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Hi everyone!

I'm here today to share a card using this cute little penguin from "Penguin with a Heart".  As I've been working on a few Valentine themed cards recently, I've been trying to use alternative color combinations or different sentiments to leave the options open on who to give these to.

I started this card by stamping the penguin on watercolor paper and coloring him in with Derwent Inktense pencils and a water brush (my favorite way to color).  I set him aside to dry, fussy cutting him out once he was dry.

For the background, I inked up and stamped a section of a background stamp from Unity Stamp Company called "Criss Cross Grunge".  Next I used a blending brush and saffron ink to add some color to the background.  I picked the saffron because it is a complementary color for the purple in the heart.  Before attaching to the card, I taped this piece to a black matt to help the colors pop a bit.

The penguin was attached with a couple of foam squares and a few gold gems were glued on next.  When it came to adding a sentiment, I knew I wanted something more non-traditional.  There were several sentiments that would have worked well from the "Pigeons" set, but I finally settled on "Stay Coo!".

Thank you for reading and I hope you found some inspiration to explore your color options!

I Heart U!

 Greetings everyone! It's me again, Jessie Scott (@chevy.scott on IG), Guest Designing for Gerda Steiner Designs!

Today I have another fun collaboration with Pear Blossom Press products to share. It's almost Valentine's Day so what better than to use the adorable Penguin with Heart stamp! 

For this design I used my OLO Markers to color a couple Penguins (I always worry I'll mess up :-D). 

 

I ink blended a Lawn Fawn heart stencil with Distress Oxides (Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry) on Kraft and cut it out with a Lawn Fawn heart die.

 

I added an "I" and "U" from Mama Elephant's alphas and cut out a panel of white and gold decorative paper to mount on a purple card base.

Here's the finished project!

If you want more details on other products used and how to make this fun light up, visit my blog today for the companion post!

See you again soon!

Penguin Thank You Card

Hello it’s Karen here again, and welcome. I’ve had a busy few weeks here with visitors and an illness in the family, so I needed a quick and simple card.  And today’s card is exactly that. 

I’ve used the very sweet “Penguin with Heart” stamp set for this one and coloured it in with copic markers.  I then die cut a circle (that was the diameter of the inside of the large Paper Rose Geo Mandala die) from an A2 card front.  I embossed this card front with a 3D embossing folder from Creative Expressions called “Hearts on a String”.  I used some Cosmic Shimmer Opal Polish in Pink Thistle to lightly shade the raised areas of the embossing.  This Opal Polish gives the look of pearlescent paper and changes colour depending on whether you use white or black cardstock - lots of fun!

I also die cut the largest of the Geo Mandala dies from Paper Rose, out of white cardstock, and applied the same Opal Polish to it.  I saved the inner circle from the die cut mandala, and added a very light layer of Distress Oxide ink in Shaded Lilac to it.  

I then glued the embossed card front to the card base, and glued the inked circle inside the opening.  I added a few die cut clouds to the circle.  The penguin was popped up on foam tape and trimmed to fit inside the circle opening.  I used a spray adhesive to adhere the outer mandala ring around the circle opening.  Finally, I already had the Taylored Expressions sentiment (from their Simple Strips Background set) stamped and clear heat embossed so just popped it up on foam tape and adhered it to the bottom of the circle.  

That’s it from me, and I hope you’re having a great day! 

Penguin Baby Card

Hi there, it’s Karen here today and I have a cute little penguin card to share with you. I have to confess, I really struggle to make clean and simple cards.  But I wanted this card to be sweetly simple, so I reined myself in when making this one. I had thoughts of adding glimmer paste, sequins, maybe an action wobbler etc, but I kept to my original idea of a CAS card. And I’m so glad I did because I actually love how this card turned out and how the penguin is the focus of the card.  Plus, it was a super fast and easy card to make! I used the Penguin with a Heart stamp set from Gerda Steiner Designs for this one.

I started by ink blending some Distress Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick and Kitsch Flamingo through a heart stencil (I used the “Love Splash” stencil from A Colorful Life Designs) in the lower right corner of my card front. I coloured the penguin with copic markers (N6, N4, R39, R29, R35, Y19, C1, and C0), and then cut him out and popped him up on foam tape for some dimension.  Although I made this card into a baby card, it could so easily be a thank you card, birthday card, or sending hugs just by changing the sentiment. This particular sentiment is from Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Background stamp set, and I also popped it up on foam tape.  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you’re having a great day! 

Penguin with heart digital stamp - Be mine! - Larissa

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

This time I have made a valentines card with the Penguin with heart digital stamp from Gerda Steiner designs. I have coloured the image with my Polychromos pencils and the black glaze pen. I have coloured the heart with the Clear Spectrum noir sparkle glitter pen and then I added the sentiment Be mine with black letter stickers on the heart. I have fussy cut the image. On a piece of white cardstock I have stamped the Cozy plaid stamps from Lil inker designs with black ink. I glued it on a red card. With the Hearts (CDECD0024) from Card deco essentials I have diecut a large heart from red cardstock and I glued it on the card. Then I added the image with foamtape on the card. I have stamped a sentiment from the set Essential sentiments from My favorite things with black ink on a strip of red cardstock and then I embossed it with clear embossingpowder. I have decorated the card with white hotfix gems.

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STAMP: Penguin with heart digital stamp from Gerda Steiner designs, Cozy plaid stamps from Lil inker designs, Essential sentiments from My favorite things

COLORING MEDIUM: Polychromos pencils

PAPER: Red and white cs

INK: Versafine clair nocturne

DIES: Hearts (CDECD0024) from Card deco essentials

ACCESSORIES: Black glaze pen, Clear Spectrum noir sparkle glitter pen, Black sticker letters, Clear embossingpowder, White hotfix gems

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.

Sweet Penguin Tag

Hi there,

it's Tanja here and this is a cute Valentine's Day Tag using the Gerda Steiner Designs Penguin with Heart Digital Stamp:

• color the Gerda Steiner Designs Penguin with Heart with Spectrum Noir Triblend Markers
• add highlights with a white gel pen and some sparkle with the Stickles Glitter Glue Crystal
• cut out a tag from kraft cardstock and run it through your Big Shot in a Heart embossing folder
• cut out a line of hearts from a confetti white hill shape and puzzle little pink hearts into the openings
• thread a strand of pink and a strand of natural twine through the hole of the tag

I hope you got inspired.

Hugs,

Penguin with hearts digital stamp on a chocolate box - Larissa

Hi everyone, I am Larissa from Car-d-elicious and today I am posting a new project on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs. This time I have made a box for a chocolate bar. I designed the box myself, because I wanted it to have the perfect size for my chocolate. The box is made from pink cardstock. Then I decorated the box with a couple of penguins. I have printed the Penguin with heart digital stamp from Gerda Steiner designs 8 times. I mirrored 4 of the images, so they have a bit different position. I have coloured the penguins with my Polychromos pencils and the black glaze pen. I have coloured the hearts with the Clear Spectrum noir sparkle glitter pen and then I added black sticker letters on the hearts. Then I have fussy cut all the images. I have cut a strip of paper from the striped patterned paper from the Do what you love pretty paper bloc from Marianne design and then I glued it on black cardstock. Then I glued everything on the back of the box. I have glued the images on the box and now they form the sentiment I love you.

The big tag for the other side of the box is diecut a with a die from the set Planner essential dies: 1607 Planner essentials 5 from Elizabeth craft designs from the striped patterned paper. I cut a hole inforcer from pink cardstock with the Planner essential dies: 1736 Reinforcement variety pack from Elizabeth craft designs and I glued it on the tag. I tied black jute thread onto the tag and then I glued it on the box. On a strip of pink cardstock I have stamped a sentiment from the set Essential sentiments from My favorite things with black ink and then I embossed it with clear embossingpowder. Then I glued the sentiment on the card.

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STAMP: Penguin with heart digital stamp from Gerda Steiner designs, Essential sentiments from My favorite things

COLORING MEDIUM: Polychromos pencils

PAPER: White and black cs, Do what you love pretty paper bloc from Marianne design

INK: Versafine clair nocturne

DIES: Planner essential dies: 1736 Reinforcement variety pack and Planner essential dies: 1607 Planner essentials 5 from Elizabeth craft designs

ACCESSORIES: Black glaze pen, Clear Spectrum noir sparkle glitter pen, hole punch, Black jute thread, Black sticker letters, Clear embossingpowder

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.

Lots and Lots of Critters!

Howdy all!  I’m Allison Cope and I’m here today to share a video where I pile a whole lot of critters into one fun birthday card and color it up in front of your eyes!

For today’s card I’ll be using the following digital stamps; “Birthday Bear”, “Coffee Mouse” (our FREE digi right now!!), “Cat with Balloons”, the bunny holding the sign from the “Easter Bunnies Digital Stamp Bundle”, “Bunny with Carrot” and finally, “Penguin with Heart”! I know… that’s SEVEN digital stamps all on ONE card!

I decided NOT to speed up the coloring on this so you could hear all the details of my coloring process.  So grab a cup of your favorite drink and join me in my craftroom for a rather long video today.  Trust me… it’ll be worth it!

 Click here for HD.

Here’s one more look at the final card…

Once again, thanks for joining me today!  I hope you too get time to get crafty!  Have a great week!

~ Ally ~

XOXO Penguin

Hi there,

it's Tanja here and this week I created this sweet little Valentine's Day Card using the Gerda Steiner Designs Penguin with Heart Digital Stamp:

• color the Gerda Steiner Designs Penguin with Heart with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens and a damp watercolor brush
• add highlights with a white gel pen and sparkle with Nuvo Glitter Drops White Blizzard
• shade a piece of pink cardstock with Distress Oxide Ink (Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick)
• apply those same ink colors through the ARTplorations Hearts all over mini stencil for a tone on tone effect
• add droplets of Pearlized Water for even more sparkle
• mount the panel onto a piece of patterned paper from the Crate Paper Fourteen 6x6 paper pad before adhering all the layers to a cardbase
• stamp the sentiment from the Gerda Steiner Designs Lovely Pandas set and add some hearts from the WPlus9 Little Bits set with Aletnew Crisp Ink Razzleberry

Have a lovely day.

Hugs,

Penguin with Heart

Hello crafty friends...Jayne here!

Today I would like to share with you a card featuring a Gerda Steiner Digital image

called 'Penguin with Heart'

This cute little adorable Penguin was coloures using Copic markers, I then fussy cut him out and popped him up on foam tape. I punched out a few tiny hearts to decorate the card and heat embossed the sentiment (which was from the MFT Penguins in Paradise stamp set. The Card is an A2 size (4.25"x 5.5") and has the middle of the card front removed and replace with clear acetate. The inside of the card says 'You make my heart melt' (also from Penguins in Paradise stamp set)

Isn't he just the cutest? and so perfect for all your Valentine projects!!

Happy crafting and see you soon xxx

Jayne x

Penguin with heart - Larissa

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

This time I have made a card with the digital stamp Penguin with heart from Gerda Steiner designs. I have coloured the image with my Polychromos pencils and then I have fussy cut the image. I have stamped the stripes from the set Cozy plaid stamps from Lil inkers with Tulip red ink from Versafine clair. I have stamped a sentiment from the set XOXO sentiments from CC designs with Nocturne ink from Versafine clair. From black cardstock I have die-cut a couple of hearts with the Confetti creative cuts from Mama elephant and I decorated my card with those.

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STAMP: Penguin with heart from Gerda Steiner designs, XOXO sentiments from CC designs, Cozy plaid stamps from Lil inkers 

COLORING MEDIUM: Polychromos pencils

PAPER: White and black cs

INK: Versafine clair Nocturne and Tulip red

DIES: Confetti creative cuts from Mama elephant

3 Penguins with heart

Hi, Margreet here.

I want to share a Valentine card with the sweet digital stamp Penguin with Heart
I used the ticket die from Studio Light and some lovely papers from Joy!crafts. The hearts are die cut with Nestabilities.

I downloaded the digistamp in Word. Put 3 of the penguins side by side and resized 2 of them to merge. Colouring was done with copics. I worked on the hearts with Stickles.

Hope you like it.

xxx Margreet

Video Tutorial: Penguin Action Wobbler

Hi everyone!  Happy Thursday!  Allison Cope here!

Today we’re going to be creating a fun wobbler card featuring the adorable “Penguin with Heart” digital stamp image. Since Valentine’s Day is 4 weeks away, I needed to get a jump on making some cute cards to send to my friends and family.  But of course, this image would be totally adorable on a birthday card or simply a “just because” type card too!

Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and join me at my crafty desk…

 Click here to view in HD.

Here’s another quick look at the card we created today.  Isn’t it super cute?

Thanks for stopping by and checking out another video!   I hope I’ve inspired you to print out a new digital stamp and get crafty!

For more digital stamps, check out the Gerda Steiner Designs shop right HERE.  New designs are being loaded daily!

Happy crafting everyone!

~ Ally ~

Penguin Valentine Card with Karla

Hello friends! It's Karla back today with a sweet Valentine card for a friend using the Penguin With Heart digital stamp. One of the great things about digi stamps is the ability to easily and quickly resize, creating a cute little friend for this guy! Another bonus is instant gratification - click and print! I decided to create an easy z-fold card that looks like it's super fancy 😉 I added patterned valentine papers from my stash and a diecut heart before layering on this sweet little pair coloured with Prismacolor and Copic Markers.

Here are the instructions to make the base: Cut a rectangle 4"x12" long and score it at 4" and 8" and fold it back and forth. Cut a diagonal line from the 4" fold at the back to a mark 2" down on the front of the card. 

Along the bottom of the card and inside I used sentiments from the Gerda Steiner Designs Valentine Penguins Clear Stamp Set. I love combining stamp sets!! I used a stamp set from my stash to add a little love message inside the penguins' hearts. 

The stamped hearts are from the GSD clear stamp set as well, and I added a few more sequins and some washi to complete my card. This is going to be a great card to pass along to a special friend!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to head over to the Gerda Steiner Designs Shop to see what fun stamps make your heart beat faster!! Have an awesome week friends 💕

Hugs, Karla

Penguin with Heart

Hi Everyone,  Melissa here.

For today's card I have used the 'Penguin with Heart' digital stamp.

The image has bee printed onto Copic X-Press It blending card, coloured with Copic Markers and fussy cut leaving a white edge around the image.

The base card is white card 13 x 10cm.

Cut a piece of patterned paper and adhere to card base leaving a white edge at the bottom.

Cut sentiments and adhere to base card.

Adhere image to base card using foam tape.

Add glossy accents to heart, eyes and nose.

I hope you have a great day

xxx