Holiday Inspiration with Sunny Studio Stamps!
Hi friends! Happy Monday! Please join me in welcoming back very special guest Mendi Yoshikawa of Sunny Studio Stamps to our blog today! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the blog, don’t you think?! It’s never too early to start your holiday cardmaking and we want to keep you inspired! Read on for 4 new ideas and enjoy!
Hello there! It’s Mendi here today sharing four playful Christmas cards featuring some of Sunny Studio’s newest release for Winter, which includes 6 new stamp sets and coordinating dies, 8 standalone dies, 2 embossing folders, and 1 6×6 Holiday Paper Pack.
For my first project o,f the day I have an elegant card using our newest layering stamp set called Christmas Trimmings. It comes with three-layered holly leaves, two options for berries, a pine cone and a beautiful Merry Christmas greeting. To create my card I started by die-cutting a 3″ circle from the center of my front card panel. I then used a brayer to roll on some Robin’s Egg pigment ink onto the raised surface of our new Dapper Diamonds 6×6 embossing folder. After the ink was smoothly applied across the raised surface, I carefully sandwiched my front card panel into the embossing folder before running it through my die-cutting machine.
I’m so in love with the results! It adds ink to all the recessed areas of your cardstock, leaving the embossed areas white. Pigment ink is ideal for this technique because it won’t bead up on the plastic surface and the brayer gives you a perfectly smooth application.
I completed my card by cutting apart two stamped tree branches to give me the ability to move them around to the right angle for my grouping and I was able to hide my cuts by layering them beneath the holly. I completed the card by stamping a sentiment from our Festive Greetings stamps.
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Up next I have a playful Christmas card using our Foxy Christmas stamps and a card inspired by the great Melania Deasy and a card she shared HERE. I have always been completely taken with her beautiful graphic design and the overlapping of her colors! For my card, I used a 1-3/4″ circle punch to punch a circle border approximately a 1/2″ to 1″ from the bottom of my front card panel. I saved those circles and used them to help me position masks I had created by punching a hole of the same size from full adhesive post-it notes.
I then took turns moving my masks to color them in with my favorite Jumbo dauber applicator and distress inks in worn lipstick, tumbled glass, twisted citron and candied apple. When I was done inking my circles, I was able to add the negative spaces from my original punched border to my card and stamp a sweet sentiment from the set in black ink. This border is the perfect idea for fitting a number of cute images from your favorite stamp sets!
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For my next card, I have a holiday card combining the images from our new Happy Owlidays Stamps with the bright and happy papers from our Holiday Cheer 6×6 paper pack. This sets comes with several companion images that allow you to dress the owls up for the holidays with a separate tree costume, reindeer antlers and even a gift box with lid for him to hide in. There are also a number of other fun components in this set for endless scene building options!
To create my little boxes to frame my owls I turned to the scalloped tag from our Sliding Window dies and just cut off the top portion. I then mimicked the scalloped trim along the top of my card using our Stitched Scallop Border dies. A fun punny sentiment heat embossed in white completes my card.
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For my last card of the day, I started by painting a loose circle onto a piece of watercolor paper using some Daniel Smith watercolors. When it was completely dry I heat embossed some snowflakes in white along the top from our new Alpaca Holiday stamp set and stamped a sentiment along the bottom curve using Versafine Onyx Black ink.
I then cut down my panel to 4″ x 5.25″ and mounted it onto a piece of heavyweight red cardstock being extra generous with my adhesive to smooth out any warping of the watercolor paper. I colored my little guys & their winter gear using Copic markers to match my cardstock border and mounted them onto my card using foam tape for extra dimension.
Thanks so much to Simon Says Stamp for having me today. I hope I’ve inspired you in all your holiday card making endeavors. I would love to hear which products are your favorite from our new release!
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Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks to Mendi for being our guest!
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These little critters are so adorable! :) My favorite are the foxes. Such cute cards!
These stamp images are adorable! Oh so cute!
I love Sunny Studios soooo much! Such a cute owl and fox set!
The critter cards are absolutely adorable! I love the first card too, especially the recessed coloring. Thanks for sharing!
Every one of these projects is amazing! You have so much creativity and talent! The embossed bg on the first card is gorgeous, but then I just love those little alpacas. The owls are so sweet, so, goodness, I adore them all! :)
Such cute cards! Absolutely love them!
Especially like the critters: Foxes, Owls & Llamas.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
The first one is gorgeous! I love the holly and pine bough, and those little critters are just too cute!
Beautiful cards, all so cute and colorful!
Foxes are awesome x
Such fabulous cards! I love the designs!
Awww!!! All these cards are so stinkin’ cute!!! My faves are Alpacas!!!
These cards are wonderful. They are so colorful and Christmasy. I love how they are all different and the coloring is fantastic.
These stamps are adorable! Such a beautiful bunch of cards :)
Lovely cards :-) These critters are so cute .
Fabulous creations!! I love the adorable critters :) And awesome coloring!
I love all the stamps from Sunny Studios!
Love the banners for each owl.
That is such a fun design idea – it;s
a good chance to show off several
stamps. The fuzzy lambs are
darling. Great cards.
thanks for sharing
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These cards have actually made me look forward to making christmas cards…..in October. So cute!!
Darling!
Such super cute Christmas cards! So festive
These images are super cute.
What adorable cards! All these critters are so sweet!
All of the cards are adorable!! Sunny Studios has some adorable stamps!! Love the layering stamps, they are so realistic and the critter stamps are just so cute! Thanks so much for sharing these great Christmas, which reminds me that I need to start making my Christmas cards, it’s that time of the year again!!
So much adorable inspiration! I can’t wait for the holiday season to recreate some of these cards!! My favorite is the one inspired by Melania.
First Mendi, let me just say these are ALL fantastic cards, so adorable. However, the first card is so elegant with the Dapper Diamond embossing folder and the Christmas Trimmings set, that it is def. my fave card. As for the my fave products from this release, the 2 mentioned above are absolutely my top picks! Very well done.
Love all the cute critters!
These images are too cute!
Such fun holiday card ideas!
Super duper cute cards. Love the adorable critters.
Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely adorable!
All those cards are great, but I must admit, I am partial to foxes.
The llamas are just my style. They are a family favorite.
Wonderful cards. Really love the first one. So gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing…
This release is soooo Fabulous!! Adorable cards!!!!
All of these are so darn cute!!
Gorgeous cards, adorable with the critters on it and by the first card I love what you did with the embossingfolder and the ink, it gives the card such a sophisticated look. Thank you so much for sharing.
These little animals are so, so cute and the cards area outstanding. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
These cards are wonderful! The critters are adorable and I love the Christmas Trimmings stamp set. :)
Cute cards and what a cute release!
I love all of the Sunny Studio stamp sets in this release. The Seasons Greeting card is so pretty! I love everything about it.
These are all just darling!
Always love seeing such adorable cards with Sunny Studios stamps. Mendi is so talented!
The foxy Christmas is such a cute set.
Very cute cards, I love Sunny Studio, I have a ton of their products.
Beautiful and sweet cards and images!
Great bold colots and CAs cards!
LOVE the foxes!
Love these cards! Makes me wish I could go home and start on my Christmas cards!
Super adorable and sweet holiday cards! What an amazing release!