Friday, January 11, 2019

Valentine's Day Card feat Lovely Pandas with Laura

Prismacolor and Distress Oxides on Toned Gray Paper - Valentine's Day Card


Hi everyone! Today I am back with a post and a video tutorial in which I will be sharing how to create a Valentine's Day card with the Gerda Steiner Designs Lovely Pandas stamp set.
For this card I used Prismacolor Pencils and Distress Oxides on Strathmore Toned Gray paper. This is a favorite combination of mine, I think it produces a very interesting and soft look. I also created my own DIY colored texure paste, more on that later.

Prismacolor and Distress Oxides on Toned Gray Paper - Valentine's Day Card


To start off the card I stamped some of the images in the Gerda Steiner Designs Lovely Pandas stamp set. I used Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and my Mini MISTI, and then moved on to the coloring. As mentioned, I used my Prismacolor pencils today. In the video tutorial down below you will see the full coloring process and here is the list of pencils I used.



Once I was done coloring my images I fussy cut them with my EK Success Cutterbee Scissors - super sharp and really precise, they really make fussy cutting a much smoother process. Coordinating dies for the Lovely Pandas stamp set are also available on the Gerda Steiner store.

I then moved on to my background. I die cut some Toned Grey paper by Strathmore with the Large Pierced Scallops Elle-Ments Die. I used the large and the small scalloped rectangles in the set and die cut to panels.

Prismacolor and Distress Oxides on Toned Gray Paper - Valentine's Day Card


For the larger one I proceeded as follows. I started by creating my own colored texture paste by mixing Distress Oxide in Festive Berries. I then used a spatula and created a pattern on my panel by applying the texture paste through the C.C. Designs Mini Heart Stencil. I set the panel aside to dry and started working on the smaller one. I used my Ranger Blending Brushes to blend some Distress Oxide in Festive Berries on the edges of the panel.

For the base panel I die cut some more Toned Gray paper with the Studio Katia Darling Ribbon and Frames. I blended Distress Oxide in Black Soot on the edges of this panel, and I also added some shading to the panel with the stenciled hearts.

Prismacolor and Distress Oxides on Toned Gray Paper - Valentine's Day Card



For my sentiment I did some heat embossing with white embossing powder on Toned Gray cardstock. I die cut a strip around it with the Heffy Doodle Strips of Ease and shaded it with Distress Oxide in Black Soot. I assembled everything on a top folding A2 card base, raising the smaller scalloped rectangle over some foam tape.

I decorated the inside of the card by stamping one more image and one more sentiment from the Lovely Pandas stamp set and that finished off my card.

Prismacolor and Distress Oxides on Toned Gray Paper - Valentine's Day Card


As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I also created a video tutorial showing how to make this sweet Valentine's day card. If you do like the video I would love for you to let me know by leaving a comment and giving it a thumbs up! And if you'd like to see more inspiration from me, you can subscribe to my channel! Thanks for your support!







And that's it for today! I really hope you guys enjoyed this post and liked the video, and I hope I inspired you to create with the Gerda Steiner Designs Lovely Pandas! Thank you all so much for stopping by, and have a great day! 



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