Winner from October moodboard challenge

 Hello everybody!

Time to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the october moodboard challenge.

Just in case you didn´t already know :
By playing along our challenges you´ll get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift certificate for the Create a smile Shop and be guest designer for the upcoming challenge (if you want to).

This time the winner of the 25,-€ gift certificate is ... drummroll and congrats to : Katrin with her gorgeous house-folded card using Hurra, es weihnachtet, Mehr als ein Nickerchen and Talk to me stencil.

 

Please send me an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com to claim your prize - it´s so well deserved. 

And our featured artist of the october moodboard challenge is Andrea with her beautiful autum reading tortoise using Abschalten, Books, Lesen, Sei kein Frosch and Wave of star stencil.

Again : congrats you both!
You can take the badge and display it on your blogs, if you want to...

And we would love to invite you both to be guest designers for our next challenge - please send an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com and I will tell you all the details.

Be sure to check out our blog regularly... the inspiration over here never stops ... and you won´t miss the new challenges of course!

Have a great day ... and get crafty whenever you get the chance to...

Nina

Coloring with dots (VIDEO)

 Hi you all :-)

Its video-saturday and today I have a maybe new technique for coloring your images and your cards.

Somehow this coloring came up in my skills and here or there I used it on a card. So I thouhgt I will put my focus on that.





Here you can watch my video (but only in German, sorry)

Did you know? The nex release is coming on the 19th november ;-) 

Mane-iac....!!

Hey friends!!

It's Ashlee here today... 

I have a new slimline card to share with you using the awesome Fur real stamp set and the Leafy stencil....

For this one I wanted to have a bit of a play around with some gloss sprays and create a mixed media type background so this was my starting point for my card.

- Start with a piece of watercolour cardstock and spray with a mix of Dina gloss sprays

- Using the leafy stencil add some leaves to parts of the base with a black ink

- Splatter with white paint 

- Add a sentiment by embossing with WOW! gold embossing powder on black cardstock and then fussy cut it out and add to the base with foam tape

- Stamp, colour and fussy cut the lion and rock from the Fur real stamp set and add to the card also with foam tape for dimension

- Finish off with a touch of sequins

Mixed media is all about having fun, just play around and layer up. It might not look good to start with but once you start adding layers it ends up looking awesome!! 

Fur real stamps

Leafy stencil

Create a Smile has a group on Facebook where we share lots of inspiration using CAS goodies, come on over and join us - Create a smile friends and family

Hugs Ashlee.  

We dare you to create a smile : October mood board

Hello everybody,
we´re back for another challenge with a warm and beautiful autumnal mood board.

If you want to play along (this challenge is open until 08.11.2021) you will get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift card for the Create a smile shop .

Fitting the current mood board our two guest designers made such remarkable cards, let´s have a closer look together.

Stempelfrida, our last time winner, made this impressive (kind of halloween?) card using Sugar skulls, Berliner Schnauze and Scalloped rectangles. Love how those actually muted colors shine bright on the skulls and especially in this combination.

And Mimi Zitrone made this enchanting autumn rainbow card using Mushrooms, Floral decorations, "magic flowers" (an older set), Glückspost and Retro Wallpaper stencil. Such a great combination, don´t you think???

Thank you both for participating and your gorgeous work!
Please be sure to check out their profiles and leave them some love...


But the designteam - as always - has really wonderful inspiration for you too! Do you wanna see?

Candice made this clean and super elegant flower card using Good day.
Isn´t it wonderful how you can create such a marvelous card with using only one set? 

Jeanne made this fantastic autumnal embroidery hoop card (or should I say artwork) using You blow my mind, Incredible, Coffee collection, Pocket tag and Lemon alphas.

Joke made this stunning kind of blue-white monochramatic toadstool card using Mushrooms, Mesmerizing mandalas and Reason to smile.

Kerstin made this adorable textured yeti button card using Unglaublich, Geometrics, Mix & match pattern, Original and Ferns stencil.

Maaike made this cheerful frog-in-the-woods card using Unfrogettable, Sweater weather and Mushrooms.

Nina made this cozy pinecones on the forest floor card using Cones, Floral decorations, Winterliche Grüße and Scalloped rectangles.

 

Tinne made this awesome autumnal birdie card using From my nest and Double stitched rectangles.

Vicki made this lovely fall flower card using Mallow blossoms, Small sentiments, Leafy stencil and Stitched square frames.

Such overwhelming autumnal inspirations ... I´m sure you will get inspired by all this beauty!!!

If you now want to participate you have time until 08.11.2021 but please make sure to follow the challenge rules below.

Have an awesome day everybody ... and get crafty whenever you´re able to...
Nina

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Winner from October sktech challenge

 Hello everybody!

Time to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the October sketch challenge... which we know was a little bit tricky this time.

Just in case you didn´t already know :
By playing along our challenges you´ll get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift certificate for the Create a smile Shop and be guest designer for the upcoming challenge (if you want to).

This time the winner of the 25,-€ gift certificate is ... drummroll and congrats to : Nadja 
Her impressive happy cow good luck scene is created with Ich wünsch Dir Glück and is looking so gorgeous...

Please send me an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com to claim your prize - it´s so well deserved. 

And our featured artist of the October sketch challenge is Gabi with her beautiful supermouse card flying over the big book selection.

For her card she used some of the gorgeous Create a smile gift-minis and the sets Books and Lesen.

Again : congrats you both!
You can take the badge and display it on your blogs, if you want to...

And we would love to invite you both to be guest designers for our next challenge - please send an email to challengeteam@createasmilestamps.com and I will tell you all the details.

Be sure to check out our blog regularly... the inspiration over here never stops ... and you won´t miss the new challenges of course!

Have a great day ... and get crafty whenever you get the chance to...

Nina

Chocolate anyone?

Hello crafty friends, it's Kerstin here!

todays card is something special: I combined standard no-line-coloring with monochome no-line-coloring. 

 

 

 

I had this idea on my mind for quite a few weeks. This santa image is perfect for creating a chocolate santa.

  

 

• stamp your image with a very light color or an no-line-coloring ink
• color the upper half with chocolate like colors
• and the other half with the standard santa colors
• adhere some crinkled tinfoil between both parts to create the impression the chocolate santa is half unpacked

 

   

Santa

Kleine Weihnachstgrüße

Small Christmas Sentiments

 

We love to see your creations. Please use the hashtag #createasmilestamps when you're sharing your projects on instagram.

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,
Kerstin