Toasty Hugs Card with Nicky

Happy Friday everyone, this is Nicky with you today on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog where I'm sharing all the details for this card using the cute little Toasty Hugs stamp set. Read on for all the details.

Using Speckled Egg Distress Oxide Ink, I ink blended the winter sky on an A2 white panel of cardstock.

I die cut the Cityscape Border Die from white cardstock and glued this created panel to the sky.  Over this I layered two snow 'hills' made using the Slimline Nature Borders Die. This background panel was now ready to glue to my card base and set to one side.

I stamped the trees from Snowmen in Sweaters and the two kids from Toasty Hugs using black ink. I coloured with the following Copic markers:

Skin - E34, E11, E21
Hair Girl Left - E44, E43, E40
Hair Girl Right - E42, E40
Blush - R22, R21, R20, R00
Green - G19, YG45
Red - R29, R24
White - C3, C1
Brown - E44, E43

I die cut the images, using the Snowmen in Sweaters Die and Toasty Hugs Die, and backed them with foam tape and attached them to the background.

For the finishing touches I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on a red strip and attached with foam tape and I glittered the snow on the trees and then using a stylus and white acrylic paint, I dotted in the snow throughout the scene. Your snow will look far more authentic if you make sure to 'nick' the lines of some of your images as I have done and of course by dotting rather than splattering you have full control and won't spoil the faces on the characters etc.

Thank you for coming by to read today, I will be back this time next week with something brand new.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Cityscape Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snowmen in Sweaters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snowmen in Sweaters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Toasty Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Toasty Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sunny Saturday Share: Customer Cards

Hey everyone, how are you all doing this weekend? I'm so excited to be popping in today with a Sunny Saturday Share. There have been so many amazing cards popping up on Instagram that have made my jaw drop so I couldn't wait to share them with all of you! 

Party Pups and Picket Fence Die card by Danielle Dunlop

Baby Elephants card by Linda Andersson

Cruisin Cuisine, Cityscape Border, and Classic Sunburst card by Amy Tsuruta

Plane Awesome and Critters On The Go card by Danielle Dunlop

Farm Fresh card by Donna Perisic

Passionate Penguins and Floating By card by Linda Andersson

Everything’s Rosy card by Anita

Nutty For You card by Ilona van den B

Passionate Penguins card by Lisa Mears

Passionate Penguins card by Melissa Trigero

Thank you for sharing all these fabulous ideas with us! I hope you will continue to share your gorgeous projects with us--It always makes my day to see them. You can tag us on instagram with the hashtag #sunnystudiostamps or share your projects with us in our flickr group or on our facebook page. ☺


Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pups Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Party Pups Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Nutty For You Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Everything's Rosy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Everything's Rosy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Plane Awesome Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Plane Awesome Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cityscape Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Floating By Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruisin' Cuisine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Farm Fresh Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Farm Fresh Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Sunburst Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Critters on the Go Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Critters on the Go Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Passionate Penguins Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Baby Elephants Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Reindeer Games Cards with Alma and Marie

Hello, my dears. This is Alma and today I want to show you a greeting card with an integrated advent calendar.

First of all, I cut out a rectangular card. Then I cut 25 squares from the Joyful Holiday Paper, 2 by 2 inches. Afterwards I punched out the glove from the Warm & Cozy Dies 25 times and the numbers 1-25 from the Chloe Number Dies. Now I wiped a white card with the Distress Oxides colours Stormy Sky, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Saphire and Black Soot and wiped clouds with white ink. I used the clouds from the Slimline Nature Border Dies set as a stencil.

Now I stamped and coloured the reindeer from the Reindeer Games Stamps set and the Santa from the Santa Claus Lane Stamps set and punched them out with the corresponding Santa Claus Lane Dies and Reindeer Game Dies. Now I punched the Cityscape Border Dies in black and glued it to the cloud background. To attach the advent calendar, I punched all the individual elements with the Bind it and tied them to the card. Finally I glued all the images on it and the Christmas countdown was done!

What a great interactive card!

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Hello Crafty Friends, Marie here. I am very happy to be back on the blog to share a new Holiday inspiration card with you featuring the recently released Reindeer Games stamps. Reindeers are some of my favorite images to color and create with during the holidays so I was very excited to make a card with this adorable stamp set! 

The first thing I do before anything when cardmaking is to prepare my base and my background panels. I cut out my A2 sized base panel from 110 lb Sturdy Neenah solar white cardstock paper so that I never have a problem with my cards warping. Using a slightly smaller die from a nesting A2 die set, I cut out my background panel using bristol smooth white cardstock for easy ink blending.

I then prepared my background panel using the Forest Trees stencils. This layering stencil set creates such a beautiful background of lush pine trees that look like they fade out with the distance depending on how light or dark you go with your inking. I also love that these stencils are numbered so you know the order in which to use them when inking. For my tree stencils, I used Distress Inks. For layer number 1, I used a very light hand with the color Evergreen Bough, for the 2nd layer of trees, I used the same ink color and applied it with a bit more pressure to get a darker shade. For my 3rd layer, I used a combination of Evergreen Bough, Rustic Wilderness, and Uncharted Mariner Distress Inks for the darkest shade of all the layers. 

After my trees were finished, I inked around my entire card background with Evergreen Bough and then for the top of my card, I inked a darker shade of Uncharted Mariner and Chipped Sapphire to create a night sky. I then used some water splatters and watered down acrylic paint to create a snowy backdrop. 

I stamped the reindeer images using antique Linen on watercolor paper, and used water color pencils to color my images. I did some white detailing using a white gel pen. I then cut my images using the Reindeer Games corresponding dies. I positioned my reindeers and adhered them all down using double sided tape adhesive. Flying Rudolph was adhered using double sided foam strips for dimension. I also gave Rudolph a bright shiny blinged out nose using the Red Zircon Jewels. I find adding the one single red gem embellishment so charming, perfect for Santa's favorite reindeer. 

I didn't want to leave the inside of my card blank so I added a reindeer wishing everyone a Happy Holidays with the sentiments from the stamp set placed in a word bubble stamped in Candied Apple Distress Ink. 

I am so so happy with how my card turned out! Thank you so much for stopping by the blog and I hope it gives you some ideas for all your upcoming Christmas Cardmaking and crafting! Until next week, Have an Awesome Day or Night! and as always, Happy Crafting!!! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Chloe Number Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Warm & Cozy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cityscape Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Forest Trees Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio	Reindeer Games Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Reindeer Games Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio