Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Comfy Creatures Celebrate the Holidays with Video by Emily

Sunny Studio Stamps: Comfy Creatures & Merry Sentiments Eat, Drink & Be Merry Christmas Card by Emily Leiphart.

Today, I used four stamp sets and a stand-alone die to create a festive party! Oh, how I love those Comfy Creatures! I wanted to create a little family that mimics the Minecraft costumes my family made for Halloween. Since there was no beaver, I used the bear from Sending My Love. I almost drew in a couple of big teeth. LOL My son was a koala bear for his third Halloween and he used to call himself our little koala bear so that's what I used for him. Naturally, I'm a panda! ;)



Sunny Studio Stamps: Comfy Creatures & Merry Sentiments Eat, Drink & Be Merry Christmas Card by Emily Leiphart.

Since I didn't have the coordinating dies for Sending My Love, I used the panda head die and it worked very well. I know that the koala bear isn't wearing any clothes but my son is loving his winter mittens and gloves right now so I figured it looked enough like gloves to work. Plus, the drumstick looked odd sitting there without hands holding it.


Sunny Studio Stamps: Comfy Creatures & Merry Sentiments Eat, Drink & Be Merry Christmas Card by Emily Leiphart.

The stamped part of the sentiment is from Merry Sentiments. I layered the glitter gold Merry Word Die with two layers of craft-a-board to give it dimension to match the critters.


Sunny Studio Stamps: Comfy Creatures & Merry Sentiments Eat, Drink & Be Merry Christmas Card by Emily Leiphart.

The food items are from Summer Picnic and they work so well for this festive scene! All of the stamping was done with Versafine Onyx Black pigment ink and heat embossed with sparkle clear embossing powder. It adds glitter without making a mess! I used washes of colour in the background that mimics the colours I used to colour the critter family.


Sunny Studio Stamps: Comfy Creatures & Merry Sentiments Eat, Drink & Be Merry Christmas Card by Emily Leiphart.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Monday, December 12, 2016

Holiday Style Sending Joy Card with Eloise

Hello everyone! Eloise here and today I'm making another fun card using the Holiday Style stamp set. This one is my personal favourite from the release, I love them all but this one.. it's just gorgeous! So, I decided to use it again today for the look I originally intended to go for. I used some pigment inks along with some more pastel-y, more soft colours for the ornaments and branches too, to create this card here and I love how it turned out, even if stamping a sentiment did take four attempts.


Sunny Studio Stamps: Holiday Style Pastel Ornament Card by Eloise Blue.

So to begin my card today I stamped out all of my ornaments and branches onto some white cardstock in various colours of pigment inks. I used my MISTI to help stamp them all out, these are pretty easy to line up, but the branches I wanted some variation in colour to them, so re stamping the branches was a lot easier with the MISTI tool.

Once I stamped them all out, I used the matching dies to cut all my pieces out. I then applied liquid adhesive to the branch in the back and stuck that down to a kraft panel. I then used foam adhesive and places that on the back of the rest of the pieces and adhered it down into place too. Once I had my layout sorted out, I was going to draw some lines on for the strings, but I didn't want to ruin my card if I didn't like them, so I pulled out some grey thread and decided to thread on the ornaments to the branches, to give a little more texture and I really love how it turned out! I could have tied a bow at the top of each of them, but since the card was quite busy already I didn't want to go over board.


Sunny Studio Stamps: Holiday Style Pastel Ornament Card by Eloise Blue.

Before stamping the sentiment, I decided to go ahead and add some white dots to the background, so I used a white gel pen and added some in the background, fading down to the bottom of the card. I then needed to stamp my sentiment. As mentioned before after 4 attempts I finally liked something. For my first attempt, I stamped the sentiment crooked in the bottom left hand corner, so then I tried to cover it up with a strip, but the strip had to be too thick and the large strip just looked too awkward. Then I decided to cut the kraft piece at an angle, to cut off the failed sentiment and then at this point I embossed the sentiment directly on the white card base and adhered the kraft piece on top, but again I didn't like it so I pulled off the panel, ditched the card base and decided to go with a small sentiment from the Gleeful Reindeer set and heat embossed 'Sending Joy' on a white banner with some silver embossing powder and adhered that in the top right hand corner and I liked that a lot better!

To finish up the card, I then added some Wink of Stella onto the ornaments to make them sparkle and shine!

Thanks for stopping by today I hope you got inspired. Make sure you stop by the blog the rest of the week for more inspiration!

- Eloise


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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Sunny Saturday Share: Customer Christmas Cards


Happy Saturday!  Can you believe how quickly Christmas is approaching?  I haven't stepped foot in a store since Black Friday and I can't tell you how much shopping I still have left to do this year.  I predict there will be a lot of last minute Amazon shopping in my future.  ;)

Thanks to Jennifer McGuire's kind share our social media feeds have been bursting with your amazing cards using our popular Holiday Style set.  For those of you still waiting, please know that I'm doing my very best to get orders out as quickly as possible.  There will be a huge wave of orders going out on Monday and again the following Monday (based on incoming shipments I'm waiting to arrive).  

Holiday Style Cards by Erica Make sure to check out her happy little video demonstrating how they swing and jingle on her instagram feed--It makes me feel so happy!


Sunny Studio Stamps: Holiday Style Jingle Bell Christmas Cards by Erica

Holiday Style Christmas Card by Andrea Shell


Sunny Studio Stamps: Holiday Style Christmas Card by Andrea Shell

Mug Hugs Card by Rachel Bergfeld



Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Hot Cocoa Card by Rachel Bergfeld

Christmas Icons Tic Tac Toe game by Kimberly Rendino


Sunny Studio Stamps: Christmas Icons Santa & Snowman Tic Tac Toe game by Kimberly Rendino

Holiday Style Christmas Gift Tags by Marilyn Martin


Sunny Studio Stamps: Holiday Style Jingle Bell Christmas Gift Tags by Marilyn Martin

Holiday Style Jingle Bell Card by Deana Benson


Sunny Studio Stamps: Holiday Style Jingle Bell Card by Deana Benson

Mug Hugs Card by Jessica Pascarella (created for MarkerPop Blog)


Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Card by Jessica Pascarella (created for MarkerPop Blog)

Holiday Style Bookmark by Valerie Garbo


Sunny Studio Stamps: Holiday Style Christmas Bookmark by Valerie Garbo

Holiday Style Christmas Card by Waleska Galindo


Sunny Studio Stamps: Holiday Style Christmas Card by Waleska Galindo

Bundled Up Penguin Christmas Card by Waleska Galindo


Sunny Studio Stamps: Bundled Up Penguin Christmas Card by Waleska Galindo

Mug Hugs Hot Cocoa Pockets by Amy Tsuruta


Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Hot Cocoa Pockets by Amy Tsuruta

Merry Sentiments Card by Kari Webster (with video tutorial HERE)


Sunny Studio Stamps: Merry Sentiments Card by Kari Webster

Thank you for sharing all these fabulous ideas with us!  I hope you will continue to share your gorgeous projects--It always makes my day to come across 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. ☺


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Friday, December 9, 2016

Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Hello & Welcome!  Sunny Studio is super excited to be a super sponsor and hopping along with the winter edition of the Coffee Lovers bloghop today!  For those of you just joining in, it's a hop where you are encouraged to join in and link up a coffee or hot cocoa inspired project.  In addition to loads of yummy inspiration, those who participate will be entered to win some pretty amazing prizes from a great list of sponsors!

Since I'm sure we have a lot of new faces here today I thought I would re-share some of my favorite Mug Hugs projects from the past couple of months.  :)

Coffee Christmas Gift Tags


Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Coffee Christmas Tags by Mendi Yoshikawa

You Warm My Heart Christmas Card
Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Christmas Card by Mendi Yoshikawa


We Go Together like Cocoa & Marshmallows Card
Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Hot Chocolate Card by Mendi Yoshikawa

Sending A Big Hug In A Mug card by Emily Leiphart


Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Christmas Card by Emily Leiphart

Reindeer Mug Christmas Card by Vanessa Menhorn. 


Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Reindeer Christmas Card by Vanessa Menhorn.

Sending A Big Hug In A Mug Card by Lexa Levana


Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Christmas Card by Lexa Levana.

Mug Hugs Shaker Christmas Gift Tag by Lindsey Sams



Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Christmas Gift Tag by Lindsey Sams


Wishing You A Cup of Cheer Rainbow Coffee Cup Card
Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Cup of Cheer Coffee Christmas Card by Mendi Yoshikawa


Mug Hugs Winter Card by Eloise Blue


Sunny Studio Stamps: Mug Hugs Christmas Card by Eloise Blue

Phew!  Are you still with me?  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I have included links above to their original posts if a particular card has caught your eye and you would like to read more about how it was created.  ;)

I hope you will join in the hop and create some mug inspired projects of your own.  Make sure to check out everyone who is hopping so far on the Coffee Lover Blog.







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