Mini Mat & Tag Die Focused Projects with Vanessa and Tina

Hello to you! Vanessa here with a set of Christmas tags using the Mini Mat & Tag dies.

These dies are such fun to play with! I die-cut tags, rectangles, stars, shapes etc from white, black, vellum and gold cardstock and combined these to create various tags. 

For an interactive feature, I die-cut a window from two rectangles, adhered vellum to both sides and filled the inside with small stars and sequins.

Onto some of the tiny tags I stamped "noel" and added a little star to replace the diereses.

These sets were used:
Mini Mat + Tag 1
Mini Mat + Tag 3
Mini Mat + Tag 4
Rustic Winter Dies
Stitched Rectangle Dies
Window Quad Square Dies
Winter Greenery Dies
Classy Christmas Stamps

I enjoyed creating these immensely! Have a lovely weekend and thanks for stopping by!

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Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina with two mini cards for you today. I love making this smaller size card because it always looks so cute! Especially for the holiday season, it’s fun to create something different than the standard A2 size.

There are 4 beautiful mini mats with tags in the new release, today I am featuring the rectangle dies from Mini Mat & Tag 2 and Mini Mat & Tag 3. I used a smaller rectangle from the Infinity set to create a frame from both mats. Next, I also created two rectangle panels from Neenah card stock and ink blended the sky portion with a soft green combination of Distress Oxide Cracked Pistachio and Lucky Clover. Since these are Christmas cards, of course I had to do some splattering with water and white paint droplets to give the illusion of snowflakes. To finish the background panel, I cut two snowbanks from a shiny white card stock I had in my stash.

I stamped all my images using Reindeer Games (the cute reindeer), Santa Claus Lane (stockings) and the Penguin Party set (stars). All the coloring was done with Copic markers, adding snow details with a white gel pen.

The Autumn Tree die was perfect as branches to hang the stockings. Since these are mini cards, I only needed to cut one tree and divided it in half for each of the cards. I wanted the branches to look frosted, so I only added some warm grey tones in a few spots. The sentiment from Reindeer Games was stamped onto two skinny strips of white card stock.

I created two white mini card bases and glued a dark teal panel to both. Next, I worked on my background panel, gluing the branches in place, adding the snowbanks and finally the reindeer, stockings, and stars. Then, I mounted the Mini Mat frames to the backgrounds with foam tape for dimension. After adhering the sentiments, I could glue the mini mat frames to the card bases.

These mini cards turned out so cute, and they were a lot of fun to make! Thank you for joining me and happy crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Stitched Rectangle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Rustic Winter Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Quad Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Classy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Reindeer Games Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Reindeer Games Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Autumn Tree Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Mini Mat & Tag 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Joyful Holiday Paper Focused Cards with Tina and Vanessa

Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina and today I have another Christmas card for you featuring the beautiful Joyful Holiday Papers! Patterned papers are perfect to create stunning panels on your cards or you can use them for paper piecing. I will be combining both techniques in this card.

First, I selected three pink papers from the pack that work very well together. After cutting a rectangle panel from the snowflake paper, I also used one of the Stitched Arch Dies to create a frame. I then inked up another rectangle from Neenah Solar White card stock with Distress Oxides  Peacock Feathers (floor) and Kitch Flamingo (wall) and sprinkled some water droplets for extra interest.

For my scene, I wanted to create a cozy and festive living room for one of the cute penguins from Penguin Party. He is totally ready for a wonderful Christmas! The chair, Christmas tree and the tree holder (which is actually the lamp shade up side down) are all from the Cozy Christmas set. I stamp these images on Neenah Solar White paper and again on pattern paper for the chair and the lamp shade. I fussy cut these last images on the black outer stamped lines. Next, I glued the pattern paper shapes to the images from white paper. This creates paper pieced images with a white border. I colored the cute penguin and Christmas tree with my Copic markers.

As for the festive decorations on this card, they consist of small branches from the Winter Greenery dies (in white, distress oxides Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron) and the beautiful bow from the Winter Wreath set (distress oxides Spun Sugar and Kitch Flamingo). Next, I stamped a combined sentiment from Bear Hugs onto a small white banner.

And then I was ready to assemble the card, I mounted the snowflake panel to the inked background rectangle with foam tape for dimension. Both were glued directly to the card base. All the other elements were added with foam tape, except for the branches, I tucked them under the bow with a drop of liquid glue. And finally, I adhered the sentiment and a few Chrystal Clear Jewels for that extra sparkly touch!

And that finishes my Christmas paper piecing card! I hope you enjoy this technique as much as I did! Thank you for visiting the blog and I’ll see you soon!

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Hello to you! Vanessa here with a set of cute gift boxes made with the Joyful Holiday paper.

I created the boxes with a score board, you will find a pic of the measurements below. To embellish the boxes, I made little rosettes using the Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies - be sure to check my Instagram to see a how-to-video. 

I tied on matching baker's twine to each rosette and added two tags cut with the Window Quad Square Dies. Finally, I stamped the images from Penguin Party, colored these with Copics, die-cut the pieces with the matching dies and adhered the elements with foam tape.

When trimming the paper for the lid, be sure to add a millimeter on every side to make the lid fit smoothly. These boxes are easy to make, the lid keeps closed and they provide enough space for sweets or other small surprises.

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Bear Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Quad Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio
Cozy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cozy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Penguin Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Winter Wreaths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Wreaths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Joyful Holiday Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Holiday Greetings Cards with Marie and Alma

Hello Crafty Friends, Marie here. It is officially the Holiday Season! I am sure by now, most of us are busy preparing for the Holidays and that includes Holiday Cardmaking! Today I am sharing a card design that I think is perfect If you don't have much time to create but still want something super festive, simple, and classy. Today's card features our Holiday Greetings stamps which creates beautiful bold Holiday sentiments in a gorgeous cursive font! I absolutely adore them! I also used the Classy Christmas stamps which features the classic super festive poinsettias that paired perfectly with the Holiday Greetings stamps. 

To get started with my card, I die-cut an A2 size panel using 110 lb Neenah Solar White heavyweight cardstock.  I then cut an A2 sized panel from the All Is Bright 6x6 pattern paper pack. I used the candy cane striped pattern paper and adhered that to my heavyweight cardstock. I then die-cut another slightly smaller rectangle from 110lb cardstock and used the Moroccan Circles 6x6 embossing folder to create a very simple but elegant texture to my card background. After embossing, I inked the outer edges with Distress Ink in the Colors Vintage Photo, and Walnut Stain. I created a gold accent frame for my sentiment by die-cutting a very thin frame from 2 oval dies. 

I stamped my Seasons Greetings Sentiment using the Holiday Greeting stamps and cut out my sentiment using the Holiday Greetings coordinating dies which is such an amazing feature of this entire set! I really love how you can cut out the sentiments because it makes placing them so easy!!! I stamped my poinsettia images from the Classy Christmas stamps using Distress Ink in the color Antique Linen onto watercolor paper. I used Derwent Inktense water soluble pencils to color my images. Then I cut out my colored images using the Classy Christmas coordinating dies.  

After coloring, I put together my card by adhering my Moroccan embossed panel to the A2 paper panel using double sided tape adhesive. I then centered my Sentiment and glued it down using Bearly art Precision Craft Glue. I placed my gold oval frame around my sentiment and framed that using the two poinsettia images and leaves. Finally, I adhered my poinsettias using foam strips to create dimension and placed the leaves just underneath them. 

That concludes my simple Holiday card inspiration for this week! Thank you so much for joining me today on another card adventure! I hope you have an amazing week! Until next time, happy crafting and cardmaking!!!

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Hello, my dears! It's Alma and I'm really getting into the Christmas spirit! I love to wrap presents beautifully and today I want to show you an XL gift tag that I made with the Santa's Stocking Dies.

First I punched out the individual sock elements in red and white three times. This gives the tag more stability when you glue it together later. I embossed the red sock part with the Lots of Dots Embossing Folder. This gives the socks a happy and fun pattern. Then I glued the individual sock elements together, also using 3D adhesive pads to make the tag look more lively.

To decorate my stocking, I decided to use the Deck the Hall Stamps images and stamped three of them, coloured and cut them out with the Deck the Halls Dies. Now we come to the most important thing! The stuffing of the stocking! I punched the candy canes from the Santa's Stocking Dies and the Winter Greenery Dies and coloured them with Copics.

Also snowflakes from the Snowflake Circle Frame Die should not be missing. To make a present, I used a die-cut window from the Window Quad Square Dies in kraft paper, painted white dots on it and tied it with red paper ribbon. A mini tag from the same set perfects the Christmas sock! Now I glued everything together and add stars and hearts from the Basic Mini Shape Dies 3.

Finally - and as a special highlight - I stamped the Merry Christmas from the Holiday Greeting Stamps in red and punched it out with the Holiday Greeting Dies. At the end I attached the text to the waistband of my socks, put an eyelet so that the tag can be tied with a bow - and the gift-giving can begin!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Deck The Halls Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Deck The Halls Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa's Stocking Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Lots of Dots Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Moroccan Circles Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
Snowflake Circle Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Quad Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Mini Basic Shape Dies 3 Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Holiday Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Too Cute to Spook Cards with Tina and Vanessa

Hello crafty friends, it’s Tina with some spooky Halloween projects for you today! Making these is a lot of fun, you can really go overboard with the color schemes and designs. The new stamp set Too Cute To Spook is just super adorable and I love that there are matching dies as well!

First, I created a card using the cute critters and then added the other sweet images to some tags. For the card I cut a square panel from some Neenah Solar White 110 Lb Card Stock. I placed a circle stencil from my stash in the middle of this panel to mask of the moon and did some Distress Oxide ink blending using Squeezed Lemonade, Shaded Lilac, and Villainous Potion. Next, with the stencil still in place, I splattered some water onto the background.

Once the panel was dry, I removed the stencil and added some detail to the moon using the same Squeezed Lemonade as before.

To create some depth in the design I die cut an arch into the panel with the largest of the Stitched Arch Dies. I also made two  grassy borders out of black card stock and white heat embossed a sentiment from the Too Cute To Spook stamp set onto one of them.

After stamping and die cutting all my images, I colored them with my Copic markers in traditional Halloween colors and added some details with my white gel pen.

To assemble this card, I first glued the arch to a card base with liquid glue. Next, I added the rest of the background panel with foam tape to create some dimension. Then, I adhered the grassy borders and all my images, some of them popped up with tape as well. A few sequins from the Jewels Pastel Mix delivered the perfect subtle bling!

The tags were cut with the new tag shapes from the Mini Mat & Tag 1 and Mini Mat & Tag 4 sets. I used the same color palette as for the card and added the images with foam tape.

I hope you like these spooky projects and will enjoy creating with this adorable set as much as I did! Happy crafting!

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Hello to you! Vanessa here with a pink Halloween treat box set using the Too Cute To Spook set.

The boxes were made with an envelope punch board and are 5,5 x 5,5 cm each to hold a small chocolate bar. I trimmed the cardstock 11,9 x 11,9 cm and scored the pieces at 4,9 cm and 7 cm from each side. 

After I had assembled the boxes, I trimmed the lids to make it possible to tuck it into the box. Now I stamped all the images, colored everything with Copics and die-cut the pieces with the matching dies. 

Here comes a list of the used products:
Too Cute To Spook stamps + dies
Fancy Frames Square Dies
Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies
Scalloped Tag Square Dies
Window Quad Square Dies

I die-cut tiny tags, frames and scalloped circles from cardstock and adhered the elements to the boxes after tying on black twine for the closure. 

How about a pink bat? Onto the tiny tags, I stamped the sentiment and added pink baker's twine.

Have a lovely weekend, my friends! Thanks for stopping by today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Tags-Square Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Arch Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Quad Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Too Cute To Spook Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Too Cute To Spook Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Mat & Tag 4 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio