Apple Market Card

Hello everyone. My third post today :-D

Last night I started to color my new card and finished it today. This is one layer card. I called Apple Market Card, according to a stamp set I used.

I used From the Heart Stamp 'Apple Market' digital stamp set, which includes lovely image and four sentiments. 

This is Stamp of the Month October 2014 and I got it this month for free, for playing last month in Stamp of the Month Challenge.

From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge is progressive challenge and everyone is a winner. Faith generously gives a digital stamp of the month for free to everyone who joined previous challenge. Awesome, right. :-D

Card dimensions are 148 mm x 105 mm (5 7/8" x 4 1/8").

List of supplies: 

• From the Heart Stamps 'Apple Market'
• white card stock paper 
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• Staedtler Noris Club colored pencils (yellow, orange, red, beige, pink, blue, green, black, brown) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, red, greens, blues, browns, black) 
• white pencil 
• black fine liner 0.5 mm
• brush
• water
• paper towels

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Note: bold text is direct link to current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog or challenges home page. 

1) From the Heart Stamps, October free Stamp of the Month - Apple Market

2) Deep Ocean Challenge Blog, Challenge #89 - Just one layer 

3) Bunny Zoe´s Crafts, October Challenge - Animals 

And for the end...
My Trick or Tweet Card is TOP 3 at From the Heart Stamps. I am so happy that a Design Team liked my card.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Have a spooky and fun Halloween. :-D 

Crafty Milka

Halloween decorations

Hi everyone :-D 

I am half way done with spookifying my home and wanted to share with you what I am working on.

It is not a custom to celebrate Halloween here in Croatia, but people do celebrate it. Spooky movie as Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, The Addams Family, sweets, bloody deserts, spooky decorations, make up maybe, a lot of candles, pajamas, pillows and blankets... That is how I am going to spend this Halloween. :-D

Yesterday I started to make wall decorations. I am using free templates I found on web (links provided below in supplies list) and self-adhesive foil. This foil is great and I strongly recommend it for wall decorating. Very easy to use, inexpensive and great quality. After removing from the walls, there are no marks or stains left. If you don´t have self-adhesive foil, you can use other materials (follow provided links below for more instructions). These are really easy and fast to make. 

Here is a list of supplies I´m using for my wall decorations: 

• Mice template from Martha Stewart Living 
• Bat template from Martha Stewart Living
• Crow template from Milliande - Printables
• printer 
• card stock
• d-c-fix self-adhesive black matte foil 
• pencil 
• scissors 
• compass 

Important notice:
These are not my decorating ideas, neither templates. Full credits go to authors and pages I listed above.
If you are using templates from the provided links, please link back to original post, not on my post. Thank you. 

Here is a sneak peek of my unfinished decorated walls. I´ll share more photos next week.

Stay around. I´ll be posting soon. :-D 

Crafty Milka

Beautiful forenoon

Hello everyone :-D 

After two cloudy and rainy days, finally beautiful, sunny forenoon here in Cavtat and I think it will stay that way all day. I am enjoying my coffee and creative mess I made on my craft desk, finishing a card I´ll share with you later, making a scheme for my new project, spookifying my home... Oh and there will be baking later and who knows what not. :-D

This week I received a lot of gifts for participating in challenges and would like to thank all, challenge organizers, DT members and challenges sponsors for them.

This Monday, my Merry Christmas Card won at Meljen´s Designs. I received two lovely Meljen´s Designs digital images of my choice.

Yesterday I received package with lovely die-cuts, rubber stamps and a lovely card from Carmen for participating in the last challenge at Sketch N´ Dies. 

Just saw that my Trick or Tweet won at Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge. The prize are 2 digital images from The Stamping Boutique. Awesome! 

Thanks for stopping by. Stay around... new post soon. :-D 

Crafty Milka

Trick or Tweet Card

Good evening everyone :-D

Today I made another Halloween themed card and called it Trick or Tweet Card, according to a sentiment I used.

The Cat´s Pajamas Collage Inspiration by Nancy was an inspiration for this card, as well as  I {heart} sketches sketch083 with a twist for a card layout.

Image is From the Heart Stamps 'Bewitchin´ Birdbrains', as well as the sentiment.

I printed four From the Heart Stamps 'Bewitchin´ Birdbrains' images on white card stock paper. 

First I made background on one image. I colored moon using stencil, aquarell colored pencils and water and grass with aquarell colored pencils and water. I masked moon and colored background with Black Soot distress ink. 

Then I colored elements on three images with my colored pencils, white pencil, aquarell colored pencils and black fine liners, fussy cut elements, colored edges with permanent marker and pieced all elements together. I added some transparent glossy varnish to create glossy accents.

For this card I used three different Halloween digital papers by Marie Stones that she shared for free on Free Digital Scrapbooking. I fussy cut two spiders from scraps of printed digital paper, outlined them and decorated card with them.

I made little cat embellishment using cat stencil from Kinder Surprise. I outlined the shape of cat on black card stock paper, cut it out, glued down a pair of googly eyes and covered all cat with transparent varnish.

In left upper corner I draw cobweb with black permanent marker, traced lines with glue and sprinkled over black glitter.

Card dimensions are 15,2 cm x 15,2 cm (6" x 6"). 

List of supplies: 

• From the Heart Stamps 'Bewitchin´ Birdbrains'
• Halloween Crackle Green  digital paper from 'Halloween Crackle Paper Pack' collection by Marie Stones 
• Worn Purple Dots digital paper from 'Halloween Spooks Paper' collection by Marie Stones 
• Worn Spiders digital paper from 'Halloween Spooks Paper' collection by Marie Stones 
• black card stock paper 
• white card stock paper 
• Staedtler Noris Club colored pencils (yellow, orange, green, black, brown) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, greens, blue, violet, browns, black) 
• white pencil 
• pencil
• black fine liner 0.5 
• black permanent marker 
• Tim Holtz´s distress ink, Black Soot 
• fine glitter (black) 
• googly eyes 
• universal glue
• white water based glue 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• crafting needle 
• Tim Holtz blending tool
• brush
• ruler  
• water
• paper towels
• stencil from Kinder Surprise (Kinder Egg) 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Note: bold text is direct link to current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog or challenges home page. 

1) From the Heart Stamps i {heart} card sketches - Use any previous Sketch

I used sketch 083. 

2) Cute Card Thursday, Challenge 344 - Trick or Treat

3) Meljen's Designs Design Team and Challenge Blog, Challenge #233 – Trick or Treat 

4) Crafty Sentiments Designs, Use a Sentiment Challenge

5) We Do Doobadoo UK Challenge, Challenge 17... Halloween

6) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge, R#199 - Halloween

7) Artistic Inspirations Challenge Blog, Challenge #114 - Halloween/Anything Goes

8) Hanna and Friends, Challenge #208 - Halloween

9) Kitty Bee Designs, Aloha Friday Challenge #35 - Halloween 

10) The Cat´s Pajamas, TCPTUES277 - Inspiration Challenge

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Night night :-D 

Crafty Milka 

Update December 28th, 2014 

This is the second of my three favorite cards I entered into Clear it Out Challenge Blog, Our Favorites Challenge (upload your favorite card from 2014). 

Update January 1st, 2015

My favorite 2014 Creations

Update March 13th, 2015

I am linking my project to STAMPlorations Flash Stencil Linky Party. 

Guest Designer at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog

Evening everyone :-D 

Happy news to share with you...
Just saw that I am picked to be a Guest Designer at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog for the next three months. I am so happy and excited, because I have a great opportunity to work with very very talented ladies.

Thanks for stopping by. Night night :-D 

Crafty Milka

Merry Christmas Card

Hello everyone :-D 

This morning I made this Merry Christmas Card.

For a card layout I used sketch from Meljen's Designs Design Team and Challenge Blog. This is a sketch designed by Amy Almeida, for current challenge #232. 

I printed two Meljen's Designs 'Bundled Little Snowboy' digital images on white card stock paper, colored elements on both images with my colored pencils, white pencil, aquarell colored pencils and black fine liner. After that I fussy cut elements from one image and glued them on the other image, which I fussy cut too. I added a transparent glossy varnish on snowman´s eyes, cheeks, nose and buttons to create glossy accent and pearls around the snowman with pearl-maker.

 

After I glued down all layers and image, I added three double sided adhesive star shaped foams to the card and sprinkled them with a fine glitter (red and green).

Card dimensions are 13,3 cm x 13,3 cm (5 1/4" x 5 1/4").

Here is a list of materials and tools I used to make this card: 

• Meljen's Designs 'Bundled Little Snowboy'
• Crafters Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad
• white card stock paper
• dark green card stock paper
• Staedtler Noris Club colored pencils (orange, red, pink, green, brown) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (orange, red, green, browns) 
• white pencil 
• black fine liner 0.5
• pearl maker (pastel-white)
• fine glitter (green, red)
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• universal glue
• white water based glue 
• dimensional double sided adhesive star shaped foams 
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors  
• brush 
• crafting needle 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Note: bold text is direct link to current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog home page. 

1) Meljen's Designs Design Team and Challenge Blog, Challenge #232 – Sketch 

2) A Random Fan, Challenge #16 - Anything Goes

3) The Paper Nest Dolls Challenges, Challenge #21 - Anything Goes (GDT) 

4) Ruby´s Rainbow, Challenge #90, Use your Freebies/Prizes

I used Crafters Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad. This was a prize of my choice for from Bunny Zoe´s Crafts, which I won as random winner at Cute Card Thursday.

5) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from October 21st to October 27th, Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by. Have a beautiful day. :-D 

Crafty Milka 

BOO Card

Good evening everyone :-D 

Busy busy week behind me, but I managed to play in my crafty corner a bit. I made my first Halloween themed card this Friday and called it BOO Card.

For this card I used two different Halloween digital papers by Marie Stones that she shared for free on Free Digital Scrapbooking. I love all collection she shared there and can´t wait to use them all. :-D 

I printed two Meljen's Designs 'Pumpkin Pile' images on white card stock paper. I colored one image with my new colored pencils and aquarell colored pencils (gift from my boyfriend :-D ) and fussy cut it. The other image, I colored with distress ink, aquarell colored pencils (swirls), added glitters and glued cut out image on it. I also added a transparent glossy varnish on pumpkin´s leaves to create glossy effect. 

 

I made little bat embellishment using lovely freebie bat I found and googly eyes. I printed Halloween Silhouette Stickers, free printable from Paper Crave, on white card stock paper, cut out bat, colored edges and eyes with my black permanent marker and glued googly eyes on it. He is so funny. :-D

Sentiment is also freebie I found. I printed Freebie Halloween Ticket Digi Stamp by Kimberly M. Landmesser on Orange Plaid digital paper from 'Gone Orange' collection by Marie Stones, cut out sentiment (it is just a part from original digital sentiment Kimberly shared), distressed edges and glued it to black card stock paper.

Card dimensions are 105 mm x 148 mm (4 1/8" x 5 7/8").

Here is a list of supplies I used to make this card: 

• Meljen's Designs 'Pumpkin Pile'
• Orange Plaid digital paper from 'Gone Orange' collection by Marie Stones 
• Halloween Crackle Green  digital paper from 'Halloween Crackle Paper Pack' collection by Marie Stones 
• Halloween Silhouette Stickers, free printable from Paper Crave 
• Freebie Halloween Ticket Digi Stamp by Kimberly M. Landmesser 
• black card stock paper 
• white card stock paper
• Staedtler Noris Club colored pencils (oranges, yellow, greens, browns, black)
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, green, brown, black) 
• white pencil 
• black fine liner 0.5
• black permanent marker 
• Tim Holtz´s distress ink, Black Soot 
• fine glitter (orange, green, black)
• googly eyes 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• universal glue
• white water based glue
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors  
• Tim Holtz blending tool 
• brush
• crafting needle 

I would like to enter with this card into the following challenges:

Note: bold text is direct link to current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog home page. 

1) Fairytale Challenge Blog, Challenge #102 - Happy Halloween 

2) The Corrosive Challenge Blog, Challenge #210 - Halloween 

3) The Pink Elephant, TPE272 - Black, orange + Your Pick 

4) Crafting Form the Heart, Challenge 40 – Anything Goes 

5) Penny´s Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog, Challenge 199 - Anything Goes 

6) Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenges, Challenge 76 - Anything Goes (GDT) 

7) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from October 14th to October 20th, Anything Goes

At the end of this post I would like to thank Darnell J. Knauss of djkardkreations for featuring my blog. I am honored. Darnell is very nice, talented and supportive lady. I would like to invite you all to visit hers oh so fun and creative blog. 

Thank you all for stopping by and your kind  feedback. Night night :-D 

Crafty Milka 

Update December 28th, 2014 

This is the first of my three favorite cards I entered into Clear it Out Challenge Blog, Our Favorites Challenge (upload your favorite card from 2014). 

 

Update January 1st, 2015

My favorite 2014 Creations