Singing Squirrel Card

Happy Friday! :o)

Today I want to share with you this CAS (clean and Simple), Singing Squirrel Card that I made last month for a friend crafter. :o)

To make this card, I used stamps from two super cute stamp sets: images from Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall with Squirrel' stamp set and a sentiment from Jane's Doodles 'Belated Birthday' stamp set.

I stamped a squirrel on a watercolor paper and colored her in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the squirrel and traced edges with black marker.

Then I stamped the sentiment and another squirrel on a white cardstock paper panel and colored the squirrel in black. I softened the watercolored squirrel with a stylus ball on a soft working mat and glued her over the black one. Then I stamped music notes on the panel, as the squirrel is singing Happy Birthday to her. :o)

I glued foam tape and foam sheet scraps on the panel and glued the panel on a white top folded card base. Lastly, I glued another white cardstock paper panel inside the card base to make the card sturdier. :o)

Card dimensions: 98 mm x 142 mm (3 7/8" x 5 5/8"")

List of supplies:

• Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall with Squirrel' stamp set (images)
• Jane's Doodles 'Belated Birthday' stamp set (sentiment)
• white cardstock paper (card base, panels)
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Tea Dye
• Vintage Photo
• Walnut Stain
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Markers), Black 68/46
• UHU universal glue
• 3-D foam sheet scraps, 2 mm thick
• foam tape, 2 mm thick
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• scissors
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• stylus ball
• soft working mat

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

Milka

Drummer Notebook (KBD Aloha Friday Challenge #56)

Hi everyone :-D 

My second post today...

Today a new Aloha Friday Challenge starts at Kitty Bee Designs.

New challenge for this fortnight is #56 - Make Music.

Our sponsor for this challenge are Kenny K, who are giving to our lucky winner some cute digis.

For this challenge I made this Drummer Notebook, using our sponsor's beautiful image Kenny K 'Buggin Drummer' digital stamp.

First I printed the image on a white watercoloring paper. I wanted to get old photo look, so I decided to color the image in watercoloring technique with Distress Ink Vintage Photo. I like the Sepia look I got. :-D

After coloring whole image and background, I continued aging my image. I splattered background with water, then burnt all edges and distressed them after that.

I made notebook covers from corrugated cardboard I had in my stash. Inside, I added grid paper from an old notebook and tied them with thread with covers.

Then I decorated covers. I glued a piece of Kraft paper and colored image on them and decorated notebook with long fasteners and distressed wooden arrow. I also wrapped thread around the arrow. I wanted this notebook to close, so I added piece of thread inside covers, which can be easily wrapped around fasteners. I also covered inside covers with Kraft paper.

Notebook dimensions are 95 mm x 114 mm (3 3/4" x 4 1/2").

List of supplies:

• Kenny K 'Buggin Drummer' digital stamp
• white watercoloring paper
• grid paper 
• Kraft Paper (packing paper) 
• Corrugated Cardboard
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Vintage Photo)
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology Long Fasteners 
• wooden arrow 
• thread
• UHU universal glue
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• Marabu fine paint brush no.1
• Marabu fine paint brush no.2
• Marabu fine paint brush no.10
• Tim Holtz's blending tool 
• hair dryer
• sewing needle 
• lighter
• candle 
• paper towels
• water

Stop by the Kitty Bee Designs blog and check out lovely projects my Design Team mates created. And don´t forget to join us in this challenge. We are looking forward to see your projects. :-D

I am entering my project to following challenges:

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

1) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #161 - Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

2) Catch The Bug Weekly Challenge, September Anything Goes Challenge

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

4) djkardkreations, NBUS (never before used schtuff) #5 - Anything Goes
My NBUS are Kenny K 'Buggin Drummer' digital stamp and Tim Holtz Long Fasteners.
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

5) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD Challenge from September 8th to September 14th, Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :-D

Crafty Milka