Guest Designing at IBS

Hi friends,

This is Sathya from Paperie Expressions. Am excited to share my Guest Design project for the month of June at IBS. If you have missed my earlier post using two Fabulous floral stamps, you can check here . 

For today, i have come up with a mixed media project, using Gorgeous Butterflies Stampset.

Let's get started!

• Took 5"x7" canvas and gessoed it with Clear Gesso.
• Added Wendy Veichchi Embossing paste (Translucent) on the diagonal corners of the canvas and with that added cheesecloth.
• Few strings are randomly to create further textures.
• The canvas is misted with Lindy's gang sprays.
• The butterflies are stamped using Black Archival ink and colored using Gelatos. Highlights are added using Fabercastell Polychromos pencils.

                 

• Then colored butterflies are fussy cut, Ranger's UTEE clear Heat embossed.
• The canvas is randomly stamped using script stamp from Forever friends stampset and black archival ink.
• Same stamp is stamped onto a chipboard and added as a focal interest.
• To that added a vellum strip of sentiment from the Butterflies stampset.
• Few Prima mini art stones and some gold glitter dots are added randomly for interest.
• Finally butterflies are added using Hot glue gun.

Hope you liked today's project.

Supply used:

Butterflies Stampset

Layered Love Card

Dear Friends!

"Very Happy Valentine's Day to all"

Am back today with a  Layered Love card. Was inspired by soft delicate shades and the gold colors and so incorporated it into the card. 

Its a pretty mix of pattern papers with Gold polka dots and bold polka prints. Diecut a front panel and layered over a peach shade pp. 

The focal cluster is mounted on a resin frame with few diecut flourishes, diecut leaves and pretty mix of florals. 

Big bold red resin floral heart added as a pretty addition.

Crocheted lace with a floral cabochon and a white embossed vellum butterfly  are added with a word embellies.

A small wooden tag is distressed and the sentiment is added from Inspired by stamping.

Few clear droplets, peach pearls are added as final touches.

Linking this to the following challenge:

Paru's card making challenges: Love

Butterflies!!!

Hiya Friends!!

Butterflies!!! A big addict here!

If you follow my blog, you would know by now :)

• Started to color as i love to link up for  #thedailymarker30day Day#13 coloring challenge of Kathyrac, atlast ended up making a card now :) 
• Colors are inspired from DCAM's 1st color challenge graphic

• Took Canson wc paper but shorter than A2 size.
• Stamped Butterflies and sentiment from IBS -butterflies set using Black Archival ink.
• Then, Wet few portions of the wcpaper and sprinkled the Brushos crystals, (Oh yeah!!! they are my new additions to my stash, bought during vacation, using it after almost 3 months)
• At few places, sprtized water and enjoyed the way the color forms by bursting colors...Absolutely loved this!!!

• Colored using Zig cleancolor brush markers and highlights done with Polychromos Faber castell pencils (That's also a new addition to my stash...)
• Took blue grey Zig and drawn outline to get a hazy background around butterflies.
• Then stenciled Finnabair Light paste+mustardseed Distress stain using TCW tiles stencil.
• Then using Black archival, distressed the whole edge of the panel in a irregular fashion as i love to get a hazy corners.
• Few clear droplets added as accents to finish off the card.
• Its then mounted on the A2 size lemon yellow cardbase.

Hope you like it!!

DCAM: Used TCW tiles stencil, and colors inspired by graphic

IBS -customer gallery (used Butterflies stampset)

Craft stamper - Take it Make it November (Anything goes- Use a stamp)

TicTacToe Challenge #21- Chosen last row (New technique (creating background with brushos)- Distress edges - Clear Droplets)

Pastel shades

My DT inspiration card for this fortnight at Cardabilities .

Come and play along the challenge and this time our Super Sponser is none other than my very favorite Inspired by Stamping.
Known for superb images and awesome stamps with wonderful quotes. Check their blog and join their pinterest board for inspirations.

Here is my card!

The sketch #115 is

Did you see my new personalised watermark from Cardabilities. Oh yeah...ever first DT term and ever first personalised watermark...am all the more joy :) Thank U Karan Gerber, am in love with your awesome sketches and so the watermark!!!

Coming to the card, Used Spellbinders - Curved rectangles for layering on a base white CS. The diecuts are sponged using spun sugar and mustard seed DIs when in dies itself to have a neat sponged border.

Did you noticed my new Spellbinders _Foliage die. That is the new one in my craft stash. The leaves are from those dies and again i sponged with crushed olive when they are in dies itself, to get a defined look.

IBS Australian Nature stamp set is used for those butterflies, which are heat embossed in black Zing powder and sponged with Rusty hinge DI.This stamp is also my new craft stash.

IBS Sentiment is stamped on the Spellbinders banners and ribbons die and and they are also sponged with spun sugar DI.

Few pearls here and there as accents.

Hope you like this simple card :)

Wishing all Indian friends A Very Happy Mahar Sankranti / Pongal : "Harvest Festival" :)
May this new month brings all prosperity and happiness into everyone's life :)

Supplies:

CS - White Fabriano CS
Dies - Spellbinders Foliage die, Spellbinders curved rectangles, Spellbinders banners and ribbons
DIs - Spun sugar, peeled paint,mustard seed, rusty hinge
Ranger Black archival ink 
IBS Australian nature  for butterfly, IBS Butterfly wings for sentiment


Challenge:

IBS customer gallery - IBS Australian nature  for butterfly, IBS Butterfly wings for sentiment
IBS #90 - used baby pink and white

Floral Birthday Card

Been in long slumber..and yeah am back again with a floral birthday card :)

Hubby's Europe trip for 2 weeks and other family commitments kept me away from Crafting and...atlast made this card to blog again here before my India trip in coming week...Ya its 2 month vacation at India :)

This card is for a sweet friend of mine who is celebrating Birthday today!!! Very Happy Birthday dear :)

Wanted to keep it sweet and simple!

Embossed the front panel and added a Blossom four largest diecut as focal point, for mounting the stamped flowers. Flowers are heat embossed in watercolor paper and Distress ink - Fried brick is used for coloring it. Vellum diecut fluorish is added by coloring it with Distress ink - Crushed olive.

Butterfly is heat embossed with Black Zing Embossing powder in watercolor paper and colored with Distress ink -  Wild Honey.

Then these are cut and mounted on the focal diecut which is distressed on edges using Distress ink - antique linen.

Sentiment is added on the banner and added just below the floral arrangement.

Hope you like the card.

Thank you visitors, fellow bloggers who constantly visited  and commented. Special Thanks to those dearies, who mailed me to know my absence here in Blogoland :)

Supplies: 

White CS - Watercolor paper
Dies :  CLD tropical florish , Spellbinders Ribbon banner, Spellbinders Blossoms four
Distress inks - Wild honey, Fired Brick, Crushed Olive
Darice Interlocking embossing folder
Sentiment stamp - IBS Lovely Birthday 
Stamped Flowers - IBS Summer Flowers
Stamped Butterfly - IBS Butterfly wings 

Challenges:

Crafters corner -  Stamp, color and cut with Birthday theme ( Flowers, butterfly are heat embossed, colored,cut and used on birthday floral card)

Imaginations - Anything goes with DIs (used Distress inks - Wild honey, Fired Brick, Crushed Olive)

IBS - Customer gallery ( Sentiment stamp - IBS Lovely Birthday 

Stamped Flowers - IBS Summer Flowers

Stamped Butterfly - IBS Butterfly wings )

Pink Posies :)

Very happy to share that, today my card is being featured at Inspired By Stamping blog. Would like to thank Joanna and IBS team for this opportunity. This card and the co-ordinating box is made by IBS products  such as Spring liliac, Vintage floral paperpads, Sweet Valentine and Butterfly wings Stamp sets

Now onto card :)

Used this pic for inspiration.

The pps from Spring floral and Vintage floral are taken in light mint and baby pink color and matted. Used Picket fence distress stains randomly on pps to tone down their colors. This card front is matted with 6x6 white base cs.

Tore the pp at top left corner and curled up the edges, such that inner pp later is visible. And inbetween that space, tucked a baby pink tulle. Baby pink roses are made using Joy craft die and leaves are made from CLD rose leaf die and muted the color of it by applying picket fence DS on it.

Fillers flowers, mini rose buds are added to create the spray and teeny tiny bow added. Butterflies are heat embossed on vellum and colored with spun sugar Distress ink. Sentiment is stamped on a white vellum and heart pearls are added. Few white pearls as accents.

Box :)

Box and Card:)

This box is so very apt for holding 3dimensional projects such as 6x6 cards. Made a box from 300 gsm kraft cs and used velcro for its closures. On the sides, used CLD tiffany border on white cs. And on top of it, followed the same color scheme as card. Used digital freebies for pps and matted on each other using foam adhesive. Mulberry flowers with candi polka dot centres, a mft florish, grosgrain ribbon and few pearls are added. Sentiment is added on a Venetian label frame and added at centre.

I absoultely enjoyed doing this monochromatic shabby chic project. Hope you like it too!

Supplies:

Card:
White Fabriano CS
PPs- IBS - Spring liliac, Vintage floral paperpads
Dies - Joy crafts die, Itsy Bitsy Venetian label frame
Stamps - IBS - Sentiment :Sweet Valentine ,Butterfly - Butterfly wings
Picket fence Distress stain, pearls,vellum, Zing white embossing powder

Box :
Kraft CS
PPs -Digital freebies
Dies - Venetian label frame
Sentiment - IBS Sweet valentine stamp set
Mulberry flowers, candi dots, mft florish, pink pearls, pink grossbrain ribbon

Challenges entered:

Dubai Scrapbooking - Pic inspiration (pic shared above)
Itsy Bitsy - Monochromatic challenge
Crafters corner -  Go 3D (Box for a dimensional card)
613create Avenue - Anything goes

Spring Love - Mixed Media Frame :)

This is my first frame in mixed media style. Am completely unknown of intricacies of this art, just enjoyed the fun playing with different mediums and colors and getting inky fingers :) Wanted to bring spring mood with cheerful blooms and fluttering butterflies is the basic idea and hope i have done some decent job :) Now onto my work...

Another view

Last week, we enjoyed Chocolate Truffle cake for little one's birthday and i couldnt throw the cakeboard in trash. Instead wanted to turn this to be a keepsake artpiece :)

This altered / upcycled work is done from scratch. The glossy layer was torn off and on the thick cardboard, i made the base using the white acrylic paint and Homemade Gesso. And to that pps were added from Handmade memories paperstack and formed the base. Here Teal layer is added as if pink layer was torn off and showing the underlying layer. And few other places too, Teal pp were added as layers at corners. A portion of mint green pp were paper pieced and added to the pink pp and all glued and layered down with Homemade Modpodge.

Homemade Textured paste is used to give those textures at background, using Tessatina border diecut. And on sides, comb were used to bring about the semicircular concentric patterns with same Homemade texture paste.

Homemade mists were prepared using acrylic colors, pearlescent, metallic acrylic colors and sprayed using mini mister. At few places, i washed down the frame with mists and muted the colors using Homemade gesso layers.

See the clustered floral spray. Those blooms are all handmade roses and muted with layer of gesso. Blue flowers were first white ones and then misted with blue acrylic paint and toned down again gesso. Diecut florishes, leaves were all layered with on top with gesso.

Baby pink Tulle pieces are tucked under few roses to give soft shade. The shiny glossiness of the glittered diecut hearts are due to UTEE clear embossing. Done stamping using Ranger Black Archival ink. Diecut butterfly , few pearls, florishes diecut and Glittered Alpha diecuts LOVE were added to get this overall effect.

Must thank Shilpa of Neon Diary for the wonderful kickstart about the mixed media, which she shared on Lulupu, which made me to make an attempt at this. And of course, special thanks to Pooja, Reusing with Quilling for generous sharing of the links for preparing DIY mists/sprays.

Being first time, i let my heart to work on more and just followed it!! All your comments and views are much appreciated.

Supplies:

Handmade memories - 12/12 paperstack
Dies- CheeryLynn Tropical florishes, Cherry Lynn Rose strip, Joy crafts Floral florishes, Nellie Snellen Doily frame, IO Butterfly die
Itsy Bitsy Boutique elements - Diecut hearts, Florishes, Polka dot stickers,
Itsy Bitsy Glittered Alpha stickers
Stamps - Itsy Bitsy Love birds
               Butterflies from IBS Butterfly wings
Acrylic paints, Homemade Modpodge, Homemade Gesso, Homemade Texture Paste,Mini Mister,pearls,


Challenges Entered:

Lulupu #27 - Everything else -
             Project consists of all letters - L - Layers, Leaves, Love, Lavender shades
                                                           U - UTEE clear,Upcycled frame
                                                           P - Patterned papers, pearls,paints, Pink
                                                           T - Texture paste, Teal color, Tulle
                                                            C - Cardstock (flowers), CheeryLynn dies

Itsy Bitsy - Say it with roses (All are handmade roses using diecuts)

BGC- Torn and Floral full ( Added torn portions of pps, torn tulle tucked under flowers and Roses cluster as focal point)

Kraftzone - Celebrate Spring with Mixed media ( Mine is 10" frame)

Avenue 613 - Use stash ( Mine is Cakeboard used as base for mixed media work here)

Layered Emboss Resist

Wanted to share a CAS card again with a technique which happened to learn yesterday...Layered Emboss Resist.

Hope this lovely butterfly speaks all technique :) Love this butterfly stamp set from IBS.

Started to stamp in wild honey on a White CS and stamped butterfly in Versamark and embossed with clear EP. And before which i stamped the sentiment in Rangers Black Archival ink.

Just distressed with rich cocoa momento ink around the butterfly emerge from the background. Just loved the way the stamped design peeping through the butterfly and so the sentiment too :) Attached a scalloped bordered scrap from kraft CS on one edge and mounted on to white CS.

Hope you all like my amateurish attempts :) Thanks all for stopping by and leaving lovely comments :)

Supplies:

White CS - Nupur Priya

Kaisercraft clear stamp - offshore collection - Itsy Bitsy

Wild honey, Clear EP, Heat gun, Big shot,CLD butterfly with wings - Crafters corner
Scalloped border punch- Joann Store

Challenges entered :
Cherrylynn designs - Give thanks (used CLD small butterfly with angel wings)
Itsy Bitsy - Anything goes with IB (kaisercraft offsore clear stamp from ur store)
IBS - Nov customer gallery (used butterfly and sentiment from Butterfly wings stamp set)
CASology # week 69 - Brown