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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Homemade Christmas Gifts (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)


Hi everyone :o)

I hope you're enjoying holidays. I'm spending mine with my family and having such a wonderful time. :o)

Today I want to share with you my last week's spotlight projects over at Jane's Doodles.

I made Creams for Face and Body and used lovely flower from Jane's Doodles 'Doodle Flowers' stamp set for package. These were Christmas gifts for my mom and friends. Girls loved them! :o)


The cream is very rich, regenerates skin and has estimated SPF (sun protective factor) 5 - 15. All ingredients are excellent quality. :o)

One jar contains 100 ml of cream. Expiration in 4 months. It's best to keep natural cosmetics in cold and dark place, best in fridge. :o)


Ingredients (300 ml):

  • Almond Oil (Amygdalae oleum), 100 grams
  • Cocoa Butter (Cacao oleum), 100 grams
  • Red Gamma Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) Seed Oil, 2 grams
  • Yellow Beeswax (Cera flava), 20 grams 

Dishes, tools and other:

  • plastic or glass containers/jars
  • precise scale
  • glass measuring jar
  • glass or ceramic spoon or wand
  • grater
  • cooking pot
  • thermometer
  • paper towels
  • dishtowel
  • medicine ethanol alcohol
  • medical gloves
  • oven
  • water

How to and tips:

First I washed and sterilized plastic jars and all dishes and tools I needed for making these creams.
You can use plastic or glass containers for creams, but do avoid metal containers/jars. 
Try not to use aggressive chemicals for washing dishes and containers.
Home sterilization: immersing jars and dishes in boiling water and washing with medicine ethanol alcohol. You can also sterilize jars in hot oven, but they must be made of glass. Don't use microwave oven for any of these.

Using precise scale, I measured all ingredients and grated yellow beeswax.
When making natural cosmetics, I prefer and use only yellow beeswax. Here you can find more information about beeswax.
I grate beeswax because I always buy large piece of beeswax, but you can also find beeswax in granules in stores.

I heated water in cooking pot to the boiling point and removed it from fire.
Then I placed glass measuring jar in hot water and started adding ingredients. First I added Cocoa Butter and after it melted I added Almond Oil and Red Gamma Raspberry Seed Oil.
It's very important to stir ingredients all the time while cooking.
Never use microwave oven for making natural cosmetics!! I don't use microwave at all. :o)

When water temperature dropped to 60°C I started adding beeswax into oil mixture.
It's very important to stir mixture all the time, otherwise beeswax won't melt and your cream will have white dots all over it.
It's very important that water temperature doesn't go over 60°C when adding beeswax. Temperature higher than that kills all good things in beeswax.

After all beeswax melted, I poured hot oil mixture/cream into sterilized plastic jars, covered them with clean dishtowel and left them cool. After several hours of cooling, I closed jars with lids. I also made decorations and labels for creams to make them more attractive.


I cut circles (d = 52 mm = 2 1/8") from a Kraft cardstock paper, heat embossed flower from Jane's Doodles 'Doodle Flower' stamp set, drew white dots border and glued them on lids.

I cut smaller circles (d = 28 mm = 1 1/8") from the Kraft cardstock paper, drew white dots borders, wrote description on them, punched holes and tied them to jars.


I also made couple of tags (d = 51 mm = 2 1/16") with same flower as on creams and used them for wrapping chocolates.


List of supplies:
  • Jane's Doodles 'Doodle Flowers' stamp set
  • Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
  • Kraft packing paper
  • lace
  • twine
  • Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
  • WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
  • Unibal Signo White
  • UHU universal glue
  • acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
  • Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
  • EK Success Circle Cutter
  • hammer
  • hole puncher (small size)
  • plank board
  • paint brush
  • printing paper


I hope you'll like my today's project, last one for this year. Thank you for visiting and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)


Crafty Milka

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Three Snowflakes Cards (Crafty Creations Challenges #305)

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Hi everyone :o)

Today a new challenge starts at Crafty Creations Challenges, our last challenge this year.

Our theme for this fortnight is #305 - Anything Goes.

Our sponsor for this challenge is our dear Jaime's Etsy Shop 'Inky And Scrappy', with a great prize for one lucky winner: $10 gift card.


For this challenge I made Three Snowflakes Cards.


I used lovely stencil from Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit and colored structure paste. After drying, I glued 3-D foam pads behind panels and glued them on white card bases. Simple and very easy to create. :o)

light structure paste + Distress Ink Tumbled Glass


acrylic structure paste + small amount of Ultramarine Deep Tempera Color

acrylic structure paste + larger amount of Ultramarine Deep Tempera Color


Each card measures 107 mm x 139 mm (4 1/4" x 5 1/2").

List of supplies: 
  • Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (snowflakes stencil)
  • white cardstock paper
  • Tim Holtz's Distress Ink Tumbled Glass
  • Aero Tempera Color (700 Ultramarine Deep) 
  • Marabu acrylic paste fine sand
  • Marabu Light Structure Paste (805)
  • 3-D foam pads
  • MS scoring board
  • trimmer
  • scissors
  • tweezers
  • palette knife no. #1

Stop by the Crafty Creations Challenges to see gorgeous creations from my Design Team Mates and join us in this challenge. We are looking forward to see your projects. :o)


I am entering my cards to following challenges:
Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Beccy's Place, December Challenge
This is my 7th entry to this challenge.


2) Create a Smile December projects
This is my 5th entry to this challenge.


Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)


Crafty Milka

Friday, December 18, 2015

Christmas Postcards Decoration (Fairy Tale Challenge #133)


Happy Friday everyone! :o)

It's time for a new challenge at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog, our last one this year.

The theme for this fortnight is #133, Briefmarken und Poststempel / Stamps and Poststamps

This time our lucky winner will win a lovely stencil.


For this challenge I made a decoration, Christmas Postcards Decoration.



I cut these two vintage postcards from designer paper pad. First I burned their edges and colored their whole surface with Distress Ink Antique Linen. When I was satisfied with aged look of postcards, I glued them on Cinnamon and glued Star Anise in the corner.

List of supplies: 

I hope you enjoyed my today's project. Hop over to the Fairy Tale Challenge Blog and see gorgeous projects my Design Team Mates and our Guest Designers made for this challenge. Do join us, we can't wait to see your projects. :o)



I am entering my project to following challenge:
Note: bold text is a direct link to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

Beccy's Place, December Challenge
This is my 6th entry to this challenge.


Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)


Crafty Milka

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Mini Red Santa Tags

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you two Mini Red Santa Tags I made last week.


Images are paper pieced. I used 4 stamped images for each Santa, 3 stamped on a watercolor paper and one on a designer paper from the kit. I colored Santa's face with colored pencils and shaded his beard with light gray colored pencil. I used dry paper stump to blend colors in to paper. I colored his boots with black permanent pen. After coloring and shading, I fussy cut parts I needed, colored edges with black Stabilo pen, softened all pieces with a stylus ball on a soft working mat, glued all pieces together and added final touches with a white pen.

Then I cut circles from a Kraft cardstock paper, punched holes in them, glued piece of white cardstock paper on the bottom, heat embossed sentiments, drew snowflakes whit the white pen, glued 3-D foam pads behind each Santa and placed them on tags. At the end I tied ribbons on tags and they were finished. :o)



Each tag measures  d = 63 mm (2 1/2").

List of supplies: 
  • Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (Santa stamp, sentiment stamps, designer paper)
  • Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
  • white cardstock paper
  • Koh-i-noor Watercolor paper (250 gms)
  • red gingham ribbon
  • Docrafts 'Home for Christmas' Brown String
  • Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
  • Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
  • WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
  • colored pencils: skin color, pink, light gray
  • Stabilo Pen Black 68/46
  • Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
  • Unibal Signo White
    • UHU universal glue
    • Sakura Quickie Glue Pinpoint Roller
    • EK Success 3D dots
    • acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
    • polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
    • scissors
    • tweezers
    • EK Success Circle Cutter
    • Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
    • paper blending stump no. #2
    • paper blending stump no. #5
    • stylus ball
    • soft working mat
    • hole puncher (medium size)
    • hammer
    • plank board
    • printing paper




    I am entering my tags to following challenges:
    Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

    1) Create a Smile December projects
    This is my 4th entry to this challenge.


    2) Lawnscaping Challenges, Challenge: Tag it!

    3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Tag it!


    This would be all from me for today. Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)



    Crafty Milka

    Saturday, December 12, 2015

    HO HO HO! Card

    Hi everyone! :o)

    Today I'm sharing with you couple of Christmas cards I made this week.

    HO HO HO! Card is the third card I'm sharing today. If you missed the first and second, just scroll down or follow direct links here and here.


    All elements on this card are from an awesome Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit. :o)

    First I made a panel. I cut a designer paper and made snowflakes using stencil and structure paste. I left it dry one day. After drying, I heat embossed sentiment 'HO HO HO!' on the panel.

    Image is paper pieced. I used 4 stamped images, 3 stamped on a watercolor paper and one on the designer paper. I colored Santa's face with colored pencils and shaded his beard with light gray colored pencil. I used dry paper stump to blend colors in to paper. I colored Santa's boots with black permanent pen. After coloring, I fussy cut parts I needed, colored edges with black Stabilo pen, softened all pieces with a stylus ball on a soft working mat, glued all pieces together and added final touches with a white pen. I also covered dots on Santa's outfit with gloss resin super-clear to create glossy accents.


    At the end, I glued the panel on a white card base, glued 3-D foam pads behind Santa, placed him on the card and my card was finished. :o)


    Card dimensions are 101 mm x 133 mm (4" x 5 1/4").

    List of supplies: 
    • Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (Santa stamp, sentiment stamp, paper, snowflakes stencil)
    • white cardstock paper
    • Koh-i-noor Watercolor paper (250 gms)
    • Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
    • Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
    • WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
    • colored pencils: skin color, pink, light gray
    • Stabilo Pen Black 68/46
    • Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
    • Unibal Signo White
    • Marabu Light Structure Paste (805)
      • UHU universal glue
      • gloss resin super clear
      • Sakura Quickie Glue Pinpoint Roller
      • 3-D foam pads
      • acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
      • polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
      • MS scoring board
      • trimmer
      • scissors
      • tweezers
      • Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
      • paper blending stump no. #2
      • paper blending stump no. #5
      • stylus ball
      • soft working mat
      • palette knife no. #1
      • crafting needle
      • printing paper



      I am entering my card to following challenges:
      Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

      1) Beccy's Place, December Challenge
      This is my 5th entry to this challenge.


      2) Create a Smile December projects
      This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.


      3) Inkspirational Challenges, Challenge #97 - Flake
      This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

      4) STAMPlorations, Flash Stencil Project Linky Party
      This is my 2nd entry to this Linky Party.
       


      This would be all from me for today. More Christmas projects coming tomorrow next week. Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)


      Crafty Milka

      Merry Christmas from Mini Santa Card

      Hi everyone! :o)

      Today I'm sharing with you couple of Christmas cards I made this week.

      Merry Christmas from Mini Santa Card is the second card I'm sharing today. If you missed the first one, just scroll down or follow a direct link here.


      All elements on this card are from an awesome Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit. :o)

      First I made a panel. I cut a designer paper and made snowflakes using stencil and structure paste. I left it dry one day.

      Image is paper pieced. I used 4 stamped images, 3 stamped on a watercolor paper and one on the designer paper. I colored Santa's face with colored pencils and shaded his beard with light gray colored pencil. I used dry paper stump to blend colors in to paper. I colored Santa's boots with black permanent pen. After coloring, I fussy cut parts I needed, colored edges with black Stabilo pen, softened all pieces with a stylus ball on a soft working mat, glued all pieces together and added final touches with a white pen.


      At the end, I glued the panel on a white card base, glued 3-D foam pads behind Santa and placed him on the card, glued few enamel stickers and my card was finished. :o)


      Card dimensions are 101 mm x 133 mm (4" x 5 1/4").

      List of supplies: 
      • Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (Santa stamp, paper, enamel stickers, snowflakes stencil)
      • white cardstock paper
      • Koh-i-noor Watercolor paper (250 gms)
      • Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
      • colored pencils: skin color, pink, light gray
      • Stabilo Pen Black 68/46
      • Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
      • Unibal Signo White
      • Marabu Light Structure Paste (805)
        • UHU universal glue
        • Sakura Quickie Glue Pinpoint Roller
        • 3-D foam pads
        • acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
        • MS scoring board
        • trimmer
        • scissors
        • tweezers
        • paper blending stump no. #2
        • paper blending stump no. #5
        • stylus ball
        • soft working mat
        • palette knife no. #1



        I am entering my card to following challenges:
        Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

        1) Beccy's Place, December Challenge
        This is my 4th entry to this challenge.


        2) Create a Smile December projects
        This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

        3) Cupcake Inspirations, Challenge 339 - Let it Snow!
        This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

        4) Inkspirational Challenges, Challenge #97 - Flake

        5) Noor! Design U.K., Challenge #13 - Winter Wonderland

        6) Simon Says Stamp, Work it Wednesday November 2015: Holiday Cards
        This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

        7) STAMPlorations, Flash Stencil Project Linky Party
         

        8) Stempelgarten Challenge, Challenge #44 - Christmas Time


        Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by later today, I'll be sharing more cards. I'm off to cook some cosmetics. Enjoy and smile! :o)


        Crafty Milka