Naughty or Nice?
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in a BIG Simon welcome to first time SSS blog guest writer, Tanja! She has made an adorable card using a brand new holiday stamp design from Gerda Steiner Designs! Please read on for more details and enjoy!
Hi there, my name is Tanja and I am on the wonderful Gerda Steiner Design Team. Today, I have the huge honor to show you this adorable Christmas Card on the Simon Says Stamp Blog. Gerda came out with some fabulous new Christmas Stamp Sets this year. There really is something for everyone: Christmas Puppies, Little Christmas Reindeer, Happy Snowman, Smell Like Christmas, and Christmas Kitties.
Of course, I had to use one of the fun little cats, for I have four wonderful cats myself. Read on to capture the step by step of how I made this card!
- Stamp the cute little cat and the bauble from the Gerda Steiner Designs Christmas Kitties set with Versafine Onyx Black and color the image with Derwent Inktense pencils and a damp watercolor brush
- Stamp the twig from that same stamp set with Delicata Emerald Green ink.
- Add highlights with a white gel pen and some sparkle with Wink of Stella Clear Glitter
- Apply Distress Oxide Ink Broken China through the Tim Holtz Stripes Layering Stencil to create a background stamp the sentiment from the same stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black.
- Adhere the stitched focal panel to another stitched panel cut from patterned paper from the Christmas plaid patterned paper before adhering all the layers to a white card base.
I hope you find your favorite critter to create this fun card design! Happy crafting!
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Reminds me of our first cat. He broke one glass bauble each year and no more. It was as if he thought, if I break one I’ll get it out of the way and can resist the rest. I’ll just apologise and it’ll be fine. And it always was. He was such a fantastic cat and gave us so much that he deserved his bit of fun. Wonderful card x
What a cute card! One of my cats is into knocking stuff off of places now and he’s 11. Who knows what he will do when the Christmas tree gets put up. This stamp set is wonderful.
oh, thats too tempting for anyone
AWESOME card, love the coloring & layout!
Really really cute!
cute card
Super cute card!
ooh this is so sweet and funny – thanks for sharing:)
oooooooh, I am betting on naughty! Love that kitty and that card!
Adorable!
Oh how darling this is !!
Love that sweet kitty.
Adorable card. Love cards made with little animals. Thanks for sharing…
So sweet.
What a cute card. I guess a lot of cat lovers have had a kitty who loved baubles like this one does.
Adorable card!
Super cute card!! love that perfect Christmas plaid pattern paper in the background and adorable Kitty, you have colored her so well, Tanja. … this card sure makes me happy!
Hi Tanja and Welcome to SSS !!! I LOVE your card, the paper is so cool, I love the background, the colors, the coloring is awesome and I am in love with that stamp!! That is so cool you have 4 cats, I have a cat and a dog, if I could I would have 20 of each, I am such an animal lover and animal stamps. Thanks for sharing your card and hope to see lot’s more from you.
A sweet and fun card!
Oh how cute!
Super cute cat! The card is fabulous!
Thanks for sharing.
My daughter has a naughty kitty. Two years ago he knocked over the whole tree. I will have to make this card and send it to her!
That is so cute! I love the plaid paper you have used.
Such a fun card! Love the layers!
This is so familiar! And eating tinsel off the tree! What a fun card.
This is such an adorable card! I love it :)
Always cute ideas to share! Thank you!
Such a DARLING card!!!! Love it!!
Oh my!!! It’s damn sweet!!!
A very fun card!
What an adorable card, love it!
Love he background
Love that kitty!
Sweet little card!
Eeeek! So cute. Love GSD stamps… always adorable. .
So cute.
I knew the cat! What a cute card!
Adorable kitty Christmas card! LOVE that background
Welcome Tanja!! :) Thanks so much for sharing this absolutely darling card!! It is most definitely “nice” and not naughty at all!! ;) I love the expression on this stamp from Gerda! So cute! Your use of color in the design really lets this kitty shine!
Oh my goodness Tanja I love this card. Gerda Steiner has really sweet images and this kitty is proof of that! What an adorable card and the plaid background on this is fantastic! TFS!
The kitty is so adorable and most cats are so fascinated by the Christmas trees and the ornaments, balls and lights when they are so young, boy do I have some stories! I grew up with 6 six cats, a dog, a bird, some gerbils and some hamsters and we lived in 600 square foot house and not on a farm LOL!! Then when I moved out and got married I had a cat who hated my husband and well my husband was not thrilled with the cat! The cat loved to sleep under the Christmas tree every year, but the first year when he was a kitten he climbed it and we found him in the middle of the branches, never did that again. He lived for 18 years and we got married, had two boys and brought a puppy into our family, don’t think the cat was thrilled with any of that! 10 years after the cat passed away, I adopted another kitten to the loud protests of my husband, but it was the best thing we did and my husband has a great relationship with the new cat who is now 3 1/2, but we’ve not put a tree up yet because we’ve traveled every year because of different reasons and we’ll be traveling again this year as well and I dread putting a tree up because I know he’ll be climbing it! Thanks for sharing such an adorable card!!
Such a sweet cat, I have 3 of them and they so love to get at my Christmas tree, I even had a kitten who would sleep on the branches. Lovely card!
Aww this is a super sweet adorable card :)
Oh my goodness, I love this adorable Christmas kitty. Reminds me of my first little kitty and his fascination with our tree. Thank you for sharing your cute card and welcome to the blog.
This card is great, I love everything about it!
Such a happy card
Oh my! This card design is so cute and clever. tfs
Love the cute little kitty!
Aww that kitty is so cute!!
A cute card and stamp set! Fun to see a new stamp designers work!