Playful Polar Bears Winter Scene Card with Francesca

Hi there! Franci here with you today with my very first card for Sunny Studio Stamps! I'm super happy and excited for this new adventure and I hope you will join in the fun with me! It was love at first sight with the new Playful Polar Bears stamp set so I decided to create my first card with it! 

The set is full of cute bears and lots of winter and Christmas accessories that make them perfect for all your seasonal celebrations. I went for a kind of love-themed cozy card and I'm super happy about how it turned out.

First I stamped all my images with Memento tuxedo ink, colored them with Copics, and then die-cut them with the coordinating dies. I actually didn't use all of the bears in the set, but be sure to check them all out because they are designed to hold little gifts or decorations in their paws. So cute! 

Next, I created my card base by folding a 5 1/8" x 7 7/8" piece of white cardstock in half and sponging some Salty Ocean Distress ink on the front to create my sky. I also cut 2 stripes of the white cardstock and used the tiny little snowflake die (free with every order) to create a dry emboss effect on both strips. I stamped my sentiment along the bottom strip. I also added a little heart from the Jolly Gingerbread stamp set. 

I arranged my stamped images to create a cute scene and adhered all the pieces in place with tape and liquid glue. I drew some snowflakes in the sky with a white gel pen to create a snowy effect. I also drew little polka dots on the scarfs, and little details here and there, with the same pen to make my bears extra cute!  

Hope you like my card and thank you so much for stopping by today! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Jolly Gingerbread Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fireplace Shaped Die Holiday Mantle Scene Card with Nancy

Hi everyone, Nancy here. It's that time of the year again when we start planning out holiday cards! Christmas is my favorite season to send handmade cheer to those I love.  Let's take a closer look at the Fireplace Shaped die set. 

I created this card starting with a white fireplace background. This gave me a nice, clean slate to work on. To decorate, I began with the inside of fire pit and created a bold, colorful look with "bricks" in aqua tones and gray. Next, I stamped the sentiment in the upper right hand corner of the mantle. The flames and logs were layered in the center of the fire pit and give the card a touch of warmth. A few red stocking were hung with care, some with candy cane treats (from the Playful Polar Bears stamps) and an enamel heart. A sprig of holly stamped from the Christmas Icons set finishes off the card.

Decorating mantles of all different types is a fun way to use the Fireplace Shaped die set. You can go with traditional red bricks or give it a playful aqua twist - customization is endless here!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Icons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fireplace Shaped Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Winter Scene Christmas Card with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I'll be using the new Polar Playmates stamp set to create a Christmas Winter scene. This new set is so super adorable with all the polar animals of course I had to use this one first.

To begin my card today I stamped, coloured in my images with Copic markers and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I then cut down a piece of watercolour paper, using a stitched rectangle die and ink blended some Distress Ink over top. I used Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Mermaid Lagoon and Salty Ocean. Going darkest on the bottom and fading to white to the top. I then splattered some water on top, picked it up with paper towel and dried it with a heat tool. I really love the reaction with water Distress Inks give!

Next I used some black ink to stamp the 'Sealiously' sentiment first onto the bottom of my panel, then used Versamark ink to stamp the 'Hoping You Have A' and 'Merry Christmas' sentiments on the top and bottom of the other sentiment. Then white heat embossed them. I then used foam tape behind my images and adhered them onto my panel. To complete my card I used fun foam to adhere to the back of my panel and then some striped patterned paper to adhere onto a card base and that finished up my card for today.

I hope you enjoyed and are loving the new release as much as I am. The whole team will be sharing projects using the new products this week, so make sure you check back for inspiration!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I'll catch you next time.

Sunny Studio Products Used:

Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Inspiration Week: Introducing Silver Bells & Snowflake Die + Winners

I'm so excited! Today's the big day of our Holiday 2017 release that starts shipping today!  For everyone who has placed pre-orders, your items are packed and ready to go out this morning.  We also have the winners to announce from our 2nd birthday blog hop so make sure to check that out down below.  ;)

Today I have one last new item to share... It's a new little 2-piece die set called Silver Bells and it's already proving to be quite popular.  While it wasn't designed to cut out the bell from our Holiday Style set, they are nearly identical in size and design so you might be able to find a way to use them together.  

Card No. 1:  For my first card I cut the jingle bells from a silver shimmer cardstock and used a glue pen to adhere the little ridge of the bell over the top of the overall bell shape.  I strung some solid twine through the tops of each before adhering them to a 1-5/8" black square.  When they were all adhered to my card, I then tied a matching chiffon bow and added over the top with a mini glue dot.  As a final touch I stamped my sentiment using our new Festive Greetings set.

Card No. 2: This time I die-cut my bells from gold metallic cardstock.  Since metallic cardstock's slick surface has a way of getting smudged with glue pens and such, I elected to apply some of Sizzix's double-sided adhesive to the back of my cardstock before cutting out my bell and it worked wonders.  


For my card's background I took turns masking off the space below and above my sentiment strip and stamped the tree branch from Holiday style.  I then heat embossed my sentiment using our Heartfelt Wishes stamps and Wishes Word die.

I felt like my bells should be dark inside so I punched some quick 1" circles from black cardstock to back them with.  I then tied them with some red twine to hang them from my tree.  I think it would be super fun to make this card so the little bells swung back and forth!

 Here's a look at the 1-1/8" Jingle Bell die...

For this release's bonus, all orders placed in our shop will automatically come with a complimentary mini snowflake die (while supplies last).  There are no special codes needed and all the holiday pre-orders placed earlier this week have been already been packaged with one too.  ;)

Please note: We currently are out of the snowflake die and will be substituting our holly die from last Christmas.

Here's a little card I created using the snowflake... It's such a great size for so many different projects.  I couldn't resist creating a red and white snowflake card (my favorite) by blending festive berries, candied apple and fired brick distress inks in an ombre fashion to the front of a 4.25" x 5.5" card panel. 

After the snowflakes were adhered in rows on my card, I took a ruler and my paper piercer to create little holes approximately 1/8" apart so I could add some hand-stitching.  I completed my card with a die-cut heart from our Stitched Heart dies and a sentiment from Festive Greetings.  

And last, but certainly not least we have our 12 Birthday winners from last Friday's blog hop...

Congrats to the following Winners:

Sunny Studio blog

Kari Mano

Sandy Allnock's blog

Rose Mary Smalley

Nichol Spohr's blog

Marjorie Dumontier

Eloise Blue's blog

Sheri (from Fun With Paper)

Nancy Damiano's blog

Kym Maxwell

Kay Miller's blog

Denise Ward

Nina-Marie Trapani's blog 

Valerie Edwards

Vanessa Menhorn's blog

the crafty math chick

Michelle Short's  blog
Larissa Heskett

Anni Lerche's blog

Parker (from Parker's Imagination)

Lexa Levana's blog

Karenladd

Juliana Michaels' blog

SHartl

You have each won a $25 gift code to our online store.  If you haven't already heard from me, please email us at info@sunnystudiostamps.com to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who visited and left sweet comments on all the blogs.  They were so appreciated by all of us.  :)

Don't forget there's still time for you to take advantage of our Birthday sale.  Use the code CELEBRATE through Sunday at Midnight PST to save 15% off all orders.  

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Heartfelt Wishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Style Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wishes Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Inspiration Week: Introducing Jolly Gingerbread Stamps & Dies

Hello everyone!  Thank you for all your sweet feedback this week.  I am thrilled to finally share some ideas using our happy new Jolly Gingerbread stamps and coordinating dies that start shipping tomorrow.

Card No. 1:  I wanted to go bright and happy for this first Christmas card, turning to some non-traditional holiday colors.  I added glossy accents to the the windows and little candies on my Gingerbread House roof and some Stickles glitter glue to the gumdrops.  To tie my Stitched Scalloped borders together with the house, I took a circle snowflake from our Snow Kissed stamps and stamped it in the middle of each scallop.  I then colored them with Copics to match and topped them with more glossy accents.

Card No. 2:  I made a cute tag (by Papertrey Ink) even cuter, using the gumdrop border from the stamp set to frame my little cookie girl and boy.  Of course no gumdrops are complete without sugar sprinkles so I used a little Stardust Stickles glitter to make them look realistic.  A rainbow ribbon by Offray was the perfect finishing touch for this rainbow inspired gift tag.

Card No. 3: I turned to a kraft background to help my images pop on this traditional colored Christmas card.  I paired the cookie tree from this set with the coordinating smaller cookie from the previously released Christmas Icons set to create my little scene.  To pull everything together, I curved my sentiment stamps on my MISTI tool to hug the circle.  I then heat embossed it with white embossing powder to pop against the background.

Card No. 4:  For this rainbow inspired card, I started by adhering a hand cut mask to look like a snowdrift.  I then inked on some Tumbled Glass distress ink to my background before stamps some faint snowflakes using our new Snow Flurries set.  After coloring my little house, I added some liquid applique to look like snow icing and added some little jewels to match where the candies had been stamped.  For my sugar on the gumdrops I added three little dots using my white extra fine point sharpie paint pen (there's also a little stamp image with three dots in the set, but I found it so much quicker to just do it by hand).

Card No. 5:  For this fun shaker style card I started by inking up my card background with a blend of Evergreen Bough and Lucky Clover distress inks.  I then stamped the Frosty Flurries stamp in the background in a similar tone of ink to give the look of splatters. For my top layer I used our Stitched Heart Dies to cut a window from the center of a scalloped panel and filled it with some stamped and colored peppermint candies from the set.

I hope you've enjoyed today's look at the Jolly Gingerbread Stamps and coordinating dies.  Here's a full look at the new sets that will start shipping tomorrow!  Also, as part of our second birthday festivities this week, you can reserve yours today in our store HERE.  Plus use the promo code CELEBRATE to save 15% through October 1st at Midnight PST.

    

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Blissful Baking Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Icons Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Icons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snow Kissed Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frosty Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snow Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio