Favorite Digital Stamps Freebies

Hi everyone :-D

I just want to share with you few links where you can get super cute freebies. You just need to register or sign up for a newsletter.

I added links to freebies available right now. Hurry, these are limited time only.

 

I would like to thank all artist for their generous giveaways. :-D 

Enjoy your Sunday :-D 

Crafty Milka

Caroling Snowmen Card

Hi everyone :-D

I hope you all enjoy your Holidays and having a great time with your loved ones. :-D

Today I want to share with you this Caroling Snowmen Card I made couple of days ago. 

I used Meljen´s Designs 'Caroling Snowmen' digital image.

I printed image on 160 grams white paper and colored it with colored and aquarell colored pencils. I used two different white pencils for color blending. I colored background in watercoloring technique. 
I didn´t like whole background, so I decided to place another white layer on to a card. I made circle frame layer using my compass circle cutter.

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

List of supplies: 

• Meljen´s Designs 'Caroling Snowmen'
• white card stock paper
• white paper (160 grams) 
• colored pencils (skin color, yellow, red)
• white pencil 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, light and dark red, light and dark blue, light and dark green) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• fine liners 0.5 (yellow, red, black)
• UHU universal glue 
• printer 
• scoring board 
• trimmer 
• compass circle cutter
• paint brush
• paper towels 
• water  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

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

1) Crafty Sentiments Designs, Anything Goes

2) Creative Card Crew, Challenge #77 - Anything Goes 
My 2nd entry to this challenge. 

 
3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes 

4) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from December 23rd to December 30th, Anything Goes

 

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

Crafty Milka 

Reason I started to Stamp

Happy Friday everyone :-D 

Do you remember what was the reason you started to stamp? 

Here is my story... 
This year in June I was working on a plan and sketches for a new project I had on my mind. It is a baby book I start to work later this year and I´m still working on it. I browsed for some cute images I could use in my project and encountered super cute digital stamps, the reason I started to stamp! :-D 

Guilty:

Those cute digital images are hand drawn images by artist Melissa Jenkins, very talented, generous and friendly lady. You can find more information about her and her work here.

You can subscribe to a free newsletter Melissa sends only to announce important things and to keep us readers updated with stuff happening at Meljen´s Designs, such as discounts, freebie reminders, new images etc. More information here.

You can also find Meljen´s Designs over on Facebook.

Currently, there is a Holiday 'Tweet' sale at Meljen´s Designs. This is a great opportunity to grab all those wish list cuties. :-D

There are freebie treats over at Meljen´s Designs you can download for free once you are registered. And there´s more! A digital stamp giveaway each weekend. This weekend´s is this cutie...

Few hours ago Melissa posted brand new images to the shop. Aren´t they adorable? That super cute 'Chester the Checker Elf' melts my heart. :-D

You want to win some cool Meljen´s Designs images? Then sure do visit Meljen´s Design Design Team and Challenge Blog. There is a new challenge every Thursday. No Meljen´s Designs images are required and anyone can join, as long as it follows the current challenge theme.

You can also play and win some free images at Facebook Meljen´s Designs Club. There is a challenge every Friday for Club Members only. Anyone can join the club, just send a request. These challenges require Meljen´s Designs weekly freebie. :-D

And not to forget very talented Design Team. Ladies make amazing projects every week for a new challenge, as well as they show their amazing creations on DT days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday).

You can find my projects using Meljen´s Designs here, as well on my Facebook and Google+ photo galleries.

I mentioned a baby book I am working on at the beginning of this post. I am using Meljen´s Designs images for this one. These images are great for paper piecing, which I love, and help me to create what I have in plan: an interactive baby book. :-D 

Work in progress... 

 

At the end of this post I would like to mention that I am not a member of Design Team or Guest Design Team at Meljen´s Designs, neither I am paid or told to promote anyone. :-D 

Thank you so much for visiting. Enjoy your weekend :-D 

Craft Milka 

Baby Dragon Easel Calendar

Hello everyone :-D

Today I am posting my first project as Guest Designer at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

New challenge for this fortnight is #104 Uhren + Kalender / Calendars and Clocks.
Challenge is to make a calendar or a clock, or to use any image in your project that has a calendar or a clock on it. 

This time the prize for one lucky winner is this lovely clear stamps set.

Sounds fun, right. Come and play along at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog and show us your lovely projects. There are also beautiful projects made by talented Design Team and other Guest Designers.

For this challenge, I made this Baby Dragon Easel Calendar.

 Image I used is Meljen's Designs 'Little Baby Dragon'.

Image on calendar is paper pieced and for this one I needed 7 same images. I printed all images on white card stock paper, colored them with my colored and aquarell pencils, fussy cut images and parts I needed, colored edges with permanent marker and pieced all elements together. I added some transparent glossy varnish to create glossy accents. Here are photos of all layers (sorry for the poor quality of photos; it was very late when I took them). 

 

Here are close up photos of finished image. 

Calendar dimensions are 14 cm x 14 cm (5 1/2" x 5 1/2"). This is the first time I made easel calendar (well, easel anything) and I used great photo tutorial Kalendarkarte - calendar card from Stempeleinmaleins. I like this a lot. Here is a photo of closed up calendar. 

I made monthly calendar using MS Word. After printing, I cut out same sized rectangles and glued them together on top. 

List of supplies:

• Meljen's Designs 'Little Baby Dragon'
• Hearts & Circles patterned paper from digital paper collection Baby Boy Patterned Prints
• Aerofoil free font from DaFont
• dark blue card stock paper 
• white card stock paper
• white printer paper (one piece A4 paper, 80 grams) 
• colored pencils (yellow, orange, blue, pink) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, blue)
• white pencil 
• black fine liner 0.5
• black permanent marker 
• universal glue
• white water based glue
• double sided self-adhesive tape 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors  
• brush
• crafting needle
• Freckled Fawn Enamel Dew Drop Stickers
• flower embellishment 

I hope you like my project. If you have any questions about it, don´t hesitate to ask me. Don´t forget to join our challenge at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog. You have 2 weeks to enter your project in current challenge. :-D


I am entering my project into the following challenges:

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

1) The Corrosive Challenge Blog, Challenge #211 - Magical

2) Not Just Cards Challenge Blog, Challenge #5 - Anything Goes 

3) Crafting by Designs, November Anything Goes 

 4) Papertake Weekly Challenge, Anything Goes 

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

Crafty Milka

Merry Christmas Card

Hello everyone :-D 

This morning I made this Merry Christmas Card.

For a card layout I used sketch from Meljen's Designs Design Team and Challenge Blog. This is a sketch designed by Amy Almeida, for current challenge #232. 

I printed two Meljen's Designs 'Bundled Little Snowboy' digital images on white card stock paper, colored elements on both images with my colored pencils, white pencil, aquarell colored pencils and black fine liner. After that I fussy cut elements from one image and glued them on the other image, which I fussy cut too. I added a transparent glossy varnish on snowman´s eyes, cheeks, nose and buttons to create glossy accent and pearls around the snowman with pearl-maker.

 

After I glued down all layers and image, I added three double sided adhesive star shaped foams to the card and sprinkled them with a fine glitter (red and green).

Card dimensions are 13,3 cm x 13,3 cm (5 1/4" x 5 1/4").

Here is a list of materials and tools I used to make this card: 

• Meljen's Designs 'Bundled Little Snowboy'
• Crafters Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad
• white card stock paper
• dark green card stock paper
• Staedtler Noris Club colored pencils (orange, red, pink, green, brown) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (orange, red, green, browns) 
• white pencil 
• black fine liner 0.5
• pearl maker (pastel-white)
• fine glitter (green, red)
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• universal glue
• white water based glue 
• dimensional double sided adhesive star shaped foams 
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors  
• brush 
• crafting needle 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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

1) Meljen's Designs Design Team and Challenge Blog, Challenge #232 – Sketch 

2) A Random Fan, Challenge #16 - Anything Goes

3) The Paper Nest Dolls Challenges, Challenge #21 - Anything Goes (GDT) 

4) Ruby´s Rainbow, Challenge #90, Use your Freebies/Prizes

I used Crafters Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad. This was a prize of my choice for from Bunny Zoe´s Crafts, which I won as random winner at Cute Card Thursday.

5) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from October 21st to October 27th, Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by. Have a beautiful day. :-D 

Crafty Milka