Bear Hugs Stamps & Holiday Express Stamps Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some Christmas cards featuring our Bear Hugs Stamps and Holiday Express Stamps.

For my first card today, I used all the cute polar bears from the Bear Hugs Stamps with the Comic Strip Speech Bubbles Die to frame each miniature scene using the set's tree, ice block, balloon, and candy cane. I inked up behind the frame using a light touch of Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink and then cut out stitched snowy slopes using the Slimline Nature Border Dies. Finally, I stamped a punny greeting using VersaFine Onyx Black ink from the set. I really loved how clean and fresh this turned out with the simple red, white, and blue color scheme, so I thought it would be fun to challenge myself to design both cards today using that limited color palette.

My second card features the adorable train, critters, decorations, and gifts from the Holiday Express Stamps. To help make my train feel extra festive, I added peppermint candies to the wheels of the locomotive and train cars using images from the Candy Shoppe Stamps and Baking Spirits Bright Stamps. For the backdrop behind my Christmas train, I taped two of the three 6" borders from the Forest Trees Stencils together and inked up one continuous line of trees with Salty Ocean Distress ink. Above the trees, I added a cloud border using the Slimline Nature Border Dies cut from masking material and inked with Mermaid Lagoon Distress ink. Lastly, I combined several mix-and-match greetings from the Holiday Express stamps to create one long, continuous sentiment to span the length of my 8" wide card.

That wraps up my projects for today. Thanks so much for hanging out with me. I hope I've inspired you to spread a little happiness by sending out a card to someone you love. 💛

Don't forget to check out the Bear Hugs Stamps and Bear Hugs Dies in our online shop, which are currently on sale!

Plus, check out our Black Friday Sale, which has also kicked off! Save 15% on Sunny Studio branded products, automatically receive a free "Mouse in Mug" enamel pin with orders of $25 or more, and free USA shipping on retail orders of $50 or more using discount code BLACKFRIDAY. These deals run through December 1st at Midnight PST, but some clearance items are in short supply so shop early for the best selection. 💛

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Supplies Used: 

Bear Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bear Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Candy Shoppe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Candy Shoppe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Comic Strip Speech Bubble Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Forest Trees Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spellbinders Masking Sheets Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio

Holiday Express Card with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm back with this lovely gingerbread themed card featuring images from different sets, which is my favorite thing to do when I make cards, I really love how the Sunny Studio stamp sets can be mixed to create super cute scenes!

I started off by stamping the images on light kraft cardstock instead of the usual white cardstock because for some reason when I color gingerbread themed images I like to use kraft cardstock. I cut them all with the coordinating dies and colored everything with my Ohuhu markers. Here is a detailed list of the stamp sets I used: • Holiday Express - locomotive, wagons, presents, smoke, holly, connecting pieces • Christmas Cookies - gingerbread characters (wagons) • Baking Spirit Bright - gingerbread character (locomotive) • Snowmen In Sweaters - snowflakes.

I added highlights and details to the images with a white gel pen, and next I worked on the background. I cut a scalloped panel out of the same cardstock as the images using a Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace die and added texture to that panel using the Dotted Diamond Landscape die. I applied vintage photo and ground espresso distress inks to my scalloped panel edges, next I mixed some vintage photo distress ink with water and added brown splatters all over the panel, I did the same with vintage photo distress spritz for sparkles, and then the same again with copic opaque white ink for contrast. When my panel was dry, I attached it to a 5,5 x 4,25 inches light kraft panel using 1mm foam squares, and then to a card base using liquid glue.

I cut a banner out of dark brown cardstock using a Notebook Photo Corners die, white heat embossed "Have a holly jolly Christmas" from Build A Greeting Holidays on it, attached that banner to my card using 1mm foam squares, and finally the images using 1mm and 2mm foam squares. 

And that's it! Are you ready to get on the gingerbread holiday express? Come on and let's have some fun! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

Sunny Studio 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	Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio
Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Snowmen in Sweaters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snowmen in Sweaters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Build-a-Greeting Holidays Shop at: Sunny Studio

Holiday Express Card with Amanda

Hello there and welcome to the Sunny Studio blog! It’s Amanda here with you today and I’m so glad you stopped by! Today, I’m sharing a card that I made for the holidays! (I know!  I can’t believe it’s that time already either!). With so many holiday cards to make, we have to start early!

To create this card, I trimmed a piece of white cardstock to slimline size. I took a long piece of low-tack masking tape and trimmed the edge into a little hilly background. I adhered the mask to the bottom portion of my card panel. Then, I used Catherine Pooler’s On the Lake and Bay Breeze inks to blend the sky with a blending brush. I spritzed it with water and then set it aside to dry.

All of my stamped images come from the Holiday Express Stamps. I stamped all the images onto white cardstock with black ink and then colored them with Copic markers. I mix and matched the same markers throughout the scene.

Here are the colors I used:
YR21, YR24, YR27
N3, N6, N8
R00, R22, R35, 37, 39
RV23, RV25, RV29
E00, E11
BG93, BG96, BG99
BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78
G24, G94

Once the cute little images were colored in, I cut them out with the coordinating dies. Grabbing my card front again, I stamped the sentiment in the upper right hand corner. I put 3D foam squares behind all of the stamped images and added them to my card front. Then, I took some white acrylic paint and added dots all over the card to look like snow! I, then, attached my card front to a teal card base that matches the sky.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Sunny Studio blog today! Hope to see you back here for more crafty inspo tomorrow! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Holiday Express Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Country Carnival & Enchanted Theme Park Slimline Card with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi, popping in to share a card for Summer featuring our Country Carnival Stamps and elements from several other fun sets!

I wanted to create an amusement park scene with a parade of princess floats for this card. Knowing all the elements I wanted to include, a 9" wide x 4" high slimline-style card felt like the perfect canvas for my project! I used the Ferris wheel, carousel, castle, bears, and mini balloons from the Country Carnival Stamps to populate my theme park. I added Princess Belle and Cinderella, as well as the castle in the distance from our Enchanted Stamps, and elevated them to look more like a float using the train from our Holiday Express Stamps. To transform my holiday train to a parade float, I colored it in shades of pink and gold and dressed it up with buntings from the Balloon Rides Stamps. A bear from the Beach Buddies Stamps colored to look like he was wearing mouse ears was added as a train conductor.

In the distance, behind my scene, I added the mountains and trees from our Spring Scenes Stamps. I inked up my sky and added the mini cloud dies from our Comic Strip Everyday Dies. I then added another cardstock layer, blending from Antique Linen to Citron Green, and die-cutting the top edge using our Mini Grass Border Dies. To keep my busy scene from becoming too overwhelming, I kept all my elements within a narrow color scheme of pink, yellow, and baby blue, with touches of green for the trees and grass and neutral brown tones for the ground, bears, and mountains. There was a lot of coloring, but I enjoyed this one, and I hope you do too!

That wraps up my projects for this morning. I hope I've inspired you in your own cardmaking and that you spread a little happiness by sending out a card to a loved one today.😊

Don't forget to check out our Country Carnival Stamps, Enchanted Stamps, Balloon Rides Stamps, and Spring Scenes Stamps with their coordinating dies in our online shop, which are all currently on sale!  Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always make sure to upload tons of card ideas following the product image, so there are lots of incredible ideas to scroll through there, organized by set. 💛

Supplies Used:

Country Carnival Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Country Carnival Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Enchanted Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Enchanted Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Spring Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Grass Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio
Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio