Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Hanh Nguyen

Hello, Crafty Friends! This is Hanh Nguyen here with you. I am so thrilled to be Guest Designing for Sunny Studio and celebrating the newest Fall/Holiday Release. I can't believe that we are 3 short months away from Christmas! I absolutely love Christmas and have two holiday projects to share with you today.

My first project is a mini slimline pop-up box card featuring these adorable images for the new Truckloads of Love and Dashing Dachshund sets. This Truckload is so versatile with images that are just perfect for so many different occasions. I also used one of the scenes from the Scenic Route set for my background.

I stamped the images onto a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb card stock. I colored the images with Copic markers and accented them with gel pens. I used the coordinating Truckloads of LoveDie Set and Dashing DachshundDie Set to cut them out.

COPIC COLORS:
Truck: R22/24/29, T0/1, T7/9, Y08, B0000
Husky: T1/3/5, T0, R00/20, T5
Fox: YR20/21 Y17/38 YR16/27, T0, R00/20, T5
Dachshund: E51/53/33/35
Santa's Hat: R22/24/29, T0
Trees: YG01/03/17
Presents: B000, R22/24
Snow: B0000

I created a boxcard from one panel (5.5" x 4.5") and two strips (7.5" x 1.25") of red cardstock. I scored the strips at the 1.5" and 7" marks. The box card measures 4.5" x 7" when folded. I made some snowy hill shelves using one of the dies from the Slimline NatureBorders Die set. I colored the edge lightly with a Copic marker. I ink-blended the blue background with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink and added snow with a white gel pen. 

For the sentiment, I combined sentiments from the Truckloads of Love set with one from the Feeling Frosty set. I stamped some snowflakes from the Dashing Dachshund set with the same Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink. 

I assembled the box card and adhered all of my colored images with liquid adhesive. I also added some large snowflakes that I die-cut from the new Woolen Mittens Dies.

My second card is a shaped card that I created with the Woolen Mittens Die set. This is such a fun set and has so many possibilities. 

I die-cut the mitten once out of red cardstock and once out of a white A2 card base (the die was placed slightly beyond the fold line to preserve the fold). I also die-cut some snowflakes, holly leaves, and berries for the decorations. I lightly colored the edges of the die cut with matching Copic markers and added highlights with a white gel pen for some interest and dimension. I decorated the red mitten. 

Next, I stamped a sentiment from the Inside Greetings - Holiday Set onto the inside of the card base before adhering the red mitten to the front. 

I had so much fun playing with these sets and truly appreciated this amazing opportunity to Guest Design for Sunny Studio Stamps. 

As always, I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and visit today. I hope you like my card. Please also visit my INSTAGRAM feed for more inspiration. Have a wonderful and crafty day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used: 

Feeling Frosty Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings-Holidays Shop at: Sunny Studio
Woolen Mitten Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dashing Dachshund Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dashing Dachshund Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Truckloads of Love Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Truckloads of Love Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sneak Peek: Introducing Baking Spirits Bright & Dashing Dachshund

Hello and welcome to day 5 of our Holiday Sneak Peek Week!  Each morning this week I am showcasing projects using our newest fall & winter collections which will be available to purchase tomorrow morning! Hooray!

Card No. 1: Kicking things off, I have a card using our new Baking Spirits Bright Stamps which features 8 unique sugar cookies, 2 candy canes, a hot cocoa mug, a glass of milk, and a number of cute punny sentiments to match. I started my card by loosely coloring three frames using Daniel Smith watercolors on watercolor paper using Phthalo Turquoise, Quinacridone Rose, and Sap Green. When they were fully dry, I added a little powder before heat embossing my sentiment from the set, combined with the word "bake" which I die-cut using our Loopy Letters Dies. The rest of my card relies on the adorable images from the set which I arranged in each of the frames.

Card No. 2: For my next card showcasing the adorable new Baking Spirits Bright Stamps I paired the new gingerbread man cookie with the boy and girl gingerbread from our Christmas Cookies Stamps. I then used the house and tree cookies with the two candy canes to create a little scene on the right tucked behind a snowy powder sugar hillside cut using our Slimline Nature Border Dies, inking behind them with a little Tumbled Glass Distress ink so that my hill would stand out against my white cardstock background. I added the stitched edge to the top of my panel using our slimline Slimline Basic Border Dies. I then added a thin strip of candy cane print followed by the brown gingerbread print patterned paper to the top and bottom of my card from our All Is Bright Paper to tie my theme altogether.

Card No. 3: Next up is a bright and cheerful grid-style card featuring the Baking Spirits Bright Stamps. To form my grid, I ran our Window Trio Circle Dies through my die-cutting machine twice centering them on my 5.5" wide card panel. I then trimmed the top and bottom of my panel with a stitched edge using our Ribbon & Lace Border Dies. Trimming them close allowed me to have some leftover space to add a striped rainbow print to peek out from the top and bottom of that same All Is Bright Paper pack. I then used the coordinating tone-on-tone plaid prints from the set to pick up the individual colors from the stripes and to add more pops of color behind each of my circular openings. I finished my card by adding 5 of the adorable cookies and milk images to the framed openings and heat-embossed the "Sweet Christmas Wishes" greeting from the set to stack in the last opening.



Card No. 4: When I was trying to think of some new ways to use these Baking Spirits Bright stamps, I thought it would be fun to recreate the look of a cookie sheet. To build my cookie sheet I used silver metallic cardstock with the Hero Arts Rounded Rectangle Infinity Dies, nesting two of them to create the lip of my sheet and then just the larger die by itself for the bottom. I then cut the handles for my cookie sheet using the tab die from our Notebook Tabs Dies. I mounted them to a red and white gingham patterned paper from our Joyful Holiday Paper pack to form my "tablecloth" and then added a heat-embossed sentiment from the set onto our new Brilliant Banner 2 Dies cut from red cardstock.

Card No. 5: Continuing with the theme of recreating the look of a table, this time I used Hero Arts Nesting Circle Infinity Dies to create the look of red holiday plates on a wooden table. To form my red plates, I started by cutting 1-3/4" circles from red cardstock and used the 1-1/4" circle die with an embossing mat to emboss the center of my saucer. I then took that same 1-1/4" circle to cut out a window from masking material and positioned the mask over where I had just embossed it to make it more exaggerated by inking up the center with a darker red ink color.

I embossed my wood texture background using our Woograin Embossing Folder with kraft cardstock. To give it a darker aged look I colored over the surface with a Vintage Photo Distress Crayon and then rubbed it in using a paper towel. I followed up by adding a little distress ink in the same color rubbed along the edges for extra definition. Lastly, I stamped the punny greeting from the set onto a small pennant strip from our Notebook Photo Corner Dies using Versafine Onyx Black Ink.



Card No. 6: Next up I have a sweet & simple card using the mitten, snowman, and snowflake cookies from our Baking Spirits Bright stamps which I lined up all in a row and colored in a matching blue and rosy red color palette. I inked up behind them with a light dusting of Worn Lipstick ink and then stamped my sentiment all in a row below them. Before I adhered them though, I ran my cardstock panel through my die-cutting machine to cut a lacy scalloped edge along the bottom using the die from our Slimline Pennant Dies. I couldn't resist the opportunity to then use the small peppermint candies from this set to add a dot to the center of each scallop. Lastly, I adhered a blue striped patterned paper to the bottom of my card from the Sleek Stripes Paper pack, inking up the top edge that goes under my scallop to make it a bit darker and blend better with the other stamped elements I had already colored with my Copics.

Card No. 7: For my last Baking Spirits Bright project of the day, I created a set of holiday gift tags perfect for tying onto plates of homemade cookies during the Christmas season. I used our Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies to form the base of my tag, cutting them out from patterned paper from our All Is Bright Paper pack. I finished them off with a hot pink heart reinforcer from our Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies and a simple aqua twine tie.

Up next is a series of cards that we shared last year as part of our Black Friday promo, but as is our tradition this set was not available to purchase until now. Give it up for our adorable  Dashing Dachshund Stamps!

Card No. 8: Dashing Dachshund Card by Alma (previously blogged about HERE)



Card No. 9: Dashing Dachshund Card by Marine (previously blogged about HERE)



Card No. 10: Dashing Dachshund Card by Vanessa (previously blogged about HERE)



Card No. 11: Dashing Dachshund Card by Kavya (previously blogged about HERE)



Card No. 12: Dashing Dachshund Card by Rachel (previously blogged about HERE)

That wraps up today's sneak peeks. I'm so happy you spent part of your day with me today. I read all your comments and they mean so much!  I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner using the Rafflecopter below. 

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Here's a closer look at our new Baking Spirits Bright Stamps & Dies, and Dashing Dachshund Stamps & Dies used today (which will be available to purchase starting on August 25th):

Other Supplies Used:

Christmas Cookies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Cookies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Trio- Circles Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Loopy Letters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Seasonal Trees Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seaonal Trees Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lots of Dots Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodgrain Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
Santa Claus Lane Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Snowflake Circle Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Basic Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders 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
Slimline Pennant Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Charming City Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Charming City Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Paris Afternoon Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Paris Afternoon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cozy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cozy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ribbon & Lace Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Notebook Tabs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Nesting Circle Infinity Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ranger Glossy Accents Shop at: Sunny Studio