Stamp Review Crew: Sunshine Sayings Edition

February! Yup, that last month of bitter cold (we hope). I think we all could use a little sunshine 😊 Well, the Stamp Review Crew is up for the challenge! We are featuring the lovely Sunshine Sayings stamp set this time. This set has a lot to offer in the sentiment department, with a few lovely images, and there is a beautiful coordinating die set. I think the stamps and the dies work well alone too. Gotta love that!

For those who are new to the Stamp Review Crew, here is a little background. We are an international group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that gets together on the first and third Mondays of every month to do a blog hop. Each hop features a single stamp set to give you loads of inspiration for that set! The hops are archived at the Stamp Review Crew blog, and you will be able to click through each hop at any time, going directly to the posts for that hop whenever you want! And you can click on the banner of this post to go to the master blog roll for this hop also.

If you are following along in order, you arrived from the fabulous Debra Burgin's blog! Love her stuff!!

You may have noticed that I quite like the Kraft cardstock, and this time I decided to glam it up a bit. To make the Kraft word glittery, I liberally applied Clear Wink of Stella to the die cut before attaching it to the card. Here is how I made this card:

1. Cut a piece of Watercolor paper to 4"x5¼", tape to a board with painter's tape. 
2. Squeeze the lids of Sahara Sand and Crumb Cake inkpads to get ink inside the lids, or place a drop of reinker in the lids. 
3. With an Aqua-painter, or a watercolor brush, apply clean water to the entire panel. Add a wash of Sahara Sand to cover the panel, then apply a wash of Crumb Cake across the center of the panel. Air dry or dry with the heat tool, I used a heat tool.
4. Sprinkle/splash clean water on the panel, let it sit for a few seconds, then dab up with a clean rag or paper towel. Air dry or dry with a heat tool again. 
5. Die cut the "congrats" from Kraft, and the scribbled heart in Dazzling Diamond Glitter paper. Liberally apply Clear Wink of Stella to the "congrats". Set aside to dry.
6. Take a piece of vellum at least 3"x 3" square. Then one at a time, stamp the sentiments in Archival Black, Clear heat emboss, then trim off the sentiment in about a ½" strip, repeating for a total of 3 strips, Dovetail the ends.
7. Lay your pieces on the watercolor panel to get your placement. Ink up the one of the heart images from Tie Dyed in Crumb Cake, and stamp in the center of the panel where it will show through the scribble heart die cut. 
8. Lay all the pieces on the watercolor panel again, stitch the pieces to the watercolor panel as shown above. 
9. Adhere the completed watercolor panel to a Crumb Cake card base with dimensionals.
10. Stamp the paint swoosh image in stamped off Crumb Cake inside, then add a Crumb Cake Tie Dyed heart, and then the modified sentiment in Archival Black. Yes, I did a little stamp surgery to get the sentiment I wanted. All Done!

 I love how shimmery this card is! Paired with the neutrals it is quite dramatic.

I cut the "of wonderful" stamp apart into two words so i could get this sentiment. I will have no problem using the words together again if and when I want to 😊

And now it is time to check out the talented Valerie Moody's blog, she is sure to WOW you!

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Product List

Sunshine Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141594]

$23.00

Sunshine Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141594]

$23.00

Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies

[141489]

$27.00

Sunshine Sayings Clear-Mount Bundle

[142339]

$45.00

Sunshine Sayings Wood-Mount Bundle

[142338]

$52.00

Tie Dyed Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143008]

$27.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[120953]

$8.00

Watercolor Paper

[122959]

$5.00

Kraft 12" X 12" Card Stock

[133674]

$7.00

Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper

[135315]

$5.00

Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101856]

$8.00

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

[126976]

$6.50

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

[126975]

$6.50

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

$7.00

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141897]

$8.00

Embossing Buddy

[103083]

$6.00

Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109130]

$5.00

Heat Tool

[129053]

$30.00

Big Shot

[143263]

$110.00

Aqua Painters

[103954]

$17.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00