2nd Birthday Blog Hop with Holiday Sneak Peeks & Prizes

Hello & welcome to a very special post today.  I am thrilled and humbled to have reached our second birthday milestone this month!  To celebrate we are hosting a fun blog hop with some of our favorite designers who are sharing sneak peeks of our holiday release coming out next Friday. 

For my part of the hop, I am sharing five different ways to use our new Fireplace dies which come with everything you need to create a fun A2 sized shaped fireplace card! 

Card No. 1:  For my first card I wanted to create a traditional brick fireplace reminiscent of grandma's house.  I inked up three swatches of white cardstock using Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey & Ripe Persimmon distress inks.  I then die-cut the bricks using the four brick pieces that come with the set and adhered them with a glue pen in a random pattern.  For my mantel, I cut it from some wood print patterned paper and cut the trim from metallic gold cardstock.

While this set comes with some die-cut stockings, I thought I would mix things up by using the stocking stamp from our Christmas Icons set and the kitty warming himself from our Furever Friends stamps.  I then used a Copic multiliner pen to write the names of our family on the stockings.  

Card No. 2: Next up I have a card where I used those same brick dies along with an embossing pad to emboss the bricks into the background of my fireplace piece, giving it a nice subtle detail.  I heat embossed my sentiment in white using a phrase from our Heartfelt Wishes set and a kitty from Pet Sympathy.  

For this card I thought it would be fun to do something totally different so instead of stockings, I used the wreath image from our Christmas Icons set, along with a metallic pipe cleaner to form my garland behind the wreaths.  I'm in love with the results!

Card No. 3: For this card I went more modern with the look of my fireplace, cutting the background from silver shimmer cardstock and topping it with what I like to think of as white subway tile.  I channeled my inner Barbie girl and inked my stockings using Picked Raspberry and Twisted Citron distress inks.  I stamped my sentiment on the mantel using a phrase from our Gleeful Reindeer set.  A puppy from our Santa's Helpers and a gift from Christmas Icons complete my scene.

Card No. 4: Up next is another somewhat modern take with a black and white fireplace. It's difficult to see in my photo, but my background was embossed with the bricks in the same method I used for my second card.  To embellish my card I turned to the kitty in the stocking image from our Santa's Helpers set.

Card No. 5: My last card shows a third way to use the bricks for the fireplace by cutting a random brick pattern from the front panel and layering another solid panel behind it.  For these I used some scraps of solid distressed patterned papers that were a bit thinner than my other cardstocks so they actually benefited from the extra thickness.  I embellished my die-cut stockings with some stitched lines using my multiliner pen and added candy canes from our new Playful Polar Bears set.  I finished my card with a banner that perfectly hugs the fireplace from our Sunny Borders set and a sentiment from our new Christmas Home set.

Here's a look at the full die set which will begin shipping on Friday, September 29th.  The fireplace mantel scores along the top making it easy to cut two to form your card base and to adhere them together along the top.

I hope you will join me all next week when I will be sharing more ideas with the rest of our holiday release.  In the meantime I'm ecstatic to have a very talented group of ladies helping me celebrate today.  They are showing more sneak peeks with amazing projects that are sure to inspire you!  Your next stop in the hop is Sandy's blog.  :) 

In case you get lost, here's a full list of everyone hopping today...

Sunny Studio
Sandy Allnock

Nichol Spohr
Eloise Blue

Nancy Damiano

Kay Miller
Nina-Marie Trapani

Vanessa Menhorn

Michelle Short
Anni Lerche
Lexa Levana
Juliana Michaels

Don't forget to leave a comment at every stop because each designer is giving away a $25 gift code to our online store for 12 chances to win and a total of $300 in prizes!  

You have until Monday evening at 11:59 pm PDT to leave your comments.  Winners will be announced on our blog on Friday, September 29th.  :)

Do you love what you see and can't wait to reserve your favorites?  In honor of our birthday celebrations you can pre-order everything now and it will be held and shipped out on the official release date on September 29th.  Plus use the code CELEBRATE to save 15% off all retail prices through Sunday, October 1st.





Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Icons Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Icons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Furever Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Furever Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gleeful Reindeer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Heartfelt Wishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa's Helpers Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa's Helpers Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Borders Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sunny Borders Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pet Sympathy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pet Sympathy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fireplace Shaped Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Inspiration Week: Introducing Pet Sympathy Stamps & Dies

Hello there!  We're halfway through our sneak peeks for our new release for Fall coming out on Friday. 

Today I am popping in to share a new set for a very specific occasion called Pet Sympathy.  We all love our animals like part of the family and sometimes traditional sympathy cards and stamps don't quite fit the occasion when someone we love loses their beloved fur baby...

Up first is a puppy dog angel card.  The stamp set comes with separate pair of wings and halo to expand the versatility of the set and allow you to use the animals for non-sympathy related projects.  I started by inking the center of my card panel with Tumbled glass distress ink and then layered a cloud from our Sunny Sentiments set.  I colored my pup with Copic Markers and then added some glossy accents to the heart in his mouth for a touch of shine.  I then stamped a random heart pattern with the two solid hearts from the set on my card base and repeated the red color for part of my sentiment.

For my next card I created the kitty version of my first card.  I love that I was able to color my kitty to match my own favorite kitty growing up.  There are really so many ways you could color him.  

I created my cloud background by first creating a stamped scallop edge with our Sunny Borders stamps and then layering it with clouds from our Rain or Shine and Sunny Sentiments stamp sets.  For my background I lightly inked on some worn lipstick distress ink and stamped my sentiment in a soft grey.  It still felt a bit plain so I went back and added some random tiny pink hearts and it's just what it needed.

Up next is a card using an interchangeable sentiment that can be used for either cats or dogs depending on how you stamp it.  The set also comes with a toy mouse and a ball of yarn so by substituting the accessories this card design could work for either a dog or a cat.

My next card uses a similar design with the paw prints.  This time I used our Traditional Tag Topper dies to frame my sweet dog in the dog bed with some of my favorite sentiments from the set.

To put my dog inside the bed, I stamped and colored a second dog bed to layer over the top, cutting off a portion of the bed for the top layer.  The dies that come with this set also cut out that interior line, making it super easy to slip your dog or cat inside the bed.

Up next I created a non-sympathy card by pairing the images from the set with a sentiment from our older Furever Friends stamps.

I have another everyday themed card, this time pairing the kitty from our Furever Friends set with the cat bed from the new stamps.  It's so fun to finally have some accessories to go with the kitties from that set!  For my background, created my own patterned paper by repeating the phase "I heart cats" using some of the extra words from the Pet Sympathy set.  I love the red, black and white color scheme, don't you? 

Here's a full look at the new Pet Sympathy stamps and coordinating dies available for purchase on Friday morning.

     

I hope you've enjoyed today's sneak peek.  Would you like to win a $25 gift code to our online store to spend on some of the new sets?  Use the rafflecopter below to enter to win.  We will be giving away a new gift code each day for a total of five chances to win!  Contest closes on July 22nd at Midnight PST.  Winners will be announced on Sunday, July 23rd.  :)

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Make sure to check back tomorrow when I will be sharing a super fun set for fall and beyond that I'm hoping you'll fall in love with as much as I have. ;)

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Sunny Saturday Share: Customer Cards For Teachers, New Homes & More

Happy Saturday!  How have you guys been?  Did you enjoy the cards the new team created this week?!  I think they did a fantastic job and I so appreciate each one of your sweet comments left.  Well, it's finally an actual "Sunny Saturday" in my neck of the woods (yay!) and I spotted some super cute cards this week that I just had to share. 

School Time Teacher Thank You Card by Alba (@albasevadilla on instagram)

Furever Friends Cat Card by Heidi Criswell (@craftytime4u on instagram) created for MarkerPop.com 

Summer Picnic Card by Jamie Peters (@jamie_scrappinstampers on Instagram)

I Love You Rain or Shine card (with the paint bucket and paintbrush from A Good Egg) by Ashley (@sparklycanadiancraftygirl on instagram)

"Ain't No Sunshine" Card by Angel Johns (@angelrjohns on instagram) using Sunny Sentiments stamps, Fishtail Banner dies and Sunshine Word Die.

Happy Home "Home Sweet Home" Watercolor Card by Laurie C. (@crazycardlady on instagram)

Aren't these all adorable?!  We'd love to see what you've been creating with our stamps & dies too!  As always you can share your creations with us on our Facebook page, in our Flickr group or by tagging us with the hashtag #SunnyStudioStamps on instagram.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

• School Time Stamp Set
• Furever Friends Stamp Set
• Furever Friends Die Set
• Summer Picnic Stamp Set
• Summer Picnic Die Set
• Rain or Shine Stamp Set
• A Good Egg Stamp Set
• Sunny Sentiments Stamp Set
• Fishtail Banners Die Set
• Sunshine Word Die
• Happy Home Stamp Set

Sending a Little Love Mailbox Card by Marion

Hello! I hope you are having a great week. It's Marion here with a card using the Sending My Love stamp set and its coordinating dies. I've also used the 'Love' word die from the Furever Friends die set.

I kept things pretty simple with this card. I sponged on some clouds and grass with some masks and distress inks. The images were coloured with Copic markers and I popped up the letterbox on some mounting foam for some dimension. The 'Love' die-cut was coloured with Copics as well (it a gradient of colour).

Sunny Studio Products used:

• Sending My Love stamp set
• Sending My Love dies
• Furever Friends dies 

 Thanks for stopping by today,

Marion