Birthday blooms :)

Today's post is dedicated to my Dearmost Mom.

"Very Very Happpppy Birthday Ma...Love u soooooo much".

This is a CAS card i made for her..

White CS is embossed  and this front panel is matted on a base White CS. To the front panel, Twine is wrapped at centre of it and on it added vellum flowers. This is the first time tried using vellum to make flowers. And these are colored using Distress Stains- Rustyhinge, Mustard seed, Milled lavender and Dusty concord.

CLD ivy florish diecuts are added around the flowers. Scalloped sentiment banner is added on top of a layered diecut. The sentiment banner is embossed and distressed at edges for the sentiment to pop up.

Butterfly is embossed with Black Ep and distressed with tumbled glass for that slight blue tint.
Few pearls are added for the final touch.

Hope you like it.

Supplies:

White CS - Fabriano Brusto
Darice Interlocking Embossing folder
Thick White Vellum,
Dies - CLD Ivy florish, Itsy Bitsy - Scallop oval , Panel Venetian frame
Distress Stains - Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed, Dusty Concord, Miled Lavender.
IBS -Summer Florals stamp set for flowers , Lovely birthday
Baker's Twine, pearls.

Challenges :

Lulupu -Summer theme CAS cards (Used orange, yellow and blue and made floral CAS card)
BGC- Grown with love (used florals, butterfly)
IBS - Customer gallery (used Summer Florals stamp set for flowers , Lovely birthday for sentiment)
CLD - Anything goes (used CLD ivy florish dies)

P.S. Recently bought Distress Stains from a Bulgarian paper artist - Lidiya Baltova. Actually she destashed it as she gonna pursue her business. Am so delighted to receive from her and she is the past designer team of Paperlane, whose work, i have admired a lot. Thank U Lidiya and just loving those Distress stains a lot :) Love this sweet gesture!

Spread ur wings...

Yet another Butterfly card from me. Little one is back to school today and now in KG2 :)

Used only CheeryLynn designs dies to make this card. Love the DCWV Mariposa collection a lot. Matted this to the kraft cardbase. Diecut CLD English teaparty doily from a Pattern paper and distressed with Tumbled glass DI. And the Tiffany border diecut is added to it.

And top of doily, Bloom is added by embossed and distressed petals using CLD sunflower die and CLD tropical florish is diecut from vellum to tone down the effect and tucked underneath the bloom. CLD  small exotic butterflies are diecut and distressed with tumbled glass DI and rich cocoa momento ink.

Sentiment is stamped from IBS butterfly wings stamp set and so the butterflies and the dragon fly. As a final touch, used fiskars tetra corner punch, added white rhinestones on corners and mini pearls on butterfly bodies.

Wanted to try out this combination and just went on what heart desired and this is the result. Hope you like the card. Many thanks for the visits and comments and that is what driving me in this crazy passionate crafty world :)

Supplies

Base- Fabriano Kraft CS

PPs -DCWV Mariposa collection, Zephyr pattern paper 

Dies - CLD Tropical florish , CLD Tiffany border, CLD sunflower die, CLD small exotic butterflies with wings, CLD English tea party doily with wings.

Stamps- IBS Butterfly wings

Inks - Tumbled glass DI, Rich cocoa momento ink, Ranger Archival black ink
pearls, rhinestones

Challenges:

CLD - Back to nature (added diecut butterflies, stamped butterflies, butterfly pp, stamped dragonfly)
(Dies - CLD Tropical florish , CLD Tiffany border, CLD sunflower die, CLD small exotic butterflies with wings, CLD English tea party doily with wings)

IBS - Customer gallery  (IBS Butterfly wings)

Inky Chiks - Butterflies (used diecut butterflies, stamped butterflies, card front from Mariposa collection)                 
                      

Altered Wooden Ladle - A Wall Hanging :)

Hey Hello!!!

This time have come up with an altered wooden ladle....into a wall hanging :)

New wooden ladle was taken and painted in white acrylic paint and after drying,  distressed with Rich cocoa momento and sanded with sanding block to give a shabby chic look.

Before:

To level the depth of the ladle, added some packaging cardboard as strips and hot glued it. Then on top of it, added 2 English Tea Party Doily Angel wings is diecut from IBS vintage florals pp as base. The focal element - Butterfly is a diecut and distressed with Danube momento ink and added just below the sentiment diecut,which is also distressed with rich cocoa momento. A scallop border sticker is added as a trim under doilies on the baby pink tulle.

Handmade blooms :)

Tried making some crinkled flowers with pearl centers and added with florishes. Those leaves are from Ivy florish diecuts. Flowers are distressed with rich cocoa momento and Tumbled glass DI and misted with water to get shapes.

Wrapped the handle with pink grossgrain ribbon and added MS butterfly stamp and punch butterflies in series and a big butterfly diecut is added on a sentiment diecut saying "Spread your wings and Fly". Few trims on the handle with blue grossgrain ribbon as loop for hanging :)

Love those sentiments and now only had time to create apt project for that :)
Hope you like it!!

Supplies:

Diecut - IO butterfly
MFT florishes die
Joy crafts florishes die for flowers
Itsy bitsy Scallop die,
Itsy Bitsy Venetian label frame die
CLD English tea party doily with wings
CLD ivy strips

Pattern papers- Vintage floral

Stamps- Butterfly wings from  IBS

Grossgrain ribbon, pearls, MS butterfly stamp and punch,momento danube, momento rich cocoa, Tumbled glass DI.


Challenges Entered:

BGC - Altered Dinnerware (Altered wooden ladle - Shabby chic style)
IBS - Customer gallery (vintage floral paperpad and Butterfly wings stamps set used)
Lulupu- 2nd bday celebration - Everything else - (used P- Pattern papers, pearls,pink
                                                                                    L - Ladle, Lavender,
                                                                                     T- Trim, Tulle,
                                                                                     C-Cardstock, Cheerylynn dies)
IBS- Gift ideas (Wall hanging - Its a perfect gift idea to gift dear ones)

Hello Spring!!

Spring is here!
Spring is here!
How do u think i know?
I just saw a butterfly/bee/blue bird 
And that is how i know....

This is the first rhyme taught to my little one when he joined KG1, in last Spring. His favorite one too.

And today's card is about the Spring mood...Handmade Blooms in pastel shades to welcome the lovely season :) Made this card with just Cheery Lynn Designs Die only!

Used patterned papers from Zephyr paperpad and these are matted on the White CS. The front panel edges are jagged with scissors and on it mounted the Teal blue panel to which handmade blooms are added. To CLD Tropical Fluorish die, a baby pink Tulle is spread and on top of it all handmade blooms are added.

The big roses are made from peach duplex papers using the CLD Gardenia die, and those rose buds (white, yellow, peach) are made using the same die. Duplex paper gave a nice texture to the rose and rose buds. The yellow flaky kind flowers are made using the stamen kind patterns in CLD embellishments (B256) die and sepals of rose buds are made from same die.

Close up shot of Floral spray:

CLD olive branches and CLD rose strips die is used to make the floral cluster. CLD small exotic butterfly with wings die is used to made the butterflies and few pearls,tendrils added as final touch.

Blooms :)

Sentiment is added on a banner and placed near the floral spray. Used tracing wheel to make the faux stitches.
This is all for today...Hope you like it!

Supplies

Dies: CLD tropical die, CLD gardenia die, CLD olive branches, CLD rose strips die, CLD embellishments B256 die, CLD small exotic butterfly die
White CS - Fabriano brusto
Green CS - Fabriano
Sentiment - Fiskars All occasion stamp set
Duplex papers, pearls,Rangers's Archival black ink, Tumbled glass DI.

Challenges entered:

CLD - Think Spring (Dies used: CLD tropical die, CLD gardenia die, CLD olive branches, CLD rose strips die, CLD embellishments B256 die, CLD small exotic butterfly die)

Lulupu - 2nd year celebration - Card (Used P - patternpapers, pearls,pink
                                                                   C- Cardstock,Cheerylynn dies
                                                                     T - Tealblue, Tulle, Tracing wheel
                                                                      L - Layers)
613 Avenue create - Anything goes with flowers (All flowers are handmade using various dies)

IBSIC #81 (Inspired from Colors from pictures)

Cardabilities - Sketch

Shabby is chic!!!

A quick card to share here...Shabby chic card!

Colors of the card are the pic inspiration from IBSIC.

Pale blue and floral pp are the digital freebies. Both these are given a rough edges by sanding it with scissors. Tessatina border from grey cs is matted on pale blue dp and on it a small floral dp is matted. Fancy flourish diecuts are taken from grey cs and added below the pale pink mulberry flowers.

The central flower is made from a pale pink frill trim and on to it, a fabric flower is kept. A beige butterfly, few pearls are added as embellishments.

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping. Just loved the set. Sentiment banner is punched at a corner with MS decoshell punch.

Hope you like the card!!

Supplies:

Base white cardstock - Sudha
Pale blue and floral pp - Digital freebies
Mulberry flowers - Crafters corners (RAK for the purchase)
Tessatina border,fancy flourish - Color conceptions
Beige butterfly, pale pink fabric flower - Itsy Bitsy (Blog candy package)
Pearls pink, white - Stash
Sentiment - Inspired by stamping store - Fancy trendy sentiments set

Challenges Entered:

Inspired by stamping - IBSIC#64 - Pale blue,pale pink and grey
Penny's challenges: - Anything goes
Vintage stamping challenges - Anything from garden  (Butterflies, flowers)
DCAM challenges - Shabby is chic
Customer gallery -Inspired by stamping - September
Crafters corner - 321 (3 embellies - pearls, butterfly, tessatina border, fancy flourish, rhinestone , 2 digi pp,1 sentiment)