We dare you to create a smile : September mood board (the 2nd)

Hello eyerbody,
today we have another wonderful mood board (and yes, it´s the second one this month - this time open until 11.10.2021) for you to start our new challenge.

If you want to play along you will get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift card for the Create a smile shop .

Our guestdesigner Jenny who won the last moodboard-challenge made such a wonderful button card using Sewing and Knitted stencil... with lots of beautiful details, just look at the threads that go through the eyes of the needle!

Thank you Jenny for your beautiful work, please be sure to check out her profile and leave her some love...

But as always our designteam came up with awesome inspiration too, do you want to have a look? 

Candice made such a bright greenery card using Fine ferns and Quill & Ink. And have you seen how wonderful the gems are fitting the rich green colors?

Jeanne made again such a stunning cheerful layout using the adventcalendar 2020 set "Läuft", Reason to smile, Patterns stencil, Pocket tag, Lemon alphas, Stitched rectangle frames and Double stitched rectangles.

Joke made a gorgeous shaker-card using Fine ferns, Wonderful and Stitched rectangle frames... which reminds me a little bit of peeking through the undergrowth...

Kerstin made this stunning atmospheric earth tone card using Königlich, Nur mal hallo sagen, Maus au chocolat, Triangle stencil and Stitched circle frames.

Maaike made this clean and simple but oh so elegant card using You can do it and created this adorable eucalyptus color with the distress oxide inks Faded jeans and Evergreen bough. You hardly can see it, but those splatters are a little silver touch to make it even more noble.

Nina made this plane kind of painting-gallery-card using Einatmen, ausatmen, Growing garden, Kleine Sprüche, Stitched circle frames, Stitched rectangle frames, Magical frame, Postage edge circles.

Tinne made this funny and charming cactus card using Sharp one. Isn´t this litte guy with his big googly eyes the cutest?

Vicki made this marvelous nature scene using From my nest, Good day, Confetti hearts stencil and created such a wonderful depth with the clouds of Scene builders and Clouds stencil.

All this diffenrent styles are really impressive and always such a gorgeous inspiration... don´t you think?
If you now want to participate you have time until 11.10.2021 but please make sure to follow the challenge rules below.

Have an awesome day everybody ... and get crafty whenever you´re able to...
Nina

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner from September sketch challenge

 Hello everybody!

Time to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the September sketch challenge.

Just in case you didn´t already know :
By playing along our challenges you´ll get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift certificate for the Create a smile Shop and be guest designer for the upcoming challenge (if you want to).

This time the winner of the 25,-€ gift certificate is ... drummroll and congrats to : Stephanie

For her cute and sparkling wintry shaker-card she used the new release sets Peeking and Festliche Feiertage as well as Scalloped rectangles and Double stitched rectangles.

Please send me an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com to claim your prize - it´s so well deserved. 

And our featured artist of the September sketch challenge is Sandra with her colorful puffin-party-card, using the new released Hurra, es weihnachtet and Hauptrolle.

Again : congrats you both!
You can take the badge and display it on your blogs, if you want to...

And we would love to invite you both to be guest designers for our next challenge - please send an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com and I will tell you all the details.

Be sure to check out our blog regularly... the inspiration over here never stops ... and you won´t miss the new challenges of course!

Have a great day ... and get crafty whenever you get the chance to...

Nina

Candy Cane Trees and Christmas Greetings Card

Hi there!
Samantha here, and today I am sharing a cute little Christmas card!

     

As soon as I saw those horizontally striped trees, I knew I wanted to make them like candy canes!! (Honestly, my first thought was rainbow...but then came candy canes! lol!)

 

Let's make this card together!

- first, I stamped colored all the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then once they were all dry, I fussy cut them out!
- I used Distress Oxide Inks in Blueprint Sketch, Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio to add the ombre colored background

- then I used the stencil and some white embossing paste to add the textured stars! loooove that stencil!
- I made sure to stagger the trees, so they weren't all the same height

- I heat embossed the large scripty phrase in black onto vellum and then fussy cut it out! Then, I heat embossed the rest of the sentiment in white onto a strip of black cardstock!

I went with complimentary colors for my card, but this would be just as beautiful with tone-on-tone colors, as well!

The trees and cute little reindeer are from the new Peeking stamp set! The background was created with that Twinkle stamp set and the sentiment is from Christmas Surprise!

    

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

We dare you to create a smile : September sketch

Hello everybody,
it´s wednesday again and that means time to start the new challenge (open until 27.09.2021) with this great versatile sketch.

By playing along you will get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift card for the Create a smile shop .

Our two guest designers made adorable cards fitting the current mood board, let´s have a closer look.

Lisa, our last time winner, made this fabulous cute DINlang (maybe christmas?) gift card using Pack mich aus and the new released Dein handgemachter Adventkalender.

And our featured artist Melissa used Cool buddies to create this pretty winter scenery for her christmas card...

Thank you both for your gorgeous work, please be sure to check out their profiles and leave them some love...


But the designteam came up with wonderful card ideas too - so let´s move on...

Candice made this beautiful floating-in-the-sparkling-sea koala card using All hands on deck. 

Jeanne did an amazing job placing nearly everything you can dream of when your´re reading a book onto one card... because "Reading is an adventure of the head". Correspondingly she used varios stamp set : Ähnlich programmiert, Books, Nanu, Frohe Ostern, an older Set "Sturm meistern" and the Cherry lowercase and Postage edge circles dies.

Joke made this fantastic rainbow mushroom card where fall greetings are much happier than you could imagine... She used Unfrogettable and the beautiful new mushrooms stamp set.

For her genius cuckoo clock card Kerstin turned the sketch upside down and used Aus meinem Nest, Cones, Festive Foliage and Sei kein Frosch.

Maaike made this cute clean and simple looking card and placed litte piggy in the moving sea, using the Pig out set. Doesn´t those teared up cardstockstripes look just gorgeous as waves??? 

Nina wrapped the cheerful yeti in a big cozy scarf to send "warm wishes" using Unglaublich, Winterliche Grüße and Double stitched rectangles on her great winter card.

Tinne made this awesome flower meadow card using Good day. Aren´t those little bees just the cutest addition?

And last but not least Vicki made this marvelous autumn card using Sweater weather, Good day, Clouds stencil and Double stitched rectangles.

 

Wow! As always such stunning inspiration... don´t you think?
If you now want to participate you have time until 27.09.2021 but please make sure to follow the challenge rules below.

Have an awesome day everybody ... and get crafty whenever you´re able to...
Nina

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner from September mood board challenge

 Hello everybody!

Time to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the September mood board challenge.

Just in case you didn´t already know :
By playing along our challenges you´ll get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift certificate for the Create a smile Shop and be guest designer for the upcoming challenge (if you want to).

This time the winner of the 25,-€ gift certificate is ... drummroll and congrats to : Jenny´s Wunschkarten with her wonderful bunch of sweets card using Zuckerschnute and doing looooots of gorgeous masking...

Please send me an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com to claim your prize - it´s so well deserved. 

And our featured artist of the September mood board challenge is Bunteule 

Her beautiful and bright autumn card shows us the variety of fall colors using Mushrooms and the Funghi stencil.

Again : congrats you both!
You can take the badge and display it on your blogs, if you want to...

And we would love to invite you both to be guest designers for our next challenge - please send an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com and I will tell you all the details.

Be sure to check out our blog regularly... the inspiration over here never stops ... and you won´t miss the new challenges of course!

Have a great day ... and get crafty whenever you get the chance to...

Nina

Cute Baby Card!

 Hello and welcome back! It's Laurie with you today to share a cute and simple baby card.

I never have baby cards on hand, do you? I always just make as needed. A coworker of mine recently had a baby girl, so I went through my CAS stash and came up with this!

To get the colour scheme for this card, I went through my patterned paper and decided on this pink and yellow plaid. This happened to be a scrap strip and was the perfect size! I chose one of the Stitched Circle Frames and cut it from white cardstock. After deciding on placement, I took the same circle die and cut the patterned paper. This way everything would line up seamlessly.

For the main image, I used two of the images from the new Mushrooms Stamp Set (one of my fave sets, EVER)! I matched them up with the pink and yellow paper.

To colour, I used coloured pencil and blended with odourless mineral spirits (Gamsol). I haven't used this method in ages! It's so easy!!

I foam mounted the mushrooms in the centre of the circle and added a few hearts that were cut with the DIN Lang Postage Cool Cuts.

Now, this is where I got kind of stumped. The sentiment. I didn't think about the sentiment! After trying many things, I decided to use the Lemon Alphas to spell the word "baby". I thought it would look cute placed around the circle.

To finish off, I added a bit of sparkle to the "baby" and the tiny hearts.

I never have a clear plan on what I want to create when I sit down at my desk. But I find that going through my stash of patterned paper gives a good start! Even if you don't use it on your project, it can give you a colour palette and style ideas (floral, geometric, stripes)!

Lemon Alpha

Mushrooms

Stitched Circle Frames Cool Cuts

DIN Lang Postage Cool Cuts

Don't forget about some of your supplies!! I had so much fun using my pencils and Gamsol that it made me want to use them more! 

Thank you for stopping by today! See you soon!

Laurie