Save The Craft YouTuber Video Hop

Hello Everyone!!!
Today's post is an exciting one.  Welcome to the Save the Crafty YouTuber Video Hop Event! I am super excited to be a part of  this event with over 55 video makers that have come together to help out some of the crafters just starting to make videos. YouTube has changed some rules about who is allowed to earn money from their channels and many are at risk so I put together a hop with plenty of prizes to help increase views and subscribers before the end of February (the deadline).  You can find more information about the Video Hop on Justine's blog.  So do subscribe to my channel and do leave comment with your views.

My video is been generously sponsored by Simon Says Stamp & Catherine Pooler Stamps. So keep watching. 

Now let's have look at the cards I made using the backgrounds I created in the video tutorial.

I am submitting these cards to:

• CAS Watercolor February Challenge 
• AAA Cards - Cas Game #108 : Love
• CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #192
• CASology Week 286 : Butterfly
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge : It Must be Love
• Paru's Card Making Challenge - February : love

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 A2 card base - White, Grey, Purple : Michaels
Strathmore - Bristol Smooth paper :  SSS
Ranger texture paste : SSS
Dylusions stencils - Heart Edge : SSS
Dr. Ph Martin Hydrus watercolors : Amazon
Distress Oxide ink pad - Wilted Violet : SSS
Distress Oxide ink pad - Picked raspberry : SSS
Distress Oxide ink pad -  Salty Ocean : SSS
Distress Oxide ink pad - Peacock Features : SSS
Faber Casetell Gelatos -  : SSS
Simon Says Stamp LOVE wafer die : SSS
My Favorite Things HEART STAX dies : SSS
Spellbinders Shapeabailities  Dies - Les Papillons : SSS
Hero Arts Stamp & Cuts - Butterfly pair : SSS
My Favorite Things A2 RECTANGLE STAX SET 1 Die-Namics  : SSS
Catherine Pooler Stamp - Everyday mod : CP
Memento Tuxedo black inkpad : SSS
Cuttlebug dieecutting tool : SSS
Fiskars Paper trimmer : SSS
Stamping Block : SSS
Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS
Tombow Mono glue  : SSS
Foam Tape  : Scotch / SSS   
Rhinestones & Heart sequins

7 Days of Christmas - Day 3

Hello Everyone!!!
Today I am back with Day 3 of my Christmas card inspiration. If you have just dropped in, have a look at my other Christmas cards here.


Now let's have a look at today's card.

This is one of the simplest & also my favorite technique to create quick cards. I just created the entire card panel by stamping various  Christmas themed stamps in Versamark ink & heat embossed in gold.

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 card stock - White, Maroon : Link

Recollections - Christmas/Noel stamp set : Link

Ranger Ink embossing powder - Gold : SSS

Versamark watermark inkpad: SSS

MFT Dienamic A2 Rectangles STAX  Set 1 :SSS

Misti original stamping tool : SSS

Fiskars Paper trimmer : SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Tombow Mono glue  : SSS

Foam Tape - Scotch / SSS

Golden star sequins

7 Days of Christmas - Day 2

Hello Everyone!!!

I am back with another card inspiration for easy to make card ideas. If you have just dropped in on my blog, you can see all my other Christmas card ideas here. 

Let's see today's card, shall we???

This is a super easy project. here is how I created it.

1. On Bristol card base, I stamped & gold embossed the sentiment in the center.
2. Then using various snowflake stamp sets, I stamped different sized snowflakes on top left & bottom right corners in distinct shades of blue. 
3. Finally attached the panel to a navy blue A2 sized card base
4. Finished the card by adhering a few blue colored rhinestones.

I am submitting this card to :

1. Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Christmas / Winter Holidays
2. AAA Cards Challenge #105 - Sparkle
3. Fusion Card Challenge  - Blue Gift 
4. Paru's Card Making Challenge - Christmas theme

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 card stock - Navy blue : Link

Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS

SSS - Frozen Fractals stamp set : SSS

SSS - Lots of Snowflakes : SSS

Hero Arts - Many Banners & Messages Holiday stamp set

Ranger Ink embossing powder - Gold : SSS

Versamark watermark inkpad: SSS

MFT Dienamic A2 Rectangles STAX  Set 1 :SSS

Misti original stamping tool : SSS

Fiskars Paper trimmer : SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Tombow Mono glue  : SSS

Foam Tape - Scotch / SSS

Blue rhinestones

7 Days of Christmas - Day 1

Hello Everyone!!!

With the holiday season just around the corner, everyone must be really in hurry to finish off all the card making and post the card off to your loved ones. But then there is always someone that gets left out or you need more last minute cards or gift tags for someone. So this year I am going to post a few easy Christmas / Holiday themed projects which can help you get through the holiday season.

You can view all my past Christmas cards ideas here.

So lets have a look at today's card.

This is a super easy project. here is how I created it.

1. I started by gold embossing the background on white cardstock. 
2. Then I gold embossed a poinsettia image on bristol cardstock and colored it with watercolor.
3. I cut out the poinsettia , attached to the center of the background using foam tape.
4. Added accent colors on the background, attached a few pearls to the background.
5. Finally stamped & gold embossed sentiment, attached it below the poinsettia using glue.
6. Finished the card by attaching the white card panel on a A2 sized maroon card base.

I am submitting this card to :

1. Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Christmas / Winter Holidays
2. AAA Cards Challenge #105 - Sparkle
3. Paru's Card Making Challenge - Christmas theme

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 card stock - White , Maroon : Link

Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS

Happy Little Stampers stamp set- Christmas Joy   : Link

SSS - Cora  background stamp : SSS

Ranger Ink embossing powder - Gold : SSS

Versamark watermark inkpad: SSS

Jane Davenport - Mermaid Markers (Lobster, Coral, Pirate's gold, Seaweed, Siren) : SSS

Cricut - Cutter Bee scissors : SSS

MFT Dienamic A2 Rectangles STAX  Set 1 :SSS

Misti original stamping tool : SSS

Fiskars Paper trimmer : SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Tombow Mono glue  : SSS

Foam Tape - Scotch / SSS

Little Things By Lucy's Cards - Soft Ivory pearls : SSS

Some Odd Girl - Dakota Mermaid

Hello Everyone!
Welcome back to my blog! Today is my blog post as a DT memmber at Some Odd Girl. So let's have a look at the card.

When I first saw the image the only colors that came to my mind were blue & green. So I colored the image in shades of blue & green using Prismacolor pencils.

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:  

Some Odd Girl - Dakota Mermaid digital stamp : Link

Recollections A2 card base - White : Link

Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS

Hero Arts background stamp - Wave: SSS

Distress Oxide inkpad - Faded Jeans: SSS

Distress Oxide inkpad - Broken China: SSS

Hero Arts stamp set - Layering Seahorse : SSS
Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils : 12 set | 24 set | 36 set
Versamark watermark inkpad: SSS
Hero arts embossing powder - White : SSS

Tombow Mono glue : SSS   

Foam Tape : Scotch | SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Thank You So Much - Day 1

Hello Everyone!!!
Welcome back to my blog. I can't even imagine that we are already in November. With Thanksgiving coming soon I can't help but make a lot of thank you cards these days. So for next few days I am going to try to post a few of those cards here. 

Let's have a look at today's card.

I am submitting this card to:

• Paru's Cardmaking November Challenge - Thank you card
• Stamp Ink Paper Challenge #123

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 A2 card base - Black, Beige : Link

My Mind's eye Patterned paper - The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine 

Distress ink mini - Barn door  : SSS

Distress ink mini - Crushed olive  : SSS

Distress ink mini - Wild honey : SSS

Distress ink mini - Carved Pumpkin : SSS

Versafine inkpad - Onyx Black : SSS

Stamping Block : SSS

Cuttlebug embossing folder - Thanks : SSS

Simon Says Stamp - Flowe Friends stamp set : SSS

Recollections Enamel dots  : Link

Cuttlebug diecutting tool : SSS

Fiskars Paper trimmer : SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Tombow Mono glue  : SSS

Diwali Cards - Mudra Stamps Guest Designing

Hello Everyone!!!

I’m so excited to finally be able to share with you all today, that I am the Guest Designer  for Mudra Craft Stamps today and I'm so happy about it! I was thrilled when Varshitha, the wonderful owner of Mudra gave me this opportunity. 

Mudra Craft Stamps is an Indian Company and they manufacture beautiful stamps, stencils, sequins etc I had a lot of fun playing with the supplies. 

I've shared 5 cards on the Mudra blog today. I hope you like what I have to share. 

You can check out the blog post with all the details here. 

Here are a few sneak peeks of my cards.

I hope you all like my cards. 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 :-) 

Newton Loves Cake

Hello Everyone!!!

Today I am back again with my last installment of card inspiration as Guest Designer at  Newton’s Nook Designs for the month of August!!!

I really struggle a lot with critter cards as they need to be cute or tell some story through them. I wanted this card to be as special as the other three. So for this week's card I have used the Newton Loves Cake from the latest Newton's Nook Designs. Lets' take a look at the card now.

Here is a close up of the unicorn showing the coloring

Process:

1. I started off by stamping the the image from the  Newton Loves Cake stamp set on Strathmore Bristol cardstock.
2. Then I colored the images using Zig clean color real brush pens (colors mentioned is description) & fuzzy cut them using scissors.
3. Using Spellbinders Oval die, I die-cut an oval from a post-it not to create a mask.
4. On a separate Strathmore Bristol card panel that's smaller than A2 size, I attached the negative of the die-cut oval post-it. 
5. Using Distress ink mini cubes I did some ink blending inside the oval area that was open through the mask. Then heavily sprayed it with water and added some salt on the wet surface and let it dry.
6. Once the surface was dry, I scratched off the salt from the card panel .
7. I added some doodled pattern around this oval using Sharpie black pen.
8. Later I added a few splatters of Finetec gold watercolor on the card panel to add interest.
9. Next I stamped the sentiment on a vellum strip using Versamark inkpad and heat embossed the sentiment in Hero Arts black embossing powder.
10. Then I attached the vellum strip to the card panel using glue on the ends and tuck the vellum strip around the card panel.
11. Finally I attached the colored image slightly over the vellum strip using foam tape, 
12. I finished the card by attaching the entire panel on an A2 sized top folding black card base and added a few sequins to the card  as finishing touches.

I am submitting this card to:

1. AAA Cards - CAS Game #97
2. Happy Little Stampers August Watercolor Challenge 
3. Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

I had so much fun creating all these cards and I am really very grateful to all those who gave me this chance, stuck by my side  & appreciated my work. 

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:

Recollection A2 card base - black 
Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS 
Newton's Nook Designs stamp set - Newton Loves Cake : NND | SSS
Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens - 095, 096, 099, 900, 901, 036, 025, 222, 050, 052, 803 : SSS
Distress ink mini - Salty Ocean : SSS
Distress ink mini - Picked Raspberry: SSS

Misti Stamping tool original : SSS

Fiskars paper trimmer : SSS

Distress mini ink blending tool : SSS

Distress mini ink blending sponges : SSS 
Distress Sprayer  : SSS
Sharpie 0.5 Black pen : SSS
Spellbinders Classic  Oval die : SSS
Finetec Mica watercolors : SSS
Bazzill 40LB Vellum : SSS
Versamark watermark inkpad: SSS
Antistatic powder tool : SSS
Hero Arts Black Embossing powder : SSS

Simon Says Stamps - Frozen Fractals sequins : SSS
Pretty Pink Posh Friendship mix sequins : SSS

Tombow Mono glue : SSS   

Foam Tape : Scotch | SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS
Salt

Beautiful Plumage

Hello Everyone!!!

I am back with another post sharing my card inspirations  as the Guest Designer for the month of August at Newton’s Nook Designs!

After  seeing this Beautiful Plumage stamp set by Newton's Nook products  I could not just stop at just one card. So today I have two card inspirations for you using just that stamp set, Versamark inkpad and Zing gold embossing powder. Lets' take a look.

Process:

1. I started by stamping the peacock image and sentiment from the Newton's Nook Designs Beautiful Plumage stamp set on colored card stock using Versamark ink.
2. Then added Zing gold embossing powder to it and heat set it using a heat gun.
3. Maroon card: On a separate maroon panel, I did gold heat embossing  using just the peacock feather image multiple times on both the vertical borders to add interest.
4. Blue card: On a separate beige panel, I swiped Versamark inkpad on the edges and added gold embossing powder to create a gold background.
5. Then attached all the layers using glue and foam tape.
6. Finished the card by adding colored rhinestones to the peacock feather centers

I absolutely love all then swirl themed stamp sets by Newton's Nook Designs as it reminds me of all the quilling I did in the past! 

I am submitting this card to:

1. Paru's card making challenge - Anything Goes 
2. Craft Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes

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:

Recollection card base - Peacock blue, Maroon

 Recollection card stock - Beige, Peacock blue, Maroon

Newton's Nook Designs stamp set - Beautiful Plumage : NND | SSS

Zing Metallic Gold embossing powder : SSS

Misti Stamping tool original : SSS

Fiskars paper trimmer : SSS

Versamark watermark inkpad: SSS
Antistatic powder tool : SSS

Tombow Mono glue : SSS   

Foam Tape : Scotch | SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS
Rhinestones - Red, Beige

Technique of the Month - Textured colored backgrounds

Hello Everyone! Welcome to my blog!

I am back with "Technique of the Month" for June 2017.  I missed a couple of months but I am back on track now. This month's technique is "Textured colored backgrounds".

I am a huge fan of adding any kind of texture to my cards. It could either be on the background using embossing folders, embossing paste or it could be using embellishments. I can never make just plain and simple one layered cards. 

So before we dive into the technique, let's have a look at today's card first, shall we...

Close-up of the texture

Technique: The technique is really very simple. I have created a short video to explain the process. I hope that helps.





So here is a small description how I created this card:

• Die-cut 2 circles from the background panel created using We R Memory Keepers - Nesting circle dies
• On an A2 car base, adhered the smaller circle die-cut using glue.
• Then adhered the larger circle die-cut to the card base using foam tape
• Stamped the happy birthday sentiment from the Concord & 9th Happy Day set using Versamark ink and heat embossed using Ranger embossing powder.
• Cut out an additional 1/4" strip from the background panel and attached it to one side of the card base using glue.
• Attached a few embellishments around the sentiment to finish the card. 
• I also stamped a few coordinating sentiments inside the card (can be seen in video).
• Finally sponged the envelope flap to match the colors on the card using Memento dye inks.

I am submitting this card to :

• CAS Colour and Sketches #227
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Emboss It  
• Where Creativity meets C9 - Layering
•  CAS Watercolor challenge - Summer
•  CAS Mix Up  June Challenge
   

 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 A2 card base - white  
Strathmore - Bristol Smooth paper  
Golden - Modeling paste / Ranger Texture paste

Dylusions Dyan Reaveley stencil 5 x 8 Squares Small
Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus watercolors 
Concord & 9th stamp set - Happy Day
We R Memory Keepers - Nesting Circle dies
Versamark inkpad
Distress Sprayer 
Ranger embossing powder - silver
Memento dye inks
Recollections sequins 
Ranger Ink - Palette Knife 
Tombow Mono glue 
Foam Tape - Scotch / SSS