Moments of creativity: November 2016

Monday, November 28, 2016

Guest Designer Spot Over At Gerda Steiner Designs - Part 3

Hi there everyone! I'm back today to share with you a card that lots of people want to know how to make. You are definitely right, it's a magic slider card, a card that will fascinate any child that receives one from you. And right now we'll try to pull back the shroud of secrecy on how to make such a breathtaking card:

To tell you the truth, the magic slider card is a very easy thing to make. You can find lots of video tutorials and written instructions on the Internet nowadays, but I would like to share with you the one that I came across a couple of weeks ago and loved how clearly everything was explained there. So let's start with the link to this tutorial (although it's in Russian, the pictures will give you a clear idea of how the whole trick looks like): http://sovushkaslavia.blogspot.si/2016/11/blog-post.html. So the main secret is to use two layers - stamp the same image on the acetate and on the cardstock and color it.

And now let's try to put the whole process into step-by-step instructions:

1. Stamp your chosen image once on the acetate and once onto the white cardstock/watercolor paper. Color in the image on the paper as you wish.

2. Put aside both images for a short time to dry.

3. Once the image on the acetate is dry, place it over the colored one so that it lines up precisely. Hold it in place with a washi tape, and trim the acetate to fit the card. Do this carefully so that the acetate doesn't move off the colored image.

4. When this part is done, apply Salty Ocean Distress Ink onto the frame and the background of the white cardstock and spritz some water on them.

5. It's now time to start to put the whole card together. Glue the colored image on the card base and the acetate on the frame. This should be done very carefully so that both images go perfectly together. Once this is done, glue the frame on the card base leaving one side unglued/open for a piece of white paper to separate both images and work magic.

And now let's show everything in motion:)

You can see that the image is plain:

But when you slide it, it becomes colored:

Magic? Definitely yes;)

I hope you liked my little inspiration. Thanks for stopping by and see you next time!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges: #145 Winter Animals

Addicted to Stamps and More: #221 Anything Goes

Crafty Creations Challenges: #329 Christmas

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: #169 AG + A Sentiment

Scrapping4funChallenges: #79 Christmas

Moving Along With The Times: #34 AG with Christmas

Creative Corner Challenges: Winter

Come and Get It Challenges: Baby It's Cold Outside

Hiding in My Craft Room: #277 Any Holiday

Glitter 'N' Sparkle Challenge Blog: #216 Blue and White

Monday, November 21, 2016

Guest Designer Spot Over At Gerda Steiner Designs - Part 2

Hi there, crafty friends! I'm back today with another card featuring 2 very cute and fun stamp sets by Gerda Steiner Designs. Here is my juggling Santa to hopefully cheer you up and bring some more inspiration on the first day of the week:

I started off my card by stamping cheerful Santa from "Snow Angel" stamp set onto a piece of paper, colored him with my Copics and fussy cut him leaving snow angel part aside. Once this was done, I stamped 5 boxes of presents from "Up On the Housetop" clear stamp set, colored and fussy cut them as well. And then comes the most interesting and important part of the whole card - the front panel. I first stamped and heat embossed the snowflakes and after that started to apply different Distress Inks onto the panel. Once finished, I spritzed some water on the panel and adhered the fussy-cut images to the foam for more dimension. To finish off my card and to add some contrast to these vibrant colors, I decided to add "Merry Christmas" sentiment in black color. To be honest, I was very happy how everything turned out in the end.

A couple of days later I've made up my mind to use the same technique and colors on another card of mine featuring "Naughty Puppy" - November's image for monthly progressive challenge over at gsd-stamps.com. So here is what I came up with:

Oh, these vibrant and contrast colors can really do their magic, don't you think?:)

I hope you liked my little wintry inspiration. Thanks for stopping by! See you next time!

I would like to enter these cards into the following challenges:

1st card:

Crafty Cardmakers: #177 Embossing Heat or Dry

Send A Smile 4 Kids: Anything Goes 4 Kids Challenge

Crafty Sentiments Designs: Snowflakes Challenge

Little Red Wagon: #368 It's Embossable!

Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog: #47 Happy Holidays!

Everybody-Art-Challenge: #389 Santa

Addicted to Stamps and More: #220 Photo Inspiration

Cute Card Thursday: #452 Christmas/Holidays

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: #390 Christmas

Crafty Catz: #347 AG with an Optional Twist (use RED)

2nd card:

Gerda Steiner Designs: Monthly Challenge - November 2016

Bastel-Traum: #47 Weihnachten/Chrismas

Sparkles Monthly Challenges: #86 Christmas Is Coming

CreativeCornerChallenges: Anything Goes

Simon Wednesday Challenge Blog: Christmas Critters

Let's Craft and Create: #119 Winter

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog: #225 Anything Goes

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #308 Cute or AG as long as it's Christmas

Little Miss Muffet Challenges: #151 Anything Goes

Artistic Inspirations: #168 Anything Goes

Monday, November 14, 2016

Guest Designer Spot Over At Gerda Steiner Designs - Part 1

Hello everyone! Sorry for being absent for quite a long period of time, but it's been really busy here for the last couple of weeks without a chance to sit and create something new. Luckily, I've got those days behind and I'm fully ready to share with you some of my recent creations. And I would also like to mark my return with the big news I've been waiting to share with you for quite some time now:) About a month ago I've been contacted by a super talented Gerda Steiner who asked me if I wanted to do a guest spot for her. And what do you think was my answer?:) Today my first Guest Designer post went out into the world and I'm super excited to share this news with you!

Today I want to show you 2 very wintery cards featuring the adorable "Cheerful Hedgehog" and "Fall Mice" stamp sets. You won't believe, but these stamp sets are so versatile that you can easily use them for your Christmas cards. So, let's start ...

For my first card I chose 2 little cuties and asked them to trim a Christmas tree:)

I started off by creating ink blended sky with setting sun. After this I used texture paste and added some stars and falling snow to create a perfect winter scene. While the background was drying, I stamped the hedgehogs onto a piece of paper and colored them with my Copics. Then I die cut the rest of the elements and colored some of them with Distress Inks. The only thing which was left was to put all pieces together. Once it was done, a huge part of the work was finished. Except for some last touches:) The first and the main one was to draw a string of lights my hedgehogs are going to trim a Christmas tree with - checked; second - to draw some shadow under everything and everyone who is staying in the snow - checked; and last but not least - to add some Wink of Stella to stars, street lamp light and snow - checked. And that's how the first car was created.

Second card was done by following the same steps, except this time I went for heat embossing instead of applying texture paste and replacing one hedgehog with a mouse.