Carol DuFrene
Jan Joubert
Emma Sleppy
Hello and welcome to the final day of our Summer Sneak Peek Week! All this week I have been sharing cards showcasing our newest collection which is now in our store and available to purchase!
Card No. 1: Today I have one last stamp and die set to share which I'm super excited about called Beach Bus which features both the front view and side view of a VW-inspired bus with 4 mini critter passengers to mix and match with the animals from our Truckloads of Love Stamps and Balloon Rides Stamps. It also comes with a silhouette of three palm trees and a gorgeous Summer script word that mixes and matches with many words to build custom greetings.
For this card I started by cutting circle masks from masking paper using our Stitched Circle Small Dies and Stitched Circle Large Dies which were inked with mustard seed, carved pumpkin, picked raspberry, and seedless preserves for my background before spritzing with water. I stamped my greeting from the set in the center with a grouping of palm trees on either side using Versafine Onyx Black ink. On a separate piece of white cardstock, I colored it with swooshes and flicks of color using my Copic markers to match the sky's colors and give the appearance of the sunset being reflected in the waves. Lastly, I used our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies to frame my scene with black cardstock, cutting extra rocky shore pieces to flip and use on the right side of my card, and to tuck behind my water line to ground the palm trees in the distance. The final piece was adding my hot pink beach bus to the center with some yellow highlights to the hood and roof to reflect the glowing sunset. I adore the retro vibe of this background and how well it compliments the vintage feel I was going for with these stamps!
Card No. 2: For this card featuring the Beach Bus Stamps, I created a day scene with palm trees using the trees from our Sending Sunshine Stamps and Tropical Scenes Stamps. I stacked some luggage on the top of the van using companion images from the set, along with a little sloth as my driver. The Tropical Scenes Dies include some coordinating wave dies which were perfect to create a little opening to tuck the surfboard from the set into the sand. To complete my scene I added three clouds from our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies.
Card No. 3: Up next is a second take on a sunset background. This time I pulled up images on Google for beach sunsets as my inspiration and blended a variety of distress inks before spritzing my paper to help blend the water. In the end, I thought the sky looked a little bit like rainbow tie-dye which was perfect for this vintage-inspired card using our new Beach Bus Stamps. I kept the rest of my design fairly simple, using our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies to add the silhouette of three palm trees, along with a stitched outer frame all cut from black cardstock. For my curved ground using the stitched hillside, I used a die from our Slimline Nature Border dies and then added the side view of a yellow beach bus to the center filled with critters from the set and our Balloon Rides Stamps. Lastly, I tucked a surfboard on the van's roof and stamped the greeting "happy summer" between the palm trees along the top, center of my card.
Card No. 5: For my next road trip scene card, I used the mice and luggage from the Beach Bus Stamps to pile onto a retro aqua-colored van which I paired with the hilly tree border in the background from our Country Scenes Stamps. I added a trio of clouds to my sunny sky using our Tropical Trees Backdrop Dies and three little puffs of exhaust to the back of my beach bus using images from our Plane Awesome Stamps. Lastly, I pieced together my "driving by to say hi" greeting using two separate sentiments from our Truckloads of Love Stamps and Spring Showers Stamps.
Card No. 6: For my last Beach Bus card of the day, I created a beach scene using our Ocean View Stamps with the ocean waves washing up on the shore with the palm trees and beach umbrella. The border also includes a beach chair on the right which I hid with my van and leaning surfboard. On the left side of my scene under the palm trees, I added the girl drinking lemonade in a beach chair from our Kiddie Pool Stamps and paired her with the dog and vintage luggage from the Beach Bus stamps and a second puppy dog perched in the car from the Balloon Rides Stamps. For my background, I layered our Fluffy Cloud Border Dies which I had die-cut from masking material to ink with Tumbled Glass distress ink. I stippled many dots over the stamped line of my shore using a white gel pen to create the look of frothy incoming waves.
As is my tradition, I also created a new release video sharing a closer look at each of the projects I shared this week along with new products and maybe a couple extra tidbits I failed to share here on the blog. You can watch it down below or on our YouTube Channel HERE.
It's getting harder and harder to get the word out about new releases and have videos seen with YouTube's new algorithms these days so if you can do me a favor and hit the like button even if you don't have time to watch the entire thing right now I would greatly appreciate it. ❤
With each new collection, we have a free mini die which we automatically include with orders placed in our online store, while supplies last. For this release we have a fun mini flower die!
That wraps up today's sneak peek. I'm so happy you joined me today! I'd love to give a $50 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. Our daily sneak peek contests run through Saturday, April 20th at Midnight PST with the winners announced here on Sunday, April 21st.
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Here's a closer look at our new Beach Bus Stamps and Dies used today.
Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Seasonal Trees Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Seaonal Trees Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
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Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Plane Awesome Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Plane Awesome Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio | |
Spring Showers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Tropical 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 |
Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio | |
Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Kiddie Pool Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Tropical Trees Backdrop Shop at: Sunny Studio | |
Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Truckloads of Love Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio |
VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Hello and welcome to Day 4 of our Summer Sneak Peek Week! All this week I have been sharing cards showcasing our newest collection which will be available for purchase tomorrow morning!
Card No. 1: Today I am showcasing our new Tropical Birds Stamps which feature three pairs of birds including toucans, cockatiels, and parrots. The set also includes a jungle tree branch, 4 jungle leaves, and a few small flowers which I didn't use for this card. I adore all the fun mix-and-match punny greetings!
For this card, I started by inking a white cardstock panel using a Mowed Lawn 1" distress ink cube directly to the paper. The cube was dry enough that it left streaks and I loved the results so much that I decided to just leave them as a fun background. It gives me the feeling of a dense jungle with a little light peeking through. I then lined up three Tree Branch Dies on my portrait-style card which I had cut from woodgrain cardstock and inked with Vintage Photo distress ink. Since these are tropical birds I thought the tree leaves might be larger so I borrowed the leaves from our Out on A Limb Dies inked with Twisted Citron and Rustic Wilderness distress inks. Before adhering my last tree branch, I tucked in the largest stitched circle from our Staggered Circle Dies bleeding off the right edge of my card, and used it for my greeting from the stamp set. My card was feeling a little bare along the bottom of my card so I ended up cutting a stitched strip from our Ribbon & Lace Border Dies from that same woodgrain cardstock to give a bit of weight to the bottom of my card and not make it feel so top heavy with the darker toucans on top.
a Rafflecopter giveaway Here's a closer look at our new Tropical Birds Stamps and Dies used today and available for purchase on Friday, April 19th.
Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:Staggered Circles Die Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Out on A Limb Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Tree Branch Die Shop at: Sunny Studio |
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Radiant Plumeria Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Radiant Plumeria Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
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Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio |
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Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio |
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Fluffy Clouds Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Frilly Frames Herringbone Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Stitched Semi-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Summer Greenery Die Shop at: Sunny Studio |
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Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Hawaiian Hibiscus Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Hawaiian Hibiscus Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Surprise Party 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Happy Thoughts Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio |
Little Birdie Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio |