Stenciled Floral card

Hi Friends,

Am here today with a floral card. This time its a one layer card, with just stenciling and pencil coloring.

• Took a smooth white cs and stenciled this Beautiful peonies using Mudra Peony Stencil and sponged with Distress oxides : Fozzilised amber and Worn lipstick for petals and Peeled paint for leaves.
• Then the shadows and highlights are done using Prisma colored pencils.
• Used Distress ink: Black soot for the black splatters.
• Sentiment is from Mudra : Flower bunch stampset, which is white heat embossed on black cs.
• Added green enamel dots as accents.
• This panel is matted with black cs and added to a top fold A2 sized kraft card base.

Hope you like this! Thanks for looking into!

Happy Crafting!

Linking to

Uniko challenge: Anything goes +Optional twist Love

Happy Tamil New year!

       "உலக  தமிழர் அனைவருக்கும் இனிய தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துகள்"

Hearty Tamil New year Wishes to all Tamilians across the Globe!!

Made a quick card using Mudra stamps with Tamil font to wish my closest pals, who are celebrating their 1st Tamil New year after their wedding. 

• Wildhoney and Mustard seed is sponged on the bg and embossed using WRMK weaves bg.
• The lamps are gold heat embosses, colored using Zig and fussy cut.
• The sentiment is centrally gold heat embossed on a vellum focal panel to which fussy cut lamps are added.
• The vellum piece mounted on to the embossed panel and then mounted to the A2 sized gold cardbase
• Just 2 pieces of peach rhinestones on the lamps added to finish off the card.

Hope you like it!

Some more Love cards..

Am over on Mudra blog today with few Love cards...
Shared here the sneak peek for you all...

Head over to the blog to view the full pics.

Tricolor cards with Heat Embossing Technique

Hi Friends!

Am at Mudra blog today with 3 Tricolor cards with Heat embossing technique.

Hop over to the blog to view it.

Leaving a sneak peek here for you.

Purple & Pink Posies!

Hi Crafty Pals,

How are you all...Days are so pleasant here in UAE right now with lots of Foggy and Misty mornings, more of chill evening weather, super cold Desert nights. A season to enjoy Camping!!

And! This card today is made for my little sis, who celebrate her Birthday today!

                  "Hearty Birthday Wishes Priya!!! Love you Loads Dear"

Made this few days before and this would be reaching her soon.

Must say am fallen in love with the TonStamps peonies stamp sets and its hard to part it.

These stamps are my 1st ever Ton Stamps purchase and its my gift for this Xmas, and am absolutely happy to link this to The Ton January challenge 2017 - Celebrate

Now onto card details!

• Gold heat embossed these Peonies from "Sending Peonies" stamps using ranger's Super fine Gold Ep.
• Watercolored them using Zig clean color brush markers.
• Onto a white cardstock, using distress ink -Sctattered straw stenciled with Mft moroccon stencil, where the distressing is faded out from centrally.
• In a piece of watercolor cardstock, sprinkled Brushos in Emerald green and Amber Yellow, spritzed  water, heat set it and diecut it using Ginamarie stitched circle dies.
• The stenciled panel is then diecut using the Ginamarie stitched rectangle die.
• Sentiment from "Happiest peonies" added and circle diecut added to make it as focal.
• Fussy cut peonies are then added by layering with foam adhesives.
• Few circle diecuts are added around the Posies for added interest along with few clear droplets.
• This panel is added then to green base cardstock.

That's all from me today. Do leave your views about this card, would love to hear from you.

Happy Crafting!!

Linking this card to

HLS January Watercolor challenge (used MFT moroccon stencil for the twist)

Paru cardmaking challenges - Anything goes

NBUS challenge #8 (NBUS product is the TheTon stampset : "Sending peonies" is new in my stash)

Happiest Peonies card :)

Hi Friends!!!

Very Happy New Year to everyone!!

Recently i got 2 beautiful Peonies stampsets from the Ton Stamps, as one of Xmas gifts.

Was waiting to ink it and atlast made a card for a Friend's Birthday today !

 

• Took Peonies and buds stampsets from Happiest of Peonies set. They are the most Gorgeous ones i have ever seen.
• Gold heat embossed them on Watercolorpaper and colored using Zig clean brush pens.
• Flicked Tumbled class distress inks on the background.
• Added Few clear droplets.
• Stamped Sentiment using archival Black ink on the focal panel.
• Matted this to A2 sized black card to finish off the card.

That's all from me today. Hope you like it..

Made an Altered Shadow box to gift her along with this card, will soon post here.

Until then, Happy Crafting!

Linking this card to PCM challenges -anything goes

HLS Jan Watercolor challenge (without optional twist)

Inspirational quote card

Hi Friends!

Have been playing along 30day coloring challenge of Kathyrac at IG. Recently colored this little fella, Forest woodpecker of IBS stamp using Zig brush pens and Polychromos. Made a focal panel for it today.

For the first time, tried coloring other than flowers and butterflies!!

• Took a watercolor paper, heavily distressed at the edges and slightly sponged at cnetre using Hickory smoke distress ink.
• Then stamped the IBS sentiment leaving a central area.
• The birdie is added using foam adhesives.
• The leaves are from Mudra stamps, are colored using zig pens and fussy cut and added to the branch.
• Few enamel dots as accents and mounted on a white base card.

Linking this to 

IBS customer gallery (Sentiment and Woodepecker from IBS store)

Mixed Media Baby Canvas+Altered Box :)

Hi Crafty Peeps!!

Catching you all with  a New born MM canvas.
This project has all my heart...being my 1st MM Baby project with most of Prima products:)

It took me straight 3 hours for the canvas and 1 hr for the altered box to house this canvas.
I had no prior idea about how am gonna do this...but at the end of the whole process, i really fell in love with this absolutely.

Its a RAK sent to my past DT team ICR teamie Shraddha Patel. Oh yeah, she delivered a baby boy 3 weeks bac and i sent out this project after a week to USA and it handed over yesterday in person to her by my hubby's friend in Georgia :)

Lets jump into the process ...


Took 5x7 inches canvas,, which is my most fave size to handle canvas.

•  Primed with Prima Egg blue all over the canvas. 
• Mudra Vintage florishes are stamped on tissue paper and decoupaged using Ranger multimediu matte on the back of canvas and sides and applied Prima egg blue on it.
• Then on the front side, Stamplorations Hearts all over stencil is used to apply Prima Modelling paste and sprinkled heavily with Prima heart stones. Love the way those cling to hearts :)
• Then took pieces of gauze strips and start to adhere in layers.
• And Few designer papers , did stenciling using Stamplorations shutters stencil (which are not visible due to embellishments) and distress ink Tumbled glass.
• Sprayed with Prima Color bloom frost mist...am totally amazed by this product. it gave such life to the project.
• Then came embellishment part with resins, mdf scrolls which are white heat embossed with Ranger Embossing powders, crochet laces, Kaisercraft Pittypatters diecuts, flowers misted with LSG azure sea asters, Prima Metal Zipper, Prima Junkyard words.

• Was hoarding a ipad sturdy box for more than 3 years and put to good use now.

• Top and inner sides were heavily primed with Prima egg blue. 
• Then stenciled using MFT moraccan stencils and misted with LSG Azure sea aster spray
• Few designer papers and cheesecloth with Kaisercraft pitty paper diecuts as embellies.
• Sides of the box lid was completely decorated with rows  of pretty crocheted laces...My fave one was hoarding for 2 years now.
• The bottom of box was red and i left as such except outer bottom layer which was covered up with a designer paper.
• The MMcanvas was wrapped in bubble wrap and tied with grossgrain ribbon.
• Handmade with love is the newest ribbon addition in my stash...I love it a lot!!!

Hope you like this :)

Happy Crafting!

Linking to following challenges

Stamplorations June challenge - Used Hearts all over & Shutters stencils

Stamplorations Anything goes (Used Hearts all over & Shutters stencils)

Wow embossing June challenge - Mdf scrolls which are white heat embossed with Ranger Embossing powders

Lulupu June Baby Challenge - Altered box has Twinkle Twinkle Little star diecut (Kaisercraft Pitter patter Baby boy diecut)   

Dream Mixed Media Canvas

Hi Friends!

Today i have a Mixed media canvas, which is a Guest Design post at Lulupu - Craft Lounge .

Here's a look at my MM canvas. Oh yeah...Tutorial too :)

Took 9.5 by 11.5 inches primed flat canvas.

Took Dylusions Lemon zest in a palette and Peeled paint Distress stain dabbed in craftmat. Using separate wet wipes swipped these mists from top to bottom of canvas. This gives a neat coverage.

Then took a 5”x7 “ white cs and used Sizzix- TimHoltz mixmedia thinlits dies to diecut it diagonally.

Used Wendy Veicchi Embossing paste (translucent) and TimHoltz  Honeycomb stencil in the diagonal portion of cs. It gives such lovely sheen after drying.

When the paste is still wet, sprinkled generously Prima- Finnabair Mini artstones on it. Leave it to dry as such.

After drying, smooshed the versafine pad directly on the diecut areas and heat embossed it using Ranger Silver Embossing powder. Then mist the cs with LSG spray – Azure sea asters and sponged the edges with frayed burlap distress ink. And then it was matted with a pp, whose edges are distressed with Rich cocoa momento ink.

Using Sizzix –Pete Hughes, Magical butterfly die, diecut the butterfly from a white cs. Colored using Metallic Gelatos and heat embossed twice using Ranger’s UTEE clear. Prima junkyard metal zipper – Inspire, is smooshed with Picket fence stain is added as Butterfly body using foam adhesive.

A resin piece randomly colored using Prima Art alchemy paint– Steampunk copper is added on the matted cardstock with  ivory sisal at centre. Butterfly is then topped on it.

Few handmade florals are made using Sizzix- TH Tattered florals – diecut from pp, sponged with Shell pink, edges sponged with frayed burlap Distress ink, shaped and used pink rhinestones for centres.  Sizzix – TH Elegant flourishes die is used to diecut from a white cs, sponged slightly with frayed burlap DI. 

Leaves are from Sizzix Garden greens, diecut from pp, stamped with Bobunny script stamp randomly using Archival ink -sepia, sponged with Frayed burlap DI on edges.

TimHoltz word band is added to cs using natural hemp twine. Flowers, flourishes , leaves are arranged as per pic with few crocheted ribbon and white tulle. Stamped Kaisercraft stamp on a ivory cs and sponged with peeled paint DI and Archival sepia ink, added using foam adhesive.  Negative of leaf diecut is used to stencil at canvas corners using peeled paint ink. Same ink splatters finally on the canvas. Edges of the canvas is smooshed with vintage photo Distress stain for that final framed look. 

Hope you liked the stepwise instruction for the simple Layered MM canvas .

Linking this to

Stamplorations Mixed media April challenge - Used TH honey comb stencil, Negative diecut of Sizzix garden greens is used as leaf stencil here.

Anything but cute challenge -April - Earth day-  Inspired by flowery meadows, blues, butterfly

Ranganjali Challenge - Embossing (Butterfly is Heat embossed, The front panel diecut diagonally heat embossed)

Craft stamper - Make it Take it challenge - Flowers are handmade using Sizzix tattered florals, Kaisercraft Sentiments are stamped using Archival sepia ink.