Hi everyone! Happy Weekend! It was a busy and fun week. My husband was off work this week and we've been doing chores and hanging out...and we even went to Yosemite! Great way to kick off the Summer season in California! I posted a lot of pictures from our trip on my Instagram Stories if you want to check them out. You can find them in the highlights section.
I'm very happy and excited to be the guest designer today on the Sunny Studio Blog! I'm always delighted to work with the beautiful and fun stamps and dies from Sunny Studio! They are some of the favs in my craft room for sure. For today's post I combined several tropical and Summer themed stamp sets and made a vacation scene in a pop up card! This one will have you reaching for a Mai Tai! This was my first time making a pop up card! I've had that die for a long time. Somehow, in my mind, I thought it would be hard. But it was SO easy and fun. I'm addicted! Now - Let's get tropical!
This card was so much fun to make! I started by stamping and die cutting out a lot of pieces and parts! Palm trees, Birds, Flamingos, Swimming Cuties, Pineapples, and Leaves. Oh My! Then I had fun coloring everything with Copic Markers. I then added accents with a white gel pen...and then some shimmering glitter Diamond Stickles! Once I had all my images colored and ready, I decided to create a pop up card scene that is like a vacation when you open it! I die cut the pop up dies from Kraft cardstock. The pop up box is two pieces and you glue them together. Easy!
How cute is that parrot perched in his palm tree??? Love all these images!!
Once you make the pop up box, you can decorate all the panels on the outside too - so customizable and fun. I used a pretty sentiment on the front and then used a cluster of images to accent the sentiment.
I used the awesome Catch A Wave dies set to die cut waves from teal cardstock. I added white gel pen accents to the waves too. I also die cut some puffy clouds for the back of the scene. I used the fabulous Summer Splash paper pad to add colorful paper accents to the project. (Secret: I have about 20 Sunny Studio paper packs in my studio!! LOVE.) I assembled everything together placing all the images inside the pop up. I used the extra images to decorate the sides of the pop up. Here is a photo of the box before I put in all the images. Those waves are the bomb!!
Some of my coloring in process....
The pop up card folds down to look like this! And then, it fits into a normal A2 envelope!!!! I made this card for my gal pal to send her congratulations on her recent retirement! I added some stamped words to the back and some clouds!
Here is the card looking down into it. You see I attached all the images onto the waves and the dies for the pop up card box create the 3D effect!
The Sunny Studio stamp sets are all perfectly sized and scaled to mix and match, and that makes it so much fun to create with all your stamp sets. I loved combining everything for this card! I have so many more ideas for this release. Another winner for sure!! PLEASE pop over to the SUNNY STUDIO STAMPS BLOG and leave some love there too!!! You'll find tons of inspiration and beautiful projects!!
Big thanks to Mendi for having me as a guest!
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Very pretty card!
Posted by: Lori | 06/16/2019 at 10:52 PM
This is beyond awesome💥 Amazing pop up so cute & colorful. Summer in a card...
Posted by: Geneva | 06/16/2019 at 09:55 PM
Omg this is too cute!
Posted by: Lizzie T | 06/16/2019 at 04:12 PM
Your pop-up card is adorable!
Posted by: Amy Cooley | 06/16/2019 at 09:52 AM
This is the cutest pop up. I have contemplated this die several times but thought it too complicated. Yours is too adorable. This tropical vibe is so summer to me. Nicely done my friend.....
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 06/16/2019 at 08:49 AM
Another stunning creation .. love this..
Posted by: Artconquers | 06/15/2019 at 09:05 AM