Advent Wreath

Hi everyone! :o)

I hope you're all well and getting ready for Christmas. :o)

Although today is last Advent Day, I want to share with you my Advent Wreath. :o) I wanted to share it on a first Advent day, but things weren't going as I planed, so I'm bringing it today. :o)

My mom borrowed me a gorgeous white tray, I bought white candles and my honey bought me lovely jingle bells. All other stuff that I used I had at home: a snowman figurine, star shaped sequins, snowflake die-cuts, snowballs etc. I played and arranged everything on the tray and was finished in less than an hour. :o)

I love how it turned out!! :o)

Tomorrow is Christmas and I'm starting 12 Days of Christmas Series here on my blog. I wanted to do Count down to Christmas Series through the Advent, but as I mentioned at the beginning of this post, things didn't go as I planed so I'll go with a shorter series. I hope you'll visit and check my 12 Days of Christmas series in next 12 days. I'll be sharing some cards and there will be also some giveaways. :o)

Update: December 30th, 2020

Due to the earthquakes situation in the central part of Croatia, series will be postponed and continued after I'll be ready to post here on my blog.

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

Milka

Advent Wreath

Hi everyone! :o)

I hope you're all well. :o) It's been quiet here on my blog for a week. I had quite busy schedule and I didn't find any time to write during the week.

Today I want to share with you my Advent Wreath. I arranged it last Saturday. :o)

My mom borrowed me a gorgeous white plate with golden stars and I bought white candles. All other stuff I used I had at home. I played around an hour and arranged everything on the plate. :o)

I love how it turned out!! :o)

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

Milka

Blue Birthday Cake Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

On Friday, October 21st, was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this Blue Birthday Cake Card.

For this card I used adorable Jane's Doodles 'CAKE!' stamp set. :o)

My first intention was to make CAS, one layer card with a sentiment only. I heat embossed a sentiment on a card base and started blending Distress Ink around the sentiment. I messed it up and didn't like it at all, but I didn't want to throw it away. I cut card base on two parts, to get two panels, and heat embossed a cake from the set on the panel I started to work on. I masked the cake image and removed a plate, because it looks more masculine without the plate to me.

I blended whole panel with Distress Ink, splattered the panel with water and repeated the process until I was satisfied with the color. I splattered the panel with same Distress Ink mixed with water using paint brushes and colored some parts of the cake to make them darker.

When I was satisfied with the panel, I distressed edges using scissors. I did same on the white panel.

Lastly I glued two panels on a white top folded card base, drew stitches and added some highlights to the image and my card was finished. :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'CAKE!' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Ink Mermaid Lagoon
• Uniball Signo White
• UHU liquid glue
• Fiskars High Precission Personal Paper Trimmer
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• scissors
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #2
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• powder bag
• water
• paper towels

I'm entering 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) Cards und More Shop Blog, Challenge no. 5 - Anything Goes
This is my 5th entry to this challenge.

2) 613 Avenue Create, Challenge #190 - Anything Goes

This is my 7th entry to this challenge.

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


Milka

Butterfly on Candle (Fairy Tale Challenge #135)

Hi everyone! :o)

This Tuesday a new challenge started at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

The theme for this fortnight is #135, Eine neue Technik aber keine Karte / New Technique but no Cards. 

This time our lucky winner will win adorable jute shapes.

New technique I tried was Transferring Image on a Candle. I found a great tutorial on Stamp TV and tried it. New to me was also heat embossing on tissue paper. This is my second try, Butterfly on Candle.

Note: This is not my idea. I found the tutorial on Stamp TV and made my project following steps in that tutorial. For all the details and instructions how to make this, follow the direct link provided.

List of supplies: 

• Jane's Doodles 'Butterflies' stamp set
• blue candle
• tissue paper
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• scissors
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• printing paper
• baking paper

I hope you liked 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 and learn new techniques. :o)

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

1) Beccy's Place, January Challenge
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) That Craft Place Challenge Blog, 17th of January, Anything Goes Challenge

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

Crafty Milka

Winter Creams and Wonder Boxes

Hi everyone :-D

Today I want to share with you Winter Creams for Face, Body and Hands I made. These were Christmas presents.

I made a cream from the finest Cocoa and Shea Butter, Yellow Beeswax and Sweet Orange Organic Essential Oil. I used small glass jars as a cream package, decorated lids and added small info tags. 

I also made three Wonder Boxes (Paper Bags). Each was for one cream and two tea light candles, covered with scrapbooking paper stripes. To make these, I used great photo tutorial that was recently published at Stempeleinmaleins, One-Sheet-Wonder-Box by Bianca. I love to visit Stempeleinmaleins. Many amazing tutorials and beautiful projects can be found there, as well on Bianca´s blog, Handmade by Bianca. Bianca is very creative and friendly. She is celebrating 300 blog readers and has New Year Blog Candy. Hop over and see how talented she is. :-D

Here are Wonder Boxes I made.

List of supplies:

• Mirabelle Santoro one sheet 12" x 12" paper
• satin ribbon (Old Gold)
• UHU universal glue  
• double sided strong adhesive tape  
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors  

List of supplies:

• Mirabelle Santoro one sheet 12" x 12" paper
• green ribbon 
• UHU universal glue 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors 
• office paper puncher

List of supplies:

• Hobby & Crafting Fun 12" x 12" scrapbooking paper (120 grams)
• white leaves 
• white flowers 30 mm
• snowflake 25 mm 
• synthetic snowballs (Ø 10 mm)
• 2 white clothespins 
• transparent low temperature glue stick 
• scoring board
• trimmer  
• scissors 
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature

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


Crafty Milka

Winter Fairyland

Hello everyone :-D 

Second project I want to share with you today is a Christmas decoration I made this week, Winter Fairyland. I love fairies and candles! Combined...

First I made a rectangle board, dimensions 203 mm x 152 mm (8" x 6"), from a thick card stock paper and covered it with a white card stock paper. I marked places where candles should stand and glued 4 push pins on to the board. Push pins prevent candles moving on the board, without gluing them down, and allow candle changing at any time. Then I added a thick layer of an acrylic white fine sand paste and left it dry 24 hours.

I used three gorgeous Mo´s Manning digital images in this project. I printed them on a white 160 grams paper, colored and fussy cut them. I covered 'Winter Fairy Halla´s' and 'Fairy Snowman´s' wings with a transparent varnish to create glossy accents.

I added some pearl maker and transparent varnish on part of 'Winter Fairy Talva´s' wings. I covered a snowball in her hands with an acrylic fine sand paste and when it was dry, I smeared a pearl maker over the snowball to create glossy accents.

When the board was dry, I placed candles decorated with plastic snowflakes on to the board and images. Images are firmed with an acrylic fine sand paste. They look like they stand in snow. :-D

I embellished the board with decorative flower stamens, flowers, synthetic snowballs and one paper butterfly. I used a low temperature glue gun to glue embellishments on to the board. At the end, I smeared a pearl maker on some places on the board, to create glossy accents.

Light up the candles... 

Music:
"Winner Winner!" Kevin MacLeod   

(incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

List of supplies: 

• Mo´s Manning digital stamp 'Winter Fairy Halla'
• Mo´s Manning digital stamp 'Winter Fairy Talva'
• Mo´s Manning digital stamp 'Fairy Snowman' (free gift for registered users, 28.11.2014.)
• thick card stock paper
• white card stock paper
• white paper, 160 grams 
• colored pencils (skin color, pink, gray)
• white pencil  
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (light and dark blue) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• silver sparkling pen 
• 4 white candles 
• Scrapberry´s Mulberry paper butterfly
• decorative flower stamens 
• white flowers 30 mm
• snowflakes 25 mm 
• synthetic snowballs (Ø 10 mm)
• 4 push pins 
• Marabu acrylic paste (Fine Sand)
• transparent low temperature glue stick 
• pearl maker (pastel-white) 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss 
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer  
• scissors 
• ruler 
• eraser  
• pencil sharpener  
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature 
• crafting needle 
• palette knife no.1
• palette knife no.2

Must say, I love this one and can´t stop looking at it. :-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) Mo´s Challenge Blog, Your Favorite Mo "Make" of 2014

2) We Do Doobadoo UK Challenge, Challenge 21... Festive Spirits

My 2nd entry to this challenge.  

3) Noor! Design U.K., Challenge No.1 Merry Christmas 

GDT applied

4) Papertake Weekly Challenge, Pick a Fave (Anything Goes - Make a Christmas Decoration) 

 

5) Cupcake Inspirations, Challenge 291

6) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes 

My 3rd entry to this challenge.  

7) Simon Says Stamp Blog, Work it Wednesday December 2014, Something you Love (word, theme, just heart...) 

8) Craft my Life, All Crafts Challenge December/January, Anything Goes but no Cards! 
My 3rd entry to this challenge. First one was Christmas Ornament and second Matchbox.

9) Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog, Fussy and Fancy

10) Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog, Challenge #92 - Anything Christmas but a Card

11) The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog, Challenge #82 - Lots of Cuteness on Anything but a Card

I thought I´ll post one more project today, but I´m exhausted and I´ll leave that for tomorrow. Thank you for stopping by and your kind  feedback. Enjoy and smile :-D 

Crafty Milka 


Update, December 30th 2014
As member at Bronte and Bella´s Clubhouse, I entered this project to Bronte and Bella´s SHOWCASE December Challenge, as one of my favorites projects I made this month.