Birthday Wishes!

Very Happy Birthday to Me :D

Made this card to wish few friends who share my birthdate :)

Stamped the Swirls background stamp using versamark ink and heat embossed using White opaque EP. Then distressed with Green bough DI. Then using Spellbinders A2 matting basics, diecut corresponding mattings and again distressed the edges to give defined look.

Just to give dimensions to layers, using foam adhesive , stuck the outer layer and the mid layer just on the base cardstock. And the mid layer again stuck using the foam adhesive and IBS sentiment is stamped on a banner and distressed using Green bough DI.

The butterfly diecut is colored using colorbox pigment inks and embossed using UTEE clear EP and pink butterfly diecut using Zing baby pink glitter EP. Then vellum diecut butterflies were matted to soften the overall look.

Hope you like it!

Entering this to

Lulupu - Embossing magic (background, butterflies, sentiment are heat embossed)

BGC - Anything goes

IBS customer gallery (IBS sentiment stamp)

Bouquet of Wishes!!

Hi Friends!

Yes after a long time, crafting and blogging today. It just gives such a therapeutic feel. Medical emergencies and family business took all my time during my vacation time and its a month back here to UAE, mojo missing...Atlast, made a card.

Embossed the base cs using the embossing folder. The flowers are heat embossed on vellum and dry colored using Faber castell bicolor pencils. The leaves are just heat embosses using leaf -green Ep.

Centres are colored using colorbox pigment ink and the sentiment is stamped using the pink Colorbox pigment ink and after which is heat embossed using Utee clear Ep.

Hope you like the card!

Supplies:

Stamps - Flowers- Stampendous Cosmos
Sentiment - IBS Tulip bouquet
Eps - On flower - Ranger Opaque Ep
         On stems+leaves - Leaf Wow Ep
         Sentiment- Utee clear Ep
Colorbox pigments
Darice Embossing folder
Vellum
Fabriano white CS
Fabercastell bicolor pencils
pearls, satin from stash

Challenges entered:

Lulupu - Embossing magic
IBS - customer gallery (IBS tulip bouquet sentiment)
BGC - Anything goes
Viginia's View Challenge

Celebrate - MM Canvas

Exactly a month later, back to blogging!

Ya...been into Quilling and have just submitted my entries for UK Quilling Guild Accreditation. Hope will pass the standards as its gonna be judged by eminent panel of Quillers, who are into this art for more than 20 years.

Back again to MM canvas. Oh yeah,bitten by MM bug and slowly ...learning the basics of it.

The colors and the quote from the Scrap around the world's moodboard, is the inspiration for today's work.

Took primed 8"x12" canvas. Used spun sugar DI and TCW stencils- swirls and butterlfies for background.

The pic is actually a selfie, cropped and used as focal element here. Its matted with few prima pps. TH bubble stencil is used for the central portion and various mists ( Emerald purple, Crushed strawberry, Electric blue misteries) were sprayed liberally and heat set at every spray.

Few crochet flowers, foam flowers, TH swirl flourishes, cream lace, and a sentiment from simple stories paper pad.

Few stamping using kaisercraft chickenwire stamp and few random flicks of inks in black soot, crushed stawberry and few pearls as accents to finish off. Distresses the edges using rich cocoa momento.


Challenges entered:

Scrap around the world

Mixedmedia mojo (gesso, stencil, chipboard)

Sassy Scrappers - May moodboard

Lulupu - Emphasised on feminine and used butterflies as stencilled bg and wood veneer butterfly)

Spring Mood MM Canvas

Here again with a 8x8 Canvas, depicting my current mood..."Happy ".

Oh yeah, Spring is one such season which brings such happiness to our mind and soul. Though am residing in an arab country, must say, best days are 4 years of my new wedded life at Taiwan, a wonderful country in Pacific ocean, those memories are still etched in heart. The pic is from a photoshoot taken there.

Took a primed canvas, misted liberally with Gorguss green, sunny yellow, emerald green mists - Mistries brand of Diecuts and more. And i heat set at every application to fix the color.

After misting, took TCW mini stencil of birds and feather and using texture paste applied at top corner. Then i stamped trellis kind IBS background stamp using archival ink Sepia randomly on corners. Then using TCW microbial stencil applied texture paste and misted again with topaz yellow mist. Doily frame and on top of it pic is matted on cardstocks.

Made a floral spray, using all store bought flowers here, which i was hoarding for many months. It incudes teeny tiny acrylic flowers which i pollen centred and used as an infloresence here, few prima flowers too with Cheerylynn designs ivy florish diecut leaves.

Used mdf birds, primarily gessoed and followed by that misted with pearlescent topaz yellow mist. Few paperpieced butterflies and a IBS butterfly stamped using teal colorbox pigment ink.

Few ink splatters in white and black inks to create interest and a Happy diecut is added to finish off the canvas.

Hope you like it! Thanks much for all the encouraging comments for my previous canvas and it drives me to improvise well :)

Supplies

8x8 primed canvas
Misteries - emerald green, sunny yellow, topaz yellow, pearlescent of topaz yellow, emerald green, gorguss green mists
CS, paper pieced butterflies-  DCWV Mariposa matstack
Flowers, swirls, tendrils are store bought
Happy Die from Mama elephant, CLD ivy florish die
Stencil - TCW - birds and feathers, microbial

Challenges entered:

BGC - Spring color with spring elements - (used color green, birds, flowers, butterflies)
CheerLynnDesigns - Anything goes (used CLD ivy florish die)
Artful crafting - #1 Stenciling (used TCW birds of feather and microbial stencils)

Beachy Theme Canvas

After almost a month, am back to crafting and blogging today.

Today's post is about a Beachy theme Mixed media canvas of size 9"x12". Its my 3rd canvas and this is the larger one so far of what i did. Am just a newbie in this area of art and all your comments are much appreciated to improvise me :)

This is created using a wonderful moodboard at Scrap Around The World blog. Its my ever first time participating in their challenge :)

Its filled with such mesmerising colors and elements.

The things which caught my heart is the lovely shades of blue colors, rope, natural elements, and the quote. And so made Lost in Love canvas.


Following moodboard from 13arts is also my inspiration for the canvas, Teal, Turquoise are my fav colors and roses, dewdrops, beads are my elements in moodbaord, which caught my eyes. First time participating here :)

Took a primed canvas and applied texture paste using TimHoltz Bubble stencil and misted generously with Electric blue Mist and heat set it. Stamped the waves from Kaisercraft Offshore stamp set on to a thick white cardstock and fussy cut out that. Matted these on the stenciled area and so the focal point is the pic of us taken in Amping Beach, Taiwan. Made a Raffia knotted heart and kept in the pic to add little focus.

Added MDF flourishes which are primed with acrylic white and few flowers and swirls for bit interest.Sprayed Glimmer Mist Blue sheen around the focal image. Added a bottle cap filled with teeny tiny natural elements and sealed it with glossy accents.

Added blue microbeads at few places and flicked black soot distress ink. Added a wood veneer on a heart diceut at a corner of the canvas.

Finally a computer generated quote - Lost in Love added.

Hope you like it! Leave some comments as it means a lot to me.

Challenges entered:

Scrap around the world  - Moodboard

13arts - Moodboard - Challenge #29 Favorite color