Sunny Studio - Happy Bastille Day

Hello there,

I'm super happy to be back with this Sunny Studio Bastille Day themed card to celebrate the French National Holiday which happens on the 14th of July each year. Of course I went with the colors of the French flag: blue, white and red, and used the perfect stamp set for the occasion: Paris Afternoon.

I started off by creating the background and used my favorite die from the Ribbon & Lace Borders die set, which is the strip die, to cut multiple strips out of blue, white and red cardstock. I attached each strip in that order on a piece of scrap paper using liquid glue, and then used a 5,5 x 4,25 inches rectangle die to cut an A2 panel. To give my background more interest, I splattered white ink all over it. I mixed some prize ribbon oxide ink with water and added blue splatters to the strips with a slim brush, I did the same with lumberjack plaid oxide ink to add red splatters, and then I added sparkling droplets using liquid stardust.

Once my striped panel was totally dry, I stuck it to a white card base, cut a Comic Strip Speech Bubbles frame panel out of light blue cardstock and attached that panel to my card using 1mm foam squares.

I stamped the images on 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, cut them all using the matching dies and colored everything using a blue, white and red color palette for the parasol, balloons and macarons, but also green for the trees at the feet of the Eiffel tower and neutrals for the critters. Here is a detailed list of the stamp sets I used: • Paris Afternoon - table & parasol, chairs, Eiffel tower, street lamps, bottle of wine, glasses of wine, cheese, baguette, croissant, macarons, berets • Critters On The Go - bear, bunny, fox, scooter, small trees • Charming City - larger trees • Plane Awesome - clouds • Party Pets - balloons.

I added highlights and details to my images using a white gel pen, stamped "Bonjour" from Paris Afternoon in black directly on the strips, and finally attached all the images using 1mm and 2mm foam squares.

SUNNY STUDIO SUPPLIES

- Paris afternoon stamp set

- Critters on the go stamp set

- Charming city stamp set

- Plane awesome stamp set

- Party pets stamp set

- Ribbon & lace borders die set

- Comic strip speech bubbles die set

OTHER SUPPLIES

- Ohuhu markers

- Graph'it brush markers

- Oxide inks: prize ribbon, lumberjack plaid

- Liquid stardust by Lawn Fawn

- Copic opaque white ink

- Sakura white gel pen

- Black versafine ink (greeting)

- Memento tuxedo black ink (images)

- Colored cardstock by The Stamp Market

- 110lb Neenah solar white cardstock (images)

- Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock (background)