Manatee WIth You Would Be Great...

 Hi Everyone,

Its Hazel (Didos) here with another cute card made using the Oh Manatee Stamp Set. 

 Todays card has incorporated 2 of the cute Manatee, the Seaweed, bubbles, mug and 2 of the sentiments from the set. 

I thought it would be good with the play on words with the Tea or Coffee both in the card. 

My card has been coloured with promarkers and the sea was done using distress inks. 

I hope you like them,

Thanks for dropping by today,

Hazel x

Some Fishy Love...

Hello!  It is Lisa Lahiff back today as a Guest Designer, and I'm so excited to get to share a project using the new Oh Manatee Stamp Set.  Now, I have to warn you that I went in a little direction with my project.  Rather than focusing on the large and super cute Manatee's in this set I decided to give the smaller stamps some love and the spotlight on my card...

To start I stamped my fish, sentiment, bubble, and seaweed onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock.  I then watercolored my images in with a mix of Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and a water brush.  Once these were dry I added some masking fluid to them, as well as created some wave like squiggles to the background.  I was then able to go over the entire thing with a mix of blue markers and a water brush, again leaving time for everything to dry before I slowly peeled off the masking fluid.  I decided to cut the scene into a tag shape and added some white ribbon to the top.  While I was trying various patterned papers behind my tag I came across an old panel of Embossing Paste that I had placed in my scrap pile, and I really loved the way it looked behind my fish so I gave it a new home on my card!

Thank you so much for stopping by today, and I hope my card has inspired you to take a closer look at those smaller images in your set and give them a little love too!  And check out all of the cute sets available now in the Gerda Steiner Store, so much love to go around! :)

Happy Crafting!
Lisa

Hoppiness little valentine notes - Larissa

Goodmorning, I am Larissa from Car-D-elicious and  today I am posting a new project on the blog from Gerda Steiner designs.

I made 4 tiny cards, that you can use to let someone know that you are thinking about him/her. The front of the card is 6,5 by 6,5 cm, so really tiny.

I have made the cards with a couple of images from the stampset Hoppiness from Gerda Steiner designs. I stamped 4 different bunnies and then I coloured them with my Polychromos pencils and the black glaze pen. I have die-cut the bunnies with the Hoppiness die-set from Gerda Steiner designs. I have cut 4 little cards from white cardstock.With the Crea-nest-lies XXL 50 from Crealies I have die-cut 4 sqaures from pink and purple design paper from the Graphic grid pastels paperpad from My favorite things. With a Heart die set I have cut hearts out of those squares. I adhered the design paper with foamtape on the fronts of the cards and then I adhered the bunnies with foamtape inside the holes. I tried to make each card a bit different.

On some of the cards the sentiment was too big for the front of the card, so I decided to stamp it on the inside of the card.

These sentiments are also from the stampset Hoppiness from Gerda Steiner designs. I also added some die-cut hearts.

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STAMP: Hoppiness from Gerda Steiner designs

COLORING MEDIUM: Polychromos pencils

PAPER: White cs, Graphic grid pastels paperpad from My favorite things

INK: Versafine onyx black

DIES: Crea-nest-lies XXL 50 from Crealies, Heart dies, Hoppiness die-set from Gerda Steiner designs

ACCESSORIES: Black glaze pen, white gelpen, crystal hotfix gems