Hot Air Balloons Card

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I'm sharing four cards with you, all in separate posts through the day. All my posts are scheduled and will go live every full odd hour, from 3 PM to 9 PM. This is my 4th and last post today. If you missed previous posts, just scroll down or follow direct links here, here and here. :o)

You all know I'm addicted to CAS design. I wanted to step a bit out of my comfort zone and made this mixed media, Hot Air Balloons Card. :o)

I love hot air balloons!! A stamp I used is from super adorable Create a Smile 'Uplifting' stamp set.

I stamped hot air balloons on a watercolor paper panel (I did some masking too) and watercolored them with Distress Inks.

I made masks for all hot air balloons, masked them and heat embossed in clear Devanāgarī Script at a background. Last year, my dear friend Neha from Periwinkle Creations sent me gorgeous Devanāgarī Script stamp. I Love it!! I never used it before. I think it looks amazing as the background on this card. :o)

I watercolored the background with Distress Inks. As it was too bluish, I smeared white acrylic paint here and there.

After drying, I glued the panel on a top folded white card base.

Next up was a sentiment. I used Create a Smile Black Alpha Stickers for word 'Hello' and glued letters directly on the card. A word 'friend' is from Jane's Doodles 'Monster Squad' stamp set. I heat embossed word 'friend' on a black cardstock paper piece, glued 1 mm thick foam tape on the back of it and placed it on the card.

I love adding white highlights to images. I highlighted hot air balloons with white gel pen and uppercase block letters as well.

Lastly, I coated balloons and sand bags with Clear Wink of Stella and my card was finished. :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Create a Smile 'Uplifting' stamp set (hot air balloon)
• Jane's Doodles 'Monster Squad' stamp set (word 'friend')
• Devanāgarī Scrip stamp (background)
• white cardstock paper (card base)
• Koh-i-noor pop Aquarell Watercolor Paper, 250 gms
• black cardstock paper scrap
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder 
• Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R
• Clear Gloss, Regular, WA01R
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Twisted Citron
• Cracked Pistachio
• Tumbled Glass
• Broken China
• Mermaid Lagoon
• Walnut Stain
• Ground Espresso
• Marabu Acrylic Paint (070 White)
• Uniball Signo White
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• ZIG Wink of Stella Brush (Gl. Clear 999)
• Create a Smile Alpha Stickers: Black
• UHU universal glue
• foam tape 1 mm thick
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• scissors 
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm) 
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Marabu rounded fine paintbrush no. #0
• Marabu flat fine paintbrush no. #6
• crafting needle
• powder bag
• paper towels
• water

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) Create a Smile, March Challenge: Letters

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge. (GD)
I used Devanagari script stamp in the background, word friend and black letter stickers.

2) Crafty Creations Challenges, Challenge #338 - Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes
This is my 5th entry to this challenge.

4) The Daily Marker, 7th 30 Day Coloring Challenge

This is my 18th entry to this challenge.

colored: DAY 23

This would be all from me for today. Thank you for visiting and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Happy Day Card (Fairy Tale Challenge #137)

Hi everyone! :o)

Today a new challenge started at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

The theme for this fortnight is #137, Balloons. 

This time our lucky winner will win a digital stamp of winner's choice from Wee Stamps.


For this challenge I made this Happy Day Card. I'm very satisfied how it turned out. :o)

For this card I used Create a Smile 'Uplifting' Stamp Set.

I cut out a panel from a white watercolor paper and heat embossed white clouds on it. I did some masking too.

After heat embossing, I colored the panel, blending it with blue shades of Distress Inks. When I was satisfied with the color of the sky, I splattered water on it. I love love love how Distress Inks react with water! :o)

Next up was an image. It's paper pieced and it has two layers. Some call it faux paper piecing. I stamped one hot air balloon directly on the panel and one on the watercolor paper. Then I colored the image stamped on the watercolor paper, again, blending it with Distress Inks. Of course I had to splatter the image with water. :o)

After drying, I fussy cut the image, colored edges with black pen and glued them on the panel, over the stamped image. Then I colored that tiny sand bags on the hot air balloon with green pen.

At the end, I stamped sentiment on the panel, glued panel on a white cardstock base and embellished card with enamel stickers. :o)

Card dimensions are 101 mm x 132 mm (4" x 5 1/4").

List of supplies: 

• Create a Smile 'Uplifting' Stamp Set
• white cardstock paper
• white watercolor paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks
• Mustard Seed
• Spiced Marmalade
• Carved Pumpkin
• Candied Apple
• Tumbled Glass
• Broken China
• Mermaid Lagoon
• Faded Jeans
• Stabilo Pens (Markers) 68:
• Green 36
• Black 46
• Create a Smile 'Sending Sunshine' Enamel Stickers
• strong double sided adhesive tape
• Sakura Quickie Glue Pinpoint Roller
• MS scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors 
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm) 
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Tim Holtz Blending Tool
• Marabu rounded fine paintbrush no. #2
• paper towels
• water 

I hope you liked my today's project. Hop over to the Fairy Tale Challenge Blog and see gorgeous projects my Design Team Mates made for this challenge. Do join us, we can't wait to see your projects. :o)

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 is direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Beccy's Place, February Challenge
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

2) Crafting By Designs, February Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Create a Smile February projects
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

4) Little Miss Muffet Challenges, Challenge #131 - Anything Goes

5) Simon Says Stamp, Work it Wednesday January 2016: Something New
New item: Create a Smile 'Uplifting' Stamp Set
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

6) That Craft Place Challenge Blog, 14th of February, Anything Goes Challenge

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

I'm also linking my card to a super fun and very inspiring 30 Day Coloring Challenge of Kathy Racoosin at the Daily Marker. This is my 1st entry (colored on day 12 of the challenge).

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by later today, I have another card to share with you. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Crafty Milka 

In the Clouds Squash Album

Hello everyone :-D

Here I am with my second post today. 

One day I was on DCWV Diary blog and I found this great post, Silky Smooth Banner & Invitation. Very beautiful project. That inspired me. I had to make something with that super cute airplanes using template generously shared in post.

I made Squash mini Album, that was a gift for my best friend who had a baby boy. I didn´t want to share it until now, because I didn´t want her to see it before she receives it. :-D

This is the second Squash Album I made and it is called In the Clouds Album. Enjoy the video. 

In this video I used music from a very good friend of mine, very very talented mister, dr.Izzy. I used part of a track Cloud Chaser (Neblak Hunter mix). This was inspiration for an album name. 

Front cover

Back Cover

Construction of Squash album is made from card stock paper and album covers from thick cardboard and card stock paper.

Squash Albums have back and front side. Many ladies, whose albums I saw on Internet, don´t decorate both sides of album, but I like to use all space in this lovely and fun construction.

Opened album inside

Opened album back

I made all embellishments using templates and card stock paper and decorated album with them. I made supplies list below, so you can easily find these cute templates. All templates are printed in various sizes. I made my own hand drawn template of the boat inspired by many patchwork sailboats on Pinterest. I didn´t use any template for kite. I made it as I liked it. Very easy to make and will sure share short photo tutorial soon here with you. :-D

Album dimensions are 6" x 6" and dimensions of covers are 6 1/4" x 6 1/4".  It can handle up to 30 photos, or more.

I also made 6 little tags shaped as clouds and hoot air balloons using templates. Tags can be used for notes or small photos.

List of supplies I have used in this project: 

• thick cardboard 
• card stock paper (white, yellow, red, 4 blues, green)
• crepe paper (white, yellow, orange) 
• origami paper (yellow, orange, blue)
• self adhesive paper (white) 
• 2 push pins (red) 
• embroidery thread (yellow, red, green, blue) 
• Airplane and Clouds template from DCWV Diary 
• cloud template from ClipArtBest  
• cloud template from Petite Comeaux
• hot air balloon template 
• pencil
• universal glue
• white water based glue 
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• ruler
• office paper puncher 

I hope you´ll like it. I really appreciate your kind feedback. :-D 
If you have any questions about this project, don´t hesitate to contact me. Thank you for stopping by. Night night :-D 


Crafty Milka