Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Friday! :o)

I hope you're all doing great. :o)

Today I want to share with you two birthday cards I made this week, one for my day and other for my boyfriend. They both have birthday today. I'll share cards in two separate posts.


First card today is this CAS (clean and simple) Monochrome Masculine Birthday Card I made for my dad.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!! You are such an inspiration and a wonderful teacher. ♥

To make this card I was inspired with fantastic Jennifer's McGuire Masked Stripes. What an awesome result!! :o)

For my card layout I used CAS(E) this Sketch #160.

My dad's favorite color is blue, so obvious color choice was blue. I used my favorite Distress Ink blue shade, Blueprint Sketch.

Using mini ink blending tool, I blended colors directly on a white top folded card base. My masking and steps how I blended inks were slightly different than Jennifer's.

After I finished blending the panel, it was a bit too dark for my taste. I didn't want to use water on my card, so I used white acrylic paint to light up some parts (the lightest stripes). I didn't mix acrylic paint with any water, I added it directly on the card from a tube and spread it with paint brush.

Next up was a sentiment. It's on Croatian and it says: Happy birthday dad. I typed it on a piece of white cardstock paper using UNIS tbm de Luxe Typewriter.

At the end I glued sentiment on the card, added some white enamel stickers and my card was finished.

Card dimensions: 93 mm x 126 mm (3 11/16 " x 5")

List of supplies:

• white cardstock paper
• Tim Holtz's Distress Ink (Blueprint Sketch)
• Marabu Acrylic Paint (070 White)
• Create a Smile 'Neat & Neautral' enamel stickers
• UHU universal glue
• 3-D foam pads 
• UNIS tbm de Luxe Typewriter
• MS scoring board
• Sigma Rotary Paper Trimmer
• Fiskars High Precission Personal Paper Trimmer
• Marabu flat fine paint brush no. #6
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
• scissors
• crafting needle
• washi tape, paper scraps (for masking)

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 a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge #204 - CAS
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, Anything Goes

3) Sweet Stamps Blog, July's Anything Goes Challenge

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

4) The Daily Marker, 5th 30 Day Coloring Challenge
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by later today I'll be sharing one more card. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

Guest Artist: Zrinka Berić (I Love Math Challenge #2)

Hi everyone! :o)

I hope you're all doing great! There are still more than two weeks to join a second I Love Math Challenge. :o)

I am very honored to host very talented Guest Artist today, Zrinka Berić.

Zrinka is an amazing artist from Croatia, an owner of Owls and Co.

With her family, she also owns Toporko, wooden toys like no others. :o)

I love Zrinka's creations. Fun cards, gorgeous handmade dolls and animals, baby stuff, wooden toys... This girl rocks!!! :o)
I have a great pleasure to be in the same Design Team as Zrinka at Jane's Doodles. I was so happy when Zrinka accepted my invitation to be a guest in the challenge and super excited to see what will she create. :o)

Here is what Zrinka said:

"I’m not a math person. At all. Still using my phone for even simple operation like dividing two numbers. Silly, I know. 

So when Milka asked me to joined her math challenge, I meant, please let it be simple.

And it was.. Number 2. How can it be difficult.

My card is as simple, as can be.

Two balloons, in two primary colours ( by Clearly Besotted ) on round panel. Happiness sentiment ( by Technique Tuesday ) on dotted paper ( by the Stamps of life ). All other papers ( white, yellow and dark blue ) are from my stash, I do not know where are they from. I used Color Box/Stephanie Barnard ink pads ( Banana & Blueberry & Midnight ). Die cuts are from Sizzix  - everything except circle, it’s from the stamps of life."

And here is ADORABLE Zrinka's card! I LOVE IT!!! :o)

When Zrinka sent me photo of the card I screamed: Wohooo balloons!!! I love balloons!! Air, water or hot-air balloons... Balloons are awesome!!! :o)

Lot of layers and dimension, with a lot of white space and minimum of color make this super sweet card brilliant CAS design. I love her take on the challenge! Two balloons stamped in two primary colors, two different stamp sets, double layers. She also used different geometric shapes on her card and used sentiment in an equation form. BRILLIANT!! :o)

Thank you so much Zrinka for joining the challenge and for the inspiration! :o)

Now it's your turn...

Create anything inspired by number two: two same design cards, two ATCs, two boxes, use number two on your project, stamp two same images on your project, use stamps from two artists/companies, use two words in your sentiment, embellish your card with two embellishments, use two colors... Possibilities are endless. You are welcome to CASE my cards. :o)

Details about the challenge...

Challenge Starts: July 7th 2016, 8:00 PM CEST (UTC +2)
Challenge Ends: August 7th, 7:55 PM CEST (UTC +2)

Challenge rules:

1. Create any kind of project (card, ATC, tag, painting, drawing, altered art...) inspired by number two.
2. Theme: Anything Goes
3. Your creation must be new. Please do not link creation that has been posted prior to the day of the challenge.
4. Projects must be handmade!
5. Any stamp company/artist is welcome.
6. You must be a blog follower.
7. Mention the challenge in your blog post and link back to the challenge.
8. Link up as many projects as you want.
9. You are welcome to combine your project to as many challenges as you want.
10. No blog hop and direct selling links are allowed here.
11. Link your direct blog post and not your entire blog, so I could locate your creation.
12. Please turn off word verification.
13. Have fun!

I reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with challenge rules.

Prize: 

One Jane's Doodles stamp set of winners choice. Guest artist Zrinka and I will select two favorite projects each (TOP 4), which will be featured here on my blog on August 21st 2016. Among TOP 4, there will be a random draw (using Random.org) for one lucky winner who will then receive the prize. :o)

I hope you got inspired with Zrinka's card. I did! Be sure to visit Zrinka's blog, Owls and Co., as well as hers Etsy stores (Owls and Co., Toporko). Super cuteness overload!! :o)

Thank you for visiting today. Zrinka and I can't wait to see your creations! Enjoy and smile! :o)

Crafty Milka

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Hello Sunshine Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Hi everyone :o)

On Friday was my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this CAS (clean and simple), Hello Sunshine Card.

I used two Jane's Doodles stamp sets: 'Rain or Shine' and 'Coffee Time'.

Techniques: stamping, masking, watercolor, fussy cutting, paper piecing

Card dimensions: 99 mm x 99 mm (3 7/8" x 3 7/8")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Rain or Shine' stamp set
• Jane's Doodles 'Coffee Time' stamp set
• design paper from Create a Smile 'Sending Sunshine' kit
• white cardstock paper
• white watercolor paper
• heart stickers
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Stabilo Pens (Markers):
• Yellow 68/44
• Orange 68/54
• Black 68/46
• UHU universal glue
• 3-D foams
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• MS scoring board
• Sigma Rottary Paper Trimmer
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• scissors
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• water
• paper towels

I am entering my card to following challenges:

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

1) CRAFT-alnica, Izziv / Challenge #164 - Toplo poletje / Summer
Moja druga voščilnica v tem izzivu.

2) Crafting By Desings, July Anything Goes Challenge

This is my 2nd entry to this challenge.

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

Crafty Milka