Spinner Card Dancing Queen

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

 

Today I'm sharing a hand-made easy interactive card using The Nutcracker set. This one is a birthday card! I have a niece that is taking ballet and I thought she would love getting this card.

 

 


To make this interactive card, I used some nylon thread, a die cut window (this one is Lawn Fawn "Outside In Stitched Scalloped Circle Stackables" in Sunny Studio "Spring Sunburst" 6x6 paper), and a perfectly mirrored stamp image. 

Did you notice that there is a matching FRONT and BACK to one of the cute mice in The Nutcracker set?

This is what gave me this idea!  (you don't HAVE to have a symmetrical stamp set to do this, you can just stamp on both sides of a circle or other symmetrical shape and follow along as well!)

Let's start with the video so you know what we're trying to make it do! I also have a tutorial download for a generic spinner card on my blog here.

 

You may have noticed  The Nutcracker set does not have a "Happy Birthday" or "Dancing Queen" sentiment.

If you have another set, you can curve the photopolymer stamp to fit the banner that comes with it. 

OR... if you have a printer, you can do what I did and print one to fit! 

I stepped it up a little further with a LASER printer and then I toner-foiled the sentiment. One card uses pink glitter stars and the second is gold glitter circles.

I wanted a 3D effect with the banner, so I trimmed out the printed sentiment and popped it up on foam tape to mount on the banner.

Following my directions from my blog, I cut out the window in the top designer paper and the card base top. Flip over the designer paper and tape on the nylon thread (I flipped my thread end back over the edge of the tape and taped again to hold down the thread) 

 

I glued down the top designer paper down to the card base (so the thread is sandwiched between the layers). I placed the image of the back of the mouse UNDER the thread, inside the card. I lined it up with glue dots with the thread down the center and added glue to the edges.

 

 Then I topped with the front of the mouse! I thought a "queen" still needed a crown and there wasn't one on this character. So I trimmed off one from another stamped image from the set. I covered with glue and dipped in my fine glitter. I added two, one front and back, sandwiching the thread as well.

Once of the cards I placed another piece of starburst paper, but for the other one I thought I would reuse one of the cut centers and have a fun sunburst on the inside.

 

 

 

If these photos weren't enough, I also have a tutorial download for a generic spinner card on my blog here.

Hope you enjoyed this fun interactive! So much fun and easy to make!

See you again soon!

I'm nuts about you by Noga Shefer

Hi crafty friends,  Noga  here and I am so happy to share with you another project for Gerda Steiner Designs today.

My bag featuring the adorable Nuts about you - Clear Stamp Set and Nuts about you - Die Set. This set is so cute!!

I die cut a bag using ME favor bag die out of kraft cardstock. 

For the background, I die cut a scallop panel die out of white cardstock and glued on it a plaid cardstock.

Next I colored the sweet image using copic markers: squirel - W4, W2, W1, W0, RV000; acrons - E59, E18, E15, E08, E35, E55.

Next I stamped a greeting from this stamp set using black ink and glued the scallop to the front of the bag.

I hope you enjoy the project I created and feel inspired to create!

Thanks for stopping by,

Noga

Happy 60. Birthday Sister

 Hello dear creatives.

It's me again, Nicole from Germany.

I am so happy to continue being apart of the GSD design team. It is a great honor and pleasure for me.

Today is my day on the GSD blog and I had something bigger planned. Unfortunately, Corona caught me, so I couldn't finish yet. But today I want to show you what is already finished and you will see the rest, if you like, in my next post in a week.

Now to my project. My sister will be 60 years old on December 17th, 2023. Of course, like every year, she gets a card for her birthday. But this year, I wanted to create a little funny story and finally put it together into a book.

The story starts with , of course, the funny and sweet  ghosts from the set of the same name.

Unfortunately, the next page continues in German, but I will translate the texts for you.

The grim cat from the set "All cats" says: "You're all crazy! Petra will never, ever be 60 years old."

The cute squirrel (Set Happy Fall with Squirrel) then replies: “Yes, the sparrows are already whistling it from the rooftops!”.

And the dog (set "What's new?") confirms it: "Yes, it's true. It's already in the newspaper."

Curious what happens next?

Then stay tuned. Next week I'll show you the rest.

Until then, stay healthy and have a wonderful Christmas time!

XOXO, Nicole