Guest Designer Spotlight: Winter Christmas Card with Kay Miller

Hi there! Kay Miller here, and I am super happy to be guesting again with Sunny Studio Stamps! Their cute designs always bring a smile to my face!

For my card here, I used the Playful Polar Bears stamp set and coordinating dies. The little trees in the background are from the Christmas Home stamp set. For my background I used Distress Ink on Bristol Board. I blended Peacock Feathers over the whole panel and added Mermaid Lagoon across the top. I sprinkled that with water and then some white ink.  I cut two snowy hills for my scene, and glued those flat to my blended panel. All of the images were colored with Copic markers.

I love the way the coordinating dies cut little slits along their hands and arms so you can tuck the items underneath them! So fun! I added the trees with liquid adhesive and tucked them behind the snowy hills, then adhered the bears and gift box with foam tape. The sentiment is from Playful Polar Bears stamp set and Christmas Home stamp set. I embossed it with white embossing powder and adhered them with foam tape as well.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out all of the fun stamps and dies at Sunny Studio Stamps!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Snow & Frosty Flurries Winter Background Christmas Card with Lexa

Hi everyone! Lexa here today with a Christmas card inspiration highlighting the brand new background stamps from Sunny Studio, Frosty Flurries and Snow Flurries. And for this card, I'll be combine those two to create my background.

First of all, I embossed the sentiment from Festive Greetings Stamp with silver embossing powder and heat gun. Then I embossed both Frosty Flurries and Snow Flurries, I don't even mind if they are overlapping each other. Then I blended Peacock Feather and Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink over the card. The coolest thing about this technique is when you blend those inks on the paper, the embossed stamps will resist. The glossy effect is super cool!

As for my scene, I use the Christmas Chapel and some ornaments from Christmas Home to complete the whole scene. Isn't that snowman the cutest? I stamped all the images with Versafine black ink and watercolored them with Distress Markers. After I finished with the coloring, I die cut them all with the coordinating dies.

Thank you so much for visiting today. I hope you all have an amazing day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Chapel Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Chapel Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Frosty Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snow Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Jolly Gingerbread Snowy Hilltop Gingerbread House Card with Vanessa

Hi there! Vanessa here today with a new card using Jolly Gingerbread. Did you ever make a real gingerbread house? I tried once and failed - but with these stamps you can create the cutest gingerbread scenes easily :)

I first hand-cut a snowy hill from white cardstock, stamped my sentiment and adhered the hill to the blue card base. Now I stamped the images, colored them with Copics and fussy-cut everything. 

I added hearts from the set and snowflakes from Polar Playmates with white ink and adhered the images to the card.

I hope you like my yummy scene today! Thank you for stopping by!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Jolly Gingerbread Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio

25 Days of Christmas Tags with Franci, Lexa & Mendi

Hello there!  We're so excited to be joining you today to share some fun ideas for holiday gift tags for Day 8 of Tracey McNeely's 25 Days of Christmas Tags!  :)

Hello there! Franci here with you today with some festive tags! I'm super happy to be part of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2017 by Tracey!!

I created these tags with the Petite Poinsettias and the Festive Greetings stamp sets. I die cut them with the Tag Topper Dies -Traditional and I colored them with Distress Inks. The colors that I used are: Spiced Marmalade, Tumbled Glass, Shabby Shutters and Abandoned Coral. I sprinkled them with a little with water, and then put a paper towel on the top to remove the excess water and let them dry.

I stamped all my poinsettias and I die cut them with the coordinating dies. Then I stamped all of my sentiments onto my tags with the Versamark ink and heat embossed all of them with a silver embossing powder. Finally, I glued all of the flowers in place and added some twine and ribbons to make them extra festive. Perfect for all my Christmas gifts! 

Next up is Lexa... Hi there!  Today I used the Cresent Tag Topper Dies to make my tag.  I used the largest one which is 3" wide. Since I'm totally a dog person, I choose this adorable puppy from Pet Sympathy and add the Santa hat from Jolly Gingerbread Stamps. This little friend originally had a heart on his mouth, but I replaced it with a Christmas sock from Playful Polar Bear instead. The present comes from the older stamp set, Christmas Icons, just like it's name you can find anything related to Christmas in one stamp set.

I blended some Mowed Lawn Distress Inks for the background and stamped some cute paws with green dye ink. A classic red, green and gold won't hurt at all. It's simple and lovely as always. I use matching thin ribbon and twines, and finished it with some pretty sequins.

For the last set of tags, I couldn't resist joining in the fun with some tags of my own using our Sunny Semi Circles dies for the tag shape and Polar Playmate stamps (& various other sets) for embellishing.  ;)  

I cut a 2.5" wide x 4" high tag from white cardstock which I masked off for the snow drift before applying Shaded Lilac distress ink to my background and rounding the bottom corners.  I then stamped the background twice with our mini Frosty Flurries stamps which I heat embossed with white pearl embossing powder.

Then for each tag, I cut two more from black polka-dot paper measuring 3" x 4.5".  I wanted my tags to look as cute on the back as on the front so I adhered my cardstock tag to the patterned paper and stitched around the edge before adhering the second piece cut from patterned paper to the back of my tags.  Once they were adhered together, I was able to use my Crop-a-dile to punch a hole in the top and set an eyelet to run my twine through.  I love the finished look an eyelet gives to gift tags, don't you?

I hope we've inspired you to create some gift tags of your own and will join the festivities over on Tracey's blog.  There's so many great prizes up for grabs.  ;)

Here's a list of all the fabulous sponsors sharing ideas for Christmas tags this month:

1 Simon Says Stamp
2 Newtons Nook
3 CAS-ual Fridays
4 Reverse Confetti
5 Altenew
6 Lil’ Inker Designs
7 Birch Press
8 Sunny Studio
9 Paper Sweeties
10 Winnie & Walter  
11 Studio Katia 
12 Lawn Fawn & Lawn Fanatics 
13 Neat & Tangled 
14 Concord & 9th and C9
15 Muse
16 Ellen Hutson 
17 Jillibean Soup
18 Avery Elle
19 Technique Tuesday
20 Waffle Flower
21 Uniko
22 Stamplorations
23 Pretty Pink Posh
24 Right at Home
25 Pink & Main
26 High Hopes Rubber Stamps (bonus day)

Thanks so much for joining us!  :)

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Tag Topper Dies-Traditional Shop at: Sunny Studio	Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Petite Poinsettias Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Petite Poinsettias Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bundled Up Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Icons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snow Kissed Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sunny Semi Circles Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frosty Flurries Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polar Playmates Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Christmas Icons Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tag Topper Dies-Crescent Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pet Sympathy Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pet Sympathy Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Jolly Gingerbread Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Polar Playmates Winter Themed Christmas Card with Nancy

Hey there everyone, Nancy here today with a look at the Polar Playmates stamp and coordinating die set. While this set is not Christmas theme, I thought that combining it with a few of my favorite holiday stamps would make for a cute card! Who doesn’t love a Christmas seal?

To begin this card, I started by masking the bottom of the card with a strip of washi tape and blending Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to create a soft background. Next, the stamped images were watercolored with bright hues from the Peerless Watercolor cards. I pulled out a stamp set from last year, Christmas Icons, to add some holiday style in the form of wreath to the igloo! This instantly turned it into a Christmas card. 

The sled and candy canes are from the Playful Polar Bears stamp set and added a whimsical and holiday spirit to the card. The sentiment from the Festive Greetings stamp set was stamped in black in the upper right hand corner. Just underneath the "from our home to yours" sentiment from the Christmas Home stamp set was stamped in red. The row of dots underlines the word "joy" and leads the eye straight across the large sentiment block. A sprinkle of clear sequins in a few different sizes tie the top and bottom halves of the card.

Remember to combine your favorite stamp sets to create some holiday cheer! All of the winter friends found in the Polar Playmates stamp set make for perfect Christmas cards with a few holiday touches.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Icons Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Home Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Festive Greetings Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Playful Polar Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Polar Playmates Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polar Playmates Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio