Oh! Card (Kitty Bee Designs Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Kitty Bee Designs and I made this Oh! Card.

I used cute 'OH I Forgot Froggie' from 2013 Good Luck Froggies Releases . I love his face expression! :o) 

This is my second card with this fun Froggie. If you like, you can see the first one here and here. :o)

Details about my card...

Image is paper pieced. 

I printed one froggie on a white cardstock card base and colored ground in watercolor technique using Hickory Smoke Distress Ink.

Then I printed out two more images on a white watercolor paper and colored pieces I needed in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut pieces I needed, colored edges with black marker and glued all pieces together.

I colored speech bubble wood chip with Black Soot Distress Ink, dried it with Heat It Tool and glued it on the card.

Few enamel stickers as a finishing touch and my card was finished. :o)

Dimensions: 95 mm x 127 mm (3 3/4" x 5")

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'OH I Forgot Froggie' Digital Stamp from 2013 Good Luck Froggies Release
• Create a Smile 'Sending Sunshine' Enamel Stickers (yellow)
• Create s Smile 'Holly & Berry' Enamel Stickers (green)
• Create a Smile 'Word Bubbles Straight' wood chip
• white cardstock paper
• white watercolor paper
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Spiced Marmalade
• Twisted Citron
• Cracked Pistachio
• Hickory Smoke
• Balcko Soot
• Stabilo Pen (Marker) 68/46
• white waterbased glue
• printer
• MS scoring board
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• Sigma Rotary Paper Trimmer
• scissors
• crafting needle
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• paper towels 
• water 

I hope you enjoyed my today's spotlight project. Check out more cute images at the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy Store, Kitty Bee Designs Blog and Kitty Bee Designs FB. :o)

I am entering my card to following challenges:

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

1) Craft Your Passion Challenges, Challenge #305 - Always Anything Goes

2) Simon Says Stamp, Wednesday Challenge Blog, Challenge: Anything Goes

3) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD Challenge from March 29th to April 4th

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

Crafty Milka 

You are wonderful Card (Fairy Tale Challenge #140)

Hi everyone! :o)

Today a new challenge starts at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

The theme for this fortnight is #140, Frühlingskarten / Spring Cards . 

We have an awesome prize for one lucky winner: Quilling kit.

For this challenge I made this You are wonderful Card.

For this card I used two Jane's Doodles Stamp Sets, 'Butterflies' and 'Anemone'.

I heat embossed anemone, butterfly and sentiment on a white watercolor paper panel and colored it with Distress Inks in watercolor technique.

After drying, I covered butterfly and anemone with paper towels and splattered whole panel with white acrylic paint mixed with water.

At the end I glued the panel on a white cardstock card base, trimmed away excess parts and my card was finished. :o)

Dimensions:  92 mm x 120 mm (3 5/8" x 4 3/4")

List of supplies: 

• Jane's Doodles 'Butterflies' Stamp Set
• Jane's Doodles 'Anemone' Stamp Set
• white cardstock paper
• white watercolor paper
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks:

• Mustard Seed
• Twisted Citron
• Spiced Marmalade
• Tumbled Glass
• Broken China
• Marabu Acrylic Paint (070 White)
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• MS scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors 
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Marabu rounded fine brush no. 0
• Marabu rounded fine brush no. 2
• Marabu flat fine brush no. 0
• Marabu flat fine brush no. 10
• water
• paper towels
• powder bag

I hope you liked my project for this fortnight and got inspired. Stop by the Fairy Tale Challenge Blog and see gorgeous creations my Design Team Mates and our Guest Designers made for this challenge. Do join us, we can't wait to see your projects. :o)

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to our long time DT Member, Tanti. This will be her last challenge with us. Bye Tanti! You will be missed! :o)

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 direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Addicted to CAS, Challenge #84 - Delicate
Delicate: soft (delicate) colors, butterfly and anemone are fragile (delicate) if not care with love :o)

2) Addicted to stamps and More, Challenge #186 - Anything Goes
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

3) Little Miss Muffet Challenges, Challenge #134 - Anything Goes

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

Crafty Milka 

Happiness, Mixed Media Decoration Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Hi everyone :o)

On Thursday, March 24th, was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this Mixed Media Decoration Card, Happiness. :o)

I cut a rectangle cardstock base. This is a recycled item. I cut it out from s watercolor paper pad package. I rarely throw away cardstock and try to reuse it for new projects or as a crafting mat. :o)

I colored the base with white acrylic paint.

I used Note Sheet patterned paper as a background, colored it with different mediums and when I was satisfied with the color, I glued it on the cardstock base and rounded corners.

I stamped two butterflies from Jane's Doodles 'Butterflies' Stamp Set on the card, colored them with different mediums and added white highlights with white pen.

Using stencils and structure paste I made white circles. After drying, I used same stencils and white pen and drew bubbles. Love bubbles!!! :o)

I stamped a sentiment from Jane's Doodles 'Doodle Flowers' Stamp Set on a scrap of white cardstock paper, drew messy black border and colored edges with black fine permanent pen, colored it and splattered with distress ink and glued it on the card.

I used découpage glue and varnish due crafting process to fix colors.

Dimensions: 75 mm x 101 mm (3" x 4")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Butterflies' stamp set (images)
• Jane's Doodles 'Doodle Flowers' stamp set (sentiment)
• stencil from Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (small circles and bubbles)
• 'Retro Circles' ARTploarations Stencil (large and medium circles and bubbles)
• Note Sheet pattern paper
• scrap of white cardstock paper
• cardstock (recycled item: I used a back side of watercolor paper pad)
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Marabu Acrylic Paint (070 White)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Ink (Mermaid Lagoon)
• Stabilo Pens 68 (Light Blue 41, Dark Blue 32, Black 46)
• Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth Mondeluz aquarell colored pencil (Light Blue 18, Dark Blue 19)
• Tsukineko Dew Drop Brilliance Fast-drying Pigment Ink (BD-80 Moonlight White)
• Tsukineko Dew Drop VersaMagic Multi-surface Chalk Ink (GD-92 Cloud White)
• Unibal Signo White
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen F (fine) 0.6 mm
• Marabu Light Structure Paste (805)
• Art Potch découpage glue and varnish
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• MS scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• rounded corner paper puncher
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no, #2
• Marabu flat fine paint brush no. #6
• Marabu flat fine paint brush no. #10
• palette knife no. #1
• sprayer bottle
• water
• paper towels
• post-it paper (for masking)

I am entering my mixed media project to following challenges:

Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Addicted to stamps and More, Challenge #186 - Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

2) Live & Love Crafts' Inspiration and Challenge Blog, Challenge #45 - Signs of Spring

Thank you for visiting and your kind feedback. If you have any questions about my project, feel free to contact me or just leave comment below. :o)

BE HAPPY! :o)


Crafty Milka


Update April 14th, 2016
I am linking my project to ARTplorations Flash Stencil Project Linky Party.
I used two stencils: 'Retro Circles' ARTploarations Stencil (large and medium circles and bubbles) and stencil from Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (small circles and bubbles).

 

Hi Spring Card (Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016, #30)

Hi everyone! :o)

My third and last post today... If you missed first two, just scroll down or follow a direct link here and here.

Today I'm sharing the rest of cards I made for Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016 personal challenge. If you like, visit my Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016 page, where you can find more about my challenge, photo gallery and links to each card. :o)


30th and last card I made for the challenge is this Hi Spring Card, couple of hours before the challenge finished and Spring started. :o)

I love this layout!!! :o)

I colored a speech bubble wood chip with Black Soot Distress Ink. After drying, I heat embossed a sentiment from Jane's Doodles 'Love Birds' Stamp Set, glued 3D foams on the back of the bubble and glued it on a card base.

Then I stamped little flower from the stamp set with VersaMark Watermark seven times on the card base, glued various Create a Smile's Enamel Stickers over petals and my card was finished. Super easy! :o)

Card dimensions are 94 mm x 126 mm (3 3/4" x 5").

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Love Birds' Stamp Set
• Create a Smile 'Sending Sunshine' Enamel Stickers
• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' Enamel Stickers
• Create a Smile 'Holly & Berry' Enamel Stickers
• Create a Smile 'Speech Bubbles Oval' wood chip
• white cardstock paper
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Tim Holtz's Distress Ink Black Soot
• 3D foams
• MS scoring board
• trimmer
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• crafting needle
• Ranger Heat it Craft Tool
• paint brush
• powder bag

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 direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Addicted to stamps and More, Challenge #186 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry.

2) Create a Smile March Projects
This is my 11th entry.

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

Crafty Milka

Rainbow Speech Bubbles Card (Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016, #29)

Hi everyone! :o)

My second post today... If you missed first one, just scroll down or follow a direct link here.

Today I'm sharing the rest of cards I made for Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016 personal challenge. If you like, visit my Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016 page, where you can find more about my challenge, photo gallery and links to each card. :o)


29th card I made for the challenge is this Rainbow Speech Bubbles Card.

To make this card, I was inspired with a gorgeous card by Christine Drogt of Kartenchaos.

Christine is very kind and friendly person and amazing designer, illustrator and many more. Her CAS cards designs are WoooW!

Christine is an owner and illustrator of Create a Smile. Stamps, stencils, papers, enamel stickers, wood chips... Love love love!!! :o) Here is a link to  Create a Smile blog and shop .

Christine also set up an art project #Smilespotting. Cards to brighten someones day, fun ideas and beautiful designs, gorgeous hand lettering... If you would like to find out more about this fun project, just follow this link. :o)

And now, how I made my card...

I cut out a panel from watercolor paper and stamped speech bubbles from Create a Smile 'Perfect Tune' Stamp Set on it. These are the cutest speech bubbles I have. :o)

I colored bubbles with Stabilo Markers in watercolor technique and little hearts with same colors directly with markers. I learned that from a great video tutorial by Julia Altermann, how to watercolor using inexpensive Stabilo pens.

I glued a black cardstock paper stripe on a card base and stamped panel over it. Then I drew white dots with white pen. As a finishing touch, I covered hearts with gloss resin gel to create glossy accents  and to add some dimension on my card. :o)

Card dimensions are 88 mm x 119 mm (3 1/2" x 4 3/4").

List of supplies:

• Create a Smile 'Perfect Tune' Stamp Set
• white cardstock paper
• white watercolor paper
• black cardstock paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Unibal Signo White
• Stabilo Pens (Markers) 68:
• Red 48
• Orange 54
• Yellow 44
• Green 33
• Light Blue 57
• Dark Blue/Indigo 32
• Violet 55
• strong double sided adhesive tape
• Gloss Resin Gel Super Clear
• MS scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• crafting needle
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. 0
• water
• paper towels

I am entering my card to following challenges:

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

1) Create a Smile March Projects
This is my 10th entry.

2) Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, Challenge #30 - Anything Goes
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by in an hour, I'll be sharing one more card. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Crafty Milka

Eggstraordinary Card (Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016, #28)

Hi everyone and happy Easter! :o)

Today I'll be sharing the rest of cards I made for Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016 personal challenge, i.e. 3 cards.

If you like, visit my Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2016 page, where you can find more about my challenge, photo gallery and links to each card. :o)


28th card I made for the challenge is this Eggstraordinary Card.

I CASEd my card, Easter Bunny Card, inspired with work by Christine Drogt of Kartenchaos.

Christine is very kind and friendly person and amazing designer, illustrator and many more. Her CAS cards designs are WoooW! I love how she grounds images on her cards. Amazing! My image grounding on this card is totally inspired by her work.

For this card I used same stamp set and design paper pack, same but rotated layout and same techniques as on CASEd card. I used different images, sentiments and color scheme.

I stamped super fun chick from 'Eggstraordinary Egghunt' stamp set on beautiful paper from 'Sending Sunshine' paper pack. I shaded chick and colored it's beak with Stabilo Markers and colored pencil, fussy cut it, colored edges with black marker and covered beak with resin gel to create glossy accents. I did the chick same way as on my Easter Chick Card.

I heat embossed a sentiment on a black cardstock paper stripe, cut two stripes from the designer paper and glued them on a card base.

I glued 3D foams on the back of the chick, placed it on the card and my card is finished. :o)

Card dimensions are 94 mm x 126 mm (3 3/4" x 5").

List of supplies:

• Create a Smile 'Eggstraordinary Egghunt' Stamp Set
• Create a Smile 'Sending Sunshine' Paper Pack
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Koh-i-noor Woodless Color Pencil, Reddish Orange 2
• Stabilo Pens (Markers) 68:
• Yellow 44
• Orange 54
• Black 46
• strong double sided adhesive tape
• Gloss Resin Gel Super Clear
• 3D foams
• MS scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• crafting needle

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 direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Create a Smile March Projects
This is my 9th entry.

2) STAMPlorations, March CAS Card Challenge
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

3) Stamping Smiles Designs, Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge, Challenge #6
Celebrate, Clean and Simple, Critters

4) Uniko Studio, Uniko Challenge #30 - Spring/Easter

5) Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenges, Challenge #92 - Spring Colours or Easter
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

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

Crafty Milka