Part of My Gang Card

Hi there!
Samantha here, and today I'm sharing a cute card, perfect to send to some one in your own 'gang'! Ha ha!

 

     

I just can't get enough of those CUTE seagulls in this stamp set! I wanted to color them all up and make a little intimidating, no nonsense group of gulls! Ha!

Let's make this card together!
- stamp and color your image (I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers) 
- once dry, fussy cut and set aside
- on your card front, I used a combination of Peacock Feathers,Blueprint Sketch, Cracked Pistachio and Wilted Violet Distress Inks! 
- I smooshed the colors (one at a time) onto my kraft mat, then spritzed it with water and pressed my card into the color! I did this several times, allowing the ink to dry in between each layer! 
- once it was dry, I used white embossing paste and a stencil to add to the little fish images! 

- I heat embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock

- then popped up the sentiment strip and the frog image with foam tape!

I love this cute card! The 'sea' was created with Distress Ink and watercolors. But you could get a totally different look if you ink blended the 'sea'! 

I used the adorable and funny Gull Gang stamp set! And the fish were created with the Under the Sea Stencil!

    

Be sure you check out the awesome sale going on now on the Create a Smile stamps shop!

~Samantha

   

The ocean is calling........

Hi folks, I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer so far. I've been on holiday for two weeks and now back on crafting.

Here is today's card....

 






A friend celebrates his birthday next week and he wants to start diving so I had to make him a card with fishes shouldn't I?
And ofcourse a little underwaterscene would be nice too. Since we have the perfect supplies the card was easily made that way. Hope he likes it.


 
 







I started with a white topfolded cardbase. Used the double stitched rectangle dies to get a smaller rectangle out of vellum and another out of white copic friendly cardstock. First I stamped the under the sea cling stamp several times with versamark watermark ink and white heat embossed it. Then I took out the waves stencil and some distress ink to build the background. White heat embossed the sentiment on black cardstock and made a fishtail. Colored the two fishes and cut them leaving some white space. Diecut a circle out of vellum and stamped the sentiment and the bubbles and adhered the fishes onto the vellum. To give it some extra interest I used wiggly eyes and wink of stella glitterpen.






Stamps;

Under the sea, All Hands on Deck, Friends and couples and Underwaterlove.



Cool cuts (dies);

Double stitched rectangle dies;



Stencils;

Waves;









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Have a great week and thanks for watching,

Hugs Anja

It's Release Day! And Giveaway time :)

Welcome to release day!

We are beyond excited that the new release finally hit the store - YAY! Orders are already rolling in :)

In case you missed our latest post - here's a closer look at all the fun new products!

3 clear stamp sets: 

(well, 5 - but they only differ in language) 

• When you're not around / Wenn Du nicht da bist

• Time flies / Die Zeit fliegt

• Funky Feathers

4 Cling stamps!

• Balloons in the sky (15 x15cm)

• Sophisticated shells (11 x 15cm)

• Woodgrain (15 x 6,5cm)

• Under the sea (11 x 6,5cm)

2 stencils 6x6" :

• Concentric circles

• diagonal grid

Of course we have more inspiration for you:

 Anika created a super vibrant card using under the sea. Her background is perfect for thos (amazingly colored!) jellyfish from Glowing seaside. And the colors she used for her inkblending.... SWOON!

Here's a more classic card by Samantha. She used the diagonal grid  stencil for a quick and easy background. it's subtile and drws the exe to the focal point!

The next card by Nicole is similar, yet different. She used different cool cuts dies to embellish the card and the sentiment. I love how she added some buttons as flowers! I have never done that but sure need to try!

I also have a bunch of cards for you:

Card #1 is different from my usual style - I mostly use bright colors on fun clean and simple cards. This card has a vintage feeling (but I still kept it simple). The crocodile from When you're not around is somewhat cure, don't you think? I used the Color your Polka Cling stamp for the background and stamped some hearts unto the circles. 

Let's get back to bright colors! the  woodgrain background is perfect for every style to add texture to your backgrounds. in this case I used different products from the July release as well. I thinks the ombre woodgrain in the back adds a lot to this card.

What about a whimsy clock as a fun focal point on your card? Time flies offers you so many options to create your own clock / alarm clock :) I also used the starry night cling stamp for my background. subtile but fun!

Did you know that I am a HUGE Laura Bassen fangirl? I adore her! So when she said in one of her videos that she's been a sucker for monkeys from her young years I new that one day I would make a monkey. And when the set with sad critters came to my mind I knew this would work. That's the story of this cute little monkey (the sentiment says "come back soon").

I can hardly believe that this is the second vintag-y card in one post. But the lose tone on tone watercoloring on the sophisticated shells background works so well for a classy, elegant card. the die cuts from the pocket tag are the perfect match.

the last card is a bright one again. The funky feathers make just the perfect background for bird-images. I love to create my own patterned papers with solid stamps. So. Much. Fun. and you can pick your own color combos - so what's not to love about that?

Now this has been a HUGE pile of products and cards. We hope you enjoyed.

Let's get to the giveaway-part now.

We'd like to give away a 15€ gift code to one lucky winner :)

to take part in the drawing please:

• take a close look at the release and pick your favorite detail.

• leave a comment including one sentiment wording  (not a general type of sentiments) that you think we should make a stamp of.

the giveaway is open until sunday 6pm CET, we will draw a winner Sunday night :)

Good luck!

Have a great day!