Stay pawsitive! - Larissa

Hi everyone, I am Larissa from Car-d-elicious and today it is my turn again to post something on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs. This time I have made a card for my Memory dex. I wanted to make a happy card with a pawsitive sentiment.

On my memory dex card I have used a stamp from the All cats clear stamp set from Gerda Steiner designs. The sentiment is also in the stampset. The cat that I used is also available as a digital stamp: Cat holding sign. I have coloured the image with my Polychromos pencils, the black glaze pen and a white gelpen. Then I have fussy cut the image. I have die-cut my card from white cardstock with the Rolodex cards 3624-702 from Vaessen creative. I have die-cut a grass border with the Grassy hills die-namics from My favorite things from green patterned paper from the Classic gingham paper pack from Sunny studio. The sky is coloured with Peacock feathers Distress ink. I have die-cut the clouds and the sun from white cardstock with the Punch die clouds (CR1459) from Marianne design. The sun is coloured with Ripe persimmon and Wild honey Distress ink. I glued the image with foamtape on the card. I have die-cut a couple of flowers from yellow cardstock with the Punch die daisies (CR1501) from Marianne design and glued those on the card. I decorated the flowers with black hotfix gems.

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STAMP: All cats clear stamp set from Gerda Steiner designs

COLORING MEDIUM: Polychromos pencils, Distress inks

PAPER: White and yellow cs, Classic gingham paper pack from Sunny studio

INK: Versafine clair nocturne, Peacock feathers, Ripe persimmon and Wild honey Distress ink

DIES: Rolodex cards 3624-702 from Vaessen creative, Punch die clouds (CR1459) and Punch die daisies (CR1501) from Marianne design, Grassy hills die-namics from My favorite things

ACCESSORIES: Black glaze pen, white gelpen, Black hotfix gems

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Happy birthday - Larissa

Hi everyone, I am Larissa from Car-d-elicious and today I am posting this card on my own blog and also on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs.

This time I have combined 2 digital stamps, because they are a perfect match. The first image is Birthday bear from Gerda Steiner designs. This image goes really well together with the Make a wish mouse blowing out birthday cake candle from Gerda Steiner designs. I didn't use the little pie from this image. I have coloured both images with my Polychromos pencils, the black glaze pen and a white gelpen. I have fussy cut both images. On a piece of white cardstock I have stamped a sentiment from the All cats Clear stamp set from Gerda Steiner designs in the left upper corner and then I made a background for the image with Versafine clair glamorous ink. Then I glued the bear and mouse with foamtape on the white cardstock. On a white card I glued a strip of striped design paper from the Over the rainbow paperpad from My favorite things. I have die-cut a scalloped border from black cardstock with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 56 from Crealies and I glued it under the white cardstock. Then I glued the white cardstock with foamtape on the card. I used a black fineliner to draw a frame on the white cardstock. I have stamped with a star and dots stamp from the set Rocking the wreath from Alpaca pals around the images.

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STAMP: Make a wish mouse blowing out birthday cake candle and Birthday bear from Gerda Steiner designs, All cats Clear stamp set from Gerda Steiner designs, Rocking the wreath from Alpaca pals

COLORING MEDIUM: Polychromos pencils

PAPER: Black and white cs, Over the rainbow paperpad from My favorite things

INK: Versafine clair nocturne and glamorous 

DIES: Crea-nest-lies XXL 56 from Crealies

ACCESSORIES: Black glaze pen, white gelpen, Black fineliner, Corner chomper

I am a participant in the Gerda Steiner designs Affiliate Programme. This means that if you click on one of my links and subsequently make a purchase, I will receive a small commission of store credit, at no extra cost to you.

Stay Pawsitive with ... Crafty Girls Lau&Andy

Hello crafty friends!

It's Laura here and I'm so honored and thrilled to be a guest on the Gerda Steiner Designs blog this month. I'm so grateful for their kind invitation and I would like to thank Julisa and Macy for giving me this opportunity.

Today, just a little card to say "STAY PAWSITIVE" that I made using the "All cats" set of clear stamps.

I started with cutting 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 inch card base, then I worked on the creation of the scene. I stamped the two cats and the little mouse on Canson paper using Versafine black. I colored them using mixing watercolor pencils and distress ink, then I cut them out.

I cropped a small black banner where I stamped and embossed a sentiment in white.   

I created a small background on the right side on the card base. I used a stencil and tea dye distress ink for the brickwork and brushed corduroy distress ink for the ground. Eventually, I adhered the funny colorful friends and the banner with foam tape, and I created a paper layer with a black cardstock. 

Thank you for visiting the blog! I had so much fun making this card and I hope I inspired you today.

Have a good day!

Laura

A birthday tag with a cute cat - Larissa

 Goodmorning, I am Larissa from Car-d-elicious and today I am on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs with a new project. This friday my colleague Olivia will be celebrating her 18th birthday and I bought her a little present. I promised her a card, but instead of that I made a tag. ;) I hope she won't mind.

I made a tag and on the tag I used an adorable cat stamp from the set All cats from Gerda Steiner designs. I stamped the cat with versafine black ink on watercolour paper and then I embossed the image with clear embossingpowder. I have coloured the stamp with my new Derwent inktense paint pan travel set. I have fussy cut the image.

I have cut a large and small tag from watercolour cardstock with the Multi-frames die Tags 6 from Nellie Snellen and coloured those with my Tombow dual brush markers. I coloured with 2 shades of pink and a red marker on a sheet and sprayed it with water and then I placed the tag on the sheet. This way you get some nice shaed of pink and red on your tag. I have put the tags back in the dies and then I doodled the inside lines of the tags with a black fineliner on the tags. I have die-cut the name Olivia from black cardstock with the Cutaway alpha die from Waffleflower. On the small tag I stamped the sentiment gefeliciteerd (congratulations) from the stampset Bulletjournal - Tekst diversen from Craft emotions. I tied the tags together with a black ribbon.

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STAMP: All cats from Gerda Steiner designs, Bulletjournal - Tekst diversen from Craft emotions

COLORING MEDIUM: Derwent inktense paint pan travel set, Tombow dual brush markers

PAPER: Watercolour paper

INK: Versafine onyx black

DIES: Multi-frames die Tags 6 from Nellie Snellen, Cutaway alpha die from Waffleflower

                                                                         ACCESSORIES: Black fineliner, black ribbon, Clear embossing powder 

All cats - Larissa

Goodmorning, it's Larissa and today I am on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs again with a new creation. A while ago I placed an order at the Dutch craft store Doe@ding and in my package was a lovely sweet surprise. I really loved it, so I decided to make my own version. I used the stampset All cats from Gerda Steiner designs on the little bag. I used the cute cat with the sign on which I stamped the sentiment thank you.

I have made 4 pouches in total and I thought it would be fun to use 2 different colouring mediums. These first cats are coloured with my Polychromos pencils and the black glaze pen and then I have fussy cut the images.

The 2 other cats are coloured with Caran d'ache Museum aquarell pencils. I love colouring with them, but I still think it is really difficult. ;)

This blue plaid paper is from the Country fair plaid paper pack from My favorite things.

The red star paper is from the Beachside paperpad from lawn fawn.

The pink plaid paper is also from the Country fair plaid paper pack from My favorite things.

The last design paper is from a Christmas paperpad from Action. It was a bit too thick to make a pouch of.

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STAMP: All cats from Gerda Steiner designs

COLORING MEDIUM: Polychromos pencils, Caran d'ache Museum aquarelle pencils

PAPER: Christmas paperpad from Action, Beachside paperpad from lawn fawn and Country fair plaid paper pack from My favorite things

INK: Versafine onyx black

ACCESSORIES: Black glaze pen

I'm grumpy when you're not here

Hi there,

it's Tanja here again and I would like to show you a project with one of the cats from the fabulous Gerda Steiner Designs All Cats stamp set:

• color the cat and the bird from the Gerda Steiner Designs All Cats set with Delta, Copic and Touch Twin Brush Markers
• add highlights with a white gel pen
• stamp the sentiment from the My Favorite Things I knead you set with Versamark onto a stitched panel of Neenah Desert Storm Kraft cardstock and heat-emboss it with WOW! Bright White Super Fine embossing powder
• stamp little images from the Neat & Tangled Kitty's favorite Things set, from the My Favorite Things I knead you set and from the WPlus9 Little Bits set with Memento (Tuxedo Black) onto the panel
• mat the background panel onto a piece of light-blue cardstock before adhering it to the cardbase

I hope you got inspired.

Yours,

Guest Designer Mindy - Stay Pawsitive

Happy Hello Everyone and welcome to Monday!! It's Mindy from Paper Creations by Mindy back guest designing for today! I have a super fun card to share with you! 

I love the All Cats set and it went perfectly with my new pawprint stencil! This card is super easy to make but has so much character! 

I matched some distress ink with my cardstock and applied that to my card with the stencil. I cut out my sentiment strip with my flag die and added the fun "Stay Pawsitive" sentiment from the All Cats stamp set.

This cat image I thought was just hilarious so I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, colored it with my copics and cut it out with my Scan N Cut machine. I attached my card base and stenciled background together, added the sentiment strip and used foam squares to pop up my grumpy kitty. To finish it off I used some matching Nuvo Crystal drops.

Supplies Used

All Cats - Gerda Steiner Designs

Staggered Pawprint Stencil

Peacock Feathers Distress Ink

Flag Die

Nuvo Crystal Drops - Caribbean Ocean

Copics

Body - C6-5-4-3-2-1

Ears - R81

Thanks for stopping by! 

Meeeoooowww!

 

Hi There...

It's Christine here today (from Cards by Christine) - and I have the honour of having been asked to Guest Design here at Gerda Steiner!  Of course, I quickly agreed - and so today I'm sharing my first make.

I chose to use an image from All Cats - which is a fab set of three lovely fur babies, along with sentiments to match.

I firstly coloured the image with my Copics - and tried to give the look of fur by using lots of short strokes in different shades of Cool Grey.  Then I fussy cut the image, and adhered it to the plain pink square using 3D foam pads, after previously shaping the image slightly with a large embossing ball.  I used a square stitched frame so the the kitty could be peeking out with her gift....  and her tail could be outside of the frame.

Hope you like what I did...  I'll be back with another make soon.

Happy Crafting..

Christine x

Guest Designer- Just a few little cards to say.....

Hi Everyone!! 

I'm Kimberly from Kimberly's Crafty Spot here today to share a few cards as a Guest Designer.

I made two more cards using the All Cats stamp set.

The first card is a Valentine's/Love card. The XO sentiment from the set inspired me. The cute cat is stamped and colored with copic markers to look like a white cat with black spots. 

I stamped the background with the same color of the card stock with the XO sentiment. Then I die the panel with an Oval die and a stitched rounded rectangle die. The oval made a cute window for the cat, holding the sign, I paper pieced the sentiment window with some pink heart patterned paper. Next, I added the back ground of heart patterned paper to the window for the cat. I stamped the sentiment, 

"Just a little card to say" in black ink and then added some clear embossing powder. I finished the card with some heart and round enamel dots.

For the second card, I used a card sketch and the "Happy Purr-Thday" as inspiration. The cat is again stamped in black and copic colored to be an orange tabby cat. I cut the papers according to the sketch and added a dry embossed polka dotted background. The "Happy Purr-Thday!" sentiment is stamped and heat embossed in white, then I added some white gel pen faux stitching. I finished the card with some stitched edges, glossy accents to the eyes and nose and matching enamel dots.

I added an action wobble to this cat and it's just so fun for a birthday card!! 

This is the cat in action, he looks like he is ready to pounce!

These are all three of the cards together that I made as a Guest Designer using the All Cats stamp set.

For list of supplies, please visit my blog.

Thank you so much to Gerda and Macy for the wonderful opportunity 

to use your adorable stamps and to share some projects with them.

Have a wonderful day!

Guest Designer- Stay Pawsitive!

Hi Everyone! 

I'm Kimberly from Kimberly's Crafty Spot, 

today I am sharing a card using the All Cats stamp set.

The cats in this stamp set are just too fun!! I loved coloring them with copic markers.
The cat I used in today's card reminded me of the beloved grumpy cat!

I colored this cat with the gray (N1-N5 family) copic markers, then fussy cut it out. Next, I used some patterned paper from Doodlebug design for the background layer. Then I used a grass border die to die cut some green grass for the cat to sit on. I added this to white card stock that is embossed with a cloud embossing folder then die cut with a 3x4 journal die. The cute birds are paper pieced with matching patterned papers and sitting on a twine rope, I added some knots to the corners. Finally, I added the fun "Stay Pawsitive" sentiment from the stamp set, in black ink, to a die cut banner then added some twine around the edge ending in a bow. For a finishing touch, I added some glossy accents to the eyes and beaks and a few white gel pen accents.

Thank you so much for stopping by! 

For a list of supplies, please visit my blog.

Have a wonderful day!