Season's Tweetings for Christmas Eve!

 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. When I saw the adorable stars you could hang on the Season's Tweetings Set I knew I wanted to use some lights to get some interactive mojo going!

For this design I used my Olo Markers to color this branch and adorable birdie. 

I added glitter to the round ornaments and used an X-Acto knife to cut out the stars so lights could shine through.

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!

Here Comes Sportsy Santa!

 Woosh!

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

Today I'm sharing this super fun interactive card using Sportsy Santa. To make this interactive element, I used the (sadly) retired My Favorite Things Launch Party dies, but the newer Lawn Fawn Swish n' Pop will give you a similar effect if you have this die.

I colored my Santa with my OLO Markers and added stripes with a fine liner pen to give the snowboard a peppermint look. I added the goggles and gave it a look of glass adding some white gel pen accents.

I assembled my interactive onto a 4" x 5-1/4" navy piece or cardstock according to the assembly video and tried out my Santa to be sure I could hide him behind a slope of snow. Looks like it will work! I added another piece of glitter paper on top to give a dimension to the slopes of snow. Before I glue everything down, I wanted to spritz up the background a little!

With an interactive image dragging across the background you don't want embossing folders or pastes that create something for the image to catch on. Using ink and a stencil or some light splattering is the way to go. I have been wanting to practice fine splatters since I just got some new fan brushes so that's what I did for this card for a snow effect. I watered down some white acrylic paint and tapped off the goops on a test sheet before getting this awesome fine mist of snow. (I covered the mechanism and test Santa with scrap paper) The real Santa gets adhered to the acetate piece with a foam dot and the excess acetate is trimmed off.

 

 

I am adhering the slightly smaller than A2 panel to a bright red card base. You want to keep the adhesive away from the moving parts and so using double-sided tape can be best to keep liquid glue from seeping into spots you don't want. I also had added a couple stopping strips of paper to control where the mechanism can move left to right for Santa.  I learned this trick from Jennifer McGuire, peel off only enough of the tape release paper to make a pull piece. Fold each over so it will be accessible from outside the edge of the card when you place it down. I had to put some on the inside too, but I just bowed the card a little during placement so only the corners stuck a little while I got it straight. Pull the tabs when you're good and straight!

Don't forget to make your mark on the back of the card base! I have a nice one my mom ordered me on Amazon a while back, but I always add one of my snarky stamps from Technique Tuesday's 
It's A Masterpiece Stamp Set. 

Now we are ready to assemble! I have a foam piece guiding the pull tab below but we need to keep the entire path for Santa clear. This left only the small piece on the slope at the end of his track. I don't show it here, but I do the pull tab trick on the foam tape along the bottom here too.

Almost done! 

I added the "Pull" from the Pear Blossom Press stamp set for interactives. 

For the sentiment I chose the "Happy Holidays." I wanted it to be in gold glitter embossing powder, but I think it smooshed too much somehow and with the glitter it was hard to read. Never fear! Fine Liner to the rescue!

It was more work, but I love how it turned out with some black outline to make it pop from the red. 

I used a hexagon punch to make the perfect flag end for the sentiment and it will get adhered to the snow piece with double-sided tape since its glitter. 

Even with the sentiment, all put together I thought it needed a little more. So I grabbed some presents and the tree I had out already from Season's Tweetings and it was perfect to add a little decoration in the snow.

  

 

WOOOOOOSH! I love how this Santa can come flying out from behind the snowbank and arrive just in time for Christmas! 

Here's a video of him in action: 

Hope you enjoyed this fun interactive!

See you again soon!

Very Merry Bird Tower

Hey there!  Katie Brooks here, back for one more guest post!  It has been so fun to be able to play with GSD stamps, they are so whimsical and sweet.  The card I have today is no exception, I used the images in combo to make a fun bird tower. 

Aren't they fricking cute!  I love these darling birds and they make such a fun wobbly tower complete with their Christmas tree!

I stamped the images from the Season's Tweetings set and colored them with copics.  I used E25, E23, E21, YR16, YG25, YG17, YG03, R37, R35, R14, C03, C01, C05, B01, B000, and V91.  I have to say, the Pigeon set is one of my faves and I really wanted to make that middle bird look like a pigeon, not sure if it is meant to be, but works for me!  Next, I cut these cuties out and set them aside. 

1Next I pulled out this fun gold snowflake DP and cut it to 4 X 5.25.  I also had this strip of candy cane stripe paper and pulled cut that into a strip and made the end have a chevron.  (Both of these piece's of DP are scraps and I don't know who made them, though I am guessing the red and white is Doodlebug Designs).  Next, I adhered the red to the snowflakes and the snowflakes to the white base with EZ Tear Tape.  I stamped my sentiment with black ink.  Next, I added in my birds creating them into this fun tower.  I finished it off with some Trinity Stamps red pearls, adhered with glue dots. 

Of the 2023 holiday cards I have made thus far, this is one of my faves, I just love the whimsy of it.  I may give this one to my dad, who is a bird lover.  

Well, again, it has been a pleasure to be here and I thank GSD for having me.  I hope you enjoyed this post!  Please check me out on IG under the handle katieannbrooks.  Have a fantastic weekend! ~Katie

Sneak Peak- Season's Tweetings

Hello!  Katie Brooks here, back for another guest design post, one of two this month.  Today I am previewing a new set soon to be released called Season's Tweetings. If you are a bird lover or Christmas card maker, you are going to love this set!  

Here is what I have for you today:

There are several cute birdies in this set, but this one might be my favorite, I love his darling little hat, scarf and his cute little face!  

I made this card by stamping the images with my Misti and black ink.  Then I colored the images with my Copics, using YG17, YG25, YG03, Y13, Y15, Y18, YR23, YG16, R14, R35, R37, B02, B01, B000, E23, E25, C1, C3.  Next, I added some white gel highlights and cut my images out and set them aside. I used some green checkered DP from Pinkfresh and cut it out with a Wonky Stitches die.  I stamped my sentiment on this, wrapped some red twine around it and then mounted this layer on my white base.  Then I added my images in using EZ Tear Tape and Foam Tape.  

 

An Easy Peasy card that is pretty CAS.  I really like how it turned out, because the background is simple, it really makes the images POP.  I hope you like it too!  

Be sure to check out the new set in the shop on 10/9.  Also, head back here on 10/14 for another post by yours truly!

Thank you so much for visiting! ~Katie