Guest Designing for Sunny Studio Stamps – Summer Tropical Fun cards – get me to the beach!

There's been a lot of action here this week! SO many fun opportunities and I'm really grateful to be working with these lovely companies. Today is yet another card filled post. I hope you had a great week. Summer is here and the livin' is easy. Today I am the guest designer on the Sunny Studio Stamps Blog! I'm always happy and excited to be the guest designer there! I'm so delighted to work with the beautiful and fun stamps and dies from Sunny Studio! I'm in love with everything SUMMER in the Sunny Studio storefront right now. It was hard to decide what to feature today, so I used, oh, about 10 stamp sets! LOL. I was dreaming of the beach, and palm trees, and flowers.  I had so much fun creating two cards to share with you. Grab a pina colada and take a look! ALOHA!! Cue the Ukelele!! 

Both of my cards today are 5×5 inch square card. I like to use a square card format when I need a little more real estate to work with. This size card fits into an A7 envelope for mailing!! (No extra postage required since it's not a square envelope)…. 

First up is this coastal cutie, swimming by on her floatie! On the shore, some happy little crustaceans and swaying palm trees… I used the Sunny Studio Semi Circle dies to create a frame for the waves and sand. I built my card around the semi circle. I also used a layer of hot pink striped paper from the Striped Silly Paper Pack. The sand was stamped and die cut onto Kraft cardstock. The waves were die cut from aqua cardstock. All the images were stamped and die cut with the matching dies and then colored with Copic Markers. I added bits of Diamond Stickles to the images for some sparkle. To finish off the card, I created a sweet bouquet of a pineapple and Monstera Leaves. The sentiment was heat embossed with white onto black cardstock. Everything was assembled using foam dots for dimension. I also really like to use a white gel pen to add accents over my Copic coloring. I love that little parrot sitting in the tree watching everything! These stamps make me smile!! 

 

How cute is she?? I love the tiny splash stamp to show movement on the card!! Can you see that I made foam whitecaps on my waves?? I used aqua paper and then inked the tips with a bit of Broken China Distress ink. Then I splattered white paint just on the tops of the waves. I really like how that came out. I'm gonna remember that trick!

 

 

 

 

 

This little crab and lobster look like they're dancing on the sand!

 

 

 

Next up is an elegant floral card that reminds me of my vacation to Hawaii several years ago. I used the Radiant Plumeria stamp set and the Hawaiian Hibiscus stamp set to make this card. Again, it's a 5×5 inch square card made from white cardstock. I die cut the gorgeous Retro Petals Die and put it over pretty green paper from the Pastel Gingham Paper Pack. The sentiment was heat embossed in gold onto a strip of vellum. These florals are 3-4 step stamping and they are PERFECTION! I used a MISTI to get everything lined up just perfectly. (Be sure to refer to the stamping guides on the Sunny Studio website). I used shades of the islands….greens, pinks and yellows. I layered everything and attached the images with foam squares. Aloha indeed!

 

I cut a square with a stitched die. Then I glued the cut out piece to the top of the square. Then mounted that part to my card with foam tape over the green paper. This gives it a window effect!! I used Scrapbook.com ink pads for these florals. 

 

One of my favorite memories from our trip to Hawaii was a fresh plumeria wreath around my neck! Every morning my husband would wake up early and go our for a walk and he would bring me a fresh lei every day. We would put it in the refrigerator and it would be icy cold and smell like HEAVEN! I am certain that heaven smells like plumerias!!!! My favorite ones were the yellow/pink ones and I tried to replicate that look with my stamping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by today to see my tropical creations! Be sure to head over to the Sunny Studio Stamps Blog to leave some love and look around at all the inspiration!!! Big shout out to Mendi, the owner of Sunny Studio!! Thanks for having me again! XOXO

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