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 :-) 

Sketch Saturday #481

Hello Everyone!!!
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

Beautiful Wings Birthday

Hello Everyone!!!

I’m so excited to finally be able to share with you all today, that I am the Guest Designer for the month of August at Newton’s Nook Designs!

The card I have today uses a mix of Newton's Nook products along with stencils & inks from other brands. Let's take a look.

Here is a close-up showing coloring on the butterfly image.

Process:

1. I started by sponging ink using Memento Dew Drops through Tim Holtz Dot Fade stencil on 4 x 5 1/4 inches Strathmore Bristol paper card panel.
2. On another Bristol card panel, I stamped various butterfly images from the Newton's Nook Designs Beautiful Wings stamp set using black ink.
3. I colored all of those images using Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens and then fuzzy cut them.
4. I arranged all the images on the stenciled card panel , then decided the position for the sentiments.
5. The sentiments are a combination of stamps from the Newton's Nook Designs Beautiful Wings  & Newton loves Cake sets.
6. Finally I attached all the butterfly images to the card panel using foam tape. 
7. Lastly I finished the card by attaching the entire card panel to an A2 sized top folding card base.

I absolutely love this stamp set as it reminds me of all the quilling I did in the past! 

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 - Navy Blue

Strathmore Bristol paper  : SSS 

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

Newton's Nook Designs stamp set - Newton Loves Cake : NND | SSS

Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens - 202, 222, 025, 031, 036, 037 

Tim Holtz Collection stencil - Dot Fade : SSS

Versamark inkpad - Onyx black : SSS

Memento Dew Drops - Summer Sky, Bahama Blue, Danube Blue :SSS

Misti Stamping tool original : SSS

Fiskars paper trimmer : 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

Simon Says Stamp - Feb 2017 Card Kit

Hello Everyone!!!

I am back with my 5 unique cards which I created using Simon Says Stamp - February 2017 card kit. The contents of the card kit are so cute, "lovey-dove" & beverage related that they are perfect to create love and tea-coffee themed cards.

Here are all the cards I have created using this kit. All the supplies used apart from the kit are mentioned separately below.

	Card 1
	Card 2
	Card 3
	Card 4
	Card 5

I am submitting these cards cards to:

•  The Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge

• CAS Mixup - March 2017

 

•  Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday 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:

Simon Says Stamp - Feb 2017 card kit     (this card kit is now sold out but its contents which can be purchased separately. They are linked below)

Simon Says Stamp Clear Stamp Set Coffee and Tea

Simon Says Stamp - Coffee Love Wafer die  

Doodlebug 6x6 Cream and Sugar Papers 

Simon Says Stamp Doll Pink Cardstock

Simon Says Stamp Surf Blue Cardstock

Simon Says Stamp 120# White Cardstock

Neenah Desert Storm Cardstock - 80 lbs

Below mentioned are supplies used in all cards:

Strathmore Bristol cardstock  

3M Foam tape  

Tombow Mono glue

Card 1: Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens - Peach Pink,  Cobalt Blue, Mid Brown Simon Says Stamp - Frozen Fractals sequins Wink of Stella - glitter clear Versafine - Onyx Black

Card 2: Recollections A2 size card base - white Ranger Ink texture paste AtrC tag die Ranger Ink Dylusions stencil - Hearts Distress ink minis -  Picked raspberry, Worn lipstick Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens - Carmine red, Beige, Gray brown  DMC metallic thread - silver Recollections rhinestones - black Versafine - Onyx Black

Card 3: Recollections A2 size card base - blue Darice heart die Distress ink minis - Picked raspberry, Worn lipstick

Card 4: Recollections A2 size card base - brown Sizzix Framelits circle dies

Card 5: Recollections A2 size card base - white

 

Technique of the Month - Ink Smooshing

Hello Everyone!!! 
In 2017 while setting my Crafting goals, I decided to challenge myself and so I settled on the thought that each month I will come up with a card using a technique. I will try to demonstrate the technique and create a card using the technique.So today marks my 1st installment for the same. 

From my previous blog post and my Instagram posts you must have realized that I have become a great fan of "Ink Smooshing tehcnique", I guess which is introduced to all of us by Laura Bassen. There are a lot of tutorials available on Youtube and various forums about this technique.  It can be recreated using any kind of watercolors available at your disposal. I tend to get best results using either Tim Holtz Distress inks, Dyan Reavley's Dylusions ink sprays, Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens or Dr. Ph Martin's liquid watercolors.

I have created a card using the same technique . Let's look at the card first .

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Technique: The technique is really very simple. You need to remember to select colors that blend in well with one another so that you don't create a muddy mess. I had posted a short video on my Instagram feed showing the technique. You can view it here:

Doing a little ink smooshing today #zigcleancolorrealbrushpens #inksmooshing by @parabn17

Card: For this card I started off by stamping the image first in black ink on watercolor card stock.  The I have used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pen to create the background. Once the background dried up, I added a few silver splatters  on the background using Fintec Mica palette. Then  I stamped the sentiment and adhered the card panel to purple card base using glue. Finally added a squins and finished the card.

I am submitting this card to :

•  The Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge
• Simon Says Stamp - Work It Wednesday Challenge
• Seize the Birthday - Anything goes challenge 

• The Flower Challenge #6 
• CAS Mixup - March 2017

 

• CASE this Sketch #211

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 - purple
Canson watercolor paper -140 lbs
Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens 
Finetec MICA watercolor palette
Altenew Beautiful Day Stamp set
Stampendous - Birthday wishes set
Versafine inkpad - Onyx Black
Recollections sequins 
Tombow Mono Multi liquid glue