Guest Designer Spotlight: Cards with Stephanie Isom

Hello friends, Stephanie Isom here with you today and I’m happy to be back on the Sunny Studio blog to share 3 fun holiday cards using stamps and dies from the latest release. 

My first card is a clean and simple design featuring  the gorgeous Pristine Poinsettia and Winter Greenery dies. I love the layers of this beautiful poinsettia. I started with a standard A2 white card base and die cut the Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace layer out of white card stock. For the sentiment, I stamped, heat embossed, and die cut Merry Christmas using the Seasons Greetings stamps and coordinating die set. I heat embossed with silver embossing powder. I also die cut the sentiment out of a very thin foam, to make Merry Christmas pop up a little and adhered to the top half of my card.

Next, I die cut the layers of the Pristine Poinsettia and Winter Greenery out of red, silver and green card stock and adhered them to the bottom corner of the card. To finish, I added silver enamel dots around the sentiment. This card is simple and uses classic Holiday colors, and a beautifully scripted sentiment that I just love.

For the next two cards I used cuties from the Christmas Critters stamp and die set. I started with an A2 card base and then cut some 6x6 papers from the All Is Bright pattern paper pack to add  layers. I used the Fancy Frame Rectangles and the Scalloped Tags Circle dies to frame the wreath and little mouse. The scallop circle tag is cut from silver, glitter card stock.  

I stamped, colored and die cut the mouse and wreath and popped them up with foam squares. Next, I stamped Merry Christmas and die cut a banner also from Fancy Frames Rectangles. To finish, I added a few turquoise glitter enamel dots. 

The last card is a slimline size with plenty of cute critter faces. I cut the first layer from the Slimline Scalloped Frame die and then cut 3 squares in the center of that. I used Spun Sugar and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxides to ink blend and color the background squares. I used white and black inks to add subtle splatters over top of the oxide backgrounds.  

I stamped, colored and die cut the images and adhered them all with foam squares. To complete the card, I used a thin banner die cut from black card stock and white heat embossed the sentiment.  

That’s it for me today, thanks for stopping by. And thank you Sunny Studios for letting me play with such delightful stamps and dies and having me as a guest today! Happy Crafting.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Critters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Critters DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fancy Frames- Rectangles Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Scalloped Tags-Circle Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Scalloped Frame Shop at: Sunny Studio	Season's Greetings Word Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pristine Poinsettia Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Winter Greenery DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio

Holiday Express Cards with Audrey and Tammy

Hello friends! Audrey here with a fun holiday card to share with you! 

To create my card, I started off with a piece of patterned paper from the All Is Bright 6x6 paper pad cut to 4" x 5.25". I used the Forest Trees Stencil and teal and green shades of Distress Oxide ink to add a tree line near the top of the panel, when splattered the paper with watered down white paint to add more snowflakes to the background. I added a snowy hill to the bottom of the panel using the Slimline Nature Borders dies and some white cardstock. Then, I stamped and colored images from the Holiday Express stamp set with my Copic markers and die cut them with the coordinating Holiday Express dies. I popped those images up with foam tape once I was happy with the arrangement.

I stamped a sentiment from the set onto a die cut banner and adhered it under the train on the snow bank. Next, I added some die cut snowflakes to the sky above the train using the Basic Mini Shapes II dies, along with some snowflakes made with white Nuvo Drops. Before mounting the panel to an A2 card base with foam tape, I added a strip of candy cane striped paper from the All is Bright paper pad. I finished off my card with some white gel pen accents.

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Hello friends! Tammy here today with this fun holiday card, featuring the adorable set, Holiday Express. Santa and his reindeer are traveling by train this year to deliver all the Christmas packages, haha! 

To begin, I cut a piece of Bristol smooth cardstock to 3 1/2 X 8 1/2" and ink blended the background with Peacock Feathers, Broken China, and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide inks. I cut a snowy border using the Slimline Nature Borders Dies, lightly inking the edge with Tumbled Glass ink before attaching to the bottom of the inked background. Next, I splattered white acrylic paint onto the background for a snowy effect.

I stamped the images from Holiday Express, colored with Copic markers, and die cut with the Holiday Express Dies. I then splattered white acrylic paint, thinned with water, onto the die cut images to give the appearance of freshly fallen snow.

Next, I attached all the images to my card, using foam tape for dimension. Lastly, I stamped the sentiment in black ink across the top of my card then attached it to a 3 1/2 X 8 1/2 white card base to complete my card. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Mini Basic Shape Dies II Shop at: Sunny Studio	Slimline Nature Borders Shop at: Sunny Studio	Forest Trees Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio
All Is Bright Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio