Sizzix - Easy Mixed Media Florals | Creating Soft Artistic Cards

Hello and welcome everyone! Today I am back with some mixed media cards. I got some new Sizzix stamps by Willow Wolfe a couple of days back. I got so many ideas but mixed media screamed first...lol

There are lots of gorgeous new products in the Scraphouse shop. So my friends from Switzerland or Europe can check them out.

Mixed media cards always have a special charm - soft layers, beautiful textures, and a slightly imperfect artistic feel that makes every card unique. Today I’m sharing three mixed media floral cards created using Sizzix Studio by Willow Wolfe stamps, Distress inks, Spellbinders stencil and simple layering techniques.

What I love most about these cards is how easy it is to create soft artistic backgrounds and then build dimension with florals. Each card has its own personality while using similar supplies! I used 

Sizzix Studio Willow Wolfe Stamp Set Love Letters

Sizzix Studio Willow Wolfe Stamp Set Wild Blooms

Spellbinders Humming Bird Texture Stencil

All the supplies are in the description box below for you to access easily (some have affiliate links at no extra cost to you but this helps me bring more content to you. I really appreciate it, thank you)

Card 1 — Soft Watercolor Floral Background

Start with watercolor paper for the best mixed media results

Apply Distress inks to create a watercolor wash

Stamp the delicate florals using black ink and color

Add texture using stencils, and various stamp images

Add light splatters for extra texture

Stamp sentiment vertically for a modern look

Mount onto a card base

Card 2 — Soft Layered Floral LOVE Card

Create a soft textured background using light distress ink watercolor

Add subtle texture using stencil and embossing paste

Stamp and emboss large florals onto vellum, color and fussy cut

Add bold sentiment "LOVE"

Finish with light splatters

Card 3 — Bright Mixed Media Floral Card

Create a vibrant mixed media background using multiple distress inks

Add texture using various stamps, stencil, texture paste.

Stamp and color florals in bright tones

Cut out florals and leaves

Arrange florals diagonally for movement

Add sentiment

Finish with splatter

What I love about mixed media is that there’s no right or wrong way. I feel it's a perfect way to de-stress too.

I'd love to know - Do you prefer soft pastel mixed media or bright bold florals?

Let me know in the comments below - I always love hearing your thoughts!

If you try these techniques, tag me - I’d love to see what you create!

Thank you for stopping by and have a nice day!

Spellbinders - BPOM Club Kit

 Hello everyone! Today, I am sharing a card using the "Betterpress of the Month " from the March 2025 Club Kits of the month from Spellbinders.

I really love the design of this press plate, so I decided to to the letterpress effect on cotton cardstock. Blended a few inks over it. I paired the sentiment from the Glimmer Club of March 2025 and some other products from the older releases, the flowers are from the Layered Anemone Etched Dies by Lisa Horton. Leaves are from the Be Bold Blooms. I used the Matt Gold foil for the sentiment.

 

All the supplies are linked below.

 

 

I added some details to the flower center using the white gel pen.

 

 

Spellbinders - March DOM

Hello everyone! Today, I am sharing a card using the "Small Die of the Month " from the March 2025 Club Kits of the month from Spellbinders.

I love all the images in this set but these cute, playful fishes dies caught my eyes. I paired the sentiment from the Glimmer Club of March 2025 and some other products from the older releases. Rainbow Slice Tunnel dies for the greenery and Flowers from the Be Bold Blooms. I used the Matt Gold foil for the sentiment.

 

All the products are in the description box below.

 

 

I used distress inks to add the watercolor effect, and to add color to my die-cuts.

 

Sunny Studio - Merry Christmas

Hello everyone! Today, I am on Sunny Studio blog with a fun winter scene featuring the Truckloads of Love stamps and dies. I love happy and cheerful colors for my winter cards hence the color combo.

Die-cut a white panel using the Stitched Rectangle dies. Sponge picked raspberry, spiced marmalade distress oxide inks to create the sky. Next I die-cut the snow bank using the Slimline Nature Border dies. Sponge evergreen bough oxide ink. Adhere to the panel.

Stamp the images from the Truckloads of Love, color using copic markers and die-cut using the coordinating dies. Stamp the snowman from Feeling Frosty stamp, color and die-cut using the coordinating dies. 

Flick white paint to the panel. Die-cut the snowflakes from the Lacy Snowflakes dies, using glitter cardstock. Adhere the panel to a white cardstock. Adhere the images. Stamp the sentiment to finish the card. Thank you for dropping by and have a nice day!

Sunny Studio - Handmade With Love

Hello everyone! Today I am on Sunny Studio blog with a CAS card featuring the Baking Spirits Bright stamps and dies. The details of this artistic stamp immediately gave this idea and I am happy it came out exactly as I had imagined. 

 

To start with, I die-cut the images from masking paper using the coordinating dies. Adhere to a white card panel. Sponge distress inks (wilted violet, salty ocean, peacock feathers, mowed lawn, spiced marmalade and abandoned coral) to achieve rainbow effect. Flick gold and white splatters.

Remove the masks. Stamp the images using black ink. Die-cut the heart from vellum twice using the Stitched Heart 2 dies. Adhere the hearts together and adhere to the layer. Stamp the sentiment onto black cardstock using versamark ink. Sprinkle WOW! white embossing powder, heat set.

Cut the stripes and adhere to the card using 3d foam tape.  Thank you for dropping by! Have a nice day.

Sunny Studio 7th Birthday Blog Hop

Hello and welcome everyone! I am super excited to celebrate Sunny Studio 7th Birthday with a wonderful bloghop. We are sharing our projects using the new release available from today :)

Congratulations Mendi for the 7th birthday and many more to come!

You should have come here from Bobbi's blog.

I used the new Winter Wreaths stamps and dies along with the new Holiday Greetings stamps and dies.

I started by adding salvaged patina, salty ocean, peacock feathers to the gelli plate and took the print onto the white card. Die-cut a white card using the Frilly Frame Quatrefoil die, sponge some delicata gold ink through this piece onto the panel. Next, I used the Woodgrain Embossing Folder and run this piece through the machine. Adhere this piece to a white cardbase. Lightly rub white ink to some of the embossed parts.

Stamp the sentiment from the Holiday Greetings stamp using versamark ink, sprinkle WOW! gold pearl embossing powder and heat set. Die-cut using the coordinating die.

Stamp the images from the Winter Wreaths and the Holiday Greetings, die-cut using the coordinating dies. Add some details using white gel pen. 

Create the cluster as per the liking and adhere to the card.

The next stop on the hop is Kavya's blog

PRIZES

 

You can win a $25 gift code on each blog, that's a total of $375 in prizes throughout the week. I will pick the winner from the comments here on Wednesday, August 31st. Mendi will announce all winners on the Sunny Studio blog on Sunday, September 4th. 

The festivities are happening from the beginning of the week. You have more chances to win a $25 gift card, details below:
Day 1: Introducing Squirrel Friends, Fall Scenes, Autumn Greenery & Autumn Tree Dies
Day 2: Introducing Too Cute To Spook, Pumpkin Patch and Mini Mat & Tag Dies
Day 3: Introducing Winter Wreaths, Holiday Greetings & Joyful Holiday Paper
Day 4: Introducing Penguin Party, Snowman Kisses & Snow One Like You Stamps
Day 5: Introducing Cozy Christmas & Reindeer Games Stamps

Sunny Studio will also be offering 20% off Sunny Studio branded products (excluding clearance and new release products) using discount code SEVENYEARS at checkout through August 31st. Limit one discount code per order. We will also automatically include a free mini acorn die on all orders.

Supplies

Sunny Studio - Thinking of You Card

Hello everyone! I am on the Sunny Studio blog with a mixed media card as my designer's choice feature today. I love creating layers while still keeping it one layer. So I used various stamps and dies, even used the dies as stencils.

I started by creating the background panel by adding some inks to the gelli plate. Take the print onto a white card. I then stamped the butterflies from the Watering Can stamp, using the pink ink. Die-cut the leaves from the Spring Greenery dies, use these as a stencil to sponge some leaves onto the panel. Flick some black watercolor.

Stamp the butterflies from the Watering Can stamp, add touch of color using copic markers and die-cut using the coordinating dies. Add spectrum noir clear sparkle pen. die-cut leaves from the Summer Greenery dies, thrice from the white card and also vellum. Die-cut the oval from the Scalloped Oval mat 3 dies, die-cut the word hugs in the center. Sponge some pink ink to the edges.

Die-cut the speech bubble from pink and yellow card using the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles dies, adhere the yellow to the pink slightly offset. Stamp the sentiment. Adhere the panel to the white card and adhere all the elements to it. I used 3d foam on some for added dimension.

Thank you for dropping by and have a nice day!

Sunny Studio - New Year Cards

Hello everyone! Isha with you, sharing some fun and bright New Year cards. Today the focus is on the GORGEOUS Forest Trees stencils. This is a set of three stencils, which makes it easy to create beautiful backgrounds.

Card 1: I started by sponging distress inks in cracked pistachio, peacock feathers, lucky clover, pine needles onto a white cardstock using the Forest trees stencils. I used all the three layers and repeated the process to fill the whole background. 

I then flicked some pine needle, gold and white inks. Frame this piece using the Fancy Frames Rectangle.

Stamp the sentiment from the Seasons Greetings stamp set using versamark ink and emboss using WOW! metallic gold rich embossing powder. Die-cut using the coordinating dies. Die-cut one more piece using red cardstock and adhere this slightly offset behind the sentiment. Adhere this panel to a red cardbase. Add gold floss behind the sentiment and finish by using some Emerald Jewels.

Card 2: I sponged the background using distress inks in tattered rose, candied apple, abandoned coral, fired brick and aged mahogany as the above piece. The only difference is that I flipped the stencils to create the next layers. This gives a beautiful angled forest look. Flick, gold and white paint.Adhere this piece to the inner frame of the Fancy Frames die. Adhere this to a white cardbase. 

 

Die-cut the snowflakes using the Lacy Snowflakes die. Add some gold paint. Adhere to the card. Stamp the sentiment from the Inside Greetings - Holidays stamp set.

 

These cards were quick to make and are perfect for mailing. Thanks for dropping by!

 

Sunny Studio's 6th Birthday Blog Hop

Hello and welcome everyone! I am so honored and happy to be part of the celebration of Sunny Studio's 6th Birthday. We are having a hop and we are all sharing projects using the upcoming release products. There are a lot of adorable and gorgeous products in this release. You can find them all HERE.

Happy Birthday Sunny Studio. Congratulations Mendi on this huge milestone. It's been an honor to work with you and be part of Sunny Studio in some way from the day you started. Every new release gives me a huge smile :) Wishing you many more celebrations in the years to come.

 

You should have come here from  Franci's blog.  I made a card in a bigger format using various of the new release products as it was so difficult to choose what to use...lol

 

To start, I created the sky using distress oxide inks in salty ocean, spun sugar and kitsch flamingo. I then stamped the snowflakes in various sizes from the Deck The Halls stamp set.

I then used the Forest Trees stencil and created the pine tree forest in the background. For this I used the pine needles and evergreen bough distress inks. I really love these layering stencils. It gives such an amazing effect.

Nest I die-cut some snow hills using the Slimline Nature Border dies and applied tumbled glass oxide ink lightly.

Stamp the images, color using copics and doe-cut using the coordinating dies.

Die-cut all the parts of the gingerbread house. I applied WOW! White Puff Twinkle embossing powder to the roof trim for some snow feel. 

 

 

Snowflake die-cuts: Lacy Snowflake Dies
Gingerbread House Dies

Snowflake stamp: Deck The Halls stamp
Gift: Lazy Christmas and Dies
Pine Trees: Forest Trees Stencil
Train, Bells: Holiday Express Stamp and Dies
Sentiment: Holiday Express stamp
Gingerbread Cookies: Christmas Cookies stamp and Dies
Hills: Slimline Nature Border dies 

 Info:

The official holiday release date is on August 27th, but in honor of our birthday the new products will be available as a PRE-ORDER the morning of the hop.

 

Sunny Studio will be offering 20% off Sunny Studio branded products (excluding clearance and new release products) using discount code SIXYEARS at checkout through August 30th. Limit one discount code per order. They will also automatically include a free mini ornament die on all orders. 

 

Prizes
Mendi is kind enough to offer a $25 gift code for my readers. Please comment below on what you like to use on your Christmas cards. For additional chance to win, please follow me on Instagram and comment below that you have done so. My instagram is: ishagupta_ig

The comments are open till Friday the 27th. August. 

Mendi will announce all winners on the Sunny Studio blog on Sunday, August 29th and email everyone their shopping codes. :)

 

The next stop on the hop is Julia.

 

Hoporder:
Sunny Studio
Vanessa
Anja
Ashley
Audrey
Franci
 >>> Isha <<<
Julia
Kavya
Marine
Mayra
Tammy

Happy hopping and have a nice day!

Sunny Studio - Side Step Fold Card

Hello Everyone! Today I have a fun fold card featuring the Picket Fence die at Sunny Studio Blog. I felt this kind of card was perfect to showcase this beautiful die and how it matches perfectly with the previously released products.

To start, I made the base of my side step card. Take a 5.5 by 8.5 inch white cardstock. Mark 2.5 inch from the left edge, along the length. Now on the 3 inch side, score at 6.25, 4.25, 3.25, 2.25 and 1.25 inches. Cut vertically along the marked line from the 6.25 score point to 1.25 score point. Fold the card onto the score lines and the card base is ready.

Sponge the sky on the left longer panel using pinks and yellow inks. Die-cut the fence three times with white cardstock, using the Picket Fence die. Die-cut the grass from the Gingham Jewel Tone pattern paper using the same die.

Emboss a white scrap using the Woodgrain embossing folder. Sponge vintage photo, fossilized amber and ground espresso distress inks. Cut using a pair of scissors to create the tree trunk.

Stamp images, color using copics and die-cut using coordinating dies.

Fairies, Butterfly, Flowers, Mushroom House: Garden Fairy Stamp and coordinating dies

Gnome, Mushroom: Home Sweet Gnome stamp and dies

Tree Leaves: Outback Critters stamp and dies

Mountains: Country Scenes Stamp and dies

Adhere all the dies and images as per the card photo and the card is ready. To finish, add some sparkles to the fairy wings, dots to the gnome hat and some clear sparkle pen to some flowers, fairy dress.

Hope you enjoyed the card. If you get inspired, don't forget to tag us on instagram @sunnystudiostamps. We would love to see your beautiful creations. Thanks for dropping by!

 

Sunny Studio - Magical Wishes Shaker Card

Hello everyone! I am on Sunny Studio Blog featuring our adorable Garden Fairy stamp set and dies. As you know I really like creating flat shaker cards and I felt this stamp was perfect to make one. It's totally dreamy, magical and added fun of all the glitter as shaker, perfect to give a big smile to any girl including me...lol

 

 

So I started by stamping all the images using the Garden Fairy stamp set, colored using copic markers. Die-cut using the coordinating dies.

Next, I die-cut some cloud borders from the Slimline Nature Borders dies using white cardstock and vellum. 

Sponge a white panel using shaded lilac and Kitsch flamingo distress oxide inks, flick water and dab using a kitchen towel. Die-cut using the Fancy Frames Rectangle dies to create a frame. Adhere both the parts of the frame from behind to have a broad frame. Next adhere the white clouds to the top and bottom part of the frame, then goes the vellum cloud border. Now adhere a piece of acetate behind the frame. Add double sided tape to cover all the sides of the frame.

 

Adhere the center of the background piece to the white cardbase. Add some WOW! sparkle glitters Your Carriage Awaits and Crystal. Now remove the lining of the score tape of the frame and adhere this to the cardbase.

Adhere all the images using glue and 3d foam for various dimension. To finish, add spectrum noir clear sparkle pen to the fairies, butterfly and flowers.

Have a nice day!

Crafty Meraki - You Are Incredible

Hello everyone, I am on Crafty Meraki blog sharing a floral card using the fun spring color palette. 

I started by stamping the florals from the Sweet Friendship stamp set using versamark ink. Emboss using WOW! metallic gold rich embossing powder. Sponge picked raspberry distress ink towards the center.

Stamp the leaves from the One of a Kind stamp set using versamark, emboss using the gold embossing powder. Sponge lucky clover distress ink. Fussy cut all the images. 

Now to create the background, take a piece of yupo paper. Add green alcohol ink and blending solution. Add the color to your liking and let this piece dry. 

Emboss this piece using the Sunny Studio Frilly Frames Herringbone die (to do this on the big shot die-cutting machine the sandwich is tab 1, clear plate, die facing up, yupo paper color side down, tan embossing mat, clear plate). Take a fine sandpaper and gently scrub the emboss part, it turns white and looks pretty in real life.

 

Adhere the cluster, stamp sentiment from the You Are Incredible stamp set. Assemble the card as per the photo.

Have a nice day!

Sunny Studio - Easter Wishes

Hello everyone! Today I am on Sunny Studio blog with a colorful and happy Easter card featuring our Eggs To Dye For stamp and dies. Now there are so many beautiful patterns of eggs in this set and I wanted to use most of them. Easter reminds me of my daughters and egg hunt...lol. My daughters have crossed that age now but then I found these cute bunnies from the Balloon Rides stamp set playing hide and seek around these colorful eggs. So cute!

 

 

 

I started by stamping lots of eggs with various patterns from Eggs To Dye For stamp onto white cardstock using versamark ink. I then sprinkled WOW! Opaque white embossing powder. Die-cut these using the coordinating die. Sponge the eggs using distress oxide inks. Wipe with a clean cloth to remove the ink from the embossed part.

Stamp the bunnies from the Balloon Rides stamp, color them using copic markers. Die-cut using coordinating dies.

Take a white slimline card, sponge worn lipstick distress oxide ink to make the sky. Flick some water to add texture. Die-cut the grassy hills from the Slimline Nature Border dies twice. Sponge using distress oxide inks in the shades of green. Adhere the grass to the card.

Place the eggs and the bunnies and adhere them onto the card. Stamp the hearts from the Meow & Furever stamp set.

Die-cut a frame using the Slimline Scalloped Frame dies. Adhere to the card. Stamp the sentiment onto black stripe and emboss using white embossing powder. Adhere to the card using 3D foam. To finish, adhere some Crystal Clear Fusion sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!