January Mixed Media Page

Hello Everyone! 
If you got a chance to have a glance at my 2016 goals, I have decided to work on more non-card projects this year. So here I'm with my 1st installment of it.


Here is my art journaling

 Here are a few closeup shots as well.

Lot of my style is similar to Vicky. This is a new art journal from the Ranger ink - Dylusions line. To start off with, I used Time Holtz tissue paper for background. Then applied some gesso to mellow down the effect and later colored it with acrylic paints (color listed in supplies). I stamped 2 butterflies on watercolor paper, pained them, fuzzy cut them and pasted them on the color background. Then stamped the focal sentiment and the floral design using Dylusions stamps (mentioned in supplies list).  All of my journaling materials is listed in the supply list). I have added a hint of stenciling on the top let corner using Dylusions - Floral Flourish. Finally to add finishing touch, sprinkled some diluted gesso using a small brush and added smaller size butterfly stickers on the pages.
  
Did you all like it? I would love to hear back from you all. Thank you very much for taking your time to notice it. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding :-) 

Supplies used:
Dylusions Creative Journal - Small
Strathmore 300 series watercolor paper
Daler Rowney - Gesso
Dylusions Clear Stencil & Stamp - Floral Flourish
Dylusions Clear Stamp - Clearly Alpha
Hero Arts - Artist Butterfly
Hampton Art - Vintologic Butterfly stamp set
Golden - Regular Gel
Craft Smart - Acrylic Paints (Fuchsia, Pool Blue, Bright Yellow)
Ranger Ink - Archival Ink (black)
Tim Holtz - Idea-ology - Tissue Wrap Postale 
Sakura Jelly Roll - white

Sketch Saturday #397

Hello Everyone! 
I'm back for this week's card for the Sketch Saturday #397. Its 5th Saturday of the month and so that means ... you are free to pick any sketch from the past sketches between sketch #215 to #396. The sketch I followed is sketch #295

The sponsors for this week are The Paper Shelter

So lets have a look at the card now

This was a rather challenging card for me as I have very little experience with image coloring. The image I used is from The Paper Shelter - Casual Boy. As this was a masculine card, I used pattern papers from The Mind's Eye - Boy Crazy 6x6 paper pad to create the background. I also tried to color the image in a similar color theme. Finally the sentiment Stampendous - Birthday Assortment set.
You can also find rest of the Design Team inspiration and also the Challenge Rules HERE. We hope you will play along for a chance to win the prize from The Paper Shelter !

I hope you all liked my card. I would love to hear back from you all. Thank you very much for taking your time to notice it. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding :-) 

Supplies used:

Recollections cardstock - Cream
The Mind's Eye - Boy Crazy 6x6 paper pad 
Stampendous - Birthday Assortment set
Faber Castell - Watercolor pencils 
Tombow Mono glue
Foam tape  
RangerInk - Archival Ink - black 



 

Hello Friend

Hello Everyone! 

I have a really quick card for all today. Here is the card.

This is a super easy card to make. On a watercolor paper, stamped the Verve Stamps - Peacefuls Medallions in Versamark ink and heat embossed in white. Then added water to the blended  heat embosed part and blended Distress inks (colors mentioned in supplies list) according to the MFT color combo challenge for this week. Let it dry. Till then on a teal cardstock, stamped the sentiment from the Verve Stamps - Floral sentiments set and cut it into a banner. Adhered the banner to the bottom of the watercolor panel with foam tape and pasted the entire panel on a bit larger teal cardstock panel. Lastly attached the entire piece on a white card base.


I'm submitting this card for : MFT Sketch challenge ,MFT Color challenge and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge 

I hope you all liked my card. I would love to hear back from you all. Thank you very much for taking your time to notice it. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding :-) 

Supplies used:

Recollections cardstock - White, Teal
Strathmore 300 series - watercolor paper
Verve stamp - Peaceful Medallions, Floral Sentiments
Distress Ink minis (Cracked pistachio, Evergreen bough, Broken china, Stormy sky)
Recollections - Embossing powder (snow white)
Versamark inkpad
Darice heatgun 
Tombow Mono glue
Foam tape
RangerInk - Archival Ink (black)

 

Sketch Saturday #395

Hello Everyone!!!

I'm back for this week's card for the Sketch Saturday #395 . The sketch I followed is mentioned below:

The sponsors for this week are Bunny Zoe's Craft 

Finally here is my card based on the sketch. 

The sentiment and the stamped image both are from Verve Stamps - Floral Sentiments set. I used the following color combo for the card:

You can also find rest of the Design Team inspiration and also the Challenge Rules HERE. We hope you will play along for a chance to win the prize from Bunny Zoe's Craft !

I hope you all liked my card. I would love to hear back from you all. Thank you very much for taking your time to notice it. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding :-) 

Supplies used:

Recollections cardstock - White, Yellow, Pink
DCWV - The Old World Stack (green patterned paper)
Verve Stamps - Floral Sentiments
Faber Castell - Watercolor pencils
Cuttlebug Embossing folder - Damask Decor 
Rhinestones - orange
Ribbon - green
Tombow Mono glue
Foam tape
RangerInk - Archival Ink - black

 

 

Sketch Saturday #393

Hello Everyone!!!

I have a really great news to share with you all! I have been selected to work with some awesome ladies from Sketch Saturday on their Design Team. This is an opportunity I was waiting for a very long time. Sketch Saturday is a card sketch challenge that goes live with a new sketch every Saturday and runs for a week. 

Today I bring you my 1st card inspiration for their Challenge #393. The sketch is mentioned below

The sponsors for this week are Sami Stamps.

Finally here is my card based on the sketch. The "Butterfly" image is from Sami Stamps.

Here are a few side angle shots to see the dimension.

Here is a close-up shot.

The digital image only shows 2 wings of the butterfly, but I resized the image, pasted it in MS Word 4 times, flipped 2 of the images vertically and then printed them. I kept 2 images as it is and for the other 2 did some fuzzy cutting so that I could create some dimension. I colored all the images in Faber Castell watercolor pencils, pasted the fuzzy cut wings just at the tip where wings attach to the butterfly body and gave the remaining part of wings some shape and dimension . Then die-cut few flower shapes from Spellbinders - Rose Creations (smallest 2 dies, created a flower. Pasted everything on a green panel and then on a yellow larger panel with a ribbon in the middle. Finally stamped the sentiment from Verve Stamps - Floral Notes , adhered the entire panel on a white card base using foam tape and embellished with a few rhinestones. 

You can see all the Design Team inspiration and also the Challenge Rules HERE. We hope you will play along for a chance to win the prize from "Sami Stamps!

I hope you all liked it. I would love to hear back from you all. Thank you very much for taking your time to notice it. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding :-) 

Supplies used:

Recollections cardstock - White, Yellow, Pink
DCWV - The Old World Stack (green patterned paper)
Verve Stamps - Floral Sentiments
Spellbinders - Rose Creations
Sami Stamps - Butterfly 3
Faber Castell - Watercolor pencils
Rhinestones - pink
Ribbon - green
Tombow Mono glue
Foam tape

 

Happy New Year -Welcome 2016 !!!

Hello Everyone!!!

Happy  New Year to all of you!

Hope that all of you enjoyed a Merry Christmas and had loads of New Year Celebration.

2015 went by very fast and I can't believe that it is already 2016. 2015 has taught me several life lessons which are going to be very useful in the upcoming years. In all I can say that 2015 was a great year for me in terms of paper crafting. Did a lot of diecutting, embossing, color blending etc. and I'm thankful to all my family and friends who are always very encouraging towards me. Also I'm grateful for all the appreciation all you out there have given me. In 2016, I hope, I get to learn more new techniques and work with more awesome people in future.

  

Here is a short recap of all my artwork from last year.

Thanks so much for all you who visited my blog and lovely comments last year.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Wishing all a Very Happy and Healthy New Year 2015 once again.

May God bless you all!!!