Jane's Birthday Party Blog Hop

Happy Friday!! :o)

Welcome to a special, Jane's Birthday Party Blog Hop. :o) 

Our Jane turned 46 today and is celebrating with this blog hop, two giveaways, one here and one on Instagram, as well with 46% off 24 hours sale. :o)

Happy birthday, Jane!!! ♥

Jane gave us, the Design Team, a simple "task" for today: to showcase our favorite Jane's Doodles stamp set. :o)

Although I love all Jane's Doodles stamp sets that I have, 122 of them, I didn't think too much which stamp set to use. I immediately knew I want to use 'Merry Gnomes' stamp set. The cutest Gnomes in stamping world. LOVEEEEE!!!! ♥

And here is what I prepared for today: Red and White Gnome Christmas Ornament. :o)

I made this one to decorate my Christmas tree. Red&white color combination is the combination I want this year. :o)

How I created my ornament...

I stamped a gnome on a watercolor paper and colored him in watercolor technique, using Distress Inks and colored pencils. After drying, I fussy cut the gnome, traced edges with a black marker and left him aside. 

I cut a circle from a beautiful patterned paper Jane sent me last month. I cut another circle from a white cardstock paper and glued two circles together just to make it a bit thicker.

Then I stamped the gnome on the circle and colored him with the black marker. I stamped another gnome on the white cardstock paper, fussy cut him out, traced edges with the black marker and glued the watercolored gnome over him. I did this to make the image thicker. 

I glued 3-D foam squares on the back of the gnome and glued him on the circle over the gnome colored with black marker, which adds extra shade.

I drew white highlights on the gnome's outfit with a white pigment ink pen.

Lastly, I placed circle in a clear acrylic fillable ornament ball, closed the ball, tied a white twine on the top and my ornament was finished. :o)

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

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

And now to the Blog Hop prize...

With each Blog Hop three is a giveaway too. Our generous Jane is giving away 4 Pucker Up! stamp sets. Find all the details about blog hop prizes over at Jane's Doodles blog.

Here is the Blog Hop order:

Kaja Vezenšek
Milka Gubo (you are here)

Neha Bhatt
Marion Vagg

Katerina Vorsobina (on Jane's Doodles blog)

Jane will announce winners on Monday, December 21st, 2020, at Jane's Doodles Blog.

Don't forget, Jane is having 46% off sale today. Ends midnight CET. No code needed. :o) 

There is one more giveaway on Jane's Doodles Instagram account. :o)

Now hop over to Neha's blog 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 'Merry Gnomes' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• patterned paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Tea Dye
• Hickory Smoke
• Caran D'Ache Prismalo Aquarelle colored pencils (two red shades)
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Uniball Signo White pigment ink pen
• UHU liquid glue
• Sakura Quickie Glue pen
• clear acrylic fillable ball ornament (d = 60 mm)
• white twine
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• round acrylic block
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 5/0
• scissors
• paper towels
• water
• pencil

Ornament measurements: d = 60 mm 

Gnomebody Like You Mini Circle Card (Jane's Doodles DT November Spotlight)

  

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you this Gnomebody Like You Mini Circle Card. It was my spotlight project for Jane's Doodles on Tuesday, November 19th, 2020. I didn't manage to share it here on my blog earlier, so I'm sharing it today. :o)

To make this card I was inspired with circle cards that I made and shared here on my blog lately.

For my card I used stamps from three GORGEOUS Jane's Doodles stamp sets: a gnome and a sentiment from 'Merry Gnomes', background snowflakes from 'Driving Home for Christmas' and 'Snow Globe'. ♥

How I made my card....

First I created a background panel. I randomly stamped snowflakes on a Kraft paper in watermark stamping technique using VersaMark Watermark Ink. Then I die cut a wonky stitched circle from the Kraft paper.

Then I made a card base. I cut two circles from a white cardstock paper and glued them together on the top.

I glued the Kraft panel on the circle card base.

Next up was an image. I stamped the super cute gnome on a watercolor paper and colored him in watercolor technique with Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the gnome and traced edges with a black marker.

I stamped another gnome on a white cardstock paper, colored him with a grey marker and fussy cut him, leaving white thin border around the gnome. Then I glued the watercolored gnome over the grey one.

I die cut a speech bubble form a white cardstock paper and stamped the sentiment on it.

I love dimension on my cards. I glued 3-D foam squares (2 different thickness) on the back of the gnome and the speech bubble and glued them on the card.

As a finishing touch I drew white highlights on the gnome using a white gel pen, embellished the card with two brown enamel dots and my card was finished. :o)

I love how my card turned out. :o)

Card measurements: d = 83 mm (3 1/4")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Merry Gnomes' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Driving Home for Christmas' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Snow Globe' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks:
• Tea Dye
• Ground Espresso
• Hickory Smoke
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Light Grey 68/94
• Uniball Signo White pigment ink pen
• Create a Smile 'Coffee Collection' enamel stickers
• UHU liquid glue
• 3-D foam squares, 5 x 5 x 1 mm
• 3-D foam squares, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• My Favorite Things, Die-namics Wonky Stitched Circle STAX
• Create a Smile 'Speech Bubbles' cool cuts
• EK Success circle cutter
• Xcut SelfHealing Cutting Mat A4
• round acrylic block
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• scissors
• crafting needle
• paper towels
• water

Fun fact about Gnomes:

"Gnomes kiss by rubbing noses. They also use nose rubbing as a greeting equivalent to human handshaking."

Source: https://www.houseandhome.ie/news-events/fun-facts-10-things-you-need-know-about-garden-gnomes-1686

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by in an hour, when my 2nd post for today is scheduled. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Gnomie and Dragonfly Card (CASology Week #352)

Hi everyone! :o)

It's time for a new challenge at CASology. This fortnight's cue word is Dragonfly. :o)

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

And here is my take on the challenge: CAS (clean and simple), one layer, Gnomie and Dragonfly Card. :o)

Design defined: 

One layer card is great in CAS design.

How I made my card....

To make my card I used an adorable Gnomie on a Dragonfly stamp from a super adorable Craftin Desert Divas 'Gnomie' stamp set. Sadly, Craftin Desert Divas shop is closed last month and the set is no longer available. 

I stamped the image directly on a top folded Kraft paper card base and colored the image with various colored pencils. I used a yellow fine liner to color dots on Gnomie's dress, as I didn't get any result with colored pencils. :o)

I really like how I colored the image, so I decided to leave a card just the way it is, without a sentiment. :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Craftin Dessert Divas 'Gnomie' stamp set (the store is sadly closed)
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• TOZ Artist Colored Pencils:
• light yellow
• dark yellow
• orange
• red
• light blue
• dark blue
• TOZ Fantasy colored pencil, skin color
• Swisscolor, Caran D'Ache colored pencils:
• white
• skin color
• pink
• mid brown
• dark brown
• mid green
• dark green
• Stabilo fine liner 88/44 yellow
• Mitsubishi Uni Pin 0.2
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• pencil sharpener
• eraser

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

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman
Melissa Chipperfield

Milka Gubo (you are here)

Nancy Elrick

Sue Symens
Deepti Stephens (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) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 38 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Love To Craft Challenge, LTCCB #38 September Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Love To Scrap Challenge, LTSCB #125 Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka