Sunny Studio 5th Birthday Blog Hop with Product Video

Hello & welcome to Sunny Studio's fifth Birthday celebration!!!  

Can you believe it's already been five years? In many ways it feels like I have been attempting to scale a mountain to reach this special milestone, but on the other hand I can't believe how quickly the years flew by. Our little company wouldn't be here today without YOU, our loyal customers. Your kind support and sweet notes of encouragement truly keep me going.  

I would also like to take a moment to thank the 28 designers (from both past and present), countless more guest designers and Laura Vegas, our social media coordinator, for keeping this blog full of inspiring projects week after week. Their tireless efforts and oodles of creativity have meant the world to me and I couldn't run this company without them. ❤️

I'm super excited to share that we will have three new team members joining us starting next week! Please help me in welcoming these sweet and talented ladies to the blog!

Isha Gupta
Blog: http://hobbyandideas.blogspot.ch/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ishagupta_ig/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/isha.gupta.526875
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/HobbyandIdeas 
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ch/isha/

Christiana Reuling
Blog: http://christygetscrafty.blogspot.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/christygetscrafty
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christygetscrafty
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christygetscrafty
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ChristianaReuling

Mayra Duran-Hernandez
Blog: http://mayrasdesigns.blogspot.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mayrasdesigns/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mayras-Designs-392429850857959

Today I have a video sharing a closer look at all the new products from our fall & winter sneak peek week, along with all the cards I created using them: 

I also have a few new cards that I didn't get to share earlier in the week. 

Card No. 1: Up first is a card showcasing our new Season's Greetings Word dies to go with last year's Season's Greetings Stamps. I'm so excited to finally have a way to use these beautiful sentiments over a textured background like this one!  For my background, I used our new Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Dies together with the small stitched mat dies from our Frilly Frames Retro Petals Dies set. 

For my flowers I used a combination of the poinsettias that come with our Window Quad Circle Dies and the mini poinsettia die that automatically come FREE with all orders placed in our store while supplies last, adding Wine Berry Pearls to the center of each. For the sprigs of greenery tucked behind my flowers I used those same Season's Greetings stamps together with the Season's Greetings dies.

Card No. 2: For my next card, I finally got to create my ice skating rink that I didn't get to share earlier in the week using our new Winter Scenes Stamps and dies. This set come with the option a curved line can be added or omitted to the tree border to create the edge of a pond or ice skating rink like I did here. For my snowy background I ink up my sky with tumbled glass distress ink and then heat embossed the flakes using our Frosty Flurries stamps.  I was excited to pull out an older favorite, Playful Polar Bears, for my ice skating bear which I colored with Copic Markers. 

I then added stitching and ric-rac trim to the edge of my panel using our Slimline Basic Border Dies and stamped my sentiment using the Inside Greetings Holiday Stamps with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink. To tie in the blue of my bear's scarf, I added a strip of blue striped paper from our new Sleek Stripes Paper pack and scattered some royal blue snowflakes using our Snowflake Circle Frame dies. When everything else was done I added some Stardust Stickles to my row of trees and set it aside to dry for a couple hours.  I just love the they sparkle!

Card No. 3:  I was sad I didn't get to create a card using one of the two different balloon options that come with our North Pole Stamps so I squeezed one in for today, pairing them with some metallic gold embroidery thread for the strings. I used our Slimline Scalloped Frame dies to create a panel that goes off the edge for my A2 sized card, mounting it onto a green striped paper from our Dot & Stripes Jewel Tones Paper.

I colored both my girl and balloons with Copic markers and stamped some stars from the set with clear VersaMark Ink before heat embossing them with glittery gold embossing powder.  I learned the hard way that is definitely a step you will want to do before you glue down your balloons though as the metallic thread will melt and snap in two when it comes in contact with the heat gun. I guess I should have thought that through. For my sentiment I cut apart the scripty words "Christmas Cheer" that come with the stamp set and instead replaced the word "Christmas" with one of the smaller options in the set that would fit better in the space I had left to work with.

To celebrate our fifth birthday we're having a special sale which is good for 20% off all Sunny Studio branded products in our store (excluding newly released and retired products) using the promo code FIVEYEARS that will run through Wednesday, September 26th.  

Or if you're only in the market for our newest items you can use the promo code FREESHIP to receive free shipping on all USA orders over $25.  

Unfortunately only one discount code can be used per order so please choose the code with the biggest savings for you.❤️

Before you go, don't forget to enter our $25 gift code giveaway by leaving a comment down below and then using the rafflecopter to be entered.  

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Each designer in our hop is also giving away a $25 gift code, so including our post here and our 6 sneak peek week posts earlier this week, you have 21 chances to win a prize, for a total of $525 in prizes. You have through Wednesday, August 26th at Midnight PDT to hop along and enter to win by leaving a comment, with winners announced here on our blog on Sunday, August 30th. ❤️

Your next stop in our hop is Ana's Blog.  If you get lost, here's the full list of designers helping us celebrate today:  

Sunny Studio (you are here)
Ana
Angelica
Anja
Ashley
Candice
Christiana
Franci
Isha
Juliana
Leanne
Mayra
Rachel
Tammy
Vanessa 

Thanks so much for joining me today and helping us celebrate!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frosty Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snowflake Circle Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames Quatrefoil Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Quad Circle Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Inside Greetings-Holidays Shop at: Sunny Studio	North Pole Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	North Pole Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Winter Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sleek Stripes Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Word Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Heartbeat Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Retro Petals Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ruby Red Pearls Shop at: Sunny Studio