Sunny Studio's 6th Birthday Blog Hop

 Hello to you and welcome to the Sunny Studio's 6th Birthday Blog Hop! Happy Birthday, Sunny Studio!! Mendi is such a sweet and kind person, and I am wishing her all the best for the upcoming years!

I will provide more info about this blog hop at the end of this post, so be sure to read on. But first, my card for today.

I couldn't resist using these adorable images from the set called Bear Hugs. Just love these bears and trees! For my card, I first stamped the two cuties, masked them, stamped the trees, masked again and inked the background with Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Festive Berries Distress Oxide Inks. After I had removed the masks, I colored the images with Copic markers and adhered the panel to the card base. Now I die-cut the letters from the Chloe Alphabet from white cardstock, inked them with pink ink, matted the letters with black ones to create a shadow and adhered them to the card. Finally, I stamped and heat-embossed the "sending" onto a strip of black cardstock, trimmed it and added it to the card.

I hope you like today's inspiration! The new release is so beautiful, you don't want to miss it. Find the complete release here.

Now to the details of this blog hop. Besides all the inspiration, you get the chance to win a $25 gift code to the Sunny Studio shop. Simply leave a comment on my post below! This will run through Friday, August 27th and the winners will be announced on the Sunny Studio Blog on Sunday, August 29th. And Mendi is also offering this:

For additional information, please visit the Sunny Studios Blog! Here comes today's blog hop list:

Sunny Studio
Vanessa 

Anja
Ashley
Audrey
Franci
Isha
Julia
Kavya
Marine
Mayra
Tammy

Thank you for taking the time to comment, happy hopping and good luck!

Vanessa

MFT Camp Create: Spectacular Shakers

 Hello there! I've been enjoying crafting while watching the Olympics and created a fun shaker card for the MFT Camp Create: Spectacular Shakers.

This is the result:

I love creating my little shaker boxes! Here I stacked the adorable cuties from the BB Birthday Buds set for a fun birthday card. The images are colored with Copics, the base is inked with Distress Oxide inks.

Have a wonderful weekend everybody and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

MFT Supplies:

BB Birthday Buds

Card Sized Confetti Stencil

A Cute Lawn Fawn Scene

 Hello there! I had such fun creating a cute scene for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge.

Here is my first take, and probably not my last:

 The background is inked with Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass and Lucky Clover Distress Oxide inks. The images are colored with Copic markers.

This is the list of sets I used:

butterfly kisses flip-flop stamps + lawn cuts

elphie selfie flip-flop stamps + lawn cuts

gleeful gardens stamps + lawn cuts

center picture window card (banner + clouds)

grassy border

Thank you for stopping by today! 

Vanessa x

MFT Sketch 535 Guest Designer + a tutorial!

Hello to you! It's my last day guesting for the MFT March Sketch Challenge. Besides my take on the sketch, you'll get a tutorial on how to color number balloons to make them look like foil number balloons. I got asked a lot about them on previous cards, so here it is. But first comes Sketch 535:

And this is what I made inspired by it:

Here I started with a white card base and stamped the Pumped-Up Numbers with grey ink. After I had added highlights with a white gel pen, I added a strip of grey cardstock, a rectangle of white cardstock and covered the front with vellum to tone it down. Now I stamped the images, colored them, fussy-cut the pieces and adhered them to the card. Finally, I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of pink cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, trimmed it and adhered it to the card.

This cute little bear always makes me happy! But now to the promised tutorial. I hope you like it!

Will you try this? Let me know what you think. And don't forget to join the MFT Sketch Challenge this week for your chance to win $50 to the MFT shop! Thanks for visiting today!

Vanessa

Supplies:

Pumped-Up Numbers

Partners in Adventure

BB Adorable Elephants

MFT Sketch 534 Guest Designer

 Hello to you! Welcome back to another week guesting for MFT. Today the new Sketch 534 is up and this time it is a slimline card design:

Here comes my take, are you ready for take-off?

The adorable new High-flying Adventure stamp set fit perfectly for this sketch. I love this little bunny holding on to the string. On the background, I created light pink clouds with Spun Sugar Distress Oxide ink, using the Cloud Stencil. I colored the images with Copic markers and the sentiment is heat-embossed using white embossing powder.

Be sure to head to the MFT Blog to find all the details on how to win a $50 gift card to the MFT Shop! I hope you'll join us! Thanks for visiting and see you next week!

Vanessa

MFT Supplies:

High-flying Adventure stamps + Die-namics

Cloud Stencil

MFT Sketch 533 Guest Designer

Hello again! I am back with my card guesting for this week's MFT Sketch 533.  This is the wonderful sketch:

And here comes my monochromatic, girly take:

I first stamped the gnomie and the eggs, masked them and inked the background to create the hills, using Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet Distress Oxide Inks. Then I stamped the greenery and flowers, removed the masks and colored the images with Copic markers. After I had adhered the panel to my card base, I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, trimmed it and adhered it.

These gnomes make me smile. So lovely! Now it is your turn, I hope you will join us this week for the Sketch Challenge. Thank you so much for visiting!

Hugs,

Vanessa

MFT Supplies:

BB Spring Gnomes

Dandelion Greenery

Drifts and Hills Stencil

MFT & Friends March 2021 Release

Welcome to the MFT & Friends March 2021 Release! I am thankful to be guesting this month, and have created samples using the new release for your inspiration. It feels like an early birthday present, March being my birthday month! So grab a cup of whatever you prefer and enjoy the cards. I hope you like what you see!

The new BB Spring Gnomes set is the cutest, don't you agree? Here I colored them with Copic markers, the background is inked with Cracked Pistachio, Squeezed Lemonade, Spun Sugar and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide inks. 

To make the die-cut letters stand out better, I added a rectangle of vellum behind them.

The new Stacey Yacula set is next:

I wonder what these little bears whisper into each others ear? I wish I had their heart-shaped flowers in my garden! This background was ink blended using Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Festive Berries Distress Oxides. The images are colored with Copics. This garden gate is a new favorite of mine!

Ready for take-off? Good, because here comes the Amazing Airplane Die-namics:

This die is such fun! I wanted to put all the cute critters from my stash into the planes. Here I chose to add the bears from Partners In Adventure. The background and the planes are inked with Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberries, Milled Lavender and Wilted Violet Oxides.

 And finally a card using a lovely new Rachelle Anne Miller set:

This little girl is from the RAM Rainy Day Friends. I gave her a rainbow that I created with Distress Oxide inks. The images are colored with Copics again. This is a one-layer card made with masking paper.

You made it through all the cards! I hope you enjoyed them and that you were inspired! Now be sure to stop by the MFT Blog to see all the fabulous creations everybody came up with for today and to find the details on how to win $100 to the MFT shop! Thanks for stopping by my blog and for leaving me love.

Hugs,

Vanessa

Supplies:

Good Egg Card:

BB Spring Gnomes stamps + Die-namics

Birch Trees Die-namics

Gift Card Window + Frame Die-namics

Grassy Hills Die-namics

LLD Stitched Alphabet Die-namics

Love Bears Card:

SY Being With You stamps + Die-namics

Garden Gate Die-namics

Bears in Planes Card:

Partners in Adventure stamps + Die-namics

Banner Day Sentiments

Amazing Airplanes Die-namics

Banner Flags Die-namics (free with $60 gift option)

Mini Cloud Edges Stencil

Rainbow Umbrella card:

RAM Rainy Day Friends stamps

MFT Sketch 532 Guest Designer

 Hello to you! It's Wednesday, time for the new MFT Sketch Challenge 532. I am pleased to be back for my second week guesting for My Favorite Things. This week's sketch is such fun:

Don't you agree? I was wondering how to replace the star shape and just arranged my images to achieve this:

Yes, I couldn't resist to use the BB Mice Day to Celebrate again! I am in love with this stamp set. First, I stamped my images onto the panel of white cardstock, building up the scene by masking the stamped images before stamping the next image. Then I used tape to mask off the background and applied Cracked Pistachio and Pine Needles Distress Oxide Inks. Now I stamped the Happy Birthday Background and removed all the masks from the panel. 

After I had colored the images with Copic markers and added details with a white gel pen, I adhered the panel to a pink card base. I stamped the sentiment from BB Bitty Bears onto a strip of black cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, trimmed it and adhered it to the card. Finally, I added tiny star confetti, resuming the star shape again.

I hope you like my take on this week's sketch. I would love to join this cute party! Now it is your turn. Join the fun on the MFT blog for your chance to win 50$ MFT cash! Thank you for visiting today, I'll be back soon with more. Can't wait!

Vanessa

MFT Supplies:

BB Mice Day to Celebrate

Happy Birthday Background

BB Bitty Bears

MFT Sketch 531 Guest Designer

 Hello to you from a thrilled girl! I am allowed to guest for My Favorite Things again this month, joining the wonderful Design Team for the weekly Sketch Challenges. So without further ado, here comes sketch 531:

I immediately thought of photographs displayed on a wall and this is the result:

I first trimmed a panel of Tropical Teal cardstock slightly smaller than my card base and adhered it. Now I trimmed a strip of white cardstock, inked it with Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink and adhered it to the middle. Then I cut two rectangles from white cardstock, inked the background with Squeezed Lemonade, Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Inks and drew around the edges with a black marker.

Now I stamped the adorable images from BB Picture Perfect onto white cardstock, colored them with Copic markers, added details with a white gel pen, fussy-cut the cuties and adhered them to the rectangles before adhering these to the card.

Finally, I stamped the sentiment onto black cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, trimmed it and adhered it to the card.

This makes me smile and I hope it does the same to you! I hope you'll join us for the challenge for your chance to win $50 MFT cash! Thank you for stopping by today and thank you, MFT!!

Vanessa

MFT Supplies:

BB Picture Perfect

Tropical Teal cs

Black Licorice cs

Another Slimline Birthday Card

 Hello again! I am back with another slimline birthday card for the MFT Slimline Challenge - Birthday Wishes. I am using the same stamp set, this time combined with a watercolor background:

First, I stamped and masked all my images onto the white cardstock panel. Then I masked off stripes and inked the background with Distress Oxide Inks. Now I blended the stripes with a watertank brush, let it dry and removed the masks. I colored the images with Copic markers, stamped the sentiment and added details with a white gel pen before adhering the panel to the card base.

This card was made with a single stamp set, I just love these cute mice!!

I hope you are having a wonderful day! Thank you for stopping by!

Vanessa

MFT Supplies:

BB A Mice Day To Celebrate

MFT Slimline Challenge - Birthday Wishes

 Happy weekend, my friends! I made another slimline card, this time for the MFT February Slimline Challenge - Birthday Wishes. 

I treated myself with one of the new stamps sets from the current release, because - birthday mice! Here is my take:

  On the background, I used Cracked Pistachio, Picked Raspberry and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide inks and added white pigment ink with a star and circles stencil to create a soft bokeh effect. The images are fussy-cut and colored with Copic markers. The sign was heat-embossed with white embossing powder.

I love this new set, it is one of my favorites now! It won't be my last card with it :)

Have a wonderful day everybody and thanks for visiting!

Vanessa

MFT supplies:

BB Mice Day To Celebrate

Slimline Winter Scene Card

 Happy Friday! I am back with a cute slimline winter scene card for the MFT January Slimline Challenge Winter Scenes. We've been having tons of snow and I can't remember when it was as cool as at the moment here, so I had enough inspiration looking out of the window.

The panel is one layer, I masked everything. The images are colored with Copic markers, the background was inked with Distress Oxide inks Wilted Violet, Dried Marigold and Scattered Straw. The sentiment is heat-embossed with white embossing powder.

If I hadn't broken my little toe, I would love to join this cute party! 

Have a wonderful weekend, thanks so much for stopping by!

Vanessa

MFT Supplies:

SY Frost-Loving Friends (critters on tree trunk, bear)

SY Christmas Cheer (bunny)

SY Warm & Feathered Hugs (trees)

SY Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes (Happy Birthday)

Wonderful Woods (tree)

Micro Cloud Edges Stencil (clouds)

LOVE - MFT Box Card

 Hello there! With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I wanted to create another love themed card. This one is for the current MFT Outside the Box Challenge - Love is in the Air.

I used Copic Markers to color my images from a mix of various SY sets, find all the sets below. For the background, I used Broken Glass, Spun Sugar and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Inks. For the bottom part of the box I used Cracked Pistachio. 

I trimmed the bottom part of the Outside the Box Die-namics so the images can shine. The Love is from the Christmas Die-namics Joy, Love and Peace and is inked with the Distress Oxide Inks, too.

I hope these cuties made you smile today! Thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa

MFT Supplies:

Outside the Box Die-namics

Outside the Box Grass Die-namics

SY Kissing Booth (booth, banner, bear, bunny, owl)

SY Tweet Friends (flowers)

SY Piggy Pebbles (Pig)

Collage Cover Up Die-namics (stitched rectangle)

Joy, Love and Peace Die-namics (love)

Micro Cloud Edges Stencil (cloud background)

Frightful Fence Die-namics (fence)

Fly Away With Me - Lawn Fawn Rainbow Watercolor Card

 Happy Friday! My dear friend Isha is this month's Guest Designer for the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge, so I wanted to join the current challenge 94:

I played around with watercoloring, masking and ink blending:

First, I stamped all the images, always masking the previously stamped image before stamping the next. Then I masked off stripes and applied watercolors to create the rainbow stripes, trying to let them fade towards the bottom. Now I inked the top part with Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide Ink and removed all the masks. I colored the images with Copics, added details with a white gel pen and stamped the sentiment before adhering the panel to the card base.

Such fun to add all the colors! It looks like there are some people out there who don't like rainbows, but if you are not one of them, I hope you enjoy today's card to brighten your day!

Thanks for visiting and happy weekend! Oh, and GO, ISHA! :)

Vanessa

LAWN FAWN SUPPLIES:

hello baby (umbrellas)

really high five (bear + mouse)

hello sunshine (sentiment)