Cute Cow Card (Kitty Bee Designs Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Kitty Bee Designs and I made this Cute Cow Card. :o)

For my card I used a super fun 'Kal-Bi Cow (Bee)' digital stamp digital image. So cute and fun!! :o) And there are more cute cow images in the store. :o)

I went with similar design as on my own card I made in January this year for KBD, Coffee Panda Card. :o)

I printed the cow on a watercolor paper and left the ink set through the night. Next day I colored the cow in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the cow, traced edges with black marker and softened parts with a stylus ball on a soft working mat.

The watercolor paper I use is too thin, so I printed one more sow on a white cardstock paper, colored the cow with black marker, fussy cut her leaving white border around her and glued colored cow over the black one (paper piecing). Thicker. :o)

Then I stamped a sentiment from Paper Smooches 'Chubby Chums' stamp set on a side folded white card base and drew frame with a black fine liner. I glued some 3-D foam on the back of the cow, glued her on the card and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 82 mm x 127 mm (3 1/4" x 5")

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'Kal-Bi Cow (Bee)' digital stamp
• Paper Smooches 'Chubby Chums' stamp set (sentiment)
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Spiced Marmalade
• Barn Door
• Tea Dye
• Hickory Smoke
• Black Soot
• Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen (Marker) 68/46, Black
• Mittsubishi Pencil, Black Fine Liner 03 (frame)
• UHU liquid glue
• 3-D foam squares 2 mm thick
• printer
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• scissors
• paper towels 
• water
• stylus ball
• soft working mat

I hope you'll like my KBD spotlight project for this month and get inspired. For more inspiration and cute images jump over to the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy Store, Kitty Bee Designs Blog and Kitty Bee Designs FB. :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) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Sweet Stampers Challenge Blog, Challenge #19 - Too Cute
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

Coffee Panda Card (Kitty Bee Designs Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

This is my 600th blog post!! :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Kitty Bee Designs and I made this CAS (clean and simple), Coffee Panda Card. :o)

To make this card I used a super cute Kitty Bee Designs 'Coffee or Tea Please' digital image. :o)

I printed the panda twice, one on a white cardstock paper and second on a watercolor paper. I colored first one with black marker, fussy cut it and traced edges with a black marker.

I colored the panda printed on the watercolor paper in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. I colored a heart on a mug with a black fine liner, fussy cut the panda and traced edges with the black marker.

I glued two pandas together. The watercolor paper I use is very thin, so I had to do this to make the panda thicker, as I wanted to pop it up on my card.

Then I stamped a sentiment from Jane's Doodles 'Coffee Time' stamp set on a side folded white card base and drew frame with a black fine liner. I glued some 3-D foam on the panda and glued it on the card.

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

Dimensions: 127 mm x 89 mm (5" x 3 1/2")

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'Coffee or Tea Please' digital image
• Jane's Doodles 'Coffee Time' stamp set (sentiment)
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Spiced Marmalade
• Ground Espresso
• Hickory Smoke
• Stabilo Black fibre-tip pen 68/46
• Mittsubishi Pencil, Black Fine Liner 01 (heart)
• Mittsubishi Pencil, Black Fine Liner 03 (frame)
• foam sheet scraps, 1 mm thick
• UHU universal glue
• Create a Smile 'Neat and Neutral' enamel stickers
• printer
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• scissors
• paper towels 
• water
• crafting needle

I hope you'll like my KBD spotlight project for this month and get inspired. For more inspiration and cute images jump over to the Kitty Bee Designs Etsy Store, Kitty Bee Designs Blog and Kitty Bee Designs FB. :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) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge 276 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Little Miss Muffet Challenges, Challenge #181 - Anything Goes

3) Tuesday Throwdown, TT376, Anything Goes

4) Uniko, Challenge #45: Something Old, Something New, optional twist: Love
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.
Something Old: sentiment 
Something New: image

At the end of this post...

There is currently Holiday Sale going on in a Kitty Bee Designs Etsy Store, where you can find more details.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by later this evening, I'll be sharing one more card. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Reindeer Games Card Series - Card no. #3

Happy Friday!

Today I'm sharing Reindeer Games Card Series here on my blog. I made four CAS cards, same design and layout, couple differences. :o) I had so much fun coloring all those cute reindeer and creating cards with them. :o)

All my posts today are scheduled and will go live every hour from 8 PM to 11 PM. This is my third post today. If you missed previous two, just scroll down or follow direct links here and here.

Here is my third card in this fun Series. :o)

For my card I used a SUPER ADORABLE reindeer from Mama Elephant 'Reindeer Games' stamp set and sentiment from  Create a Smile 'Clear Cool Buddies' stamp set.

Image is paper pieced. I stamped the reindeer on a watercolor paper, colored him in watercolor technique with Distress Inks, fussy cut, colored edges with black marker and softened him with stylus ball.

Then I heat embossed a sentiment in white on a Kraft paper panel, stamped same reindeer again on the panel and colored him in black. I punched two opposite corners on the panel and glued it on a white top folded card base. Then I glued watercolored reindeer over the black one.

As a finishing touch, I drew white stitched frame on the Kraft panel. :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Mama Elephant 'Reindeer Games' stamp set
• Create a Smile 'Clear Cool Buddies' stamp set (sentiment)
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• white cardstock paper (card base)
• watercolor paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R) 
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Barn Door
• Tea Dye
• Vintage Photo
• Walnut Stain
• Hickory Smoke
• Black Soot
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Markers), Black 68/46
•  Uniball Signo White
• UHU universal glue
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• scissors
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• crafting needle
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• 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) Country View Challenges, December 2017 - Christmas (with option of red, rust and green)
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

2) Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge, December: Anything Goes

This is my 8th entry to this challenge.

3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes
This is my 4th entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by in an hour, when my next post go live. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Birthday Dino Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

On Wednesday, September 27th, was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this CAS (clean and simple), one layer, Birthday Dino Card. My week was over exhausting and I couldn't blog about it earlier.

To create this card I used stamps from three super adorable Jane's Doodles stamp sets: 'DINO-mite', 'Simon' and 'Belated Birthday'.

  

I stamped a scene and sentiment directly on a Kraft cardstock card base and drew straight line frame with fine liner and ruler. I colored the scene with TOZ Artist Color colored pencils, blended colors with paper stumps and colored dino's claws with white gel pen.

As a finishing touch, I "drew lines" on plant leaves and covered dino's spots, tiny hearts and tiny frame squares with a clear gloss resin to create glossy accents.

Card dimensions: 149 mm x 89 mm (5 7/8" x 3 1/2")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Dino-mite' stamp set (images)
• Jane's Doodles 'Simon' stamp set (hearts)
• Jane's Doodles 'Belated Birthday' stamp set (sentiment)
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• TOZ Artist Color colored pencils
• light yellow
• dark yellow
• orange
• dark red
• 2 dark blue shades
• light green
• dark green
• dark brown
• Uniball Signo White
• Mittsubishi Black Fine Liner 03
• Gloss Resin Super Clear
• eraser
• pencil sharpener
• ruler
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• paper stumps no. #2, #4, #6
• paper scraps (for masking)
• scissors
• crafting needle

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 #261- Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) djkardkreations, NBUS challenge #12

My NBUS: Jane's Doodles 'DINO-mite' stamp set (this is my brand new stamp set)

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

4) Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday, August/September 2017: Favorite Stamps

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

5) The Daily Marker, 8th 30 Day Coloring Challenge

This is my 5th entry to this challenge.

colored: DAY 24

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

Milka

Education, Quotation Card no. #2 (CRAFT-alnica #193, August GDT)

Hi everyone! :o)

I was delighted to be asked to be a Guest Designer at CRAFT-alnica, Slovenian challenge blog, for month of August. Two weeks ago I shared my first GDT project and today I'm sharing my second project as GDT at CRAFT-alnica.

The challenge for this fortnight is #193 - Okvir / Frame. Use a frame on your project, make or decorate a frame.


I love hand drawn frames, so I decided to go with a hand drawn frame. And this is my take on the challenge: Education, Quotation Card.

This is a decoration magnet (it has a magnetic sheet on the back). I made it for myself (actually for a refrigerator, as magnets can't stick on me LOL).

To make this one, I was inspired with a Quotation Card I made last year (find it here).

I was also inspired with colors from a photo below shared on Addicted to Stamps and More blog for the challenge #255 - Photo inspiration. :o)

And a photo shared on Cupcakes Inspirations for the challenge CIC419.

Original photo source: Potter Cakes

I quoted one of my favorite philosophers, Jiddu Krishnamurti. :o)


How I made my quotation card/magnet...

I cut a white watercolor paper panel and typed quotation on a typewriter and drew line frame with superfine permanent marker (0.4 mm).

Images are layered. I stamped pile of books from Jane's Doodles 'Read All About It' stamp set  directly on the panel and once more on a piece of watercolor paper. Then I colored books in watercolor technique using Distress Inks.

I colored a background in watercolor technique using Distress Ink Blueprint Sketch (DIBS). I added several layers of color and dried them between. When I was satisfied with the color, I splattered whole panel with water and DIBS.

After drying, I fussy cut colored books, colored edges with a black marker and glued them over stamped images on the panel. I added white highlights on books and the panel was finished.

The watercolor paper I used was thick and you could kind of see black color of the magnetic sheet through it. To solve this "problem", I cut a white cardstock base, same size as the watercolor paper, and glued colored panel on it. At the end I glued whole card on the magnetic sheet and my quotation card /magnet was finished.

Dimensions:  88 mm x 126 mm (3 1/2" x 5")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Read All About It' Stamp Set
• white watercolor paper
• white cardstock paper
• magnetic sheet
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks:
• Tumbled Glass
• Mermaid Lagoon
• Blueprint Sketch
• Wilted Violet
• Old Paper
• Stabilo Pen (Marker) Black 68/46
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• Uniball Signo White
• UHU universal glue
• UNIS tbm de Luxe Typewriter
• scissors
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu rounded fine brush no. 0
• Marabu rounded fine brush no. 2
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• water
• paper towels

I hope you'll like my framed project and get inspired. :o) Stop by the CRAFT-alnica and see amazing creations from the Design Team made for this challenge. The challenge ends on September 5th, 23:55 (11:55 PM) CEST, so there is plenty time to share your Frame(d) projects with us. :o) For more information about the challenge rules and prizes, jump over to challenge post at CRAFT-alnica. :o)

I'm linking my project 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 #256 - Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Crafty Creations Challenges, #348 - Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Happy Little Stampers, Watercolour Challenge, August 2017, Anything Goes

This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

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

Milka