YOU ALWAYS MAKE ME SMILE

Hello all you creative minds, 

Nicole here again from Hamburg/Germany.

Today we're going underwater and meeting some friends from the stamp set "A Whale of a Time".

For an underwater shaker card I used a great design paper from Whimsy Stamps "Under the Sea".

First I punched out the design paper with the punching template.

Then colored the stamp impressions with the markers from Ohuhu.

Color combination:

Waale: MG020, MG030, MG060, MG100

Octopus: GY7, G260, G270, G470, G080

Cheeks: R120, R188

And then cut out.

Before you glue the windows of the card, you should consider positioning the cut-out backgrounds on the base card. I tend to forget that from time to time!😉

Then you can fill the shaker elements into the squares and apply the front card with 3D tape.

I embossed the stamp text with WOW embossing powder/white and then attached it to the card with the cute friends.

In the beginning I always thought shaker cards were too much work, but once you understand the system, you can turn all the punching templates into a great and effective shaker.

For more inspiration, come and visit me on Instagram under "Stempelfiziert".

I would be delighted to help you.

 I hope you enjoyed my post and that it has inspired you a little.

See you soon 

Nicole aka Stempelfiziert

Grateful for your Kindness

Hi there,

it's Tanja here and I created this fun underwater card using the Gerda Steiner Designs Deeply and A Whale of a Time stamp sets:

• stamp the submarine, the bear, the jellyfish and some other fish from the Gerda Steiner Designs Deeply set and the starfish from the Gerda Steiner Designs A Whale of a Time set with Lawn Fawn Jet Black
• color the images with Spectrum Noir Triblend Markers, add extra shading with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils and highlights with a white gel pen
• create a background with the help of Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon) - use water droplets to add extra texture
• ink up the edges with Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire
• cut out a hill-shape from kraft cardstock and add brown and white splatters to it
• stamp the sentiment from the Gerda Steiner Designs Deeply set with Distress Oxide Ink Chipped Sapphire

I hope you got inspired.

Hugs,

So Spout of you

Hi there, 

it's Tanja here and today I would like to show you a card that I created using the Gerda Steiner Designs A Whale of a Time stamp set:

• stamp mama whale and baby whale from the Gerda Steiner Designs A Whale of a Time set with Lawn Fawn River Rock
• color the images with Spectrum Noir Triblend Markers and add extra shading with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils 
• cut out a background panel from watercolor paper
• add color with Distress Oxide Ink (Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon) and texture with water droplets and the Paper Smooches Flourishes dies
• stamp the sentiment from the same set with Versamark and heat-emboss it with WOW! Bright White Super Fine embossing powder
• add strips of patterned paper on the top and bottom of the panel before adhering it to a light blue cardbase

I hope you got inspired.

Hugs,

Underwater Scene in a Pop-up Box Card

Hi Everyone! It's Cathy here sharing a fun box card today! When I first saw the new A Whale of a Time stamp set, I knew it would be perfect for a dimensional scene like this.

I created the box by cutting and scoring 2 pieces of cardstock and adhering them together. If you're familiar with the various box card dies out there, it's designed the same way. I wanted a bit more room in this for the larger whale to fit inside, so I created my own that folds flat to a 5x7 card size.

The whales and fish inside are floating along with the help of thin acetate strips that I adhered to the die-cut waves above them and the starfish and water spout above the waves are also suspended with acetate.

I've also used several stamps from the other summer releases. The coral is from the Big Bite stamp set, the cute little fish are from the Deeply stamp set and the seaweed way in the back is from the Oh Manatee stamp set. I love how they all work so well together!

I've added some papers from my stash to decorate the flaps, sides and back of the box and left plenty of space on the back to write a little message to the recipient.

I had SO much fun making this! 

Hope you have a great week and see you again soon!

You're Such a Fun Friend!

Happy Friday everyone! It's Cathy here sharing a card today using the new A Whale of a Time stamp set.  How funny is that little octopus?! I just love their expressions!

I used a pretty simple design on this one to really let those sea critters take center stage. I've inked a piece of white cardstock for the background panel using Broken China Distress ink and then inked a waves stencil using Peacock Feathers Distress ink.

I adhered that piece to the card front and then die-cut the white panel using a Memory Box die. I colored the stamped images with Copics and then fussy cut them out. There are also coordinating dies to this stamp set available HERE.

I Copic colored a coral die-cut and finished off the card with this cute sentiment from the set.

I just love ocean themed stamps and this set is one of my favorites! SO cute!!

Hope you have a great weekend and see you again soon!

A Whale of a Time by Jeannie

Hi everyone! It’s Jeannie (InsideoutJeans) on the blog today with Gerda Steiner’s recently released stamp set called A Whale of a Time. I hope you love the card I created today as much as I do.

I've been in a creative funk and so I just wanted to sit down and watercolor and see what happened. I started out with the idea of a light blue sky and the ocean. The more I added color, the more I changed my mind to an early morning sunrise. I recently was in Denver, and they had these amazing skies filled with so many different colors. It was so gorgeous.

Watercoloring turned out really well and I'm definitely not a pro. I just added different colors to create an ombre yellow, orange, pink. Then for the ocean, I added a couple layers of different shades of blue and green. With watercolors, you build up the layers of colors so I dried the card panel and then continued to add more and more colors.

I decided to use the two whales that appear to be looking at each other. They are so adorable and I just imagined them swimming side by side and this was the perfect background for it. Don't you think? To finish off the card, I added the sentiment in the sky.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back again soon for some more inspiration and ideas! 

You Always Make Me Smile!!

Hello and Happy Wednesday Crafty Friends!  Tina here from Cards & Coffee Time sharing an ocean themed card with one of the new release stamp sets over in the shop:)  Today's card features the.... oh my goodness and oh so adorable "A Whale of a Time stamp set" by Gerda Steiner Designs.  This stamp just makes me smile and I know the recipient getting this card will smile too:)  The cute whales are so fun to color and the sentiments are just perfect!!  I know you will love it as much as I do:)

 Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you would like to see how I created this card check it out by clicking on the link down below or over on my YouTube Channel, JUST CLICK HERE  Have a Fantastic and Crafty day!  Hugs, Tina

Gerda Steiner Designs "A Whale of a Time" Step by Step Card Making Tutorial, CLICK HERE