Sneak Peek: Introducing Deck The Halls, Christmas Cookies, Gingerbread House Dies & Icing Border Dies

Hello and welcome to day 2 of our 2021 Holiday Peek Week!  Each morning this week I am showcasing cards using our newest fall & winter collections which will begin shipping on August 27th.

Today I am sharing two new Christmas stamp sets for the holidays, their matching dies and two new standalone dies. Let's dive right in!

Card No. 1:  Up first I have a card that showcases 6 of the 10 playful ornament stamps that come with our new Deck The Halls Stamps and Dies. There's something so irresistible about characters that fit into one adorable, chubby circle! For this card I started by die-cutting my stitched grid pattern using our Window Trio Square Dies, cutting them out twice side-by-side on my A2-sized card panel and rounding the bottom two corners. To fill the spaces behind my square openings I alternated different colored tone-on-tone checked prints from our new All Is Bright Paper pack. I completed the card with a "season's greetings" sentiment from the new Holiday Express Stamps which I stamped onto a banner from Banner Basics Stamps.

Card No. 2: For this card I started by creating a background using one of the three new border dies that come with our new Icing Border Dies. I cut a number of them in four different colors that I alternated on a piece of white cardstock. I arranged my three ornaments from the Deck The Halls Stamps onto our Scalloped Oval Mat 3 Dies which was backed using the Scalloped Oval Mat 1 Dies to fill the openings with a solid white cardstock. I hung my ornaments using gold embroidery thread and added some tree branches using our new Winter Greenery Dies that I will be sharing more of tomorrow.  I completed my card with a banner from the Banner Basics Stamps, a heat embossed sentiment from our new Holiday Express Stamps (which I'm sharing on Friday) and some scattered Red Zircon Jewels.

Card No. 3: For this card I used the peppermint candy ornament image from our new Deck The Halls Stamps to create a candy themed holiday wreath, combining them with the two tree branches from our Classy Christmas Stamps. I arranged the pieces on a 4.5" square pinked checked print card panel cut from our All Is Bright Paper which I mounted onto a 4.75" square cardbase. At this point I felt like my card was really missing the oomph I was looking for when our Aqua Ombre Pearls came to my rescue. They give my card a fun vintage feel and are just the little touch of something special I was looking for. I then completed my card by stamping a sentiment in the center using a greeting from our Holiday Style Stamps.

Card No. 4: This is another card that started as a background created using the loopy border dies from our new Icing Border Dies set. I'm a sucker for a bold red and white color scheme so this background was so fun to create! I turned the penguin ornament from the Deck The Halls Stamps into a boy and girl couple using the bow from our Floating By Stamps. To frame my ornaments and help them stand out against the busy background, I layered our Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies, Scalloped Oval Mat 2 Dies, Stitched Circle Large Dies and Stitched Circle Small Dies. I hung my ornaments from a tree branch from our Holiday Style Stamps, but as the ink started to dry it started to blend a bit more than I was hoping with my green cardstock background so I added some darker accents near the center of each sprig by flicking my Copic G07 Marker following the stamped tree needles. As my last touch I stamped the "deck the halls" greeting on a curve to match the circle using a sentiment from that same Holiday Style set.

Card No. 5: I mass produced this simple design for our brick & mortar stores to display using our Deck The Halls Stamps. To stamp the tree branches along the top, I stamped the two branches from our Classy Christmas Stamps and single branch from our Christmas Trimming Stamps all at once, lining them up in my MISTI tool. After stamping them in one color of green using PinkFresh Studio's Over the Hills Ink Cubes set, I then rearranged the images and stamped them in a second color. This allowed me to stamp the entire top border in two passes which really sped up my process. Another time saving measure was using my ruler with a black pen to draw in the strings my ornaments were hanging from, rather than using actual thread or trying to stamp them with a straight line stamp.

The Deck the Halls set comes with an awesome oversized "Have a holly jolly Christmas" greeting which I just adore. Sometimes having a large sentiment to take center stage is so nice to have on hand. I stamped mine using VersaFine Onyx Black Ink and then added the loopy border along the bottom on my card from our Icing Border Dies which was mounted over a green checked strip from our All is Bright Paper pack. 

Card No. 6: Switching gears, I now have a series of cards to share using our new Gingerbread House Dies and Christmas Cookies Stamps. I just love how versatile this new die set is!  As you will see it can be used for so much more than just Christmas cards. 

My first card focuses on the holidays though, cutting out the body of the house using a scalloped print from our All is Bright Paper and decorating the roof with our Icing Border Dies and some Red Zircon Jewels. All the other elements on my house came with the Gingerbread House dies and the gingerbread girl and boy from our new Christmas Cookies Stamps are the perfect compliment!

For my background I inked it up using a mix of Spun Sugar and Kitsch Flamingo Distress Ink, adding a snowy bank of icing using our Slimline Nature Border Dies. For my sentiment, I pulled out our Christmas Home Stamps, stamping it with VersaMark Ink and heat embossing it with Hero Arts White Detail Embossing Powder (once I was certain the background was fully dry).

Card No. 7: Up next is a Christmas Cookies card! For my red gingham borders I pulled out our Background Basics Stamps. Next to add a little trim to my edge, I added the gumdrop borders, stamping them twice for both the top and bottom using our Jolly Gingerbread Stamps. I then used that same set to stamp my house with my tree cookies, inking up behind them with some Evergreen Bough distress ink using my favorite Jumbo Dauber. 

I finished my card by adding some white highlights with a Sharpie White Extra Fine Paint Pen and stamped my sentiment with VersaMark ink before heat embossing it with Hero Arts detail white embossing powder.

Card No. 8: For my next card using the Christmas Cookies Stamps I wanted to make my card base mimic the feel of a gingerbread cookie with white scalloped icing so I cut my background from some kraft cardstock which I die-cut using our Window Quad Circle Dies. To create scalloped decorative edge I used three separate dies from our Slimline Basic Border Dies set. I backed my gingerbread men with a piece of pink snowflake patterned paper from our Holiday Cheer Paper pack, once again adding white highlights to my cookies with a Sharpie white paint pen.

Card No. 9: Our cute Gingerbread House Dies can be assembled onto a card front or used together with their accompanying shadow die to become shaped cards or larger gift tags. I elected to create a pair of shaped cards decorating them with various elements that come with the die set. This set comes with a small die that cuts a number of small circles (for the m&m inspired candies on the roofline and the door knob) and a trio of gumdrops all in one pass and more importantly a single die so you don't have 7 tiny dies to lose. To add some realism I coated my candies and peppermints in Ranger Glossy Accents and the gumdrops using Ranger Stardust Stickles.

Card No. 10: Switching gears, I thought it would be fun to show how easily these Gingerbread House Dies can be transformed into a cute everyday themed house using our yellow striped print paper from our Sleek Stripes Paper pack. The die set comes with a chimney and two connected brick dies which I used on this card. For my cloud background, I used our Summer Splash Paper and the grass print paper from our Spring Fling Paper pack which I die-cut using the grass border die from our Picket Fence Dies set. I embellished my card further adding clouds using our Fluffy Cloud Dies, a fence with our Scalloped Fence Dies, mini flowers from our Sweet Treats House Add-on Dies and mini hearts from our Basic Mini Shape 2 Dies.

Card No. 11: For my last card I used the doors and windows from the new Gingerbread House Dies to turn our Nutty For You Dies into a cute acorn house for Fall for these little mice from our Harvest Mice Stamps. For my background, I inked up my night's sky using Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot distress inks. I then inked up the ground using Vintage Photo and a little more Black Soot distress inks around the outside edges. Our Picket Fence Dies were a great addition to my scene and also help hide the transition between my ground and sky. For my string of hanging lights I used a border stamp from our Scenic Route Stamps and then tucked in a row of corn stalks behind my fence using images from both our Harvest Mice Stamps and Barnyard Buddies Stamps. Lastly I added a couple of pumpkins from our new Fall Friends Stamps to the foreground and heat embossed sentiment from our Harvest Mice Stamps.

That wraps up today's sneak peeks. I'm so happy you spent part of your day with me today. I read all your comments and they mean so much!  I'd love to give a $25 gift code to one lucky winner using the rafflecopter below.  Make sure to keep checking back all this week for more peeks & prizes, including our birthday blog hop HERE where you have the opportunity to win one of twelve prizes. The contests run through Friday, August 27th at Midnight PST with winners announced here on Sunday, August 29th. :)

a Rafflecopter giveaway Here's a closer look at the our new Deck The Halls Stamps & Dies, Christmas Cookies Stamps & Dies, Gingerbread House Dies and Icing Border Dies used today (which are available for pre-order as part of our birthday festivities and will begin shipping on August 27th):

 

This week we also have three different discount codes to chose from, however you are limited to one discount code per order so please chose the one with the biggest savings for you. ❤️

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Holiday Style Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Style Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Picket Fence Border Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Fence Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fall Friends Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber Shop at: Sunny Studio	Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Barnyard Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Barnyard Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Window Trio- Square Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Nutty For You Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fluffy Clouds Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Summer Splash 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scenic Route Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Sweet Treats House Add-on Shop at: Sunny Studio	Banner Basics Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Banner Basics Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Spring Fling Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio
Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classy Christmas Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classy Christmas Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Harvest Mice Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Harvest Mice Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Circle Mat 2 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Circle Small Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Circle Large Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Oval Mat 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Oval Mat 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio
All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Red Zircon Jewels Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts Fresh Foliage Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Hero Arts White Detail Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fall Friends Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	VersaMark Watermark Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	PinkFresh Over The Hills Ink Shop at: Sunny Studio	Aqua Ombre Pearls Shop at: Sunny Studio
Christmas Trimmings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Floating By Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio