Joyful Holiday Paper Focused Cards with Tina and Vanessa

Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina and today I have another Christmas card for you featuring the beautiful Joyful Holiday Papers! Patterned papers are perfect to create stunning panels on your cards or you can use them for paper piecing. I will be combining both techniques in this card.

First, I selected three pink papers from the pack that work very well together. After cutting a rectangle panel from the snowflake paper, I also used one of the Stitched Arch Dies to create a frame. I then inked up another rectangle from Neenah Solar White card stock with Distress Oxides  Peacock Feathers (floor) and Kitch Flamingo (wall) and sprinkled some water droplets for extra interest.

For my scene, I wanted to create a cozy and festive living room for one of the cute penguins from Penguin Party. He is totally ready for a wonderful Christmas! The chair, Christmas tree and the tree holder (which is actually the lamp shade up side down) are all from the Cozy Christmas set. I stamp these images on Neenah Solar White paper and again on pattern paper for the chair and the lamp shade. I fussy cut these last images on the black outer stamped lines. Next, I glued the pattern paper shapes to the images from white paper. This creates paper pieced images with a white border. I colored the cute penguin and Christmas tree with my Copic markers.

As for the festive decorations on this card, they consist of small branches from the Winter Greenery dies (in white, distress oxides Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron) and the beautiful bow from the Winter Wreath set (distress oxides Spun Sugar and Kitch Flamingo). Next, I stamped a combined sentiment from Bear Hugs onto a small white banner.

And then I was ready to assemble the card, I mounted the snowflake panel to the inked background rectangle with foam tape for dimension. Both were glued directly to the card base. All the other elements were added with foam tape, except for the branches, I tucked them under the bow with a drop of liquid glue. And finally, I adhered the sentiment and a few Chrystal Clear Jewels for that extra sparkly touch!

And that finishes my Christmas paper piecing card! I hope you enjoy this technique as much as I did! Thank you for visiting the blog and I’ll see you soon!

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Hello to you! Vanessa here with a set of cute gift boxes made with the Joyful Holiday paper.

I created the boxes with a score board, you will find a pic of the measurements below. To embellish the boxes, I made little rosettes using the Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies - be sure to check my Instagram to see a how-to-video. 

I tied on matching baker's twine to each rosette and added two tags cut with the Window Quad Square Dies. Finally, I stamped the images from Penguin Party, colored these with Copics, die-cut the pieces with the matching dies and adhered the elements with foam tape.

When trimming the paper for the lid, be sure to add a millimeter on every side to make the lid fit smoothly. These boxes are easy to make, the lid keeps closed and they provide enough space for sweets or other small surprises.

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Bear Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Quad Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio
Cozy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cozy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Winter Wreaths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Wreaths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio