You're Magical Card (CASology Week #367)

Hi everyone! :o)

Yesterday, April 28th, a new challenge started at CASology. This fortnight's cue word is Magical. :o)

I had some unexpected situation and couldn't publish this post on time, so I'm bringing it today. The challenge ends on Monday, May 11th, 2020, 9 AM, CDT (UTC -5).

We also have a sponsor for this challenge: UNIKO. Find all details about the prize over at CASology blog.

And here is my take on the challenge: CAS (clean and simple), You're Magical Card. :o)

Design defined: 

Plenty of white space, a small amount of color and adding dimension gives a CAS card special interest.

How I made my card....

To make my card I CASEd (copy and share everything) my own card that I made two years ago (here). I went with same design, layout, used same products, only went with a different color scheme. :o)

I used stamps from My Favorite Things 'BB Magical Dragons' stamp set.

I colored an adorable tiny dragon during Kathy's Racoosin 9th 30 Day Coloring Challenge, in February 2018, but didn't use it until now. I still have some images colored during past 30 Day Coloring Challenges that I didn't use on any project, but will surely use them for something. :o)

I stamped the tiny dragon on a watercolor paper and colored it in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the dragon and colored the edges with a black marker. And then it waited in a drawer for two years to be used. :o)

I stamped another dragon on a white cardstock paper and colored it in black. I fussy cut it, leaving a thin white border around the dragon. Then I softened the watercolored dragon with a stylus ball and glued it over the black dragon.

Then I heat embossed in white a sentiment on a black cardstock paper, cut out a banner, glued some 3-D foam on it and glued the sentiment on a white top folded card base. I glued 3-D foam on the dragon and placed it to sit on the banner.

As a finishing touch, I embellished the card with two enamel dots. :o)

Card measurements:  89 mm x 121 mm (3 1/2" x 4 3/4")

List of supplies:

• My Favorite Things 'BB Magical Dragons' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks.
• Festive Berries
• Hickory Smoke
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Markers), Black 68/46
• UHU universal glue
• 3-D foam squares, 1 mm thick
• 3-D foam squares, 2 mm thick
• Create a Smile enamel stickers ('Beach Party', 'Pretty Cool')
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• bone folder
• scissors
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no.#0
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• crafting needle
• water
• paper towels
• powder bag

I hope you'll like my card for this challenge and get inspired. For more inspiration, check out beautiful cards my Design Teammates and our Guest Designer created. Do join us in this challenge, we are looking forward to see your CAS creations. :o)

Deepti Stephens

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Melissa Chipperfield

Milka Gubo (you are here)

Nancy Elrick
Sandie Munro

Sue Symens
Hannelie (Guest Designer)

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) AAA Cards, CAS Game #164 - One Image

2) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 17 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

Wild About You Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Happy Friday! :o)

On Tuesday, February 11th, was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this Wild About You Card. :o)

I made this Valentine's Day card for my sweetheart. He loves it!! :o)

To make this card I went with same design as on the card I created for latest Jane's Doodles blog hop (here).

I used stamps from Jane's Doodles 'Wild' stamp set. Love it!! :o)

How I made my card....

I stamped a lion on a watercolor paper and colored him in watercolor technique, using Distress Ink s. After coloring and drying, I fussy cut the lion, traced edges with a black marker and softened the lion using a stylus ball on a soft working mat. This curled the image a bit.

I stamped another lion on a white cardstock paper scrap, fussy cut him, leaving a thin white border around him, colored him with a grey marker and glued the watercolored lion over him. I did this because watercolor paper I use is thick and I needed thicker image.

Then I worked on a frame. First I die cut two Polaroid frames from the white cardstock paper and then cut the bottom part of each to get a nice rectangle frame. I ink blended one frame with Distress Inks and mini ink blending tools.

I glued together two frames, forming an interesting shape, and then glued the frame on a white top folded card base.

Then I die cut a speech bubble from a black cardstock paper and heat embossed a sentiment in white on it.

I glued 3-D foam squares on the image and speech bubble and glued them on the card and my card was finished. :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Wild' stamp set (speech bubble)
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Vintage Photo
• Ground Espresso
• Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink
• UHU liquid glue
• Sakura Quickie Glue Pen
• 3-D foams, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bole folder
• scissors
• Sizzix Big Shot
• Polaroid frame from Paper Smooches 'Polaroid Dies'
• speech bubble from Create a Smile 'Speech Bubbles' cool cuts
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tools
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• soft working mat
• stylus ball
• powder bag
• dry cloth
• 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) CAS on Friday, Challenge #83 - Love

2) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 6 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) The Male Room, Challenge #129 - Heart You

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

4) Uniko, Challenge #57 - Anything Goes

This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

Rainbow Dragon Card (RCC #16)

Hello everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you this Rainbow Dragon Card.

This Rainbow Color Card (RCC) is the sixteenth card I made for a Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2018 personal challenge. If you want to find out more about it, just follow the link provided. :o)

To make this card I used stamps from a SUPER ADORABLE My Favorite Things 'BB Magical Dragons' stamp set. I LOVE this set so much!!! Dragons are so adorable... ♥

How I made my card...

I stamped an adorable Dragon on a watercolor paper and colored him in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the Dragon, traced edges with black marker and softened him with a stylus ball on a soft working mat.

For a background I used 'Oh My Stars! Mini' ARTplorations stencil. First I stamped the Dragon on a white cardstock paper panel and colored him with black marker. Then I placed the stencil on the panel and spread a white structure paste through the stencil directly on the panel. I left the structure paste dry on air. As the stencil is smaller than the panel, I repeated the process until I achieved enough starry background. :o)

After the panel dried completely, I glued it on a white top folded card base and glued colored Dragon over the black one.

Lastly, I heat embossed a sentiment in white on a black cardstock paper, cut a stripe, glued foam tape on the back of it and placed the sentiment on the card.

Card dimensions: 89 mm x 121 mm (3 1/2" x 4 3/4")

List of supplies :

• My Favorite Things 'BB Magical Dragons' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Hickory Smoke
• Festive Berries
• Spiced Marmalade
• Mustard Seed
• Twisted Citron
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Marabu Light Structure Paste (805)
• 3-D foam tape, 1 mm thick
• 3-D foam scraps, 2 mm thick
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• UHU liquid glue
• 'Oh My Stars! Mini' ARTplorations stencil
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• scissors
• bone folder
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• palette knife (spatula) no. #1
• water
• paper towels
• powder bag
• dry cloth
• stylus ball
• soft working mat

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) Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge, April 2018: Anything Goes with optional twist: Rainbow
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Inkspirational Challenges, Challenge #157 Designer's Choice - Mythical
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

Birthday Dragon Card

Hello everyone!! :o)

Today I want to share with you this Birthday Dragon Card.

I made this card for my niece Nika who's 4th birthday is today. Happy Birthday Nika!!! ♥

How I made the card...

I used stamps from My Favorite Things 'BB Magical Dragons' stamp set.

I stamped an adorable small dragon on a watercolor paper and colored her in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the dragon, leaving a thin white border around her. (This dragon is female. :o) )

For a background I used Uniko 'Block Party Birthday' stamp. I inked the stamp with VersaMark Watermark Ink and pressed the stamp on a white cardstock paper panel. Watermark look: LOVE it! :o)

With all parts ready, I assembled the card. I glued the panel on a foam sheet square and glued it on a white top folded card base. I glued another white cardstock paper panel inside the card to make the card sturdier.

Then I glued some foam behind the dragon and placed her on the card. As a finishing touch, I embellished the card with enamel sticker stars. :o)

Card dimensions: 98 mm x 137 mm (3 7/8" x 5 3/8")

List of supplies:

• My Favorite Things 'BB Magical Dragons' stamp set
• Uniko 'Block Party Birthday' stamp
• white cardstock paper
• white watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks.
• Wilted Violet
• Hickory Smoke
• UHU liquid glue
• foam sheet, 1 mm thick
• Create a Smile enamel star stickers ('Frosty Fun')
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• bone folder
• scissors
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no.#0
• crafting needle
• water
• paper towels

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) Paru's Card Making Challenges, March 2018 Challenge

This is my 12th entry to this challenge.

2) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Girl Power (something for a girl)

This is my 4th entry to this challenge.

3) Uniko, 6th Birthday Linky Party

This is my 7th entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

You Make My Life Magical Card (Fairy Tale Challenge #187)

Hello everyone! :o)

Yesterday a new challenge started over at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

Our theme for this fortnight is #187, benutze Mini-Stempel / use mini stamps. Tiny stamps... Love them!! :o) 


And here is my take on the challenge: You Make My Life Magical Card.

I made this card for my sweetheart. ♥ I prefer making non traditional Valentine's Day Cards for him. :o)


How I made the card...

I used stamps from My Favorite Things 'BB Magical Dragons' stamp set.

I stamped an adorable small dragon on a watercolor paper and colored him in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the dragon, colored the edges with a black marker, softened dragon with a stylus ball and glued him over another dragon I stamped on a white cardstock paper. I fussy cut the dragon again, this time leaving a thin white border around him.

And then the dragon waited for 28 days to be placed on a card. I tried this and that, but nothing was "right".

Yesterday, I finally decided and finished the card.

I heat embossed in white a sentiment on a black cardstock paper, cut out a banner, glued some 3-D foam on it and glued the sentiment on a white top folded card base. I glued 3-D foam on the dragon and placed him to sit on the banner.

As a finishing touch, I embellished the card with two enamel dots. :o)

Card dimensions: 89 mm x 121 mm (3 1/2" x 4 3/4")

List of supplies:

• My Favorite Things 'BB Magical Dragons' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks.
• Salty Ocean
• Hickory Smoke
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Markers), Black 68/46
• UHU universal glue
• foam sheet scraps, 1 mm thick
• 3-D foam squares, 2 mm thick
• Create a Smile enamel stickers ('Beach Party', 'Snow Dance')
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• bone folder
• scissors
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no.#0
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• crafting needle
• water
• paper towels
• powder bag

And that's my card for our Use Mini Stamps challenge. I hope you'll like my card and get inspired. For more inspiration, challenge and prize details stop by the Fairy Tale Challenge Blog. Do join us, we can't wait 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) CASology, Week 287: Together
Non traditional Valentine's Day card I made for my boyfriend.
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Craft Stamper Magazine, Take It Make It Challenge, February 2018: Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Pile It On Challenge, #139 - 3-D Embellishments
My 3-D embellishments: enamel dots.
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka