Chinese New Year Card

Hi everyone :-D 

Yesterday I made this Chinese New Year Card. I was inspired with Chinese Lanterns (love them) and colors traditional in Chinese culture.

I used gorgeous free digital stamp 'Lanterns' from Avery Elle. 

 

Image is paper pieced. 
First I printed the image and sentiment on a golden paper. 
Then I printed two more images (only lanterns, to save paper and printer color), one on the golden paper and second on a red textured cardstock paper. 
I cut out red lanterns, colored edges with black fine liners and glued them over lanterns printed on golden paper.
At the end, I cut out few lantern stripes printed on the golden paper and glued them on the image.

Card dimensions are 139 mm x 101 mm (5 1/2" x 4").

List of supplies:

• Avery Elle digital freebie 'Lanterns' 
• black cardstock paper
• red textured cardstock paper
• golden paper (130 grams) 
• Staedtler Lumocolor permanent black pen F (fine) 0.6 mm
• UHU universal glue 
• white water based glue 
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 

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) AEIHeartU Challenge, Challenge #20 - Paper Piecing

 

2) Hiding in My Craft Room, HIMCR #184 - Any Holiday! 

3) Penny´s Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog, Challenge 211 - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Stop by later today, I´ll be posting again. Enjoy :-D 

Crafty Milka

Wonky Christmas Tree Card (Crafty Creations Challenges #281)

Hi everyone :-D 

It´s time for a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges.

Our theme for this fortnight is #281 - Something Old, Something New.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Fresh Brewed Designs and they are giving an awesome prize to our random winner.

For this challenge I made this Wonky Christmas Tree Card, using our sponsor´s image Fresh Brewed Designs 'Wonky Christmas Tree'.

New: image (Fresh Brewed Designs 'Wonky Christmas Tree')
Old: cardstock paper, aquarell colored pencils, digital paper, transparent varnish (I have this bottle almost 5 years), dimensional foam

The image is paper pieced. I printed 5 images on a white paper, colored parts I needed with my aquarell colored pencils and an universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces, fussy cut all pieces, colored edges with a black marker and glued all pieces together. I placed small pieces of dimensional foam under every layer, but only on edges, to pop up layers of this fun tree. I printed one more image on a white cardstock paper (I removed a trunk and pot from original image) and placed pieced tree over it.
At the end I added a transparent varnish on yellow dots and purple stripes to create glossy accents.

Card dimensions are 105 mm x 148 mm (4 1/8" x 5 7/8").

List of supplies:

• Fresh Brewed Designs 'Wonky Christmas Tree'
• Gingham Prints yellow and lavender from Little Llama Shoppe (these were free gift in July 2014) 
  
• dark green cardstock paper 
• white cardstock paper 
• white paper (160 grams) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow 3, purple 13, light green 25) 
• Koh-i-noor universal white pencil for writing on gloss surfaces
• black fine liner 0.5 mm 
• black marker 
• double sided strong adhesive tape 
• white water based glue 
• dimensional double sided adhesive foam 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• printer
• scoring board
• trimmer 
• scissors 
• crafting needle 

Stop by the Crafty Creations Challenges to see gorgeous creations from other Design Team Members and join us in this challenge. We are looking forward to see your projects. :-D

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 challenges home page. 

1) Dream Valley Challenges, #98 - Anything Goes

2) Hiding in My Craft Room, HIMCR #183 - Color it! 

3) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from January 20th to January 26th, Anything Goes

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

Crafty Milka

Glossy Dots Card

Hi everyone :-D 

My second post today. If you missed the first one, scroll down or just follow this link. :-D 

It´s bad weather here in Cavtat today, so I spent most of the day sleeping. :-D After I had enough of sleep, I made myself good coffee, took some paper, scraps and tools... and I made this Glossy Dots Card.

First I drew a pattern on a white paper using a compass, ruler and pencil.
Than I placed a white layer of cardstock paper below the drawn pattern and punched holes according to drawn pattern.
I glued paper scraps below punched layer and filled punched holes with transparent varnish. After couple of hours drying, I glued the layer to a card base.
This Friday I made photo tutorial about how I make glossy dots and you can find it here. 

Card dimensions are 105 mm x 148 mm (4 1/8" x 5 7/8").

List of supplies:

• white cardstock paper
• white printer paper (80 grams)
• Graphic 45 paper collection 'French Country', 6 x 6 (Patterns and Solids) - I used scraps 
  
• UHU universal glue 
• double sided strong adhesive tape 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss 
• scoring board 
• trimmer 
• hole punchers (2 sizes)
• hammer 
• plank board  
• crafting needle
• compass 
• ruler 
• pencil 

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) Virginia´s View Challenge, #11 - Clean Slate

2) Through The Craft Room, TTCRD Challenge from January 13th to January 19th, Anything Goes

I hope you like my card. Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile :-D

Crafty Milka