Stamped Gift Boxes with Terhi Koskinen

Hello everyone!

Terhi here today continuing my experiments as a papercrafter, more than a scrapbooker. Today I decided to make giving and sharing even more beautiful, by altering these little gift boxes with gorgeous stamps. Take a look!

Pinterest, as all internet, is a great place to get inspired. There are millions of tutorials of how to fold a gift box, and as folding isn't my personal passion, we'll skip that part and I'm using ready made ones. But, to alter them, I chose the happiest and pretties stamps and sentiments!

The idea is partly inspired by Christmas, but the idea goes to any gift wrapping, just choose stamps to coordinate with your occasion.

As long as you are in stamping mood, take some coordinating paper and cut some gift tags in the same time. It makes your gift even more perfect and pretty. 

I went even one step further by decorating some of my gift with a flair buttons that can be purchased from Create A Smile store. The receiver will get a nice and pretty gift, and a memory too. The flair button can be used later as a fridge magnet or any other little decoration.

Tutorial is available here (link):

Stamps: Balloon in the sky Happy Days

Cool Cuts: Stacked Pierced Banners

Other: Chalkboards Moments Flair buttons

   

Remember to follow our Instagram @createasmilestamps!

Have a happy week!

Terhi xx

Saturday Scrap Scenes with Terhi | Flowers Are Forever

It's Terhi here sharing a layout with flowers, flowers and again flowers.

Some time ago I decided to create a bouquet of paper flowers. I wanted to learn how to fold some flowers from paper and created this gorgeous and timeless flower bouquet with no mixed media. Big projects like this, it took the whole day to finish it, are not exactly my thing, so I'm very proud of myself I did this!
And as usual, if something makes me feel good, it must be scrapbooked!

As you might have noticed, I'm not very experienced with coloring stamps. So to make it easier, I made it as a learning experience, I embossed some flowers on the background. So much easier to stay behind the lines when the line is higher than the paper. Next thing to learn is how to create shadows and use other coloring techniques - I'm sure my team mates have made a lot of material to learn with.

Please find the video below or watch it here.

Stamps: Botanical Love, Crystal Letters Upper
Other: Feel Good Sentiments Flairs

  

Even if you feel like cardmaker and you know your style, try something once in a while. It will make your mind fresh - and if it's not a real success, at least you feel more confident in your own area of crafting.

Terhi xx

Saturday Scraps Scenes with Terhi - Hello There!

Hello everyone, it's Terhi here with another Create A Smile scrapbook layout. It's early Sunday morning, but let's pretend it's still Saturday and lots of time to craft!

My layout today is made with papers from the Snow Dance Kit as I saw some really well matching dark colors - before choosing papers I already had in mind what picture to scrap. That's me and my husband going to fish and we are wearing exactly same looking shell suits. 

For you it might look boring and meaningless but for us it was a huge step to world of long time married couples. We have always made jokes about how we would never ever wear same looking shell suits because it looks so ridiculous. And yet, here we are now and still happy.

To get a lot of layers and textures for your layout, I would suggest to collect all kind of matching this to your worktable. I have a box full of Create A Smile goodies, and when starting to do a layout I open the box and find all matching things next to it. That way I have everything ready and my layout will be layered perfectly. Of course, it depends about how you want it to look, but for me the layers and balance is all.

Please find the video below or watch it here.

Stamps: Snow Dance Kit
Stencil: Snow Dance Kit
Other: Chipboards - Word Bubbles Oval, Snow Dance Kit, Flair Buttons - Feel Good Sentiments

  

We are having another release soon - stay tuned and have a great day!

Terhi xx

Los, ausflippen............

 

Hello there; it's Anja again with another card to share with you today.

I hope you all enjoyed our new release and are ready for some more inspiration.

 

 

Here is my card for today;

 

 

 

I wanted to use the backgroundstamps in a different way and combine multiple elements on my card.
Also tried to incorporate different techniques in my card.



I started by partial stamping the circles from the hypnotize background stamp in white pigmentink.
Repeated this stamping slightly offset with a darker color ink then my background paper.
Stamped an eye from the monstermassig set in the middle of the cicrcle and tried to point it out with partial stamping of the Arrow background stamp.
Used some chipboard and stamped the monster from Big Time on the chipboard and also on some adhesive cork. Fuzzy cut the cork monster and assembled the card.
The sentiment from Ausflippen is heat embossed in white on some black cardstock. To gain some extra interest I used some torn vellum to place with the sentimentstrip.
Finished the card off with a flair and some twine.
Rounded two opposite corners and my card was ready!!!!!



Stamps;



Chipboard;



Flair;





Try to incorporate different elements in your card and you will be surprised at the result.
Use some vellum strips for some extra interest or to highlight an area.
Tone on tone stamping will be more vibrant when you use white pigmentink and stamp a little offset the second time.
You don't have to use the whole background stamp but try to use only a part.

 

We love to see what you guys all create with our supplies so please get creative and link you projects at the sidebar !!!!!!!!!

 

Have a great day and week;

 

Anja