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