Here Comes Sportsy Santa!

 Woosh!

Greetings everyone! It's me again, Jessie Scott (@chevy.scott on IG), Guest Designing for Gerda Steiner Designs!

Today I'm sharing this super fun interactive card using Sportsy Santa. To make this interactive element, I used the (sadly) retired My Favorite Things Launch Party dies, but the newer Lawn Fawn Swish n' Pop will give you a similar effect if you have this die.

I colored my Santa with my OLO Markers and added stripes with a fine liner pen to give the snowboard a peppermint look. I added the goggles and gave it a look of glass adding some white gel pen accents.

I assembled my interactive onto a 4" x 5-1/4" navy piece or cardstock according to the assembly video and tried out my Santa to be sure I could hide him behind a slope of snow. Looks like it will work! I added another piece of glitter paper on top to give a dimension to the slopes of snow. Before I glue everything down, I wanted to spritz up the background a little!

With an interactive image dragging across the background you don't want embossing folders or pastes that create something for the image to catch on. Using ink and a stencil or some light splattering is the way to go. I have been wanting to practice fine splatters since I just got some new fan brushes so that's what I did for this card for a snow effect. I watered down some white acrylic paint and tapped off the goops on a test sheet before getting this awesome fine mist of snow. (I covered the mechanism and test Santa with scrap paper) The real Santa gets adhered to the acetate piece with a foam dot and the excess acetate is trimmed off.

 

 

I am adhering the slightly smaller than A2 panel to a bright red card base. You want to keep the adhesive away from the moving parts and so using double-sided tape can be best to keep liquid glue from seeping into spots you don't want. I also had added a couple stopping strips of paper to control where the mechanism can move left to right for Santa.  I learned this trick from Jennifer McGuire, peel off only enough of the tape release paper to make a pull piece. Fold each over so it will be accessible from outside the edge of the card when you place it down. I had to put some on the inside too, but I just bowed the card a little during placement so only the corners stuck a little while I got it straight. Pull the tabs when you're good and straight!

Don't forget to make your mark on the back of the card base! I have a nice one my mom ordered me on Amazon a while back, but I always add one of my snarky stamps from Technique Tuesday's 
It's A Masterpiece Stamp Set. 

Now we are ready to assemble! I have a foam piece guiding the pull tab below but we need to keep the entire path for Santa clear. This left only the small piece on the slope at the end of his track. I don't show it here, but I do the pull tab trick on the foam tape along the bottom here too.

Almost done! 

I added the "Pull" from the Pear Blossom Press stamp set for interactives. 

For the sentiment I chose the "Happy Holidays." I wanted it to be in gold glitter embossing powder, but I think it smooshed too much somehow and with the glitter it was hard to read. Never fear! Fine Liner to the rescue!

It was more work, but I love how it turned out with some black outline to make it pop from the red. 

I used a hexagon punch to make the perfect flag end for the sentiment and it will get adhered to the snow piece with double-sided tape since its glitter. 

Even with the sentiment, all put together I thought it needed a little more. So I grabbed some presents and the tree I had out already from Season's Tweetings and it was perfect to add a little decoration in the snow.

  

 

WOOOOOOSH! I love how this Santa can come flying out from behind the snowbank and arrive just in time for Christmas! 

Here's a video of him in action: 

Hope you enjoyed this fun interactive!

See you again soon!

Holiday Spirit

 Hi everyone!

Stacey with you today sharing a simple Christmas card that I created using the Furry & Bright stamp set. 

Here is a look at the card that I created:

I stamped the kitty from the Furry & Bright stamp set using some Black Memento ink twice, once onto a piece of white Hammermill cardstock and again onto a piece of plaid patterned paper. I colored the image that was on the white cardstock with my Copic markers, fussy cut the plaid box from the patterned paper and glued that onto my colored image. I added my sentiment & used a stitched die to cut out my image. I wrapped some red crochet thread around the top & tied a little bow with some bells in the center before adhering my piece onto a piece of gold glitter cardstock. I covered the front of my white A2 cardbase with some more of the plaid patterned paper, added my image panel and my card was done! Simple card but I really wanted the focus to stay on that fun little kitty! There have been moments so far this holiday season where I can relate to this little cat haha! How about you??

Copic Colors used:

--Cat: E41, E42, E43, E47

--Scarf: R24, R27, R37, R39

--Lights: R24, R27, Y13, Y15, YG11, YG17

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

I hope you have a great crafty day!

Stacey

Find Stacey on instagram  @staceyscreativecorner

 

Season's tweetings by Noga Shefer

Hi crafty friends,  Noga  here and I am so happy to share with you another project for Gerda Steiner Designs today.

My card featuring the adorable Seasons Tweetings - 4x6 Clear Stamp Set and Seasons Tweetings Die Set.

To make this card I took an A2 panel of plaid cardstock. 

For the background, I die cut the postage stamp frame die out of white cardstock. 

Behind it, I ink blended a background using Distress Oxide in shaded lilac, splashed it with water and  and glued it behind this frame.

Next I colored the sweet image using copic markers:BG45, BG10, BG000, BG0000, Y13,Y18, RV02, RV00, BV01, BV20  and glued it inside this cute envelope.

Next I stamped a greeting from this stamp set using black ink.

For a final touch, I added some snowflakes sequins.

I hope you enjoy the card I created and feel inspired to create!

Thanks for stopping by,

Noga