Franken Bun Halloween Card (Kitty Bee Designs Spotlight)

Hi everyone :-D 

Today it´s my turn to be on the spotlight over at Kitty Bee Designs and I made this Franken Bun Halloween Card. 

I used cute image 'Franken Bun' from Halloween 2014 Release . 

Details about my card... 

Image is paper pieced and I used 4 images to create this one. I printed two images on a white cardstock paper and two on a dark green cardstock paper. I shaded with colored pencil parts printed on the dark green cardstock paper and colored parts with colored pencils and Stabilo markers printed on the white cardstock paper. After coloring, I fussy cut all the parts I needed, colored edges with black marker and glued all pieces together. 

Then I stamped sentiment 'trick or treat' from Jane's Doodles 'Winnie Halloween' stamp set. I stamped sentiment couple of times in rows on a white paper. I distressed whole surface with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink using blending tool, sprayed whole surface with water, splattered it a bit and dried it fast with a hairdryer. 

I don't have heat gun, so I use hairdryer for drying wet papers. I would love to have one so I could heat emboss, but I'm fine with that. I always try to use what I have and not to buy new things. :-D 

I teared my 'patterned paper', black cardstock paper and vellum paper, glued them on a white cardstock card base, added 3D foams behind paper pieced image and placed it on a card. 

At the end, I embellished card with homemade black faux enamel dots. I learned how to make faux enamel dots from video tutorial by ScrapTips on YouTube. First I made glue dots with a glue gun on my glass working surface and colored them with Staedtler permanent black pen. After drying, I glued them on card with clear gloss resin.

Card dimensions are 107 mm x 139 mm (4 1/4" x 5 1/2"). 

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'Franken Bun' from Halloween 2014 Release
• Jane's Doodles 'Winnie Halloween' stamp set 
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper 
• dark green cardstock paper
• white paper (120 grams) 
• vellum paper
• Koh-i-noor woodless colored pencils (Chrome Yellow 1, Reddish Orange 2, Dark Green 5)
• Stabilo pens 68 (Grey 68/94, Black 68/46)
• Distress Ink Spiced Marmalade
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen F (fine) 0.6 mm
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black) 
• UHU universal glue 
• white water based glue
• Sakura Quickie Glue Pen 
• 3-D foam self adhesive pads  
• gloss resin super-clear 
• transparent low temperature glue stick 
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm) 
• Tim Holtz's blending tool 
• sprayer bottle 
• tweezers
• hairdryer 
• water 
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature 
• crafting needle 

I hope you enjoyed my spotlight project for this month. Check out more cute images at the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy Store, Kitty Bee Designs Blog and Kitty Bee Designs FB. Be prepared for super cuteness! :-D 

I am entering my project 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 #276 - Always Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge. 

2) Hiding in My Craft Room, HIMCR #214 - Freestyle!

3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes

4) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD Challenge from August 25th to August 31st 2015

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

Crafty Milka 

Dream Mini Card

Hi everyone :-D

Today is my birthday and would like to thank everyone for beautiful wishes! I am having lovely and super fun day. :-D 

I was crafting a bit this evening and made this CAS (clean and simple), one layer, Dream Mini Card. 

This is a CASE of my Enjoy Card and it was quick and easy to make. I was also inspired with Chakra Colors.

I cut out card base from a white cardstock paper and rounded two opposite corners with round corner paper puncher. Card dimensions are 76 mm x 101 mm (3" x 4"). 

I stamped mini snail from  Paper Smooches 'Forest Whimsy' stamp set on card base, colored it with colored pencils and covered it with transparent varnish to create glossy accents.

I drew path and wrote sentiment with a black superfine permanent pen.

I embellished card with homemade violet faux enamel dots. I learned how to make faux enamel dots from video tutorial by ScrapTips on YouTube. First I made glue dots with a glue gun on a backing paper and colored them with Marabu glass Amethyst color. After drying, I glued them on the card base with transparent varnish (it works better than glue). 

List of supplies: 

• Paper Smooches 'Forest Whimsy'
• white cardstock paper 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (Titanium White 3, Lavender Violet 8)
• colored pencils (skin color, pink)  
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm 
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black) 
• Marabu glass color (Amethyst 081) 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• transparent low temperature glue stick  
• scoring board 
• trimmer 
• ruler
• pencil 
• eraser  
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 35 mm)
• crafting needle 
• tweezers
• round corner paper puncher 
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature
• baking paper
• toothpicks 
• Nivea baby cleaning wipes  

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 (if any) is direct link to blog or challenge home page. 

1) AAA Cards, Game #35 - Bare Naked CAS

2) Less is More, One Layer Week 215, Include an Animal

3) Paper Smooches SPARKS, March 15-21 Anything Goes (wk3) challenge

4) Pile It On, Challenge #60 - Use 3 of Something 
I used 3 faux enamel dots.  

5) The Daily Marker, 30 Day Coloring Challenge

This is my 7th entry to this challenge. 

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

Crafty Milka

P.S. Did you see my Celebrating 30 days of Pieces 2015 page? :-D 

Happy Butterfly Card

Hi everyone :-D

Today I want to share with you this Happy Butterfly Card. 

For my card layout I used beautiful sketch 191 from Sweet Sunday Sketch.

I used gorgeous Sizix 'Flights of Fancy' digital paper,  I got for free as a subscriber to a newsletter, and lovely  2 Cute Ink digital stamp 'Butterfly Doodle' I got for free this month, as a subscriber to a 2 Cute Ink newsletter. 

Image is paper pieced. 
I printed two images on a white cardstock paper and one on a white paper (160 grams). I colored pieces I needed with my colored pencils, fussy cut pieces, colored edges with black permanent pen and glued all pieces together. I added a bit of transparent varnish on a bow to create glossy accents.
Here is a photo of all pieces I used.

At the end I embellished the card with faux enamel dots from paper. This was something I was experimenting with last night and it came out pretty good. :-D

Here is how I made my faux enamel dots from paper (step by step tutorial):
I punched out circles from design paper leftovers. 
I placed paper circles on baking paper. 
I covered circles with thick coat of glossy transparent varnish to create dimension. 
I left them dry over night.

Card dimensions are 105 mm x 148 mm (4 1/8" x 5 7/8").

List of supplies:

• 2 Cute Ink digital stamp 'Butterfly Doodle' 
• Sizix 'Flights of Fancy', spots, green, green swirls-lines (free for newsletter subscribers) 
• white cardstock paper
• white paper (160 grams)
• colored pencil (light green)
• Kooh-i-noor woodless colored pencils (Titanium White 3, Dark Green 5)
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen M (medium) 1.0 mm
• transparent varnish with extra gloss  
• Pritt universal glue
• white water based glue 
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• compass tool
• MSC Edger Punch, Scallop Dot
• office paper puncher  
• eraser
• crafting needle
• baking paper

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 (if any) is direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) 2 Cute Ink Digital Stamps Challenge Blog, Challenge #124 - Spring 

2) 2 Cute Ink Digital Stamps FB Group, Butterfly Doodle Challenge March 1st - March 15th

 

3) Artistic Inspirations Challenge Blog, Challenge #126 - Anything Goes with  a twist of Green
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge. 

4) As You Like It Challenge, Favourite Type of Stamp - Digi or Rubber (and Why)? 
I love both, digital and rubber stamps. As a relatively new stamper and being unemployed long long time, I don´t have a lot of rubber stamps. With a really low monthly budget I can spend on crafting supplies (sometimes none), and enormously high price of rubber stamps here in my country (buuu), I prefer digital stamps. Also, digital stamps can be resized and rotated, so I have much more possibilities than with rubber stamps. :-D

5) Bunny Zoe´s Crafts, March Challenge: Spring Colours  
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.  

6) Craft Hoarders Anonymous, March Challenge - Go Green 

7) Crafting for all Seasons Challenge Blog, Challenge #97 - Girly Girls 

8) Creative Card Crew, Challenge #82 - Green 
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge. 

9) Digi Designs Challenge Blog, Lots of Green

10) Pile It On, Challenge #59 - Green 

11) Simon Says Stamp Blog, Work it Wednesday February 2015, Spring (flowers, pastel colors...) 
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.  

12) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Things That Fly

13) Sweet Sunday Sketch, Challenge 259
I used sketch 191.

 

14) The Daily Marker, 30 Day Coloring Challenge

This is my 5th entry to this challenge. 

15) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD Challenge from March 10th to March 16th, Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge. 

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy your Saturday! I am off to make myself a birthday cake. :-D


Crafty Milka

Dandelion Sprite Card (Fairy Tale Challenge #113)

Happy Friday everyone :-D

It´s time for a new challenge at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

The theme for this fortnight is #113, Flower Power.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Aurora Wings, with an awesome prize for our random winner: 3 digital images of the winner´s choice. 

For this challenge I made a Dandelion Sprite Card, using our sponsor´s gorgeous image 'Dandelion Sprite'.

I printed image on a white paper (160 grams) and colored it with colored pencils and aquarell colored pencils. Satisfied with my coloring, I decided to leave the design CAS (clean and simple). 

A green panel is a colored white cardstock paper. I colored it with a Marabu glass Emerald color, to match faux enamel dots I used for embellishing. 

I learned how to make faux enamel dots from video tutorial by ScrapTips on YouTube. First I made glue dots with a glue gun on a backing paper and colored them with the Marabu glass Emerald color. After drying, I glued them the card.

Card dimensions are 105 mm x 148 mm (4 1/8" x 5 7/8").
 
List of supplies: 

• Aurora Wings digital stamp 'Dandelion Sprite'
  
• white cardsock paper
• white paper (160 grams) 
• colored pencils (skin color, pink, dark yellow, light orange, light green, dark green, grey)
• Koh-i-noor woodless colored pencils (Titanium White 3, Meadow Green 4, Dark Green 5)
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencil (yellow 3)
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• Marabu glass color (Emerald 496)
• Pritt universal glue
• transparent low temperature glue stick 
• printer 
• scoring board 
• trimmer 
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature
• paint brush (for glass color) 
• eraser
• baking paper  
• toothpicks  

Stop by the Fairy Tale Challenge Blog and see gorgeous projects my Design Team Mates and our new Guest Designers made for this challenge. Do join us, we can´t wait to see your projects. :-D

I am entering my card to following challenges:

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

1) Bunny Zoe´s Crafts, March Challenge: Spring Colours 

2) Crafting By Designs, March Anything Goes 

My 3rd entry to this challenge. 

3) Less is More, Week 214 - Colour Challenge (Yellow and Green) 

4) Simon Says Stamp Blog, Work it Wednesday February 2015, Spring (flowers, pastel colors...) 
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.  

5) Stempelgarten Challenge, Challenge #34 - Frühling / Spring

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by later today, I´ll be posting again. Enjoy and smile! :-D

Crafty Milka