Botanical Rainbow Thank you Card!

Hi Crafty friends!

Am guesting over at The Twisted Challenges Blog.

Theme for the current challenge is Rainbow colors+Grateful/Thankful

Its a no flower/ No coloring card!!! Just dies and 3D embossing folder!

Over to my take on the challenge.

Simple card ..to shift all focus on the rainbow colored gorgeous bg :)

• Took a smooth white cardstock and blended Mudra MAI inks in the colors of rainbow fashion.
• The colors blends so smoothly.
• Splattered water on both sides but dint show up much of blotchy effects.
• Dry embossed it using Sizzix - 3D embossing folder- Botanical (This way cs won't tear and show cracks)
• Gorgeous embossed and debossed sides obtained.
• Trimmed the panel and matted to the black cs.
• Took a vellum heart diecut, to it added a layered Thankyou diecut from SSS, which has 1 black layer and 2 white layers, and the upper layer is heat embossed with UTEE clear for added interest.
• Used Nuvo glue pen for adhering the diecuts as well as to the vellum.
• Then the card panel added to A2 sized white card base.
• Few enamel dots are added as accents.

Hope you like it!

Do play along for the chance to win lovely goodies and a chance for GD!

Happy Crafting!

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

Mixed Media card : Love

Hi Friends!!

After a long time, i made a card just for creating....Yes just for the joy of making it. Not as DT commitment ;)

Love card with a mixed media touch.

Straight to the card :)

• Took A2 white cardbase and matted with Papericious Naturals pattern paper- Denim.
• Its again layered with another pp from same collection, which is pleated and added to the focal panel.
• Used cheesecloth, which is tucked under pleating.
• A circular resin piece is added to the central doily with a tulle as base layer.

• Stenciled a portion of focal panel with Modelling paste using TCW Tile Stencil to create a texture on the otherwise plain base.
• Few flowers, florish diecuts are added with a cute little biege bow.
• Dry brushed gesso on flowers.
• Added Prima mini artstones are added for little interest.

• IBS sentiment is stamped on the vellum and added over resin.
• Kaisercraft butterfly is stamped and colored with Zig brush pens, is mounted on panel.
• Few enamel dots are added to finish  off the card.

Few close ups just for you :) 

 Hope you like it!!

Linking this to

Papericious : Add some fabric ( Used Papericious 6x6 Naturals collection ; For fabric : Added crocheted biege bow, tulle under resin, cheesecloth tucked under pleating)

IBS customer gallery - Used Trendy circles stampset for sentiment.

Mudra Inspiration Reveal

Today am showcasing few stampsets of Mudra.

Do head over to have a look at those.

Sneak peeks here for you all :)

Happy Stamping!!

Linking the Tag to Paru's Cardmaking challenges - Anything goes

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!

Quilled Sunflowers card :)

Oh Yeah...Its been a loooong time since i quilled. After my Quilled Dedication frame for my granny, this is the card in recent times i made.

These quilled elements were made some 10 days before and just assembled today to form sunflowers, leaves, tendrils and twines. Happy to share since its completely made using Quilling Needle only and the flowers are made with 1.5mm width strips and distressed on tips with rich cocoa momento ink. Fringed flowers are distressed with wildhoney DI on edges. For an added interest, made some multistrips scrolls.

The background is made by scoring a Kraft CS on scoreboard randomly and distressing again with rich cocoa momento ink to give a wood bg and matted on sandcolor CS. And the this mounted on a black CS whose surface is vertically scored to create little texture to the card.

Wrapped Raffia around card, added a wooden button and a sentiment banner to finish the card. Hope you like it!

Linking this to  IBS Blog hop - Buttons

Update:

Mixed media frame

My little sis- soon to be bride loved it so much. Need to carry all the way from UAE to India... And so this framing idea :)

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)                 
                      

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

Simple Quilled Card

Its yet another quick and simple quilled card from me.

This enters the following challenges:

ICRC21  (Sketch 2) Combo Twist Challenge, A Sketch  with a Metal -Urgey creations.
(For metal, brads and small metal embellishments are used)
Whimsy stamps challenge #51 Anything goes
Papelitos challenge #12 Anything goes


Hope you like it!

Happy Quilling