Coffee and Christmas

Hi there,

Gerda Steiner Designs is joining the Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and this is my creation:

• stamp the adorable little reindeer from the Gerda Steiner Designs Holiday Friends set and three coffee cups from the Gerda Steiner Designs You're Koalafied set with Memento Tuxedo Black - use the Masking Technique
• color the image with Delta, Touch Twin Brush and Copic Markers
• add highlights with a white gel pen
• cut out a stitched panel from Bristol Smooth cardstock and create a plaid background using the My Favorite Things Plaid Background Builder, Altenew Crisp Ink (Frayed Leaf, Buttercream), the Darkroom Door Stitched Borders, Versamark and WOW! Gold Rich Super Fine embossing powder
• create a custom-sentiment with stamps from the Gerda Steiner Designs Holiday Friends and Gerda Steiner Designs You're Koalafied set, Versamark and WOW! Bright White Super Fine and WOW! Gold Rich Super Fine embossing powder
• mount the panel onto a piece of dark green cardstock before adhering it to a cardbase

Check out the Gerda Steiner Designs Blog for more inspiration from our fabulous design team.

Yours,

Happy Birthday Flower

Hi there,

today, I would like to show you this quick and easy birthday card:

• stamp one of the Darkroom Door Fine Flowers and one of the Darkroom Door Fine Butterflies with Versamark and heat-emboss both with WOW! Bright White Super Fine embossing powder
• create a background with Jane Davenport watercolors
• cut out a stitched scalloped panel around the images and layer the watercolor panel onto another stitched panel before adhering it to a white cardbase
• cut out the Mama Elephant Happy Scrips once from silver glitter paper and a second time from sturdy white cardstock - glue both layers on top of each other 
• create the second part of the sentiment with a Dymo Label Maker

Have a colorful day.

Yours,

Blossom Index Card

Hi there,

Our Mixed Media Moods is celebrating its one year Moodaversary and I created this Index Card inspired bei Jenn's and Dee Dee's Mood Board:

• glue together two 3'' x 5'' index cards for an extra sturdy base
• cover the whole card with white gesso
• add an extra layer with heavy gesso and carve some leaf shapes into it with the back of your paintbrush
• add some color with watered-down Dylusions Paint (Funky Fuchsia, Calypso Teal)
• use a black Dina Wakley Scribble Stick to add some shadows around the leaves
• add some texture to the background by stamping the Rubber Dance Vintage Hotel Receipt with Archival Ink (Watering Can)
• add faux stitching all around the card with the help of one of the stamps from the Darkroom Door Stitched Borders set and Archival Ink (Black Soot)
• add a sentiment sticker on top of a piece of matching used underpaper and corrugated cardboard

Have a wonderful day.

Yours,

You have my Heart

Hi there,

today, I have another card that I would like to share with you.

I mainly used my favorite colour: turquoise. This is my second flower card using this watercolor technique. If you click here, you can see the first one. This time the embossing worked, for there were no too thin parts on this flower stamp. I stamped the same flower four times. I used masking to make it look like one plumeria is located behind the other.  

I am going to participate in the following challenges:

Colour Me Creative Challenge #23 - Colour me ... monochromatic

Inkspirational Challenge #58 - Designer's Choice - Clean and Simple

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Something Simple

Here is my list of supplies:
Darkroom Door - Full Bloom Vol. 2
Elle's Studio - Hello Sweetheart
Distress Re-Inker - Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Pumice Stone
Ranger Embossing Powder - Turquoise
Ranger Perfect Pearls - Turquoise
Distress Marker - Pumice Stone
white cardstock

I really like how this card turned out.
Thanks for visiting.

Yours,
Tanja