5-1/2" x 1-3/8" high strip of blue gingham paper from that same Critter Country Paper pack, adding a stitched edge using our Slimline Basic Border Dies. I then tucked a lacy, scalloped edge below it, cut from white cardstock using our Eyelet Lace Border Dies to look like a tablecloth for my Thanksgiving feast.

To set up my Thanksgiving feast, I combined the stamped images from both our new Turkey Day Stamps and the cornucopia, fruit, and vegetables from our Bountiful Autumn Stamps. Lastly, I finished my little scene my heat embossing the words "Happy Thanksgiving" with White Detail Embossing Powder onto our new Brilliant Banner 1 Dies cut from kraft paper and inked up using more of the Vintage Photo Distress inks in progressively darker shades.



Card No. 5: Up next is a card combining the turkey sitting in the pumpkin, individual pumpkins, and greeting from the new Turkey Day Stamps with the cowboy and cowgirl from our Little Buckaroo Stamps, and the barn and fence from our Barnyard Buddies Stamps. 

I started by adhering a kraft panel to my card base which I layered with a white stitched scalloped mat which I cut using our Frilly Frames Stripes Dies. I then used iCraft Removable Pixie Tape to mask off the edges, just inside the stitched edge of my scallop so I could ink up my sky and grass using Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, and Mowed Lawn Distress Inks. 

When I was done, I repeatedly stamped the little tufts of grass using two stamp images from our Harvest Mice Stamps. Lastly, I added my "Happy Fall Y'all" greeting to my Brilliant Banner 1 Dies which had been inked up using Scattered Straw and Fossilized Amber Distress Inks and stamped then curved sentiment using Versafine Onyx Black Ink.



Card No. 6: For my last card of the day I combined the turkey, leaves, and greeting from our Turkey Day Stamps with the scarecrow, hay bale, standing chicken, and one crow from our Farm Fresh Stamps, the sitting chicken & nesting box from our Clucky Chickens Stamps, and another crow from our Happy Harvest Stamps.

For my background, I cut down a panel of tone-on-tone blue polka-dot patterned paper to adhere to my A2-sized card base, using a print from our Critter Country Paper pack. I then cut a lacy scalloped stitched mat using the outer die from our Frilly Frames Polka-dot Dies, filling in the little circle openings with a piece of yellow cardstock that I cut to layer underneath. I inked up the bottom portion of my scalloped panel with a bit of Tea Dye Distress ink to ground my little fall scene before adhering all of my stamped images. Lastly, I inked up our Brilliant Banner 2 Dies with various shades of blue inks in my stash to mimic the blues found in my polka-dot patterned paper and heat embossed the "Cozy Greetings" sentiment using White Detail Embossing Powder.

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 $25 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. 

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Our daily contests will run through Monday, August 28th at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Friday, September 1st. :)

Here's a closer look at our new Turkey Day Stamps & Dies, and the Brilliant Banner 1 Dies and Brilliant Banner 2 Dies used today (which will be available to purchase starting on August 25th):

Other Supplies Used:

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Oval Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Polka-Dot Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Stripes Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Eyelet Lace Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bountiful Autumn Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bountiful Autumn Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Harvest Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Buckaroo Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Little Buckaroo Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Country Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sweater Weather Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critter Country Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Clucky Chickens Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Clucky Chickens Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Barnyard Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio