Coffee Monster - Halloween Shaker Card

Hello and Happy Wednesday Crafty Friends!  Tina here, I am up on the Blog today, sharing a monster of a card using the fun Monster Coffee stamp set:) This set is available over at the Gerda Steiner Shop! The expressions on these not-so-scary monsters is just to funny!!  One looks like he is ready for Halloween candy, one looks like he is in full blown, "I'm gonna get you" mode and the last one seems to have ate a bit to much candy and is not feeling that well.  Can you guess who's who?  I love the coffee sentiments that come along with the Coffee Monster stamp, but for today I used a Happy Halloween sentiment from the sweet Peekin' Pumpkin Kitty Stamp set, with Halloween not too far away, I thought we would make a Halloween Monster card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you would like to see how I created this card check it out down below🙂  Just Click on the Coffee Monster Tutorial Link:)  Have a Fantastic and Crafty day!  Hugs, Tina

GERDA STEINER DESIGNS COFFEE MONSTER HALLOWEEN CARD TUTORIAL

Have a Monster Halloween!

Hi everybody! Cathy here having a little fun with the Coffee Monster stamp set for Halloween. This is one of my favorite Gerda Steiner stamps and they looked like they wanted some candy to go with that coffee!

I stamped and masked the monsters with a light gray Copic friendly ink and did some no-line Copic coloring with colored pencil accents. 

The candy pieces and sentiment are from an MFT stamp set, but the candy pieces from the Gerda Steiner Where is the Candy? 4x6 stamp set would work perfectly with this too!

Since the card base is black, I added a white insert inside and couldn't resist adding a little surprise.

Is it just me, or do they look really happy for the candy?

Hope you enjoyed and see you soon!

Cathy

Coffee Monster Mondays!

Happy Monday everyone! I don't know about you but I'm a coffee feen and I NEED my first cup of coffee in the morning to start my day. Otherwise, I'll be pretty cranky or per this stamp set, turn into a monster!

Today's set focuses on the Coffee Monster set. There are four coffee monster images in this set and a handful of cute sentiments that go along with them.

I really wanted to use this set on black cardstock with colored pencils and the finished card turned out exactly how I imagined it in my head. The colored pencils really gave them some much needed texture. For this card, I imagined the one coffee monster busting through the card because he wants his coffee so much!


I had to use a stencil and distress oxide inks for the background. I didn't realize that the colors matched the monsters until I already added the ink, but a quick gray shading around the monsters really helped make them pop.

I generally love the look of colored pencils on black cardstock and I LOVE how this card came out. What do you think? Need to grab your morning coffee yet? 

See you next time for another card! 

Guest Design: Coffee Monster by Anika Lerche

Hey stampers, it's me again, Anni, for another guest design post.

I couldn't resist these super cute monster from the set Coffee Monster. After my colourful monsters last week I decided to create a colourful background for this card.

I started by masking of a stripe on a piece of water colour cardstock. I ink blended Distress Oxide inks in rainbow order. On this ink blended stripe I drew some circles with clear water.

While the background was drying I stamped the monster in Copic friendly ink on white paper. I coloured the monster in warm grey tones and added a little bit of silver glitter glue to it's dots. I fussy cut the image. I LOVE to fussy cut but if you don't, don't panic - there are coordinating dies available, too!

I adhered a stripe of black cardstock to the background to make the colours even more and added some dots of Glossy Accents, too.

Then I assembled the card!

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

Guest Design - Coffee Monster by Anika Lerche

Hey stampers, Anni here!

I am so happy to be back as a guest designer this month.

Coffee and monster? Hello? Couldn't get much cuter than that, could it?
I couldn't decide which monster to use - so I used three of the four in the set. I just left the fourth out because there wasn't enough room on my card left - it is super cute, too! These two things are included in the set Coffee monster that I used for my card.

I started by stamping the monsters with a black ink and coloured them with coloured pencils - my favourite colour medium. When you finish the colouring the black lines aren't really black anymore. Previously I went over the lines with a black pen. But I learned a great trick: If you leave the stamps in your stamping tool you can easily stamp them again after colouring - this time with a really black ink like Versafine! Fast, easy and a really good effect!

Because of the cuteness of the monster I decided to keep the rest of the card simple. I die cut a stitched rectangle from white cardstock. I created a floor by ink blending a LITTLE bit of grey ink for the monsters to sit on. Then I stamped the sentiment and assembled the card!

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

Happy Birthday Cupcake Monster

Hi there,

it's Tanja here again and a while back Gerda Steiner has created the wonderful Coffee Monster stamp set and this is my project using one of those fun little creatures:

• color one of the adorable monsters from the Gerda Steiner Designs Coffee Monster stamp set with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens and a damp watercolor brush
• add some highlights with a white gel pen and some texture with a Staedtler Fineliner
• cut out a stitched rectangle from watercolor paper and stamp the cupcake stand from the My Favorite Things Happy Hippos set with Versafine (Onyx Black) and color them with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens as well
• stamp the sentiment from the Gerda Steiner Designs Just Sentiments set with three colors of Altenew Crisp Ink (Emerald, Lagoon, Volcano Lake) to create an ombre effect
• apply Altenew Crisp Ink (Volcano Lake) through the Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Bubble and ink up the edges of the panel with that same ink
• adhere the panel to a turquoise cardbase and add some grey enamel dots as final embellishments

I hope you got inspired.

Yours,