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 images are just darling – thanks for sharing:)
These are so adorable, I especially love the first two – brilliant designs!
So super cute!!
The first card is beautiful. Love the inked brayered background. The animal cards are darling. Thanks for sharing.
Adorable critters!
These stamps and your cards are the cutest! All the critter stamps have so much personality and you showcased them in your cards so perfectly!
From elegant to cute and adorable, these cards really have style! What great Christmas stamps, thanks for sharing.
Super CUTE Christmas critters, great projects!
Adorable cards and fabulous colors! Thanks for the inspiration.
What a great assortment of Christmas stamps!! I love the owls, the layering Holiday set, the llamas, the dies… It’s hard to pick a favorite!!
Those little critters are adorable! But the stunner is the pinecones and evergreen card. I LOVE that one.
All the creatures are adorable, the alpacas are my favorite!
ohh, those are so cute and adorable! not always do you get to see such a lovely collection and you have done a fabulous job utilising those little creatures. I especially love the one with different patterned paper layers. gorgeous!
I follow the blog through email. Super cute cards today!
These cards are so cute!
Super cute cards.
Adorable little critters!!
I really love the first card–so beautiful! May need that embossing folder!
Mendi, your first card is a stunner! Thanks for explaining how you made it. I love all your cute creatures, but I especially love the alpacas! My Grandchildren want me to order that one next because we have 2 dark rusty-brown alpacas living down the road from us. Your company is my favorite stamp and die company…wish I could buy everything in your shop! Love all of your card designs, too!
Love Mendi’s work and her Sunny Studio stamps…so cute and love her style.
Foxes, owls and alpacas, oh my! And all on adorable cards! Oh, my!
The critters are super cute on your cards.
Love these little critters! That fox stole my heart :D
Mendi’s projects are always so fun and inspiring. Love these sweet critters.
Beautiful cards!
These are the cutest little critters. I already follow by email.
I just received the Dapper Diamonds embossing folder in the mail today and can’t wait to try your pigment ink/brayer technique, it is gorgeous on your card. I love the Christmas Trimmings, it’s my next must have from that release lol. Those pine cones are so perfect. I love your card by the way lol. ([email protected])
Gorgeous Christmas inspiration!! Love the colouring!
SO CUTE!!! I LOVE Sunny Studios:)
These cards are so cute!!! Perfect to spread good cheer at Christmas!
I love the Foxy Christmas and Happy Owlidays cards – so cute! So is the Alpaca Holiday one! The first card is so pretty and elegant.
I am madly in love with the foxy Christmas card.
Ack! Great cards! I love seeing new ways to use cute little characters :)
Makes me in the Christmas mood viewing these lovely makes TFS
What delightful stamps and card samples. tfs
There’s something for everyone here from classy to adorable! Fabulous artwork!
Those fox are just darling!
Love the super gorgeous projects!
This release is just wonderful! These cards are truly amazing! I love them all but I was taken with the blue embossing folder card – so elegant! Thanks so much for the great inspiration!
Fun and festive
cards! I love the
Owls and the foxes,
too cute.
Carla from Utah
OMG! All those critters are just adorable!
This is such a fab range of cards from the traditional to the more whimsical. Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh wow, these cards are so so fun and cute
Super adorable new images and cards from Sunny Studio Stamps and my favorite is those darling foxes!
these cards are just gorgeous!!!!
Awesome Christmas cards! Love them all, especially the first one!
Those are SUPER CUTE cards!!
Way cute inspiration … I think my favorite is the Alpaca stamp se… the Warm wishes are adorable !
Absolutely LOVE these ideas!!!!
Sunny Studio is one of my favorite companies. Their stamps and dies are amazing, and now they are offering fantastic embossing folders. :) Thanks for sharing these great cards featuring their wonderful new products.