We dare you to create a smile : October mood board

Hello everybody,
we´re back for another challenge with a warm and beautiful autumnal mood board.

If you want to play along (this challenge is open until 08.11.2021) you will get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift card for the Create a smile shop .

Fitting the current mood board our two guest designers made such remarkable cards, let´s have a closer look together.

Stempelfrida, our last time winner, made this impressive (kind of halloween?) card using Sugar skulls, Berliner Schnauze and Scalloped rectangles. Love how those actually muted colors shine bright on the skulls and especially in this combination.

And Mimi Zitrone made this enchanting autumn rainbow card using Mushrooms, Floral decorations, "magic flowers" (an older set), Glückspost and Retro Wallpaper stencil. Such a great combination, don´t you think???

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


But the designteam - as always - has really wonderful inspiration for you too! Do you wanna see?

Candice made this clean and super elegant flower card using Good day.
Isn´t it wonderful how you can create such a marvelous card with using only one set? 

Jeanne made this fantastic autumnal embroidery hoop card (or should I say artwork) using You blow my mind, Incredible, Coffee collection, Pocket tag and Lemon alphas.

Joke made this stunning kind of blue-white monochramatic toadstool card using Mushrooms, Mesmerizing mandalas and Reason to smile.

Kerstin made this adorable textured yeti button card using Unglaublich, Geometrics, Mix & match pattern, Original and Ferns stencil.

Maaike made this cheerful frog-in-the-woods card using Unfrogettable, Sweater weather and Mushrooms.

Nina made this cozy pinecones on the forest floor card using Cones, Floral decorations, Winterliche Grüße and Scalloped rectangles.

 

Tinne made this awesome autumnal birdie card using From my nest and Double stitched rectangles.

Vicki made this lovely fall flower card using Mallow blossoms, Small sentiments, Leafy stencil and Stitched square frames.

Such overwhelming autumnal inspirations ... I´m sure you will get inspired by all this beauty!!!

If you now want to participate you have time until 08.11.2021 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 October sktech challenge

 Hello everybody!

Time to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the October sketch challenge... which we know was a little bit tricky this time.

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 : Nadja 
Her impressive happy cow good luck scene is created with Ich wünsch Dir Glück and is looking so gorgeous...

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

And our featured artist of the October sketch challenge is Gabi with her beautiful supermouse card flying over the big book selection.

For her card she used some of the gorgeous Create a smile gift-minis and the sets Books and Lesen.

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

Chocolate anyone?

Hello crafty friends, it's Kerstin here!

todays card is something special: I combined standard no-line-coloring with monochome no-line-coloring. 

 

 

 

I had this idea on my mind for quite a few weeks. This santa image is perfect for creating a chocolate santa.

  

 

• stamp your image with a very light color or an no-line-coloring ink
• color the upper half with chocolate like colors
• and the other half with the standard santa colors
• adhere some crinkled tinfoil between both parts to create the impression the chocolate santa is half unpacked

 

   

Santa

Kleine Weihnachstgrüße

Small Christmas Sentiments

 

We love to see your creations. Please use the hashtag #createasmilestamps when you're sharing your projects on instagram.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,
Kerstin

We dare you to create a smile : October sketch

Hello eyerbody,
today is start of a new challenge (open until 25.10.2021) and we have another, this time a bit different sketch for you!

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

Fitting the current mood board our two guest designers made adorable cards, let´s have a closer look.
Without any prior agreement they took both a beach / maritime scene but their cards went totally different and thats why we all love our hobby, right?

Our last time winner Stephanie made this cute little maritime scene using Ahoi and the new Weather cool cuts. Aren´t those waves adorable?

Sandra made this fantastic beach-scene-gull card, using Möwen-Gang, and look how beautiful the sunshine, waves and beach split up the card to fit the sketch...

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


But now lets move on to all the gorgeous ideas the designteam came up with... 

Candice made this wonderful and bright springtime chicken card using Crazy chick, Scene builder and clouds stencil.

Jeanne went a little bit further with the sketch and made this stunning open-up christmas card using Nanu, Schreib mal wieder, Oh Du fröhliche, Santa, Postage edge circles, Stitched circle frames and Snow dance stencil.

Joke made this creepy spooky Halloween-shakercard using Unfrogettable, Clear letters, Mushrooms and Stitched circle frames.

And even if I´m not sure if we should be afraid of this vampire frog, I´m totally in love with those mushroom-eyes!

Kerstin made this enchanting and oh so clever christmas-countdown card, using Peeking, Hurra, es weihnachtet, Schöne Bescherung, Geometrics, Lemon numbers and the new Weather cool cuts to create those tiny little internally snowflakes. 

Maaike made this marvelous autumn-card with an interactive (!) kite-flying squirrel using Mushrooms and sweater weather.

Nina made this lovely northpole-decorating card using Unglaublich, Hurra, es weihnachtet, Ahoi, Zum Feste das Beste, Twinkle stencil, Din lang borders and the snowdrift-die out of an older winter-kit.

Tinne made this beautiful and so relaxing snowy winterscene card using Easy breezy, Favorite cookie and Stitched circle frames.

 

Vicki made this awesome post bear card with a little touch of spring (or maybe valentine) using Bear mail, leafy and twinkle stencil.

Wow! Such gorgeous inspiration for this sketch... all of them totally different but oh so stunning, don´t you think?
If you now want to participate you have time until 25.10.2021 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 Moodboard challenge (the 2nd)

 Hello everybody!

Time to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the 2nd September moodboard 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 : Nicole with her stunning stencil-art mushroom card using Funghi stencil, Winterliche Grüße and Stitched rectangle frames.

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

And our featured artist of the 2nd September moodboard challenge is Mimi Zitrone with her beautiful litte hedgehog living room card using Pulliwetter, Mehr als Nickerchen and Spitzenmäßig.

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

Merry Christmas

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Today I have a simple and easy to make Christmas card for you.

 

Have you seen the latest release? So many cute products. When I saw the little reindeer from the set "Oh du Fröhliche" and the one from "Peeking" I knew I had to bring them together on one card.

• To achieve some dimension with die cut sentiments cie cut a few (4 to 5) and stack them. And it's a great way to use up your scraps.
• I love sentiments with shadow included. You can set much more focus on the sentiment using the shadow.
• When you combine big sentiments with little creatures you can make a card that takes no time at all.
• Kraft, cream and red is one of my favourite colour combos for Christmas.

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