Hello Butterfly!

Hello crafty friends, it's Kerstin here!

New stamps (and many more) are just around the corner. Yay! On todays card I used the upcoming butterflies stampset.

 

 

 

  It`s spring time so let's create a spring card!

 

• stamp, color and fussy cut your images
• add some details with a white acrylic marker to your images
• add some ink blending to the bottom of your panel 
• adhere the images to your card 

To add a little more interest you can create flight paths for the butterflies by stitching it into the paper with a sewing needle.

   

Cosmea

Für jede Gelegenheit 

Butterflies (coming April 29th)

 

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

Plant-astic Card

Hi there!
Samantha here, and today I am sharing a card full of color and full of plant love!

     

I definitely wanted to add a rainbow flair by coloring each pot a different color of the rainbow!

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 Inks in Pine Needles, Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron to ink blend the background
- then I used placed the Diagonal Grid stencil on top, and used the same colors to add a subtle tone-on-tone look!

- I also splattered some white acrylic ink on top
- I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto some black and then fussy cut out around it.

-finally, I finished off the card by popped up some of the images with foam tape, for dimension!

 

I had to use rainbow colors for the pots of the hanging plants, but you could also do a black and white striped pot for the plants, with a more colorful background!

For the background, I used the Diagonal Grid Stencil! and the images are from the new Plantastic Stamp Set!

 

    

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 : April mood board

Hello everyone and welcome back to our new challenge. Todays moodboard is a real color explosion... but as always you will see totally different awesome interpretations of it.

If you want to play along yourself (this challenge is open until 02.05.2022) you will get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift card for the Create a smile shop. 

Fitting the current mood board our guest designers made adorable cards, let´s have a closer look.

Zuzana made this beautiful kind of golden sunshiny flower card using Mallow blossoms and Retro Wallpaper stencil.

Anne made this lovely flower party card using an older set "In bloom", Mini Danke, Basic circles stencil, Doppeltes Danke, Double stitched rectangles and Scalloped rectangles.

And today we have a third guest design inspiration for you.
Sophie was our winner of the march sketch challenge - but as we all know, sometimes life gets in the way... So her guest design entry is just a little later, but no less wonderful. She created this color intensive magnolia card and the perfect matching envelope using Magnolia, Happy mail and Hi there mono. Even the stamps are the same color, have you seen?

Thank you all for your gorgeous work! Please be sure to check out their profiles and leave them some love... just in case you havn´t already.


But that´s just the beginning - because the designteam has wonderful inspirations for you too!

Alma made this fantastic spring flower meadow using Bloomy and Heute wird gut.

Femke made this stunning high contrast birthday card using Clematis, Hey Honey and birthday triple.

Franzi made this super sweet mouse-painting-the-spring-flowers card using Dicke Freunde, Endlich Schulkind, Heute wird gut and Wildflowers.

Irina made this clean and simple but totally elegant springflower card using Good day, Leafy stencil and Double stitched rectangles.

Kathrin made this marvelous like a painting looking birdhouse-in-a-spring-garden card using Piep, Cosmea, Bloomy, Splotch stencil and Stitched rectangle frames.

Laura made this lovely bees palying above spring flowers card using Best bugs, Very cherry and Stitched rectangle frames.

Martina made this super cool and colorful kind of retro card using Kind der 80er and Splotch stencil.

Mina made this gorgeous turtle reading a field of coneflowers card using Abschalten, Good day and Double stitched rectangles.

Nina made this pretty sea of flowers using Growing garden, mini "goodie bee" and Doppeltes Hallo.

As always gorgeous inspiration... don´t you think?
If you now want to participate you´ll have time until 02.05.2022 but please make sure to follow the challenge rules below.

Have an awesome day everybody and don´t forget to get crafty whenever you´re able to...

Nina

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner from April sketch challenge

 Hello everybody!

Time to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the April sketch challenge... there were so many wonderful entrys, it was really hard to choose.

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 : Paula with her beautiful and very ornate poppy card using Pure poppies and Floral decorations.

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

And our featured artist of the April sketch challenge is Stefanie with her gorgeous creative lighthouse card using Dann mal los!, Weather cool cuts and little "goodie seagull". 

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 

We dare you to create a smile : April sketch

Hello everyone, it´s wednesday and this means we´re back with a brand new sketch challenge for all of you! 

If you want to play along (this challenge is open until 18.04.2022) you will get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift card for the Create a smile shop .

Fitting the current sketch our guest designer Lia made this beautiful kind of romantic looking spring card using Summer florals, Hello twice, dEGGorations and some alphabet stickers.

 

Thank you Lia for your gorgeous work - please be sure to check out her profile (in case you haven´t by now) and leave her some love...

Now, as always the designteam had wonderful ideas for this sketch interpretation too... so let´s have a closer look. 

Alma made this marvelous spring birdhouse card using Piep, Summer florals, Tiny sentiments, Lovely Tags M, Stitched circle frames and Postage rectangles.

Femke made such a delicious looking clean and simple icecream card using Your favorite icecream and Splotch stencil.

Franzi made this super cute and clever letter box card using Dicke Freunde, Happymail, Postage rectangles, DIN lang postage, Focal and Splotch stencil.

Irina made this classy elegant pure white bug-friends card using Best bugs and Double stitched rectangles.

Kathrin made this magnificant lion king in the jungle card using Königlich, Floral decorations, Weather dies and Ferns stencil.

Laura made this lovely colorful winterfox card using Winterkind, Stitched circle frames, Stitched rectangle frames and Wave of stars stencil.

Martina made this exquisite and beautifully color-coordinated chicken card using Verrücktes Huhn, Focal and Scalloped rectangles.

 

Mina made this cheerful spring kraft-card using Dicke Freunde, Endlich Frühling and Double stitched rectangles.

Nina made this pretty birdhouse-in-the-tree-trunk card using Piep, Hey Honey, Cloud pattern stencil, Stitched circle frames and Stitched rectangle frames.

Oh, it´s always a pleasure for me to work with those creative and talented ladies... who have the most amazing inspirations for you!
So, if you now want to participate you´ll have time until 18.04.2022 but please make sure to follow the challenge rules below.

Have an awesome day everybody and don´t forget to get crafty whenever you´re able to...

Nina

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner from March mood board challenge

Hello everybody!

It´s wednesday and so it´s time to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the March 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 : Zuzana with her awesome pastel birdhouse card using Tweetheart and Scalloped rectangels.

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

And our featured artist of the March mood board challenge is Anne with her beautiful easter chicken card. For this soft pastel spring scene she used Verrücktes Huhn, Scene builders, Kleine Sprüche and Double stitched rectangles.

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