Merry Christmas! - Jeannie Lieu

Hi everyone! It’s Jeannie (InsideoutJeans) on the blog today with a card using a couple Gerda Steiner Design’s stamp sets. I just wanted to create a fun Christmas scene surrounding the cute little snowman from the Little Snowman set.

To start off, I stamped out the snowman so I could build a scene around him. Using the tree in the Reindeer and a Tree stamp set, I stamped out a couple trees behind the snowman. The snowman actually looks like he's looking at someone so I wanted to add a friend, which in this case, is a reindeer from the Up on the Housetop stamp set.

The scene was almost done here but I decided I wanted to add Santa in the background behind one of the trees to add a little bit of whimsy.

It's a super simple scene card but I thought it was just perfect!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you get inspired to create. Come back again soon for more inspiration and ideas! Happy Crafting & Merry Christmas!

Video: DIY Glitter Paper

Hello! This is Emily Cupely and for today's video I made my own glitter paper using some shipping labels. It turned out great, so I really hope you enjoy it! :)

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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: Warm Winter Wishes

Hi guys! For today's video I made a Christmas card, perfect for all the coffee lovers. I hope you enjoy the video below! :)

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GSD on the 12 Days of Christmas!

Hi Crafters,

I’m Justine and I’m here guest designing again today. I am so excited to have the opportunity to work with GSD stamps again! For those of you that don’t know me, I am from Canada and I’m a teacher. I have a YouTube channel and love crafting. I have been cardmaking for over 10 years. I am doing a series currently on YouTube and it is my third year doing it. I do a minimum of 12 Christmas tutorials for my 12 Days of Christmas series. Today, I am featuring the Up on the Housetop stamp and die set to create this adorable scene! 

To create this card, I die cut the frame for my scene so I knew the exact size I was going to work with. I masked off a snowbank using some masking tape and inked up a night sky. I used distress inks: Chipped Sapphire, Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch. I then stamped and coloured some of the images from the Up on the Housetop stamp set with Copic markers. I finally put everything together and I think it turned out so cute!

Markers Used:

R14, R39, R37

N2, N6

E13, E15, E17, E33, E55

G09

Thanks for watching! I will be Guest Designing on November 19th for GSD Stamps as well so be sure to join me next time! Be sure to follow me on Intagram @justinehovey to keep up what I'm up to!

Justine

VIDEO: Christmas Night

Hi!

New face here, I'm Marika and I'm here for a little Guest Design Spot. I've been watching Taras videos for a long time and love the stamps, so was so happy when Gerda asked me if I wanted to do a guest spot. So who am I? Well I'm a 35 yo software designer (aka coder) who's biggest hobby is card making and colouring. I blog over at CraftybitCreations.com and do card making and colouring tutorials over at youtube.com/craftybit. I found card making back in 2009 and haven't looked back.



For todays card I've played with Up On The Housetop, I wanted to make a very wintery card, and started with the background. For the background I used distress inks and and a mask and blended a background with blending tools. It turned out very soft so instead of going to my copics I decided to use my Polychromos to colour the images in. For more details on how you can see the video below.



Polychromos:
Skin: Ivory, Light Flesh, Cinnamon, Walnut, Dark Flesh
Hat & Gloves: Deep Red, Permanent Carmine, Dark Red, Walnut
Beard, trimmings and snow: White, Warm Grey I, II, III
Chimney: Walnut, Venetian Red, Terracotta, Burnt Ochre, Sanguine, Nougat