Happy New Year!

Happy New Year people!
Its my blog anniversary!!!
I can't believe it's been 4 years since I started my blog!
It has been an awesome ride and thanks so very much to all of you wonderful friends who stop by to read my blog posts!

Here's my post for today…also my official post for Craftadda…India's foremost hobby store!

I am linking this card to the Craft Adda Winter Sale-Buy,Create, Share Contest!

A New Year postcard that I made for a few friends…postcards are so much fun to make and so easy to mail! And so easy to make multiples too!

The lights stamp is one of my oldest stamps and is from Rubber Stampede. 

I stamped the image and coloured it with camel watercolours.

For the numbers, I didn't have a number stamp that was bold enough, so I die cut the 2015 using Lawn Fawn's Quinn's 123 die set. Using it as a stencil I applied versa mark embossing ink to the postcard and embossed it with gold embossing powder.

The sentimento are from the Hero Arts 'its your day' stamp set and 'holiday sayings' stamp set. The sparkle is from Papertrey Ink's 'Sparkle and Shine' stamp set.

I was thrilled with the result! A great way to end 2014…they all went in the mail yesterday!

Thanks so much for stopping by…

Have a great night!

Mom's birthday

Hey all!
Here is a card I made for a friend to give to her mom on her birthday. I made it with the Retro sketches challenge 102 in mind.

the stamps I have used are from Hero Arts(Colour me flowers- cling stamp set) and Stampendous (Hand of friendship).

Inks are from Memento and Versamark and colours are Faber Castell colour pencils.

I added self adhesive pearls to give the flowers some pop!

Love the way it turned out..don't you?

Thanks for stopping by...

Have a great day!

Retro sketches challenge no.59

It's really late and I am playing two challenges tonight...

The Retro sketches challenge no.59

And the Paper Players Challenge no. 141...I just missed this one!!!

Here is my interpretation!

Stamps are from Stampendous 'hand of friendship' stamp set  and Verses Rubber stamps.

The bangles, flower and sentiment are heat embossed with American crafts and Stampendous embossing powder. 

I used my Versamark pen to ink the bangles and the flower before I heat embossed them.

The background stamp is from Stampendous..'Marble texture cube'.

Inks are from Versamark, Versafine  and Memories.

I like this one...

What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by...

Enjoy!!

Happy Holi!

Hey everyone! I am the new DT for Craft Adda and this is my first post on their blog!

Since Spring is here (well, more like summer!!) and it is the festival of COLOURS, I decided to make this bright and colourful card to celebate the ocassion!

The card measures 8"x4" and is made with premium white card stock available for purchase in my shop

The splashes of colour have been made using a 'punch bunch' craft punch. Aren't they gorgeous?!

The sentiment is from the 'Technique Tuesday' Bright ideas Stamp set.

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark embossing ink and heat embossed it with American Crafts 'Rouge Red' and 'Black Opaque' embossing powders.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Enjoy!

Hershey's Happy birthday!

I recently rediscovered my Hershey's kisses die from Cottage Cutz..here's what I made with it!

I love the way this card turned out..don't you!

Stamps are from Stampendous and Hero Arts...stamped with Memento Lady bug and heat embossed with American Crafts Gold embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by...

Enjoy!

Number birthday

I am posting after a long time...life is a bit hectic these days!

I made this card for a very dear (older) cousin...I love the way it turned out...what do you think?

The numbers are die cut with cuttlebug alphabet and number dies and the sentiment is from Stampendous "B'day Candles" stamp set stamped with Versmrk 'OnyxBlack' ink. It is such a fun sentiment isn't it!

I used a 'Xyron 150 sticker' machine to make the numbers into stickers to adhere them to the card

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Enjoy!!

POPPIES ETC.,

I've been having fun with a new stamp set that I bought recently, as well as trying out a classic technique as demonstrated by Gina K on Stamp TV
The stamp set is from Stampendous..."Perfectly clear Poppy bottles".
I have used watercolour, colourpencils and water colour pencils to colour the images...lot of fun!

Water Colour

Derwent Water Colour pencils

Faber Castell Colour Pencils

For this card, I stamped the image (Stampendous-wild flower sprigs), with Versamark watermark Ink and heat embossed it with Judikins clear embossing powder. I then went over the image with Tim Holtz distress inks, 'Broken China', 'Faded Jeans', and 'Crushed Olive'. I love the way it turned out...don't you?!

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Enjoy!