Create a smile Friends & Family Facebook group challenge April - guest designer

Hello creative friends

As a new month start we have of course a new challenge starting on our Facebook group , which if you haven't joined till now you should cause there is a place to share your creations , interact with us and find our the news first :)

Also we are having a month long challenge and by playing along you have the chance to win a 25€ gift card to Create a smile store and also to guest design four our challenge 

This month theme is One layer and we had the pleasure to have Mila as guest designer to bring you inspiration . Let's see what she created !

Here is the card that Mila created for our current challenge , I love how elegant and gorgeous her card is . She used Pure poppies stamp set as her main focus for the card 

Thank you so much for the inspiration Mila 

Make sure to check Mila's social media and leave her some love. We would also love to see what you create inspired by the current challenge!

Until next time !

Create a smile Friends & Family Facebook group challenge - guest designer

Hello everyone!


I am so excited to share with you that a new challenge started on our Create a smile Friends & Family Facebook group  and we decided to make things a bit different this time.

This challenge is exclusive on our Facebook group , so if you are not a member please come and join us there too . It's a month long challenge so every month a new challenge starts and you can win a 25€ gift card to Create a smile store .

Aside of the gift certificate we also invite our winners to be guest designers for the next challenges ! And while we featured our amazing guest designers on the Facebook group and on our social media , we felt that they deserve a shout out here too !

For February the theme is Add a heart and we invited the lovely Anja to be our guest designer and to bring you some inspiration

Here is her adorable card ! She used Gull gang stamp set for the cute gull and to add the hearts she used our stencil Big hearts polka

For her sentiment she used the brand new Cool cuts Birthday  and to cut the panels she used Cool cuts Scalloped Rectangles and Cool cuts Double stitched rectangles 

We are in love how her card turned out ! Thank you so much Anja for the inspiration!

Please make sure to check Anja social media and leave her some love, also make sure to check our Facebook group to see more inspiration and keep in touch with all the news about Create  a smile stamps and our monthly challenge!

Until next time ! Have a creative day!

We dare you to create : Thank you edition

Hello everyone!

It's time for a new challenge on the blog , and now the theme is '' Thank you ''

Also as the 6 months term for our current Challenge Design Team is almost over there is a new Challenge DT call on the blog so make sure to check it out :) 

Now let's see some inspiration from our Guest Designer which is Anja which created this lovely card using Dress me up stamp set , Big Hearts Polka stencil  , Cool cuts Doppeltes Danke

Thank you so much Anja for creating this adorable card for our challenge and for being our guest designer .

Now let's see what our design team created

Alexandra created this set of cards using Cling Mandala stamp and Cool Cuts Thanks Twice

Christine created this adorable card using Cool cuts Stacked Pierced Ovals , Es ist serviert stamp set , Stencil Blossom

Farida created this beautiful card using Dekorierte Grüße stamp set  , Stencil Petals

Galina created this amazing card using Decorated Wishes - mixed add-on stamp set  , Underwaterlove stamp set

Kaja created this beautiful card using Sharp one stamp set , Mini thanks stamp set

Laura created this beautiful card using Decorated Wishes stamp set , Decorated wishes -mixed add-on

Nicky created this adorable card using All hands on deck stamp set , Stencil Focal point

Hope you were inspired to play along with our challenge , please take a moment to read the rules before link your project

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Beach Party Kit WINNER and a card by Guest Designer Masha

Hello friends,

wow, the last few days have been crazy here in the headquaters. Seem you're all loving the kit and you also loved the blog hop.
I would love to say thank you for all your sweet comments here, on youtube and on the designers channels - they did an awesome job and I appreciate that you let them know! I also appreciate that you took the time to watch all the videos and let us know what you found most inspiring.

We just picked a winner behind the scenes - I scrolled through all your wonderful projects and Michael said "stop" - so here's the winner of one entire Beach Party Kit...

DRUMROLL, please! :)

Congrats, Natalie! You won your own Beach Party Kit that will soon be delivered to your door :)

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

Now I have a card for you that's been in the pipe line for way too long. Guest Designer Maryia (aka. Masha aka. solus_m) made this last month and I couldn't really make up the time to post her creation.

Maska made a super sweet watercolor card using our Poppin Over stamp set :)

Here's what Masha has to say:

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Hello! Masha is here, today I want to show you some funny card.

The idea is very simple, I want some watercolor, and I love the Poppin Over stamp set. 

• For the base, I took a piece of watercolor paper;
• then i made a watercolor stains with distress inks;
• using the die of a frame I made cutting;
• stamp and color the images of the bear with distress inks then cut it out;
• cut out and color some leaves;
• cutting frames I placed and glued on the opposite side, then glued the bear and leaves and put a text stamp.

 

I used super cute the Poppin Over stamp set and Magical Frame die.

I love no line coloring it makes you like an artist))) and I think that this Poppin Over set of stamps is perfect for this!

Thank you for being here with me, I hope you enjoyed the card and i wish you a wonderful day!

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Don't you think Masha rocked the no line coloring?! I have such a hard time trying ;) Thank you Masha, for this cute inspiration!

I hope you all habe a wonderful day with some spare time to craft!

Smiles

Guest Designer Mariya Fursevich #1

Hello and happy sunday night, dear crafty friends!

I am happy to introduce a new Guest Designer for this month to you. Her name is Maryia (aka. Masha aka. solus_m) and she's from Belarus! :)

Masha has been a customer for quite a while and when I saw all her wonderful creations on instagram and in our sidebar I knew I had to invite her to be our guest one day. She has a wonderful CAS style and everything is always on point, I just lover her cards! Check out her blog and get inspired!

Masha has a wonderful style and is a super sweet person - I am happy she agreed to be our guest. I know you will love her projects!

Now let's see what she has for you:

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Hello! Masha is here, it’s time for summer! Today I want to show you some plastic card.

The idea of plastic  card is not mine, but I love it. When I decided to do one, the idea to use the wonderful  Underwater Love stamp set came instantly. 

• For the base, I took a piece of plastic and put it in the shape of  a card;
• then toned a piece of white cardstock with distress inks;
• another piece of cardstock  I inked with yellow distress inks to make it look like the beach, I also added stamps of  a starfish and stones (bubbles turned into stones) and a few water drops;
• stamp and color the images of narwhal and boat with Copic markers;
• I folded the rest piece of plastic in a few times for the base for my beach and boat;
• on the front of the folded plastic, I taped the beach, and a little further as you can see from the photos I taped the boat, on the back of the  postcard I taped the  toned sheet of cardstock.

When working with the plastic you need to remember that it gets dirty from glue easily, but believe me, the result will make you happy and surprised, plastic cards look very volumetric!

I used super cute Underwater Love stamp set and stamp set from the Sending Sunshine Kit

Thank you being with me, I hope you enjoyed the card and I wish you a wonderful day!

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Masha did an awesome job on this piece of art, don't you think? I think she totally nailed it! And she inspired me to make an acetate card soon - this is so clever!

One more thing I'd like to mention: Masha now runs a giveaway on her Instagram Account (@solus.m) and is giving away two of our stamp sets - one more reason to find her account and follow her!

Thanks for stopping by, it's much appreciated!

Hugs

Guest Designer May Park #2: Watercoloring (+ Video)

Hello lovelies!

Here we are with a new fantastic and inspiring post from the cardmaking super rockstar May Park. If you missd her first post, you can find it here.

 

May just has fantastic design skills, you should check out her Blog and IG account (where you will also find some of the cutest cats ever ever! She has two beautiful kitties that you will love). 

Now, let's see what May has up for you:

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Hi, crafty friends. Today I have a fun and colorful watercolor card. If you want to see my previous guest project that I made using Copic coloring, please click HERE.

I'm totally in love with the cute critter images from the Doctor's Helpers stamp set and couldn't resist creating a stamped background for my project today. Then I did some watercoloring which is I'm so obsessed with lately. 

I'd love for you to watch my video tutorial as I shared lots of tips and tricks in the video. You can watch it here or in HD on YouTube. Hope you find it helpful.

How to Make a Get Well Card using Watercoloring

1. Stamp the images from Doctor's Helpers with Hero Arts black ink on a piece of Arches cold pressed watercolor paper.
2. Watercolor the images with Guretake Gansai Tambi 36 color set.
3. Mount the watercolor panel on a A2 sized top folding card using foam tape.
4. Stamp the sentiment from the set in black on a piece of kraft cardstock, die cut it with oval die from Stacked Pierced Ovals, pop it up on the card front using dimensional adhesive.

4 Watercoloring tips I learned from my practices

• You may need to use a smooth side of your watercolor paper to get a good stamping impression. Otherwise stamp the images multiple times on a textured side to get crisp lines of your images. (For mutiple stamping, I used the MISTI stamping tool to get my stamps positioned in a same place.)
• Watercoloring in two ways: add intense colors first with less water and spread the colors by adding more water. The other way is to color with light color first with lots of water for the base coat. Then add more colors later for shading.
• Use clean water and paint brush to fix your watercoloring mistake and pick up the colors using some paper towel.
• Cold Pressed watercolor paper is easier to fix the colors compared to hot pressed watercolor paper.

I'm not telling you these tips would work for all of you as I'm not experienced in watercoloring but just taking baby steps for it. If you have any tips or suggestions on watercoloring, please share with me in the comments below.

That’s all I have for today! I hope you enjoyed seeing my watercolor card and got some inspiration. Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy crafting!

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I would like to say a HUGE thanks to May for being our Guest, even taking the time to make videos, bringing so many tips and inspiration our way! May, you ROCK!

If you loved May's project let her know by leaving her a comment or visiting her blog and suscribing - you won't regret that!

Have a great day everyone!