Guest Designer Spotlight: Holiday Treat Bags with Leanne West

Hello everyone! Leanne here and I have some fun and festive treat bags to share with you all. Every holiday season I look forward to making lots of sweet treats to give to family and friends. I also love to take gift giving to the next level and make cute customized packaging. 

For this project, I've used some 5x7 inch glassine bakery bags. I wanted to dress up the outside to coordinate with little gingerbread cookies. First I added a panel of patterned paper. These super cute papers are from the All is Bright 6x6 paper pad. I cut each 6x6 paper exactly in half. That gave me 3x6 inch panels. I adhered one panel to each and folded the extra around the back of the bag. 

Next I added a scalloped circle right to the center of the patterned paper panel. I used to largest die from Scalloped Circle Mats 3 die set to make these. I then brushed on just a touch of Festive Berries Distress Oxide Ink to the center of each circle.  

Next I created a different little gingerbread scene for each circle. I combined images from two stamp sets - Christmas Critters and Christmas Cookies - to create these scenes. These images are so fun and easy to color. I used Copics markers in the following colors: brown - E23, E25, E27; green - YG11, YG05, YG17; pale red - R00, R20, R22; bright red - R14, R24, R39.

After I had all my colored images in place, I still had enough space underneath for a combination die cut/stamped greeting. I used the Sweet Word die for the die cut part. For the stamped part I used words included in the Christmas Cookies stamp set. Now all that's left to do is with fill the bags with yummy treats! You could use these bags for cookies, candies, or hot cocoa packs. These fun treats bags are sure sweeten anyone's Christmas.

Have a happy holiday season everyone!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Sweet Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Cookies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Cookies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Critters DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scalloped Circle Mat 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Lazy Christmas Cards with Ashley and Mayra

Hello friends! It's Ashley with an adorable critter Christmas card featuring the lovable sloths from Lazy Christmas. These sloths are just too cute and the matching sentiments absolutely crack me up!

I started by blending Distress Oxide inks in Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, and Black Soot onto light aqua cardstock to make an ombre background. I used a white gel pen to add some dots and stars for interest, then added a dark teal frame made with the Christmas Garland Frame die. I cannot stop using this die it seems! It's too perfect for adding a little something extra to holiday cards!

I stamped several images from Lazy Christmas and Christmas Critters in Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink and colored with Copics before cutting them out with the matching dies. I added the images to the card, popping a few up with foam tape for dimension. For the sentiment, I stamped a phrase from Lazy Christmas in VersaMark ink on a strip of black cardstock and embossed with white before adding it to my card with foam tape.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

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Hello and happy Monday everyone. Mayra here to share this card with you today using the super cute Lazy Christmas stamp set. 

I began by coloring the image from the set using Copic markers. I also used the small ribbon with bells from the Holiday Express stamp set. I used E41, E31, E55, E35, and E87 for the brown areas. For the red, I used R22, R05, R27, R46, R59, and E09. 

Next, I die cut the base panel for the card using the Stitched Rectangles dies set, the Stitched Circle Small dies set, and the Scalloped Circle Mat 1 dies set. The patterned paper is from the All Is Bright 6x6 paper pad.  

I then die-cut the holly leaves using the Winter Greenery die set. The sentiment is from the Season's Greetings stamp set. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by. I hope you each have a wonderful and blessed day. 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Critters DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio
Lazy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lazy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Garland Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio
Season's Greetings Word Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio
All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Chloe Number Die Focused Cards with Anja and Marine

Hello everyone, Anja here and today I'm featuring the Chloe Number Dies which allow you to easily personalize a birthday card. I created the card for a sweet girl which will be turning 12 soon.

I started off with a white square card base that measures 4.75" x 4.75". I really like the color combo of the All Is Bright 6x6 Paper pack. Not only are these happy colors great for your holiday projects but they also work for other occasions as well. I trimmed the striped paper to a 4.5"x4.5" size and adhered it to the card base.

With one of the Scalloped Tag Square Dies and the partial die cutting technique I created a scalloped square without the top hanger piece. I stamped the sentiment from the Inside Greetings Birthday set in VersaMark Ink and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. Then I adhered the white scalloped square to the center of my card using foam tape.

Next, I stamped the images in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I picked the peeking cat and the big gift from the Christmas Critters set as well as the stack of gifts included in the Lazy Christmas set. I also added the small single gift (Holiday Express) and the heart balloon (Penguin Pals). All images were colored with Copic Markers and I used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

I assembled my little birthday scene by adhering the images with liquid glue. Finally, I die cut the numbers from glitter cardstock and put them on top of the red gift.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Hope you have a fabulous day!

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Hey crafty friends, Marine here to share with you a super cute and fun safari birthday pop-up card. It was my first time coloring those cute critters and I had so much fun! And because we're celebrating a birthday with this card, I added a badge on the front with a number using the Chloe Number die set. I chose the number three, but depending on the person you're celebrating, child or grown up, you can add any number.

As always I gathered lots of images from different sets to build and create my little scene:
Savanna Safari for the critters
Seasonal Trees for the big palm trees
Sending Sunshine for the small palm trees
Best Fishes for the plants
Balloon Rides for the banner + party hats

The first thing I did was to stamp the images using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, and I colored them using my alcohol markers. And once everything (critters, leaves and palm trees) were done, I created the card base. I cut all the papers to build it, including a green pattern paper from the Sweater Weather 6x6 paper pack. And I invite you to watch the process video down below to see how I built the pop-up card. Explaining an interactive mechanism is always easier with a video.

So once the pop-up card was complete, I attached the images inside the card. And to stick them more easily and do a clean job, with no excess of glue, I used acetate. I cut pieces of acetate that I attached at the back of each image using glue dots, and then I attached the images inside the card by sticking the acetate pieces on the grass borders using glue dots again.

Next I created the small badge to put on the front of the card. I cut a scalloped circle out of a blue pattern paper using the smallest die from Scalloped Circle Mat 3, as well as a smaller circle out of the same kraft cardstock as the card base using a die from Wrap Around Box. I also cut the number three out of a yellow pattern paper using the Chloe Number die set. I layered those elements on top of each other, and stuck the badge on the front of the card using foam squares. The blue and yellow pattern papers I used to make this badge are from the Sweater Weather 6x6 paper pack.

And at the end, I thought it would be nice to make the card more festive so I stamped and colored some party hats  that I glued on each critter's head.

And that's it! Now let's celebrate someone special day with those cute little friends in the savanna! I leave you with the process video (click on the image above), feel welcome to check it out! Thanks for stopping by and see you next week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Critters DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lazy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Lazy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chloe Number Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wrap Around Box Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Best Fishes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seasonal Trees Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Seaonal Trees Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Tags-Square Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Penguin Pals Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Pals Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Inside Greetings Birthday Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sweater Weather Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio