Indian Craft Room monthly Coasterride recipie challenge!

 Hey there everyone!
I am here with the monthly coasterride challenge on the Indian Craft Room!
This month we have a recepie challenge! To play along, you need to use the recepie given to create a Christmas or New Year card or project.
Upload your pictures of your project at the Indian Craft room and tag your photos with ICRCPREWIN02

The challenge ends at midnight on December 28th. 

We have our awesome sponsors "The Craft Shop" giving away a voucher for Rs.500 as the PRIZE!!!
So join in and have some fun!!

Now, about my project...

I used the recepie to make a Christmas tag. I stamped the background using a Penny Black stamp with memento 'London fog' ink.

I then coloured in some of the flowers and leaves using faber-castell colour pencils. I then used a blending pen to blend the colours. 

I added some sequins, tied a gold ribbon and added gold embossed sentiment on a black strip as my topping!

Quick, easy and fun!

I hope to have inspired you..

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

Wild About blue

Hello all!

I am playing with some awesome new papers from the Wild about Blue 6"x6"papaer packWild About Blue 6"x6" paper pack from Crafttangles for Craft Adda, the awesome online craft store!

For this card, I made some punch craft flowers with white paper as well as stacked some Thank you die cuts (from Penny black) to add dimension.

Card sketch from Retro sketches.

For this card, too, I made some punch craft flowers, but reversed the colours! I just love the look of the pretty blue flowers against the white tag! I finished the card with a simple stamped sentiment from Lawn Fawn.

For this card I went for strong background colours and pretty punched butterflies in light blue.
I added a simple sentiment stamp from Paper smooches to finish off the card.
Card sketch from Retro Sketches.

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

Elephant themed cards

Hey!
I made these fun elephant themed cards a few days ago on order….

This cute little elephant is a cut using a cuttlebug die. The paper I used is a sheet of glossy photo paper which I coloured using wet wipes and photo inks. To give it added dimension, I popped up the elephant using a technique that Jennifer Mcguire demonstrated in this video recently. 

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp and the card stock is cut using simon Says stamp stitched squares dies.

This adorable elephant is a stamp from Kaisercraft which I fussy cut and to which I added a googly eye for fun. the flower stamp is from Stampendous.

This background stamp used here  is from Penny Black.  I inked up with Memento inks and spritzed with water  before stamping onto the card stock. the elephant die is from Cuttlebug, which I coloured using Memento London fog ink. The got the idea of creating a vellum bubble from this video by Jennifer Mcguire. The sentiment is a peel off sticker from Anita's stickers.

Hope you enjoyed these cards as much as I enjoyed making them.

I am submitting the first card for the

simon Says Stamp 'in the middle' Mondaychallenge.

Thanks for stopping by…

Have a great day!

Bark background

I am going crazy with this Bark Background stamp from Local King Rubber Stamps! I am playing a couple of challenges today....
Freshly Made Sketches #179 challenge by Amy and a /2015/03/ftl4-take-two.htmlClean and Simple FTL4 Take two challenge

 

 

Supplies used...

'Bark' from Local King rubber stamps

Flowers from Hero arts

Smile from Paper smooches...scripty sayings..brand new!

Celebrate die from Penny Black

black adhesive gemstones from Simon Says Stamp

I am also linking this to the Never before used stuff (NBUS) blog.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

Embossing with dies-2

Happy Sunday! Hope your day has been restful and you are ready to take on the week ahead!

Today, I have a card for the Addicted to CAS codeword DOTS challenge.

I wrote a post a few days ago about embossing with dies and this card is one more with the same technique. 

The die is from Cottage Cutz and I wish I was ble to use it for die cutting as successfully as I do for embossing!

I love the soft effect it creates. 

I used watercolours to paint around the embossing and stamped over the panel with a little stamp from the Dotty Daisy stamp set from Stampendous.

The greeting is a die cut made with Penny black creative dies.

I am planning to make these cards in a series of colours for a friend…will keep you posted!

Thanks so much for stopping by…

Good Night!

Feather shaker card

I've made a card for the Simon Says Stamp Flicker challenge #6 today, which requires the use of any Simon Says Stamp die.
I just love the feather die from SSS and I came across this video by Jennifer Mcguire  making shaker cards so I decided to incorporate this technique for the challenge.

For the background, I clear embossed a stamp from Penny black and then water coloured the background (one of my favourite techniques that I learned on Online Card Classes). After it dried, I ironed off the embossing so I was left with this gorgeously soft background!

I then die cut the feathers from the panel as well from a sheet of orange fun foam.

I then sandwiched the sequins between the water coloured panel, an OHP sheet and the fun foam before adhering to the card.

The sentiment is from  the Hero Arts 'You're a rainbow OWN' stamp set.

I'm quite proud of this card…what do you think?!!!!

I am also submitting this card for the 'Runway Inspired challenge' #72.

Thanks so much for stopping by…

Have a nice evening!

Quick tags

I have been struggling  with a creative block for the last couple of months and it is really frustrating!

So, I decided to try making some tags...a smaller and less daunting project!

Here is what I came up with for my official Craft Adda Blog post....

To make these tags, I used Spellbinders Nestabilities dies,  rubber stamps from PTI, Hero Arts, Lawn Fawn, and sentiment and shape dies from Spellbinders, Penny black and Paper smooches.

I used inks from Memento and Versafine and Derwent watercolour pencils.

Hope these tags inspire you to create!

Thanks for stopping by...

Have a good night!

Online card classes Day 5

Here's what I made with the Day 5 techniques...

I stamped these panels using the  Penny black stamp and TimHoltz distress ink. the first impression was light, but after I spritzed it with some water I got a much better impression. And the last one was with the residual ink left on the stamp.

I then used my water colours to colour them in as shown by Sanketi in her video.
Just love the results!

sentiment stamps are from Hero Arts and Fiskars.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a fantastic day!

Day 2 and 3 of Online Card Classes-watercolour for card makers

Hey there!
I've been busy with the 'homework' from Online Card classes-watercolour for card makers.
My hand started bothering me again, so I had to take a break for a day....hence this delay in posting.

Anyway, here goes my work based on techniques I learnt on day 2 and 3...

1. Creating a background using watercolour pencils!

Oh my! I think I enjoyed this technique the most! The transformation when water is added is just fabulous! and look at the vibrancy of the colour!

The flower and leaves are from Penny black which I stamped, water coloured and fussy cut before adhering it with a gemstone brad from Recollections.

The sentiment is from Verses Rubber Stamps.

2. Emboss Resist...

To create this cool background, I stamped on watercolor cardstock with this Hero Arts background block and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

After creating the watercolour wash, I let it dry and the placed between 2 sheets of printer paper and ironed over it to remove the embossing powder.

To finish, I added a tag with a sentiment from Hero Arts and a button from my stash.

Here I created a mask using the sky line punch from Martha Stewart and heat embossed the card with clear embossing powder. I also heat embossed the fireworks ( Stampendous) in the sky. I then painted over with Watercolours to create the sky.

when dry, I ironed over to remove the embossing powder.

I then cut the top panel of the card and watercoloured the inside panel. I then added a heat embossed sentiment from Hero Arts.

3.Using Masking fluid.

Jennifer R demonstrated  how she made the logo for this class. I just loved it and decided to try it! Of course, she made it seem a lot easier than it actually is, therefore, mine is not as clean as hers!

To create this panel, I die cut the word 'LOVE' with my mft alphabet die set. I then traced the letters onto my paper, masked the letters using 'Winsor and Newton' masking fluid. when dry, I couloured the background and just rubbed off the mask with my fingers.

I used letters from my Hero Arts alphabet stamp set to complete the sentiment.

I made one more card using this technique...

Here, I stamped this car from Stampers Anonymus onto my cardstock with Memento Onyx Black ink. I then masked it using the Masking fluid. when dry I created the background using my 50 year old Windsor and Newton Scholastic water colours paint box. ( its so much easier now that I have my shade card!)

When dry, I rubbed off the mask and added a sentiment from Hero arts, stamped with Briliance archival ink onto vellum and adhered a button from my stash.

4. Water colour stamping.

Here,I tried my hand at water colour stamping, by applying distress inks, memento inks and distress markers to the stamps, spritzing them with water and stamping onto the paper. Obviously, I have a lot of practice to do before I get it right, but for now I am quite happy with the results.

Thanks so much for stopping by and reading through this long post.

Hope you enjoyed it and will try out some water colouring!

Bye for now...I'll see you back with some more cards... soon!

Have a great day!

Pink poppies

Hello! Happy Monday!!! 

It has been a busy week and weekend, but I am back at my desk all fired up to make this a productive week!!

 Today I have a card for you...this Sympathy card went out a while ago on behalf of Jane Beljo of Jane's Doodles as she lost her stepbrother tragically.

For the background here, I used the Hero Arts Design block 'dots and flowers' stamp. the gorgeous poppy is from Penny Black's 'Flowers and Wishes stamp set and the sentiment is from Verses Rubber stamps.

Inks are are from Memento and the background is embossed with Cuttlebug.

I tried something new this time...I coloured in the flower  using my distress inks as water coulours and then stamped over it again in oder to get the details.

Effective don't you think?

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Enjoy your day!

Roses and Loved ones

Hello everyone! 

I am back with this really pretty card that I made for a very dear friend recently.

I created the background by stamping the Roses from Stampin'UP and heat embossing them with white embossing powder.

I then coloured them and the background in with Camel artists water colour cakes.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from Penny Black, die cut it using spellbinders nestabilities, coloured the edges with  Tim Holtz distress ink and popped it on with double sided 3D foam tape.

I finished off the card by adding a strip of sequined lace for some pop and pizzaz!!

Pretty don't you think?!

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Enjoy your day!

Pencil shaded background

Remember when we used to use a pencil to emboss the image of a coin on paper? What fun that was !
Well, today, I have applied the same technique to create this awesome background for the
Friday mashup challenge.

I rubbed my 2B pencil over a sheet of paper with my Hero Arts swirls cling rubber stamp underneath.
The effect is gorgeous, as you can see!!
I then added the sentiment (from Hampton Art) and this fun armchair (from Lawn Fawn Dad's day stmap set and cushion from Papersmooches Vogue Abode stampset) for a pop of colour!

I made another card for the same challenge..
I stamped this image (cling stamp from Penny black) using smokey grey ink from Versafine. I then shsded some of the flowers with pencil and one with red Color pencil, to add pop!
I then cut up the image to create a collage, to add interest.
The sentiment is from Hero Arts

This is also my official post for  the Craft Adda Blog this week.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Have a great day!

Bunch of Tags

I made a whole bunch of gift tags for my friend's birthday...the tags I cut with my Cuttlebug tags die and I stamped them with stamps from Hero Arts, Penny Black and la'boom stamps with Memento tuxedo black ink. Added a bead and some bakers twine and some raffia and I was done. I made a whole box! Such a fun gift no?
Thanks for stopping by...
Enjoy!