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)

Silhouette Stamping

Here's a quick card using Silhouette images. In love with the stamp set -Wildflowers. Card made here is much influenced by tips and  tutes which Heather of Bits and Pieces has generously shared. Have been following her blog for quite sometime and she always left me in awe seeing her creations.

Centre panel is made by masking the portions and thereby created the sky-land.  Grassland is made distressing with shabby shutters and crushed olive and even for stamping grasses.  Sky made using Tumbled glass distress ink. Wildflowers, insects are stamped using Black soot. This is then added to the embossed base cardstock. Sentiment banner is added.

Its just an amateurish way and need to improvise a lot :) 

Hope you like it!! 

Thank you all so much for the comments and wishes for earlier post. This keeps me driving 

Supplies:

Base cardstock, panel - Sudha

Shabby shutters, Crushed olive - Crafters corner

Tumbled glass,Black soot - Florishes

Technique tuesday - Wildflowers Stamp - Diecuts and more

Sentiment tag- Itsy bitsy

Challenge entered:


Anything goes challenge : In the garden, add some butterflies
Color conceptions - Spread your wing with Distress inks
Cuttlebug mania - Back to nature
All sorts challenge - Butterflies
CASology - Silhouette

Thank U Card :)

Hola!!!

Am back after a loooong vacation at India...This "Thank you" is for all the hearts who peeped into this little crafty space of mine, though i didnt publish new posts...

And to my blogger pals who generously shared about the diecutting machine, Bigshot and to invest on which dies...Thank you Sonia, Hussena, Sindhu, Nupur Priya.
Yessss....now am a proud owner of Bigshot :)

Coming to my card....The large rose is handmade using the super giant punch bunch Begonia and distressed with spun sugar. The flourish is distressed using Crushed olive. The pattern papers are matted on the centre of white cardstock and the flowers are kept as focal point. Large butterfly diecut is distressed with tumbled glass and added with few pearls and brads. Sentiment is stamped in versamark ink and embossed with black ep using my new Heat it tool.

Pictures are taken from my new Samsung Galaxy S4...am in love with these clear crisp images :)

Hope you like it!!

And happy news to share...oh yes...i sent my 2 of my entries for 30th Quilling competition held at Liverpool, UK on August 9-10, 2013. Am so happy to be a participant in this grand celebration of Quilling.
Many thanks to Philippa Reid and Josie Jenkins,who generously received my competition entries, submitted and sent back safely.

Made a quilled butterfly and added on this quilled frame which i made for my granny :) This is my first big monarch butterfly!

Photos taken on the event by Josie Jenkins, and she was so kind enough to send my entry pics on the same day. Heard from her that its well appreciated among the crowd. Few for you

This is kept as competition entry and was given a lot number for public voting.

This was done by me 2 years back as  a beginner in quilling and this old project is kept in General Display section.


Supplies:

White Cardstock - Sudha
Pattern papers - DCWV and black ep- Kavitha
Supergiant Begonia punch, Flourish die, crushed olive - Crafter corner
Small flowers - Nupur priya
Central border strip - Itsy Bitsy
Sentiment - Small frame labels 18 (Masked n used a portion) - Inspired by stamping
Butterfly - IO die - Priya Sivaraj

Challenges entered:

Pretty paper studio - Anything goes
Color conceptions- Spread your wings with distress inks
(distressed the big rose(spun sugar), flourish(crushed olive), butterfly(tumbled glass)
Crafters corner - 321 (3 embellies - flowers,brads,pearls,diecuts  2 pattern papers,  1 sentiment)
All sorts challenge - Butterflies
Cuttlebug mania -  Back to nature
Try it on tuesdays- Make ur own flowers
Vintage stamp challenges- Anything form ur garden
Itsy Bitsy - Pretty with P (My P's are Pink colors, pattern papers, posy, pearls,pink central border strip)

Shabby Chic card

Shabby chic card after a loooong time. A quick post to say you all that am leaving to India for 2 month vacation. So...Here i come Chennai !!! Yet really really gonna miss my ever sweetest granny..first ever time, gonna experience her absence in our home :( Grannies are always special...no one can ever replace their place in our hearts. I love u sooooooo much ma.....

Here my card...

Another view:

Hope you all like it!

Entering this card

IBS June blog hop - Shabby chic cards
Simon says stamp and show - Anything goes
Love of crafting- Photo inspiration

A happy news to share...

One of my Quilling tutorial - "Birds and cages" got published in Summer Edition of UK Quilling Guild's Quillers Today Magazine and many thanks to Ms.Philippa Reid for her constant guidance and support. Soon to share the same tutorial here :)

Happy Crafting !!

Simple Stamping!

Two cards today with just stamping...

First card is made by stamping the lace stamp in a series on a Teal colored free digi pp. The Labels are made from stencils and sentiment is stamped on a central label. A netted feather is stamped on a white CS, distressed with distress inks, did fussy cut and added near the sentiment. This cardfront has been mounted on a white CS.

For this second card, I directly stamped the netted feather stamp at centre and smaller ones around it on a free digi pp. Rounded the top corners and added a punched strip of blue pp on the lower end and above which added a tiny bow and sentiment. The edges of the punched strip is distressed using Danube blue momento ink.

Few other shots

Below pic is the single stampset which is put to use to make these 2 cards.

Updation:

Alpha glitter stickers have been added instead of sentiment stamp, as its not included in this stamp set.
Hence this updation.

A little change in sentiments :)

Happy Stamping!!

Challenges entered:

Lulupu challenge #13 - Lady stamp a lot
IBS May blog hop - Make your own backgrounds (entering both cards)
Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes