25 Days of Christmas Tags with Franci, Lexa & Mendi

Hello there!  We're so excited to be joining you today to share some fun ideas for holiday gift tags for Day 8 of Tracey McNeely's 25 Days of Christmas Tags!  :)

Hello there! Franci here with you today with some festive tags! I'm super happy to be part of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2017 by Tracey!!

I created these tags with the Petite Poinsettias and the Festive Greetings stamp sets. I die cut them with the Tag Topper Dies -Traditional and I colored them with Distress Inks. The colors that I used are: Spiced Marmalade, Tumbled Glass, Shabby Shutters and Abandoned Coral. I sprinkled them with a little with water, and then put a paper towel on the top to remove the excess water and let them dry.

I stamped all my poinsettias and I die cut them with the coordinating dies. Then I stamped all of my sentiments onto my tags with the Versamark ink and heat embossed all of them with a silver embossing powder. Finally, I glued all of the flowers in place and added some twine and ribbons to make them extra festive. Perfect for all my Christmas gifts! 

Next up is Lexa... Hi there!  Today I used the Cresent Tag Topper Dies to make my tag.  I used the largest one which is 3" wide. Since I'm totally a dog person, I choose this adorable puppy from Pet Sympathy and add the Santa hat from Jolly Gingerbread Stamps. This little friend originally had a heart on his mouth, but I replaced it with a Christmas sock from Playful Polar Bear instead. The present comes from the older stamp set, Christmas Icons, just like it's name you can find anything related to Christmas in one stamp set.

I blended some Mowed Lawn Distress Inks for the background and stamped some cute paws with green dye ink. A classic red, green and gold won't hurt at all. It's simple and lovely as always. I use matching thin ribbon and twines, and finished it with some pretty sequins.

For the last set of tags, I couldn't resist joining in the fun with some tags of my own using our Sunny Semi Circles dies for the tag shape and Polar Playmate stamps (& various other sets) for embellishing.  ;)  

I cut a 2.5" wide x 4" high tag from white cardstock which I masked off for the snow drift before applying Shaded Lilac distress ink to my background and rounding the bottom corners.  I then stamped the background twice with our mini Frosty Flurries stamps which I heat embossed with white pearl embossing powder.

Then for each tag, I cut two more from black polka-dot paper measuring 3" x 4.5".  I wanted my tags to look as cute on the back as on the front so I adhered my cardstock tag to the patterned paper and stitched around the edge before adhering the second piece cut from patterned paper to the back of my tags.  Once they were adhered together, I was able to use my Crop-a-dile to punch a hole in the top and set an eyelet to run my twine through.  I love the finished look an eyelet gives to gift tags, don't you?

I hope we've inspired you to create some gift tags of your own and will join the festivities over on Tracey's blog.  There's so many great prizes up for grabs.  ;)

Here's a list of all the fabulous sponsors sharing ideas for Christmas tags this month:

1 Simon Says Stamp
2 Newtons Nook
3 CAS-ual Fridays
4 Reverse Confetti
5 Altenew
6 Lil’ Inker Designs
7 Birch Press
8 Sunny Studio
9 Paper Sweeties
10 Winnie & Walter  
11 Studio Katia 
12 Lawn Fawn & Lawn Fanatics 
13 Neat & Tangled 
14 Concord & 9th and C9
15 Muse
16 Ellen Hutson 
17 Jillibean Soup
18 Avery Elle
19 Technique Tuesday
20 Waffle Flower
21 Uniko
22 Stamplorations
23 Pretty Pink Posh
24 Right at Home
25 Pink & Main
26 High Hopes Rubber Stamps (bonus day)

Thanks so much for joining us!  :)

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Tag Topper Dies-Traditional Shop at: Sunny Studio	Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Petite Poinsettias Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Petite Poinsettias Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bundled Up Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Icons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snow Kissed Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Semi Circles Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frosty Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polar Playmates Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Christmas Icons Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tag Topper Dies-Crescent Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pet Sympathy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pet Sympathy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Jolly Gingerbread Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fireplace Shaped Dies Nontraditional Colored Christmas Card with Lexa

Hi everyone! Lexa here today with a super cute shaped card using Fireplace Shaped dies. Everyone will be happy to accept this. I combined the new sets with old ones, as you can always mix them together ... there are a lot of possibilities.

Instead of creating the traditional look of a fireplace, I decided to make it more unique by using polka dot patterned paper. I mixed various colors for a nontraditional Christmas card. For the beige on the base, I used kraft paper for the wall behind and blend Vintage Photo Distress Ink on the edges to create dimension. Since I want the fire to glow, I blended yellow and orange dye inks on the center.

I used the cute little kitty cat from the Pet Sympathy set to make the scene more alive. Oh, don't forget that little mouse who's trying to sneak out of kitty's sight. The sentiment on top of the fireplace is from last year release, Merry Sentiment Stamp. I also die cut some of the bricks from suede patterned paper ... never thought that they will look this good! Since it has gradation color on the paper, it looks more real.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you all have a great day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Merry Sentiments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Pet Sympathy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Pet Sympathy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fireplace Shaped Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

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