Easy Mother's Day Watercolor cards

Hello Everyone!!!

Today I have a quick tutorial showcasing easy way to create easy Mother's day cards. Lets have a look at the video.

Now let's have look at the cards I created using the watercolor artworks.

Happy Mother's Day to all you lovely mothers! I pray that you and your families get good health & happiness in life ahead!

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: 
Canson Watercolor paper :SSS 

Recollections A2 card base - White, Grey, Purple : Michaels

Altenew watercolors :  Altenew / SSS

Princeton watercolor brushes : Amazon

Zebra fountain pen : Amazon

Pencil : SSS

Drawing Compass : Amazon

Eraser : SSS

Glue :SSS

Save The Crafty Youtuber Video Hop 2020: Border Stamping

Hello Everyone!!!

Today's post is an exciting one. I have once again been fortunate to be a part for the "Save Crafty Youtuber Video Hop". Last time I did this , it was so much fun. I got the discover so many new fellow makers through the video hop.

The Save the Crafty YouTuber Video hop is a celebration of cardmaking video tutorials created by a group of talented crafters of all different styles. We are coming together to give our viewers a chance to discover other amazing cardmakers and help reach monetization goals! All you have to do is watch, like the video, consider subscribing, and click the link in the video description below to hop to the next video. Let yourself be inspired! Don’t forget to comment because we have tons of prizes to give away. Please indicate if you are located in the USA or International so that prizes can be awarded appropriately as some prizes (not all!) have restrictions on them. 

You can find more information about the video hop on Justine's blog . So do subscribe to my channel and do leave me a comment with your views.

My video is been generously sponsored by Catherine Pooler Designs. 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 this card to :

• Time-Out Challenges 
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge
• Happy Little Stampers - CAS Challenge
• Craft Stamper - 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:
Strathmore A2 sized card base :SSS Simon says stamp - black cardstock: SSS Distress oxide ink pad - Wilted Violet: SSS Distress oxide ink pad - Spiced Marmalade: SSS Distress oxide ink pad - Picked Raspberry: SSS Distress oxide ink pad - Peeled Paint:SSS Distress oxide ink pad - Peacock Feathers: SSS Distress oxide ink pad - Abandoned Coral: SSS Versamark ink-pad - Onyx black: SSS Catherine Pooler Designs - Geo Builder stamp set: CPD Hero Arts - From the Vault Bugs - CM354: SSS Pretty Pink Posh - Blissful Butterflies stamp set: SSS Crystal Katana jewel picking tool: SSS Tombow mono liquid adhesive: SSS Waterbrush:SSS or SSS Blending palette: SSS Rhinestones: SSS
Fiskars Paper trimmer : SSS

#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 :-)  

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

Art Journal Flip Through - 2018

Hello Everyone!!!

Today I am sharing a flip through on two of my art journals. Go ahead and watch the video below for a flip through here or on my YouTube Channel.

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:  

Black spiral bound journal - Amazon Dylusions art journal : Small - SSS Faber Castell watercolor pencils - Amazon Apple Barrel acrylic paints - Amazon Sakura Micron Pigma pens - SSS Ranger Texture paste - SSS Tim Holtz IDEA-ology Tissue paper : Postale - SSS Tim Holtz IDEA-ology Tissue paper : Melange - SSS Faber Casetell Gelatos - SSS Camel Fabrica acrylic paints - Amazon

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

Sketch Saturday #481

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I am back today with another card for the Sketch Saturday Card Challenge. This week's sketch is mentioned below:

This week's sponsor's are Sasayaki Glitter. So let's have a look at the card, shall we???

I am submitting this card to:

• CASology  #266 - Cake
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Clean & Simple 

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 - white
Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS 

Sasayaki Glitter image - Baby Elly's Birthday : Link

Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens - 050, 200, 202, 222, 220, 095, 092, 097, 091, 099: SSS 

Verve Stamps - Plain Jane Happy Birthday to You sentiment stamp

Authentique patterned paper : SSS

Versafine inkpad - Onyx Black:  : SSS

Fiskars paper trimmer : SSS

Tombow Mono glue : SSS   

Foam Tape : Scotch | SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Rhinestones

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

Technique of the Month : Embossing Folder Stamping

Hello Everyone!!!
Welcome to my blog!

I am back with "Technique of the Month" for August 2017. This month's technique is "Embossing Folder Stamping".

This a really easy technique. I like to use it to create unique and versatile background designs/

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

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

I am submitting this card to:

• Paru's card making challenge - 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:  

Recollections A2 card base - White

Recollections card-stock

Spellbinders Embossing Folder  - Ripples : SSS

Spellbinders Embossing Folder  - Overlapping Circles : SSS

Cuttlebug embossing Folder - D'Vine Swirls

Cuttlebug embossing Folder - Stylized Flowers

Distress Ink Mini - Twisted Citron : SSS

Distress Ink Mini -  Wild Honey : SSS

Distress Ink Mini -  Ripe Persimmon : SSS

Distress Ink Mini -  Crushed Olive : SSS

Papertrey Ink mini inkpad - Tropical teal  : PTI

Memento Dye  inkdrops   : SSS

Distress Sprayer  : SSS

Misti Stamping tool original : SSS

Fiskars paper trimmer : SSS

Cuttlebug diecutting tool :  : SSS

Versafine inkpad - Onyx Black:  : SSS

Newton's Nook Designs stamp set - Toucan Party : SSS | NND

Darice heart die  

Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens - 900, 090, 060, 004, 020, 046, 050, 023 : SSS

Distress mini ink blending tool : SSS

Distress mini ink blending sponges : SSS 

Tombow Mono glue : SSS   

Foam Tape : Scotch | SSS

Lawn Fawn Stamp Shammy : SSS

Ranger Glossy Accents : SSS