Easter Wishes and A Good Egg Happy Easter Card with Emily

Hey everyone, it's Emily here. Today is my last post as a design team member for Sunny Studio Stamps. It's been a wonderful six months and it's been a great honour to work for Mendi and her incredible illustrations! Don't worry, I will still continue to create with Sunny Studio Stamps so be sure to continue following along on my blog and YouTube channel. :)

I created this watercoloured Easter card by mixing and matching images and sentiments from three sets - Easter Wishes, A Good Egg and Sending My Love. 

I love how all these sets worked so well together! Mendi's adorable mix-and-match critters have always been my favourite and I featured the bunny here. She's over-seeing the Easter preparations and has two little chick helpers!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Thank you Emily for joining us these past six months.  It was a pleasure seeing your creative take on our products!  I can't see what you have up your sleeve in the future!  :)

Sending My Love Valentine's Day Banner With Lindsey

Hi, Lindsey here today. I'm sharing a Valentine's Day banner using Sending My Love. This set has so many fun little critters, and this time I decided to use the little bunny. I also included the little mail box, some hearts, and a sentiment. All you need in one set! Let's get started on how to create this fun banner.

To begin I cut the banner pieces using some Doodlebug Design Valentines paper. I cut six large banners and four small banners from patterned paper. I cut an additional two small banners from white card stock to do my stamping on. 

I cut four stitched circles from red and the word "love" from white card stock. I adhered the white letters onto the red circles. Then I attached the red circles to the small patterned paper banners using foam tape. 

Next, I stamped my images onto the small white banners and colored them using Copic markers. Once all the small banners were finished, I threaded some Valentine twine through the two top holes for decoration. Finally, I attached the small banners to the larger ones and strung them together using more Valentines twine.

That's it! I love how this sweet banner turned out. It will make a perfect decoration to hang on the mantel for Valentine's Day. I hope you'll check out this adorable set and create your own decorative banner. Thanks for reading and have a great day!

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Seasons Givings Blog Hop

Update:  Thank you for everyone who visited and for all your sweet comments.

The winner of the prize package was Rachel Bergfeld.  :)

Hello & welcome!  We're so excited to be joining in the Seasons Giving blog hop this year!  This hop is our way of saying thank you to all of you for your continued words of encouragement throughout the year.  Every single stop in the hop has a great prize up for grabs so I hope you will grab your favorite hot beverage and join us for some fun and inspiration to celebrate the new year!

With Valentine's Day approaching our team thought it would be fun to share some love themed projects to inspire you.

Sending My Love Valentine's Day card by Eloise Blue.

Sending My Love Valentine's Day Cards by Lindsey Sams.

Sock Hop Cruisin' By To Say I Love You card by Lexa Levana

I Love You Heart Card by Vanessa Menhorn (using heart dies from Tropical Paradise).

I also thought it would be fun to share a sneak peek of our new Spring collection debuting on January 13th. I can't wait to share all the projects I've been madly working on starting next week.  ;)

And here's a peek at the prize we will be giving away to one lucky winner... Tell us one crafty goal for the new year.  You have until January 6th to play along.  The winner will be announced here on Saturday, January 7th.  :)

Is our company new to you?  I hope you will join our store mailing list HERE to receive updates about special sales, challenges and new releases.  You can also sign up for blog updates using the sign up form in the top left-hand corner.  ;)

Your next stop in the hop is Inchie Arts llc

Here's a full list of everyone hopping today.  There's so much inspiration waiting for you!

Lawn Fawn

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Reverse Confetti

Taylored Expressions

Paper Smooches

Neat & Tangled

Technique Tuesday

Clear & Simple Stamps

Richard Garay

My Sweet Petunia

JustNick

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Sunny Studio Stamps

Inchie Arts llc

Scrapbook Update

Buttons Galore

Latisha Yoast

Julia Stainton

ChariMoss

Cristina Nunez

Wanda Guess

Vera Yates

Amy Tsuruta

Mary-Ann Maldonado

Lori Craig

Lydia Fiedler

Jenn Shurkus

Lisa Henke

Dina Kowal

Libby Hickson

Emily Leiphart

Cindy Lawrence

Kelly Klapstein

Erica Houtghton

Elise Constable

Julee Tillman

Lee Murphy

Lisa Arana

Giovana Smith

Karen Baker

Lindsay Amrhein

Dana Joy

Marcie Sharp

Megan Hoeppner

Alicia Thelin

Asia King

Debbie Seyer

Yvonne Van De Grijp

Tenia Nelson

Michelle Woerner

Christina Griffiths

Lori McAree

Barbara Anders

Jill Hawkins

Veronica Zalis

Leigh Penner

Margie Higuchi

Amy Coose

Melody Rupple

Karen Letchworth

Heidi Ramsey Blankenship

Jennie Harper

Jodi Collins

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Gracie Chavez

Stephanie Klauck

Savannah O’Gwynn

Terre Fry

Neva Cole

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Comfy Creatures Celebrate the Holidays with Video by Emily

Today, I used four stamp sets and a stand-alone die to create a festive party! Oh, how I love those Comfy Creatures! I wanted to create a little family that mimics the Minecraft costumes my family made for Halloween. Since there was no beaver, I used the bear from Sending My Love. I almost drew in a couple of big teeth. LOL My son was a koala bear for his third Halloween and he used to call himself our little koala bear so that's what I used for him. Naturally, I'm a panda! ;)

Since I didn't have the coordinating dies for Sending My Love, I used the panda head die and it worked very well. I know that the koala bear isn't wearing any clothes but my son is loving his winter mittens and gloves right now so I figured it looked enough like gloves to work. Plus, the drumstick looked odd sitting there without hands holding it.

The stamped part of the sentiment is from Merry Sentiments. I layered the glitter gold Merry Word Die with two layers of craft-a-board to give it dimension to match the critters.

The food items are from Summer Picnic and they work so well for this festive scene! All of the stamping was done with Versafine Onyx Black pigment ink and heat embossed with sparkle clear embossing powder. It adds glitter without making a mess! I used washes of colour in the background that mimics the colours I used to colour the critter family.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Merry Sentiments and Festive Friends with Emily

Hi, everyone! Today, I'm sharing a card using the Merry Sentiments mini stamp set. I created a two-line sentiment to frame this festive couple from Sending My Love. After heat embossing and watercolouring with distress inks, I fussy cut the animal heads, bodies and their gifts. The heads and gifts are popped up with foam tape.

The sentiments were first heat embossed on watercolour cardstock. Then I gave a two-colour wash with a large, flat brush, and added bright yellow and black splatter.  I die cut several snowflakes from Santa's Helpers Dies and strategically adhered them to cover up some smudges at the top of the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Welcome New Design Team Member Emily Leiphart!

Please help me in welcoming a new member to our creative team: the talented Emily Leiphart!  I'm thrilled she agreed to share her talents with us and I know you're going to fall in love with her adorable designs as much as I have!  I asked Emily to share a bit about herself today, along with a card showing off her fun style.  I'm so excited to see more!

Hi!  I’m married to a bicycle designer and have a very energetic eight-year-old son who has made numerous appearances in my videos!  I have a background in corporate research but I’m also an accomplished makeup artist so I still draw a lot of my inspiration from the fashion world.

I'm so excited to be joining Sunny Studio Stamps as a design team member! I love fun, quirky stamps and Mendi's illustrations are perfect for me. Of all the stamps currently in the Sunny Studio collection, my favourites are the critters with mix-and-match heads and bodies. I had to use the silly raccoon for today's card.

To create my scene, I picked the two main images; the mailbox from Sending My Love and the raccoon from Woodsy Creatures, then stamped and cut masks for them. I created two asks for the raccoon, one for the entire body for stamping the mailbox and another, just for the paws, so I could stamp the apple from Summer Picnic behind the digits.

After stamping the main part of the scene, I stamped the sentiment and added falling leaves - also from Woodsy Creatures - to create movement down and across the card. After colouring everything with Copic markers, I used the same colours from the leaf on the apple and the mailbox to create a pointillist anchor to ground the scene.

Thank you, Mendi, for this wonderful opportunity!

Blog:  http://leiphartonart.blogspot.com
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/leiphartonart/
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/leiphartonart

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