Handlettered quotes + Watercolor florals - Trio Series1

Hi Friends!

During my June end to August Vacation at India, squeezed a lot of ME time amidst of my Family business and office works, and practiced Handlettering and Watercoloring florals.

Must say, every day i look forward for the evening time, to let my soul speak.

My little one would accompany me by smooshing his paint palette on his drawing book :)

And most of all, my dad would sit and watch patiently how we both do!!

Gonna share 3 projects per post :)

Hope you all like it!!

Hello October!

Hi Friends,

Simple watercolor wreath using Gansai tambi colors..and to mark the beginning of October, Autumn/ Fall season :)

Bit of calligraphy to go along with that! Hope you like it!

Watercolor Florals and Brush Lettering!!

In the series of Watercoloring and Brush Lettering combo, i did two artworks in Canton Montval watercolor paper with Gansai Tambi watercolors and did some Lettering by Kuretake Fudebiyori Metallic brush pens.

Yay!!! I never craft during my vacation at India...But this time, i wanna practice these newly learnt art forms, whenever i have little free time.

Truly i could see differences in my watercolor painting and acquired a bit confidence in brush strokes, as i mostly work with coloring stamped images, within boundaries.
This truly let my soul set free...

Hope you like it!!

More to come....Stay Tuned :)

Guest Designing at Itsy Bitsy

Hi Friends!!

Am guest designing at Itsy Bitsy today with few projects...Do hop over to the blog to view projects in full...

Hope you love it!!!

Watercolored Floral card

Hi Friends!!!

Am here today with another floral creation, a card this time. Watercoloring is my recent crush and added to it my calligraphic attempts :) Am enjoying both equally :)

Today's card is especially for the ongoing Altenew Challenge. The current inspiration challenge pic is such lovely and the beautiful colors made me to create this card.

My November Altenew win recently reached me...I have bought few stamps using the GC...One of which is this Oh-So-Beautiful...."Remember this" stamp set.

• Gold heat embossed the florals and buds onto a watercolor paper and colored using my ever favorite Zig clean color brush pens and watercolored it.
• Onto a pattern paper, stamped the smaller florals and colored with Faber castle polychromos with a lighter touch, so as to keep the beauty of the pp.
• The pp is distressed at the edges using the scissors.
• This pp has a beautiful printed script which faded on the middle and had florals on the corner.
• The sentiment is such uplifting and i love to continue the same mood with the muted bg and 
•  a focal using bright florals at a corner.
• Fussy cut the watercolored florals and added using foam adhesives and few directly on the pp to create a dimension.
• Stamped the sentiment from the same set and splattered black soot distress ink.
• Added few clear droplets and matted this onto a A2 sized black top fold cardstock.

Hope you all like this card. Love to hear from you all!

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.

Watercolored Roses

Hiya Friends!

How you all doing!

Days are lovely here as we enjoy super foggy mornings and chill weather at UAE.

2 months back i won Altenew FB giveaway and bought Bold and Blossom set, which reached my home few days back.

Yay!!! You got me right!

Watercolored those Roses using noline coloring technique, which am still in learning the nuances of it.

Have chosen colors from the January altenew Challenge

Am so in love with the colors here in the graphic.

• To create my card, took a watercolor cardstock, stamped outline Roses and Leaves, from Bold and Blossom set using Masking technique with a 3rd generation stamping using Archival ink.
• Colored using noline coloring technique with Zigclean color brush pens.
• Then fussy cut and kept ready to mount on a stenciled base card.
• Prima min art stones are sprinkled generously and to add bit more texture added a honeycomb chipboard and a cheesecloth, to which fussy cut florals are added.
• Left it as Sentiment-less card for now :)     

Hope you like this card :)

Thanks for stopping by and soon to catch up with next project :) 

Simonsaysstamp Wednesday challenge - New something (Altenew Bold and Blossom stampset is new in my stash)

Paru's Card Making challenges - Anything goes

HLS Jan watercolor challenge (without optional twist)

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)

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

Watercolor card :)

Hi Friends...

Today is my 7th Wedding Anniversary and amidst of all my regular works, squeezed time to do this Watercolor Thank you and my DT inspiration.

Thanks a lot dearies for all your Wishes and Greetings and love to say my thanks through this card. Hope you like it!!

Used TH watercolor card to clear emboss the image and watercolored it using Mustard seed DI, Shabby shutters, Crushed Olive, Black soot, Tumbled glass DIs. Used Mustard seed DI for the petalsm black soot for the pollens, Crushed olive and shabby shutters for the grass blades and Tumbled glass DI finally around the area of flowers and leaves.

Used the tute shared in WHW#152. Since i dont own any markers, used DI pads to color it.

Then its die cut in a scalloped die and mounted on Spellbinders Timeless rectangle larger diecut whose edges are distressed with mustard seed DI.

A small scalloped oval is used as sentiment banner which are distressed with mustard seed DI and IBS trendy circles sentiment is used.

And this card front is mounted on a blank white cs and few pearls added as accents.

Supplies:

Fabriano White CS
TH water color card
IBS friends forever stamp set
IBS trendy circles set
Inks - DIs- Mustard seed, Black soot, Crushed olive, Shabby shutters
Black Archival Ranger's ink
Itsy Bitsy Scalloped oval die
Spellbinders Timeless rectangle die

Challenges:

WHW#152 - Watercoloring (used DIs))

IBS customer gallery - used IBS friends forever and IBS trendy circles stamp set

IBS#90 (used Sketch)

Inspired by...

Hey Hi!

A quick post today as my son gone for a dance practice for tomorrow's Tiny Tot's Day in school, had ample 6 hours to finish a DT post and this card today :)

This card is much inspired by very many things...

First the quote which comes in IBS Butterfly wings stamp set, which was a challenge win at IBS :)
Love the stamp set for the different butterflies and for the quotes.

Second which caught my eye ...was this Inspiration pic which is my screensaver in my lappy for a long time.

And last...those sunset colors and the images of it.

I wanted to try those colors and wanted to make a card and so this dare attempt from my end,
Now...you should say...how it looks?

Took a 5x5 white CS and started building the colors from scattered straw, rusty hinge, aged mahogany, vintage photo and black soot DIs. I enjoyed the process being so inky :)

I stamped those wild flowers, grasses and wheat stalk from Meadows stampset and the stamped the sentiment in versamark and white heat embossed.

And stamped the butterfly near the wheat stalk and just drawn the legs alone, as if its grabbing it.

Hope you like it! Do leave comments, as it means a lot to me :)

Supplies:

Fabriano White CS
Inks - DIs - Scattered straw, Rusty hinge, Aged Mahogany, Vintage photo, Black Soot 
Ranger Black Archival ink

Stamps  - Sentiment and Butterfly from Butterfly wings
Grasses, wild flowers from Meadows from Inkadinkado

WOW white embossing powder. versamark embossing ink, heat tool

Challenges

IBS customer gallery - used Sentiment and Butterfly from  IBS Butterfly wings

One stich at a time - Anything goes with something new (Inkadinkado Meadow stamp set,Scattered straw DI are new in my stash)

country view challenge - something new to u (Inkadinkado Meadow stamp set,Scattered straw DI are new in my stash)

Floral Thank You card :)

Yet another post and of course a last one before my India trip on 24th June :)

In my last India trip, carried few craft supplies and it was lying almost 1 month unused. Atlast now find some time to use those.

Stenciling is done with TH honeycomb stencil using Texture paste and by masking a central portion of the card using a scallopped oval diecut, misted the card with Heidi Swapp Georgia peach shimmer mist.

MFT fluorishes are added and Flowers are made from CLD Gardenia strips by misting, distressing with various distress inks - Tumbled glass, Fired brick, Dusty concord and those CLD ivy fluorish leaves are distressed at edges by Crushed olive distress ink.

And a butterfly is stamped on White CS, colored using distress inks - Mustard seed and Wild honey and fussy cut and added near floral spray.

Used Gauze on adhesive side of masking tape and  sponged it with Distress ink Victorian velvet. A sentiment is stamped, then diecut it using Spellbinder Ribbon Banner die and added to the card. Misted stenciled cs are used as banners at right top of cards and few pearls are added as final touch.

Hope you like the card!!

Supplies:
White CS 
Inks - Dusty concord, Tumbled glass, Fired Brick, Wild honey, Mustard seed, crushed olive, victorian velvet, Rangers Archival Black
Dies - Spellbinder ribbon banner die, MFT florish die, CLD gardenia strip, CLD ivy florish die
Stamp - Stampendous Butterfly, IBS - Small label frame sentiment
Stencil - TH honey comb
Mist - Heidi Swapp Georgia peach shimmer spray

Challenges :
Lulupu - Inspired by Lulupu logo    (used colors from palette given and banners are used )

BGC - Stamping in fabric and misting (misted with Heidi swapp georgia peach spray on bg and stamped sentiment on diecut gauze)

IBS June customer gallery - (used sentiment from Small label frame)

Imaginations - Anything goes with DIs (Dusty concord, Tumbled glass, Fired Brick, Wild honey, Mustard seed, crushed olive, victorian velvet)

Curtain call challenges -Sweet pea theme (inspired by colors)

Floral Birthday Card

Been in long slumber..and yeah am back again with a floral birthday card :)

Hubby's Europe trip for 2 weeks and other family commitments kept me away from Crafting and...atlast made this card to blog again here before my India trip in coming week...Ya its 2 month vacation at India :)

This card is for a sweet friend of mine who is celebrating Birthday today!!! Very Happy Birthday dear :)

Wanted to keep it sweet and simple!

Embossed the front panel and added a Blossom four largest diecut as focal point, for mounting the stamped flowers. Flowers are heat embossed in watercolor paper and Distress ink - Fried brick is used for coloring it. Vellum diecut fluorish is added by coloring it with Distress ink - Crushed olive.

Butterfly is heat embossed with Black Zing Embossing powder in watercolor paper and colored with Distress ink -  Wild Honey.

Then these are cut and mounted on the focal diecut which is distressed on edges using Distress ink - antique linen.

Sentiment is added on the banner and added just below the floral arrangement.

Hope you like the card.

Thank you visitors, fellow bloggers who constantly visited  and commented. Special Thanks to those dearies, who mailed me to know my absence here in Blogoland :)

Supplies: 

White CS - Watercolor paper
Dies :  CLD tropical florish , Spellbinders Ribbon banner, Spellbinders Blossoms four
Distress inks - Wild honey, Fired Brick, Crushed Olive
Darice Interlocking embossing folder
Sentiment stamp - IBS Lovely Birthday 
Stamped Flowers - IBS Summer Flowers
Stamped Butterfly - IBS Butterfly wings 

Challenges:

Crafters corner -  Stamp, color and cut with Birthday theme ( Flowers, butterfly are heat embossed, colored,cut and used on birthday floral card)

Imaginations - Anything goes with DIs (used Distress inks - Wild honey, Fired Brick, Crushed Olive)

IBS - Customer gallery ( Sentiment stamp - IBS Lovely Birthday 

Stamped Flowers - IBS Summer Flowers

Stamped Butterfly - IBS Butterfly wings )