Jane's Doodles Warm Hugs Release Blog Hop

 

Happy Friday! :o)

Welcome to a Jane's Doodles Warm Hugs Release Blog Hop. Today we are featuring a BEAUTIFUL 'Warm Hugs' stamp set released into the store. :o) We also have 5 amazing super talented Guest Designers joining us today. :o)

Warm Hugs

Beautiful!!! Love love LOVE!!!!! :o)

And here is what I prepared for today: Thankful For You Card. :o)

How I made this Card... 

For my card I used most stamps from the set. I love to create my own backgrounds. It's a great way to use as much as possible stamps from one set. I call that good use of the set. :o)

First I arranged tinny stamps on an acrylic block and randomly stamped tiny images from the set on a Kraft paper panel in watermark stamping technique using VersaMark Watermark Ink. I filled gaps by stamping one by one image in gaps. After drying, I stamped the sentiment in black on the panel.

I cut and folded a card base, slightly larger than the panel. I also cut 3 more panels from the Kraft paper. I glued (stacked) two panels together. I did this to add some dimension on my card, as I don't have any foam sheet in my stash and to glue 3-D foam squares on the entire panel was not an option. I glued the stamped panel on stacked panels and glued them on the card base. Last, 3rd panel, I glued inside the card to make it sturdier.

Then I stamped a bear and leaves on a thick watercolor paper and colored images in watercolor technique with Caran D'Ache Prismalo Aquarelle colored pencils. After drying, I fussy cut images leaving white thin border around them. I glued 3-D foam squares (2 different thickness) on the back of each image and glued them on the card and my card was finished. :o)

I love how my card turned out!! :o)

At the bottom of this post you can find detailed supply lists of my today's card. Link to this post will be in a right sidebar until the Blog Hop ends. :o)

And now to the Blog Hop prize...

Our generous Jane will be giving away one stamp set of winner's choice 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:

Marion

Milka (you are here)

Katerina

Claudia

Bobbi

Katja

Tinne

Janine (Guest Designer)

Amanda (Guest Designer)

Hanh (Guest Designer)

Laura (Guest Designer)

Yana (Guest Designer)

Jane's Doodles blog

Jane will announce the winner on Monday, October 11th, 2021, at Jane's Doodles Blog.

Also, Jane is having 25% off sale through this weekend. No code needed.

Now hop over to Katerina's IG account and see what she created for today's hop.

Thank you for visiting. I hope you enjoyed on my stop today and got inspired. :o) 

Happy hopping and good luck to all!!! :o)

Milka

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Warm Hugs' stamp set
• Canson XL Mixed Media Paper, 300 g
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Caran D'Ache Prismalo Aquarelle colored pencils
• UHU universal liquid glue
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 1 mm
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• round acrylic block
• acrylic block
• scissors
• kraft knife
• Xcut self healing working mat A4
• DaVinci fine rounded paint brush no. 2/0
• paper towels
• water

Card measurements: 146 mm x 82 mm (5 3/4" x 3 1/4")

Cycling Panda Card (KBD Aloha Friday Challenge #112 Mid Inspiration)

Happy Friday! :o)

Today I'm sharing a mid-inspiration project for an ongoing Aloha Friday Challenge at Kitty Bee Designs.

The challenge for this fortnight is #112 - Anything Goes w/optional twist: Love and Marriage.

We have two sponsors for this challenge: Bugaboo Stamps and MMedel Illustrations, so there will be double prizes! :o)

 

I went with Anything Goes theme without optional twist and made this CAS (clean and simple), Cycling Panda Card. :o)

I made this card for my friend, passionate photographer and cyclist. Although his birthday is in July, I made it now. I make many birthday cards through the year, but I'm always in lack of them. It's better to be prepared in advance and not to stress two days before someone's birthday, right. :o)


How I made the card... 

To make this card I was inspired with a current challenge theme over at The Male Room: Sport / Winter Olympics. I went with cycling as a sport theme.

I used a super cute Kitty Bee Designs 'Trike Panda' digital image. :o)

I printed the panda on a white cardstock paper. I colored it with various colored pencils and fine liners. Then I fussy cut the panda and traced edges with a black marker.

Next up was a sentiment. I used alphabet stickers to create the sentiment. I glued letters on a white cardstock paper panel, glued some foam tape on the panel and glued it on a white top folded card base.

I glued some foam on the panda also and placed it above the sentiment, as the sentiment was road and panda was cycling on it. :o)

To make card sturdier, as I put quite an amount of foam on the card, I glued another white cardstock paper panel inside the card.

As a finishing touch I drew white highlights and horn sound trace, as I cut it off from the original image. :o)

Dimensions: 105 mm x 136 mm (4 1/8" x 5 3/8")

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'Trike Panda' digital image
• Create a Smile Alphabet Stickers: Black
• white cardstock paper
• TOZ Artist Color colored pencils:
• light blue
• dark blue
• TOZ Fantasy colored pencil, light grey
• Stabilo colored pencil, dark grey
• Stabilo fine liners 0.4:
• light blue 88/57
• dark blue 88/41
• light grey 88/94
• Stabilo Black fibre-tip pen 68/46
• Uniball Signo White
• Mittsubishi Pencil, Black Fine Liner 02
• Mittsubishi Pencil, Black Fine Liner 03
• foam tape, 1 mm thick
• foam sheet scraps, 1 mm thick
• UHU universal glue
• printer
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• scissors

I hope you'll like my card and get inspired. For more inspiration, stop by the Kitty Bee Designs blog and check out lovely projects my Design Team mates created. And don't forget to join us in this challenge. We are looking forward to see your projects. :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, Challenge #183 - Anything Goes

2) The Male Room, Challenge #79 - Sport / Winter Olympics
My sport theme: cycling

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

Milka

Shadow Box French Country

Hello everyone :-D

I would like to share with you a shadow box I finished a while ago. I called it French Country as a beautiful Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country' I used for this one.  

I made shadow box frame from one sheet of paper as shown in video tutorial by Lily. I used 8" x 8" sized paper and got a frame dimensioned 4" x 4" x 1/2".  

I wanted this one to be different from all other shadow boxes I made, so I decided to add doors to a frame.

 

I added small magnets, small metal piece and small metal key, so the doors would not open. When opened, doors are small photo frames. Inside photo frames are photo mats. I made them from one sheet of Graphic 45 paper, rounded edges with paper puncher and distressed edges. 

Door knob is an old button I had in my sewing stash. This button made me a problem. It was overweight and the box was falling down when doors were closed, even after I embellished the box. 

 

To make balance, I used easel. I removed easel from an old photo frame, removed old paper, sheet it with Graphic 45 paper and glued it to shadow box frame. 

I embellished shadow box with fussy cut images from Graphic 45 'French Country' paper collection, fussy cut printed digital images I found on Internet and butterflies die-cuts I bought on eBay (I don´t have die-cut machine). I added acetate sheet behind the bicycle to make it stable and on hanging clock to create glossy accent. 

 

 

I made small marmalades using glass vials with corks, glue, glass colors, paper scraps, distressed inks, raffia and small labels I made using MS Word.

List of supplies I used for this project:

• Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 8 x 8 
• Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 6 x 6 (Patterns and Solids) 
• butterflies from die-cut 'Flutter Tree'
• piece of black card stock paper (clock background) 
• piece of thick card stock paper 
• self adhesive white paper  
• digital images: clock, lady silhouette, bicycle
• acetate sheet
• button
• small key 
• eyelet
• magnets 
• small metal piece
• glass vials with corks 
• raffia  
• easel from old photo frame
• UHU universal glue
• UHU super glue 
• white water based glue 
• dimensional double sided adhesive foams 
• glass colors (420 Yellow, 436 Vermilion, 455 Dark Ultramarine)
• black fine liner 0.5
• Tim Holtz´s distress inks (Black Soot, Old Paper, Antique Linen)
• computer  
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors  
• round corner paper puncher
• crafting needle
• Tim Holt blending tool 
• nail polish remover acetone 
• cotton buds   

Thank you for visiting and your kind feedback. If you have any questions about this project, don´t hesitate to contact me. Have a great weekend :-D 

Crafty Milka