Paperie Expressions

Apr 12, 2022

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Fragrant Florals Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Fragrant Florals Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Reiko's blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have made few cards using the variety of products in this Awesome Release.

Craft Your Life Project Kit: Fragrant Florals Product Description:

Send hugs and snuggles to your loved ones with this beautiful arrangement of anemones. The large stamp size makes it quite versatile, as you will be able to stamp it off of your card base at different angles and proportions to get different looks. It is a lovely image to color or use stamped as is. We have also incorporated some heartfelt sentiments in bold fonts to contrast the delicate nature of the flowers.

Enjoy our Craft Your Life Project Kit, an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creative juices flowing! Featuring a 6x8 stamp set, coordinating die set, as well as a stencil set and an embossing folder to fit the theme, this project kit has almost everything you need to start crafting. Just add ink and cardstock, and you'll be good to go!

Over to my cards,

This card features the CYLP Fragrant Florals Embossing Folder

Other products:

CYLP Fragrant Florals stamp set for the sentiment

Featured Sentiments Die Set

I dry embossed a white cardstock and matted over a darl gray A2 sized cardbase.

The sentiment is stamped over a light gray cs and die cut using Featured sentiment die set.

This card features the CYLP Fragrant Florals Stencil, Stamp & Die.

I stamped the fragrant florals and then stencilled with the cube inks. Pencil colored at few places for interest. Then its die cut using the co ordinating die.

This card features the CYLP Fragrant florals Layering Stamp set.

I did No line watercoloring using the outline stamp set.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $ 25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 04/18/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/20/2022.

The next Stop in Hop is Lovely Teresa

Blog Hop List

Altenew Card Blog

Erum Tasneem

Laurie Willison

Rosie Neustaedter

Tenia Nelson

Nenette S. Madero

Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post.

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Teresa Litchfield

Ann Taylor

Daniel Diaz

Hussena Calcuttawala

I hope you were inspired by my cards and will try out these Wonderful products from this new release.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven't already.

Happy Hopping!!

Apr 7, 2022

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: African Daisy Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Craft-A-Flower: African Daisy Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from Awesome, Carol's blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

Made a floral card using this new, CAF African Daisy.

Over to my card,

Diecut the petals in white and pencil colored the top layers alone and embossed all layers and stacked using Liquid glue.
Diecut the centre and pencil colored it with white gel pens dots and then embossed.
Leaves are cut from green cardstocks and added veins and pencil colored it too.
Took a white cardstock, dry embossed it with 3D Daisy Bed Embossing Folder.
Matted the embossed panel onto the green A2 sized cardbase and foam mounted the flowers for dimension and added liquid adhesive to the leaves.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 04/13/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/15/2022.

Blog Hop List

Next stop in Hop is Daniel Diaz

Altenew Card Blog

Rosie Neustaedter

Tenia Nelson

Nenette S. Madero

Laurie Willison

Carol Hintermeier

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Hussena Calcuttawala

Susan Stagno

Preeti Chandran

Teresa Litchfield

I hope you are inspired by my card and will try out this Layering Die Set.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven't already.

Happy Hopping!!

Apr 1, 2022

Altenew Build-A-Flower: Belladonna Lily Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello Everyone,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Build-A-Flower: Belladonna Lily Release Blog Hop + Giveaway .

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Nandini Karmarkar's blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

Build-A-Flower: Belladonna Lily Product Description:

Brighten a loved one's day with stunning Belladonna Lilies. These gorgeous summer bloomers produce multiple fragrant flowers on each impressive stalk. In this stamp set, we have brought this exotic plant to paper through a delicately drawn outline image. The flowers have four coloring layers, and the stem has two coloring layers that will add depth and character to this beautiful flower. The Build-A-Flower: Belladonna Lilies special edition stamp and die set is only sold as a bundle. It includes one 6" x 8" clear photopolymer stamp set (20 individual stamp images) and one coordinating die set (1 die).

This card features Altenew Build-A-Flower Belladonna Lily

The floral inflorescence is white heat embossed on watercolour cardstock to watercolour those gorgeous dainty petals using Woodless Watercolor Pencils. Few more inflorescence were white heat embossed on Vellum to bring about the softness to the entire focal element. The embossed look of the bg is achieved by dry embossing Classy Stripes stencil on a heavy white cardstock.

Hope you like it!

Over to my card,

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 04/06/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/08/2022.

Next stop in the HOP is Awesome, Mindy Eggen

Altenew Card Blog

I hope you were inspired by my card and will try out this Wonderful stamp from today's release.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven't already.

Happy Hopping!!

Mar 26, 2022

Altenew Mini Stamp Release : Floral Boot

Hi All,

This cute mini stamp from Altenew Floral Boot is available in store now.

Made a card for this release.

Over to my card,

Pencil colored the stamped image.
Die cut and topped over a dry embossed panel which was notched at edges.
Diecut sentiment banner was mounted on the panel using tape adhesive.
The word HI was diecut from Black glittery cs and white cs form Fine alphabet die set and topped over the embossed panel.
Then the embossed panel was foam mounted on an A2 sized top fold navy blue cardbase.

Hope you like it!

Mar 25, 2022

Altenew March 2022 Whimsical Fairy Tale Collection Release Blog Hop

Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew March 2022 Whimsical Fairy Tale Collection Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Katrina Howe 's blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have made few cards using the variety of products in this Awesome Release. I have used different coloring medium on Embossed panels this time. Hope you like it!

Over to my cards,

This card features Checkered Diamonds 3D Embossing Folder

Other products are:

Mega Greetings

Featured Sentiments Die

Have applied metallic gold ink pad over a coloured embossed panel.

This card features Flower Bed 3D Embossing Folder

I have applied Antique Wax paste ( These are metallic waxes) on the debossed surface of the white embossed panel, to get that peeking white designs of the panel..

This card features Sylvan Baroque 3D Embossing Folder

Used Colored pencils to pencil color this Toned Tan embossed panel.

This card features Sylvan Baroque 3D Embossing Folder

I have used Gouache to paint this white embossed panel.

This card features Peony Sunshine Embossing Folder

Watercolored this beautiful embossed panel.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/02/2022.

Next in the Hop is Lovely Natasha Davies

Complete Hop Order

Hussena Calcuttawala

Emily Midgett

LauraJane