So Many Flowers... Happy Birthday

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Today's card is full of flowers.

I learned this technique from one of Kelly Latevola's amazing videos. I tried it once before and found it easy but loved the effect. So I decided to do it a second time.




AS I already told you is the technique not too difficult. For the instructions how to achieve this look you can watch Kelly's video on this rechnique. It is called Watercolor Bleaching.

• Instead of Copics I used coloured pencils for the shadows. I had the feeling my Copics didn't go well with the embossing and the Oxide inks.
• Use dark colours for your card The effect is much more stronger with darker colours.

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Sending You Crokisses!

Hi there!
Samantha here today, sharing a rainbow floral card with you!

     

I love flower stamps! And honestly, I have a friend who lost a dog recently, and I wanted to send her some love.

Let's make this card together!
- on a piece of white cardstock, I added some rainbow watercoloring with Distress Inks
- I squished the colors from the ink pads onto my Kraft Mat, spritzed with water and then pressed my cardstock on top of it!
- let it dry and do this again! I did this three times to build up the watercolor layers!
- once the final layer of watercolor is dry, stamp your image multiple times in each 'color family' until you're happy with the number of images!

- fussy cut out and set aside
- using a piece o dark grey cardstock, add some Black Soot Distress Ink to the top edge and splatter on some black archival ink
- add the flowers to the bottom of the card (adding foam tape to a few of the images)
- heat emboss the sentiment

Guys, I **know** that I can't color flowers like some of the amazing designers out there! Some ladies are just INCREDIBLY talented and can bring flower images to LIFE! But even though I can't color like that, it doesn't stop me from enjoying those types of stamps!!! I just find other ways to add colors to those imags that I'm happy with! That's why I created this card! 

This card was created with the gorgeous Crokisses stamp set! LOVE how beautiful those flowers are! (And they're so easy to customize!)

    

There are so many fun challenges going on - check out the Create a Smile Friends and Family Facebook group for all of the details and fun!

~Samantha

We dare you to create a smile - Spring time edition

Hello everyone!

Time for a new challenge and the theme is ''Spring Time'' and this time we are having some great news .

We decided to invite the winners from previous challenges to join us and share more inspiration to you . Our first guest designer is the lovely Ute from beru- crafts sharing this gorgeous card using our Kroküsse stamp set

Thank you so much Ute for being our guest design and for creating such an amazing card .

Let's see what our challenge design team created

Alberto made this lovely tags using the cute critters from Eggstraordinary Egghunt stamp set

Alexandra created this tag using our Cool cuts - Pocket tag

Christine created this cute card using our Eggstraordinary Egghunt stamp set

Farida made this beautiful card using Magic flowers stamp set  

Galina created this wonderful card using our Crokisses stamp set and the Wave of stars stencil

Kaja created this adorable card using Cart full of treasures

Laura created this lovely card using Eggstraordinary Egghunt stamp set

Nicky created this sweet card using Eggstraordinary Egghunt stamp set

Hope you get inspired and now is your turn to be creative!

Please make sure to check out the rules, don't forget you must use a Create a smile product as focus point to be qualified on winning a 25€ gift certificate .

Thank you for stopping by! Have a lovely day! 

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clean & simple ideas 2/7 * beautiful backgrounds

Hello crafty people, Nicole here.

This is part two of my clean & simple cardmaking series about "how to spice up clean & simple cards".

I love making series and I asked what you would like to see on this blog in our Facebook group "Create A Smile Friends & Family". Many of you were interested in tips on "how to spice up clean and simple cards". So here we are :-)

Clean and simple cards are super fun but because there is so much white (or blank) space on them, you don't want them to be boring, right?! I try to add an eye-catching element to my cards to keep them interesting. I picked ten of my favorite ways to spice up clean & simple cards.

What's a clean & simple card? 
I made a mini series on that too. You can find part one here -> clean & simple 1/4

My second tip is BEAUTIFUL BACKGROUNDS. I did some pretty basic coloring but the backgrounds really give the cards some extra interest. So lets spice up your clean & simple cards with happy and eye-catching backgrounds! :-)

I love Birkas Videos and she just made a new one about Distress Inks and stencils. She shows, how easy is it to make fun backgrounds with supplies you might already have on hand.

Look around you and get inspired! :-) Just try something new once in a while and take your time. A clean and simple card is not always a quick card ;-)

• pick and immage and color it the way you like it. You don't have to choose a special technique, basic coloring is absolutely fine for this type of card
• pick one or two Distress Inks colors and start with a soft blending with one of them
• take a stencil you like and add the same color but with more pressure or the second (darker) color
• arrange your card and add a fun sentiment

It's that simple ;-)

Lovely Critters / Kroküsse * Crokisses / cool cute: birthday tripple * Geburtstags-Tripple / stencils: focal point & waves

... to check out the CAS Video team! Here's Birkas Video I was talking about: in English and in German.

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a happy day :-)
Nicole

Have a colorful day.....

Hi there it's Anja again this time with a card full of flowers.

A friend asked me to make a card for a birthday girl who is crazy about flowers. Well that shouldn't be to difficult should it with all those lovely flowerstamp sets from create a smile?




I once again started with a topfolded white cardbase.
I diecut a rectangle out of white cardstock and a strip out of some patterned paper.
I stamped several flowers and leaves using different stampsets and colored them with copics and cut them leaving a little white outline.
I arranged the flowers and leaves thus forming a floral bouquet and adjered everything to the cardbase.
Stamped the sentiment and to finish the card i adhered three clear droplets and gave the flowers some accents with a white gelpen.






Stamps;

Crokisses, Magic Flowers, Botanical love and Time to say thanks.


Cool cuts ( dies)

Double stitched rectangles;



Pretty Pink Posh;

Clear droplets;










You can Always combine the different sets together to build a nice card.
The store is once again open so please visit the store and stay tuned for some new sets very soon.......

Have a great week;

Hugs Anja