A little treat ....

Hello there!  Chris here with you today with a colorful card with a brand new Stamp Set from the April Release.

Do you like sweets? I already and so I couldn´t wait to play with this sweeties.

• first I stamped all images on Bristol Smooth paper and coloured with Zig´s Brush Pens
• cut them out and arranged a little scene with the elephant and the mouse.
• for the Background I only made some splatters with different colours of  Distress Oxides inks
• glued down the sweets and critters with 3d Pads stamp a sentiment 
• that´s all :) 

...normally I´ve a "plan" to create a card - but for this one I tried a tip from a crafty friend she always colours the images first "without a plan" - I think it worked to get into the creative mood.

    

      

 

   
     

The sweet Stamp Set "A littel treat" / "Zuckerschnute" and a lot new goodies are from the April Release and available on friday 12th . 

Thank you so much for stopping by and happy crafty time. (..and now I will serach some chocolate...)

Chris

(NEW VIDEO) Lets talk about embossing!

Hello everybody :-)

In my newest Video (as always in very bad english and perfekt german Berlin-style) I made three, ok, four cards, and its all about embossing. On Sentiments, on Backgrounds, on Vellum... I gave my best to show a variation of different techniques.

The most of the times I only use white embossing powder, or put some clear-powder over a black stamped sentiment. So mostly only for Sentiments. But today I wanted do use some colored embossing powder again, or not only for sentiments but in the Background. And I wanted to try out a new (for me) technique

Here you can watch my video in English





Hier kannst du das Video in Deutsch sehen

Next Friday is release again. Make sure you will not miss any sneaks on Instagram, Facebook and here on our blog. Have Fun :-)

Winners from Monochromatic challenge

Hello everyone

Although a bit late then usual here are our winners from Monochromatic challenge

The winner of a 25€ gift card to Create a smile store is Stephanie with this amazing layout 

Congrats ! Please send an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com to claim your prize

Our featured artist is Olga with this cute and clever project

Congrats! You can share the badge on your blog is so well deserved !

Thank you everyone for entering our challenge , make sure to check our current challenge too !
Have a great day!

We dare you to create a smile : Crafty friends

Hello everyone!

So many of us discovered our crafty buddies thru this amazing cardmaking hobby and community . So we thought that a theme like Crafty friends is such a great way to let our friends know that they are appreciated. I also love how easy and versatile this theme is.

By playing along with our challenge you also got the chance to win a 25€gift certificate to Create a smile store and the opportunity to be guest designer for the next challenge.

As usual we have guest designers that will bring you some inspiration for the challenge so let's see what they created 

Izzy made this super sweet card using Doctor's helpers stamp set , Loops of love stamp set

Kat made this adorable card using  First day of school stamp set

Thank you to our guest designers for creating such wonderful projects and please make sure to check their social media and leave them some love

Let's see what our amazing team made

Alexandra made this card using Cool cuts Focal , Cool cuts Scalloped Rectangles , Stamping friends stamp set , Cart full of treasures stamp set 

Anita created this awesome card using Stamping friends stamp set , Cool cuts Scalloped rectangles

Ashlea made this gorgeous card using Cool cuts Double stitched rectangles , Crokisses stamp set , Pure poppies stamp set , Stamping friends stamp set

Cassie created this cute card using Tiny letterings stamp set , Bear mail stamp set

Elisa made this lovely card using Stamping friends stamp set , Easter Tweetings stamp set , Cool cuts Postage Edge Circles

Ildi created this very cute card using Fine ferns stamp set , Superpowers stamp set , Lettering Alphas stamp set

Laurie made lovely card using Stamping friends stamp set , Stencil Heart Rays , Cool cuts Scalloped Rectangles

Mirella made this gorgeous card using Stamping friends stamp set , Cool cuts Magical frame

Hope you got inspired to play along with our challenge , before you enter your project please make sure you read the rules . They are listed below

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Spectacular birthday

Spectacular birthday

Hi everyone...

It's Ashlee here today, Hope you are all well and getting in lots of crafty time.... 

I have a fun card to share with you today using a CAS stencil to create an awesome background with embossing powder!!

I basically first started with the idea that I wanted to use a CAS Stencil with some embossing powder and then it all came together from there

- First blend some distress oxide inks to create an ombre look 

- Place stencil over the card base and use some embossing ink to fill in the stencil

- Remove stencil and cover in an embossing powder of choice (I used Fools gold WOW embossing glitter for this one) then heat set with heat gun

- Using some opaque white paint mixed with water splatter over the base
- Stamp sentiments onto black cardstock strips using embossing ink and heat set with WOW opaque white regular powder
- Using foam tape attach the sentiments to the card base
- Finish off with a touch of sequins

You can put your embossing ink pad directly to the stencil to transfer the ink but you will get a much better coverage using an ink blending tool

Blossom stencil

Mini birthday 

    

There is a fun group on Facebook called "Create a smile friends & family" where you can share all your ideas/creations with the CAS family!!

Happy crafting everyone.... 

Hugs Ashlee.