B&W Goth Birthday Girl Card

Hi everyone! :o)

Today I want to share with you this Black & White, Goth Birthday Girl Card. :o)

To make this card I used an adorable Tiddly Inks 'Whatever Floats By' digital image and My Favorite Things 'Cloud' stencil. :o)

I love challenging myself. Using minimum number of colors on my projects is one of them. :o) On my today's card I used only two colors: Tim's Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot for coloring and ink blending and Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink Pen to add finishing touches.

How I made my card...

I made a layout on my computer and printed the image directly on a watercolor paper. I left it aside couple of hours to let ink dry completely to prevent ink smearing while coloring.

I trimmed the watercolor paper to a desirable size and ink blended clouds in the background using the cloud stencil. I didn't mask the image, as I planed to color it afterwards, but tried to avoid as much as possible blending over it. I'm vary satisfied with my stenciled clouds, as this was the first time I created clouds on my card using ink blending technique and the cloud stencil. :o)

Next up was coloring. I colored the image in watercolor technique and left it dry on air.

After drying, I ink blended the panel edges and glued it on a black top folded card base. As a finishing touch, I drew white highlights with the white pigment ink pen.

I love how my card turned out. :o)

Card measurements: 98 mm x 148 mm (3 7/8" x 5 7/8")

List of supplies:

• Tiddly Inks 'Whatever Floats By' digital image
• My Favorite Things 'Cloud' stencil
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper 
• Tim's Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot
• Uniball Signo White Pigment Ink Pen
• UHU liquid glue
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #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, February 2019: Black & White / Black & White plus One
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 9 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Happy Little Stampers, Watercolor Challenge, February 2019, Anything Goes
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

4) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD week of February 26th, Anything Goes Challenge

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

5) Uniko, 7th Birthday Linky Party

This is my 5th entry to this challenge.

6) Yes, Virginia, February 2019 Show and Share

New products (image, stencil), new technique (cloud background ink blending using stencil).

This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

Summer Holidays Card (Fairy Tale Challenge #124)

Happy Friday everyone :-D

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

The theme for this fortnight is #124, Sommer Urlaub / Summer Holidays.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Tiddly Inks who provided our whole team gorgeous digital image 'Wryn Floating Along'. This image will also be a prize for our one lucky winner. 

Here is my card, Summer Holidays Card.

Image is paper pieced and it has two layers.

I printed one image on a white 120 grams paper, colored the image (except hair) with colored pencils and blended colors using dry paper stump.

I colored Wryn's hair in watercoloroing technique, using Distressed Inks (Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain), fine paint brush and water. I'm very satisfied with the result. :-D
TIP: When watercoloring image printed on printer, try to avoid black lines to prevent printer ink smearing. 

After drying, I fussy cut the image and colored edges with black pen. I left few flaps on the bottom part of the image.
TIP: When fussy cutting, first cut away large pieces of paper and then cut on the lines. Rotate paper, it will be much easier to cut around tiny details. Color edges of fussy cut image with black pen or marker. This way you'll hide white edges and any white space you didn't cut off and your paper pieced image will look much better. 

Then I printed the second image on a white cardstock paper and cut out the size of a panel I wanted. I cut few lines on the image with craft knife to create small gaps and colored the whole panel with Distress Inks (Broken China, Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky) using blending tool.

After the panel was completely dry, I glued fussy cut image over the image on the panel and inserted flaps in cut out gaps.

At the end I glued a yellow design paper panel and colored panel on a card base, decorated card with chipboard which I previously colored with Distressed Inks (Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade) and glued few enamel stickers on a card.

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

List of supplies: 

• Tiddly Inks digital stamp 'Wryn Floating Along'
• Create a Smile 'Sending Sunshine' Paper Pack 
• white cardstock paper
• white paper (120 grams) 
• colored pencils (skin color, light violet, dark yellow, orange, neon blue, light blue)
• Tim Holtz's Distressed Inks (Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Broken China, Faded jeans, Stormy Sky, Brushed Corduroy, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain)
• Stabilo Pen Black 68/46
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen F (fine) 0.6 mm
• Create a Smile 'Sending Sunshine' Enamel Stickers 
• Create a Smile Chipboard 'Word Bubbles straight'
• UHU universal glue
• white water based glue 
• 3-D foam self adhesive pads 
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors 
• craft knife 
• tweezers
• Tim Holtz's Blending Tool 
• Ranger's Ink blending foams 
• paper blending stump no. #6
• Marabu fine paint brush no. #1
• water

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 in this challenge, we can´t wait to see your projects. 

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 (if any) is direct link to blog or challenge home page. 

1) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #157 - Make Your Mark

2) Country View Challenges, August Challenge  Summertime 

3) CRAFT-alnica, Izziv #140 - Karkoli (Challenge #140 - Anything Goes) 
Moja druga prijava v tem izzivu. 

4) Crafting By Designs, August Anything Goes Challenge

5) Cute Card Thursday, Challenge 386 - Anything Goes

6) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Food and/or Drink

7) Stempeleinmaleins, SEME Challenge #66 - Urlaub (Holidays) 

8) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD Challenge from August 11th to August 17th, Anything Goes

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

Crafty Milka