Rainbow Birdies

Hey, Anni here! Hope you have a wonderful weekend with a lit of crafting time.
Today I have a rainbow card for you!

A kind co-worker of mine is leaving us in summer. I wanted to make a card for her. She is a very warm, kind and funny person so I needed something special, colorful and bright. Rainbow colors are perfect for that!

• Stamp, color and fuzzy cut all the birds!
• Color a ground with Copics on the cardbase.
• Arrange the birds on the card and adhere them with dimensional tape.
• Emboss the sentiment on black cardstock in white.
• Add it to the card.
• To finish up the card add some glossy accents to the beaks.

• There was a lot of fuzzy cutting involved in this card. If you don't like fuzzy cutting you could stamp the birds directly on the cardbase and make it a one layer card.
• A sentiment on a stripe of black cardstock provides always a good contrast to bright colors.

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Mooooment mal............

Hi it's Anja again with another card for you on this monday.

 

 

 

 

I don't know about you but I sometimes tend to forget to send a birthday card. I make a lot and I mean a lot of birthday cards but somehow I make more cards then I send cards. Do you send all your cards? And if you don't what do you do with your cards?
Well I forgot to send a dear friend a card on her birthday so I had to send one right away. So here came the idea of the pile of letters and that cute mole hiding them.



First I stamped the mole and then inked up some of the letters from the background stamp and stamped them beneath the mole thus creating some kind of hill. I colored everything using copic markers and stamped the bow and one envelop on a scrap of paper. Fuzzy cut those and adhered them on the card. I cut two "fingers" of the mole with a craft knife to slide in the envelop.
White heat embossed the sentiment on black paper and the other sentiment on white paper and colored it with copics. To give the card some more interest I used glossy accents on the glasses and some wink of stella on the envelop and the bow. The mole is sad so I gave her a teardrop from the enamel stickers and used some liquid pearl on the nose.

Stamps;

Letters, Poppin'over, Aus dem Hut gezaubert, Big time and Hey Quatschkopf.



Enamel stickers;

Pretty cool,






When you use paperstrips on your card and you don't have the matching colors you can easily make your own paperstrips by coloring with copic markers.
As we showed you before you can combine all those lovely stampsets together and you get a whole different image.
Don't be afraid to use that big background stamp only partial you get so much more out of your stamps.

Have a nice and creative week,
Anja

Video Tutorial - Hi there!

Hi everyone! It's Francine! 

Today, I’m back with a video tutorial for Create A Smile. Here is my card: 

I decided to make a Clean & Simple card showcasing the Poppin’ Over stamp set. The critters in this set are the cutest!!!! The sentiment is from the Hey, Quatschkopf!  set. “Hallöchen!” is a German sentiment that means “Hello there!”.

Here is the video showing how I did this card:

Stamps: Poppin’ Over & Hey Quatschkopf! (Create A Smile)

Inks: Black Licorice Hybrid Ink (My Favorite Things)
Copic markers: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E89, E11, RV42, R42
Papers: white cardstock, scraps of blue gingham paper
Dies: Stitched Circles (Simon Says Stamp)
Various: Inkssentials Enamel Accents Black (Ranger), Copic Multiliners, 3D foam pads, tape runner, trimmer, scissors, etc.

  

Use Enamel Accents or Liquid Pearls to add dimension to your projects! I added Black Enamel Accents from Ranger to the critter’s eyes and nose.

Keep a lot of white spaces to make the image pop and become the focus point of your card! 

Instead of chocolate or fudge brown, use following combination to color critters and animals: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E89! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day…

Francine

We All Live In A Yellow Submarine

Hey, Anni here! Are you all singing?
Today I have a card with a yellow submarine for you!!

I have to admit Mojo hasn't been my friend lately. It's always the same, isn't it? Too much work and Mojo stays away...
So when I am in the lack of inspiration I tend to grab the same products again and again. But I didn't want to show you another card using the Sending Sunshine Kit again! That would have been mean because it isn't in stock yet again. But I was inspired by the theme and so I decided to use the awesome set Underwater Love and the paper pad Feel Good. Because we all know the paper pad in the kit is fabulous but we have other fabulous patterned paper, too!
I have to be honest I am not sure if I like the card. Let me know what you think!

• Maybe you noticed I added some pearls to the sequins (an idea I stole from Jennifer McGuire). I think it totally changes the look of the sequins.
• Try combining different colors of your marker! It is so much fun and you get so much more out of your markers! Just experiment!
• So what do I do when the mojo is lacking! I try to use my favorite products, look for challenges that inspire me, use ideas that worked well on older cards - or just stop crafting if it is possible.

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What do you do when your mojo is on vacation? Let me know! I could definetly use some tips!

      

Matching Your Cardstock to Your Images

Hi everyone! Happy April! Were you pranked on April Fool's Day? Or did you prank someone? ;) No pranking for me but I did shifted apartment. Crafting supplies are not fun to pack and unpack. Speaking of unpacking, I think you'll be unpacking new Create A Smile stamp soon! Subscribe to the blog for new release updates!

Anyways, today, I would like to share a soft card with one of my favourite sets in Create A Smile. 

I wanted to share a different layout of floral arrangement you can do with this set. As well as, ideas on matching your coloured images with some custom coloured cardstock.

I started off by stamping my flowers in Memento Tuxedo Black ink because I will be using Copic markers to colour the flowers. This inkpad is very copic friendly.

If you're like me and you're not very good at keep the colouring within the links, take a white pen and just colour over the errors and it'll look perfect.

I've also stamped out some leaves to make the floral arrangement complete. I love the combination of glitters and flowers. I took my ranger stickles and squeeze them to the centers of the flowers. 

This is how the arrangement looks. At this point, I wasn't sure how I was going to complete this card. 

Decided to make some background stripes but I didn't have the cardstock to match, I took the same copic markers and just coloured my cardstock. This is a great way to match your cardstock to your coloured images. You can even have a nice shaded gradient cardstock using Copics.

I cut them into stripes and tuck them in the middle of the card. I wanted it to look even softer. So, I took some vellum and gold embossed my sentiment on it and layered the vellum over the stripes.

Vellum paper is such a great supply to have. I encourage you to get a pack. It's such a great way to soften your background without losing the background itself. Hope that make sense! :) 

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Thanks for stopping by,

Marina