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

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

Creative Blog Hop and a Canvas - First Ever Try :)

Thank You Bhavana for nominating me for this Creative Blog Hop. It helps to know a little more about the artists and their interests.

So...Little about me...

1. What are you working right now ?

Working on a card right now in my craft space and few pending project works going on.

2. How does your work differ from others of your genre?

My card making style much inclined towards pastel shades, shabby chic and vintage kind. I love to make my own handmade florals using various dies and so my cards are florally embellished always :)

3. Why do you create and what you do?

Am an MPhil graduate in Toxicology and have a pulsating desire to do my PhD. Right now, SAHM of a naughty little fella, who keeps me on toes always. Learnt classical dance, veena and carnatic music, but only being in this crafter community, made me to enjoy my life amidst of my regular mundane.

4.How does your creative process work?

To me..inspirations are everywhere and in everything. It depends on the eyes of beholder.
To inspire and to be inspired by.. is my motto always.

Thats all from me!

Love to nominate two other talented crafter pals who excels in their own line. Love to know a bit more about you guys. Hope you love to continue the chain :)

Smita Satish and Rupa Swaninathan

And coming to my First ever Canvas. Done bit of Mixed media kind style. Rest left to you to comment.

Today is my little one's 6th birthday and wanted to add my fave pic which we took on his 10th month at a tour at Macau near Hong Kong at 2010 New year :)

Very Happy Birthday Adithya :)

Its a 5x7 mini canvas and i gessoed down initally. Then took DCWV Luxury stack pp which has a metallic and pearlised sheen on it. Love this stack for its richess and elegance. Took the one with little blue shades and baby pink shades and light brown scrolls.

Then its pasted on the canvas using Modpodge Matt and again gessoed down to tone down the color and to pick up the mists.

Added the handmade blooms which are gessoed down and sprayed with Glimmer mist blue and diamond dust sprinkled on it edges.

The metal embellishments are Prima junkyards and the diecut Bundle of joy is distressed with Tumbled glass DI. My new stash, Tim holtz Elegant florishes are diecut from kraft CS and gessoed down a bit and added near the pic. Few CLD ivy florish leaves are diecut and their edges are distressed with tumbled glass DI . Few ink splatters in black, blue and few blue pearls to finish off.

Hope you like my attempt!

Challenges entered:

IBS #91 - used light blue and kraft

SSS- Anything goes

Love Birds Card :)

Love is in air.....

Valentine day is nearing and the challenges at very many blog demands Love themed cards :)

And so my attempt making a Love themed one with various diecuts and use of dark shades. Hope you like it!!

Here we go,

The red CS front panel is a diecut from my new Spellbinder die - A2 Divine Eloquence and this has been matted on base White and Black CS. And on it Cheerylynn French pastry doily in black is kept as a base for the white caged birds diecut.

Hope it goes so well with the theme Love, as they look each other and to emphasize even more, added heart rhinestones on each bird and the point of their meet, added a wood veener heart which is sponged with Worn lipstick DI.

The floral spray is made using the new cheerylynn die in my stash...Those cabagge roses and single petal blooms are made using CLD Medium rose, which are sponged with Worn lipstick DI and the leaves are from Ivy florishes, which again are sponged with Bundled sage DI. Both leaves and flowers are sponged and shaped. The Memory box die hanging hearts are also my new addition to my craft stash, to which added pearls hearts at centre.

The IBS sentiment is stamped on the banner die of the Spellbinders A2 Divine Eloquence and
few rhinetsones are added as accents.

Hope you like my first card of this Valentine season  :)

Supplies

CS - Fabriano White, Black, red

Dies:
Cheerylynn die - Medium rose
Cheerylynn die - French pastry
Cheerylynn die- Ivy florishes
Memory box - Precious hearts
Spellbinders - A2 Divine Eloquence

Frekled fawn - Woodveener heart
Inks - Bundled sage, Wornlipstick DIs
Ranger black Archival ink

Sentiment - IBS sweet valentine

challenges:

Cheerylynn -  Sweethearts (used hanging hearts, heart wood veener, heart rhinestones, heart pearls)
(Cheerylynn die - Medium rose
Cheerylynn die - French pastry
Cheerylynn die- Ivy florishes)

Allsorts - Spring flowers

Fairytale stampers - Flowers

NBUS - Cheerylynn medium rose die, Memory box precious hearts die are new in my craft stash

IBS customer gallery - Used selective stamping on IBS sweet valentine stampset

IBS - hearts and colors as well

Winter Wonderland

Love this season especially for the Snowflakes... and wanted to create a winter scene with the dies on hand.

This time took Cheerylynn Snowflakes die and used it on a winter scene. Hope you like it!

Here we go,

Matted Spellbinders curved rectangles on blue and white base cardstocks. The front panel is tore and roughed at its edges. Stamped my new Kaisercraft Woodgrain stamp in White embossing powder and slightly sponged with Vintage photo DI to mimic the frosty look on trees. MS sprig punch is used to added to create the frosty look of leaves on tree trunk.

A small diecut of same die is used to create a mini scene for the sentiment which says "Let it Snow". Masked the area and sponged with Tumbled glass and Broken China DIs and stamped the sentiment. And on the lower part on the word, "Snow" and around it added Diamond dust twinklets to create a frosty look.

And this is mounted on the front panel and to it added the Memory box Deer Trio diecut (a new addition to my craft stash), which is sponged on edges with vintage photo to give a defined look.
The deer family in kept on the snow which is created on base of the front panel.

And now the CLD snowflakes diecuts are taken, sponged with tumbled glass DI and added on the entire winter wonderland.

Hope you like this attempt.

Supplies:

CS - Fabriano CS white and blue
Dies:

Cheerylynn Dies - Snowflakes die
Memory box - Deer trio
Spellbinders - Curved rectangles die

Inks
DI - Tumbled glass,broken china, vintage photo
Rangers Black archival ink

Stamps

IBS winter wonderland for sentiment
Kaisercraft woodgrain stamp

Challenges:

Cheerylynn : Snowflakes (CLD snowflakes die)
Pinspiration challenge - Snowflake

Floral Love Card!

This time a simple card with just diecuts.

This Memory box Sonora Rose die is a win from DCAM challenge and, took it from India home and was waiting to give a shot.

Its just a single rose die with 2 leaves of various sizes and with buds. I Diecut, embossed and colored the roses using Worn Lipstick, Tattered rose and Mustard seed DIs. And for leaves and buds, used Peeled paint  and at edges Gathered twigs DIs.

Just popped these on a doily using foam dots to give 3 D effects to roses. To make the small rose, i just cut the outer whorls of the rose and distressed with Mustard Seed DI

Sentiment is stamped, edges were rounded and few pink pearls as accents to finish off the card.

Hope you like this.

Supplies
Recollections Cardstock
DIs - Peeled paint, Gathered twigs, Tattered rose, Worn lipstick
Dies - Memory box Sonora Rose
Sentiment - IBS Sweet Valentine
Doily, pearls from Stash

Challenges:
MyTimeToCraft - diecuts only
Virginia view challenge - CAS

IBS - Customer gallery - Used sweet valentine stamp set
IBS # 86 color - Used pink, white

Treat boxes and Post-It Notes Holders :)

Hi All!

Today's post is not a card, but a quick attempt to make treat boxes and post-it notes holder. Its for my son's class teacher and teacher assistant. Today we went to receive his progress report and admission card for KG-II. Oh ya...He successfully completed his KG-I :) Feeling accomplished....

Seen many tutes in net and its my version of those using my own measurements. Used Patterned papers from Papermania and for Post it notes, layered Digital freebie on top of White CS.

Wanted to keep it simple and sweet, so added single flower on each, punched border, pearl centres and red grossgrain ribbon. Added Venetian frame label as banners for sentiment which is sponged using Wild honey Distress ink and Lady bug momento ink. For closure of those treat boxes and post-it notes, used partial diecutting of the same die used for sentiment banner and velcro added inside. Added sentiment - Best wishes on the punched border on Post it notes.

As a final touch, added a distressed banner with my little one's handwriting saying " Love U Mam, Adithya" and candies in Treat boxes :)

Supplies

White CS - Fabriano Brusto
Pattern papers - Digital freebie, Papermania
Dies - Venetian Label Frame -Itsy Bitsy
Sentiment - Used "Thank U" sentiment  from Small labels and "Best Wishes" from Butterfly wings
Wild Honey Distress ink , Lady Bug momento ink
MS Deco shell punched border, pearls, white mulberry flowers, red grossgrain ribbon,velcro



Hope you like it!

Lulupu - 2nd year celebration (Everything else Used P - Pattern papers, Pearls, Post-it notes, punched         border, partial diecutting, lady bug momento ink
                                                                                     L - Layers, Love
                                                                                      C- Cardstock
                                                                                       T - Treat boxes, Thank U sentiment

IBS - Customer gallery - Used "Thank U" sentiment  from Small labels and "Best Wishes" from Butterfly wings
                                       

Floral Easel Card

Hi All!!!

Wanted to share a quick floral easel card. Its a pic inspired creation...

Love the red, pink, green and lots of whites...And here comes my take on it.

Here's the pic..

Made an easel card with Timeless rectangle die in White CS. On it matted a floral digi pp. Big red mum is heavily distressed with momento red bug ink and and few tendrils are made from the fancy florishes die are added with baby pink roses.

A butterfly is diecut and added for the lovely touch with few pearls accents.
Sentiment is stamped on the diecut and distressed at corners with Momento red bug ink.

Thatz all from me. Hope you all like it.

Supplies:

White CS, white pearls - Sudha
Butterfly die, Fanciful flourish - Priya Sivaraj
Bigshot,Timeless rectangle die, glossy accents, sunflower die - Crafters corner
Momento red bug - Jovi
Digi PP - Freebie

Challenges entered :

Itsy Bitsy - Pic inspiration (colors and elements such as roses, creepers, and lot of white spaces are my inspirations

DCAM challenges - Interactive cards (Made easel card) (WINNER)
BGC - Shaped card with garden twist (used diecut flower, roses, diecut flowers, tendrils)
IBS -November customer gallery - used Big treasure stamp set

Shabby Chic Card

Wanted to share a card which i made today and its an inspiration from pinterest.

Straight away to card :)

Am super happy by the way the flowers turned out in the card. Pink purpley Chrysanthemum kind and small roses are handmade by me using the sunflower and Fancy petals flower dies.

Card front, squares are digi pp freebies. Scratched their edges with scissors and distressed with Rich cocoa momento. Squares are made using the Cuttlebug square dies. The chrysanthemum diecuts edges are distressed using victorian velvet and spun sugar and the flourish are cut from pp and distressed using shabby shutters. Roses are made distressing with spun sugar distress ink and  assembled using glossy accent.

Inner central scalloped oval is diecut from a digi pp and distressed using rich cocoa. The flowers , flourish, are arranged on it making it a focal point and Sentiment is stamped using Rangers black archival ink.

White pearls, butterfly, rhinestones are added as a final touch to the card along with the diecut butterfly which is distressed using tumbled glass and Danube blue momento inks.

Hope you like it!!!

Supplies:

White cardstock,Baby pink CS, embossing tools - Sudha
Glossy accent, Sunflower die, Shabby shutter distress ink - Crafters corner
Fancy flourish and IO butterfly die - Colorconception Craftshop
Fancy petals - Diecuts and more
Scalloped oval Conture die,Cuttlebug Square dies - Itsy bitsy,
Victorian velvet, spun sugar - Flourishes
Pattern Papers - Digital freebies

Challenges entered:
Cheerlynn Designs- Use diecut flowers (cherrylynn Sunflower die used along with Dienamics fancy petals die)
Lulupu - Fancy me (Layering, Distressing and Shabby chic style are recent fancy ones to me)
DCAM - Shabby is chic (Made it toTop 3)
Itsy Bitsy - P challenge ( pattern papers,pearls,pink)
Crafters corner - 321 ( 3 embellies - pearls, rhinestones, butterfly,brad, flowers; 3 digi pps; 1 sentiment)
(Made it to Top3)
Color conception - Distress inks (flowers (spun sugar, victoran velvet), butterfly (tumbled glass)are distressed)
Inspired by Stamping - September Customer Gallery (Sentiment used from small fancy labels 18)
Vintage stamp collection - Anything from garden (used flowers, butterfly)

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)