Spring Garden Card with Cathy

Hey friends! Cathy here today and I’m excited to share a card featuring the Spring Garden Dies paired with elements of the Wonderful Windows Dies to create a gardening bench!

This is an A2 card and I started with the background panel on the card front. I cut a piece of white cardstock 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", inked it with Lilac and Orchid Simon Says Stamp inks and die-cut it with the Dotted Diamond Portrait Die. I then die-cut the piece again with the largest Stitched Rectangle Die and adhered it to a white card front.

For the lattice, I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using the notebook paper die from the Notebook Photo Corners Dies and then die-cut the center of it using the smallest Stitched Rectangle Die. This created a frame for the lattice. (You could also just cut a piece of white cardstock 3” x 4 1/8” in place of the notebook paper die, but I liked the slightly rounded corners that this die produces.) Next, I cut a piece of white cardstock 3” x 4 1/8” and die-cut it using the Frilly Frames Lattice Die. I then adhered the frame over the lattice and adhered the combined piece to the card front 1/4" from the top of the lilac background panel. I was able to line the lattice up with the lines of the Dotted Diamond Portrait Die background, but you could also back the lattice with an inked piece of cardstock before adhering it to the card front.

For the drawer portion of the bench, I die-cut a shutter twice from white cardstock using a Wonderful Windows Dies, layered them together and adhered them slightly overlapping the bottom of the lattice using foam dimensional tape. I die-cut drawer pulls from silver cardstock using dies also found in the Wonderful Windows Dies. I used a combination of inking and Copic coloring on the Spring Garden Dies. I just love the details of these dies and the cute little gardening tools!

To finish, I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using the Brilliant Banner 1 Die, embossed a sentiment from the Watering Can Stamps with white embossing powder and inked it with Memento Lulu Lavender ink.

I hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by today! For more inspiration, please visit my blog www.inkredibleadventures.com and you can also find me on Instagram as @cathy.chapdelaine.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Watering Can Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wonderful Windows Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Brilliant Banner 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Portrait Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Garden Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Mini Grass Border Die Focused Card with Nicky

Hello this is Nicky with you today on the Sunny Studio blog and I have a new Easter card for you that features the Mini Grass Border Die.

This is a 5 1/2 inch square card and I started by creating a pink panel in that size and glueing it to my card base. I then created a smaller white panel which I masked and ink blended in pink to create the sky and I stamped the bold sentiment from Chickie Baby. I removed the mask, die cut the Fancy Frames Square Dies, backed it with foam tape and applied. This whole decorative panel was backed with white craft foam and applied to the main panel.

Using the Mini Grass Border Die I created two little 'hills' and I ink blended these in green and I glued the larger one directly within the frame and with the smaller second one I added ScorPal tape around the left, bottom and right hand side and applied within the frame.

I used Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa to stamp the Chickie Baby images and I coloured with the following Copic marker combinations:

Chickies - YR00, E51, E50, YR07
Blushes - R22, R20, R00
Basket - E44, E31, E41
Mint - BG11, G000, G0000
Pink - V01, RV00, RV000
White - C1, C00
Shading - W2, W0

Images were die cut using the Chickie Baby Dies and applied to the scene with foam tape and I tucked the wicker basket slightly behind the slower grass slope which is why I left it unglued at the top edge. I completed the card with the simple addition of some white highlights and daisy dots in the grass using a white gel pen.

Wishing you a Happy Easter!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Chickie Baby Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Chickie Baby Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Mini Grass Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Puddle Jumpers Card with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm happy to be back on the blog with this super cute scene at the park by the pond featuring the adorable Puddle Jumpers!

As very often I picked a bunch of images from different sets (listed down below) to make my card, and started off by stamping them all on 80lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, I cut them using the matching dies, and colored everything using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and my Graph'it brush markers.

Here is a detailed list of the items I used on this card:

• Puddle Jumpers - girl, ducks, umbrella
• Sprawling Surfaces - pavement
• Balloon Rides - clouds, sun, small trees
• Critters On The Go - dog
• Country Scenes - pond, cattails, waterlilies
• Spring Scenes - park, big trees

Once everything was colored, I cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches Strathmore bristol smooth panel, and colored the top using a cloud stencil from my stash along with lost shadow and hickory smoke oxide inks. Next I white heat embossed my "A little ray of sunshine is on the way" greeting from Puddle Jumpers at the bottom of the pond section, and then attached everything on my bristol panel using foam squares. And as always I finished my card by adding highlights and details to the images using a white gel pen. 

And that's it! Love this cute and busy little scene, love those sweet ducks! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Spring Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring 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	Critters on the Go Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critters on the Go Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Puddle Jumpers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Puddle Jumpers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sprawling Surfaces Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Beautiful Bluebells Card with Tina

Hello crafters, it’s Tina and today I am back on the blog with a gorgeous layering stamp set called Beautiful Bluebells and it’s coordinating dies.   

With these sets I always like to start with die cutting all the shapes from white Neenah card stock. I keep this paper to put into my Misti to do all the stamping. The die cut pieces will fit into this sheet as little puzzle pieces. And so, I can stamp multiple flowers at the same time, building them up layer by layer. For the flowers I used several blue and green inks from my stash.

Another trick I always use when doing layered stamping is to use the sheet the stamps come on as a guide for positioning. I saw this once in a card making video and have been doing this technique ever since.

Knowing the flowers would really be very bright and the star of the show, I needed a toned-down background with still some interest to it. I created a white panel with the Frilly Frames Chevron dies and added it to a white card base. To make this background more dimensional, I added foam tape to the frame and some of the chevron strips. Other strips were just glued to the base.

The Beautiful Bluebells are a perfect match for the large Layered Basket Stamps. I stamped just two layers of this set in a pale pink ink from my stash. Then I fussy cut the basket and made the edges a little darker by adding extra ink with a blending brush.

The little tag was made with dies from the Window Quad Square set. I had to trim it a bit to make it fit the basket. Next, I stamped the sentiment from Truckloads Of Love in the same pink ink as used before. After wrapping a piece of white twine around the basket I adhered it to the background with foam tape and added the tag with a little bow.

For the beautiful bouquet, I just started gluing the biggest flowers to the chevron panel with a repositionable tape runner so I could arrange the composition while adding more flowers. Next, I sprinkled some white paint splatters over the whole card front. Several Pure White Jewels were added across the design as a finishing touch.

Thank you for joining me and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Frilly Frames Chevron Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Quad Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Layered Basket Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Layered Basket Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Truckloads of Love Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Beautiful Bluebells Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beautiful Bluebells Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sprawling Surfaces Card with Isha

Hello everyone! Isha here with you sharing a fun scene featuring the Sprawling Surfaces stamps. I made this a bit whimsical and colorful card. 

I started by die-cutting the square frame using the Fancy Frames Squares dies. Sponge a white panel using salty ocean distress ink to create the sky. Next stamp the brick path, color using copics and adhere to the base of the panel.

Stamp the images, color and die-cut:
Bushes, leaves, sentiment - Lovely Lilacs stamps and dies
Fairy, snail - Garden Fairy stamps and dies
Houses - Charming City stamps and dies

Adhere the images onto the sky panel. Stamp the sentiment. Adhere this panel behind the frame using 3 d foam. To finish, add some glitter to the fairy wings.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Garden Fairy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Garden Fairy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Charming City Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Charming City Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Lovely Lilacs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lovely Lilacs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sprawling Surfaces Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio