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Crafty Milka

Guest Artist: Neha Bhatt (I Love Math Challenge #1)

Hi everyone! :o)

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

I am very honored to host very talented Guest Artist today, Neha Bhatt.

Neha is amazing artist from India, owner of Periwinkle Creations.

I have a great pleasure to be in the same Design Team as Neha at Jane's Doodles. Her creations inspire!! I was so happy when Neha accepted my invitation to guest in the challenge and super excited to see what will she create. I love her creations! :o)

Here is what Neha said:

"When Milka asked me to join her on her blog as Guest Artist, I was totally thrilled and honored.  I loved the card she made for Jane's blog . The challenge is combining math in card making and I though  it can't be more interesting than this. So I immediately excepted it. 

As per rules I have used negative space to add theme colors (yellow & orange). I used stencil to make the trees and masked birds, leaves and tree trunk  before painting trees. Now the math part... :). I tried to overlap two circles making Venn Diagram. I wish I could have overlapped a little more but well It occurred to me too late. Sentiment is from wplus9 stamp and rest of the stamps are Jane's Doodles.

I hope I have captured the essence of the challenge .

Thank you so much Milka, for this opportunity and such a fun challenge."

And here is GORGEOUS Neha's card! I LOVE IT!!! :o)

When Neha sent me photo of the card my jaw dropped. STUNNING!!! Gorgeous CAS design, super sweet scene, beautiful bright colors... I love her take on the challenge! Using negative space to add colors and amazing take on the geometry part (Venn's Diagram and all the circles) - BRILLIANT!! :o)

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

Now it's your turn...

Create something using the inspiration board (all elements must be incorporated in your project) and link up your project below.

Details about the challenge...
Challenge Starts: April 7th 2016, 8:00 PM CET (UTC +2)
Challenge Ends: May 7th, 7:55 PM CET (UTC +2)
Challenge rules:

1. You must be a blog follower.
2. Your creation must be new. Please do not link creation that has been posted prior to the day of the challenge.
3. Create any kind of project (card, ATC, tag, painting, drawing, altered art...) using Inspiration Board #1. All elements must be incorporated in your project: technique, color combination and and geometric shape.
4. Theme: Anything Goes
5. Projects must be handmade!
6. Mention the challenge in your blog post and link back to the challenge.
7. Display Inspiration Board in your blog post.
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 Neha Bhatt and I will select two favorite projects each (TOP 4), which will be featured here on my blog on May 15th 2016. Among TOP 4, there will be a random draw (using Random.org) for one lucky winner who will then receive the prize. :o)

More details about the challenge and idea in the first challenge post, here.

I hope you got inspired with Neha's card. I did! Be sure to visit Neha's blog, Periwinkle Creations, and see her gorgeous creations. :o)

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

Crafty Milka

An InLinkz Link-up

Sweet Baby Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotligh)

Hi everyone :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this Sweet Baby Card, a welcome card for my friend's baby girl, born yesterday. :o)

For this card I used three Jane's Doodles stamp sets: 'Special Delivery', 'Read All About It' and 'Coffee Time'.

First I made a background on a white watercolor paper panel. I  heat embossed stars in white and then stamped couple stars with VersaMark to get watermark images. Then I colored the panel, blending Distress Inks (Wilted Violet and Dusty Concord), creating an Ombré Effect. When I was satisfied with the color, I splattered the panel with water. To brighten up the panel, I lifted up distress ink from stars. I saw this technique at Jennifer McGuire Ink. I love the magic Distress Inks make!! :o)

Image is paper pieced. I stamped three images, one directly on the panel and two more on the watercolor paper. First I colored baby's face with colored pencils and after all others parts in watercolor technique using Distress Ink Wilted Violet. I fussy cut parts I needed, colored edges with black marker and glued all parts together. I added white highlights with a white pen on the image and covered stroller wheels with resin gel to create glossy accents.

After the gloss resin was dry, I heat embossed a sentiment on the card base, cut off excess parts of the panel and glued it on a white cardstock paper card base. I embellished card with couple of white enamel dots, drew tiny white dots all over the panel and my card was finished. :o)

Card dimensions: 93 mm x 127 mm (3 11/16" x 5")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Special Delivery' stamp set (baby in a stroller, sentiment 'sweet baby')
• Jane's Doodles 'Read All About It' stamp set (stars)
• Jane's Doodles 'Coffee Time' stamp set (sentiment 'Hello')
• white cardstock paper (card base)
• white watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks
• Wilted Violet
• Dusty Concord
• TOZ colored pencils: skin color and pink
• Stabilo Pen (Marker) 68/46 Black
• Unibal Signo White
• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' Enamel Stickers
• UHU universal Glue
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• Gloss Resin Super Clear
• MS scoring board
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• Sigma Rotary Paper Trimmer
• scissors
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Tim Holtz's Blending Tool
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• crafting needle
• powder bag
• paper towels
• water

I am entering my card to following challenges:

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

1) Crafting By Designs, April Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Crafty Calendar Challenge, April Anything Goes Challenge

3) Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge, Challenge #32 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Crafty Milka