Stampin with Liz Design: Create a Smile Challenges!

Hi everyone and welcome back to a new sketch challenge at Create a Smile Challenges! We have another fun sketch for you created by Christine, which inspired me to create a fun CAS card with the amazing Gull Gang?! stamp set! So love these cheecky seagulls!

You can enter this challenge world wide and have a chance at winning a € 25 gift certificate to spend at Create a Smile stamps! For those of you who don't own a Create a Smile stamp set yet, you can use one of the freebies that are up on their site!

I started this card with a white card base in A2 size and then diecutted a front panel with a Stitched Rectangle die. I blended a fun background on my panel, just right behind where I stamped the waves from the Ocean Waves background stamp. I used Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide ink for the blending part. 

I stamped the text from the Gull Gang?! stamp set just underneath my blended part. I then stamped, fussy cutted and coloured the fun images from the stamp set. I added them with dimensionals to my front panel and then added my panel with dimensionals on to my card base. 

Thank you so much for watching today, hope to see you next time!

Stampin with Liz Design: Gull Gang Card!

Hi there crafters! Welcome to a new Stampin with Liz Design blog post! Today I'd like to share some seagull fun with you! I've created a card before with this amazing stamp set called Gull Gang from Create a Smile stamps, which you can find here, so love this set! So today some more inspiration with these cheecky fellows!

I have to admit, I'm not a big bird fan, lol, I'm a huge animal lover, but something about the flying creatures gives me the creeps. I prefer animals that stay on the ground I guess. But, I do love them on a card, luckily, they don't flap with their wings here! This cheecky threesome look like they are all ready to be a bit mischievous! Want to know how I created this fun card? Let me tell you! I started this card with a white card base in A2 size (which is aproximately 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"). I then diecutted a fun front panel from a piece of white cardstock with the largest die from the Postage Stamp dies from SugarPea Designs. These dies are really a good investment, I use them a lot to create panels with! I then started working on a fun background, using a stencil, a blending tool and ink.

I find the circles from the In Circles stencil from Create a Smile really mesmerizing! Aren't they stunning?!  I used this fun stencil for my background. I wanted to stay inside the stitched lines from my panel and keeping some white space at the bottom, so in order to keep these spaces white, I used masking tape to cover them with. I blended the circles on to my panel with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink from Ranger, my definite ink to go to for blending! Keeping my stencil on it's place after blending, I spattered some blue ink spatters on to this background to make it a bit more interesting, but keeping the white circles white! I stamped the text 'You're Part of My Gang' underneath with Black Tuxedo Memento ink.

I then wanted to add some more fun details on to this clean background and created a few drops with the Nuvo Crystal Drops bottles in the colours Simply White and navy Blue. Just love how easy you can make these gorgeous drops! I then stamped the seagulls, the poles I wanted them to sit on and some french fries from the set. This set doesn't come with coördinating dies, but off course you can easily fussy cut them or maybe you own a cutting machine. I love fussy cutting, totally relaxing! I coloured these fun items with Copic Markers and added them on to my front panel using dimensionals. I love using dimensionals between my front panel and card base as well, so I did for this card too. Hope you enjoy! If you'd like to enter the latest challenge at Create a Smile Challenges, please check it here! We are having a gorgeous moodboard up this challenge, you can enter untill April 27th. If you don't own a Create a Smile stamp set yet, you can use on of the freebies that are up on their site! Hope to see you all there, thanks for stopping by!

Stampin with Liz Design: Create a Smile Challenge!

Hi my crafty friends! Welcome to a new Stampin with Liz Design blog post! Today a new challenge is starting at Create a Smile Challenges, are you all ready? If you like sketches, then this is your challenge! I always love a great sketch as a starter point to create a card with!

Hoi allemaal! Welkom bij een nieuwe Stampin with Liz Design blog post! Vandaag gaat er bij Create a Smile een nieuwe challenge van start, zijn jullie er klaar voor? Houd jij van sketches? Dan is dit een leuke challenge voor jou! Ik vind ze altijd erg fijn als startpunt voor mijn kaart!

This sketch is really fun, but yet still simple! It gives you a the opportunity to interpret it as you wish! You can of course use the sketch as you see it, by applying three hexagons and go from there or see the three shapes as a possibility for something else! I choose the last option! Can't wait to see your creations! You can enter this fun challenge worldwide and have a chance to win a € 25 gift certificate! How much fun is that! If you don't own a Create a Smile stamp set, no worries, you can use a freebie that you can find on the Create a Smile site!

Deze sketch is zeker leuk, maar nog steeds simpel! Je kunt er natuurlijk verschillende kanten mee op, net wat je er in ziet! Gebruik de drie zeshoeken zoals de sketch daadwerkelijk laat zien, of interpreteer de drie vormen op je eigen manier. Ik koos voor de laatste optie! Ben benieuwd wat jullie gaan maken! Iedereen kan meedoen met deze challenge en maakt een kans op een € 25 kadobon! Hoe leuk is dat! Heb jij geen Create a Smile stempels, geen punt, je kunt ook meedoen met de freebies die je op de site van Create a Smile vind!

I've used the fun stamp set Gull-Gang for my card. This set is really fun with it's seagulls! I love going to the beach and sea, but admit, I don't really like the seagulls in real life, lol. They can sometimes be so cheeky! These seagulls look a beet cheeky to, but a fun cheeky! I picked the one with his fun captain shirt and hat for this card and started colouring thid fun fellow!

Ik heb de stempelset Gull-Gang gebruikt voor mijn kaart. Een gave set met een aantal meeuwen! Ik ga graag naar het strand en de zee, maar beken eerlijk, ik heb een hekel aan de meeuwen daar, haha. Ze zijn soms zo brutaal! Deze meeuwen hebben wel een beetje een brutale uitstraling, maar wel leuk brutaal! Ik heb de meeuw uitgekozen voor deze kaart met het kapiteinsshirt en mutsje en ben begonnen deze grappige kerel in te kleuren!

I then started working on the sketch. I choose to use three sea poles at the place you see the hexagons. I worked around them, creating waves in the sea using a stencil and Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide ink from Ranger. I masked the poles first ofcourse, to keep them nice and clean to colour in a brown colour. I added the fun text and the seaugull and, whoops, a little dropping! Hope you will give this challenge a go, see you there!

Ik ben hierna begonnen aan de sketch. Ik heb zee paaltjes gebruikt op de plek waar je in de sketch de zeshoeken ziet. Ik heb om de palen heen gewerkt om de golven in de zee te maken met een stencil en Tumbled Glass en Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide inkt van Ranger. Ik heb de paaltjes natuurlijk eerst gemaskeerd om ze mooi wit te houden om hierna in te kunnen kleuren in bruine tinten. Ik heb de tekst en de meeuw toegevoegd, en oeps, ook nog iets anders, haha! Ik hoop dat jullie meedoen natuurlijk, zie je creatie graag daar! 

Thank you so much for watching today, hope to see you next time!

Bedankt voor het kijken, tot de volgende keer!