Little Angel Sends Joy to the World

Today, I'm featuring the Little Angels stamp set and coordinating dies. To start, I created a wreath of poinsettias from the Christmas Icons stamp set. I stamped and fussy cut four of each of the two sizes of poinsettias so I could lay those masks on to the watercolour panel and decide on the position of each flower before stamping.

After watercoloring the poinsettias with distress inks, I set the panel aside and stamped the angel and candle for watercolouring. After the pieces were dry, I used a craft knife to cut slits above and below the angel's hands so I could slide a candle behind it. To finish, I heat embossed the sentiment and adhered the angel with foam tape.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Fall Challenge Winner Announcement

Hello there!  I nearly forgot to post a winner for our Fall blog challenge.  Thank you to everyone who played along.  I LOVED all the entries and it makes me super sad to narrow it down to just one winner.  

The winner of this month's challenge is Stephanie Davis!  Here are two of the amazing cards she submitted for the challenge...  

Thank you again for joining our challenge.  I hope you will join in our November challenge starting next week.  :)

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Snow Kissed Skating Penguin Scene by Eloise

Hello everyone! Eloise here and I'm here to share a card using the Snow Kissed stamp set that was previously released. This is a super fun set with three different penguins doing snow related activities.  So cute and unique!

To begin my card I stamped, coloured and die cut out my penguin skating and the ice. I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers for the colouring today, since they're super quick and easy to use. Once they were done I needed a background. I wanted a resist background, so I grabbed a piece of watercolour cardstock and the snowflake stamps from the Snow Kissed stamp set. I also used the large sentiment from the Holiday Style stamp set and stamped that down too. I used Versamark ink along with white embossing powder. Once they were heat set I pulled a few blue Distress Inks and ink blended the background in an ombre style to white, since I wanted that to sort of be like snow.

Once my panel was blended I popped up my penguin and ice on some foam tape and adhered them down. I then used a piece of fun foam and popped my panel up and adhered it down to my card base. To finish it up I used some Wink of Stella on the penguin to give it some sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed. Make sure you come back the rest of the week to be inspired more!

- Eloise

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Guest Designer Spotlight: Christmas Cards with Juliana Michaels

Hi everyone! It's Juliana Michaels and I'm so happy to be a guest with you here again on the Sunny Studio Stamps blog. Today I'm sharing four cards I created using stamps and dies from the recent Sunny Studio Winter Release.

For my first card, I stamped the flying reindeer from the Gleeful Reindeer stamp set onto watercolor paper and die cut them using the coordinating dies. I then colored them with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. 

To create the snowy sky background, I stamped the snowflakes and the sentiment onto watercolor paper using Versamark Embossing Ink, sprinkled them with white embossing powder and heat set them with my heat gun. I then used Distress Ink and a foam blending tool to add color. To make the snowflakes a bit sparkly and shiny, I colored them in using a Clear Gelly Roll Stardust Pen.

I used the Gleeful Reindeer stamp set again and those adorable reindeer on my second card. For this card, I randomly stamped the reindeer and presents to create a fun background. 

I then colored them with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. The sentiment was then stamped onto red cardstock using Versamark Embossing Ink, sprinkled them with white embossing powder and heat set with my heat gun.

When I first saw this Winter release, I was so excited to see the Mug Hugs stamp set. As a coffee lover, I knew this set was going to be so much fun to create with. 

For this card, I stamped the images onto watercolor paper using Versamark Embossing Ink, sprinkled them with white embossing powder and heat set them with my heat gun. I then die cut the shapes using the coordinating die and colored the images in with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. I then had fun creating a little scene with the mugs, candy cane and cookie.

On my final card, I again used the Mug Hugs set. As you might have noticed, I love to stamp onto watercolor paper using Versamark Embossing Ink and heat emboss the image. This makes coloring with markers so easy, because it helps keep the ink inside the lines.

To create the background on this card, I randomly stamped the stitched heart and the little coffee bean onto a piece of kraft paper. I then layered the die cut pieces and patterned paper and adhered them to the card front. I finished this one off with a bit of jute tied into a bow.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I really enjoyed this opportunity to share with you here on the Sunny Studio blog. Thanks again Mendi for having me!

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Christmas Icons Merry With Friends Card by Lexa

Hello everyone!  Lexa here today with more inspirations for your Christmas cards. I can't believe it's November already, Christmas is around the corner. This card is inspired by some pretty wrapping paper.

I started with a piece of 4"x 5.5" watercolor paper, and stamped some images from Christmas Icons with Tattered Rose Distress Ink (or you can use light color ones you have for no-line watercoloring) I colored all the images with my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor palette. This step took a while but it was so much fun at the same time. I choose classic Christmas color tones this time, red, green and gold. While I was doing some coloring, I always tried to keep the color chart in my head so that I keep in track. That's my trick. After finished with all the images, I colored the gap in between with gold watercolor. Believe me, it's so much prettier in real life. I try my best to capture the shine and how sparkly it is.

I die-cut the Merry Word die three times on a white cardstock and one time on the red one. I stacked and adhered all of them together, so it's thick enough to give a dimension to my card. To accompany the word merry, I used Merry Sentiments and gold embossed it on a strip of black cardstock. I'm happy with the result. Last but not least, I tie a white twine and a wooden button for an embellishment.

I hope you like and get inspired by my card. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Have a wonderful day!

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