Hello and a hug

Hello crafty friends, it's Kerstin here!

Today I have a cute fall card for you featuring one of my favorite stamp sets.

We had a long and warm summer and I really enjoyed it. But now it's time for the another wonderful season: fall! A good reason to start creating fall cards.

• stamp and color your favorite critter and fuzzy cut, if you love to
• create a background in a loose watercolor style and if you're like me add some sprinkles
• die cut some leaves from the cool cuts pocket tag set and color them as well
• glue the leaves on the ground and in the air (like falling leaves)
• add a sentiment and be careful not to ruin it 

If you messed up part of the sentiment (like I did) you can stamp or heat emboss on some vellum, cut it out and glue it over the ruined sentiment.

          





... if you want to share your creations with us on Instagram don't forget to use #createasmilestamps

We dare you to create a smile : Shaped cards

Hello everyone!

Are you usually create the standard cards size? You like maybe square or even other shapes? Well great news : the theme from today's challenge is Shaped cards!

Let see what our guest designers made for our challenge!

Anila created this adorable house card using Cart full of treasures stamp set

Eva created this adorable card using Big time stamp set

Thank you so much to our guest designers for creating such beautiful cards!

Now let's see what our team has created !

Alexandra made this beautiful card using Sharp one stamp set

Ashlee created this fabulous card using Fun flowers stamp set

Ellenor made this adorable card using Bear mail stamp set

Giada created this stunning card using Superpowers stamp set

Ksenija made this beautiful card using Superpowers stamp set

Laura made this awesome card using Time to say thanks stamp set

Sindhu created this wonderful card using Cool dies Pocket Tag

Victoriya made this adorable card using Unfrogettable stamp set

Hope you got inspired to play along with our challenge! Before entering your project please take a few moments to check the rules which are below!

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a great day!

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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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(((VIDEO))) Distress Stain Rainbow Backgroun

Hello crafty friends! It's Jess and today I have three cards and a video using some stencils and die sets.

I had recently reorganized some things in my craft room and now my Distress Stains are displayed where I can see and reach them readily. So I wanted to make a point to use them soon. I decided to see if they would work well with my beloved Create a Smiles stencils and diecuts.

My go to when playing with a medium is to create a rainbow. I did it last month with my Alcohol Inks and felt drawn to trying again with my Distress Stains. I think this is because I can use a whole bunch of colors at one time. When I'm using a previously neglected supply I want to really have some fun with it. You can get more details in the video:

Use black to make your rainbow colors really pop. This technique works with a variety of stencils from the large shapes of Big Hearts Polka to the thin lines of the Diamond stencil so be sure to play with whatever Create a Smile stencils you own.

Big Hearts Polka

Diamond Stencil

Lots of Stars Stencil

Magical Frame Die Set

Pocket Tag Die Set

Tiny Sentiments Dies

Be sure to join the latest Create a Smile challenge.