Christmas Home Stamped Background Christmas Card with Vanessa

Hi there! Vanessa here today with a loosely watercolored card using Christmas Home. For this card, I thought it would be fun to use the images on the background, not as a focal point.

I started with a panel of watercolor paper and stamped the images using waterproof ink. Then I colored them in loosely with watercolors. After the background was dried, I adhered the panel to the card. Now I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment onto a rectangle of red cardstock and adhered it. Finally, I added red enamel dots to the card.

With this technique you could mass produce cards easily, just stamp the images onto a large piece of watercolor paper, then color and trim the paper into panels. Because you don't have to care much about staying inside the lines of the images, the coloring is done pretty quickly :)

Thanks for stopping by today, see you next week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fireplace Shaped Dies Christmas Notepad with Franci

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday! It's Franci here with you today with a new Christmas project featuring the new Fireplace Shaped dies and my favourite - the Playful Polar Bears! This new die set is amazing. The first thing I thought when I saw it months ago was that I wanted to make a Christmas notepad with it. So here's it is!

The fireplace is cute and the set is full of little details to rock it out. You can have fun building the fire and the stockings, and you only have to change color combos to have a completely new scene! I die cut all my pieces out of some white cardstock and then colored them by sponging on Distress inks.

Then I didn't separate those 4 little rectangles that are the fireplace bricks and instead I embossed them to give my fireplace extra interest. You can actually use any dies to create an emboss effect. You only have to set up your die cutting machine to the emboss mode and create this sandwich: clear plate, embossing mat, cardstock, die, clear plate. Then you run it all through and the magic happens!

Then I sponged some more distress ink onto the embossed bricks to give even more dimension. I stamped lots of images from the Playful Polar Bears stamp set and I also added the gifts from the Gleeful Reindeer stamp set and hollies from the Blissful Baking set. I colored them with Copic markers and then die cut them with their coordinating dies.

I stamped my sentiment from the Gleeful Reindeer stamp set and drew some lines for my stockings to hang on with a fine tip black marker. I put lots and lots of Wink Of Stella onto my scene to create sparkly details and let everything dry.

And here we come to the funny and time consuming part - creating the notepad! First of all, I used copy papers and I die cut lots and lots of fireplaces with the die. Since copy paper is so thin you can cut more layers at once. I die cut something like 30 layers because I wanted my notepad to be light and manageable (like you can carry it around in your purse and don't feel it at all!).

Then I stuck all my layers one on top of another, and added my decorated piece on top. I put some liquid glue at the top, and secured all my die cuts with big paper clips to press them together until they dried. I did it before going to bed so they had all the night to dry completely.

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

Sunny Studio Supplies Used: 

Blissful Baking Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Blissful Baking Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gleeful Reindeer Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gleeful Reindeer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fireplace Shaped Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Giving Tuesday

Thank you!!! Because of your generous orders over the past 6 days, we were able to donate $1605 to Convoy of Hope to help aid Hurricane victims. We have some of the sweetest customers and you mean the world to us...

If you are looking for more ways to make a difference, today for "Giving Tuesday", Convoy of Hope is matching dollar for dollar (up to $1 million) to help feed the world's hungry.

They are a faith-based, nonprofit organization with a driving passion to feed the world through children’s feeding initiatives, community outreaches and disaster response.  They have an excellent track record of having donations going directly those who need it most (vs. covering high overhead expenses).  You can read more about them HERE.  

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Playful Polar Bears Rainbow Background Christmas Card with Nancy

Let's the holiday season begin! Hi there Sunny fans, Nancy here with a look at the Playful Polar Bears stamp set. While it's not a traditional Christmas stamp set, I think the wintery feel and polar goodness of it reminds me of the season. Last week I created a very traditional holiday card, so let's try another twist and go in a completely different and colorful direction!

I started this card with a light warm gray background and a die cut window. A quick rainbow watercolor using a mix of Distress and Distress Oxide inks gives the background a dreamy look. The polar bear was given a super light wash of color with the same inks and placed in the center on some foam tape. A rainbow of coordinating sequins draws attention to our big friend right in the center. The sentiment from Holiday Style was used to give it a bold, Christmas message.

When you're creating your next Christmas card, try giving it a nontraditional twist by using a beautiful rainbow palette. Keep it subtle and make your sentiment bold! And adding a Playful Polar Bear doesn't hurt either.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Holiday Style Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Christmas Chapel Banner Christmas Card with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here and for today's card I'm going super simple using the Christmas Chapel stamp set along with the Fishtail Banners dies to create a Christmas Card.

To begin I stamped out the church from Christmas Chapel and coloured it in with Copic Markers. I then used the coordinating dies and cut it out. I then cut down a strip of watercolour cardstock and used the Fishtail Banners to create a banner at the bottom of the panel. Next, I masked off the bottom of the banner and ink blended some Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress inks over the top for the sky. I then removed the mask and stamped the 'Joy to the World' sentiment from Festive Greetings in black ink.

To finish up, I adhered the church to the banner panel with foam tape, and added some white dots using a gel pen in the background to add a little extra to it. I then used some plaid patterned paper from Lawn Fawn and adhered it to a white card base. Then I used foam tape at the back of the banner and popped it up onto the right hand side of the card.

Thanks for stopping by today and I'll catch you next time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fishtail Banner Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Christmas Chapel Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Christmas Chapel Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

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