Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Keeway Tsao

Hello friends! It’s Keeway Tsao from Kiwi Koncepts and I’ll be sharing some fun holiday inspirations with you today! We’re less than a couple weeks away, but there’s still time to make some last minute cards!

I really love the Merry Mice set, the mice are so cute! When I saw those cheese trees, I knew I must create a winter scene with it. I stamped several images from the set in a dark brown hybrid ink and colored them up with Copic markers. I then used the matching dies to die cut the images out.

Next, I worked on ink blending a snowy sky and used Pine Needles, Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, and Old Paper distress oxide inks. I splattered white acrylic paint generously. Then die cut some snow drifts out of white card stock and blended the edges with Broken China distress oxide ink.

After adding my snow layers, I added my images onto the scene with foam tape. I used the large ‘winter wishes’ sentiment die cut from the Layered Snowflake Frame Die. It is die cut out of white card stock and adhered right on the background, and that completes the card!

My next card once again uses the Merry Mice set, but I also borrowed some images from the Santa Claus Lane set. Again, I stamped my images in a dark brown hybrid ink and colored them with Copic markers. I die cut the images out with the matching dies.

I ink blended a background with Wilter Violet, Victorian Velvet and Antique Linen and die cut it with a simple circle die. I offset this background on some grey plaid pattern paper from Subtle Grey Tones 6x6 Paper.

I added my images thereafter with foam tape for dimension. For the sentiment, I die cut the ‘merry’ using the sentiment die found in the Christmas Garland Frame. I then heat embossed the ‘wishing you a’ and ‘christmas’ from the Santa Claus Lane set in white onto kraft card stock. I trimmed it down to thin strips and added it above and below the ‘merry’ with foam tape.

I hope you enjoy today’s inspiration. Happy holidays folks!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Subtle Grey Tones Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Layered Snowflake Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Garland Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio

Christmas Garland Frame Cards with Candice and Rachel

Candice with you today, sharing a different use for the new Christmas Garland Frame die as coral!

The Sunny Studio products I used for my card:

• Christmas Garland Frame die
• Best Fishes stamps & coordinating dies
• Merry Mice stamps & coordinating dies
• Scenic Route stamps & coordinating dies
• Rainbow Pearls

For the background, I first heat embossed the bubbles in white and then inked over with tumbled glass oxide ink. I then die cut the Christmas Garland Frame from navy glitter paper, using a shim to get a deep cut through the thickness of the cardstock. I love how it looks like coral for this card!

Next, I stamped the fishes and winter accessories, colored with Copic markers and then used the coordinating dies listed above to cut out. The christmas lights I stamped and cut out with the coordinating dies, colored with Copics and added yellow Stickles for some shimmer.

To finish the card, I heat embossed the sentiment in white from both the Merry Mice and Best Fishes stamp sets on a red banner. For the embellishments, I simply added a few navy domes from the Rainbow Pearls.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

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Hello everyone! It's Rachel here and I have a festive winter card that features the gorgeous Christmas Garland Frame Die. I've combined this die with the Jolly Gingerbread Stamp Set.

To create my frame, I first started with a piece of Ranger White Watercolor Paper that I had trimmed to slightly larger than 4.25" x 5.5". I then quickly watercolored this piece with both Daniel Smith Viridian Watercolor Paint and Ken Oliver Turquoise Colorburst Watercolor Powder. I then let this piece dry before I die cut it. Once I had it cut out, I then splattered it with both dark green diluted watercolor paint as well as diluted Opaque White Paint. I added some of this diluted white paint to the ends of each piece to resemble fallen snow.

Next I trimmed a piece of smooth white card stock to 4.25" x 5.5" and lightly blended some Catherine Pooler Hot Tub Ink. I splattered this blended area with both some water drops as well as some more diluted white paint. I added some stitched snow drifts using the Woodland Border Dies. 

For my images, I stamped them onto a sheet of Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock and colored everything with Copics. I cut them out and then added them to my card with both liquid adhesive and 3D Foam Tape depending on which ones I wanted to add more dimension to. I used a fun sentiment from the Jolly Gingerbread Set and added it to the left side of my front snow drift before adding it to my card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my card today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Jolly Gingerbread Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Jolly Gingerbread Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Best Fishes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Merry Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Garland Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio

Feeling Frosty Cards with Vanessa and Anja

Hello to you! Vanessa here with a card using the adorable Feeling Frosty set. I used almost every snowman from the set to create this gathering of frosty friends.

First, I inked the front of a white card base with Distress Oxide Inks. Now I hand-cut snow hills from white cardstock, inked the edges with blue ink and adhered them. I stamped all the images onto white cardstock, colored them with Copic markers, die-cut the elements with the matching dies and adhered them to the card, raising some with foam tape.

Stamps and dies used: Feeling Frosty Stamps, Feeling Frosty Dies, Christmas Home Stamps, Christmas Home Dies, Gleeful Reindeer Stamps, Gleeful Reindeer Dies

After I had added "snow" with a white gel pen, I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock with white embossing powder, trimmed it and adhered it.

I love these snowmen so much, they are the coolest gang :) Thank you for stopping by today!

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Hello everyone, Anja here to share a card made with the Feeling Frosty set which is one of my favorites. I already used it a couple of times and wanted to come up with something different. So I tried my hand on no-line coloring which I find quite intimidating to be honest.

With the help of some masking, I created a one layer scene. I combined the Feeling Frosty snowmen and cups with the hillside border from the Scenic Route set. For a very light stamped color, I used the Inkon3 Fadeout No Line Coloring Detail Ink. I colored the images with Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

The sky was done by blending Distress Oxide Inks (Milled Lavender and Spun Sugar) and splattering white paint with a brush. I cut one of the Fancy Frames Square Dies from white cardstock to frame my little winter scene.

I think the sentiment is the perfect match for these snowman friends who share a cup of hot cocoa together. It's stamped in VersaMark Ink and heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder. I die cut a stitched banner and adhered it with foam tape. To finish off my card, I added White Clay Snowflakes and a Pink Clay Heart.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Wishing you a beautiful day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Gleeful Reindeer Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gleeful Reindeer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames-Square Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Feeling Frosty Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Feeling Frosty Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Season's Greetings Cards with Franci and Ana

Hello there! Franci here with you today with a couple of tiny Christmas tags showcasing the Season's Greetings set.

First of all I die-cut multiple times the little Scalloped Tags Circle dies out of some white cardstock and this pretty dotted patterned paper from the Subtle Grey Tones Paper pad.  Then I also die-cut 2 little tags using a mini die included in the Sweet Treat Bag die set and stamped them with the "to: & love:" from the Season's Greetings set.

Then I stamped and die cut some pine branches and berries and I glued them down to my patterned paper tags with foam adhesive. I used these Memento drops inks to stamp and shade them: Pearl Tart, Bamboo Leaves, Lady Bug and Rich Cocoa.

I glued the white tags on the back of my decorated ones added the little tags at the tops and added some sparkle red twine. Finally I added lots of sparkle to the berries with my Wink of Stella clear brush. 

These tags are so super easy to make you could easily create a ton if you need a lots for the Holidays! Hope you like them and thanks a lot for stopping by! 

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Hello everyone! Ana here today with a pink Christmas card featuring Season’s Greeting stamp set and Snowflake Circle Frame die.

I started with creating the background by die cutting a piece of Bristol paper with Frilly Frames Lattice outline die. I masked the scallops and blended Worn Lipstick distress oxide ink on the panel. Once the panel was dry I white heat embossed the part of my sentiment - seasons. While I had the embossing powder and sticky ink still out, I embossed the word greetings to a piece of vellum and fussy cut it out.

Out of white cardstock, I die cut several pieces of circles with Snowflake Circle frame die, arranging them to the background and adhering with liquid glue. Next, I adhered the vellum sentiment piece to the background with thin strips of foam tape.

I stamped and die cut the branches and berries (from Season’s Greetings set), adhered them to the background then added white splatter which I created by mixing white acrylic paint and water. I added a pink panel to the back of my background separating them with craft foam and adhered them to the card base.

Thank you so much or stopping by today – I really hope you got inspired! Until next week – Happy Crafting!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Frilly Frames Lattice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Subtle Grey Tones Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snowflake Circle Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scalloped Tags-Circle Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sweet Treats Gift Bag Shop at: Sunny Studio

Santa Claus Lane Cards with Juliana and Angelica

Hello Sunny Studio Friends! It's Juliana here to share a festive Christmas shaker card featuring the Santa Claus Lane Stamp Set.

I began by stamping and coloring some of the images from the Santa Claus Lane Stamp Set with Copic Markers. I then die cut them with the Santa Claus Lane Dies.

Next, I took the Layered Snowflake Frame Dies and die cut the large snowflake frame from white cardstock and trimmed it into a square. I then die cut the small snowflake frame from white cardstock and trimmed it the same size as the larger frame.

To create the shaker box, I adhered a piece of transparency film/acetate to the back side of the large frame. I then added thin strips of double sided foam tape to create the frame that will hold the sequins and beads.

For the backing of the shaker box, I cut a piece of white cardstock to just slightly larger than the frame and inked it with Distress Oxide in Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire. I then lightly spritzed it with some water to activate the ink and dabbed it dry revealing “snowflakes”.  Next, I adhered the small white snowflake frame to the center of this piece to finish off the backing. I then adhered Santa in his sleigh with the toys! To fill the shaker I used a mix of seed beads, sequins and Blue Snowflake Confetti. I usually carefully pour these on top of the image just to get a feel for how much to add.

I then carefully lined up the top of the shaker with the backing and adhered the layers together to complete the shaker card. To finish it all off, I added the sentiment, heat embossed with white embossing powder, onto a red die cut pennant from the Fancy Frames Rectangle Dies.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed learning how to create a festive Christmas shaker card featuring the Santa Claus Lane Stamp Set.

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Hi friends! Angelica here, I have a new Christmas card to share with you today, featuring the Santa Claus Lane stamp set. 

I stamped and Copic-colored images from the stamp set, then die-cut them with the coordinating dies. I die-cut white card stock with Happy word die three times, stacking and gluing the words together for height. For the background, I blended Blueberry and Blue Corn inks onto a panel of white card stock. I let the ink dry, then white heat-embossed the sentiment words at an angle. 

I splattered shimmer water and watered-down white acrylic paint onto the panel for snow, then trimmed the panel with the Frilly Frames Retro Petals stitched rectangle. I attached the panel to a card base with foam adhesive, and added the chimney, Santa’s sleigh, and die cut word. I finished the card by applying shimmer and shine to the word, using a shimmer brush and Crystal glaze.

I hope I have helped with ideas for the fun Santa Clause Lane Lane stamp set. Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Retro Petals Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Santa Claus Lane Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Layered Snowflake Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio