We dare you to create a smile : December mood board

Hello eyerybody and welcome to our new challenge.
Unbelievable that it´s already the last one this year... but as you can see, the beautiful mood board is fitting the season.

If you want to play along you will get as always the chance to win a 25,-€ gift card for the Create a smile shop.
This challenge is exceptionally open until 10.01.2022 because of the Create a smile company holidays during the years, so you have three weeks to participate and still can enjoy all the holidays in peace.

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

Last times winner svanilandart made this beautiful sparkling birthday card using Double Stitched DIN lang, Postage edge circles, Geburtstag, Kleine Worte and Oh Tannenbaum.

And our guest designer Lia made this adorable and perfectly moodboard-fitting card ... do you see all the layers? She used Festive foliage, Sweets & treats, Santa´s little helpers, Wonderful time and Blizzard stencil.

 

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


Sadfully this moodbard is the last one with our current designteam... but their ideas for the final challenge are of course stunning as always! 

Candice made this festive and simultaneously funny christmas card using Be jolly and Twinkle stencil.

Jeanne made this unbelievable awesome DT-farewell-layout using honestly tons of materials.
Ähnlich programmiert, Alles über Dich, Dicke Freunde, Sturm meistern, Königlich, Lesen, Stempelsüchtig, Cherry uppercase, Cherry lowercase, Lemon alphas, Pocket tag and Postage edge circles.

Joke made this cheerful and sparkling "friends in the snow" card using Paw print, Cool buddies, Furry and bright, as well as Christmas x3 and Lots of stars stencil.

Kerstin made this delightful framed puffin christmas card using Hurra, es weihnachtet, Festive foliage, Sweets & treats, Schöne Bescherung and Double stitched DIN lang.

Maaike made this absolutely noble clean and simple, but oh so stunnig snowflake card using Negative snowflake and Cool buddies. 

Nina made this quite unusually colored christmas tree card with cute natural decorations using Cones, Festive foliage, Tollpatschige Weihnacht and Sweets & treats.

Tinne made this gorgeous festive pastell christmas card using From my nest, Snow dance stencil, Christmas x3 and Double stitched rectangles.

Vicki made this fantastic cheerful "gift"-card using Festive foliage, Unpack me and Be jolly.

So the outgoing desginteam has again such beautiful inspirations for you... right?

It´s sad to let them go, because it was a pleasure for me to work with all this talented ladies, who seemed to have unstoppable creative ideas ... so thank you all and take good care of you!

2022 will be a fresh start with a brandnew challengeteam and I´m already curious to learn more about their for sure also unbelievable creativity! 

Remember, if you now want to participate in our last challenge 2021 you have time until next year ;-) 10.01.2022 but please make sure to follow the challenge rules below.

Wishing you and your loved ones a very happy and healthy christmas and turn of the year! 

Hopefully we´ll read us again in 2022 ... until then get crafty whenever you´re able to...
Nina

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Winner from December sketch challenge

Hello everybody!

Time to announce our last winners for 2021 - and to thank everyone else who participate in the December sketch 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 : eleonorekreativ with her beautiful "the early bird" coffee-themed card using several goodie-mini-stamps and Lots of mugs stencil.

Please send me an email to [email protected] to claim your prize - it´s so well deserved. 

And our featured artist of the December sketch challenge is Andrea with her clean but oh so colourful liqueurs / magic potion card using one of the current advent-calender stamps (which will be available in the course of the next year for all of you who have not ordered the calender), Auf uns and Stitched circle frames.

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 [email protected] 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 

Striped Christmas Greetings

Hello crafty friends, it's Kerstin here!

today I have fun and non traditional christmas card for you. Hope you like it!

 

 

 

I love stripes! And I had some left over paper scraps from another projekt on my desk. That's why I had to create a striped christmas card. 

  

 

• stamp the sentiment and the christmas balls on vellum and cut them out
• cut some paper stripes in your desired color and adhere them onto a panel
• adhere the vellumparts onto the striped panel with mini glue dots (hide them behind bigger lines)
• draw some little stars and dots around your sentiment with a white gel pen

   

Most wonderful time

Winter Minis

Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles

 

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

We dare you to create a smile : December sketch

Hello eyerybody,
are you already preparing for christmas?
If you want to take a little break we have a wonderful sketch for you to start our new challenge.

If you want to play along (this challenge is open until 20.12.2021) you will get the chance to win a 25,-€ gift card for the Create a smile shop .

Lets start the sketch inspirations with our last time winner Marjolein. She made such a cute, warm and classy christmas card, using Christmas is coming, Cool Buddies, Puzzled, Snowflake whispers and Knitted stencil.

And our second guest designer Dreja made such a beautiful christmas card too. Using Unglaublich, Cool Buddies, Festliche Feiertage, Blizzard stencil and Christmas x3 hers is looking a bit more wintry.

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


What do you think? Will the designteam have made christmas cards as well? Let´s have a closer look... 

Candice made this pretty and because of the Crazy chicks funny card using Eggstraordinary egghunt and Bubble rays stencil.

Jeanne made this adorable christmas card showing us a great example how chaotic this time can be for santa. She has used Santa clumsy, Keine Geschenke, Stitched circle frames and Stitched square frames. 

Joke made this beautiful square card with winter friends peeking throughout the christmas wreaths using Cool Buddies and Magical christmastime.

Kerstin made this sweet as sugar imp card using Tollpatschige Weihnacht, Sweets & treats, Mehr als Nickerchen, Kleine Sprüche, Stitched circle frames and Basic circles stencil for the wonderful bokeh effect in the background.

Maaike made this cute colorful square version of the sketch using Christmas is coming and Peeking.

Nina made this great kind of storybook card (telling us what happens between fourth of advent and christmas eve) using Winter Minis, Kleine Weihnachtsgrüße, Useful banners, Stitched circle frames and Stars.

Tinne made this exquisite christmas baking card using Secret ingredient, Stitched circle frames and Scalloped rectangles.

Vicki made this wonderful out of the box ornament christmas card using Be jolly, Bubble circle and Stitched square frames.

 

If this ain´t inspiration now... so many stunning ideas.
So if you now want to participate yourself, you have time until 20.12.2021 but please make sure to follow the challenge rules below.

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

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Click here to enter

Winner from November moodboard challenge

Hello everybody!

It´s time again to announce our winners - and to thank everyone who participate in the November moodboard challenge... so many wonderful entrys 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).

So this time the winner of the 25,-€ gift certificate is ... drummroll and congrats to : svanilandart with her beautiful and funny christmas card using Tollpatschige Weihnacht and Knorket Fest.

Please send me an email to [email protected] to claim your prize - it´s so well deserved. 

And our featured artist of the november moodboard challenge is Lia with her awesome christmassy kraft-tags using Santa´s little helpers.

Again : congrats you both!
You can take the badge and display it on your social media, 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 [email protected] and I will tell you all the details.

Don´t forget 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

Little helpers....

Hey friends!!

It's Ashlee here today... 

How are you all going with your festive season cards? Christmas isn't far away now, one of my favourite times of the year and I have been working on cards and tags ready for gifting!!

I just love how the little helper is holding the adorable little scissors....

I wanted to create a card that was Christmas theme but also had a little crafty cardmaking touch so I thought the image with a bunch of floating envelopes and a card would be a fun starting point for this...

- Start with a piece of cardstock and mask off the bottom portion with a piece of masking tape

- Use the glassware stencil and some Catherine Pooler Twilight ink to create the background

- Swap the mask to the opposite side to blend on the ground

- Stamp/colour and fussy cut all the images from the Little helpers set

- Add images to the card base with foam tape for dimension

- Finish off by adding a sentiment 

Play around with stencils and masks to create fun backgrounds, it's always so cool to see the reveal once you remove the stencil/mask!! A background is a great way of adding in a scene for your images....

Glassware stencil

Santas little helpers 

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.