Jolly Gingerbread Starry Sky Background Christmas Card with Nancy

Hey there Sunny Studio fans, Nancy here with you today with a look at the Jolly Gingerbread stamp set in all its holiday glory! This my favorite set from the holiday to color. There are so many possibilities and color schemes for a village of gingerbread houses. 

I created a starry sky background with a splash of ombre watercolor using Distress Inks in Blueprint Sketch, Faded Jeans and Broken China. A splatter of water lends a twinkling sky effect that gives the background great depth. The gingerbread house was colored with Zig Clean Watercolor Pens for a bright splash of color. 

The smaller Christmas trees are from the Christmas Home stamp set. The title was stamped and embossed in white ink on a black background to give it some pop. Last, a shower of Christmas lollipops were added just beneath the starry sky to give the card some movement and color.

​This was such a fun card to create with some simple watercolor techniques. Check out the Jolly Gingerbread stamp and steel die set for your next round of Christmas cards!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

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

Petite Poinsettias Merry Christmas Card with Eloise

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I'll be using the Petite Poinsettias stamp set to create a simple Christmas Card. I love these layering sets, they're so realistic and gorgeous!

To begin I stamped out three Poinsettias with some red inks, layering them up from lightest to darkest as I go. I then stamped the centres with two yellow inks and the leaves with two greens also. I then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Next, I took a piece of watercolour paper, and ink blended some Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers inks in the centre, and faded them out into white. I then flicked some water over top, dried it off with a heat tool and set it off to the side.

I then used the Merry Word Die to cut out a gold merry sentiment, and added little strips of foam tape onto the back. I then added foam tape to the back of my poinsettias also. I then adhered down my leaves and poinsettias in the top left hand corner. I then adhered my Merry word below and took the 'Merry Christmas' sentiment from Polar Playmates, masked it off and just stamped 'Christmas' below the Merry die cut. To finish off my card, I coated the poinsettias in Wink of Stella and also adhered my entire panel onto some blue woodgrain patterned paper and then adhered that onto a card base.

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

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Merry Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio

Petite Poinsettias Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Petite Poinsettias Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sunny Saturday Share: Christmas and Winter Themed Customer Cards

How are you? I'm so excited to be popping in today with a Sunny Saturday Share. There have been so many amazing Christmas and winter themed card and tags popping up on Instagram that have caught our eye, and I couldn't wait to share them with all of you! 

Holiday Style family Christmas cards by Caly Person

Petite Poinsettias and Merry Word Die card by Kimberly Rendino

Holiday Style card by Ali

Holiday Style gift tags by Crafted By Design

Christmas Home card by Lori Uren

Playful Polar Bears card by Waleska Galindo

Mug Hugs card by Rachel Bergfeld

Mug Hugs card by Creations Galore

Holiday Style & Merry Sentiments card by Susan White

Holiday Style card by Ruth Teague

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. ☺


Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Holiday Style Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Style Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Sentiments Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Sentiments Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Merry Word Die Shop at: Sunny Studio
Mug Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mug Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Petite Poinsettias Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Petite Poinsettias Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Triple Bear Delight Holiday Card with Lexa

Hi everyone! Lexa here today with a winter theme card using Playful Polar Bears stamp and the coordinating dies. What's better than a cute polar bear on your card? Three polar bears, of course.

I divided my card into three sections, die cut stitched hills and blended some Cracked Pistachio Distress ink to give some depth and dimension. I created a gradation Seedless Preserved for the sky, and once I was with the blending I stamped some snowflakes on the background to fill in the empty space. I stamped all the images with Versafine black ink and watercolored them with Distress markers. I also added some accents with a white gel pen after the watercolor completely dried up. The sentiment is stamped following the snow hill's curves, and I think it looks really cute.

To finish my card, I created some dots using Nuvo Drops aqua glitter. It really gives my card some sparkles. Which is always needed for holiday cards! Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you enjoy today's post. Have an amazing December everyone!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Christmas Home Stamped Background Christmas Card with Vanessa

Hi there! Vanessa here today with a loosely watercolored card using Christmas Home. For this card, I thought it would be fun to use the images on the background, not as a focal point.

I started with a panel of watercolor paper and stamped the images using waterproof ink. Then I colored them in loosely with watercolors. After the background was dried, I adhered the panel to the card. Now I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment onto a rectangle of red cardstock and adhered it. Finally, I added red enamel dots to the card.

With this technique you could mass produce cards easily, just stamp the images onto a large piece of watercolor paper, then color and trim the paper into panels. Because you don't have to care much about staying inside the lines of the images, the coloring is done pretty quickly :)

Thanks for stopping by today, see you next week!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Fireplace Shaped Dies Christmas Notepad with Franci

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday! It's Franci here with you today with a new Christmas project featuring the new Fireplace Shaped dies and my favourite - the Playful Polar Bears! This new die set is amazing. The first thing I thought when I saw it months ago was that I wanted to make a Christmas notepad with it. So here's it is!

The fireplace is cute and the set is full of little details to rock it out. You can have fun building the fire and the stockings, and you only have to change color combos to have a completely new scene! I die cut all my pieces out of some white cardstock and then colored them by sponging on Distress inks.

Then I didn't separate those 4 little rectangles that are the fireplace bricks and instead I embossed them to give my fireplace extra interest. You can actually use any dies to create an emboss effect. You only have to set up your die cutting machine to the emboss mode and create this sandwich: clear plate, embossing mat, cardstock, die, clear plate. Then you run it all through and the magic happens!

Then I sponged some more distress ink onto the embossed bricks to give even more dimension. I stamped lots of images from the Playful Polar Bears stamp set and I also added the gifts from the Gleeful Reindeer stamp set and hollies from the Blissful Baking set. I colored them with Copic markers and then die cut them with their coordinating dies.

I stamped my sentiment from the Gleeful Reindeer stamp set and drew some lines for my stockings to hang on with a fine tip black marker. I put lots and lots of Wink Of Stella onto my scene to create sparkly details and let everything dry.

And here we come to the funny and time consuming part - creating the notepad! First of all, I used copy papers and I die cut lots and lots of fireplaces with the die. Since copy paper is so thin you can cut more layers at once. I die cut something like 30 layers because I wanted my notepad to be light and manageable (like you can carry it around in your purse and don't feel it at all!).

Then I stuck all my layers one on top of another, and added my decorated piece on top. I put some liquid glue at the top, and secured all my die cuts with big paper clips to press them together until they dried. I did it before going to bed so they had all the night to dry completely.

Hope you like my project and thank you so so much for stopping by! 

Sunny Studio Supplies Used: 

Blissful Baking Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Blissful Baking Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gleeful Reindeer Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gleeful Reindeer Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fireplace Shaped Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio