Sneak Peek: Foxy Christmas, Here Comes Santa & Rustic Winter Dies!

Hello and welcome to day 4 of our sneak peek week as we count down to our new Winter release debuting tomorrow!!!  I can hardly wait!

Today I'm sharing product peeks and card ideas for our new Foxy Christmas Stamps & dies, our new mini Here Comes Santa Stamps and our new Rustic Winter Dies. Let's get started!

Card No. 1:  Allow me to introduce you to our new Foxy Christmas stamps which come with 6 little foxy friends, a tree stump, a stack of gifts and several sentiments, including individual words for a number of different combinations.  

For my card here, I paired the foxes with some bright tone-on-tone prints from our Holiday Cheer Paper pack in an angled colorblock design where I used some basic square dies to cut  blocks out of my front card panel.  I made sure to tape my dies on with some washi tape to keep the angels straight and prevent them from shifting when running through my die-cutting machine. I then heat embossed my sentiment onto a strip of red grid paper from our Classic Gingham Paper pack and added a trail of Sparkling Clear Crystals to fill in some of the open space between my frames.

Card No. 2: For this card I thought it would be fun to mix the critters from all three of our new 4x6 stamp sets.  Each set has the opportunity for stripes so I chose to color them so that the were dressed to match.  ;)  I punched circles in my front card panel and backed them with some tone-on-tone snowflake prints and added a small strip of our multi-colored stripe from our Holiday Cheer Paper pack.  I finished my card with a sentiment from our new Alpaca Holiday stamps and added a trail of crystal clear mini sequins.

Card No. 3:  My next Foxy Christmas project shows that this set isn't limited to just Christmas cards.  I was able to create a heart themed card that would be perfect for the one you love or even for Valentine's Day!  The set comes with a little tiny bow that I stamped two of and added to my foxes to make them a fancy boy and girl couple.  

My background was heat embossed with white embossing powder using our Cascading Heart stamps onto watercolor paper.  I then created a color wash, adding heavier pigment towards the top and then watered down towards the bottom for an ombre look.  My heart frame was die-cut using our Stitched Heart dies and my sentiment was stamped onto a banner from our Sunny Borders dies with a stitched scallop border along the bottom.

Card No. 4: For my last Foxy Christmas card of the day I have used the little cuddling fox pair to nestle them between a birch tree forest against a snowy night's sky.  I inked up my card panel using a blend of distress inks and then hand drew my snowflakes using a Sharpie white extra fine paint pen.

The 4.25" high birch trees come from a cool new die set called Rustic Winter that is shared more below.  The set comes with three different tree options, as well as a solid layer to use behind them to give them a two-tone color.  After I had my trees adhered, I cut a snow drift using out Woodland Border dies which gave me a place to stamp my sentiment.

Card No.5:  For this Rustic Winter Card I went light and airy.  I am smitten with these colors together.  The die set comes with two little cardinal birds so I thought it would be fun to use a birdhouse from our A Bird's Life Stamps, but I wanted it to match the subtle feel of my card so I stamped it in tan and brown inks onto cardstock of a similar color and paper-pieced them together. 

I then used some embroidery floss to stitch around the tree branch to give the illusion it's hanging form the branch.  More snowy hills from our Woodland Border dies and a sentiment from our Festive Greetings stamps completed my card. 

Card No. 6:  My last Rusic Winter card of the day fully uses all of the dies from the set which includes the three deer shown.  I pulled my inspiration for my color scheme from some digital Christmas cards I found online.  I never would have thought of using kraft for my background, but I'm in love!  I used our Frosty Flurries stamps to repeatedly stamp the background with VersaMark ink and heat emboss it with white embossing powder.  I framed my scene using the largest scalloped frame from our Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies.  A sentiment stamped in red from our Holiday Style stamps completed the look.

Card No. 7:  I'm so excited to introduce another mini stamp set in our line-up called Here Comes Santa!  I've always wanted a silhouette of Santa's sleigh with his reindeer, but never managed to find the room to squeeze them on a previous set.  I finally decided it was time to just put them on their own set (along with a versatile fir tree border and some fun twinkly stars).

For my card here I paired Santa with some little scenes created with our Comic Strip Everyday dies. To make them work for winter, my trees lost their leaves and I cut extra rooftops in white and just cut along the bottoms of each with a wavy pattern using my scissors. I also fussy cut a little tree by hand to put on the top of my car. I die-cut the layer behind my windows from yellow cardstock to make my houses glow in the moonlight and used our Woodland Border dies for my snowy hills.  As a final touch I heat embossed my sentiment using a greeting from our Holiday Style stamps.  It was such a fun card to create, but I just might have trouble giving this one away.  ;)

Card No. 8:  My last card of the day pairs Santa's sleigh with our Christmas Home stamps from last year.  I cut a window from my white cardstock panel using a stitched circle die.  I then backed it with a piece of royal blue cardstock which I stamped with Santa's Silhouette across the center and the tree border a couple times along the bottom.  When they were dry I stamped the twinkle stars from the set with VersaMark ink and heat embossed them in white. I then stamped that same Santa onto a piece of yellow cardstock and punched out a moon to layer over the top of my other stamping.  A sentiment set on a curve from our Gleeful Reindeer stamps was the perfect finishing touch.

I hope you've enjoyed today's sneak peeks and will join us tomorrow morning as we celebrate our company's third birthday with a special blog hop with loads of special guests and prizes.

Here's a closer look at the new stamps & dies used today (available for purchase on Friday, September 28th). 

         

  

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

A Bird's Life Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	A Bird's Life Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gleeful Reindeer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Style Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Memento Tuxedo Black Marker Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frosty Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Woodland Borders Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Cheer 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Crystal Clear Mini Sequins Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sparkling Clear Crystals Shop at: Sunny Studio

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: Sunny Studio

Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Cascading Heart Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio

Stitched Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sunny Borders Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sunny Borders Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sneak Peek: Happy Owlidays, Eskimo Kisses & Build-A-Tag Dies!

Hello and welcome to day 3 of our sneak peek week as we count down to our new Winter release debuting on Friday!!!

Today I'm sharing product peeks and card ideas for our new Happy Owlidays & Eskimo Kisses stamps, as well as two new Build-a-tag dies that I'm super excited for!

Card No. 1: Up first is a card featuring the new Happy Owlidays stamps and the fun wreath from that set as a window to the inside of the card. I die-cut a circle in the front of my card and then placed the wreath over the opening.

Here's a little peek at how I finished the inside of my card, inking a small circle in the center with my jumbo dauber.  The patterned paper strip along the bottom peeking out from the Stitched Scallop Border is also a fun way to have the card look cute both inside and out.

Card No. 2: For my next card I couldn't wait to dress up the owl with the little present and Christmas tree costumes. To frame my trio of owls I turned to our Window Trio Square dies cut from the tree print patterned paper from our Holiday Style paper pack.  I cut the edge using our Stitched Scallop Border dies and inked behind each image using Worn Lipstick distress ink.  A big bow tied from organza with a button stitched over the knot felt like the perfect finishing touch.

Card No. 3: This set comes with an icy tree branch and a stocking, ornament & jingle bell, along with strings in two lengths to have them hang from. For this card I cut my front panel using the grey & white polka-dot paper from our Holiday Cheer Paper Pack and layered it with two largest ovals from our new Stitched Oval dies.  I then inked up the center with some tumbled glass distress ink and layered my little owls over the top. In the end I didn't want to take away focus from my owl couple so I decided to save my greeting for the inside of my card.

Card No. 4: For my last card I did a stamp resist technique to create the look of a chalkboard for my background using our Snow Flurries stamps.  I started by stamping my entire background with the stamp onto white cardstock using white pigment ink. I then inked over the top using my jumbo dauber with black soot distress ink, leaving a subtle snowflake print visible.  When everything had fully dried, I then heat embossed the snowflakes along the edges of my card using various stamps from our Snow Kissed Stamps.  When that was complete I then inked the center with a little bit of white pigment ink to soften the center and complete my chalkboard illusion.

This time I chose to have the little jingle bells dangle from my wreath and finished off my card using a greeting from our Alpaca Holiday Stamps heat embossed onto the banner from our Little Angels stamps.

Card No. 5: Up next is a fun little 2x3 stamp set called Eskimo Kisses that comes with a bundled up boy and girl, three hearts and a scripty sentiment. There's so much cuteness & possibilities packed in a mini set!  As soon as I had them in my hands I knew they would be adorable paired with our new Cable Knit embossing folder. The rest of my card was left soft and simple to keep the focus on the texture and sweet images.

Card No. 6: My next idea for this little couple was to pair them with our Polar Playmates stamps from last year.  The igloo, walrus and ice fishing from this set are the perfect compliment!  

For my card background I inked up my panel with Tumbled Glass distress ink and then heat embossed the snowflake print using our Snow Flurries stamps. The snowdrifts were created with our Woodland Border dies and I heat embossed the sentiment on Navy cardstock that had been cut into a pennant shape using our Fancy Frames Rectangle dies.

Card No. 7:  For my last card with Eskimo Kisses I thought it would be fun to color them red for the holidays and pose them on an ice block from our Snow Kissed Stamps. As I was pulling out papers the pink snowflakes and striped prints from our Holiday Cheer Paper pack called out to me.  I stamped and colored three of the hearts from the set with my Copic markers and coated them in glossy accents.  I finished my card with a simple white stitched scallop border which felt like the perfect transition between the two prints.  I love that this little set can transition from Christmas cards to Valentine's Day cards!

Tag Set No. 1: For my last sneak peek of the day I have two new Build-A-Tag die sets to share. Sized at 2" wide x 3-1/2" high they are a great size for mass producing simple gift tags for all your gifts like I've done here or personalizing with stamped images. 

Each set comes with two tag bases with two different bottoms and then several mix and match toppers, edges & hole reinforcers.  The combinations and options are truly endless!

Tag Set No. 2:  Our Build-A-Tag 1 dies come with a simple 1-1/2" round tag die that is just the right size to fit into the opening of our scalloped circles from our Fancy Frames Circle Dies.  To get them to stay without falling right through the opening I punched a 1-3/4" circle from copy paper and sandwiched it between dies cut for both sides of my tag.  On one side I stamped and colored images from our Christmas Icons stamps and on the other I stamped my "to" & "from" words using that same stamp set.

Tag Set No. 3:  For this tag set using our Build-A-Tag 2 dies I pulled out my Holiday Cheer Paper scraps that were leftover from all the cards I created throughout the release.  It was so fun making use of these small pieces that ordinarily would end up on my craft room floor or in my recycle bin. One of the prints in this paper pack includes a variety of borders that compliment so many of our stamps and dies.  They also were great all on their own as a quick way to add interest to my tags with very little effort.

Tag Set No. 4:  While I was going I made another tag set along the same lines with our Build-A-Tag 1 dies.  This set comes with the little "v" shaped border that works as a great pop of color on both die sets.

That wraps up my projects for the day.  I hope you've enjoyed all the peeks. Make sure to keep checking back all this week as we reveal more sets from the new release. On Friday we will be celebrating our company's third birthday with a special blog hop with loads of special guests and prizes.

Here's a closer look at the new stamps & dies used today (available for purchase on Friday, September 28th).

    

    

    

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Icons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Borders Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Borders Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Memento Tuxedo Black Marker Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polar Playmates Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Snow Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ric Rac Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames-Circle Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio
Window Trio- Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Gingham 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingham Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dots & Stripes Jewel Tones 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Holiday Cheer 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Cable Knit Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio

Alpaca Holiday Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Stitched Oval Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio