Card and Tag for my Mom (Paru's Card Making Challenges May 2018 GDT)

Happy Friday! :o)

I was delighted to be asked to be a Guest Designer at Paru's Card Making Challenges for this month, after I won in her March 2018 challenge. :o)

Theme for this month is Mother's Day. Wonderful theme!!

And here is my take on the challenge: Card and Tag for my Mom. :o)

I’ll send these to her as soon as possible to receive them prior Mother’s  Day, which is annually held here in Croatia on the second Sunday of May, as in the most parts of the World.


How I made my card and tag...

To make these two, I used stamps from two Jane's Doodles stamp sets: 'Lily' and 'Mother's Day'.

With some masking, I stamped lilies on a watercolor paper panel and colored them in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I added some shades onto petals with colored pencils. 

Then I heat embossed in black word ‘Mama’, which is Croatian for mom.

I glued the panel on a card base, added some white dots and highlights with white gel pen and my card was finished. :o)

Next up was the tag. I don’t make tags often, so this was quite a challenge for me. The simplest way to deal with this challenge was to go with same design as on the card. I did everything same as on the  card, just skipped heat embossing.

After coloring and drying, I cut the tag shape on my die-cutting machine, punched a hole in a tag, added some ribbon and my tag was finished. :o)

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

Tag dimensions: 36 mm x 59 mm (1 7/16" x 2 5/16")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Lily' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Mother's Day' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• white paper (for masks)
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Primary Ebony, Regular, WH00R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Blueprint Sketch
• Hickory Smoke
• TOZ Artist Color colored pencils
• dark yellow
• light green
• dark green
• dark blue
• Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth Mondeluz aquarel colored pencils 3710
• light green 25
• dark green 26
• Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink
• blue satin ribbon
• white thread
• UHU liquid glue
• Fiskars High Precission Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• Sizzix tag/label shape thinlits die
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• scissors
• water
• paper towels
• powder bag
• dry cloth

I hope you'll like my Mother's Day projects and got inspired. Stop by the Paru's Card Making Challenge Blog  and see GORGEOUS cards Paru made for this challenge. Do join us, we can't wait to see your creations. There are also amazing prizes to be won. Find all the details over at Paru's. :o)

Thank you so much for having me as Guest Designer this month, Paru. It was a great pleasure to collaborate with you. ♥

I'm linking my card and tag to a challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday, April 2018: Mama, Mom, Mother...

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

Milka

Reindeer Games Card Series - Card no. #1

Happy Friday!

Today I'll be sharing Reindeer Games Card Series here on my blog. I made four CAS cards, same design and layout, couple differences. :o) I had so much fun coloring all those cute reindeer and creating cards with them. :o)

All my posts today are scheduled and will go live every hour from 8 PM to 11 PM.

Here is my first card in this fun Series. :o)

For my card I used a SUPER ADORABLE reindeer from Mama Elephant 'Reindeer Games' stamp set and sentiment from  Create a Smile 'Clear Cool Buddies' stamp set.

Image is paper pieced. I stamped a reindeer on a watercolor paper, colored him in watercolor technique with Distress Inks, fussy cut, colored edges with black marker and softened him with stylus ball.

Then I heat embossed a sentiment in white on a Kraft paper panel and stamped same reindeer again on the panel. I colored him in black and glued watercolored reindeer over him.

Lastly, I glued the ribbon on the panel, tied a bow, glued the panel on a white top folded card base and my card was finished. :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Mama Elephant 'Reindeer Games' stamp set
• Create a Smile 'Clear Cool Buddies' stamp set (sentiment)
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• white cardstock paper (card base)
• watercolor paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R) 
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Barn Door
• Tea Dye
• Vintage Photo
• Walnut Stain
• Hickory Smoke
• Black Soot
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Markers), Black 68/46
• ribbon
• UHU universal glue
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• scissors
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• crafting needle
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• paper towels
• water

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) Country View Challenges, December 2017 - Christmas (with option of red, rust and green)
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge, December: Anything Goes

This is my 6th entry to this challenge.

3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

4) STAMPlorations, December CAS Card Challenge
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by in an hour, when my next post go live. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Panda Birthday Girl Card II (KBD Aloha Friday Challenge #98)

Happy Friday! :o)

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

The challenge for this fortnight is #98 - Girly Cards.

We have two sponsors for this challenge: Fred She Said Designs and Sweet Escape Digis, so there will be double prizes! :o)

    

And here's my take on the challenge: Panda Birthday Girl Card II.

I made this card for my landlords' daughter who's 9th birthday is today. She loved last year's card I gave her (find card here), so I decided to go with panda this year too. I went with same color scheme (pink+black+white), CAS design, different panda image and different layout. For the layout I decided to CASE my own card (find card here).

I used super cute 'Panda Love' from 2013 January Panda Releases. These Pandas are melting my heart. Love them all!! :o)

I printed the Panda on a white cardstock paper, stamped circles around Panda's eyes and colored them with black pen, as well as Panda's muzzle. Super fast and simple coloring. I fussy cut Panda and traced edges with black marker.

I stamped a bow on a piece of designer paper, fussy cut it, traced edges with black marker and glued it on Panda's head.

Then I colored chipboard speech bubble with Black Soot Distress Ink and edges with black marker. I left it dry on air couple of hours. After drying, I heat embossed in white number 9 on the chipboard.

I cut out two banners, one from designer paper and other from black cardstock paper.

Lastly, I assembled all pieces together. I glued some foam on banners and Panda and glued them on a white top folded card base. I glued the chipboard speech bubble directly on the card base. As a finishing touch, I embellished the card with pink enamel dots. :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Kitty Bee Designs 'Panda Love' digital stamp
• Create a Smile 'Eggstraordinary Egghunt' stamp set (circle.. panda's eyes)
• Jane's Doodles 'ABC's' stamp set (number nine)
• discontinued Paper Smooches 'Sunny Side Up' stamp set (bow)
• paper and enamel dots from Create a Smile 'Beach Party' kit
• white cardstock paper (card base)
• black cardsotck paper (banner)
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• Stabilo Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Tim Holtz's Distress Ink, Black Soot
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Tsukineko VersaMarker Watermark Pen
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Create a Smile 'Speech Bubbles Oval' chipboard (mid size from small set)
• Uniball Signo White
• UHU universal glue
• foam sheet scraps, 1 mm thick
• foam squares, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• printer
• Fiskars High Precission Personal Paper Trimmer
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• bone folder
• scissors
• powder bag
• dry cloth
• crafting needle
• tweezers

I hope you'll like my card for the challenge and get inspired. For more inspiration, 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. :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) In The Pink, Challenge 122 - Special occasion
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.
Special occasion: 9th birthday of my landlords' daughter.

2) Seize the Birthday, Anything Goes
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes
This is my 4th entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

Mini Blue Santa Tag (Fairy Tale Challenge #134)

Hi everyone! :o)

It's time for a new challenge at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog. Our challenges will start on Tuesdays from now on.

The theme for this fortnight is #134, Alles geht / Anything Goes. 

This time our lucky winner will win a lovely set of embossing folders and cameo stamp.

For this challenge I made Mini Blue Santa Tag.

To make this one I CASEd my Mini Red Santa Tags.

Image is paper pieced. I used 4 stamped images, 3 stamped on a watercolor paper and one on a designer paper. I colored Santa's face with colored pencils and shaded his beard with light gray colored pencil. I used dry paper stump to blend colors in to paper. 

After coloring and shading, I fussy cut parts I needed, colored edges with black Stabilo pen, softened all pieces with a stylus ball on a soft working mat, glued all pieces together and added final touches with a white pen.

Then I cut circle from a Kraft cardstock paper, punched hole in it, glued piece of white cardstock paper on the bottom, heat embossed sentiment, drew snowflakes whit the white pen, glued 3-D foam pads behind Santa and placed him on the tag. At the end I tied ribbon on the tag, glued two enamel dots on it and the tag was finished. :o)

Tag measures  d = 63 mm (2 1/2").

List of supplies: 

• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (Santa stamp, sentiment stamp, enamel stickers)
• Crafter's Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• white cardstock paper
• Koh-i-noor Watercolor paper (250 gms)
• blue satin ribbon
• twine
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• colored pencils: skin color, pink, light gray
• Stabilo Pen Black 68/46
• Unibal Signo White
• UHU universal glue
• Sakura Quickie Glue Pinpoint Roller
• EK Success 3D dots
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• scissors
• tweezers
• EK Success Circle Cutter
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• paper blending stump no. #2
• paper blending stump no. #5
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• hole puncher (medium size)
• hammer
• plank board
• printing paper

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 tag to following challenges:
Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

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

2) Lawnscaping Challenges, Challenge: Winter Wonderland

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

Crafty Milka

Mini Red Santa Tags

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you two Mini Red Santa Tags I made last week.

Images are paper pieced. I used 4 stamped images for each Santa, 3 stamped on a watercolor paper and one on a designer paper from the kit. I colored Santa's face with colored pencils and shaded his beard with light gray colored pencil. I used dry paper stump to blend colors in to paper. I colored his boots with black permanent pen. After coloring and shading, I fussy cut parts I needed, colored edges with black Stabilo pen, softened all pieces with a stylus ball on a soft working mat, glued all pieces together and added final touches with a white pen.

Then I cut circles from a Kraft cardstock paper, punched holes in them, glued piece of white cardstock paper on the bottom, heat embossed sentiments, drew snowflakes whit the white pen, glued 3-D foam pads behind each Santa and placed them on tags. At the end I tied ribbons on tags and they were finished. :o)

Each tag measures  d = 63 mm (2 1/2").

List of supplies: 

• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (Santa stamp, sentiment stamps, designer paper)
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• white cardstock paper
• Koh-i-noor Watercolor paper (250 gms)
• red gingham ribbon
• Docrafts 'Home for Christmas' Brown String
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• colored pencils: skin color, pink, light gray
• Stabilo Pen Black 68/46
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• Unibal Signo White
• UHU universal glue
• Sakura Quickie Glue Pinpoint Roller
• EK Success 3D dots
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• scissors
• tweezers
• EK Success Circle Cutter
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• paper blending stump no. #2
• paper blending stump no. #5
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• hole puncher (medium size)
• hammer
• plank board
• printing paper

I am entering my tags to following challenges:
Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Create a Smile December projects
This is my 4th entry to this challenge.

2) Lawnscaping Challenges, Challenge: Tag it!

3) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Tag it!

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

Crafty Milka

HO HO HO! Tags (Fairy Tale Challenge #132)

Happy Friday everyone! :o)

It´s time for a new challenge at Fairy Tale Challenge Blog.

The theme for this fortnight is #132, Etwas aus Metall / Something Metal. 

This time our lucky winner will win a luxury easel card kit.

For this challenge I made two HO HO HO! Tags.

This two are for my nieces, Tea and Nika, inspired with colors of cartoon characters they like. I'm sure girls will love them because they jingle. :o)

Details...

I cut out rectangles from a white cardstock paper and designer paper, rounded opposite corners with a rounded paper puncher and heat embossed sentiment on the designer paper.

I glued designer paper rectangles on tag bases (cardstock). I glued designer paper also on back of tags, but I didn't take photos.

I embellished tags with wooden colored chips, enamel stickers, added ribbons and bells, and tags were finished. :o)

Tags dimensions are 50 mm x 76 mm (2" x 3").

List of supplies: 

• white cardstock paper
• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (paper, enamel stickers, sentiment 'HO HO HO!' stamp)
• Create a Smile 'Holly & Berry' Enamel Stickers
• Christmas wooden colored chips (Santas)
• two metal bells 
• blue satin ribbon
• red gingham ribbon 
• white/blue baker's twine
• white thread
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• UHU universal glue
• transparent low temperature glue stick
• EK Success 3D dots
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• MS scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• tweezers
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature
• hole puncher (medium size)
• hammer
• plank board
• round corner paper puncher
• ruler
• pencil
• printing paper
• 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 tags to following challenges:
Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Beccy's Place, December Challenge

2) City Crafter Challenge Blog, Week 290, #123 Tag  (I removed my entry, because I missread what the challenge was. :o) LOL

3) Crafting By Designs, December Anything Goes

4) Hiding in My Craft Room, HIMCR #227 - Any Holiday
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

5) Little Miss Muffet Challenges, Challenge #126 - Anything Goes

6) Papertake Weekly Challenge, Anything Goes

7) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Let it Snow

8) Whimsy Stamps Inspiration Challenges, Challenge #88 - Anything Goes / Holidays

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge. 

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

Crafty Milka