Sending A Big Hug In A Mug Card with Emily

I'm so excited to share this card using Mug Hugs! I know a lot of you are coffee lovers but this set is for everyone who loves hot beverages of any kind. There's a mug of cocoa and a takeout cup, which could be tea! London Fog Lattes are one of my favourite teas to get when I'm at my local coffee shop.

I love that there are three beverage options, sweet treats and several awesome sentiments in this set for endless possibilities! I heat embossed and watercoloured all of the images using distress inks. I added a poinsettia from Christmas Icons to decorate the takeout cup.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Holiday Style Stamped Bough Background with Eloise

Hi everyone! Eloise here and today I'm here to show you my card using the Holiday Style stamp set. This is probably my personal favourite from the release. I love the big bough image along with the ornament stamps. Did I mention they're layering stamps too?! Absolutely amazing. They are so super fun and easy to layer up to create a fun dimensional ornament. The sentiments are super great too! I love the mix of fonts.

To begin my card today I started off with creating my background. I was originally going to stamp just one layer of the bough image, but instead I decided to stamp it on two pieces and layer it up. To make the bough image line up on the piece that's popped up and the piece on the card base I used my MISTI, just to make it easier on myself. You could try doing this just by hand with acrylic blocks and layering the pieces on top of each other (one full background and one die cut piece) and then stamping on top to get the image stamped in the same spot on both pieces easier, but I have a MISTI and voted doing it this way round this time. So, to do my stamping I first put in my full sized piece of cardstock and then layered my smaller die cut piece over top and then marked on the grid paper inside my MISTI where that die cut piece needed to be in the centre so when I went to line it up next time, it could be in the same position. I hope this makes sense. So now that I knew where my paper had to be placed I could begin stamping. 

For the large background piece I stamped down my images with Versamark ink and clear heat embossed them after every time I stamped down one, just so it didn't dry on me. For my smaller die cut piece, I used various green inks to create and ombre effect and because I used my MISTI, my stamp stayed in the same spot and I could ink up one colour at a time and just wipe off a little to make it blend together nicely. This also benefitted me for stamping the stamp in the same spot on both pieces too. Once all my stamping was done I could ink blend the background. I used two Distress Inks - Blueprint Sketch and Tumbled glass and created an ombre background too, fading into the middle where the other piece was going to be layered on top and because I clear heat embossed the boughs to begin with, they resisted the ink and remained white.

Now that the background was blended, I stamped out the sentiment with some black ink on top of the green stamped piece and then added a sheet of fun foam behind it and added it to the middle of my card, lining it up so it looked like it was continuous. For the last bit of my card I wanted to add a pop of colour. I took the layering bow from the set and grabbed three redish inks and stamped them on top of each other. This was so easy to line up and it looks amazing! I grabbed some twine and added a double bow behind the stamped bow and adhered them down to my card. To finish it up I grabbed my Wink of Stella in the clear and added it onto the bow, the word Christmas and a little to the green stamped boughs.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and got inspired. Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you'll come back the rest of the week to check out some more projects!

- Eloise

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Holiday Cards with Guest Designer Anita Madden

I'm pleased to welcome the talented Miss Anita Madden to the blog today.  She always inspires me each time she creates with our stamps and today is no different.  Take it away Anita...  ;)

Hello!  I’m so excited to be guest designing for Sunny Studio today.  I adore these new stamp sets by Mendi and I know I’m going to be using them a lot to make Christmas cards this year! 

This card features the Gleeful Reindeer stamps.  I colored the reindeer, trees, and gifts with copics and diecut them with the coordinating dies.  I used distress ink to watercolor the sky.  I used one of the snowflakes from the stamp set with embossing powder to make the white snowflakes.  I added some snowy hills to the scene and adhered all the images.  I cut a frame from white cardstock and added acetate and sequins to make a fun shaker card. 

Once again I used the Gleeful Reindeer stamps and dies to make this card.  I colored the reindeer and tree with copics and then I applied Glossy Accents to the reindeer’s nose and hooves.  I added some ribbon and twine to a tag that I cut with the Tag Topper Dies – Traditional.  I added a few sequins to the tag to give it a little sparkle.

I used the Mug Hugs stamps and dies for this card.  I decided to make my own background for this card.  I heat embossed the sentiment and hearts using white embossing powder.  I diecut the cup and paper-pieced the kraft band on the cup.  I colored all the hearts with a red colored pencil and wrapped some baker’s twine around the top of the card.  I used foam tape to “pop up” the cup on a circle of vellum. 

I used the Mug Hugs stamps and dies to make this Christmas card in nontraditional colors.  I used distress ink to watercolor the soft background, and then added some designer paper and gold glitter paper to the card base.  I colored the images with Copics and used the coordinating dies to die-cut them.  I added a few gold sequins to finish my card.

Thank you Anita for sharing your gorgeous cards with us today.  I love them all!  

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Bundled Up Penguins Parade Card by Lexa

Hi everyone! Lexa here today with my adorable penguins parade using the Bundled Up stamp set. This set is a must have in my list, you know why? Just because it's so much fun to play dress up with these penguins. I'm so in love with this set. <3

I started my card with a piece of 4" x 5.25" smooth white cardstock and clear embossed LOTS of snowflakes in various sizes to create my background. Then I blend Milled Lavender and Shaded Lilac Distress Inks which turns out so pretty..love love! I also added some glitter along the bottom as snow for the penguins to stand upon, using both silver and snowflakes Stickles. I stamped my three penguins and all the accessories on a piece of watercolor paper and colored them with Distress Markers. I fussy cut all of the pieces, it took a while but at then the most fun part began....mix and match all them together. Yay!

I made all of them standing there while holding a banner with a cute sentiment from the new release, Gleeful Reindeer stamp set. I'm truly happy with the fonts, you can call me crazy, but I always have 'this feeling' with fonts. If you know what I'm saying. Lol. Last but not least, I add some googly eyes for them- for extra cuteness.

Here's a close up look of my card, aren't they the cutest?? That's all for today, I really hope you like my card as much as I do. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you have an amazing Friday!

Mug Hugs We Go Together Hot Cocoa Card with Vanessa

Hi everybody! Vanessa here with a card using the new amazing Winter release! The temperatures dropped immensely in my part of the world and I was in the mood for a hot beverage. So I inked up the cute Mug Hugs set for my card!

I started with a panel of patterned paper and inked the edges to distress them. Then I stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to a Kraft card base. I stamped and colored the mug and the hearts and die-cut or fussy-cut the images. I thought it would be fun to have a smiling mug, so I added the face from the Fresh & Fruity set. Then I adhered the images to the card with foam tape. Now I stamped and heat-embossed the second part of the sentiment onto a strip of Kraft cardstock and adhered it.

The new sets are perfect for this season! Can't wait to ink up the rest of the stamps! Thanks for stopping by today! See you next week!

Vanessa

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Gleeful Reindeer Holiday Gift Tags with Lindsey

Hi Lindsey here today sharing some cute holiday tags using the brand-new Crescent Tag Toppers, Christmas Icons, and Gleeful Reindeer. I just love how all the new sets and dies can be mixed and matched to create some really fun designs. Let's get started!

To begin, I cut some 3" by 4 1/2" rectangles from both patterned paper and some solid cardstock. The patterned paper would hold the stamps on the front of the tag and the solid paper would be the back of the tag where you would address it. Once those were cut, then I used the Crescent Tag Topper to create a tag. It was super easy to do. In order to have a place for the reindeer to stand, I cut some hills from glitter paper to place at the bottom of each tag. Next, I stamped all my images and colored them with Copic markers and cut them out using the coordinating dies. Then it was time to build the scenes. I used regular adhesive as well as some foam adhesive to keep my images in place. I added a few sparkle dots to a couple of the tags just to add a little interest.

Now that the fronts of the tags were finished, I needed to work on the backs. I stamped the "to" and "from" from the Christmas Icons stamp set and a sentiment and snowflakes from the Gleeful Reindeer stamp set. Adding the sentiment and snowflakes helped the back of the tag not look so plain. To finish, I added some silver sparkle twine and turquoise twine to tie the tag to a package. That's it!

This was a fun project to make. I love making cards but sometimes it's nice to switch it up a bit. Tags are a fun way to dress up a package especially at the holidays. I hope you'll try your own. Keep checking back to the blog for more fun projects and inspiration using all the fun new products! Have a great day!

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Little Angels Sing Card with Emily

I'm so excited to be sharing my first card as a Sunny Studio Stamps design team member! The holiday release is amazing and the images are delightful to create with. I have so many ideas in my head and I'm hoping to share a video or two this month using the new products.

Today's card features the Little Angels stamp set. Coordinating dies are also available and would be fabulous for creating dimension. I did a lot of masking to keep my card flat for holiday mailing. After stamping the images, I curved two of the sentiments to go along with the scene.

Then I watercoloured all the images using distress inks. After the panel dried, I added shimmer to the halos and wings, which you can see in the angled photo above.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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