Holy Night Nativity Christmas Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi popping in to share some nativity Christmas cards featuring our Holy Night Stamps.

My first card showcasing the Holy Night Stamps utilizes as many images from the set as I could squeeze onto my A2-sized card panel. Before adhering any images, however, I started by inking the center of my card panel with Mustard Seed Distress Ink. I then hand-cut a curved mask, taking turns using both halves. For the ground, I inked the bottom of the card with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Inks. For the sky, I added Mermaid Lagoon around the glowing yellow center and then layered on Prize Ribbon and Chipped Sapphire Distress ink around the outer edges. To add additional layers to the nativity scene, I incorporated the palm trees from the Sending Sunshine Stamps and the Tropical Scenes Stamps. I then heat-embossed the glimmering star above the baby Jesus and the sentiment from the Holy Night set, before adding white dots for stars to the sky with a gel pen.

For my second card, I used that same curved mask I had fussy cut with my scissors for the first card to ink the light ray layers for the shining Star of Bethlehem. I first started by inking the center of my card panel with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I then took turns inking the two outer corners with Chipped Sapphire and re-adjusted the mask to rotate down on each corner before inking each side again with Salty Ocean. Finally, I removed all the masks and inked from the outside edges of the panel with Mermaid Lagoon, fading towards the center to leave it lightest with the Tumbled Glass ink peeking through. When I was done, I thoroughly dried the cardstock panel with my heat gun and used anti-static powder to prepare the surface for embossing the stars.

Next, I cut a curved stitched hill using the Slimline Nature Border Dies and blended Antique Linen with Vintage Photo along the bottom corners, which would be darker and further from the light. Once I had the stable, Mary, Joseph, and the Baby Jesus roughly laid in place from the Holy Night Stamps, I took turns stamping the stars from the Baby Elephants Stamps and heat-embossing with White Detail Embossing Powder and Wow! Opaque Pastel Blue embossing powder. I then added the smallest two twinkly star images from the Holy Night set and filled in with some white dots, which were added with a gel pen. Lastly, I heat-embossed a sentiment in white from the Inside Greetings Christmas Stamps.

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. 💛

Supplies Used: 

Holy Night Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holy Night Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Inside Greetings-Christmas Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baby Elephants Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sending Sunshine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sending Sunshine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Silly Sloths & Fabulous Flamingos Tropical Cards with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi here today, popping in to share some tropical critter cards for Summer!

Card No. 1: I paired the Silly Sloths Stamps with the hanging vine border from our Tropical Scenes Stamps for my first card. For my subtle backdrop, I inked up a white cardstock panel with Wilted Violet distress ink before stamping the leafy vine from our Elegant Leaves Stamps repeatedly around the border using PinkFresh Studio Soft Lilac Ink and VersaFine Lilac Bloom Ink. I then trimmed down the piece down using our Stitched Rectangle Dies and mounted it onto a purple print from our Classic Gingham Paper pack. Lastly, I spelled out my oversized sentiment "hang in there" using our Chloe Alphabet Dies and Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies cut from white cardstock.

Card No. 2: For my second card today, I stamped and colored the leaves and flamingo from our Fabulous Flamingos Stamps. I actually colored these more than five years ago, and these were the only images I had left that didn't make it onto an earlier card. I was determined to find a design to use all the images I had left, so I felt delighted with how this card turned out, given the limited supplies and mini challenge I had given myself. Even the circle frame, created by nesting our Stitched Circle Small Dies, was something I had cut out for a previous card and discarded to save for later. As a Northwest gal, I love it when I can recycle like that! 

I inked behind my circle using Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon distress inks and then splattered the surface with water using an old toothbrush. Our Brilliant Banner 2 Dies were inked up with a pink ombre to match my flamingo using Saltwater Taffy and Kitsch Flamingo distress inks and then stamped with a greeting from the stamp set, which completed my card.

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 Silly Sloths Stamps, Elegant Leaves Stamps, and Stitched Rectangle Dies in our online shop, which are 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 ideas to scroll through there organized by set.

Supplies Used:

Chloe Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Elegant Leaves Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Elegant Leaves Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Brilliant Banner 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hayley Lowercase Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Studio Blending Brushes Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fintastic Friends Card with Hanh

Hello Crafty Friends! This is Hanh on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog today with a fun underwater birthday card to share with you featuring these adorable images from the Fintastic Friends, Kiddie Pool and Tropical Scenes sets. I love how well these sets can mix and match with one another.

I stamped the images from the Fintastic Friends Stamps, Kiddie Pool Stamps and Tropical Scenes Stamps sets onto a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and used the coordinating Fintastic Friends Dies, Kiddie Pool Dies and Tropical Scenes Dies to diecut them out. I colored the images with Copic markers and highlighted them with a white gel pen.

COPIC COLORS:
Skin: E000/00/21/11/93
Blonde Hair: E50/53/35
Bathing suit: RV10/21/13/14
Swim trunks: R05/24/29
Goggles: E000, B000, RV13 (pink), R05 (red)
Starfish: Y11/13/15
Fish: Y11/13/15, B000/00/02, R20
Jellyfish: RV000/10, R20
Stingray: C00/0/1/3/5/7, R20
Rocks: C1/3/5
Sand: E30/31/33
Teal: BG10/15
Orange: Y17 YR04
Yellow: Y11/13/15
Pink: RV10/13
Green: YG01/03

For the background, I ink blended the lower half of another piece of Neenah white cardstock (4.25" x 5.5") with Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks.

For the sentiment, I stamped the "Have a" and "Birthday" from the Panda Party Stamps and the "fintastic" from the Fintastic Friends stamps set with Versamark Watermark ink onto a piece of black cardstock and heat embossed with Detail White Embossing Powder. I used one of the banner dies from the Stitched Rectangle Dies to diecut it out.

The colored images and sentiment strip were adhered to the inked panel with a combination of liquid adhesive and foam tape for a bit of dimension and interest. The panel was adhered to a white A2 card base (4.25" x 5.5"). I finished the card with a few Majestic Clear Confetti.

I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and visit today. I hope you liked my card. For more info and ideas, be sure to visit the Sunny Studio Stamps Shop. Please also visit my INSTAGRAM feed for more inspirations.

Have a wonderful and crafty day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used: 

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fintastic Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fintastic Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio