Ho,ho,ho........................

Hi there it's me again with another christmascard to show you.

 

 

I needed some more cards for my christmascard stash so I went through my stamps and when I saw the wild waters stamp this idea came to me.



I first took a cardbase and stamped the little image from the smiling snowflakes stamp and gold heat embossed it. Sprayed some gold glitter at random on the background. I diecut the frame out of vellum and gold heatembossed the wild waters stamp. Stamped colored and fuzzy cut the little Santa en tucked it behind the diecut. The sentiment was white heat embossed on some black cardstock. To give it some more interest I put some gold thread behind the sentiment , gave Santa some golden glasses and stamped the ho,ho,ho.



Stamps;

Wild waters and Smiling snowflakes.



Cool cuts;

Magical frames and Stacked pierced ovals.









There are still some stampsets in prize reduced and when they are gone they are gone so if you want to have a christmasgift now is your chance.

I'd Love to Sea You Again

Hello Crafters!

 

 

It's Kelly here and I'm sharing my first video for Create A Smile.

 

 

The idea behind this card was to create a flowing water feel. It's a really simple one layer card.

 

 



You can Watch the magic happen . . .and my silly ramblings here :) 

 



 

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

 

 

I hope you enjoyed the video and the chatting. Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies:

 

Wild Waters

 

Sending Sunshine Card kit

 

 

A Sea Scene

Hello Crafters!

It's Kelly here and I've been playing with our dies again! I can't stop!!

I've been really into sea and ocean sets lately and it's also been a bit since I played with building a scene so I started there. I felt like the largest banner die was a fun way to add my scene to a card .

I die cut my banner out of plain white card stock and stamped part of the Wild Waters background stamp in tumbled glass to get my horizon line. I stamped it a second time to create a mask. Save both pieces! My adorable little sail boat was stamped and masked as well. I masked the water and blended some distress ink onto my sky. I used Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean. You can't have an ocean scene without some Salty Ocean!  

I removed my water mask and added the sky mask. Careful here . . .If your distress ink is still wet your mask may not stick as well as it usually does. I blended on more distress ink. I used Chipped Sapphire, Mermaid Lagoon, and Salty Ocean. Your darkest colors should be at your horizon line. I stamped the Wild Waters again in Salty Ocean and once more with just water. I wasn't working on watercolor paper so I didn't add a ton of water but a little will still lift or bleach the color from your background without warping the paper. Remove all the masks. 

I colored the boat with copics and then used a few more copics to add some various lines in my water. It just makes it more interesting. Now the fun part! I added some waves and clouds that I think came out super cool :) I did it by tapping on some white acrylic paint using a stiff bristle brush. It looks like real water splashes doesn't it?! So Fun!! 

I added a few splashes here and there for interest. 

Once I stamped my sentiment and added a bit of Wink of Stella to the sail and water for some shine. 

I mounted the stamped panel onto my card base with dimensional adhesive over red and navy banners. 

You don't just have to build a scene straight onto your card base or even on a square panel. Have fun, use shapes! With just a bit of masking it's easy to create a fun scene with real dimension. Last tip, just because it isn't a "card" supply doesn't mean you can't use it to enhance your design. Get out the paint, beads, string. Whatever. Make it yours :) 

Did you see we have a new SALE section? All kinds of goodies in there at discounted prices! Also there's only a couple days left to link up to our July projects in the side bar! 

Thanks for visiting!

Underwater Love 

Wild Waters

Stacked Pierced Banners 

Wish upon a star....

How is everybody doing? Some of us are on vacation either at home or elsewhere. No matter where you are I hope you have a great time and find some time to squeeze in some creativity.

Now over to today's card.

 

 

I mentioned earlier that I was in love with the Poppin'over stampset but I also love the Make a Wish stampset with all those lovely fonts and sentiments. So for this card I would like to focuse on this particular stampset.



Again I choosed a white top folded cardbase. I started with a diecut out of watercolor paper with the largest banner. Stamped the Wild Waters stamp with versamark waterink and heat embossed it with gold embossingpowder. Did some watercoloring between the lines and let it dry.
I stamped the wish word and fuzzy cut it. I stamped several stars from the set in the background and stamped the largest star onto translucent vellum and white heat embossed it. The sentiment upon a star is white heat embossed onto a black fishtail.



Stamps;

Wild waters and Make A Wish;



Cool cuts;

Stacked pierced banners;




Have a great week;

Anja

More Poppin'over....

Hello it's monday again and I have another card for you featuring the lovely Poppin'over stampset. Somehow I can't get enough of these awesome critters love them. Don't you?

I am so in love with this stampset isn't it the cutest? I wanted to use all the images in one card and also play with those great glasses die. You get so much more out of your stamps by using those cute little dies.



I started with a pink top folded cardbase. I made a panel out of white cardstock slightly smaller then the cardbase. I first stamped the striped line from the stampset and then stamped the images. Colored the images with copics and masked them of. Sponged the background with tumbled glass distres ink and the lovely stencil from the sending Sunshine cardkit. Diecut the glasses and a partyhat with the cool cuts from the magical frame out of pink cardstock. Adhered them to the animals and "made" it look like real glasses with glossy accents. Stamped the sentiments from the set on the card and on a pink banner. Finally adhered the panel at the cardbase and my card was ready.



Stamps;

Poppin'over



Cool cuts;

Magical frame



Sending Sunshine kit;





You have still time to link up your creations at the sidebar. We would love to see what you come up with.

Have a great week,

Anja

Saturday Scrap Scenes with Terhi - XOXO

Hello everyone, it's Terhi here with my third Create A Smile scrapbook layout. This one was inspired by those cute little Chipboard Crowns we have on our store. I found this sweet picture of me and my older daughter and could resist to use it with a crown on my girl's head.

Since I wanted to focus on the Chipboards Crowns I thought that gold color scheme would fit to the fancy theme. And to create some gold and sheen, what would have been better way than embossing powder in gold shade. I use it straight on the background and on the chippies, too.

I wanted to use gold as a main color, but using only gold the layout would have been way too shimmering for my eye. That's why I chose teal green and touch of pink to make the gold pop up.

Please find the video below or watch it here.

Stamps: Wild Waters
Stencil: Boxes Stencil, Skinny Chevron Stencil
Other: Sending Sunshine Enamel Stickers, Chipboards - Patterned Balloons, Chipboards - Crowns

Come to say hi to us on Instagram (@createasmilestamps) or use hashtag #createasmile so we can find what you're up to :)
Have a great day!

Terhi xx