June Coasteride -Postcards with a personal message!

Hello!

We at Indian Craft Room are back with a new challenge for the month of June!!

Our hostess the month of June is

Asha

 Her challenge to you is to create a post card using the storyboard below.

The design on your postcard should be inspired by the poem above.

The challenge will run from the 1st to the 28th of May

 As always, we have a few rules. Please read them carefully before you play.

1. Follow Indian Craft room

2. Blog about the challenge on your personal blog and link your post back to Indian Craft room.

3. If you do not have a blog, please post about the challenge on social media and link it back to Indian Craft room

4. If you have a blog, download and display this ICR challenge badge prominently on your blog.

5. Display the story board prominently in your blogpost and link it back to Indian Craft Room.

6. Upload your photos to the ICR gallery using the tag name 

                      ICRCSPR01

6. Like ICR on Facebook and Instagram

If you have any questions, or just love what we do,
please feel free to leave  me a  comment below.

Our sponsors for this challenge are the awesome people

Here is my inspiration for you this month.

To make this post card, I started out with a piece of 6"x4" ivory card stock. I downloaded a post card template from the internet and printed it on the card. 

You can download one here

I then went about making this post card as though it were a one layer card.

I took inspiration from the poem for the sentiment and also picked the colours that I loved from the story board.

I handlettered the sentiment using Sakura Koi watercolours and an aquabrush. I added the flourishes using the Faber Castell artist pens. The roses are from Altnew's 'Vintage Roses' stamp set.

I like the way it has turned out...I have made postcards in the past and these are wonderful little ways to send loving wishes to your special family and friends. Cardstock which is thick (250-300 gsm) can easily be sent in the mail  as long as it does not have any embellishments.

I hope you are inspired to make your own!!

CoasteRide ends at midnight on June 28th 2016
Don't forget to tag your submissions in the ICR gallery with the tag name 

ICRCSUM02

I hope that I have inspired you to make a postcard too!

Now that you have all the details come on over and play along!

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!

Valentine cards without hearts!

Hi everyone! Happy Valentines Day!
Don't you think there are too many hearts around today?!!! So, I decided to make cards for Valentines day without using hearts.

For the first card I  have used the mason jar  and lid stamp from PTI and filled it up with punched out stars. the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

The second card is actually a postcard...simple and to the point...

The stamps are from Stampendous.

the apple is coloured in with watercolours!

These cards were the best sellers at my stall at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2014!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have great Valentines' evening!

Whats in store at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2014

Hey everyone!

Here's a peek at what is in store for you at my stall at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2014.
I am introducing postcards this year, along with my greeting cards.
Here's a look...

All you have to do is pen a small message, address it, affix the stamps provided with the postcard and mail it!

Fun way to sent a greeting, no?

Hope to see you there!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Good night!

Stamps that I have used here are from Paper Smooches, Lawn Fawn,Inkadinkado and Stampendous.

Postcard Tag

Here is a card I made today for the tag challenge at A Blog named Hero.

I drew inspiration for this card, from a card that I saw on a blog...unfortunately I don't seem to have saved the link.

To make the tag I used the post card stamp  and the postmark stamp from the Lawn Fawn 'You've Got Mail' stamp set. 

All the other stamps are from the Hero Arts 'Birthday Messages' stamp set.

To create the background, I placed three sentiments together on a stamping block and stamped them together with Versafine smokey gray on the kraft card. 

I then distressed the card, the postcard and the cord with Tim Holtz brushed cordruoy  distress ink to finish it off.

Fun isn't it?!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Enjoy!!