Mini Santa Card (AAA Cards Game #156 GDT)

Hi everyone! :o)

I was delighted to be asked to be a Guest Designer at AAA Cards for a Game #156, after I won 1st place in their Game #152 Maxi White Space + Geometric. I love playing AAA Cards challenges, as their challenges are all about CAS (clean and simple) cards, my favorite card design. :o)

The Game #156 theme is Sketch + optional twist Winter Birthday.

Card design needs to be CAS. Here is a CAS definition from AAA Cards blog:

Note: there are various CAS cards definitions on various blogs.

And here is my take on the challenge: CAS (clean and simple), Mini Santa Card. :o)

How I made my card...

I colored a Santa in November 2019 during Kathy's Racoosin 14th 30 Day Coloring Challenge (preview here). I stamped the Santa on a watercolor paper and colored him in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the Santa and traced edges with a black marker.

I left the Santa aside for nearly two months until I decided to use it on my today's card. :o)

I stamped another Santa on a white cardstock paper, fussy cut him leaving thin white border around him, colored the Santa with the black marker and glued watercolored Santa image over it.

Next up was a patterned stripe. I cut the stripe from a Kraft cardstock paper and randomly stamped snowflakes in watermark stamping technique using a VersaMark Watermark Ink.

I mixed a white tempera color with a bit of water and, using a paint brush, splattered the stripe and left it dry on air.

After drying, I assembled the card following the sketch. I glued the patterned stripe on a white top folded card base, glued 3-D foams on the back of the Santa and glued him on the card and glued 3 snowflakes on the card.

As a finishing touch, I drew details on a Santa's outfit using a black fine liner and a white pigment ink pen and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 101 mm x 133 mm (4" x 5 1/4")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Snow Globe' stamp set (snowflakes stamps)
• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (Santa stamp)
• Create a Smile 'Frosty Fun' kit (tiny snowflake die cut)
• Wiler Creativity Cutting Dies, larger snowflake die cut (gift from a dear friend Alice of Scrap & C... THANK YOU ALICE!!! ♥)
• white cardstock paper
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks:
• Tea Dye
• Ground Espresso
• Hickory Smoke
• Koh-i-noor tempera color (white)
• Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink pen
• Mitsubishi Uni Pin 0.2
• Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• UHU liquid glue
• 3-D foams, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• scissors
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• paper towels
• water

I hope you'll like my take on the challenge sketch and get inspired. :o) Stop by the AAA Cards and see amazing creations from the Design Team made for this challenge. The challenge ends on January 18th, 2020, so there is plenty time to share your CAS one layer cards with us. :o) For more information about the challenge rules and prizes, jump over to challenge post at AAA Cards. :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) Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge, January 2020, Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday, December 2019: Snowflakes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) STAMPlorations, CAS Card Challenge, January 2020, Anything CAS Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

4) STAMPlorations, Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge, January 2020

I went only with a theme: Stamps & Splatters.

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

HO HO HO Shaker Tag

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you this HO HO HO Shaker Tag. :o)

To make this tag I was inspired with couple of my own projects from the past (here, here, here and here). :o)

To make this type of shaker I learned from Jennifer's McGuire video: Shaker Stamped Cards. Thank you Jennifer!!

I used various supplies from Create a Smile 'Frosty Fun' kit and Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit and snowflake stamps from Jane's Doodles 'Driving Home for Christmas' stamp set.


How I made this tag...

First I worked on an image. From all Santa images I have in my stash, I like this tiny one the most. :o)

Image is paper pieced. I stamped Santa 4 times: 1 on a watercolor paper, 1 on a paper scrap, 1 on a designer paper and 1 on a white cardstock paper. I colored Santa's face and beard in watercolor technique using Distress Inks and fussy cut all pieces I needed. I traced edges with a black marker and softened watercolored piece with a stylus ball on a soft working mat.

I stamped another Santa on the white cardstock paper, colored him in black, fussy cut him, leaving thin white border around him and glued all pieces over him.

Then I glued a clear thread on the Santa's back and glued another image over it to secure the thread.

As a finishing touch, I drew highlights and details using a black fine liner and a white pigment ink pen.


Next up was a tag shape.

I die cut an ornament in a Kraft cardstock paper 11 times. I used only frames (rest I left for other projects).

I used negative part of a die-cut ornament as a stencil. I traced ornament shape twice on the Kraft cardstock paper and cut them out. I used them as a tag base. I traced ornament shape on an acetate sheer and cut it out. I used it as a window to close up my shaker.

I cut two tiny hills from the white cardstock paper and die cut ornament top in the patterned paper.

Then I heat embossed in white snowflakes on one ornament shaped base. I glued white hills on the base and drew white dots.

With all parts ready, I started assembling the tag. I didn't want to put any shaker elements beside Santa in my tag, as it seemed it would look way too busy with more elements when I was putting the tag together.

Here is how I stacked my tag:

• ornament shaped tag base with snowflakes and hills
• 4 frames glued together
• paper pieced snowman with a clear thread
• 5 frames glued together
• acetate sheet ornament shape
• 2 frames glued together

I hope this makes sense. :o)

I pierced the stacked tag with large needle and pierced the second ornament tag shape, and connected them together with a long fastener. I added a brown string and glue the ornament top on it's place.

Lastly I worked on a sentiment.

I heat embossed the sentiment in white on a black cardstock paper, cut out the sentiment into 3 pieces, glued a foam square on each sentiment piece and glued everything on the tag.

As a finishing touch, I embellished the tag with a stacked die cut snowflake (3 pieces glued together). :o)

List of supplies: 

• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (Santa stamp, sentiment stamp, designer paper, snowflake die)
• Create a Smile 'Frosty Fun' kit (ornament die)
• Jane's Doodles 'Driving Home For Christmas' stamp set  (background snowflakes)
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology Long Fastener
• Docrafts 'Home for Christmas' Brown String
• clear thread
• acetate sheet
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Tea Dye 
• Iced Spruce
• Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen (Marker) 68/46, Black
• Mitshubishi Fine Liner 0.2
• Unibal Signo White Pigment Ink
• UHU glue roller
• UHU liquid glue
• 3-D foam squares (5 x 5 x 2 mm)
• Sizzix Big Shot
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• scissors
• tweezers
• crafting needle
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• paper towels
• water
• pencil
• eraser

 

Here is a short video. :o)

With this tag I played in a super fun Create a Smile's Instagram Event: Create a Smile Winter Bash. (shared on Instagram yesterday, Wednesday, November 21st, 2018: photos, video)

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) Crafting By Designs, Anything Goes November Edition
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

2) Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge, November 2018
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

North Pole Greetings Card Set

Welcome Winter!!!

Hello everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you this North Pole Greetings Card Set. :o)

All cards are one layer cards. For card bases I used Canson XL Mixed Media Paper.

I stamped scenes directly on card bases and drew lines to divide ground and sky. I watercolored all cards using Distress Inks. I splattered background with water, highlighted eyes, muzzles... with white gel pen and my cards were finished.

Here are close up photos....

Dimensions of cards: 101 mm x 101 mm (4" x 4")

List of supplies:

• Clearly Besotted 'Arctic Animals' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Unicorn' stamp set
• Create a Smile stamp set from 'Snow Dance' kit
• Canson XL Mixed Media Paper, 300 g
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks
• Mermaid Lagoon
• Blueprint Sketch
• Hickory Smoke
• Tea Dye (Santa's skin)
• Spun Sugar (Santa's cheeks)
• Uniball Signo White
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen S (superfine) 0.4 mm
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #2
• paper towels
• water

I'm entering my card set 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) bastel-traum, Challenge #48 - Wasserfarbe / Watercolor

2) Stempeleinmaleins, SEME Challenge #82 - Winter

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

Milka

Santa with a Mug Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

Today was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this Santa with a Mug Card.

For this one I used three gorgeous Jane's Doodles stamp sets: 'Mr. & Mrs. Calus' (Santa and candies), 'Winter Wishes' (sentiment) and 'Coffee Time' (coffee beans).

I stamped Santa on a watercolor paper, colored his face and hands with colored pencils and blended colors with dry paper stump. Then I colored the rest of the image in watercoloring technique, using Distress Inks. I fussy cut Santa, colored edges with black pen and covered parts of Santa's coat with Pearl Maker.

Then I stamped coffee beans and candies with VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad directly on a card base, dried it and created Watermark Effect.

I glued piece of a Jute Ribbon on the card base, added 3D foams behind colored Santa image and placed him on the card, stamped sentiment on a solid wood chip oval with Ground Espresso Distress Ink and glued it on the card. I also glued an open wood chip oval around the stamped one. At the end I added final touch to the image with my white pen and my card was finished. :o)

Card dimensions are 107 mm x 139 mm (4 1/4" x 5 1/2").

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Mr. & Mrs. Claus' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Winter Wishes' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Coffee Time' stamp set
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Koh-i-noor watercolor paper white (250 gms)
• Jute Ribbon
• Create a Smile 'Speech Bubles Oval' wood chips
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• colored pencils: skin color and pink
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks

• Barn Door
• Lucky Clover
• Ground Espresso
• Hickory Smoke
• Black Soot
• Stabilo Black Pen 68/46
• Unibal Signo White
• UHU universal glue
• 3D foams
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• Pearl Maker (Pastel-White)
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• MS scoring board
• scissors
• tweezers
• crafting needle
• paper blending stump no. #2
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• water

I am entering my card 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) Beccy's Place, February Challenge
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Christmas Card Challenges, #9 - Anything Goes

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


Crafty Milka

Mini Blue Santa Circle Card

Hi everyone! :o)

This weekend I'm sharing projects I made before I went on holidays, but didn't have time to share them here with you. If you want to see more of those projects, just follow this link to intro post. :o)

My sixth  and last project in this Christmas/Winter series is a Mini Blue Santa Circle Card.

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 out two circles from a white cardstock paper, diameter size 4", for a card base and glued them together (top of the card). I cut out one more circle from a Kraft paper and one from the cardstock paper, both diameter size 3 7/8". I glued Kraft paper circle on the card base, cut out hill shape out of the white circle and glued it on the card base.

I Heat Embossed a sentiment on the card, drew white dots to imitate snowflakes, added 3-D foam pads behind Santa, placed him on the card and my card was finished.

Card dimension d = 101 mm (4").

List of supplies: 

• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' kit (Santa stamp, sentiment stamp)
• 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)
• 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)
• MS scoring board
• 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
• printing paper

I am entering my card 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) Crafting By Designs, January Anything Goes

2) Create a Smile January projects
This is my 6th entry to this challenge.

3) Little Miss Muffet Challenges, Challenge #129 - Anything Goes

This is my last post in this series and for today. Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Crafty Milka