Christmas Postcards Decoration (Fairy Tale Challenge #133)

Happy Friday everyone! :o)

It's time for a new challenge at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog, our last one this year.

The theme for this fortnight is #133, Briefmarken und Poststempel / Stamps and Poststamps. 

This time our lucky winner will win a lovely stencil.

For this challenge I made a decoration, Christmas Postcards Decoration.

I cut these two vintage postcards from designer paper pad. First I burned their edges and colored their whole surface with Distress Ink Antique Linen. When I was satisfied with aged look of postcards, I glued them on Cinnamon and glued Star Anise in the corner.

List of supplies: 

• cArt-Us Christmas Collection paper pad (A4)
• Cinnamon
• Star Anise
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen
• UHU universal glue
• transparent low temperature glue stick
• scissors
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature
• lighter

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

I am entering my project to following challenge:
Note: bold text is a direct link to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

Beccy's Place, December Challenge
This is my 6th entry to this challenge.

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

Crafty Milka

Sunflowers and Spices Shadow Box (Crafting by Designs April GDT)

Hi everyone :-D

I was delighted to be asked to do a Guest Designer project at Crafting by Designs for April's 'Anything Goes' challenge, after being featured in their February spotlight.

I like shadow boxes and tiny decorations, so I decided to make this Sunflowers and Spices Shadow Box, cute mini decoration for my kitchen.

I made a shadow box frame from one sheet of paper from Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', as shown in a video tutorial by Lily. I used 8" x 8" sized paper and got a frame dimensioned 3" x 3" x 5/8".  

I embellished shadow box with fussy cut and distressed sunflowers and postage stamps from Graphic 45 'French Country' paper collection, butterflies die-cuts, Eucalyptus bark, Star Anise, four peppercorns and tiny marmalade and jams. 

Butterflies are cut of 'Flutter Tree' die-cut. I bought die-cuts last year on eBay, because I don´t have die-cut machine. They were white and I colored them with Distress Inks and water.

I collected Eucalyptus bark last summer when I was visiting Lokrum island. It was dry and fell of the tree, so I didn't damage anything. :-D After I glued pieces of bark on the box frame and was completely dry, I distressed it with Tim Holtz's Distressed Inks. 

I got Star Anise last week from my boyfriend/partner. This is the most beautiful spice to me. Nature really creates amazing tings! :-D

To make small marmalade and jams I used glass vials with corks, clear resin, glass colors, paper scraps, distressed inks, raffia and small labels I made using MS Word.

Marmelade d'oranges - Marmelade

Confiture de fraises- Strawberry Jam

Confiture de myrtilles sauvages - Wild Blueberry Jam

List of supplies I used for this project:

• Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 8 x 8 
• Deja Vu: shadow box frame
• French Country: postage stamps
• Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 6 x 6 (Patterns and Solids): sunflowers
  
• Bradley Hand ITC Font 
• white cardstock paper butterflies from die-cut 'Flutter Tree'
• self adhesive white paper
• acetate sheet
• raffia  
• glass vials with corks
• Star Anise (lat. Illicrum verum)
• Eucalyptus bark (lat. Eucalyptus, don´t know the specie, Lokrum island, Croatia) 
• Black, White and Green Peppercorn (lat. Piper nigrum)
• Tim Holtz´s distress inks (Old Paper, Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, Walnut Stain)
• Marabu glass colors (420 Yellow, 436 Vermilion, 455 Dark Ultramarine) 
• Pritt universal glue
• gloss resin gel super-clear
• printer
• scoring board
• scissors 
• crafting needle
• Tim Holt blending tool  
• Marabu fine paint brush no. 1
• nail polish remover acetone 
• cotton buds 
• water

I hope you like my project. Hop over at Crafting by Designs and see gorgeous projects The Design Team and other Guest Designers made for this challenge. Do join us in this month's challenge, we are looking forward to see your projects. :-D 

I am entering my project 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) Artistic Inspirations, Challenge #128: Anything Goes with a twist of Flowers 

2) Clear it Out Challenge Blog, Theme: Clear it Out, Stash: 2 or more things you are hoarding 

• Graphic 45 Paper collection 'French Country' (so many scraps)
• Gloss vials with corks 
• raffia
• Eucalyptus bark
• die-cut 'Flutter Tree' 
  

 

3) Crafty Sentiments Designs, More than 1 Fold Challenge

4) Open-Minded Crafting Fun Challenges, Challenge #33 - Food Related 

5) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes

This is my 3rd entry to this challenge. 

6) The Cat's Pajamas, TCPTUE287 - Anything Goes

7) The Pink Elephant, TPE292 - Anything Goes 

8) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD Challenge from March 31st to April 6th, Anything Goes

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


Crafty Milka


P.S. Stop by later today, I'll be posting again. 

P.S.S. This is a scheduled post, I´m probably sleeping now. :-D 

Steampunk Hourglass Corset

Good evening everyone :-D 

I would like to share with you a project I finished yesterday. I made Steampunk Hourglass Corset for a friend who started her own business this year. She owns a wedding and gala dress rental salon.

I made this corset using Hourglass Corset Pattern by Anna Hardman. It is made out of scraps from Graphic 45 'French Country' paper collection (Patterns and Solids) and it´s hand sewn. I didn´t sew together front parts, instead I added eyelets to the both front parts of corset and connected them with jewelry wire. 

After corset was done, I embellished it with old necklace chain and filled glass vials. I used vintage safety pin to close "the belt" (chain). I also embellished corset with paper flower, colored with distress ink Brush Corduroy and water.

I am entering my project to contest/event Made by me made for You! (Selber Machen - Glück verschenken!), organized by TOPP-Kreativ. All the details about this contest/event here. I used tag by TOPP-kreativ (Downloads - Geschenkanhänger), which I printed on white card stock paper and tied it with wool thread to the belt of the corset. 

Here is a detailed list of supplies I used for this project:

• Hourglass Corset Pattern by Anna Hardman 
• Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 6 x 6 (Patterns and Solids) 
• white paper (on this I printed pattern)  
• eyelets
• glass vials with corks
• black beads
• golden-black glass bead 
• old necklace chain 
• jewelry wire (black, old gold)
• vintage safety pin 
• black sewing thread 
• sand from Tunisia (my friend brought me a small bag of sand years ago) 
• paper flower 
• UHU universal glue  
• Tim Holtz´s distress inks (Black Soot, Brushed Corduroy) 
• water
• computer  
• printer
• scissors  
• pencil 
• eraser 
• sewing needle 
• crafting needle
• hole puncher
• eyelet tool
• hammer  
• modeling stylus 
• Tim Holt blending tool 
• painting brush 

And more photos.... I hid the tag for the photo-shooting purposes :-D

 

Thank you all for visiting and your kind feedback. Night night :-D 

Crafty Milka 


Update December 29th, 2014
Made by me made for You! 2014 - Bildergalerie / Photo Gallery 

Update January19th, 2015
Made by me made for You! 2014 - Gewinner / Winners

WCMD and Autumn Card

Hello everyone :-D 

Celebration of the World Card Making Day at my home through whole weekend. If you missed my first celebration post, scroll down to previous post, or just click here to read more about it. 

I had so much fun this weekend. I made two cards, colored several images, made bunch of embellishments, blog hopped, cleaned my crafting desk (LOL), made some videos and photos of finished projects that were waiting for a photo-session some time... Fun, fun, fun!

My intention was to share cards with you this weekend as they were finished. I managed to that with the first card, but not with my second one I made yesterday. It was too late and a very bad light when my card was completely dry, so I decided to do that today.

Autumn Card is the second card I made this celebratory weekend.

For this one I was inspired by a current challenge on Meljen´s Designs - Friends Forever. With this lovely Meljen's Designs 'Autumn Candy Apple', Melissa is generously sharing with everyone for free this weekend, I made this Autumn Card for my best friend. She loves nature, autumn colors... I look at this card and I see her. :-D 

You still have time to join current challenge on Meljen´s Designs Design Team and Challenge Blog. There are no image requirements, but if you use Meljen´s image you get an extra entry. Also, join us in Meljen´s Designs Club on Facebook and play weekend mini challenges with new free image every weekend.

Update
Weekend mini challenge at Meljen´s Designs Club and weekend giveaway at Meljen´s Designs extended till October 7th, noon PST. 

I printed 3 same images of 'Autumn Candy Apple' on white card stock paper, colored and cut out elements I needed and paper pieced this image. An apple is colored with glass color to create glossy effect. After it was dry, I colored sugar crystals with my pearl maker and added thick coat of transparent glossy varnish over the apple´s topper. I am very satisfied with this extra glossiness. :-D 

Little dots around the image are made with paper puncher, paper scraps and transparent extra glossy varnish. I´ll make short photo tutorial this week and share it with you here on blog.

I found this very cool leaves template and DIY project on Broadway paper, printed it on Graphic 45 papers, cut out leaves, distressed theirs edges and decorated card with them. I am sure I will be using this lovely template again. 

 

 

Card dimensions are 127 mm x 127 mm (5" x 5").

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

• Meljen's Designs 'Autumn Candy Apple'
• Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country' 6" x 6" (Patterns and Solids) 
• 2 different brown card stock papers 
• leaves template from Broadway paper 
• colored pencils (light and dark yellow, orange, red, dark green, brown, black)
• white pencil 
• fine liners 0.5 (yellow, black)
• glass color (496 emerald) 
• pearl maker (pastel-white)
• Tim Holtz´s distress ink, Vintage Photo 
• Raffia 
• Eucalyptus bark (Eucalyptus, don´t know the specie, Lokrum island, Croatia) 
• two European beech nuts (Fagus sylvatica L., Fagaceae, Žutica forest, Ivanic-Grad, Croatia) 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• universal glue
• white water based glue  
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors  
• MSC Edger Punch, Scallop Dot
• office paper puncher 
• crafting needle 
• rounded corner paper puncher (update 26.12.2014.) 

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 Club on FB, Weekend mini challenge for group members, 10.3.2014., Autumn Candy Apple 

2) Meljen's Designs Design Team and Challenge Blog, Challenge #230 – Friendship Forever

3) Kitty Bee Designs, Aloha Friday Challenge #33 - Fall Colors 

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback. :-D 

Crafty Milka