Jolly Gingerbread Christmas Gift Tags with Franci

Hello everybody and Merry Christmas! Franci here with you today. I know this can be a super crazy week. This is the most beautiful time of the year (and my fave as well), but there are sooo many things to do - bake, decorate, etc. It can be stressful, right? So for today I thought about an easy and quick project to make your gifts look amazing. Gift tags anyone?

This little gingerbread house from the Jolly Gingerbread stamp set is perfect to create a gift tag. The size is good, it's full of sweet details but easy to color, and on the back you have plenty of space to stamp a greeting like I did or to write your custom festive sentiment!

I stamped my little houses with Memento black ink, and colored them with Copic markers. I then die-cut them with the coordinating dies. Then I cut 2 more houses out of some white cardstock and glued my decorated ones on top just to make them sturdier. I stamped the sentiment on the back of each house and punched a hole on top (it's perfect cause it is hidden among the decorations of the eaves). I added some gold twine and also a little bow to make them extra festive. 

You can also add some Wink of Stella on top to make them sparkle and then you just have to tie them up on your gifts! Thank you so much for stopping by, have a lovely day and happy holidays!! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Jolly Gingerbread Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Jolly Gingerbread Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Christmas Themed Gift Tags with Nancy

Hey everyone, Nancy here. With six days to Christmas, I'm busy wrapping gifts and looking for a way to put a nice handmade touch on each present. I usually sit down one night and create a dozen tags to dress up the packages. This year I pulled out all of my Sunny Studio Christmas release stamps to pull these together.

The first tag is inspired by the Playful Polar Bears stamp set. This is a simple design that was easy to create in multiple. An 8x11 sheet of watercolored paper was washed with Distress Oxide Ink in Peacock Feathers. I was able to quickly create a background for 4-5 tags at once. The polar bear is simple to color since it's white. A few sequins and some sweet treats complete the tag.

The Christmas Home stamp set was used to create the tag in center. The watercolored background was created just like the polar bear card using Distress Ink in Blueprint Sketch this time. A watercolored cozy cottage and snowflakes painted in white complete the tag.

The last tag features the beautiful little church in the Christmas Chapel stamp set. The pine background was stamped with the Holiday Style stamp set. It gives this tag a subtle holiday background.

Toppers in shades of blue complete all of the tags. I was able to create a dozen tags in one night in a production-line style! It's not too late to add that special something to all of your gifts. 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Holiday Style Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Chapel Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Chapel Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Jolly Gingerbread Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Jolly Gingerbread Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Christmas Themed Tags with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have some quick tags to share with you all using the Polar Playmates and Tag Topper Crescent Dies.

To begin I cut down three pieces of watercolor paper to 3" wide by 4 1/2" tall. I then used the largest Crescent Topper Die and cut down each of the pieces to have a tag-like edge. Then I ink blended some Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Ink on top of each of the tags and sprinkled them with water to appear like snow. Next, I cut down some Neenah Solar White cardstock to 3" wide and used my scissors to cut a snowy hill on each of the pieces. I then stamped 'Merry Christmas' from the Jolly Gingerbread stamp set with some black ink onto each of the snow pieces. I then added some foam tape along the back and adhered it down onto the bottom of each of my tags.

Next, I stamped, colored, and cut my images out from the Polar Playmates stamp set. I used Copic Markers for my coloring and the coordinating dies to cut them out. Once they were cut out I adhered them onto my tags with more foam tape. To finish up my tags, I punched holes at the top of my tags and threaded through some twine, and that finished up my tags.

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

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Tag Topper Dies-Crescent Shop at: Sunny Studio

Jolly Gingerbread Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Guest Designer Spotlight: Winter Themed Card with Melissa Bowden

Hi everyone! Melissa Bowden here, I am so excited to be back on the Sunny Studio blog as a guest designer! I love the newest winter collection and I really enjoyed making these two cards focusing on the Festive Greetings and Playful Polar Bears stamp sets. I hope you enjoy them as well!

To make the first card I first cut a rectangle of white card stock for the stamped area. I then die cut the bottom using the Fishtail Banner dies. After that was done I lined up the bear and the present from the Playful Polar Bears set where I wanted them to go. Because I wanted the present in front I stamped that first. I then masked it off and stamped the bear over top. 

To finish the little scene I added the stars from the set scattered around the sky and the sentiment from Festive Greetings to the bottom. I coloured the images with Copic markers. To finish the card off I adhered the panel I had just coloured to a navy blue card base. 

For the next card I used the same two stamp sets as before. I started with the background for this card. This consisted of me blending together a few different blue inks on white card stock to create a gradient effect. I used a white gel pen on the background to create a snow like effect. I then cut out some hills with a hill border die and layered those over top of the background. I also cut out the circle opening with another die and laid that over top. When I got those all where I wanted them I adhered them down. 

I then blended some ink around the outside to give it a little more dimension and a bit of an antiqued look. It was then on to the star of the show the little polar bear. I coloured him with Copic markers and cut him out with a white border around the edge. I stamped him again onto patterned Christmas paper but this time I only cut out his scarf. I layered that over top to make it look like he was wearing a cute Christmasy scarf. To finish off the card I stamped the sentiment onto a little banner of patterned paper and mounted everything onto a navy blue card base.

Have a wonderful day! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Fishtail Banner Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Woodsy Creatures and Backyard Bugs Sunshine Card with Lexa

Hi there! It's Lexa here with a card that full of sunshine today. It's always sunny (or rainy some other times) where I live, so I decided to create a bright card for you all.

I used an older stamp sets for today's card by combining Sunny Sentiments, Woodsy Creatures and Backyard Bugs together to create a little scene. I stamp all the images with Versafine black ink then watercolor them with Distress Markers. When you go through your Sunny Studio stamps collection, you will realize that you can combine most of all the stamp sets together. That's how versatile the designs are. After I finished with the coloring, I die cut all the images with the coordinating dies.

As for the background I want it to be solid this time. So I die cut green and blue cardstock with a basic stitched rectangular dies, then adhere it to the 4.25"x5.5" card base. That create thin white borders around it and look like a frame. I stamped "hello" on the cloud, it's a simple and warming greeting for everyday cards. Here's a closer look of my card.

I really hope you enjoy the post and my card for today. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Backyard Bugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Backyard Bugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Sentiments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodsy Creatures Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woodsy Creatures Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Fluffy Husky Christmas Card with Vanessa

Hi everybody! Vanessa here today with a card using the cute Polar Playmates set. 

I wanted to make the little husky look really fluffy and hairy, so I used colored pencils on dark cardstock to achieve this. I first stamped the image onto the blue panel and colored the little fur ball, applying the color with flicks to create the hair. Then I masked off a snowy hill and applied white pigment ink with an ink blending tool. Using the pencils again, I created the shadow on the snow.

Now I covered the image with a mask and flicked on white paint droplets. I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment from Christmas Home and adhered the panel to the card base. Finally, I die-cut little stars from white glitter cardstock and adhered them to the sky.

I hope you like my fluffy fur ball :) Thanks for stopping by today!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Gleeful Reindeer Christmas Ornaments and Treat Bags with Franci

Hi there, happy Wednesday! It's Franci here with you today with a little Christmas party! 

"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shine nose". And that's where my inspiration came from! I love the Gleeful Reindeer stamp set so much that I thought it would have been perfect for my little party! So first of all - the little Christmas tree.

I found this little Christmas tree at one of my local stores and loved how tiny and festive it is. I wrapped it in some gold starry twine and then I created my ornaments. I stamped all of my reindeer in memento black ink, colored them with Copics, and drew some details with a white gel pen. I then added some Wink of Stella sparkle and die cut them with the coordinating dies. 

Then I die cut some circles out of white cardstock and embossed the Frosty Flurries in white on the top of them. I let them cool and then sponged some Peacock Feathers distress ink to create the sky and make them pop.

This mini background is amazing, and I love the beautiful snowy effect! To complete my ornaments, I glued down all my reindeer with foam tape to give extra dimension and I also added a little clear twine. 

Then of course I had to make treat bags! For these I took some clear plastic bags and I cut 2 rectangles out of some white cardstock to match in size. I decorated them as I did for my ornament with the embossed Frosty Flurries and Distress ink. Then I created a mini tag out of white cardstock with the Tag Topper dies, stamping my little reindeer on them and coloring them with Copics. 

Then I filled my bags with treats and closed them with my decorated rectangles, gluing down the little tags on top with foam tape and adding a little red bow. So festive, right! For the treats, I took some salted dried pretzels, coated them with chocolate and let them cool. I sprinkled them with powdered sugar to finish them off. Super easy. Nothing fancy, but oh they are so yummy!

And speaking about yummy Christmas treats, here they come. Last, but not least, my reindeer cupcakes! How cute are these? And they perfectly match my reindeer! YAY! If you would like to create these too, here's how I made them. I just decorated some vanilla cupcakes with some chocolate. Then I cut some salted dried pretzels in a half to create the horns, and added some eye candies and a little mini red chocolate peanut for my Rudolph nose!

This party was so, so, sooo much fun to make. I hope you enjoyed it and host a little reindeer themed party too! Thank you so much for stopping by and have a lovely day! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Gleeful Reindeer Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Gleeful Reindeer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Tag Topper Dies-Traditional Shop at: Sunny Studio

Frosty Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio