Cheerful Pond Card (Kitty Bee Designs Spotlight)

Hi everyone :-D 

Today it´s my turn to be on the spotlight over at Kitty Bee Designs. This is my first spotlight ever and I am very excited about it. :-D I made this Cheerful Pond Card, using 'Lily Pad Froggie'.

I decided to use this image because it´s super cute. Also because frogs are one of my lucky animal totems. I have a pretty collection of them. Not real ones, of course, but wooden, stone, plastic etc. :-D 

"Frogs are symbols of prosperity, wealth, friendship, and abundance in many cultures. In other cultures they symbolize fertility. In the Native American culture of the Southwestern United States, the frog carries a piece of wood in its mouth because the Mojave people believe frogs brought fire to humans. For the ancient Romans, the frog was believed to bring good luck to one's home. Native Aborigines of Australia believe that frogs brought the thunder and rain. Frogs are said to be effective in speeding up recovery from disease. Among the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, frogs symbolized inspiration and fertility. In ancient Egypt, Hekt, the frog goddess, protected newborn babies, hence frogs were symbols of fertility and birth. The frog is also said to attract true friends and to help find long-lasting love."

Source: 50 Good Luck Symbols From Around The World 

Details about my project... 

Image is paper pieced. 

I printed four images on white cardstock paper, colored parts I needed with aquarell colored pencils and fine liners, fussy cut all parts, colored edges with black pen and added some transparent varnish on froggie´s dots, belly and heart, to create glossy accents. After varnish was dry, I glued together all pieces.

Here is a photo of all froggie pieces.

Then I printed one image on a blue paper and decorated it, using a dragonfly stencil and colored structure paste. I colored the structure paste with a yellow tempera color. 

After dragonflies were dry, I glued pieced froggie on to the blue layer and placed everything on a white card base. 

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

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'Lily Pad Froggie' from 2013 Good Luck Froggies Release 
• white cardstock paper 
• Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 6 x 6 (Patterns and Solids)
  
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow 3, light green 25, dark green 26) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• red fine liner 0.1 mm
• yellow fine liner 0.5 mm 
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen M (medium) 1.0 mm
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• yellow tempera color
• Marabu Light Structure Paste (805) 
• white water based glue
• UHU universal glue 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• crafting needle 
• Clear Scraps stencil 6 x 6 'Dragonfly wall'
• palette knife no.1 

I hope you enjoyed my first spotlight project. Check out the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy Store, Kitty Bee Designs Blog and Kitty Bee Designs FB. Be prepared for super cuteness! :-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) Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog, Challenge #94 - Things with Wings

2) Mod Squad Challenge Blog, All About the Animals
My 3rd entry to this challenge. 

3) Penny´s Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog, Challenge #212 - Anything Goes
My 2nd entry to this challenge.   

4) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes
My 3rd entry to this challenge.  

5) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from January 27th to February 2nd, Anything Goes
My 2nd entry to this challenge.   

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

Crafty Milka

Update March 13th, 2015

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

Unconditional Love Card (KBD Aloha Friday Challenge #40)

Hi everyone :-D 

My second post today...

Today a new Aloha Friday Challenge starts at Kitty Bee Designs.

New challenge for this fortnight is #40 - Valentines/Love.

Our sponsor for this challenge is 2Cute Ink, with an awesome prize for our random winner: 2 digital images.

This is my first appearance as a Design Team Member at Kitty Bee Designs and for this challenge I made this Unconditional Love Card, using our sponsor´s super cute image 'Best Fins'. I made this card for my mom. :-D

This is a CAS (clean and simple) card with paper pieced image (it has only two layers). 
I printed one image on 160 grams white paper and colored it in watercoloring technique using my aquarell colored pencils, paint brush and water. After the image was dry, I fussy cut it, colored edges with black fine liner and glued it over another image printed on blue cardstock layer. I colored bubbles and hearts also in watercoloring technique. After everything was dry, I glued blue layer on to the card base and added transparent varnish to the image (bubbles, hearts, mouths) to create glossy accents and pop up those details.

Card dimensions are 139 mm x 95 mm (5 1/2" x 3 3/4").

List of supplies:

• 2Cute Ink 'Best Fins' 
• white cardstock paper 
• blue cardstock paper
• white paper (160 grams)  
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (Yellow 3, Orange 5, Light Blue 18, Dark Blue 19) 
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• white water based glue 
• UHU universal glue
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• crafting needle
• Marabu fine paint brush no.2
• paper towels
• water  

Stop by the Kitty Bee Designs blog and check out lovely projects the rest of Design Team created! And don´t forget to join us in this challenge. We are looking forward to see your projects. :-D


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) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge, R#211 - No Pattern Paper

2) Mod Squad Challenge Blog, All About the Animals
My 2nd entry to this challenge. 

3) Penny´s Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog, Challenge #212 - Anything Goes

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

5) The Pink Elephant, Challenge TPE283 - Anything Goes 

6) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from January 27th to February 2nd, Anything Goes

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

Crafty Milka

Bear with a Heart

Happy Friday everyone :-D

It´s time for a new challenge at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

Theme for this fortnight is #110, Etwas mit einem Hertz / Something with a Heart. As Valentines Day approaching you can make something for this occasion, or for any other occasion. Whatever your heart likes. :-D

Bear with a Heart is my project for this challenge, my seventh and last project as a Guest Designer at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

I made this little bear for my boyfriend. I didn´t model for a long time and it was refreshment for me, after a long period of card making. :-D

Bear it´s made from FIMO Polymer Clay. It´s 48 mm high and 27 mm width. I had to mix some FIMO Mix Quick Clay Softener with FIMO Polymer Clay, because some of my bars were opened for a long time and got dry. I used black glass beads for his eyes.
After baking on a temperature 110°C for 30 minutes and cooling, I coated heart, nozzle and pillows on bear´s paws with FIMO Gloss Varnish. 

List of supplies: 

• Staedtler FIMO Modeling Polymer Clay (Indian Red 24, Caramel 7, Chocolate 75)
• Staedtler FIMO Mix Quick Clay Softener 
• Staedtler FIMO Gloss Varnish 
• 2 black glass beads (eyes)
• modeling tools
• crafting needle 
• MARABU paint brush no.2
• electric oven
• timer
• aluminum foil 
• baking tray 

Hop over at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog and see gorgeous projects the Design Team and other Guest Designers made for this challenge and do join us, we can´t wait to see your projects. :-D We also have a great prize. This time our lucky winner will win a cute little snail rubber stamp from Lelo Design. 

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) Craft my Life, All Crafts Challenge December/January, Anything Goes but no Cards! 
My 4th entry to this challenge. First one was Christmas Ornament, second Matchbox and third Christmas Decoration.

2) Mod Squad Challenge Blog, All About the Animals

3) Noor! Design U.K., Challenge #2 - With Love

4) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes

5) That Craft Place, Love/Valentine

6) We Do Doobadoo UK Challenge, Challenge 2... Romance

At the beginning  of this post, I mentioned this is my last project as a Guest Designer at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog. These past three months were really a great fun. I am very happy I had an opportunity to work with very very talented, supportive and nice ladies. :-D
In a few days a new Guest Designer Call will start at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog. Everyone is invited to apply. Visit Fairy Tale Challenge Blog in a few days to see all the details. I´ll share information here on my blog too.
And now exciting news to share with you. Bianca and the rest of the Design Team invited me to join them after my GDT term ends! From next month, I´ll be a Design Team Member at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog! I am so honored!!! And happy! :-D 

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


Crafty Milka

Happy Little Snowman Card

Hi everyone :-D

My second post today. :-D 
I want to share with you this Happy Little Snowman Card I finished today.

For my card layout I used a beautiful sketch094 with a twist from I {heart} sketches by Imke Ludvig. Twist was to use monochromatic color scheme. There was also an inspirational color board, but I didn´t use it.

I used From the Heart Stamp 'Little Snowman' digital stamp set, which includes lovely snowman image and four sentiments.

This is Stamp of the Month January 2015. From the Heart Stamps Stamp of the Month Challenge is progressive challenge. Faith generously gives a digital stamp of the month to everyone who joined previous challenge. I got mine for playing in previous month SOTM challenge.

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

List of supplies:

• From the Heart Stamps 'Little Snowman' 
• Sizix Christmas 2014 digital papers (free for newsletter subscribers)
• white cardstock paper
• red cardstock paper  
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencil (Orange 5) 
• Koh-i-noor woodless colored pencils (Pyrrole Red 170, Natural Sienna 11) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• ribbon 
• 2 plastic snowflakes 25 mm 
• synthetic snowball (Ø 10 mm)
• double sided strong adhesive tape  
• UHU universal glue 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss 
• pearl maker (Pastel White)
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• crafting needle 

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 challenge home page.

1) From the Heart Stamps I {heart} card sketches w/a tWiSt #no.94

 

2) From the Heart Stamps, January free Stamp of the Month - Little Snowman

3) Hanna and Friends, Challenge #214 - Schneemänner / Snowmen

4) Meljen´s Designs Team and Challenge Blog, Challenge #244 - Let It Snow

5) Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, Winter Stamping

6) Stempelgarten Challenge, Challenge #33 - Winterfreuden / Winter Fun

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

Crafty Milka