Thank You card!

Today's card is my last DT inspiration for Cardabilities blog for the sketch #118.

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Thank you Karan Gerber for the wonderful opportunity to work with your awesome sketches and talented Design teamies across the world. Absolutely enjoyed this DT term :)

Todays' card

Just stacked the Spellbinder and joycraft diecuts on a kraft CS and matted against a white CS. The bloom is made using joy craft die. 

The leaves are from Spellbinders foliage die. Few pearls and white acrylic ink splatters to finish off the card.

Challenges entered:

IBS customer gallery -  used IBS trendy circles

IBS color sketch  #91 - used kraft, white, green

Simon says stampblog - Anything goes

Hugs and Kisses!

Hi All,

Today's card is all about crazy inking and collage of stamping :)

Hero Arts Leafy wines are stamped diagonally using Ranger's Archival Sepia ink and the whole card is distressed using Antique Linen, Aged Mahogany, Rusty Hinge DIs for building layers. Kaisercraft Hessian stamp is used for the texture on the corners of card and Heidi swapp script are stamped using Festive berries DI.

Ornate diecut is added as focal point and on it the floral arrangement is made with the crinkled flowers using Cheerylynn Designs Gardenia strip, CLD tropical flourish, CLD olive branches, CLD rose strip. A corrugated heart diecut is added which is distressed with aged Mahogany DI and picket fence DS is used randomly on it.

IBS sentiment is stamped on a Avery Elle tiny tag die. Few rhinestones, stick pollens are added as accents.

Hope you like it!

Challenges entered:

Cheerylynn Designs - Anything goes (used Cheerylynn Designs Gardenia strip, CLD tropical flourish, CLD olive branches, CLD rose strip)

IBS customer gallery (used IBS sweet valentine stamp set)

IBS  used kraft, pink and white colors

Sending my Love :)

Today's card is with just roses!!! Rose making madness continues!
What better way to express the love other than these roses!

The front panel is a diecut from Spellbinders A2 Devine Eloquence and its matted with its 2nd largest die which is popped up with adhesive foams. The largest diecut is from prima Zephyr paperpad and the roses are made from Joycrafts die and the blue CS used is from DCWV pastel shades.

The leaves are diecut from Spellbinders foliage dies in pale yellow cs, whose edges are distressed with shabby shutters DI.

The IBS sentiment is stamped on heart thinlits die and the edges are distressed using Tumbled glass DI.
Few blue pearls o finish off the card.

Hope you like the card!

Supplies:
CS- Fabriano White, DCWV pastel -blue, 
PP - Prima Zephyr 6x6 paperpad

Dies:
Spellbinders Foliage die, A2 Devine Eloquence die
Joycrafts floral florishes
Itsybitsy heart thinlits

Inks - Tumbled glass,Shabby shutters DIs
Ranger's Black Archival ink

Pearls


Challenges:

IBS #91 used color blue, green

IBS customer gallery - Trendy circles stamp used by selectively masking

613 Avenue create - Anything goes with RAK day
ABC cahllenge - D is for diecuts
Sisterhood of crafters - Sweethearts and Roses

Love You card :)

Wishing You All A Very Happy Valentine's Day :)

Today's card is DT inspiration for Cardabilities. The sponsor for this fortnight is DiesRUs. Play along to win exciting prize from our sponsor :)

Sketch for this time is:

Bit of mixed media kind of card. The panel is a pp from Vintage notes. Stamped kaisercraft heissian stamp and using stencil, applied texture paste on the pp and misted with pearlescent pink mist and stamped Heidi swapp script stamp randomly around the centre of pp.

Made a heart from paper cord and slightly misted with the pearlescent pink mist, Few Prima flowers around the heart with cheerylynn ivy florish leaves, pink grossgrain ribbon and few pearls as accents.

Hope you like it!

Supplies:

pp - Vintage notes
CS- Fabrino kraft cs
Die - Cheerylynn ivy florish leaf die
Flowers - Prima coffe break collection
Pearlescent pink mist
Stamp - Kaisercraft Heisian stamp
Heidi swapp script stamp
Sentiment IBS - Just because
Pearls, Pink gorssgrain ribbon from stash


Challenges:

IBS feb customer gallery - Jus because stampset

Pink Posies card - CLD DT call !

Today 's card is especially for Cheerylynn Design Team call. Its one of the finest dies, which cuts paper like butter. I love to work with those dies very often and this DT call, urges me to attempt my luck to work among the wonderful designers' team.

Always love to find ways to use my flower dies and this time too attempted to make different flowers. Used only Cheerylynn dies to make this card :)

Diecut the CLD Mexcian tile die from white CS and matted this against a pink CS and layered this panel on a White CS.

The large bloom is made from CLD sunflower die and distressed with Tattered rose and Wornlipstick DIs. The roses are made from CLD Gardenia strip die and this time tried to attempt peony kind flower than usual roses.These are distressed with worn lipstick DI on edged, misted and shaped. Small roses are made from CLD medium rose die and the single petal pollen centered too are from same die. Those are distressed using the Worn lipstick DI.

These flroal cluster are arranged on the CLD tropical florish die with CLD rose leaves and CLD olive branches.

The Sentiment banner is diecut from Itsy bitsy venetian label,and IBS sentiment is stamped using Black Archival ink and mounted using adhesive foam.

Hope you like this!!

Supplies:
CS- White from Fabriano, Pink from DCWV pastels stack

Cheerylynn Designs dies - Mexican tile die,
                                            Olive branches,
                                            Gardenia strip die
                                            Rose leaf strip
                                            Medium rose strip
                                            Tropical florish die
DIs-   Tattered rose, Worn lipstick

IBS Sentiment, Ranger black archival ink,pearls,

Challenges:

Cheerylynn Designs DT Call

Cheerylynn Designs - Tickled pink (CLD Mexican tile die,
                                            Olive branches,
                                            Gardenia strip die
                                            Rose leaf strip
                                            Medium rose strip
                                            Tropical florish die)

Watercolor card :)

Hi Friends...

Today is my 7th Wedding Anniversary and amidst of all my regular works, squeezed time to do this Watercolor Thank you and my DT inspiration.

Thanks a lot dearies for all your Wishes and Greetings and love to say my thanks through this card. Hope you like it!!

Used TH watercolor card to clear emboss the image and watercolored it using Mustard seed DI, Shabby shutters, Crushed Olive, Black soot, Tumbled glass DIs. Used Mustard seed DI for the petalsm black soot for the pollens, Crushed olive and shabby shutters for the grass blades and Tumbled glass DI finally around the area of flowers and leaves.

Used the tute shared in WHW#152. Since i dont own any markers, used DI pads to color it.

Then its die cut in a scalloped die and mounted on Spellbinders Timeless rectangle larger diecut whose edges are distressed with mustard seed DI.

A small scalloped oval is used as sentiment banner which are distressed with mustard seed DI and IBS trendy circles sentiment is used.

And this card front is mounted on a blank white cs and few pearls added as accents.

Supplies:

Fabriano White CS
TH water color card
IBS friends forever stamp set
IBS trendy circles set
Inks - DIs- Mustard seed, Black soot, Crushed olive, Shabby shutters
Black Archival Ranger's ink
Itsy Bitsy Scalloped oval die
Spellbinders Timeless rectangle die

Challenges:

WHW#152 - Watercoloring (used DIs))

IBS customer gallery - used IBS friends forever and IBS trendy circles stamp set

IBS#90 (used Sketch)

Layered Shabby chic card :)

Hi All,

Today's card is a layered shabby chic one with those pastel shades of beige, brown, baby pink, mint green,olive green. Hope you like it!

Hope am bitten by shabby bug, offlate making cards with these tones predominantly :)

Layering and the card front are diecut from Spellbinder Curved rectangle die and layers are added using the foam tape to give bit dimension to the layers. And these are matted against the kraft CS.

Cheerylynn Designs Tiffany border is attached to the sides of the 3rd layer of the diecut and to the ends a cream beaded trim is attached. Its a RAK from a dear friend Pooja :)

Cheerylynn Designs Tropical flourish are added and top of it added heart diecut from a corrugated cardboard and to it, added Picket fence DS and on its sides added Vintage photo DS. The sentiment is added on a heart diecut and centrally placed on this corrugated heart.

Two strips of CLD ivy florish are added under the heart so that it peeks from it.

Always wanted to try different flowers using the CLD dies. And so the Big cabbage rose are made from CLD gardenia strip and those small blooms are made from the calyx of the CLD medium rose die and to it, added few white pollens. Hope you like these trial versions of my flowers :)

CLD butterfly is added near the floral cluster and few pearls as accents.

Hope you like it!!

Supplies:

CS- Fabriano kraft CS

PPs-  IBS vintage florals
So Sweet 

Dies:
Cheerylynn Designs - ivy florish, gardenia strip, tiffany border, small butterfly with angel wings,medium rose,tropical florish
Itsy bitsy - Heart thinlits
Stamp - IBS Sweet Valentine
Sepia Ranger Archival ink, pearls
beaded trim - RAK from sweet friend Pooja...Girl am loving it!!

Challenges:

Cheerylynn Designs - Add a flourish (used vy florish, gardenia strip, tiffany border, small butterfly with angel wings,medium rose,tropical florish)

IBS customer gallery (used Sweet valentine stampset and Vintage floral pp)

IBS #90 (used hearts)

Addicted to stamps - Lots of layers

Inkspirational #75 Rose colors

Just us girls#278

Layered Vintage Card :)

DT inspiration card for Cardabilities here! Very fond of inks these days and tried to create layered vintage bg for this card.

Here we go,

Sketch for this challenge

Watercolor cs is taken and built the layers from scratch, using various DIs - Aged Mahogany, Scattered straw, Vintage Photo. Adequately misting and drying every layer before adding each layer of inks. Then the edges are roughed and rolled at diagonal corners of the card.

Heidi Swapp Script stamp (new in my stash) is randomly stamped, and its shown vaguely at few places only as its been lost in misting and ink layerings.

Took heart diecuts in Red CS and distressed its edges in black soot DI. The CLD medium rose diecuts are distressed with aged mahogany and pearl centered. And Spellbinders foliage leave diecuts are distressed with evergreen bough and aged mahogany, misted and shaped.

Diagonally, Kaisercraft Heisian stamp(new in my stash) is stamped using Vintage photo DI for the extra textured look for the card.

Sentiment is from IBS Everyday Sentiment stampset which is selectively stamped using Ranger Archival ink and the banner edges are distressed using Vintage Photo DI. And random splashes of Black soot inks as the finishing touch!

This front panel is then matted in a black CS which is then on a white base CS.Few black rhinestones are added as accents on heart diecut.

Hope you like the overall look of the card!

Supplies:

CS- Fabriano CS
Inks- DIs- Vintage photo, Aged Mahogany,Scattered straw, Black soot, Evergreen bough
Stamp - heidi Swap script stamp, IBS everyday greetings, Kaisercraft Heisian stamp
Dies - CLD medium rose, Spellbinders foliage die, Itsy Bitsy heart thinlits


Challenges

IBS#90 - Hearts

IBS customer gallery - Used everyday sentiment

You are Lovely :)

Made a simple card today with combination which i always in love with and used only Cheerylynn dies to make. When it comes to patterned paper use, its hard for me to put scissors on it. Rather am hoarding a whole lot of pps which had been lying in stash for several months now.

Now on to my card,

Took kraft A2 cs from Recollections stack and used for the base of the card. On it, used pp from Homemade memories 12/12 stack and as a focal element placed a diecut from Zephyr paper pad. Stamped sentiment from IBS sweet valentine set using my new Sepia Ranger's Archival ink. Added few pearls and heart pearls as accents.

Blooms are made using the DCWV pastel cs. Big roses are made using CheeryLynnDesigns gardenia strip and small roses using CLD medium roses, baby breaths are from CLD embellishment die 3, the foliage are made using CLD olive branches, CLD rose leaf strip.

CLD tiffany border strips are kept below the florals and a pink double stich grossgrain ribbon, added few pearls. Hope you like it!

Supplies

CS- Recollections A2 base kraft CS, DCWV pastels pink CS, Fabriano kraft CS
Dies
Cheerylynn Designs gardenia strip
CLD rose leaf strip
CLD olive branches
CLD medium rose
CLD tiffany border die
CLD embellishment die 3

Stamp - IBS Sweet valentine
Ink - Ranger's Archival Sepia ink
Pearls. heart pearls, Pink grossgrain ribbon

Challenges:

Cheerylynn Designs- Anything goes 
(Cheerylynn Designs gardenia strip,CLD rose leaf strip,CLD olive branches,CLD medium rose,CLD tiffany border die
CLD embellishment die 3)

IBS#90 (hearts, used rose, white on card)

IBS customer gallery (used sweet valentine stamp set)

613Avenue create - Anything goes with twist (used patternedpaper, ribbon, dry embossing on flowers.diecuts)

SSS- Anything goes

Inspired by...

Hey Hi!

A quick post today as my son gone for a dance practice for tomorrow's Tiny Tot's Day in school, had ample 6 hours to finish a DT post and this card today :)

This card is much inspired by very many things...

First the quote which comes in IBS Butterfly wings stamp set, which was a challenge win at IBS :)
Love the stamp set for the different butterflies and for the quotes.

Second which caught my eye ...was this Inspiration pic which is my screensaver in my lappy for a long time.

And last...those sunset colors and the images of it.

I wanted to try those colors and wanted to make a card and so this dare attempt from my end,
Now...you should say...how it looks?

Took a 5x5 white CS and started building the colors from scattered straw, rusty hinge, aged mahogany, vintage photo and black soot DIs. I enjoyed the process being so inky :)

I stamped those wild flowers, grasses and wheat stalk from Meadows stampset and the stamped the sentiment in versamark and white heat embossed.

And stamped the butterfly near the wheat stalk and just drawn the legs alone, as if its grabbing it.

Hope you like it! Do leave comments, as it means a lot to me :)

Supplies:

Fabriano White CS
Inks - DIs - Scattered straw, Rusty hinge, Aged Mahogany, Vintage photo, Black Soot 
Ranger Black Archival ink

Stamps  - Sentiment and Butterfly from Butterfly wings
Grasses, wild flowers from Meadows from Inkadinkado

WOW white embossing powder. versamark embossing ink, heat tool

Challenges

IBS customer gallery - used Sentiment and Butterfly from  IBS Butterfly wings

One stich at a time - Anything goes with something new (Inkadinkado Meadow stamp set,Scattered straw DI are new in my stash)

country view challenge - something new to u (Inkadinkado Meadow stamp set,Scattered straw DI are new in my stash)

Pastel shades

My DT inspiration card for this fortnight at Cardabilities .

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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

Vintage card - Just for U :)

Its my second time try at Vintage style. Earlier card can be seen here. Love this style for the dark tones of brown, beige, tans, black hues and still creating magic.

This is the last card for this year 2014 and also DT inspiration card for the Cardabilities challenge.

Felt like IBS Vintage floral PP is so apt for this theme and so matted this against the black CS. To achieve the look, pp is roughed,rolled at edges using scissors, distressed with vintage photo DI and to give a bit more darker shade, distressed pp at various places and stamped randomly with IBS script stamp from Friends forever stamp set using same DI. Am in love with the effect it has created on bg.

Used Doily die and cut the doilies of various sizes in brown CS. And on it, arranged the floral using Joycrafts die. This time, tried a different flower other than my usual flower style. Hope you like it!


Closer shot of flowers

For stamens, used CLD embellishment dies and cut in black CS. The rose strips are diecut in white and distressed with Vintage photo DI and the florishes of black and white to balance the flowers.
Sentiment is stamped in oval scallop diecut and distressed with DI.

Thats all from me :)

Wishing all my readers, blogger-pals, a very very Happy and Wonderful New Year 2015. May your days ahead be more joyous and lovely :)

Thanks so much for the support and lovely comments, which is the only source of driving force for me.

Supplies:

Vintage floral PP - IBS
CS- Brown,Black
Dies - Joycrafts florishes die, MFT scrolled florishes, CLD embellishments die, CLD rose leaf strip, Nellie Snellen doily die,Couture Scalloped oval die

Stamps- Script from IBS forever friends set
              Sentiment from Small label stamp set
Inks - vintage photo DI

Challenge:

IBS customer gallery - vintage floral pp and forever friends stampset.

You're Special!!!

This fortnight's DT inspiration for Cardabilities blog. Blogging for the first time from Chennai..Oh yeah...Enjoying winter vacation now here with such heavy downpour :)

Sketch#113 is

Hope you like my attempt on the inspiration. Play along the challenge and visit Cardabilities to see fellow DTs inspirations.

About the card:

PP is distressed at the edges and matted against the White CS. Another PP is used  as frame diecut, and on it arranged a simple floral cluster with the baby pink roses, pale blue rose and a simple florish.

Tifany border strip is diecut from a light blue pp and matted on the frame under the floral cluster.
A large IO butterfly die is added near the floral cluster to add an extra interest.

Few pearls as accents. and IBS sentiment added on a banner.

Supplies:
Base PP, Tiffany border strip PP - Zephyr paper pad
Frame diecut PP - Docrafts Paperpad
Dies - IO butterfly, CLD gardenia strip, MFT florish, Joycrafts frame die
DI - Spun sugar, Tumbled glass

Challenges:

IBS - customer gallery (used just because stampset)

Love :)

Before i go for winter vacation to India, Wish to send some love to you all :)
It was a sudden surprise by my hubby, and a bit heavy heart, am gonna travel and spend my vacation without him by my side and on the other hand, happy to attend India's ever first Prima Workshop at Chennai !!

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Very Wonderful New Year 2015 :)

Last card for this year from here before i sign off for vacation !!

Matted a red pp against a ivory base CS. A simple floral arrangement using Cheery Lynn Gardenia strip flowers, baby breaths from CLD embellishment die and the leaves are from CLD ivy florish die.

Love this sentiment from IBS and want to focus the sentiment this time. Hence added on Marianne frame die which is tilted and off centered and around which arranged the floral clusters.

Flowers are misted with water and shaped to make flowers with yellow pollen centres. Baby breaths are shaped and glitter dot centered.

The hearts, border die, sentiment are from the same stamp set - IBS Sweet valentine which is discontinued now. One of my ever favorite stamp set. Inspired by stamping (IBS) known for their lovely sentiment stamps and Am so in love with those stamps.

To add little interest, added a big butterfly from IO die and few rew rhinestones as accents.

Hope you like it!!!

Supplies:

PP - Zephyr paper pad
Ivory CS - Fabriano
Dies:
Gardenia strip, Embellishments, Ivy Florish - Cheery lynn Designs die
Butterfly - IO die
Yellow pollen, Glitter dots, Rhinestones from Stash

Challenges entered:

Cheerylynn Designs - red and green (Gardenia strip, Embellishments, Ivy Florish - Cheery lynn Designs die)
IBS customer gallery - IBS sweet valentine stamp set
IBS #88 color sketch

Creative moments - Anything goes

Season's Greetings Card+Box!

Hello Friends!!

An early Season's greetings card from me this time. Little one's winter holidays are gonna start within few days and wish to gift this to his loving class teacher Mrs. Beena Antony.

Keeping in mind, few challenges, come up with a card today. 

Here we go,

If you are a frequent visitor of my blog, would be known by this time, that am a pastel shade lover and its so hard for me to use glitter, sparkle kind and dark shades in my projects. Yet this time, tried using those in my card.

First of all, must say, i love this Mexican tile from Cheerylynn Designs and was waiting to use for Xmas time cards. Purposely left few places with negatives of diecut and matted against a red CS and again which is matted on the white Base CS.

Always wanted to make poinsettia from the Cheerylynn rose strip die and at last included here. Hope you like my attempt. Applied golden glitter glue on the leaves to give a sparkly effect and three golden half pearls for the centre.

And a last minute inclusion is the Bauble. Yes thats a harddrawn one and gold embossed part is the central portion of the mexican tile diecut, which i havent used for the card centre, instead used to make the bauble.

A sentiment on a diecut with few rhinestones.

And inside of card has a diecut with Xmas and New year wishes and the ornate corners are again made sparkly using Gold Glitter glue.

Hope you like it!!

Supplies:

CS - Fabriano White, Red CS

Dies - Cheerylynn Mexican tile, die, Cheerylynn rose strip die, Spellbinders Timeless rectangle die, Itsy bitsy Venetian label die

Ranger gold embossing powder

Heat gun

Sentiments - IBS holidays sentiment set

Pearls, Glitter glue, rhinestones

ETA:

Made a matching box for this card.

Challenges entered:

Cheerylynn challenges- T'is the season (Cheerylynn Mexican tile, die, Cheerylynn rose strip die) WINNER

Imaginations - Traditional christmas colors

Creative colors
Holiday green+Holiday Red+Gold Embossing

Beyond grey challenges - Sparkly christmas and new year eve (used red, green,white, xmas ,new year sentiments and used gold embossing powder, gold glitter glue and rhinestones as sparkles)

Kraftzone - Bingo with a box (Dies+Flowers+Pearls and Sentiment+Stamping+Pearls)

IBS december customer gallery (used IBS holidays sentiment set)

IBS - Color sketch #88