Crafty Milka FB 1st Birthday

Hello everyone :-D

Today is first birthday of my Crafty Milka FB page! Hooray!!! :-D

Looking back... A lot of things happened in this one year period time. I met a lot of talented crafters, made new friends, started stamping and learned a lot of new crafting techniques, started my own YouTube channel and this blog, had an honor to be a Guest Designer... Fruitful year!:-D

I would like to thank you all, my friends, fans, followers and readers, for all the support and encouragement. :-D

Due to my unemployment and extremely complicated laws here, I must skip any kind of giveaways, but I hope that will change soon. :-D

Thank you all for visiting. Enjoy and smile :-D


Crafty Milka

Fancy Sunbonnet Christmas Ornament

Hi everyone :-D

Today I want to share with you Fancy Sunbonnet Christmas Ornament I made last week. I didn´t want to share it before, because it was a birthday present for a friend and I wanted it to be a surprise. She liked it a lot. :-D

 

I used a beautiful Bugaboo Digi 'Fancy sunbonnet winter 2'.
Image is paper pieced. It has two layers.

I printed one image on Bebunni Christmas designer paper and the other image on white paper, colored and fussy cut it, colored edges with black fine liner and glued it over image printed on patterned paper. I added pearl marker to accent snowball. Mittens, scarf, pocket, belt and under skirt are colored with silver sparkling pen.
I cut out one more circle from the same patterned paper I used for the image´s background and glued it to the back of the image.

I placed image in the center of a clear acrylic ornament and added some hot glue on few spots, to prevent image moving inside the ornament. I embellished ornament with satin flowers, decorative flower stamens, synthetic snowballs and pearl maker. At the end I added nylon thread.

List of supplies: 

• Bugaboo Digi 'Fancy sunbonnet winter 2'
• Crafters Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad
• white paper (160 grams) 
• colored pencils (4 different blues) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencil (light and dark blue) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• silver sparkling pen 
• black fine liner 0.5
• clear acrylic fillable ball ornament (Ø 40 mm) 
• decorative flower stamens 
• satin flowers (white and blue) 
• synthetic snowballs (Ø 10 mm)
• nylon thread 
• white water based glue  
• transparent low temperature glue stick 
• pearl maker (pastel-white) 
• printer 
• compass 
• eraser 
• scissors 
• Dremel 920 glue gun, low temperature

I am entering my project into the following challenges:

Note: bold text is direct link to current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog or challenges home page. 

1) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge, Recipe #205 - Winter 

2) Clear it Out Challenge Blog, Theme: Circles, Stash: Use glitter/something sparkly
My sparkly things: silver sparkling pen, acrylic ball ornament :-D 

3) Glitter n Sparkle Challenge Blog, Challenge #114 - Modern Christmas Colors  
Use Pink, Purple, Blue or anything than RED or GREEN. 

4) Kitty Bee Design, Aloha Friday Challenge #38 - Unusual Colored Christmas
Stay away from traditional red, green, gold combo, but feel free to use those colors, just not together. 

5) Little Miss Muffet Challenges, Challenge #100 - Anything Goes 

6) The Paper Nest Dolls Challenges, Challenge #24 - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and your kind  feedback. I wish you all beautiful week. :-D


Crafty Milka

Reach for the Stars Card

Hello everyone :-D  

I just finished this Reach for the Stars Card. 

I used I {heart} sketches sketch089 with a twist for my card layout. Twist was to use a tag. I didn´t use any sentiment. There was also an inspirational color board. Beautiful color combination, but I didn´t used it this time. I like this sketch by Imke Ludvig a lot and I am sure I´ll use it again. 

Card dimensions are 143 mm x 98 mm (5 5/8" x 3 7/8").

I called my card as From the Heart Stamps 'Reach for the Stars Snowman' digital stamp I used. Super cute stamp. :-D 

Image is paper pieced and it has two layers. I printed one image on white paper, colored it, fussy cut it, colored edges and layered it over the other image printed on patterned paper. I love using patterned paper as image´s background. I added pearl maker to accent snowflakes on patterned paper and to accent snow below snowman. When the image was completely dry, I cut out tag shape, punch hole in it, added some ribbon and my tag was finished. I added some dimensional tape behind the tag and placed it to the card. I wanted to pop-up the tag because it came out really nice. :-D 
 
A list of supplies used to make this card: 

• From the Heart Stamps 'Reach for the Stars Snowman' 
• Crafters Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad
• white card stock paper 
• white paper 160 grams 
• colored pencils (yellow, orange) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, green, blue) 
• ribbon 
• Freckled Fawn Enamel Warm Dew Drop Stickers
• black fine liner 0.5 
• pearl maker (pastel-white) 
• double sided strong adhesive tape 
• white water based glue 
• dimensional double sided adhesive tape 
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• office paper puncher    

I am entering my card into the following challenge:

Note: bold text is direct link to current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog or challenge home page.

From the Heart Stamps i {heart} card sketches w/a tWiSt #no.89.

 

I love to play these challenges. From the Heart Stamps are required, anyone can join and there are awesome benefits for each entry. You can find more information here. 

You don´t have any From the Heart Stamps image? You can find them here. 

There is currently December Designers Blog Hop  going on at From the Heart Stamps Blog and a theme this month is Christmas or any other Winter Holiday. Beautiful and very inspirational DT projects and fabulous opportunity to win From the Heart Stamps images. Check it out. :-D 

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy the rest of Sunday. :-D 

Crafty Milka 

Update December 28th, 2014 

This is the first of my three favorite cards I entered into Clear it Out Challenge Blog, Our Favorites Challenge (upload your favorite card from 2014). 

 

Update January 1st, 2015

My favorite 2014 Creations

Update January 10th, 2015

This is my favorite 2014 card I entered into Deep Ocean Challenge Blog, Challenge #94 - Favorite 2014 Card.