Gerda Steiner Designs

Hi everyone! Sharing another sneak today of a soon to be released stamp set from Gerda Steiner Designs! This one’s called “You Lift Me Up”. What an adorable piggy!!

I Copic air-brushed a sky background for him using a sun ray and cloud stencil. I just love that he’s wearing sunglasses, so I had to add some rays up there.

I colored the balloon and piggy with Copics, fussy cut them out and glued them to the background. There are strings around the piggy, but you get to draw in the string to the balloon. I love that you can easily make it as short or as long as you like and you can add multiple balloons too!

For a little extra dimension, I die-cut some clouds and glued them here and there.

I just love the uplifting sentiment in this set!

Keep an eye out for the new GSD stamps coming soon and thanks so much for stopping by!

Hi there! Sharing a card today using some super cute stamps from the brand new Gerda Steiner Designs release coming very soon! There are quite a few awesome sets in this release and cat lover’s rejoice!!

I’ve used an adorable kitty from the Valentine Cats stamp set on this card. I decided to play off the stamp and just go crazy with hearts on the background. To get this effect, I cut 2 pieces of watercolor cardstock at 3 3/4″ x 5″ and brushed a gradient wash across both with Dr. ph Martin’s liquid watercolors in Ice Pink, Tropic Pink and Moss Rose. After they were thoroughly dry, I heat embossed the chunky fun sentiment from this set on one panel using Wow! Super Fine white embossing powder.

I die-cut the second panel with a heart die and glued them to the first panel. I love how they give it a little dimension, but it’s still tone on tone in a splashy watercolor way.

I colored the images with Copics, fussy cut them out and glued them to the background panel.

Pretty simple and fun to do!

Hope you enjoyed and be on the lookout for the new release in the next few days!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Friday! I’ve got one more Christmas card to share today using the adorable Oh Manatee stamps from Gerda Steiner Designs. I couldn’t resist putting a Santa hat on this cutie!

The Santa hat is from the On The Table stamp set and it fits so many of the GSD critters!

I inked a background with Tumbled glass, Broken China, Peacock Feathers and a little bit of Evergreen Bough distress inks. I sprinkled a little water on it with a paintbrush and matted the background on a patterned paper from the new “Little Merry Christmas” paper pack from La-La Land Crafts.

I heat embossed sentiments from this stamp set and the Balancing Mouse stamp set using Wow! Apple Red embossing powder. I love how the font of the sentiments matched up pretty closely.

I then stamped the Santa hat on Copic friendly cardstock, masked it and stamped the manatee. I stamped the kelp 5 times and colored all of the images with Copics. I fussy cut everything and created the little scene.

Pretty quick and easy!

Hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Monday Everyone!! I took a little break from Christmas cards to make this birthday card for my Mom’s birthday yesterday. She really loves dogs and this adorable puppy from the On the Table stamp set from Gerda Steiner Designs was just perfect!

This worked up really fast which was a good thing since I waited until the last minute to make it. I started by die-cutting the background panel from white cardstock and inking a Neat and Tangled stencil with Fossilized Amber distress ink. I then inked a second piece of white cardstock starting at the top with Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers and Wilted Violet distress inks. I sprinkled a little water with a paintbrush and then die-cut the MFT Happy Birthday sentiment from this piece.

To make the letters stand out more on the background, I die-cut the sentiment again from black cardstock and glued the letters together slightly offset.

I die-cut an MFT sentiment strip from black cardstock and added some polka dots with a white paint pen.

I colored up these cute images with Copics and fussy cut them out, but there are also coordinating dies available in the GSD shop HERE.

Hope you a great crafty week gearing up for Christmas and I’ll see you again soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hi there! I couldn’t wait to share this card today for Gerda Steiner Designs using the Carol Puppies stamp set and a brand new and awesome Hero Arts die in this month’s MMH kit!

I had so much fun putting this together! The die makes it so easy to color up the different pieces. I die-cut the door scene twice, once for the background of the card and once to cut out some of the elements that I colored with Copics and then glued back into place.

I immediately thought of these adorable puppies caroling in front. I stamped the center puppy on Copic friendly cardstock, masked the image and then stamped the puppies on each side. I colored them up with Copics and then fussy cut the whole image. I did have to use an exact-o knife in a few areas between the puppies.

This worked up pretty quickly even though it might look a little complicated. Just love how it turned out!

One last note- Gerda Steiner Designs is having a pre-Black Friday sale and all stamps and dies are 25% off! The sale ends tonight at 11:59pm. Go grab an early Christmas present for yourself!

See you again soon and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Friday! How cute is this new Little Snowman stamp from Gerda Steiner Designs?!

I’ve been playing with a lot of embossing powders lately and I’ve used 3 different ones on this card to help create my snowy scene. I stamped the snowflakes in this set multiple times in Versamark and heat embossed them with white puff powder. I also used this powder on some snowflake die-cuts. I love the dimension it gives.

I used a Versamark pen on the snow in random areas and heat embossed with a neutral shimmer powder and heat embossed the “wishing you” sentiment from the Gerda Steiner Designs Balancing Mouse stamp set in pink.

I colored the snowman with Copics, fussy cut it out and added a nice big die-cut sentiment to finish it off.

Hope you enjoyed and have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Friday! I’ve got a cute and simple card today using the adorable new Gerda Steiner Designs “Pumpkin Bear” stamps!

I thought I’d use a bit of a different autumn color scheme on this and I often turn to Pinterest for inspiration, so I searched for pumpkins and found a fabulous photo of Fairytale and Jarrahdale pumpkins. Since teal is my favorite color, the inspiration photo was perfect!

I started by die-cutting the white background panel and inking a Hero Arts stencil with Scattered Straw and Fossilized Amber distress inks. I then heat embossed the sentiment from this set and die-cut a strip of the patterned paper at the bottom. Love it when I find a paper in my stash that perfectly ties everything together!

I wrapped a piece of twine around the panel, tied a bow and matted the panel on a teal cardstock.

I stamped the bear first, masked it, and then stamped the pumpkins. I colored the images with Copics and fussy cut them out. Since it was nearly impossible to fussy cut the fringe on the scarf, I glued pieces of black embroidery floss to the back of the scarf and trimmed it down.

To add a little dimension, I adhered the stamped images with foam adhesive.

I just love this cute little bear!

Hope you have a fantastic weekend and thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy Friday!! Sharing a card today for Gerda Steiner Designs using the spooktacular new Ghosts stamp set! These are the most adorable little ghosts! I just love their expressions!

You can create the funniest little scenes with them and this set includes some super cute birthday sentiments too for your October birthdays. Love that they can be used for more than just Halloween.

That said, I couldn’t wait to make this funny Halloween card and I can’t get enough of that terrified looking ghost! I guess the witch hats are scaring him pretty good.

I started by cutting a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock 4″ x 8 1/4″ and die-cutting a circle from Eclipse masking tape for the moon. I then began blending Broken China Distress ink around the circle to create that glow. Next, I worked from the outside edges of the cardstock towards the moon with Dusty Concord, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress inks making sure not to blend over the Broken China. I spritzed a little Perfect Pearls mixed with water to add a few sparkling stars.

I used a paintbrush and watered down Hickory Smoke Distress ink for the craters on the moon and then used a bat stencil from Simon Says Stamp with black modeling paste for a little dimension.

I die-cut a Tim Holtz Gothic Gate die from black cardstock and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it a shiny metallic look. This stamp set has a “boo!” sentiment included, but I decided to use a big alphabet die and colored the die-cut letters with Copics for lots of impact. (this alphabet is the new Tim Holtz “Handmade” Sizzix die)

I colored all of the images with Copics and fussy cut them out, but there are also coordinating dies to this set available HERE. The pumpkins are from the new “Pumpkin Bear” Gerda Steiner stamps that I’ll be working with very soon. Love how easy it is to mix and match the Gerda Steiner stamps from various sets.

Hope you have a fabulous crafty weekend and thanks so much for stopping by!