Guest Designer Spotlight: Christmas Ideas with Marion Vagg

Happy Saturday! It's Marion Vagg here and I am thrilled to be back on the Sunny Studio blog as a guest designer. Today I have two Christmas cards and a gift idea to share with you.

First up I have used the Merry Sentiments stamp set and matching die to create a colourful string of lights. I found that if I worked in reverse order (stamping the shadowing stamps first then finishing with the more solid stamp last) I lined them up better. I covered them in a layer of Glossy Accents to make them really shiny.

The tree branch is from the Holiday Style stamp set and I stamped it several times in two different shades of green. I also blended in some green ink with an ink dauber over the branch to make it look more full. I used the Merry Word die to create my sentiment, once again using a sponge dauber to create an ombre effect.

Next up is another Christmas card using the same sets as before. To add some dimension to the card, I created some ornament hangers with silver thread. To compliment this, I silver heat embossed the sentiment.

Lastly, I have used the Small Holly die (which is a free gift with every purchase from the Sunny Studio store while stocks last) to create a simple embellishment for a gift tin. I heat embossed the sentiment from the Merry Sentiments Stamp set onto some vinyl adhesive stickers. I wasn't sure if it would work, but it worked a treat! If you didn't have any vinyl stickers, black card stock would work just as well. I plan on making several more of these for my colleagues at work.

I hope you have found some inspiration here and are well on your way to making your Christmas cards and gifts. Christmas is definitely just around the corner.

Thanks for visiting today,

Marion

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A Big Hug In a Mug Card by Lexa

Hello everyone! Lexa here, today I'm going to share a sweet card starring Mug Hugs stamp and coordinating dies. Anyone will find this stamp set is super sweet, all the elements compliment each other, perfect not only for a Holiday card but also all year around.

I started with a piece of 4.25" x 5.5" white cardstock, heat embossing the snowflakes in white from the same set before blending the background. I used Worn Lipstick and Tattered Rose Distress Inks for the pink ombre background. I think I'm getting better with this. You know, practice makes perfect they say. And yes, I will continue to keep learning. :)

All the images are stamped with black Versafine ink and watercolored with Distress Markers. I added a holly & berries from the Christmas Icons set for the coffee cup. While I was arranging all the images together I started to imagine the smell that come from the card (call me crazy but I really did imagine that! Lol), I can smell chocolate, coffee and even a hint of vanilla from the fresh baked cookies. Haha. 

What's a Christmas card without glitters? So I add some clear Wink of Stella on the cookies and the snowflake, which is hard to capture in a picture. I even used my snow marker for the whipped cream to make it looks real and extra cute! 

Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful weekend!

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Please Join Us For The Caring Hearts Drive

The holidays are about family, kindness, and joy. However, during this time many of the elderly who live in nursing homes feel lonely. Wouldn’t it be great if we brought a smile to their face and brightened their holiday season simply by sharing our love of cardmaking? Please join crafters around the world for the 7th annual Caring Hearts Card Drive. Last year we collected over 22,000 cards and distributed them to over 100 nursing homes throughout the world. And we hope to collect even more this year! 

Please join us. Details for the card drive can be found at: Vera Yates Blog & Jennifer McGuire's Blog. Sunny Studios is proud to be a sponsor… offering a prize to a lucky contributor!

Holiday Style Clean & Simple Classy Christmas Card with Vanessa

Hello everybody!  Vanessa here with a non-traditional colored Christmas card using Holiday Style. I experimented with grey, white, red and silver here.

First, I stamped the tree branch onto my white card base. Then I stamped the sentiment and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. I stamped the ornament onto a piece of white cardstock and die-cut it with the matching die. After I had adhered it to the card, I stamped the hanging loop and finished the card off with various sequins.

What do you think? Too little color? I wasn't sure if I liked it first, but I like it better now :) Something different for Christmas.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vanessa

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Blissful Baking & Little Angels Birthday Card with Lindsey

Hi, Lindsey here today sharing a birthday card combining Blissful Baking and Little Angels. I love mixing and matching all the Sunny Studio Stamps. They just work so well together. Let's get started on how I created this card.

To begin, I cut an A2 size piece of white cardstock. Then, I used a cloud border die to cut another piece of paper and used that as a stencil for my cloud background. I simply placed the cloud piece of paper on the card base and blended distress ink over the top of it onto the white card base. Next, I stamped the images from both Blissful Baking and Little Angels onto white cardstock and colored the images with Copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut out each image. 

Before placing the images on the card, I stamped my sentiment from Blissful Baking onto the cloud card base. Once the sentiment was stamped, I attached my colored images. I used both regular adhesive and foam tape. Then I used the sprinkle stamp from Blissful Baking to stamp directly onto the cloud background to make it look like the little angel was "sprinkling" the cookies on the plate. Finally, I added some sparkle with my Wink of Stella pen and some pink and clear sequins. In order to make the cloud panel really pop, I mounted it to a pink scalloped rectangle. That's it!

I like how both of these sets can be used for more than just holiday cards. They combined so perfectly for a sweet little birthday card. I hope you will give these sets a try, and I can't wait to see what you guys create! Thanks for reading and have a great day!

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