Jane's Doodles Release Blog Hop

Happy Monday! :o)

Welcome to a Jane's Doodles Release Blog Hop. Today we are featuring two BEAUTIFUL Love/Valentines themed stamp sets and a GORGEOUS stencil released into the store. :o) We also have 2 amazing Guest Designers joining us today. :o)

Love Is In The Air

Love You

Hearts Stencil

GORGEOUS!!! Love love LOVE!!!!! :o)

For today I prepared three cards. :o) 

On all my three cards I used the Hearts Stencil and a handmade heart mask. I made the mask from a post-it paper. I traced Jane's heart on the post-it paper and then drew large heart similar to Jane's "original" heart. I fussy cut it carefully, as I needed both masks, positive and negative. :o)

My first card for today is Sending Love CAS (clean and simple) Card.

How I made this card...

I glued the negative part of heart mask on a white cardstock paper panel and ink blended the background. Then I placed the hearts stencil over the masked part and ink blended hearts. I added some extra shades with colored pencils.

When I was satisfied with the color, I removed the stencil and the mask and drew light reflections, stars and dots with a white pigment ink pen. I love a sparkle effect that I achieved. :o)

I stamped a sentiment from Love You stamp set on the panel, glued the panel on a black top folded card base and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 95 mm x 140 mm (3 3/4" x 5 1/2")

My second card for today is Love & Thanks Monochrome Card.

How I made this card...

I glued the hart mask on a white cardstock paper panel and ink blended the entire background. Then I placed the hearts stencil on the panel and ink blended hearts. I added some extra shades with colored pencils.

When I was satisfied with the color, I removed the stencil and the mask and drew light reflections, stars and dots with the white pigment ink pen and again created the sparkle effect. Love it!!! :o)

I stamped a sentiment from Love You stamp set on the panel creating Ombré Effect. A stamping platform really helped with that. :o)

On this card I wanted to create a bit of dimension. I didn't use foam. I cut two white panels, glued them together, glued hearts panel on top of the stacked panels and glued everything on a white top folded card base. Lastly, I glued one more panel inside the card to make it a bit sturdier. :o)

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

My last card for today is Love is in the Air Mini Square Card.

How I made this card...

I glued the negative part of heart mask on a white cardstock paper panel and ink blended the background. Then I placed the hearts stencil over the masked part and ink blended hearts. I added some extra shades with colored pencils.

When I was satisfied with the color, I removed the stencil and the mask and splattered the panel with water. I dabbed the surface with a paper towel and continued to splatter until I was satisfied with the appearance. I left the panel to dry on air.

I stamped an adorable bird from the Love Is In The Air stamp set on the white cardstock paper. I also made a mask on the post-it paper. I carefully fussy cut the bird and used the negative part of the mask for this card. I glued the mask over the bird and ink blended the bird. I removed the mask and added some extra shades with colored pencils. When I was satisfied, I fussy cur the bird, leaving thin white border around it and drew white highlights with the white gel pen.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the same stamp set as the bird in white on a black cardstock paper stripe. I trimmed the sentiment stripe to a desirable size.

Lastly, I cut out three more squares, same size as the panel and a white square top folded card base.

With all parts ready, my card was ready for assembling. I glued two squares together (stacked them) and glued ink blended panel on top of them. Then I glued everything on a white square top folded card base. I glued one more square inside the card to make it sturdier. I glued 3-D foam squares behind the sentiment stripe and the bird (two different foam dimensions), glued them on the card and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 92 mm x 92 mm (3 5/8" x 3 5/8")

I had so much fun creating these cards and LOVE how they turned out. :o) My baby boy Fran also likes them a lot. He was screaming of joy when I showed them to him. LOL 

At the bottom of this post you can find detailed supply lists of my today's cards. Link to this post will be in a right sidebar until the Blog Hop ends. :o)

And now to the Blog Hop prize...

Our generous Jane will be giving away one stamp set of winner's choice to one lucky winner. All you have to do is leave a comment on all blogs along the Hop for your chance to win.

Here is the Blog Hop order:

Milka (you are here)

Marion

Claudia

Katerina

Katja

Tinne

Lien

Bobbi

Kerstin (Guest Designer)

Laura (Guest Designer)

Jane's Doodles blog

Jane will announce the winner on Friday, January 21st, 2022, at Jane's Doodles Blog.

Also, Jane is having 25% off sale from Monday to Wednesday (17-19). No code needed.

Now hop over to Marion's blog and see what she created for today's hop.

Thank you for visiting. I hope you enjoyed on my stop today and got inspired. :o) 

Happy hopping and good luck to all!!! :o)

Milka

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Love Is In The Air' stamp set 
• Jane's Doodles 'Love You' stamp set 
• Jane's Doodles 'Hearts' stencil
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• post-it paper
• Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks: 
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Mustard Seed
• Faber-Castell Polychromos Colour Pencils:
• Ultramarine 120
• Helioblue Reddish 151
• Cadmium Yellow 107
• Dark Chrome Yellow 109
• Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink Pen
• UHU universal liquid glue
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 1 mm
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• Xcut self healing working mat
• Tonic Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
• scissors
• powder bag
• finger sponge dauber
• ink blending tool
• paper towel
• water
• ruler
• pencil
• eraser
• Washi tape

Rainbow Unicorn Confetti Launching Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight + IC #9)

Hi everyone! :o)

I hope you're all enjoying the weekend and having a great time. :o)

Yesterday was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I shared this Rainbow Unicorn Confetti Launching Card. :o)

This is a CONFETTI LAUNCHING CARD. I made this Interactive Card (IC) for my Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2019 personal challenge. If you want to find out more about it, just follow the link provided. :o)

This is a ninth type of IC I made for my challenge. I made 15 different types of interactive cards during Pisces period, which was my personal challenge. I completed my challenge, achieved my goals and had a lot of fun. I wrote a short review about the challenge here.

To make this card I was inspired by wishes of my niece Nika (5). Prior her birthday (in March) she asked for a card that has an Unicorn, Rainbow colors, blue and/or pink colors in abundance, as that are her favorite colors, and it had to shake or throw confetti. :o) Task successfully completed. She was overwhelmed. :o)

I used stamps from two BEAUTIFUL Jane's Doodles stamp sets: Unicorn and Magical, and tiny heart dies from 'Stinks' dies.

How I made this card...

I stamped an adorable Unicorn on a watercolor paper and watercolored it using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the Unicorn and traced edges with black marker.

I stamped one more Unicorn on a white cardstock paper, colored it with black marker and fussy cut it, this time leaving white thin border around the Unicorn.

I glued both images together, the watercolored Unicorn over the black one. I did this because the watercolor paper I use is very thin and I needed thicker image for my card.

I drew sparkles on the Unicorn with a white gel pen and a white pigment ink pen. To do so, I was inspired with my own card made last year during my personal challenge (here), originally inspired by amazing coloring by Marika Gewalli (here). :o)

With the image ready, I worked on a card construction.

I prepared a white top folded card base, a rainbow patterned paper panel and two white cardstock paper panels. I glued the rainbow patterned paper panel on the front of the card base. I stamped a sentiment 'Make a Wish' on one white cardstock paper panel and glued it on the card base, over the patterned paper panel. I glued some 3-D foam on the Unicorn and glued it on the card base front.

Then I stamped a sentiment 'Happy Birthday' on the other white panel and glued it inside the card.

I didn't stamp sentiments perfectly and I don't have any stamping tool, so I fixed the sentiments and fill tiny gaps with a black fine liner. :o)

Next up was a confetti flinger. I saw at  Jennifer McGuire how to assemble the confetti flinger (here). I don't have dies Jennifer used to make the confetti flinger, instead I drew my own confetti flinger template. I didn't manage to draw the template on a computer and to share it with you, but you can find great tutorial on how to make confetti flinger (from start to beginning, including template) on Karolyn Loncon blog. Mine template is a bit smaller.

Following my template, I made the confetti flinger from the white cardstock paper and a tiny envelope from a vellum paper. I assembled the flinger and glued it inside the card. Then I glued tiny envelope on the flinger. I tested the mechanism, but it didn't work so well. The vellum paper I used was not thin enough and confetti didn't launch. As I didn't have any other thin paper in my stash, I curved envelope edges a bit, to leave some open space on the envelope. I tested the mechanism again... successful. :o)

With the mechanism working properly, I could make the final steps. I die cut bunch of tiny hearts from the patterned paper scraps and the white cardstock paper scraps, filled the flinger envelope with confetti, set the flinger and closed the card with a tiny clothes pin, just to ensure card won't open until birthday girl opened it. :o)

Here is a short video of confetti flinger in action. I don't have movie editor option to make slow motion video, so I'm sharing it with you as it is. :o)

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

List of supplies :

• Jane's Doodles 'Unicorn' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Magical' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Stinks' dies
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• vellum paper
• Lawn Fawn 'Really Rainbow' petite paper pack
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Festive Berries
• Spiced Marmalade
• Mustard Seed
• Twisted Citron
• Cracked Pistachio
• Lucky Clover
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Wilted Violet
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Uniball Signo White
• Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink pen
• Mitsubishi Uni Pin 0.2
• two small white rubber bands
• tiny light blue clothes pin
• UHU liquid glue
• 3-D foam squares, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• bone folder
• Martha Stewart scalloped paper puncher (to punch tiny holes on the confetti flinger)
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• scissors
• paper towels
• water

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

Milka

Hippity Hoppety Card (RCC #15)

Hello everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you this Hippity Hoppety Card. :o)

This Rainbow Color Card (RCC) is the fifteenth card I made for a Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2018 personal challenge. If you want to find out more about it, just follow the link provided. :o)

I CASEd a card that I made two years ago (find it here). I went with same design, layout, used same stamps on both cards, just went with completely different color scheme. :o)

For my card I used stamps from a super fun Create a Smile 'Eggstraordinary Egghunt' stamp set.

How I made my card...

I stamped a bunny on a watercolor paper and colored him in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. I stamped one more bunny on a white cardstock paper and colored him with black marker. After drying, I fussy cut both images, traced edges with black marker and glued them together. I did this to make the image thicker, as the watercolor paper I use it thin.

I blended Distress Ink colors, following a Rainbow pattern, on a piece of the white cardstock paper and cut a stripe. I heat embossed a sentiment in white on a black cardstock paper stripe and cut one more stripe from a patterned pape. I arranged all stripes and glued them on a white top folded card base.

I glued some foam on the bunny and glued him on the card.

As a finishing touch I drew sparkles on the bunny and Rainbow color stripe with a white gel pen. To do so, I was inspired with AMAZING coloring by Marika Gewalli of Craftybit Creations (find it here). I gave it a try on a card I shared couple days ago (find it here), also a card from my RCC series. Love it!! :o)

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

List of supplies:

• Create a Smile 'Eggstraordinary Egghunt' Stamp Set
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• black cardstock paper
• grey patterned paper from a Create a Smile enamel stickers package
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Barn Door
• Spiced Marmalade
• Mustard Seed
• Twisted Citron
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Wilted Violet
• Hickory Smoke
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Uniball Signo White
• UHU liquid glue
• double-sided adhesive tape
• foam sheet scraps, 2 mm thick
• foam tape, 1 mm thick
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• water
• paper towels
• scissors

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) Sweet Stampers Challenge Blog, Challenge #18 - Spring or Easter
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

2) Uniko, Challenge #46: Colours, optional twist: Easter
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

Sparkly Rainbow Unicorn Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight + RCC #13)

Hello everyone! :o)

This is my second post today. If you missed the first one, just scroll down or follow a direct link here.

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this Sparkly Rainbow Unicorn Card.

For my card I used stamps from an ADORABLE Jane's Doodles 'Unicorn' stamp set.

How I made my card...

I stamped an Unicorn on a watercolor paper and colored him in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut the Unicorn, traced edges with black marker and softened him with a stylus ball on a soft working mat.

I stamped another Unicorn on a white cardstock paper, fussy cut him out, leaving white border around him, and glued colored Unicorn over him.

I drew sparkles on the Unicorn with a white pigment ink pen. To do so, I was inspired with AMAZING coloring by Marika Gewalli of Craftybit Creations (find it here). Thank you for the inspiration, Marika!!  ♥

Next up was a background. I placed a starry stencil on a white cardstock paper panel and spread a white structure paste through the stencil directly on the panel. I left the structure paste dry on air. As the stencil is smaller than the panel, I repeated the process until I achieved enough starry background. :o)

After the panel dried completely, I glued it on a white top folded card base and glued another white panel inside the card. I heat embossed a sentiment in white on a black cardstock paper, cut a stripe, glued foam tape on the back of it and placed the sentiment on the card.

I love dimension on my cards, so I glued some foam on the Unicorn too, placed him on the card and my card was finished. :o)

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

List of supplies :

• Jane's Doodles 'Unicorn' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Hickory Smoke
• Barn Door
• Spiced Marmalade
• Mustard Seed
• Twisted Citron
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Wilted Violet
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink
• Marabu Light Structure Paste (805)
• 3-D foam tape, 1 mm thick
• 3-D foam scraps, 2 mm thick
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• UHU liquid glue
• 'Oh My Stars! Mini' ARTplorations stencil
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• scissors
• bone folder
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• palette knife (spatula) no. #1
• water
• powder bag
• dry cloth

This Rainbow Color Card (RCC) is the thirteenth card I made for a Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2018 personal challenge. If you want to find out more about it, just follow the link provided. :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) Card Mania Challenges, CMC #102 - Embossing
Heat embossed the sentiment.

2) Inkspirational Challenges, Challenge #157 Designer's Choice - Mythical
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Paru's Card Making Challenges, March 2018 Challenge

This is my 14th entry to this challenge.

4) Penny Black and More Challenge, March Challenge - Feature a Creature

At the end of this post...

Jane has Easter sale and is offering 30% off in her store. Sale ends on March 30th April 1st 2018.

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

Milka