Guest Designer Spotlight: Holiday Cards with Sara Zoppi

Hi crafty friends, Sara here! Today I am really thrilled to be here, guesting again for Sunny Studio Stamps! I really love their products, they are always so funny and sweet! For my guesting spot, I made two cards, using their recent Holiday released products. So, let's dive into the first one!

Look how cute is that big bear from the Holiday Hugs stamp set. I absolutely fell in love with him as soon as I saw him!

I stamped the image with a really light grey ink since I wanted a no-line look over a piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock. I then colored with Copics (Y28 – E84 – E81 – N5 – N4 – W7 – W5 – W4 – W0) and I added some details with white gel pen. I then fussy cut it because I wanted no white edges.

I then moved into the background: I started from a light sage cardstock and I created a quick hill shape with tape to darken the sky. I then used a white texture paste with the Forest Trees Stencil to create a white line of trees.

To complete the card, I added some snowflakes with white gel pen, I white heat embossed the "holiday" script from the Holiday Hugs stamp over some grey cardstock and I die cut it with coordinating dies. The wishes word was stamped over a strip of white cardstock. And here's the finished result!

To complete the card, I added some snowflakes with white gel pen, I white heat embossed the "holiday" script from the Holiday Hugs stamp over some grey cardstock and I die cut it with coordinating dies. The wishes word was stamped over a strip of white cardstock. The finished sage panel measures 3,5"x4,75" and I matted it firstly with a slightly larger silver sparkly cardstock and then with an A2 white panel impressed with the Dotted Diamond Portrait Die.

And here's the finished result!

My second and last inspiration showcases the Pretty Poinsettia stamp set. I started with the idea to create a red monochrome poinsettia wreath but I when I was stamping the red flower, I had the idea to create a rainbow wreath for some colorful wishes!

I created a 5,5"x5,5" square card, with the script sentiment at the centre and all the poinsettia around.

I firstly die cut all the poinsettia shapes from some white cardstock and I created a sort of "template" to insert the die cut pieces and repeatedly stamp the solid flowers in the same place using a stamping tool. I carefully stamped all the layers for each color (you can skip the change of colors and create a monochromatic card). I then gold heat embossed the sentiment included in the stamp set and I cuti t with a circle punch.

I attached all the flowers with foam tape to a 5"x5" piece of white cardstock, I also added the circle sentiment in the centre. I then matted the panel with a slightly larger mirror gold cardstock and then with a 5,5"x5,5" white panel again. To complete the card, I added some gold gems here and there. And here's the finished result!

Thanks for stopping by! I really hope you have found my projects inspiring!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Forest Trees Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Portrait Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pretty Poinsettia Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Pretty Poinsettia Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio