Happy Fall Mini Circle Card (bastel-traum challenge #93)

Hi everyone! :o)

It's time for a new challenge over at bastel-traum and our theme for the challenge #93 is Autumn/Fall. :o)

The challenge starts today, September 15th, 2020, at 9 AM, CEST (UTC +2) and ends on October 15th, 2020, at 8:55 AM, CEST (UTC +2). Find all the details about the challenge, rules and prizes in a challenge post (here).


And here is my take on the challenge: Happy Fall Mini Circle Card. :o)

To make this card I was inspired with my own card that I created last year (here).

I used stamps from a super adorable Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set, that I won in April 2017 from GSD. :o)

How I made my card....

First I created a background panel. I stamped randomly leaves and an acorn on a Kraft paper in watermark stamping technique using VersaMark Watermark Ink. Then I die cut a wonky stitched circle from the paper and stamped a sentiment in black on it.

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 panel on the circle card base.

Next up were images. I stamped an adorable happy squirrel, leaves and acorns on a watercolor paper and colored them in watercolor technique with Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut images and traced their edges with a black marker.

Then I stamped same images again on a white cardstock paper. I colored images with the black marker and a black fine liner and fussy cut them, leaving thin white border around them. I glued watercolored images over the grey ones. I did this to make images thicker, as the watercolor paper I use is very thin.

I love dimension on my cards. I glued 3-D foams (2 different thickness) on each image, glued images on the card and my card was finished. I love how my card turned out!! :o)

Card measurements: d = 83 mm (3 1/4")

List of supplies:

• Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set (bastel-traum shop here)
• 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's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Spiced Marmalade
• Candied Apple
• Twisted Citron
• Walnut Stain
• Ground Espresso
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Mitsubishi Black Fine Liner 0.4
• UHU liquid glue
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 3 mm
• Quickie Glue Pen
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• My Favorite Things, Die-namics Wonky Stitched Circle STAX
• EK Success circle cutter
• Xcut SelfHealing Cutting Mat A4
• round acrylic block
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• scissors
• paper towels
• water
• masking tape

I hope you'll like my card for this challenge and get inspired. For more inspiration, check out BEAUTIFUL autumnal cards my super talented Design Teammates created for the challenge. Do join us in this challenge, we are looking forward to see your creations. :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) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 37 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Gerda Steiner Designs, Share Your Designs Challenge, September 2020
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) The Cat's Pajamas, TCP Tuesday Challenge #372: Animals

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

Milka

Hippo Birthday Card (Jane's Doodles DT March Spotlight)

Hi everyone!! :o)

This is my third and last post today. If you missed previous two just scroll down or follow direct links here and here. :o)


This weekend I'm sharing my Jane's Doodles spotlight projects that I made in March, April and May, but I didn't share them here on my blog yet. Yesterday I shared full list of projects that I'll be sharing (here). Today I'm sharing my March spotlights.

This Hippo Birthday Card was my spotlight project for Jane's Doodles on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020.  :o)

To make this card, I was inspired with my own card that I made for Jane's Doodles February New Release Blog Hop (here).

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


How I made my card....

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

I stamped another hippo 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 hippo over him. I did this because watercolor paper I use is thick and I needed thicker image, but also to create extra dimension on my card. :o)

Then I worked on a frame. I cut three frames from the white cardstock paper and one from a patterned paper. I glued frames together (stacked them).

I die cut a speech bubble from the patterned paper and stamped a sentiment on it.

With all parts ready, I assembled the card. I stamped leaves in grey directly on a white side folded card base and glued the frame on the card base. I glued 3-D foam squares on the image and speech bubble and glued them on the card.

As a finishing touch I drew white highlights on the hippo using a white pigment ink pen, embellished the card with grey enamel dots my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 117 mm x 95 mm (4 5/8" x 3 3/4")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Wild' stamp set
• watercolor paper
• white cardstock paper
• Lawn Fawn patterned paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Ink Hickory Smoke
• Uniball Signo White pigment ink pen
• Stabilo Fiber Tip Pens (Markers):
• black 68/46
• dark grey 68/96
• Create a Smile 'Neat and Neutral' enamel dots
• UHU liquid glue
• Sakura Quickie Glue Pen
• 3-D foam squares (5 x 5 x 2 mm)
• Sizzix Big Shot
• speech bubble from Create a Smile 'Speech Bubbles' cool cuts
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• soft working mat
• stylus ball
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• paper towels
• water
• scissors
• crafting needle

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

Milka

Craft Stamper GDT - Take It Make It November 2019 Challenge Inspiration

Happy Friday! :o)

I was delighted to be asked to be a Guest Designer at Craft Stamper Magazine Blog for Take It Make It November 2019 Challenge Inspiration, after I was a Design Winner in September 2019 Take It Make It Challenge with a Vintage Wedding Card. :o)

All Take It Make It (TIMI) challenges have an Anything Goes theme. There are two winners each month: Design Winner and randomly chosen winner. Prizes are amazing for both winners!! :o) Find all the details and Link up tool in TIMI November 2019 Challenge blog post (here). :o)


And here is my take on the challenge: Happy Fall Card. :o)

To make this card I used stamps from a super adorable Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set. :o)

How I made my card....

First I created a background panel. I stamped randomly leaves and an acorn on a Kraft paper panel in watermark stamping technique using VersaMark Watermark Ink.

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

Next up were images. I stamped an adorable happy squirrel, leaves and acorns on a watercolor paper and colored them in watercolor technique with Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut images and traced their edges with a black marker.

Then I stamped same images again on a white cardstock paper. I colored images with a grey marker and fussy cut them, leaving thin white border around them. I glued watercolored leaves and acorns over the grey ones. I did this to make images thicker, as the watercolor paper I use is very thin.

I wanted to a bit dimension to the squirrel, so I softened the watercolored squirrel using a stylus ball on a soft working mat. This curled the squirrel a bit. I glued the squirrel over the grey colored one.

Lastly, I heat embossed in white the sentiment on a black cardstock paper and cut the sentiment to a stripe of desirable size.

I don't have any 3-D foam in my stash for last two weeks, so I improvise whit paper scraps to achieve dimension. To make the sentiment pop a bit on the card, without 3-D foam, I glued the stripe on a same size black stripe. This doubled the thickness of the sentiment. I glued the sentiment on the card.

Lastly, I glued all images on the card and a white cardstock paper panel inside the card to make it sturdier and my card was finished. :o)

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

Card measurements: 89 mm x 133 mm (3 1/2" x 5 1/4")

List of supplies:

• Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Spiced Marmalade
• Ground Espresso
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Light Grey 68/94
• UHU liquid glue
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• scissors
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• powder bag
• dry cloth
• paper towels
• water

I hope you'll like my card and get inspired. Stop by Craft Stamper Magazine blog and find more inspiration from a very talented Design Team (links: inspiration post, challenge post). And don't forget to join the challenge. Grab your stamps, create something, have fun and share in TIMI November challenge. :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 #366 - Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Country View Challenges, November 2019 - Hand Stamped

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 45 - Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

4) Gerda Steiner Designs, Share Your Designs Challenge, November 2019
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

Thanks a Latte Card (CASology Week #355)

Hi everyone! :o)

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

And here is my take on the challenge: CAS (clean and simple), Thanks a Latte Card. :o)

Design defined: 

An image above a sentiment makes a classic CAS design.

How I made my card....

To make my card I used a coffee cup and a sentiment stamps from Jane's Doodles 'Coffee Time' stamp set and an oak tree leave stamp from Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set.

I stamped the coffee cup and the sentiment directly on a white top folded card base. I colored the cup with a grey marker.

Then I stamped another coffee cup on a watercolor paper. I masked part of the cup and a plate and stamped the oak leaves on the cup. I removed the mask and drew a line in the "inside" part of the cup with a black fine liner.

I watercolored the coffee cup with distress inks. After drying, I fussy cut the cup and traced edges with a black marker. I softened the image using a stylus ball on a soft working mat. I did this to curl the image a bit and to achieve a bit of dimension that way.

Lastly, I glued the watercolored coffee cup on the card base over the grey cup and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 89 mm x 120 mm (3 1/2" x 4 3/4")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Coffee Time' stamp set 
• Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Spiced Marmalade
• Ground Espresso
• Stabilo Fiber Tip Pens (Markers):
• light grey 68/94
• black 68/46
• Mitsubishi Uni Pin 0.5
• UHU liquid glue
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• paper towels
• water
• post-it papers (for masking)

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

Jacquie Southas

Janet Ribet

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Milka Gubo (you are here)

Nancy Elrick

Sue Symens

I'm linking my card to the 2019 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog hop. 
This is my 1st entry to the hop.

I'm also 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 45 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenges, Thanks/Thanksgiving
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges, Anything Goes

This is my 4th entry to this challenge.

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

Milka