Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I'm showing you a fun card featuring the new Mug Hugs stamp set. This card would be perfect for giving a gift card with to your recipients favourite coffee shop!
To begin my card today I stamped, coloured and die cut all my images out. I used my Misson Gold Watercolors for the colouring today, since they're quick and easy. Once my colouring was done I pulled a piece of watercolour paper and ink blended a couple of grey Distress Inks on the paper and then added a water splotch effect, using some clean water on a paint brush.
I then needed to decorate my card base. I pulled a piece of red snowflake patterned paper and covered my card base completely and adhered it down. I then used some fun foam on the back of my grey piece and adhered that down to the bottom section of my card, leaving a little patterned paper showing. I then used some liquid adhesive to adhered down a couple of my mugs, candy cane and cookie to the grey piece and some foam adhesive for the remaining mug. To finish up my card I added some wink of stella to my images and then for the sentiment, I die cut a little circle tag and stamped the 'for you' sentiment on there from the "Christmas Icons" stamp set in some black ink. I added some twine around the top of my coloured images and threaded the sentiment tag into my bow and that finished up the card. I hope you enjoyed and check back the rest of the week for more inspiration! - Eloise
Tracey McNeely invited us to participate in her 25 Days of Christmas Tags and I was so happy a few of our team members are able to play along! Up first is a fun set of tags by miss Eloise combining our Blissful Baking, Mug Hugs & Christmas Icons stamps with our Crescent Tag Topper dies.
Up next in a trio of tags by Lexa using Gleeful Reindeer and our Crescent Tag Topper dies.
Emily also created some fun tags with a similar combo of our Gleeful Reindeer stamps and Crescent Tag Topper & Fishtail Banner dies.
For our last tag of the day, Lindsey created a fun shaker...
Lindsey says: I used the Mug Hugs stamp set as well as the tag topper dies to create my tag. I began with two 4 1/4" x 3 1/8" pieces of patterned paper. I also cut a white piece of card stock in the same way for the back of the tag. I used the tag topper die to cut the top of both sheets of paper and give them the tag shape. Since this was going to be a shaker tag, I cut a square hole with a die in the polka dot piece of paper. I covered the hole using a piece of acetate, this would create the window in the tag. I cut the heart on the front of the tag using the heart in the Mug Hug dies set.
Next, I stamped the mug and colored it with Copic markers. Once it was colored, I stamped my sentiment on top of the mug. I cut the mug using the Mug Hug die and attached it to the shaker window with regular adhesive. I used two layers of foam tape on the back of the window portion of the tag to create a well for all the shaker pieces. I filled the well with glitter, seed beads, and sequins and then attached the second patterned tag to the back of the shaker front. To finish it off, I added a piece of ribbon to the top of the tag.
Awhile back I created a video sharing how our tag topper dies work that I don't think I ever got around to sharing here on the blog. You can view it at our YouTube channel HERE. You can see a close up of the tags that were featured in this video shared HERE. Here's a full line up of all the participants for the 25 days of tags. If you haven't had a chance to check them out, I hope you will stop by Tracey's blog to check them all out. There's lots of great prizes including a set of our tag topper dies. ;)
How are you? Are you getting ready for the holidays? Despite my best efforts I've managed to come down with a nasty cold/flu this weekend that both my daughters have been suffering from for awhile now. I thought I was nearly in the clear after a week of not getting it, but sadly I'm just not that lucky after all. ;) I couldn't let today pass though without swinging by to share all the AMAZING cards that YOU, our wonderful customers have been creating. I am constantly feeling blown away! Autumn Splendor Fall Leaves Card by Jackie C.
Thank you for sharing all these fabulous ideas with us! I hope you will continue to share your gorgeous projects with us--It always makes my day to see them. You can tag us on instagram with the hashtag #sunnystudiostamps or share your projects with us in our flickr group or on our facebook page. ☺