Stepped Up Snow Angels

Happy Wednesday everyone, it’s Karen here today.  I’ve got a step card to share with you that features the Snow Angel stamp set.  How much fun is it that these guys are making snow angels! 

Now, at the end of this post, I’ve also got another Reindeer and a Tree card that I have just made a video for and had posted on Instagram.  I told Gerda I would use a different stamp set this week, but honestly, I just couldn’t stop playing with those reindeer! So I’m sneaking it in here to share with you, so don’t tell Gerda! *wink, wink*

So here’s my Snow Angel card...

I wanted my card to look like the characters were out on some snowy hillsides on a frosty day, so I chose to make a step card.  If you’ve never made one before, they are very easy to do and I’ve got a video made for you to see how I did it.  To watch the video, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

I embossed my snowbanks with an embossing folder from Kaisercraft called Circles.  The background sky was made with a stencil from a company called A Colorful Life and is called Cloud Edger, and I used Distress Oxide ink in Speckled Egg, Tattered Rose and Spun Sugar.  I used the Woodland Borders die set from Sunny Studios to create my snowbanks and for the trees.  I added some Nuvo glimmer paste in Moonshine to the trees, and some glitter accents in Fresh Snowfall around the characters arms and legs.  I mounted Santa, Rudolph and the snowman on action wobblers so they can get busy making their snow angels! 

Since this card tends to flop open, I decided to add a belly band around it with a sentiment on it.  

And now here is the Reindeer and a Tree card I’m quietly sneaking in!  Santa is having a little trouble on the rooftop with his reindeer (or maybe a lot!).  I’m not sure all the presents will be delivered this year, especially since Rudolph has chosen to avoid the mayhem and stay on the ground along with Santa’s sack! 

And if you want to see how I made this card, I have a video for you.  PLEASE CLICK HERE to see the video. 

I hope these cards have given you a little inspiration.  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! 

Let it snow Santa

Hi there,

it's Tanja here and as promised I am back with another Gerda Steiner Designs Christmas Project. This time I would like to show you this cute Santa Card made with the help of the Gerda Steiner Designs Snow Angel Stamp Set:

• stamp the Santa from the Gerda Steiner Designs Snow Angel set with Lawn Fawn River Rock, cut it out and color it with Delta, Touch Twin Brush and Copic Markers
• create a background on a stitched panel cut from smooth white cardstock using Distress Oxide Ink Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac and a Blending Brush
• add water and glitter droplets for a snow effect
• stamp the Santa and the sentiment from the same stamp set onto the background panel with Versamark and heat-emboss it with white embossing glitter
• cover the cardbase with patterned paper before adhering the panel

Have a christmasy day.

Hugs,

Snowman Tag Duo

Hi there,

I created this Winter Tag Duo using the Gerda Steiner Designs Snowman Friends stamp set:

• cut out two tags from watercolor paper using one of the dies from the My Favorite Things Tag Builder Blueprints 5 set
• stamp the snowmen from the adorable Gerda Steiner Designs Snowman Friends set with Versafine Smokey Gray
• color the images and the background with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens and a damp watercolor brush
• add highlights with a white gel pen
• cut out some Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes from silver glitter paper
• stamp the sentiment from the Gerda Steiner Designs Holiday Friends set onto a strip of Simon Says Stamp Fog cardstock with Versafine Onyx Black and layer a piece of DIY patterned paper (stamped with the My Favorite Things Diagonal Stripes Background and Versafine Onyx Black) underneath
• stamp the sentiment from the Gerda Steiner Designs Snow Angel set directly onto the tag with Versafine Onyx Black
• dye two pieces of seam binding with Distress Stain Tumbled Glass and thread them through the holes of the tags together with some natural twine

Here are pictures of the individual tags:

Wishing you a Happy New Year.

Yours,

Christmas Window

Hi there,

it's Tanja here and I created this cute little Christmas card with the help of the Gerda Steiner Designs Gopher it stamp set:

• stamp the the cute little guy from the Gerda Steiner Designs Gopher it set and the Christmas Hat from the Gerda Steiner Designs Snow Angel set with Versafine Vintage Sepia - use the Masking Technique
• color the image with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils
• add highlights with a white gel pen
• cut out the Lawn Fawn Wonderful Window from Neenah Desert Storm kraft cardstock and cut out a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock that fits right behind that window opening
• stamp the Christmas Tree from the Lawn Fawn Christmas Dreams set and mask it
• add color to the background with Distress Ink Tumbled Glass and create a pattern by applying Distress Oxide Ink Iced Spruce to the Tim Holtz Tiles Mini Layering Stencil
• stamp a bow and the little cookie plate from the Lawn Fawn Christmas Dreams set
• color these additional images with Faber-Castell Polychromos as well
• create a backdrop using patterned paper from the My Mind's Eye Sugar Plum 6x6 paper pad and one of the Tattered Lace Torn Edge Rectangles dies
• stamp the sentiment from the Clearly Besotted Stamps Many Mini Messages set with Versafine Vintage Sepia onto a sentiment strip cut with one of the My Favorite Things Stitched Sentiment Strips from Neenah Desert Storm kraft cardstock
• layer all the elements onto a stitched rectangle cut from Neenah Desert Storm kraft cardstock and adhere it to a cardbase

Here is another picture of this adorable little Christmas critter:

Thanks for stopping by.

Yours,

Juggling Santa

Hello everyone!

I'm Diana from Moments of Creativity and I'm back with another card featuring 2 very cute and fun stamp sets by Gerda Steiner Designs. Here is my juggling Santa to hopefully cheer you up and bring some more inspiration today:

I started off my card by stamping cheerful Santa from "Snow Angel" stamp set onto a piece of paper, colored him with my Copics and fussy cut him leaving snow angel part aside. Once this was done, I stamped 5 boxes of presents from "Up On the Housetop" clear stamp set, colored and fussy cut them as well.

And then comes the most interesting and important part of the whole card - the front panel. I first stamped and heat embossed the snowflakes and after that started to apply different Distress Inks onto the panel. Once finished, I spritzed some water on the panel and adhered the fussy-cut images to the foam for more dimension.

To finish off my card and to add some contrast to these vibrant colors, I decided to add "Merry Christmas" sentiment in black color. To be honest, I was very happy how everything turned out in the end.

A couple of days later I've made up my mind to use the same technique and colors on another card of mine featuring "Naughty Puppy" - November's image for monthly progressive challenge over at gsd-stamps.com. So here is what I came up with:

Oh, these vibrant and contrast colors can really do their magic, don't you think?:)

I hope you liked my little wintry inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by! See you next time!

Yours, Diana

Video: DIY Double Pop-Up Panel

Hello guys! For today's video I made another pop-up card, this time using two panels instead of just one. Also, I used the new coordinating dies from GSD for which I'm really excited!! I apologize for not having a voice over throughout the video since I'm currently under the weather and my voice is pretty much gone! I hope you can still enjoy the video tutorial and get some inspiration from it!! :)

Supplies:

  

Video: DIY Pop-Up Panel

Hi guys! This is Emily Cupely and today I'll show you how to make your own Pop-Up card without any special die. I hope you enjoy it! :)

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Ginger Bread Couple

Hey everyone,
it's Maike again and I would love to share a card with you using the new Snow Angel set.

First I stamped and coloured two of the cute ginger bread men, colouring one a little darker than the other. That one was supposed to become the male, so I coloured his accents in a teal colour and the lighter one - the girl - got the red accents ;o) Next I fussy cut them out, which took almost no time at all, and painted their edges black to make it look like I had cut them out perfectly ;o) Now it was time to give the cute couple a place to "sit", so I die cut a rectangle from some patterned paper and die cut a circle from that. I marked down on the card base where the opening was going to be with a pencil and stamped the circle sentiment in place. ("Frohe Weihnachten" is German for "Merry Christmas".)

When I placed the patterned paper over the circle again, the white from the background felt too bright, so I decided to take some "Candied Apple" Distress Ink and sponge some on the inside of the circle. That was a lot better ;o) I used foam tape to glue the paper to the card base, added a red frame around the window to match the colour on the inside and place the ginger bread couple inside. I glued one of them directly to the card, the other one is raised up with foam tape. In order to bring some red to the patterned paper as well I used a red marker to highlight some parts of the Christmas carol and also used the Clear Wink of Stella Glitter pen to add some shimmer to the red frame. Unfortunately it is really hard to see in the pictures though.

I hope you have enjoyed this Christmas card even though it is only October. ;o)
Have a fabulous weekend and happy crafting,

Maike