Awesome gift

Hi everyone :o)

Just wanted to share with you an AWESOME gift from my boyfriend that arrived yesterday in a mail. Happiness overload!!! :o)

Guess what I'm doing all day. :o)

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

Crafty Milka

Rainbow Snail Mail Card Set

Hi everyone :o)

Today I want to share with you a Rainbow Snail Mail Card Set. I made seven CAS (clean and simple), one layer cards and decorated seven bought envelopes to match cards.

First I draw paths and wrote word 'mail' with a pencil, traced all lines with Stabilo fine black pen, left all dry couple of minutes and erased pencil lines.

Then I stamped super cute snail from Paper Smooches 'Forest Whimsy' stamp set directly onto card bases and envelopes. I stamped more snails on white 120 grams paper. From my experience, cardstock paper I use for card bases doesn't give good results when coloring on it with colored pencils, so I went with layering image stamped on paper over image stamped on cardstock.

I colored snails stamped on white paper with colored pencils, fussy cut them out, colored edges with black Stabilo Marker, and glued them over snails stamped on card bases. I also colored snails stamped on envelopes.

At the end I covered all snails, on cards and envelopes, with a gloss resin to create glossy accents.

All cards measure 101 mm x 133 mm (4" x 5 1/4") and envelopes 168 mm x 114 mm (6 5/8" x 4 1/2").

List of supplies: 

• Paper Smooches 'Forest Whimsy' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• white paper (120 grams)
• white envelopes (these were bought)
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• colored pencil (skin color)
• Koh-i-noor woodless colored pencils 
• Pyrrole Red 170
• Reddish Orange 2
• Chrome Yellow 1
• Meadow Green 4
• Cobalt Blue 6
• Sapphire Blue 7
• Lavender Violet 8
• Stabilo Black Pen 88/46, fine 0.4
• Stabilo Black Marker 68/46
• gloss resin super clear
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• tweezers
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• crafting needle

I am entering my project 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) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #167 - Make Your Mark

2) Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge Blog, October 18-24 Anything Goes (wk3) Challenge

3) The Cat's Pajamas, TCP Tuesday (TCPTUES301) Anything Goes Challenge

4) The Daily Marker, 3rd 30 Day Coloring Challenge
This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

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

Crafty Milka

Tealight Candle Christmas Boxes (Fairy Tale Challenge #129)

Hi everyone! :o)

My second post today. If you missed first one where I announced the winner of my giveaway, just scroll down or follow the link here.


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

The theme for this fortnight is #129, Eine Box oder ein Album / Box or Photo Album. 

A prize for one lucky winner this time is adorable stamp from our lovely sponsor Betty's Creations.

For this challenge I made five Tealight Candle Christmas Boxes.

To make this small tealight boxes, I was inspired with project and tutorial Advent Wreath to go found on Stempeleinmaleins and also on designer's blog, Miri D.

I made smaller version of boxes, for one tealight candle only, and glued them together slightly different, so my boxes open differently, as shown on the picture below.

I made bodies of boxes from designer paper, punched scallop circle on one side of each box and glued small pieces of acetate sheet over punched circles. Then I glued boxes together.

I cut out stripes of designer paper and glued them round each tealight candle. I like when tealight candles match boxes. I tried this before last winter and you can see it here.

I printed sentiment ticketes on two patterns of same designer paper, fussy cut them, colored edges with black Stabilo pen, glued them together and pierced a hole in it with needle. These tickets are 'Warm Winter Wishes' Christmas Digi Ticket Stamp by Kimberly M. Landmesse, The Beary Scrap, and all are free.

I wrapped each box with brown twine (I used two different) and tied tickets onto boxes. At the end I glued Santa and Reindeer motifs onto boxes. These are wooden colored chips and have 3-D adhesive foam on back.

Each box measures 38 mm x 19 mm x 38 mm (1 1/2" x 3/4" x 1 1/2").

List of supplies: 

• Crafter's Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad
• 'Warm Winter Wishes' Christmas Digi Ticket Stamp by Kimberly M. Landmesser, The Beary Scrap (Freebie)
• acetate sheet
• Christmas wooden colored chips (Santa and Reindeer)
• twine (from Fancy Pants Designs, Large Chalk Tag)
• Docrafts 'Home for Christmas' Brown String
• tealight candles
• Stabilo Pens 68 
• Red 68/19
• Green 68/36
• Black 68/46
• UHU universal glue
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• tweezers
• EK Success 1" scallop circle punch
• crafting needle

I hope you'll like my today's project. Hop over to the Fairy Tale Challenge Blog and see gorgeous projects my Design Team Mates made for this challenge. Do join us, we can't wait to see your projects. :o)

I am entering my project to following challenges:
Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Beccy's Place, October Challenge

This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

2) Crafting By Designs, Get Ready for Christmas - October edition

3) Craft Your Passion Challenges, Challenge #284 - Always Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

4) Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge, Challenge #20 - Anything Goes

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

5) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Wrap It Up!

6) Through The Craft Room Door, TTCRD Challenge from October 20th to October 26th, Anything Goes

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

Crafty Milka