Monday, February 24, 2020

Winners from our Sketch challenge

Hello everyone !

We're sorry to be late with the latest winners from our sketch challenge, but here we are - happy to finally announce our top picks!

The winner will receive a 25€ digital gift code for the Create A Smile store - yay!
Picking our winner was tough again - there were so many different and beautiful entries and the DT ladies had many different favorites :)
But there can only be oner winner, and we picked....

Marieke with her gorgeous shaker card! She used our "Cool Buddies" stamp set and created the perfect winter look! <3 



Congrats  please send an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com to claim your prize ! Is so well deserved !

Our featured artist is Jeanne. We really loved the way she interpreted the sketch with her clouds - super creative!



Congrats !! You can take the badge and display it on your blog is so well deserved !

Thank you everyone for playing along with our sketch challenge ! Make sure to check the current challenge and we hope you play along 

Until next time have a lovely day

Christine

Saturday, February 22, 2020

You Are a Treasure!

Hi there!
Samantha here, and today I'm sharing a fun, ocean scene card with the cutest critter ever!!

 


     

I am so in love with this cute stamp set! Those koalas are just so CUTE!! I knew I wanted to create a watercolor ocean scene, so it was the perfect compliment!


Let's make this card together!

- I started by stamping and coloring the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers! Once everything was dry, I fussy cut them out!
- I used my watercolors to create the awesome, fun wave background! I used lots of different blues and aquas!
- then I splattered some white acrylic paint over it all!


- then I heat embossed the waves on some vellum, and fussy cut it out! 

- the image and sentiment banner were popped up with foam tape! 


I could have just heat embossed the ocean waves directly on top of the watercolored scene, but I decided to use the vellum on top, for extra dimension!


I used the beautiful cling Ocean Waves stamp for the vellum!! And of course, the cute, fun and super creative All Hands on Deck stamp set with that adorable koala!

    

There is ALWAYS a fun challenge going on in the Create a Smile Stamp Facebook group page! It's fun and filled with prizes! I love seeing all of the incredible, unique and amazing inspiration!
~Samantha

   


Wednesday, February 19, 2020

You Rock!




Hello crafty friends, it's Kerstin here! Today I have a male card for you.





Every once in a while I need a card for a male recipient. A retro design without any critters is perfect for this occasion.






  • the Vinyl record is heat embossed with black embossing powder and the middle part is colored with alcohol markers
  • for the background I grabbed some of my favorite colors, cut small stripes of paper and glued them onto the card base
  • I adhered the stamped Image with some foam tape
  • finished the carddesign with a few notes and the sentiment from the Radio Rock stampset 



         
   




We always love to see your creations: use #createasmilestamps when you're posting on Instagram!

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,
Kerstin

We dare you to create a smile : Mood board

Hello everyone

A new challenge starts today and we cannot wait to share with you the new mood board . The colors are so beautiful and we had so much fun in creating inspiration for you . Hope you like it too and we are so excited to see all your creations.

Also don't forget that by playing along with our challenge you get the chance to win a 25€ gift card to Create a smile store and the chance to be guest designer for our next challenge 

Here is what our guest designer created to bring some inspiration to you

Joke made this gorgeous card using Pure poppies stamp set Cool cuts Double stitched Rectangles



Thank you so much for guest designing for our challenge . Please check Joke's social media to see all her amazing creations and leave some love

Now is our challenge design team turn to show you all the different cards they made to inspire you to play along with our challenge

Alexandra made this card using Easter Tweetings stamp set Mesmerizing Mandalas stamp set Cool cuts Scalloped Rectangles Stencil Clouds Kit Wonderful Winter ( hill boarder )A little treat stamp set



Anja made this beautiful card using Maus au Chocolat stamp set Cling Woodgrain Eggstraordinary Egghunt stamp set Cool cuts Double stitched rectangles Cool Cuts Useful bannersStencil Small polka dotsPaper from Wonderful winter kit








Ella made this beautiful mix media project using Time to say thanks stamp set Don't worry stamp set


Fabiola made this lovely card using one of our Eggstraordinary egghunt stamp set


Linda made this adorable card using Cart full of treasures stamp set 



Martina made this beautiful card using one of our Pure poppies stamp set Cool cuts Cherry UppercaseCool cuts Useful Banners




Melanie made this wonderful card using Stencil BlossomMini Danke stamp set Cool cuts Doppeltes Danke 



Melissa made this fantastic card using Eggstraordinary egghunt stamp set Cool cuts Cherry UppercaseEnamel stickers



Nathalie made this amazing card using Eggstraordinary egghunt stamp set Cool cuts Stitched Circle Frames


Hope you feel inspired to play along with our challenge . Please make sure to check the challenge rules below before you enter you card!

Thank you for stopping by today ! Until next time have a lovely day 

Alexandra

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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Yum, Cookie-scent!

Hello!  I hope you all are having a fabulous day!  It's Candice with you, hoping to inspire you with these sweet bakers!




Truth be told, I got this Secret Ingredients stamp set for Christmas and wanted to create with it before winter is over!  Don't you just love diving into a new stamp set?!



  • I first create the card base measuring 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 and die cut a stitched frame.
  • For the background, I first heat embossed the stars in white with the twinkle stencil, and then inked lightly with antique linen & tattered rose.

  • Next, I stamped the snowmen & ingredients and created the table from the Triangle Banners stamp set, colored them with copic markers and used my scan 'n cut to cut out.
  • To finish the card, I stamped the sentiment in versafine black ink, adding wink of stella and white accents to a few of the images, and some yellow nuvo drops.


To create my slimline stitched frame, I first trimmed a long piece of cardstock and ran the die through, stopping before it cut the bottom.  I lined it up in the stitches already made and repeated on the opposite side.  For the width, I lined it up in the stitches and ran it through again, stopping before it cut the bottom.  I then repeated it on the opposite side, creating my slimline stitched die!


         



Don't forget about the bi-weekly challenge that you can enter using your Create a Smile stamps for your chance to win!

Thank you for stopping by!
Candice

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Winners from Mood board challenge

Hello everyone !

We are so happy to share with you our two pick from the Mood board challenge . As always was pretty hard for us to only pick two cards , because all the entries were so beautiful and such fun and creative designs 

Also wanted to let you know that by playing along with our challenge you get the chance to win a 25€ gift certificate to Create a smile store and to be guest designer for our next challenge!

Liba  is our winner ! She created this adorable card using a  freebie from our blog


Congrats  please send an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com to claim your prize ! Is so well deserved !

Our featured artist is Joke and she created this fantastic card using Easy breezy stamp set Geometrics stamp set


Congrats !! You can take the badge and display it on your blog is so well deserved !

Thank you everyone for playing along with our mood board challenge ! Make sure to check the current challenge and we hope you play along 

Until next time have a lovely day

Alexandra