Guest Designer Vanessa Amann - Part 3

Hello Folks!

Hope you're having a fantabulous Christmas - it's nearly over and I am here to share the last Christmas project for this season with you.

Guest Designer Vanessa Amann did an amazing job on this one - hope you love it just as much as we do!

Hello everybody, 

It´s me again and, like I promised, today without snowmen. But I could´t resist to use the same stamp set- Cool Buddies. 

Looking at the stamp set and trying not to use the snowmen I decided to create a little penguin scene. 

For my little scene I needed two different penguins. A male and a female. The male was easy, because I could use the hat from the set. For the female one I had to think a bit about but finally I had the idea to use this cute little star. So I stamped first the hat and the star and masked them off and stamped the penguins over them. I colored them in and fuzzy cut them out. For my scene I cut different layers of snow from white card stock and to get a bit more dimension I blended the snow with some ink. The last layer should be the sky, which I colored in darker colors. Finally the sky became obtained some stars and a moon. I wanted everything to be more shiny so I used some Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents.

Cool Buddies - Create a Smile

zu Weihnachten - Create a Smile

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope we see us again :)

Vanessa 

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I love love love Vanessa's background. her hills, the stars and one very bright star shining above them - so so cool. And all the blue shading on the snow - swoon! What a perfect spot for penguins to be!

Check out Vanessa's blog to find more of her amazing projects - she never ever disappoints me! It was a pleasure to have Vanessa as a Guest and we hope to see more of her Create A Smile project on our sidebar now and then ;)

Thanks for your beautiful projects, Vanessa.  You ROCK rock rock! :)

Merry Christmas!

Welcome to our November Guest designer: Vanessa Amann

Hello lovelies!

I am here to introduce our November Guest Designer with you.
First of all a little sorry: I should have posted the anouncement of the Guest Designer, but totally missed that - my bad. I know some of you were waiting to find out who was picked and were disappointed i never posted about it.
I'm thinking of finding a little fairy who helps me keeping track of important announcements and posts. Because waiting.... just su***. I've been there and I hope you're not too mad about it. We'll soon have our next call - and we had some truly amazing entries to this November call! Please try again! :)

Now it's time to welcome this sweet and talented lady:

Vanessa Amann aka. Vanillja

I first came across Vanessa's card when she entered them to our Guest designer calls and link-ups - see? It does make sense to connect, promote yourself, link up  your creations and share your art :) ). I was deeply impressed with her style and design skills, so I am really happy she's bringing some inspiration to you this month!

Welcome, Vanessa!

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A few days ago I watched Frozen, again. I fell in love with Olaf and he gave me the inspiration for this card. I also watched the video from Julia Altermann. She did a video showing the technique for this card. 

If you want to know how I created the see trough window please watch the video. 

Instead of coloring the embossing paste for my snowflakes I just mixed the paste with Perfect Peals, just to give them some shimmer. To have a more realistic look I colored the background part with Distress Inks. Blue sky and white snowflakes- a really christmassy look. I then stamped my little snowmen on paper. The snowman with the hat I only inked up until the hat. Olaf doesn’t wear one,that´s why I did´t want the hat for the snowman. The rest of the head I drew in with an alcohol marker resisting pen. At least I fuzzy cut the images out and glue them on the card with foam pads. For a little more sparkle and shimmer I cut two stripes of glitter paper and glue them between the paper and the acetate. 

I hope you enjoyed my card as much as I did creating it. We will see us soon,

Vanessa 

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What a super cute card, don't you think? I love that see through windows - the snowfalkes are just perfect! Thanks for the inspiration, Vanessa! <3

Cool Buddies - Create a Smile

Schöne Bescherung - Create a Smile

Wave of Snowflakes - Create a Smile

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