Art Journal With Me : There is Beauty in Simplicity

Hello Everyone!!!

I have been into Art journaling a lot recently. SO I hought it would be great to share my art journaling process with all of you. So now on I'm going to share my art journal process with you via few videos. I hope you enjoy it as much I did making them.

Today I have a mixed media tag for you. I was inspired by Birgit Koopsen's #everythingcircles to create this tag. So before we dive into the technique, let's have a look at the tag first, shall we...

I am submitting this card to :

• Craft Stamper - Take It Make It April Challenge
• Tuesday Taggers : Use One Stencil or Two
• Stamplorations - April Mixed Media 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:
Ranger Mixed Media Tags : https://bit.ly/2uQ6CXD Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics : https://amzn.to/2U64i98 Ranger's Dyan Reavley - Circles Stencil : https://bit.ly/2G6zXTX Golden Matte Heavy Gel : https://bit.ly/2OV9Dz7 Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker : https://bit.ly/2P0slpa Tim Holtz Distress ink mini - Black soot : https://bit.ly/2I5tbjQ Tim Holtz mini ink blending tool : https://bit.ly/2OTGd4g Prismacolor Color pencils : https://bit.ly/2IpwDVw Jane Davenport Rub-On Transfer Sheets - Neutrals: https://bit.ly/2YYz8E7

#The100dayproject : Half way through

Hello everyone!!!
Let me start by apologizing for being MIA again from my blog for such a log time. But even though I have been absent from here, I have been actively participating on my Instagram feed. Since April I participated in "The 100 Day Project". It started on 3rd April & ended on 11th July.

I tried to complete it, but could only reach half-way point by the deadline.  Although I have decided to complete the entire 100 days as and when possible.

Today I will post the initial 50 projects here for you to view together.  Let's have a look.

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 :-)  

Some Odd Girl - Pressie Tia

Hello Everyone!
I am back with another card inspiration using a very cute image from Some Odd Girl.
Lets have a look at the card first.

These are the steps I took to create this card:

1. I printed the "Pressie Tia" image on Strathmore Bristol smooth card stock.
2. Colored the image using Chameleon markers (colors mentioned in supplies below) and fussy cut the image .
3. Mounted the image on a die cut from Spellbinders beaded oval dies.
4. Finally created a fancy card panel using pattern papers from MFT, DCWV & SSS.
5. Attached the card panel to the A2 sized card base and finished the card.

I am submitting this card to :

1. Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes
2. Seize the Birthday

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 : Link
Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS

Some Odd Girl  - Pressie Tia image

Chameleon pens - (Eyes: YG3, GR1, Face: NU2, NU3, Hair: BR4, NU4, Dress: VO4, CG8, Gift & shoes: PK3, PK4, CG8) Link, Link

Distress ink mini - Wilted Violet : SSS

MFT 6 x6 Plaid Pattern Paper pack :Link

DCWV Patterned Paper - Maps, text & Ledgers : Link

Distress mini ink blending tool : SSS

Distress mini ink blending sponges : SSS 

Spellbinders - Beaded oval dies : Link

Cuttlebug die cutting machine + Cutting plates : SSS

Simon Says Clear Stamp - Sketch Ranunculus : SSS

Versafine inkpad - Onyx Black : SSS

Tombow Mono glue : SSS   

Foam Tape : Scotch | SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : 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 Card - Day 3

Hello Everyone!!!
Welcome back to my blog.Today I am back with another "Thank you" themed card for you. If you have just dropped in here, you can view few of my past thank you cards here. 

Today's card is inspired by this week's Fusion Card Challenge

Shall we have a look at the card now???

I am submitting this card to :

• Paru's Cardmaking November Challenge - Thank you card
• Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Thanks / Thanksgiving
• Fusion Card Challenge - Autumn Leaves

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 cardstock - Brown, Beige, Green, Red, Yellow : Link

Distress ink mini - Rusty Hinge :SSS

Distress mini ink blending tool : SSS

Distress mini ink blending sponges : SSS 

Simon Says Stamp - Ornate stamp : SSS

Papertrey Ink - Keep it Simple Thank you stamp set : Link

Versamark watermark inkpad: SSS

Cuttlebug Die-cutting machine : SSS

Spellbinders Die D-Lites - Leaves : SSS

ArtC - Tag die : Link

Stamping Block : SSS

Fiskars Paper trimmer : SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Tombow Mono glue  : SSS

Foam Tape : Scotch | SSS

Thank you Some Odd Girl - Day 2

Hello Everyone!!!
Welcome back to my blog. Today I am back with another "Thank you" themed card for you. If You have just dropped in here, you can view few of my past thank you cards here. 

Before we start I need to share a great  news with all of you here. I have selected to be a Design Team member at Some Odd Girl. I am extremely grateful of Kristy & the entire  team of Some Odd Girl to give me this opportunity!

So today I have my first card for their Monthly Community Challenge - November on the Some Odd Girl Community Facebook page. The theme for this month is "Fall colors".

Let's have a look at the card first, shall we??

I am submitting this card to :

• Paru's Cardmaking November Challenge - Thank you card
• Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Thanks / Thanksgiving

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 - Weekend Kaylee : Link 
Recollections A2 card base - White : Link

Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS 

Crate Paper Patterned paper - The Framer's Mark 

Versafine inkpad - Onyx Black : SSS

Fiskars Paper trimmer : SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Tombow Mono glue  : 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

Believe In Unicorns

Hello Everyone!!!

Today I am back with another card inspiration for you all as Guest Designer at Newton’s Nook Designs for the month of August!!!

This week's card is created using the Believe In Unicorns stamp set from the latest Newton's Nook product release for the month of August. Lets' take a look.

Here is a close up of the unicorn showing the coloring

Process:

1. I started off by stamping the unicorn & rainbow images from the Believe In Unicorns 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. Then using the Sky Border die, I die-cut various cloud shaped pieces. To add interest to them, I did a bit of ink blending on the edges of those die-cuts using Salty ocean Distress ink mini.
4. On a separate Strathmore Bristol card panel that's smaller than A2 size, I stamped the sentiment in the left top corner from the same stamp set & I attached the cloud shaped die-cuts from the bottom up using foam tape to create dimension.
5. Finally I attached the unicorn & the rainbow using foam tap as well and added the entire panel on an A2 sized Lawn Fawn patterned paper.
6. I finished the card by attaching the entire panel on an A2 sized top folding card base, added a few sequins to the card and added a bit of Clear Wink of Stella to the rainbow & unicorn  as finishing touches.

I am submitting this card to:

1. Paru's card making challenge - Anything Goes 
2. Happy Little Stampers - Anything goes with dies

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:

Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS 
Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Rainbow Petite patterned paper : SSS
Newton's Nook Designs stamp set - Believe in Unicorns : NND 
Newton's Nook Designs die - Sky Border die : NND  | SSS
Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens - 200, 222, 036, 072, 069,  083, 041, 050
Distress ink mini - Salty Ocean : SSS

Misti Stamping tool original : SSS

Fiskars paper trimmer : SSS
Versafine inkpad - Onyx black : SSS

Distress mini ink blending tool : SSS

Distress mini ink blending sponges : SSS 

Wink of Stella - Clear : SSS

Simon Says Stamps - Frozen Fractals sequins : SSS

Tombow Mono glue : SSS   

Foam Tape : Scotch | SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Shop Your Scraps - Striped Backgrounds

Hello Everyone!!!

Last week while organizing my card-stock and patterned papers, I realized that over the past few years I have accumulated a lot of paper scraps. I have always thought about throwing them away, but I can't come to do that. So I have decided to make cards just using those scraps.

While I was at it, I felt that it would be a good idea to share the process of creating those card ideas with you, thus I will be showcasing a new card idea using just scraps on my blog every month. How is that???

So let see this month's cards.

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

I am submitting these cards to :

• Stamp Ink Paper # 109
• Crafty Sentiment - Anything Goes Challenge
• TTCRD Anything Goes Challenge
• Happy Little Stampers July Anything Goes with Die

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
Recollections card-stock
Spellbinders Shapeabailities  Dies - Flutters
Spellbinders Shapeabailities  Dies - Les Papillons : https://goo.gl/8NRYLH
Recollections Die- Butterfly
Lil' Inker Designs stamp set - Mehndi : https://goo.gl/hj8sFu
Verve Stamps stamp set - Floral Notes
Stampendous stamp set - Happy Messages : https://goo.gl/4pkFHU
Tsuekineko Memento Dye  inkdrops  - Lilac Posies : https://goo.gl/qZ87mb
Tsuekineko Memento Dye  inkdrops  - Grape Jelly : https://goo.gl/qZ87mb
Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch
Misti original stamping tool
Cuttlebug dieecutting tool
Mini ink blending tools : https://goo.gl/pLeuaP
Mini ink blending foams : https://goo.gl/uJaHU6
Ranger Stickles - Forsted Lace : https://goo.gl/9rmGEf
Fiskars Paper trimmer : https://goo.gl/sWcUWy
Fiskars Tweezers : https://goo.gl/1gGj61
Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : https://goo.gl/mrYa5V
Tombow Mono glue  : https://goo.gl/UKmXDV
Foam Tape - Scotch / SSS :  https://goo.gl/psjn6Q   or   https://goo.gl/9Api5P