Happy Fall Mini Circle Card (bastel-traum challenge #93)

Hi everyone! :o)

It's time for a new challenge over at bastel-traum and our theme for the challenge #93 is Autumn/Fall. :o)

The challenge starts today, September 15th, 2020, at 9 AM, CEST (UTC +2) and ends on October 15th, 2020, at 8:55 AM, CEST (UTC +2). Find all the details about the challenge, rules and prizes in a challenge post (here).


And here is my take on the challenge: Happy Fall Mini Circle Card. :o)

To make this card I was inspired with my own card that I created last year (here).

I used stamps from a super adorable Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set, that I won in April 2017 from GSD. :o)

How I made my card....

First I created a background panel. I stamped randomly leaves and an acorn on a Kraft paper in watermark stamping technique using VersaMark Watermark Ink. Then I die cut a wonky stitched circle from the paper and stamped a sentiment in black on it.

Then I made a card base. I cut two circles from a white cardstock paper and glued them together on the top.

I glued the panel on the circle card base.

Next up were images. I stamped an adorable happy squirrel, leaves and acorns on a watercolor paper and colored them in watercolor technique with Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut images and traced their edges with a black marker.

Then I stamped same images again on a white cardstock paper. I colored images with the black marker and a black fine liner and fussy cut them, leaving thin white border around them. I glued watercolored images over the grey ones. I did this to make images thicker, as the watercolor paper I use is very thin.

I love dimension on my cards. I glued 3-D foams (2 different thickness) on each image, glued images on the card and my card was finished. I love how my card turned out!! :o)

Card measurements: d = 83 mm (3 1/4")

List of supplies:

• Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set (bastel-traum shop here)
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Spiced Marmalade
• Candied Apple
• Twisted Citron
• Walnut Stain
• Ground Espresso
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Mitsubishi Black Fine Liner 0.4
• UHU liquid glue
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 2 mm
• 3-D square foams, 5 x 5 x 3 mm
• Quickie Glue Pen
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Sizzix Big Shot
• My Favorite Things, Die-namics Wonky Stitched Circle STAX
• EK Success circle cutter
• Xcut SelfHealing Cutting Mat A4
• round acrylic block
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• scissors
• paper towels
• water
• masking tape

I hope you'll like my card for this challenge and get inspired. For more inspiration, check out BEAUTIFUL autumnal cards my super talented Design Teammates created for the challenge. Do join us in this challenge, we are looking forward to see your creations. :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) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 37 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Gerda Steiner Designs, Share Your Designs Challenge, September 2020
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) The Cat's Pajamas, TCP Tuesday Challenge #372: Animals

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

Milka

Craft Stamper GDT - Take It Make It November 2019 Challenge Inspiration

Happy Friday! :o)

I was delighted to be asked to be a Guest Designer at Craft Stamper Magazine Blog for Take It Make It November 2019 Challenge Inspiration, after I was a Design Winner in September 2019 Take It Make It Challenge with a Vintage Wedding Card. :o)

All Take It Make It (TIMI) challenges have an Anything Goes theme. There are two winners each month: Design Winner and randomly chosen winner. Prizes are amazing for both winners!! :o) Find all the details and Link up tool in TIMI November 2019 Challenge blog post (here). :o)


And here is my take on the challenge: Happy Fall Card. :o)

To make this card I used stamps from a super adorable Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set. :o)

How I made my card....

First I created a background panel. I stamped randomly leaves and an acorn on a Kraft paper panel in watermark stamping technique using VersaMark Watermark Ink.

I glued the panel on a white top folded card base.

Next up were images. I stamped an adorable happy squirrel, leaves and acorns on a watercolor paper and colored them in watercolor technique with Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut images and traced their edges with a black marker.

Then I stamped same images again on a white cardstock paper. I colored images with a grey marker and fussy cut them, leaving thin white border around them. I glued watercolored leaves and acorns over the grey ones. I did this to make images thicker, as the watercolor paper I use is very thin.

I wanted to a bit dimension to the squirrel, so I softened the watercolored squirrel using a stylus ball on a soft working mat. This curled the squirrel a bit. I glued the squirrel over the grey colored one.

Lastly, I heat embossed in white the sentiment on a black cardstock paper and cut the sentiment to a stripe of desirable size.

I don't have any 3-D foam in my stash for last two weeks, so I improvise whit paper scraps to achieve dimension. To make the sentiment pop a bit on the card, without 3-D foam, I glued the stripe on a same size black stripe. This doubled the thickness of the sentiment. I glued the sentiment on the card.

Lastly, I glued all images on the card and a white cardstock paper panel inside the card to make it sturdier and my card was finished. :o)

I love how my card turned out!! :o)

Card measurements: 89 mm x 133 mm (3 1/2" x 5 1/4")

List of supplies:

• Gerda Steiner Designs 'Happy Fall' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Crafter's Companion Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Coloring Card
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fossilized Amber
• Spiced Marmalade
• Ground Espresso
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Black 68/46
• Stabilo Fibre Tip Pen (Marker), Light Grey 68/94
• UHU liquid glue
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• scissors
• stylus ball
• soft working mat
• powder bag
• dry cloth
• paper towels
• water

I hope you'll like my card and get inspired. Stop by Craft Stamper Magazine blog and find more inspiration from a very talented Design Team (links: inspiration post, challenge post). And don't forget to join the challenge. Grab your stamps, create something, have fun and share in TIMI November challenge. :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) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #366 - Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Country View Challenges, November 2019 - Hand Stamped

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

3) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 45 - Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

4) Gerda Steiner Designs, Share Your Designs Challenge, November 2019
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

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

Autumn Squirrel Card (KBD Aloha Friday Challenge #84 Mid Inspiration)

Happy Friday everyone! :o)

Today I'm sharing a mid-inspiration project for an ongoing Aloha Friday Challenge at Kitty Bee Designs.

The challenge for this fortnight is #84 - Fall (Autumn) Colors.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo Digi Stamps, with an awesome prize for our random winner: digital images of winner's choice. :o)

For this challenge I made this CAS (clean and simple), one layer, Autumn Squirrel Card, using our sponsor's ADORABLE image 'Autumn Squirrel' Digital Stamp.

How I made this card...

I made a layout on my computer and printed it out directly on a card base, for which I used Canson XL Mixed Media 300 g Paper. Perfect paper for one layer cards, which I LOVE to make, and it loves all kind of media. Love it! :o)

After an hour of drying (to prevent ink smearing), I watercolored the image with Distress Inks and dried it with Heat It Tool.

Then I stamped sentiment 'grateful' partly over the image. The sentiment is from Jane's Doodles 'Thankful' stamp set.

Lastly, I highlighted the image and sentiment with white pen and my card was finished. :o)

Dimensions: 92 mm x 128 mm (3 5/8" x 5")

List of supplies:

• Bugaboo 'Autumn Squirrel' digital stamp
• Jane's Doodles 'Thankful' stamp set (sentiment)
• Canson XL Mixed Media Paper, 300 g
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Fosilized Amber
• Spiced Marmalade
• Candied Apple
• Lucky Clover
• Brushed Corduroy
• Vintage Photo
• Walnut Stain
• Ground Espresso
• Uniball Signo White
• printer
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. 5/0
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• paper towels
• water

I hope you liked my project for today and got 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 entering 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) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #219 - CAS (clean and simple)
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge

2) Crafty Calendar Challenge, November Challenge: Autumn Colours
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Digi Designs Challenge Blog, Hand Colored Image Challenge
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

4) Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge, LPOCF #45 - Anything Goes
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

5) 613 Avenue Create, Challenge #191 - Anything Goes

This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

6) The Daily Marker, 6th 30 Day Coloring Challenge
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.
colored: DAY 4

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


Milka