Inspiration Week: Introducing Silver Bells & Snowflake Die + Winners

I'm so excited! Today's the big day of our Holiday 2017 release that starts shipping today!  For everyone who has placed pre-orders, your items are packed and ready to go out this morning.  We also have the winners to announce from our 2nd birthday blog hop so make sure to check that out down below.  ;)

Today I have one last new item to share... It's a new little 2-piece die set called Silver Bells and it's already proving to be quite popular.  While it wasn't designed to cut out the bell from our Holiday Style set, they are nearly identical in size and design so you might be able to find a way to use them together.  

Card No. 1:  For my first card I cut the jingle bells from a silver shimmer cardstock and used a glue pen to adhere the little ridge of the bell over the top of the overall bell shape.  I strung some solid twine through the tops of each before adhering them to a 1-5/8" black square.  When they were all adhered to my card, I then tied a matching chiffon bow and added over the top with a mini glue dot.  As a final touch I stamped my sentiment using our new Festive Greetings set.

Card No. 2: This time I die-cut my bells from gold metallic cardstock.  Since metallic cardstock's slick surface has a way of getting smudged with glue pens and such, I elected to apply some of Sizzix's double-sided adhesive to the back of my cardstock before cutting out my bell and it worked wonders.  


For my card's background I took turns masking off the space below and above my sentiment strip and stamped the tree branch from Holiday style.  I then heat embossed my sentiment using our Heartfelt Wishes stamps and Wishes Word die.

I felt like my bells should be dark inside so I punched some quick 1" circles from black cardstock to back them with.  I then tied them with some red twine to hang them from my tree.  I think it would be super fun to make this card so the little bells swung back and forth!

 Here's a look at the 1-1/8" Jingle Bell die...

For this release's bonus, all orders placed in our shop will automatically come with a complimentary mini snowflake die (while supplies last).  There are no special codes needed and all the holiday pre-orders placed earlier this week have been already been packaged with one too.  ;)

Please note: We currently are out of the snowflake die and will be substituting our holly die from last Christmas.

Here's a little card I created using the snowflake... It's such a great size for so many different projects.  I couldn't resist creating a red and white snowflake card (my favorite) by blending festive berries, candied apple and fired brick distress inks in an ombre fashion to the front of a 4.25" x 5.5" card panel. 

After the snowflakes were adhered in rows on my card, I took a ruler and my paper piercer to create little holes approximately 1/8" apart so I could add some hand-stitching.  I completed my card with a die-cut heart from our Stitched Heart dies and a sentiment from Festive Greetings.  

And last, but certainly not least we have our 12 Birthday winners from last Friday's blog hop...

Congrats to the following Winners:

Sunny Studio blog

Kari Mano

Sandy Allnock's blog

Rose Mary Smalley

Nichol Spohr's blog

Marjorie Dumontier

Eloise Blue's blog

Sheri (from Fun With Paper)

Nancy Damiano's blog

Kym Maxwell

Kay Miller's blog

Denise Ward

Nina-Marie Trapani's blog 

Valerie Edwards

Vanessa Menhorn's blog

the crafty math chick

Michelle Short's  blog
Larissa Heskett

Anni Lerche's blog

Parker (from Parker's Imagination)

Lexa Levana's blog

Karenladd

Juliana Michaels' blog

SHartl

You have each won a $25 gift code to our online store.  If you haven't already heard from me, please email us at info@sunnystudiostamps.com to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who visited and left sweet comments on all the blogs.  They were so appreciated by all of us.  :)

Don't forget there's still time for you to take advantage of our Birthday sale.  Use the code CELEBRATE through Sunday at Midnight PST to save 15% off all orders.  

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Heartfelt Wishes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Style Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Wishes Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Inspiration Week: Introducing Jolly Gingerbread Stamps & Dies

Hello everyone!  Thank you for all your sweet feedback this week.  I am thrilled to finally share some ideas using our happy new Jolly Gingerbread stamps and coordinating dies that start shipping tomorrow.

Card No. 1:  I wanted to go bright and happy for this first Christmas card, turning to some non-traditional holiday colors.  I added glossy accents to the the windows and little candies on my Gingerbread House roof and some Stickles glitter glue to the gumdrops.  To tie my Stitched Scalloped borders together with the house, I took a circle snowflake from our Snow Kissed stamps and stamped it in the middle of each scallop.  I then colored them with Copics to match and topped them with more glossy accents.

Card No. 2:  I made a cute tag (by Papertrey Ink) even cuter, using the gumdrop border from the stamp set to frame my little cookie girl and boy.  Of course no gumdrops are complete without sugar sprinkles so I used a little Stardust Stickles glitter to make them look realistic.  A rainbow ribbon by Offray was the perfect finishing touch for this rainbow inspired gift tag.

Card No. 3: I turned to a kraft background to help my images pop on this traditional colored Christmas card.  I paired the cookie tree from this set with the coordinating smaller cookie from the previously released Christmas Icons set to create my little scene.  To pull everything together, I curved my sentiment stamps on my MISTI tool to hug the circle.  I then heat embossed it with white embossing powder to pop against the background.

Card No. 4:  For this rainbow inspired card, I started by adhering a hand cut mask to look like a snowdrift.  I then inked on some Tumbled Glass distress ink to my background before stamps some faint snowflakes using our new Snow Flurries set.  After coloring my little house, I added some liquid applique to look like snow icing and added some little jewels to match where the candies had been stamped.  For my sugar on the gumdrops I added three little dots using my white extra fine point sharpie paint pen (there's also a little stamp image with three dots in the set, but I found it so much quicker to just do it by hand).

Card No. 5:  For this fun shaker style card I started by inking up my card background with a blend of Evergreen Bough and Lucky Clover distress inks.  I then stamped the Frosty Flurries stamp in the background in a similar tone of ink to give the look of splatters. For my top layer I used our Stitched Heart Dies to cut a window from the center of a scalloped panel and filled it with some stamped and colored peppermint candies from the set.

I hope you've enjoyed today's look at the Jolly Gingerbread Stamps and coordinating dies.  Here's a full look at the new sets that will start shipping tomorrow!  Also, as part of our second birthday festivities this week, you can reserve yours today in our store HERE.  Plus use the promo code CELEBRATE to save 15% through October 1st at Midnight PST.

    

Other Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Blissful Baking Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Icons Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Icons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snow Kissed Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Stitched Heart Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Stitched Scallop Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frosty Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snow Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio