Merry Christmas Big Time!

Happy Friday! Cathy here squeaking in one last Christmas card using one of my favorite all-time stamp sets! The Oh Manatee stamps are just too cute and I couldn't resist putting a Santa hat from the On The Table stamp set on this one.

I love how versatile so many of the Gerda Steiner Designs stamp sets are. Did you know this Santa hat fits a whole bunch of critters from various sets? Many sentiments can be mixed and matched too! The Merry Christmas on this card is from the Balancing Mouse stamp set and it paired up perfectly with the Big Time! sentiment from Oh, Manatee.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and I'll see you again soon in the New Year with a brand new Gerda Steiner Designs release!

Oh Manatee...Or Maybe Coffee?

Hi Everyone! It's Cathy here with a card using the 

 playful Oh Manatee stamp set. These guys have so much personality. 
Who doesn't love a big huggable manatee?!

I created a little habitat for him by die-cutting the background pieces and airbrushing a blue-green gradient with Copics. The Avery Elle waves die that I've used here is quite intricate, so it's easier to ink or airbrush the cardstock before die-cutting.

I've cut a few areas out of the waves background piece for open space to stamp the sentiments.

I colored all of the images from this stamp set with Copics and also used the coordinating dies to this set.

To bring the manatee up out of the scene just a bit and give him the appearance of floating along in the seaweed, I adhered him with dimensional foam tape.

Hope you enjoyed and happy crafting!

See you soon!

Cathy

Turtles Buddy...

 Hi Everyone,  

Its Hazel from Didos Designs here today to share a wee bit of inspiration with you all using the Turtley Great Stamp Set.  

I fell in love with the little snail in the set so had to play with him before I played with the turtles. 

For my first creation I have made an circle easel card. I used some dies I had in my crafty stash and also the I Heart You from the Oh Manatee Set.   I coloured the card in with watercolour pencils.

My second creation is made using the pretty cupcakes in the set too. I thought they would look great as a border on the card. 

Im not sure if you can see but I added some glossy accents to his shell in this card and sprinkled a wee bit of glitter on his shell.  

You can buy the stamp set here.  The co-ordinating dies are avaliable here. 

Thanks for dropping by today,

Love Hazel x

Oh manatee - Larissa

Goodmorning, I am Larissa from Car-d-elicious and today I am posting a new card on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs.

This week I have made a card with the stampset Oh manatee from Gerda Steiner designs. I have stamped a couple of images and then I coloured them with my Polychromos pencils. I have fussy cut the images. I have cut a rectangle from white cardstock with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 52 from Crealies. Then I have cut a circle out of it with the Crea-nest-lies XXL 49 from Crealies. I have made a a background for the images on a piece of watercolor paper with Ultra marine and Emerald green Brusho. Then I made some paint splatters on the background with green paint from the Pearlescent colours palette from Finetec. I adhered the background on a blue card and adhered the white rectangle with foamtape on the card. I placed all the images inside the circle. I have used Crystal glaze from Nuvo to make a couple of little drops on the background. I have stamped a sentiment from the set Oh manatee from Gerda Steiner designs on white cardstock and then on blue cardstock and then I adhered them on the card.

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STAMP: Oh manatee from Gerda Steiner designs

COLORING MEDIUM: Polychromos pencils, Brusho, Finetec pearlescent paint

PAPER: White and blue cs, watercolor paper

INK: Versafine onyx black

DIES: Crea-nest-lies XXL 49 and 52 from Crealies

ACCESSORIES: Crystal glaze from Nuvo

Guest Design - Love Manatee by Australe Créations

Hello Everyone !

It's Céline from Australe Créations, I am pleased to be here to present you a new card made with the Oh Manatee 4x6 clear stamp set.

I wanted to make a love card ♥

for details : 

Coloring with Copic markers

Paperpad Happy watercolor

Black borders sewn by hand

Heart transparency and coral

Some rhinestone

I hope you like it :)

                                                                                       

See you soon

Céline / Australe Créations

Guest Design - Hello Manatee by Australe Créations

Hello Everyone !

It's Céline from Australe Créations, I'm so happy to find you today with the lovely Oh Manatee 4x6 clear stamp set.

I made a shaker card with the small fish from the set.

for details : 

Coloring with Copic markers

Digital paper blue with small waves

Silver borders sewn by hand

some clear droplets

I hope you like it !

                                                                                       

See you soon

Céline / Australe Créations

Guest Designer - Creating a Scene (Video)!

Hi, it's Therese from www.lostinpaper.com and I am so happy to be back here at the Gerda Steiner blog and sharing two cards and one video with you today.

My first card has a super sweet tea drinking  Oh Manatee, I have used a watercolour look but added texture with pencils in the background panel.

I snuck a little bow from the Moody Unicorns stamp set just to let you know she was a girl.

For my next design I thought it would be fun to  'Create a Scene' and this one has a 'fish tank'

and a sentiment mat?

I decided to film as I created and
You can see my video here or Watch it in HD at Youtube.

This Oh Manatee Stamp Set is seriously adorable, I hope you have enjoyed the two different cards that I made today.  Thanks so much for stopping by,

More Manatee Fun.

 

Hi Everyone,

Hazel from Didos Designs here. Happy New Week!!! Boy can you beleive that January is more than half way past!!! Time flies when you're having fun. Talking of fun I have had a blast with these Manatee Stamps once again!!! They are so versatile!! You can use them for all sorts of cards. 

You get 3 Manatees in the set,  2 little fishys, the seaweed, bubbles, a mug and 5 Sentiments!!!! 

I decided to do a spot of water colouring this time. Thought that this wee one would look good in a sea background picture. 

Thanks for dropping by today,

Hazel xx

Manatee With Alcohol Ink Background

Hello Gerda Steiner Fans!  It is Lisa back today with a cute card that features the newer Oh Manatee Stamp Set and an alcohol ink background.  This was my first time playing with alcohol inks, but when I started I automatically thought of the ocean, and new my cute little Manatee would be perfect!

To create my card I started with the Alcohol Ink background where I used a mix of dropping, blowing through a straw, and pouncing with a cloth to cover the entire panel.  While this was drying I stamped and colored my manatee and fish on separate cardstock.  I actually stamped the three different manatees in this set and colored them all in with various Spectrum Noir Markers before I finally landed on the one I liked best.  This is a great thing to do with a new set, with so many color options you might not know what you really like until you've tried a few.  I then cut all of my images out and adhered them to the alcohol background.  For my sentiment I stamped and embossed them both black cardstock with white embossing powder.

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my post today!  Make sure you head to the store to see what other new stamps are popping up!

Happy Crafting!

Lisa

Oh Manatee! & Zig Coloring - Jeannie Lieu (InsideoutJeans)

Hi all! I'm stopping by today to share a fun card with you. To be honest, I wasn't sure what I wanted create at first. I actually stamped all the little manatees and colored them in, not knowing. Eventually, I thought an underwater scene would be perfect for them and I ran with that idea.

I knew that I wanted the kelp to be a large part of setting the scene and I wanted to incorporate it with the animals. I thought it would make it super cute where if one of the manatees could peek out. This part was a bit difficult as I had to fussy cut it the kelp but in the end, it was totally worth it.

I used watercolor paper since it is thicker and in doing so, I wanted to use my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I actually grabbed all the blues and drew wave-like lines all over the background. Then using a water brush, I just ran it over the lines and blended a little. It literally took me less than a couple of minutes to do this. I think it does give it a very soft ocean look since there are so many different shades of blue.

What do you think? Anyway, I hope you enjoy the card.

Manatee WIth You Would Be Great...

 Hi Everyone,

Its Hazel (Didos) here with another cute card made using the Oh Manatee Stamp Set. 

 Todays card has incorporated 2 of the cute Manatee, the Seaweed, bubbles, mug and 2 of the sentiments from the set. 

I thought it would be good with the play on words with the Tea or Coffee both in the card. 

My card has been coloured with promarkers and the sea was done using distress inks. 

I hope you like them,

Thanks for dropping by today,

Hazel x

Some Fishy Love...

Hello!  It is Lisa Lahiff back today as a Guest Designer, and I'm so excited to get to share a project using the new Oh Manatee Stamp Set.  Now, I have to warn you that I went in a little direction with my project.  Rather than focusing on the large and super cute Manatee's in this set I decided to give the smaller stamps some love and the spotlight on my card...

To start I stamped my fish, sentiment, bubble, and seaweed onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock.  I then watercolored my images in with a mix of Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and a water brush.  Once these were dry I added some masking fluid to them, as well as created some wave like squiggles to the background.  I was then able to go over the entire thing with a mix of blue markers and a water brush, again leaving time for everything to dry before I slowly peeled off the masking fluid.  I decided to cut the scene into a tag shape and added some white ribbon to the top.  While I was trying various patterned papers behind my tag I came across an old panel of Embossing Paste that I had placed in my scrap pile, and I really loved the way it looked behind my fish so I gave it a new home on my card!

Thank you so much for stopping by today, and I hope my card has inspired you to take a closer look at those smaller images in your set and give them a little love too!  And check out all of the cute sets available now in the Gerda Steiner Store, so much love to go around! :)

Happy Crafting!
Lisa