Hi there, It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I made a cute card using the Deck the halls stamp set. :)
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It's not unusual to have a creative block from time to time and today I will share some advise what to do if it happenes to you. I love sketches so my inspiration hunt starts with them.
Watch the video to find out more about the sketch I used today and how I made this card:
Hi everyone! It's Laura here and today I am back with a post and a video in which I will show you how to create a snow globe shaker card. I chose the sentiment so that this could be a card good for any occasion, but you can easily switch that and turn this into a winter birthday card, for example.
Hi there, Marilyn here and I hope all is well with you.
Today's card is my second post as guest designer with Gerda Steiner Designs and I was lucky enough to be given the cute Dachshunds clear stamp set to use. Love these pups, especially the one with the flying ears... I keep looking at those ears and smiling. Then I try to spell 'dachshunds' and have to look it up every time!
I am sharing today my small gift bag using Up on the house top stamp set, I started with a piece of vellum and cut two pieces each are 10" * 5" then I measured 4" to be my actual bag's size and folded the rest each 1/2" to make the top.
Then I took the three little gift stamp from the stamp set and using versa mark ink and gold
Hello and Happy Monday to you! Tina here from Cards & Coffee Time, I hope your week is off to a great start!! Today I am sharing a Christmas card with the super feisty Christmas Kittens stamp set along with the coordinating dies. Our Christmas tree for years now, has been adorned with ornaments and bulbs starting from about two feet up from the bottom of the tree. The top half has all the bells...
For today's card I have used the 'Santa Owl' digital stamp.
The image has been printed onto Copic X-Press It blending card and coloured with Copic Markers. It has been fussy cut, and glitter added using Glossy Accents.
The base card has been cut using a die.
The sentiment has been heat embossed onto black card stock, trimmed and adhered to the card base.
Hello! Karlahere today with a cute card using a fun 'Impossible Card Fold' and the adorable Decorating Penguin digital stamp from the Gerda Steiner Designs Shop!
The Impossible card is so easy, created from a single base of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cardstock, but looks so complicated. If you're wanting to create one, just search on YouTube for a tutorial - there are lots.
Tanya here as a new guest designer! It's already December! With all the holiday festivities it's been a crazy few weeks for my family, we celebrated 2 birthdays, my parents 40th anniversary and of course Thanksgiving! Now that it has calmed down a little, it was so nice to finally sit down and make some cards!
I worked with the Carol Kitten stamp set and I love every card that I made!...
These pups are so cute and I'm so happy to see there is a puppy carolling option for all the dog lovers!
To create this card, I started with the background panel. Using Tumbled Glass distress oxide, I ink blended the top part of the panel and left the bottom white to look like snow. I then die cut the panel...
Hi everyone! Cathy here with a card using the brand new Balancing Mouse stamp set.
I'd probably lose my mind if I found a mouse playing around on my Christmas decorations, but isn't he the cutest?
I started by inking the background using MFT Cement Gray hybrid ink in the areas where I was going to adhere the die-cut pieces. I then stamped snowflakes from this stamp set in Versamark ink and heat...
I made a nice CAS card for this one so that the image was the main focus...
I coloured the puppy up with Copics and popped it onto the card base where I had stamped the sentiment "Have a howly-Jowly Christmas", also from the carol puppies...
Hello and Happy Wednesday Crafty Friends! Tina here from Cards & Coffee Time. Today for my Project I created 2 furry friendly cards, one with the Carol Kitten Stamp Set and the Carol Puppies Stamp Set:) Both have coordinating dies too:) If you are a Furry Friend Lover there is stamp made just for you this Holiday Season! Time to break out the Christmas Music and Have fun! You can watch the...
I have coloured the image with my Polychromos pencils, the black glaze pen and a white gelpen. Then I have fussy cut the image. I added Dry glitter: Clear rock candy from...
Hi there! This is Rana, I am a civil engineer and crafting is my passion especially the interactive cards and I am here to introduce my card for the Christmas and holiday season 2018. I am so happy and excited today to be a guest designer and use one of the cutest Gerda Steiner designs up on the housetop and I wonder if I am the only one how love this stamp set smile it's like a strawberry gum...
Hi there, It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and I have another cute Christmas card prepared for you!
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I used a brand new set called Balancing mouse and I stamped it using the Memento tuxido black ink. I decided to stamp out the square frame from the Christmas light along with a mouse. I colored everything in using alcohol markers.
I used scissors to cut everything out since I made a custom...
Hi there! It's Marilyn here today and I am pleased as punch to be invited as a guest designer for Gerda Steiner Designs and to share my card with you. These images are just the cutest and fun to create with.
For today's card, I've used the cute Mouse with Phonedigi stamp. Now, I'm not so fond of mice but this little guy is very cute and I like how versatile the image and sentiment are. It's...
Hey friends! Karla back today with a look at the adorable digital stampTwo Kittens In The Stockingin the Gerda Steiner Designs Shop! These two cuties are definitely ready to make someone smile while waiting for Santa to arrive. I started off by printing the stamp on white cardstock and coloured it in with Copics and Prismacolor Markers, both alcohol based. I love adding details on my images...
Hello Crafty Friends! I hope your Thanksgiving Holiday was wonderful!! Tina here from Cards and Coffee Time. Today I created 2 cards from the new Baby Boy Christmas and Baby Girl Christmas stamp sets. I used my copic markers to color in these sweet images and love how they turned out!
Baby Boy Christmas Stamp Set
Baby Girl Christmas Stamp Set
These are just the sweetest babies and the peeking...
Hi Everyone! Cathy here with a card using the adorable new Carol Puppies stamp set. This little guy is my favorite as he reminds me of my little French Bulldog.
For the background, I double embossed a piece of gray cardstock using Versamark ink on a Cuttlebug embossing folder and then heat embossing with Wow! Iced Silver embossing powder.
I cleared off a small area of embossing powder with a...
Welcome back everyone...it's Pip again. I have two more cards as Guest Designer showcasing the On the Bookshelf stamp set.
First Card
The first step was to stamp the top shelf directly onto the card base and I did a little bit of masking to add the mouse. I stamped a number of the other images with copic friendly ink and coloured them with alcohol markers. I didn't do any shading on the spines of...
I'm back to share two cards I've made using both the Santa and a Kitten stamp for the cat lovers and Puppy Kisses for Santa stamp for the dog lovers! I couldn't resist the puppy one when it was released but I love that there is now an option for both!
I created both cards the same way. Using a light grey piece of card I trimmed 2 pieces to A2 size and die cut a window from both using...
Hi everyone, it's Pip here. I am excited to be a guest designer on the Gerda Steiner Blog showcasing the On the Bookshelf Stamp Set. I have been having fun creating interactive cards lately and knew exactly what I wanted to do with this stamp set as soon as I saw it.
I started by stamping the images in copic friendly ink and coloured them with simple copic colouring. I am super happy with how the...
Hi there! In conjunction with the Carol Kitten set, Gerda Steiner Designs released a Carol Puppies set. This is a super cute set for any dog lovers out there. I just had to use them to create a scene card.
First, I decided I wanted to use 3 of the images so I used the three front facing puppies. I masked them so one was in front and two behind. I then added a few snow banks and shaded them using...
Hello everyone! Allison Cope here! Happy Thanksgiving to all of my US friends out there today! I hope you’re having a great day celebrating with family and friends today.
Since today and everyday we give thanks, I thought I would start off with an Autumn related thank you card. I decided to use both “Girl Holding Pumpkin” and “Hedgehog with Pumpkin” digital stamps as my focal point of my...
Hi there, It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I have prepared a cute stitched Christmas card! :)
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First thing I did was the background. Even though it's a small area it took me about 3 hours to stitch it all. I went with a scene look, so I made white snowy ground and blue sky with some white snow flakes in between.
After the background was stitched I stamped out the cute cat from the...
I created a X-mas card with the sweet digital stamp Two Kittens in the StockingfromGerda Steiner Designs. I started with adhering the design papers with stockings onto red cardstock.
Printed out and colored the image with copics, fussy cut it and adhered it with foamtape on the designpapers.
Hello! It's Karla back today to share a sleigh full of llamas using the absolutely adorable Fa-La-La-La Llamasdigital stamp, which includes all three of these merry guys! I know this is going to make someone laugh when they open their Christmas card this year I started off by printing the llamas onto white cardstock and using Copics and Prismacolor Markers to colour them in as a dad, mom and...
color one of the foxes and some mushrooms from the Gerda Steiner Designs Foxes set with Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer pencils and a damp watercolor brush
add highlights with a white gel pen
create a background using patterned paper from the Maja Design Walking in the Forest 6x6 paper pad
How adorable are there little pups?! I just love them and had to color them to look like my family's dogs. We are the proud owners of Maggie the Great Dane....
and Ellie the Boston Terrier and McTavish theScottish Terrier.
I first colored the pups with Copic markers and then fussy cut the out. Sometimes I...
For today's card I have used the 'Beary Grateful' digital stamp.
The image has been printed onto Copic X-Press It Blending Card and coloured with Copic Markers. Fussy cut the image and sentiment.
For the card base, cut a rectangle out of the centre of the card. Coloured the cut out with distress oxide inks. Layer this back into the card base. Draw a line around the cut out...
Hi there, It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I have a sweet Christmas card for you! :)
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I used a cute little mouse from Smell like Christmas stamp set and I stamped it out using Memento tuxido black ink. Then, I colored the image in using alcohol markers. I decided to use traditional Christmas colors so I colored his clothes in red and green.
I started off by die cutting two panels out of some Bristol Smooth cardstock by Strathmore. The larger one measures 4.25”by 5.5” and the smaller one measures 3.75” by 5”.
Hello! It's Karla back today with a pretty Christmas card featuring the super cuteSanta Owl digi stamp from the Gerda Steiner Designs Shop. I printed this cutie out on white cardstock and then used Copics, Prismacolor and Hobby Colour Markers to colour everything up. I cut him out and layered him on a piece of white cardstock embossed with a wintery scene.
Hey there! It’s me Joy back again to share my cards as a guest designer for Gerda Steiner Designs. I made two cards using the adorable Holiday Friends Stamp set.
Card 1: I stamped the reindeer, the Santa and the sentiment using Versafine Onyx Black Ink on an A2 watercolour cardstock. Next, I stamped the images on a masking sheet, fussy cut them and masked the images. I then drew the wooden signpost...
I created a X-mas card with the sweet digital stamp set What's on the Table?from Gerda Steiner Designs. This set also contains a party hat, so you can create a birthday card too.
I started with 2 design papers. Printed and colored the images, fussy cut them and created a scene. Added Flowersoft on the hat and Stickles on the toppings of the cupcakes. The...
Hi everyone, I am Larissa from Car-d-elicious and today I made another creation for the blog from Gerda Steiner designs. This time I made something with a freebie from Gerda Steiner. For your christmas pressents administration Gerda has designed this Gift list printable from Gerda Steiner designs. ;) On this list you can write which presents you have to buy for what person. Perfect for this busy...
Hi there! It's Jeannie and I'm back to share two cards using the new Baby's First Christmas stamp set. These are so adorable and actually perfect for a scrapbook page. Today, I used them to make into cards using both Baby Girl Christmas and Baby Boy Christmas.
I intentionally colored them the same to speed up the process. and kept Christmas colors for both.
Hello and Happy Monday Crafty Friends! Tina here from Cards and Coffee Time. Today I created a card with the Reindeer and a Tree stamp set along with the Coordinating dies. I used watercolor pencils for my coloring medium and added puffy snow for dimension. This little reindeer is my fave with his little tongue handing out and it looks as though he is doing a happy dance! I Loooved him so much I...
Hi there! In conjunction with the Carol Kitten set, Gerda Steiner Designs released a Carol Puppies set. This is a super cute set for any dog lovers out there. I just had to use them to create a scene card.
