At the end of 2014...

I want to thank you all for your visiting, kind comments and support in my start blogging year! I appreciate it a lot and it makes me happy. :-D

I wish you and your loved ones all the best in year 2015! A lot of joy, laugh, health and happiness.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Big hugs

Milka

Holiday Spirit Card

Hello everyone :-D  

Today I want to share with you a Holiday Spirit Card, my final card of the year 2014.

I colored image two weeks ago, but finished card just yesterday. I CASEd my Reach for the Stars Card. Card layout for my both cards, this one and CASEd one, was I {heart} sketches sketch089 with a twist by Imke Ludvig.

Card dimensions are 143 mm x 98 mm (5 5/8" x 3 7/8").

I used From the Heart Stamp 'Christmas Spirit Birdbrain' digital stamp set, which includes funny image and four sentiments.

This is Stamp of the Month December 2014. 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 to everyone who joined previous challenge. I didn´t play last month, in November, but did get my for free. This was image I choose as December Blog Hop Winner at From the Heart Stamps.

I colored background with light blue colored pencil dust. I have learned this technique from my 3rd grade teacher. I don´t know how that technique is called, if there is any name. :-D 
 
List of supplies: 

• From the Heart Stamps 'Christmas Spirit Birdbrain' 
• Crafters Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad
• white card stock paper 
• white paper 160 grams 
• thick card stock paper
• colored pencils (yellow, orange) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, green, light blue) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• fine liners 0.5 mm (yellow, red) 
• ribbon 
• Freckled Fawn Enamel Warm Dew Drop Stickers
• double sided strong adhesive tape  
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• office paper puncher   
  

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, December free Stamp of the Month - Christmas Spirit Birdbrain

2) Christmas Card Challenges, #4 - Anything Goes

3) 613 Avenue Create, Challenge #104 - Anything Goes

4) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from December 30th to January 5th, Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stay around, new post soon. :-D 

Crafty Milka 

Winter Creams and Wonder Boxes

Hi everyone :-D

Today I want to share with you Winter Creams for Face, Body and Hands I made. These were Christmas presents.

I made a cream from the finest Cocoa and Shea Butter, Yellow Beeswax and Sweet Orange Organic Essential Oil. I used small glass jars as a cream package, decorated lids and added small info tags. 

I also made three Wonder Boxes (Paper Bags). Each was for one cream and two tea light candles, covered with scrapbooking paper stripes. To make these, I used great photo tutorial that was recently published at Stempeleinmaleins, One-Sheet-Wonder-Box by Bianca. I love to visit Stempeleinmaleins. Many amazing tutorials and beautiful projects can be found there, as well on Bianca´s blog, Handmade by Bianca. Bianca is very creative and friendly. She is celebrating 300 blog readers and has New Year Blog Candy. Hop over and see how talented she is. :-D

Here are Wonder Boxes I made.

List of supplies:

• Mirabelle Santoro one sheet 12" x 12" paper
• satin ribbon (Old Gold)
• UHU universal glue  
• double sided strong adhesive tape  
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors  

List of supplies:

• Mirabelle Santoro one sheet 12" x 12" paper
• green ribbon 
• UHU universal glue 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors 
• office paper puncher

List of supplies:

• Hobby & Crafting Fun 12" x 12" scrapbooking paper (120 grams)
• white leaves 
• white flowers 30 mm
• snowflake 25 mm 
• synthetic snowballs (Ø 10 mm)
• 2 white clothespins 
• transparent low temperature glue stick 
• scoring board
• trimmer  
• scissors 
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature

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


Crafty Milka

Winter Fairyland

Hello everyone :-D 

Second project I want to share with you today is a Christmas decoration I made this week, Winter Fairyland. I love fairies and candles! Combined...

First I made a rectangle board, dimensions 203 mm x 152 mm (8" x 6"), from a thick card stock paper and covered it with a white card stock paper. I marked places where candles should stand and glued 4 push pins on to the board. Push pins prevent candles moving on the board, without gluing them down, and allow candle changing at any time. Then I added a thick layer of an acrylic white fine sand paste and left it dry 24 hours.

I used three gorgeous Mo´s Manning digital images in this project. I printed them on a white 160 grams paper, colored and fussy cut them. I covered 'Winter Fairy Halla´s' and 'Fairy Snowman´s' wings with a transparent varnish to create glossy accents.

I added some pearl maker and transparent varnish on part of 'Winter Fairy Talva´s' wings. I covered a snowball in her hands with an acrylic fine sand paste and when it was dry, I smeared a pearl maker over the snowball to create glossy accents.

When the board was dry, I placed candles decorated with plastic snowflakes on to the board and images. Images are firmed with an acrylic fine sand paste. They look like they stand in snow. :-D

I embellished the board with decorative flower stamens, flowers, synthetic snowballs and one paper butterfly. I used a low temperature glue gun to glue embellishments on to the board. At the end, I smeared a pearl maker on some places on the board, to create glossy accents.

Light up the candles... 

Music:
"Winner Winner!" Kevin MacLeod   

(incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

List of supplies: 

• Mo´s Manning digital stamp 'Winter Fairy Halla'
• Mo´s Manning digital stamp 'Winter Fairy Talva'
• Mo´s Manning digital stamp 'Fairy Snowman' (free gift for registered users, 28.11.2014.)
• thick card stock paper
• white card stock paper
• white paper, 160 grams 
• colored pencils (skin color, pink, gray)
• white pencil  
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (light and dark blue) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• silver sparkling pen 
• 4 white candles 
• Scrapberry´s Mulberry paper butterfly
• decorative flower stamens 
• white flowers 30 mm
• snowflakes 25 mm 
• synthetic snowballs (Ø 10 mm)
• 4 push pins 
• Marabu acrylic paste (Fine Sand)
• transparent low temperature glue stick 
• pearl maker (pastel-white) 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss 
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer  
• scissors 
• ruler 
• eraser  
• pencil sharpener  
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature 
• crafting needle 
• palette knife no.1
• palette knife no.2

Must say, I love this one and can´t stop looking at it. :-D

I am entering my project 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) Mo´s Challenge Blog, Your Favorite Mo "Make" of 2014

2) We Do Doobadoo UK Challenge, Challenge 21... Festive Spirits

My 2nd entry to this challenge.  

3) Noor! Design U.K., Challenge No.1 Merry Christmas 

GDT applied

4) Papertake Weekly Challenge, Pick a Fave (Anything Goes - Make a Christmas Decoration) 

 

5) Cupcake Inspirations, Challenge 291

6) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes 

My 3rd entry to this challenge.  

7) Simon Says Stamp Blog, Work it Wednesday December 2014, Something you Love (word, theme, just heart...) 

8) Craft my Life, All Crafts Challenge December/January, Anything Goes but no Cards! 
My 3rd entry to this challenge. First one was Christmas Ornament and second Matchbox.

9) Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog, Fussy and Fancy

10) Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog, Challenge #92 - Anything Christmas but a Card

11) The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog, Challenge #82 - Lots of Cuteness on Anything but a Card

I thought I´ll post one more project today, but I´m exhausted and I´ll leave that for tomorrow. Thank you for stopping by and your kind  feedback. Enjoy and smile :-D 

Crafty Milka 


Update, December 30th 2014
As member at Bronte and Bella´s Clubhouse, I entered this project to Bronte and Bella´s SHOWCASE December Challenge, as one of my favorites projects I made this month. 

Fairy Snowman Card

Hi everyone :-D

Today I´ll be sharing several projects with you. 

First one for today is this Fairy Snowman Card I made last weekend.

I called it Fairy Snowman Card, as a gorgeous Mo´s Manning digital stamp 'Fairy Snowman' I used. As a registered user at Mo´s Manning Digital Pencil, I got this beautiful image as a gift for Thanksgiving. 
I colored image with blue aquarell colored pencils, white pencil and silver sparkling pen. I colored background with light blue colored pencil dust. I have learned this technique when I was 9 years old from my 3rd grade teacher, but I have no idea how that technique is called. I´ll make a tutorial in the near future.
I added some dots with a pearl maker, glued image to a card base and embellished my card with flower stamens and white flower. 

Card dimensions 140 mm x 140 mm (5 1/2" x 5 1/2").

List of supplies: 

• Mo´s Manning digital stamp 'Fairy Snowman'
• blue card stock paper
• white paper (160 grams) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (light and dark blue) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• black fine liner 0.5
• silver sparkling pen 
• pearl maker (pastel-white) 
• decorative flower stamens 
• white flower 30 mm
• UHU universal glue 
• transparent low temperature glue stick 
• printer 
• trimmer
• scoring board  
• pencil sharpener 
• eraser
• round corner paper puncher 
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature 

I am entering my 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) Crafty Sentiments Designs, Anything Goes
My 2nd entry to this challenge. 

2) Creative Card Crew, Challenge #77 - Anything Goes 
My 3rd entry to this challenge. 

3) Cute Card Thursday, Challenge 353 - Anything Goes 

4) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes  
My 2nd entry to this challenge. 

5) The Paper Nest Dolls Challenges, Challenge #25 - Anything Goes

6) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from December 23rd to December 30th, Anything Goes
My 2nd entry to this challenge. 

7) Fairytale Stampers, Challenge 49 - Anything Goes

8) Whimsy Stamps Inspiration Challenges, Challenge #78 - Anything Goes
My 3rd entry to this challenge. 

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by later today, I´ll be posting again. Enjoy :-D 

Crafty Milka

Happy news

Hi everyone :-D

It´s official... I´m new Design Team Member at Crafty Creations Challenges. I am so happy! :-D

There is currently great challenge, Who wants to build a Snowman. Will you join? :-D

Thank you for stopping by. Night night :-D 

Crafty Milka

Caroling Snowmen Card

Hi everyone :-D

I hope you all enjoy your Holidays and having a great time with your loved ones. :-D

Today I want to share with you this Caroling Snowmen Card I made couple of days ago. 

I used Meljen´s Designs 'Caroling Snowmen' digital image.

I printed image on 160 grams white paper and colored it with colored and aquarell colored pencils. I used two different white pencils for color blending. I colored background in watercoloring technique. 
I didn´t like whole background, so I decided to place another white layer on to a card. I made circle frame layer using my compass circle cutter.

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

List of supplies: 

• Meljen´s Designs 'Caroling Snowmen'
• white card stock paper
• white paper (160 grams) 
• colored pencils (skin color, yellow, red)
• white pencil 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, light and dark red, light and dark blue, light and dark green) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• fine liners 0.5 (yellow, red, black)
• UHU universal glue 
• printer 
• scoring board 
• trimmer 
• compass circle cutter
• paint brush
• paper towels 
• water  

I am entering my 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) Crafty Sentiments Designs, Anything Goes

2) Creative Card Crew, Challenge #77 - Anything Goes 
My 2nd entry to this challenge. 

 
3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes 

4) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from December 23rd to December 30th, Anything Goes

 

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy your day. :-D 

Crafty Milka