A Tiny Sneak Peek

Hey stampers, Anni here!
Today I want to show you a card I made before Christmas. It has a tiny sneak peek on it! Can you guess what?
You can easily makes this card into a winter birthday card by changing the sentiment.

I wanted to create a Christmas card a little bit more classy and elegant. You know for all the people you can't send those super cute critters.

• Mask off a circle on your cardstock.
• Stamp all the little snowflakes you could find in your stash in various colours. Focus on the area around the circle and stamp only a few snowflakes farer away.
• Add some ink blending to get a more defined circle shape.
• Stamp the sentiment in the circle and heat emboss it with silver sparkling embossing powder.
• Add faux stitching around the circle.
• Stamp and heat emboss the rest of the sentiment in white on a stripe of blue cardstock.
• Cut stripes of silver and blue cardstock.
• Assemble the card.
• Add some stickles for finishing touches.

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Dream of Summer

Hello Crafters!

It's Kelly here and I hope you all had wonderful holidays. It was 60 degrees  here which was weird for December in Ohio. However this past week has made up for it since we've had snow twice and it's now a balmy 14 degrees outside.

I'm getting ready for CHA this coming weekend so I've been thinking about all that warm weather while I'm stuck here in the snow. I wanted to create something that combined the two.

I started by ripping a piece of copy paper in two and using both sides as masks. I also added masks to the trees and hammock. I masked the "sand" first. I rubbed on Distress ink in Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, and Blueprint sketch for my water. As I got closer to the "sky" I added in Wilted Violet, Dusty Concord, and Chipped Sapphire. I reversed the mask to create the sand using Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso. After I removed the sky mask but left the trees/hammock masks in place.

The white waves were created by pouncing on white acrylic paint with a stiff brush. Once that was dry I removed all the masks. I heat set the whole piece before heat embossing the snowflakes falling from the sky and the sentiment. The trees and hammock were colored with copic markers.

For those of you who would rather watch I was able to get a video together too! 

When you create a background with distress inks make sure it is completely dry before attempting any heat embossing. Distress ink stays wet a long time.

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Winter Fun

Saturday Scrap Scenes with Terhi - Slow Down

Merry Christmas all! It's Terhi here sharing a layout which has nothing to do with Christmas. I think it's quite welcome already, eating chocolate and singing Christmas songs for couple of days might be enough, so it's well earned scrapping time now!

Some time ago I found myself too busy. I actually didn't notice it first, but I kept forgetting everything and all the time and that's always a serious business for a lady like me, I never forget things. So I decided to slow down a bit, relax my everyday life and breath.

Finding "slow down" text from Winter Fun stamp was a lucky coincidence and I didn't have to think twice what the title would be.

I picked up some dark scraps, and as I was feeling quite blue because of all the rushing, this black color scheme was perfect.

Please find the video below or watch it here.

Stamps: Winter Fun
Stencil: Boxes Stencil
Other: Sequins - Pretty Pink Posh Onyx 6mm

  

Saturday Scrap Scenes (and I) are having a little winter break - to slow down a bit - so we'll see you again February 6th 2016!

Have a happy Holidays and inspiring New year's Eve!

If you miss me too much, you can always scroll my posted scrapbook pages here.

Terhi xx

Saturday Scrap Scenes with Terhi - Happy

Hello everyone, it's Terhi here with another Create A Smile scrapbook layout. It's super dark and rainy now here in Finland so I thought to cheer myself up with some bright and springy colors!

I found this gorgeous photo from my camera's SD-card. It has been taken last fall, there's my girls and my mother in picture and I love how sunlight hits their faces. I remember it was late August, so the sun was quite low at evenings, and we had some really fantastic sunsets.

This all reminded me about happy things, light and sun, and that's the way I decided to go with bright color scheme as well.

Please find the video below or watch it here.

Stamps: Time to Say Thanks, Floating Chevrons, Winter Fun
Dies: Stacked Pierced Banners

Other: Sending Sunshine Enamel Stickers, Chipboards - Beautiful,

    

If you are still wondering how to remember yourself during the holidays, head over to http://www.createasmilestamps.com and check out our latest reveal. It's awesome and definitely something to wrap up!

Terhi xx

Spreading a little (Masculine) Merry Wishes!

Hello!
Samantha here, and I'm super happy to be sharing a cute little card that is perfect for the 'guy' you want to send a Christmas card to! It's fun and festive and still a perfect masculine card!

My brother-in-law is single, fun and a great guy! And I wanted to create a card just for him, that showed him how much we love him and can't wait to spend the holidays together! However, I wanted to make it masculine so he would (perhaps) appreciate it more than, glittery snow, pink penguins or sequins! Ha!

To create this card, you need to bring your fun! Ha!

- I used a light Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass) to stamp the snowman image

- I traced around the image with the lightest blue watercolor pencil I have, then used a small paintbrush to pull the color around the image, making sure to keep some shading areas for contrast

- I colored the nose and buttons the same way!

- once it was dry, I stamped the snowflakes in versamark ink and heat embossed them in Liquid Platinum

- I cut trimmed half an inch on the side of the card and mounted it onto my card base with some washi on the side!

I used two of my favorite Christmas themed stamp sets for this card: Cool Buddies (the images are SO CUTE!) and Winter Fun!

I tried my hand at a *loose* interpretation of no line watercoloring...it came ok, but I clearly need more practice! These images from Cool Buddies are the PERFECT ones for me to practice with! But you could just as easily heat emboss the image or stamp with a black archival ink, too!

   

Today is the first day of the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!! Create a Smile Stamps is one of the Sponsors, and you can read all about it on this post here! I hope you'll play along with one of the many Coffee themed items from the shop!! 

Thanks again for spending part of your day with me!

~Samantha