Decorating Envelopes

Hello Sweeties :-)

In my todays Video I'll show you different ideas how you can easily decorate your envelopes. I thinks its a lovely surpise to find something beautiful in your mailbox....

 

Here you can find my video, but only in german

Did you know that Christine, the owner of create a smile, is doing a podcast? One per week, every thursday, with a friend of her she is talking about life and crafty things :-) Its called "DIN lang".. maybe you'll like it :-)

A Big Hello!

Hi there!
Samantha here, and today a happy hello card, with a big greeting!

     

I thought it would be a sweet idea to have part of the sentiment being 'blown' out of the elephant's trunk like water!

Let's make this card together!
- I started by using a dry brush and spreading on some black gesso on the background of my card
- then I stamped and colored the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
- once it was dry, I fussy cut out the images

- I heat embossed the 'hello' part of the phrase with white powder onto vellum, and then fussy cut out along the words
- I popped up the elephant, banner and big hello with foam tape
- then I finished the card off with some star sequins!

At first, I was going to use the banner sentiment, with the world being balanced on the elephant's nose! But then I thought it would be cute to have the elephant trumpeting out the "hello" through his nose! Either way would look cute, though! 

I used the world image from To the Moon, the elephant from First Day of School and the big hello is from Lettering Alphas!

    

There is ALWAYS a fun challenge going on in the Create a Smile Stamp Facebook group page! It's fun and filled with prizes! I love seeing all of the incredible, unique and amazing inspiration!

~Samantha

    

So far away!

Hello crafty friends, it's Kerstin here! Today I have some ink blending and splotches for you.

At the moment we need to practice social distancing and I miss to meet my friends and colleagues in person. So I try to keep in concact by sending more cards as ususal. At least as long mailservice is still avaiable.

• first I did some inkblendig with the new splotches stencil
• I choose colors to create a galaxy like background
• and splattert some white color onto the splotch
• I colored the little astronaut with alkohol markers and 
• adhered him with foam adhesive onto the panel

       
     




Please keep in mind that Create a Smile is still open!! They are still out there packing and sending orders once a day. And they know you need some stamps to survive the time staying at home!

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,
Kerstin

Stamped Frame-Cards [VIDEO]

Hi everybody :-)

Today I have one Video with two cards for you. And I surprised myself by finding the space-card much better, although I first wanted to stop after the sweets-card... so, I'm happy I went on, so I can show you two cards today, and I hope you like them

I loove masking, and so I thought to create cards with kind of frames is a nice way to join me some masking-fun :-)

Here you can watch the video in english






Hier ist das Video in Deutsch

Did you know that Christine, the company owner, does little crafty videos from time to time? You can find them on Instagram, in the IGTV-feed :-) they are lovely

[VIDEO] Two Supereasy Wiper-Cards

Hello everybody :-)

I fell in love with wipercards! Ok, I like all interactive cards. But I only fall in love with easy interactive cards ;-)  So I hope you'll share my opinion after watching my videos.

I created two cards for you, so you'll have enough chances to see and understand the mechanism.

And I hope I can catch you ;-)

But first you have to scroll though all these pics ;-)

I looove interactive cards, but what I like even more is, when such cards tell a kind of story. Of course I just can put a critter on a card and let swipe up a "Hello". But in this case, I like to create a sciene...

Her you can watch my Video in "a kind of" english ;-)






... und hier das Video in Deutsch (was ich viel besser kann)










Maybe you create one dummy-card and you can save this in your drawer for all your later wiper-cards (this is how I did it now ;-) )

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