Extra Warm Wishes Card

Hi everyone :-D  

My second post today is this Extra Warm Wishes Card I finished this morning.

My inspiration for this one was a beautiful sketch090 with a twist from I {heart} sketches by Imke Ludvig. Twist was to use scraps from stash. I rotated sketch and used scraps from my stash to make this card, except for the card base. There was also an inspirational color board, but I didn´t used it.

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

I used From the Heart Stamps 'Birdbrain Winter Scarf' digital stamp. Super cute stamp that comes with 4 sentiments. :-D 

 
I colored the image with aquarell and colored pencils and added some transparent varnish to eyelids and beak, to accent them, because the image is monochromatic and it didn´t look quite good without varnish. Here are some close up photos.

A list of supplies used to make this card: 

• From the Heart Stamps 'Birdbrain Winter Scarf' 
• scraps from Crafters Companion Bebunni Christmas 6" x 6" Designer Paper Pad
• white card stock paper (card base)
• dark blue card stock paper 
• white paper 160 grams 
• blue colored pencil
• white pencil 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (light and dark blue)
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• black fine liner 0.5 
• pencil 
• eraser 
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• transparent varnish with extra gloss 
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• ruler 
• crafting needle  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

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

1) From the Heart Stamps I {heart} card sketches w/a tWiSt #no.90

 

2) Delightful Challenges, Weekly Challenge - Bundle Up (Winter theme) 

3) Love to Create Challenge Blog, Challenge #145 - Non-Traditional Holiday Colors

4) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from December 9th to December 15th, Anything Goes

5) The Corrosive Challenge Blog, Challenge #214 - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy your day. :-D 

Crafty Milka

Beautiful Morning and Winning Week

Good morning everyone :-D

It´s beautiful here in Cavtat. Although I have flu, I am enjoying my morning coffee, sun and bird´s song.

This week I won pretty cool prizes for commenting in blog hops and played challenges. I would like to thank all for those great prizes. :-D 

This Monday I was selected as a random winner for commenting at November Paper Smooches DT Blog Hop. I won a gift certificate to spend it in PS shop. Awesome! :-D 

I was selected as a random winner for commenting at December Blog Hop at From the Heart Stamps. I won FTHS image of my choice.

My card Reach for the Stars won at From the Heart Stamps and was also a TOP 3 card! How cool is that! :-D I am so glad that the Design Team liked my card.

Thank you for visiting. Come over later today, I´ll be posting again. Enjoy your day :-D 

Crafty 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