Sunny Studio Grand Opening Blog Hop!

Hello & welcome to the Sunny Studio Grand Opening Blog Hop!  I'm so happy you're here!  For those of you who haven't heard, we are a brand new company offering high-quality photopolymer stamps and matching dies made right here in the USA.  I designed the stamps myself and I couldn't be more excited to be sharing them with all of you today!

My first card features the School Time stamp set which is one of my personal favorites!  I colored each of the stars with Copic markers and then added some sparkle using a clear Wink of Stella pen and some glossy accents over the top.

My next card uses the Happy Home stamp set.  I wanted to give my home a warm feel so I colored the windows in with a yellow marker to make them glow and contrasted it with cool greys for the shadows of my Colonial home.  For my trees I colored them like I would for the daytime and then I went over them all with a dark grey marker, adding more intense shadows where they would be tucked behind the house.

I inked up my background using Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress inks and then added stars using Golden Rod Stickles.  I love the results!  :)

My last card was created using a free digital stamp I am offering you all today, featuring seasonal variations of the tree found in the Happy Home set.  DOWNLOAD HERE

I would love to see the projects you create with it!  You can share all your Sunny Studio projects to our Flickr group page HERE.

I have been receiving some questions about how the new fishtail banner dies work so I also threw together a quick little tutorial on them.  Please bear with me... This was my first video attempt so it's far from perfect (you can watch it at YouTube HERE).  ;)

Hope these ideas inspire you in your own cardmaking today. Thanks so much for visiting us.

Introducing Snow Kissed: Penguins Meet Winter Sports!

Guess what?!  We are on our final sneak peek before our big grand opening tomorrow!  Today's set called Snow Kissed coordinates perfectly with the Bundled Up stamp set shared yesterday.

For my first card I used a super cool Bokeh technique inspired by the amazing Sandy Allnock featured HERE on her blog.  She used an airbrush and magnets for her technique, but since I didn't have those handy I chose to create a similar look using vinyl circles I cut out on my Silhouette Cameo and sponging on different layers of Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire distress inks. It was seriously so much fun and I love the results!

I finished off my card by creating a little sledding scene using the penguin stamp and some of the snowflakes and phrase dies found in the coordinating Snow Kissed Sunny Snippets die set.  I love how the white pops against the background!

For my next card I chose to go soft and sweet using Tumbled Glass and Spun Sugar distress inks.  I used a heat gun to make sure the pink background was good and dry before stamping it with VersaMark ink and heat embossing the snow pattern in the background with white embossing powder.

To carry out the soft feel of my card I tied a bow around the bottom using swiss dot organza ribbon.  I used more of the coordinating dies to cut some snowflakes, coating them with a bit of Stardust Stickles glitter glue.  I love the shimmer and sparkle it gave my card!

Here's a closer look at the full Snow Kissed stamp set used for both of today's cards (available for purchase tomorrow morning):

Thanks so much for visiting!  I hope you will check back tomorrow for all of the grand opening festivities--I'm seriously feeling like a kid the day before Christmas!  :)