Fall Scene with Pumpkin Bear

 Happy Thursday Crafty Friends!!

Cathy here today with a Fall scene card featuring the adorable Pumpkin Bear stamps!

This is a pretty simple scene to create. I cut a piece of white cardstock 3 3/4" x 5" and inked an Autumn sky using Ripe Persimmon, Scattered Straw, Tattered Rose and Antique Linen distress inks with a sun ray stencil from my stash.

I die-cut a few hillsides and inked them with Shabby Shutters distress ink and then colored up a fence and tree die-cuts with Copic markers.

The leaves are starting to turn here and nights are getting chillier, so I'm definitely in the Fall mood!

Hope you're having a wonderful crafty week!

Who Let the Reindeer Out?!

Hello, and welcome! It’s Karen here again and I’ve got two Christmas cards to share with you today featuring the Reindeer and a Tree stamp set from Gerda Steiner Designs.  We’ve had our Thanksgiving here in Canada, and Halloween is almost here, so I’ve been on a roll making Christmas cards lately - I hope that’s not too early for you!  I’m trying very hard to use my stamps and dies more frequently but in different ways, so since I had two cards made with this set, I thought I’d share both of them with you.

I stamped all the adorable reindeer and the Santa images and copic coloured them in (copic markers used are listed below), and then cut out my images.  I used a snow marker (Marvy Embellishing Snow Marker) on Santa’s hat trim and pompom to give them some dimension. I also added some Glossy Accents to Rudolph’s nose and the collars.

For my background, I cut from white cardstock, 3 layers of the “Simply Diamonds“ die from PinkFresh Studios and saved one layer of the inner die cut pieces.  I ink blended these smaller, inset pieces with a mix of Distress Oxide inks in Festive Berries, Barn Door, Candied Apple, Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn and Crushed Olive. After gluing together the die cut panels, I adhered them to my card base and then inset the ink blended pieces.  

Then I adhered the reindeer and Santa with foam tape inside the diamonds on the panel.  The sentiment is from Picket Fence Studios “Santa’s Sleigh Ride” and I just thought it went well with all these somewhat mischievous looking reindeer. Finally, I added some Studio Katia Icy Sparkle crystals. 

And for my second card ...

For this card, I copic coloured the images which are all from the same stamp set.  I added the ornaments, lights, and candy cane from the set because I wanted to make it look like the reindeer were having a little too much fun with the decorating.  I added some black cord around the reindeer with the lights, and glued it behind his back. Then I glued the lights around and under the cord.

I made the strip of patterned paper from various papers I had in my stash.  I cut them into strips and then used a tape gun to adhere them to a piece of cardstock on the diagonal. I embossed a piece of white cardstock for the bottom half.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set too - bonus! - and I just embossed it with gold embossing powder. I added a little ink blending behind the patterned strip with Distress Ink Festive Berries, and popped the reindeer up on foam tape. 

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you’re having a great day!

Copic markers used:

Reindeer - E51, E53, E25, E33, N6, N4, R20, R00, YR23 and R29

Santa - R39, R29, R35, N6, N4, YR23, C0, C1, C2, E000, R20, R00

Happy halloween - Larissa

 

Hi everyone, I am Larissa from Car-d-elicious and today I am posting a new card on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs. I have made a halloween card with the clear stamp set Peekin' pumpkin kitty from Gerda Steiner designs. I have stamped the image on Aquarelpapier smooth Wit 200g A6 from Vaessen creative with Versafine clair nocturne ink and then I embossed the image with clear embossingpowder. I have coloured the image with my Distress inks.

I have die-cut the image with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 33 from Crealies and then I glued the image on a scalloped circle that I have die-cut from black cardstock with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 53 from Crealies. I have used a black card. I glued orange patterned paper on the card from the Tiny check brights paperpad from My favorite things after I have die-cut it with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 34 from Crealies and then I glued it on the card. I have tied black seam binding around the front of the card and then I glued the circle on the card. Under the image I have stamped a sentiment from the set Peekin' pumpkin kitty from Gerda Steiner designs. 

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STAMP: Peekin' pumpkin kitty from Gerda Steiner designs

COLORING MEDIUM: Distress inks

PAPER: Watercolour paper, Black cs, Tiny check brights paperpad from My favorite things

INK: Versafine clair nocturne

DIES: Crea-nest-lies XXL 33, 34 and 53 from Crealies

ACCESSORIES: Clear embossingpowder, Black seam binding

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