B&W Haunted House Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :o)

Yesterday was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this one layer, Black and White, Haunted House Card.

To create this card I used stamps from a Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set. 

For a card base I used Canson XL Mixed Media Paper and created my spooky scene directly on the card base.

First I stamped a haunted house, then I drew Moon with fine liner and handmade circle stencil and lastly stamped bats all over the card. 

Next up was coloring. I LOOOOVE Black & White photos and love to color B&W. I colored my card in watercolor technique using only Distress Inks Black Soot. After coloring I left the card to dry on air.

I'm very satisfied with my coloring on this card. :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set
• Canson XL Mixed Media Paper, 300 g
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Ink, Black Soot
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• paper towels
• water
• handmade circle stencil, d =1 1/2"

I'm linking my card to following challenges:

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

1) Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog, All Creatures Great And Small
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

At the end of this post...
Jane has a Halloween Sale and is offering 20% off on all clear stamp sets. This offers ends tomorrow, November 1st.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Have a SPOOKTACULAR night!! :o)

Milka

Wedding Card no. #3 (Fairy Tale Challenge #179)

Hi everyone! :o)

On Tuesday, October 24th, a new challenge has started over at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog. I had such a crazy week I didn't manage to post here on my blog earlier.

Our theme for this fortnight is #179, Nicht mehr als 4 / Not more than 4. Use 4 or less items on your handmade projects, something like this:

• image, design paper, colors, sequins
• image, embossing folder, paper
• design paper, ribbon, glue etc.

This time our lucky winner will win this lovely mini hippo stamp set.

And here is my take on the challenge: CAS (clean and simple), Wedding Card.

4 items I used on my project are: image, white paper, colors and Wink of Stella.

I used BEAUTIFUL Stamping Bella 'uptown couple BRETT and BRENDA get married' rubber stamp. This is my third take on this stamp. If you like, you can find my two previous cards using this image here and here.

I stamped the image on a watercolor paper, left it dry for couple minutes and colored the image in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After coloring and drying, I fussy cut the image, traced edges with a fibre-tip pen and softened the image on a soft working mat using a stylus ball. The image curled a bit.

I stamped another image on a white top folded card base and colored the whole image in black with the black fibre-tip pen. Before I stamped the image, I printed couple's names (for whom I was making this card) inside the card.

I glued the colored image over the image colored in black.

As a finishing touch, I rounded two opposite corners with paper puncher and covered bride's shoes, bouquet and heart with Clear Wink of Stella. :o)

List of supplies:

• Stamping Bella 'uptown couple BRETT and BRENDA get married' rubber stamp
• white cardstock paper (card base, sentiment)
• thin white watercolor paper (panel)
• note sheet paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• printer
• Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth Mondeluz aquarel colored pencils 3710
• light green 25
• dark green 26
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Tumbled Glass
• Blueprint Sketch
• Tea Dye
• Walnut Stain
• Ground Espresso
• Black Soot
• Stabilo Black fibre-tip pen 68/46
• ZIG Wink of Stella Brush (Gl. clear 999)
• UHU universal glue
• foam tape 1 mm thick
• foam sheet 2 mm thick
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• scissors
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm) 
• Marabu rounded fine paintbrush no. #0
• paper towels
• water
• soft working mat
• stylus ball
• rounded corner paper puncher

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

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

Milka

Halloween Card (I Love Math Challenge #7 mid-inspiration)

Hello everyone!

There are seventeen more days to join the seventh I Love Math Challenge. :o) If you're new to my blog, you can find more about the challenge and previous challenges here.

The theme for this challenge is SEVEN: use number 7 or seven something on your project.

Seven is an odd number and fourth prime number. 

An odd number is a number that cannot be divided evenly with 2. 

A prime number can be divided, without a remainder, only by itself and by 1.

Today I'm sharing my inspiration card for the challenge. I made this one layer, Halloween Card.

I stamped 7 bats and a sentiment from Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set directly on a front panel of a white top folded card base. I cut a circle from a cardstock paper scrap and masked the part where I wanted the Moon to be. I blended Distress Inks Wilted Violet and Dusty Concord on the panel and blended edges with Distress Ink Black Soot. When I was satisfied with my Halloween sky, I removed mask and left card to dry a bit on air. As a finishing touch, I coated bats with clear Wink of Stella.

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

List of supplies :

• Jane's Doodles 'Haunted House' stamp set
• white cardstock paper (card base, circle stencil)
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Wilted Violet
• Dusty Concord
• Black Soot
• ZIG Wink of Stella Brush (Gl. clear 999)
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• EK Success Circle Cutter
• bone folder
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
• Ranger Ink Blending Tool
• Scotch tape
• Xcut Self Healing Mat A4

I hope you'll get inspired with my today's card and join in the challenge. :o) Find more inspiration projects, details about the challenge, rules and prize, and link-up your projects at the challenge main blog post, here. :o)


I'm linking my card to following challenges:

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

1) Little Miss Muffet Challenges, #174 - Anything Goes

2) The Color Throwdown, #465

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

Milka

Jane's Doodles Spotlight Blog Hop

Happy Friday!! :o)

Welcome to a Jane's Doodles Spotlight Blog Hop. Today we are featuring three new Christmas / Winter themed stamp sets released into the store. LOVE!!!! :o)

Deck the Halls

Driving Home For Christmas

Holy Night

Aren't they GORGEOUS!! :o)

Before I show you what I created, guess who is joining us on this hop as a Guest Designer? :o) Super talented lady, Jennifer McGuire!!! :o)


I enjoyed so much playing with these stamps and prepared 3 CAS (clean and simple) cards for today.

First up is this Season's Greetings Card, using a Christmas ornament stamp from 'Deck the Halls' stamp set. A sentiment is form the stamp set 'Merry Christmas', set released earlier this year.

Next up is this Let it SnOW(L) Card, using stamps from the super cute  'Driving Home For Christmas' stamp set. Snow owls are GORGEOUS, so I decided to color my owl as snow owl. :o) So funny!!! :o)

And my last card for today's hop is this A Child is Born Card, using 'Holy Night' stamp set. I love silhouette stamps and I'm so happy Jane created this set. :o)

These would be all my cards for today. At the bottom of this post you can find card measurements, techniques I used to create my cards and detailed supply lists. Link to this post will be in a right sidebar (Featured Post), until the Blog Hop ends. :o)

And now to the Blog Hop prize...

Our generous Jane will be giving away three stamp sets we are featuring today (Deck the Halls, Driving Home For Christmas and Holy Night) to one lucky winner. All you have to do is leave a comment on all blogs along the Hop for your chance to win.

Here is the Blog Hop order:

Jane
Neha
Me (Milka)
Ange
Marion
Kaja
Vika

Galina
Norine
Jennifer McGuire (Guest Designer)
Jane's Doodles

Jane will announce the winner on Monday, October 23rd, at Jane's Doodles Blog.

Also, Jane is having 20% off sale on all clear stamp sets until Blog Hop ends.

Now hop over to Ange's blog and see what she created for today's hop.

Thank you for visiting. I hope you enjoyed on my stop today. :o) Happy hopping and good luck to all!!! :o) 

Milka

List of supplies 'Season's Greetings Card':

• Jane's Doodles 'Deck the Halls' stamp set (ornaments)
• Jane's Doodles 'Merry Christmas' stamp set (sentiment)
• white cardstock paper (card base)
• thin white watercolor paper (ornaments)
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Salty Ocean
• Hickory Smoke
• Stabilo Black fibre-tip pen 68/46
• Mittsubishi Pencil, Black Fine Liner 02
• Uniball Singo White
• ZIG Wink of Stella Brush (Gl. clear 999) 
• UHU universal glue
• acrylic block
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• ruler

Card measurements: 95 mm x 133 mm (3 3/4" x 5 1/4")
Techniques: watercoloring, fussy cutting, paper piecing

List of supplies 'Let it SnOW(L) Card':

• Jane's Doodles 'Driving Home For Christmas' stamp set
• white cardstock paper (card base, owl)
• thin white watercolor paper (owl)
• black cardstock paper (sentiment)
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Spiced Marmalade
• Barn Door
• Tumbled Glass
• Twisted Citron
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Wilted Violet
• Hickory Smoke
• Stabilo Black fibre-tip pen 68/46
• Uniball Signo White
• UHU universal glue
• foam tape 1 mm thick
• foam squares 5 mm x 5 mm x 2 mm
• acrylic block
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• powder bag
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• scissors
• rounded corner paper puncher

Card measurements: 95 mm x 127 mm (3 3/4" x 5")
Techniques: watercoloring, fussy cutting, paper piecing, heat embossing, ink blending

List of supplies 'A Child is Born':

• Jane's Doodles 'Holy Night' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• UHU universal glue
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• powder bag

Card measurements: 89 mm x 139 mm (3 1/2" x 5 1/2")
Technique: heat embossing

Happy Halloween Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this one layer, CAS (clean and simple), Happy Halloween Card.

To create this card I used stamps from an adorable Jane's Doodles 'Winnie Halloween' stamp set.

For a card base I used Canson XL Mixed Media Paper and stamped directly on the card base. I colored my card in watercolor technique using Distress Inks and left the card to dry on air.

I'm very satisfied with my coloring on this card and so happy I decided to color Winnie's skin green. :o)

Card dimensions: 133 mm x 95 mm (5 1/4" x 3 3/4")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Winnie Halloween' stamp set (girl, word 'books')
• Canson XL Mixed Media Paper, 300 g
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Twisted Citron
• Cracked Pistachio
• Lucky Clover
• Black Soot
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• paper towels
• water

I'm linking my card to following challenges:

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

1) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #264 - Clean and Simple

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Happy Little Stampers, Watercolour Challenge, October 2017, Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Stempelgarten Challenge, Challenge #66 - Spooky

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

Milka

3rd Bloggoversary Giveaway Winner

Hi everyone! :o)

Huge SORRY for not posting this yesterday... I totally forgot to click that PUBLISH button. :( Thank you for understanding.♥

Thank you all for joining my 3rd Blogowersary Giveaway and your sweet comments. ♥

Anybody who left a comment on giveaway post and is a follower of my blog was eligible to win an ADORABLE Jane's Doodles 'Magical' stamp set.

And the winner chosen by Random.org is

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Congratulations!!! :o)

Please contact me in next two weeks to claim your prize (email: milkagubo81 (at) gmail (dot) com).

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

Milka



Update (May 4th, 2018):
In line with Data Protection and Privacy Policy Statement, I've deleted winners' names from this post and all comments that would reveal winners' names. This post will not be deleted from this blog.

I Love Math Challenge #7

Hello everyone!

Today is a World Cardmaking Day and time for a new I Love Math Challenge! This is the seventh challenge. If you're new to my blog, you can find more about the challenge and previous challenges here.


The theme for this challenge is SEVEN: use number 7 or seven something on your project.

Seven is an odd number and fourth prime number. 

An odd number is a number that cannot be divided evenly with 2. 

A prime number can be divided, without a remainder, only by itself and by 1.

A very talented designer, primary school teacher is joining Neha and me in this challenge. It's Valentina Bizjak of Barvito malo mesto, amazing crafter and blogger, dear friend from Slovenia.

Valentina supports this challenge from it's beginning. She participated in most challenges with her beautiful creations. I'm very happy that she accepted my invitation to be a Guest Designer for this challenge.

Here is what Valentina said:

"It was May when my crafty friend Milka invited me to join her and Neha at I Love Math Challenge. Milka hosting this challenge where she combined two of her greatest passions: Math and Crafts. I was honored and really happy to be invited since this is my first time to become a Guest Designer. So thank you Milka. This was really my lucky chance but also a great responsibility. And I truly admire crafts and cards of both girls. This is such an exciting and funny challenge that it wouldn’t be right to say no. Eventhough I’m not a Math person, at all. I’m still using my fingers and my phone for simple operation. I know this is kind of awkward but that’s me. :)
I was hoping that the challenge won’t be so difficult. And it wasn’t. Number 7. I immediately got an idea of what I’m going to create.
I’m a primary school teacher and reading fairy tales is my job and passion at the same time. So what could be better to put one of the greatest fairy tales into a card. And I just got the right stamps to do that. I created a fairy tale scene on a card with peek a boo windows. Do you already know who is behind the windows? :) " 

And here is SUPER ADORABLE Valentina's card! LOVE LOVE LOVE!! :o)

Great design, super sweet scene, beautiful colors... I'm blown away how Valentina incorporated a fairy tale in the challenge. AWESOME!!! Can't wait to see what's behind those windows. :o) Jump over to Valentina's blog and find out what her card is hiding, how does it fit to the challenge theme and other details about her card. :o)

Here is Neha's AMAZING take on the challenge. :o)

When Neha sent me photo of her card I was blown away (I always am). Gorgeous card, brilliant CAS design, beautiful colors!! I love her take on the challenge!! Seven days in a week as focal point, number 7 at a background and highlighted number 7 in a sentiment... LOVE it!!! :o) Jump over to Neha's blog and find out more details about her card. :o)


And my project... I created a card today, but not on time to catch a daylight to take good photos. I couldn't catch a color as it is and I'm not satisfied at all, so I won't share it today. I'll share my card as mid-inspiration project instead. Stop by my blog in two weeks, October 21st, when I'll be sharing my card. :o)

I love that three of us approached the challenge differently. Valentina incorporated fairy-tale in the theme, Neha used number 7 and week days on her card and me.... Just a little hint: I stamped seven same animals on my card. :o) Thank you Ladies for joining me in this challenge and inspiration. :o)


Now it's your turn...

Create any kind of project, whatever you like, but your project must have number 7 or seven something on it. It doesn't have to be as a focal point, but it has to be recognizable on a photo what it is. Any design is welcome.

More details about the challenge...

Challenge Starts: October 7th 2017, 10:00 PM CEST (UTC +2)

Challenge Ends: November 7th 2017, 09:55 PM CET (UTC +1)

Challenge rules:

1. Theme: Seven
2. Your project must have number 7 or seven something on it.
3. You don't have to be a Math Lover to join this challenge.
4. Your creation must be new. Please do not link creation that has been posted prior to the day of the challenge.
5. Projects must be handmade!
6. Any stamp company/artist is welcome.
7. If you make a card, any design is welcome.
8. You must be a blog follower. If you are following me via e-mail, please leave me a comment.
9. Mention the challenge in your blog post and link back to the challenge.
10. Display Challenge badge in your blog post.
11. Link up as many projects as you want.
12. You are welcome to combine your project to as many challenges as you want.
13. No blog hop and direct selling links are allowed here.
14. Link your direct blog post and not your entire blog, so I could locate your creation.
15. Please turn off word verification.
16. Have fun!

I reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with challenge rules.

Prize: 

One Jane's Doodles stamp set of winners choice. Valentina, Neha and I will select four favorite projects (TOP 4), which will be featured here on my blog on November 30th 2017. Among TOP 4, there will be a random draw (using Random.org) for one lucky winner who will then receive the prize. :o)
If we have 4 or less entries to the challenge, all projects will be considered as TOP projects.


I hope you'll like the new challenge theme, get inspired and join us with your Math creations. Stop by my blog in two weeks, October 21st, for more inspiration. :o)

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Just leave me a comment on this blog post or send me an e-mail. Valentina, Neha and I can't wait to see your creations!

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

Milka

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