Happy World Card Making Day

 

Hi everyone and Happy World Card Making Day! :o)

I hope you're all enjoying this weekend and you were or you'll be able to make some cards today. :o)

Today I will create some Christmas Cards, as I'm always in lack of them as Christmas approaching. Most of previous years I didn't have enough of them to send or give away.

I have chosen one of my last year's designs to create cards today, easy to recreate and great to create bunch cards in a short time (here). :o)

Earlier today, I prepared card bases and die-cuts that I'll need to create my cards. I'm returning back to my crafting table as soon as I finish this blog post. :o)

At the end of this post...

Jane is offering free shipping worldwide weekend. No code needed. For more information jump over to Jane's Doodles blog.

This weekend I'm sharing my Jane's Doodles spotlight projects that I made in June, July, August and September, but I didn't share them here on my blog yet. Three days ago I shared full list of projects that I'll be sharing (here). Today I'll be sharing my August spotlights, four spotlights in total, all in separate blog posts. My posts are scheduled and will go live every hour. First one at 7 PM.

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


Milka

Happy World Cardmaking Day + World Space Week (WSW day 3) + Reminder

Hi everyone and Happy World Card Making Day! :o)

I hope you're all enjoying this weekend and you were or you'll be able to make some cards today. :o)

I played couple hours today and will return back to my crafting table after I finish this blog post. :o)

As I'm celebrating World Space Week (WSW), I focused on space themed cards, stars, sky backgrounds, planets ... :o) Here's a peek on what I've been working today. :o)

I'm hosting World Space Week Blog Hop here on my blog. If you missed it, there's still time to hop and enter a giveaway. The hop is a part of WSW 2018 celebration and is listed as an event on an official WSW 2018 event list: event ID 19673 (here). The blog hop starts on my blog, here. :o)

source: http://www.worldspaceweek.org/

David Bovie - Starman

Reminder...

I have 4th Bloggoversary Giveaway. If you didn't join, there's still time. Follow this link and find out more.

Tomorrow a new I Love Math Challenge starts. Hope you will join us. :o)


At the end of this post...

Jane has a sale and is offering 15% off this weekend. Find more information on Jane's Doodles blog.

Thank you for stopping by! Enjoy and smile! :o)


Milka

Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2017, Part 3

Hello everyone!!! :o)

Yesterday a Pisces period ended and also my 3rd annual personal challenge, Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces. Goals of my challenges are to improve my skills.

The challenge took time in the Pisces Period, from February 18th, 12:31 PM until March 20th 11:29 AM (CET, UTC +1, Dubrovnik, Croatia).

This year I challenged myself to practice hand lettering every day in the Pisces period. Goals of the challenge were to improve my hand lettering skills, to encourage myself to hand letter on my projects and to continue practicing after the challenge ends. More details about this year's challenge in an Intro post.

I'm so happy that I completed one more personal challenge. I managed to practice my hand lettering every day, I accomplished my goals and had a lot of fun. :o)


Today I'm sharing with you Part 3 (last one) of my hand lettered uncolored/unfinished samples that I made (wrote) from March 11th until March 20th (10 days). If you missed first two previews or you want to see them again, just follow these links: Part 1 and Part 2.

I focused on hand lettering and not coloring and finishing projects. I decided they will be my preparation for an ongoing 7th 30 Day Coloring Challenge by Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker, which started on March 1st. For more info, jump to Kathy's blog.

I will be coloring all my samples during Kathy's current challenge. Well, that's my plan. :o) After I color my samples and make something out of them, I'll be sharing them here on my blog in separate posts with detailed description. I'll update this post and link photos in this post to finished project posts.

Here is a day by day preview. :o)
(Click on the photo and it will take you to the finished project post. If there is no link, my project is not finished and published yet.)

Aquarius

Virgo (lost)

I hope you enjoyed my today's hand lettered samples preview. :o)

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


Milka

Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2017, Part 2

Hello everyone!!! :o)

On February 18th a Pisces period started and my annual challenge, Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces. This is a personal challenge which takes time in Pisces period. Goals of the challenge are to improve my skills.

This year is 3rd year I have this challenge. It started on February 18th at 12:31 PM and will end on March 20th at 11:29 AM. (CET, UTC +1, Dubrovnik, Croatia). 

I challenged myself to practice hand lettering every day in Pisces period.

Goals of the challenge are to improve my hand lettering skills, to encourage myself to hand letter on my projects and to continue practicing after the challenge ends.

More details about this year's challenge in an Intro post.


Today I'm sharing with you Part 2 of my hand lettered uncolored/unfinished samples that I made (wrote) from March 1st until March 10th (10 days). If you want to see Part 1 of samples I made for the challenge, follow this link. :o)

I focused on hand lettering and not coloring and finishing projects. I decided they will be my preparation for an ongoing 7th 30 Day Coloring Challenge by Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker, which started on March 1st. I am and will be coloring all my samples during Kathy's challenge. For more info, jump to Kathy's blog. Also, an ink I'm using is drying slow and I avoid coloring my samples on the same day as I write them to prevent ink smearing. :o)

After I color my samples and make something out of them, I'll be sharing them here on my blog in separate posts with detailed description. I'll update this post and link photos in this post to finished project posts.

Here is a day by day preview. :o)
(Click on the photo and it will take you to the finished project post. If there is no link, my project is not finished and published yet.)

Aries

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


Milka

Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2017, Part 1

Happy Friday!!! :o)

On February 18th a Pisces period started and my annual challenge, Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces. This is a personal challenge which takes time in Pisces period. Goals of the challenge are to improve my skills.

This year is 3rd year I have this challenge. It started on February 18th at 12:31 PM and will end on March 20th at 11:29 AM. (CET, UTC +1, Dubrovnik, Croatia). 

I challenged myself to practice hand lettering every day in Pisces period.

Goals of the challenge are to improve my hand lettering skills, to encourage myself to hand letter on my projects and to continue practicing after the challenge ends.

More details about this year's challenge in an Intro post.


Today I'll be sharing with you my hand lettering exercises and samples I made since the challenge started till the end of February (11 days). I practiced every day and must say I'm very satisfied with where this is going. :o)

On a first and second day I practiced in my notebook. I used a black fine liner and dip pen nib and black ink for writing. I wanted to remind myself how the nib is acting, how much pressure it's needed when writing, how much ink has to be on the nib, how often I have to dip the pen in the ink... and also to practice to write all letters same size, thickness, regular and italic, etc. I practiced block letters and cursive handwriting style and doodled a bit.

On days that came after, I hand lettered quotations I like, sentiments... first thing that came on my mind. :o) I used the dip pen nib and drawing ink for writing. I stamped some samples using stamps from various artists. My idea is to make something out of every hand lettered sample something: card, decoration or something else.

I colored only one sample and made a magnet from it. I focused on hand lettering and not coloring and finishing projects. I decided they will be my preparation for a 7th 30 Day Coloring Challenge by Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker, which started on March 1st. I'll be coloring all my samples during Kathy's challenge. For more info, jump to Kathy's blog.

So, in today's 1st preview post (this one) and others that are yet to come, I'll be sharing hand lettered uncolored/unfinished samples. Well, one is finished. :o) After I color and finish them, I'll be sharing them here on my blog in separate posts with detailed description. I'll update this post and link photos in this post to finished project posts.

Here is a day by day preview. :o)
(Click on the photo and it will take you to the finished project post (except days 1&2). If there is no link, my project is not finished and published yet.)

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by later today, I'll be sharing two finished projects from today's preview with you. Enjoy and smile! :o)


Milka

Reason I started to Stamp

Happy Friday everyone :-D 

Do you remember what was the reason you started to stamp? 

Here is my story... 
This year in June I was working on a plan and sketches for a new project I had on my mind. It is a baby book I start to work later this year and I´m still working on it. I browsed for some cute images I could use in my project and encountered super cute digital stamps, the reason I started to stamp! :-D 

Guilty:

Those cute digital images are hand drawn images by artist Melissa Jenkins, very talented, generous and friendly lady. You can find more information about her and her work here.

You can subscribe to a free newsletter Melissa sends only to announce important things and to keep us readers updated with stuff happening at Meljen´s Designs, such as discounts, freebie reminders, new images etc. More information here.

You can also find Meljen´s Designs over on Facebook.

Currently, there is a Holiday 'Tweet' sale at Meljen´s Designs. This is a great opportunity to grab all those wish list cuties. :-D

There are freebie treats over at Meljen´s Designs you can download for free once you are registered. And there´s more! A digital stamp giveaway each weekend. This weekend´s is this cutie...

Few hours ago Melissa posted brand new images to the shop. Aren´t they adorable? That super cute 'Chester the Checker Elf' melts my heart. :-D

You want to win some cool Meljen´s Designs images? Then sure do visit Meljen´s Design Design Team and Challenge Blog. There is a new challenge every Thursday. No Meljen´s Designs images are required and anyone can join, as long as it follows the current challenge theme.

You can also play and win some free images at Facebook Meljen´s Designs Club. There is a challenge every Friday for Club Members only. Anyone can join the club, just send a request. These challenges require Meljen´s Designs weekly freebie. :-D

And not to forget very talented Design Team. Ladies make amazing projects every week for a new challenge, as well as they show their amazing creations on DT days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday).

You can find my projects using Meljen´s Designs here, as well on my Facebook and Google+ photo galleries.

I mentioned a baby book I am working on at the beginning of this post. I am using Meljen´s Designs images for this one. These images are great for paper piecing, which I love, and help me to create what I have in plan: an interactive baby book. :-D 

Work in progress... 

 

At the end of this post I would like to mention that I am not a member of Design Team or Guest Design Team at Meljen´s Designs, neither I am paid or told to promote anyone. :-D 

Thank you so much for visiting. Enjoy your weekend :-D 

Craft Milka