Color Me Challenge - Birthday Card

Hello Everyone!
I have been meaning to submit a card for the Color Me challenge for weeks now. Last night I was on their blog and I liked their color combo. It was very "Halloweeny". Yet I felt like creating a Birthday card. I love making those. 

Here is the color combo they offered this week for the challenge

 Here is the card I created

To make this card, the backgrounds are created using Distress Ink Mini inkpads and Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool (colors used are listed in supplies). I splattered water to get a more distressed effect. The Papertrey Ink - Text Block - Birthday Die is perfect to add a sentiment . I had to layer the die-cut 2 times to give it a raised effect. Then created the flower using Quilled Creations - Garden Favorites die. 

So I'm submitting this card for this week's Color Me! Challenge - CMCC#94

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: Paper: Recollections Cardstock - White
Distress Watercolor Cardstock Distress Ink Mini inkpads  (Spiced marmalade, Worn lipstick, Seedless preserves)
Ranger ink Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool 
Papertrey Ink - Text Block - Birthday Die
Quilled Creations - Garden Favorites - Gardenia
Cuttlebug - Crysanthamum leaves
Pearl
Tombow Mono Permanent Adhesive
Tacky glue 

 

Diwali Cards - Day 1

Hello Everyone!
Long time no see? Yup, I have been busy taking care of some personal stuff. Now that things are sorted and I'm back to routine, I will be trying to post more cards and art on here more consistently. 

As the season of Diwali is soon to come, I will be posting a few Diwali themed cards in the next few days. I will be taking this opportunity as a chance to improve my crafting skills by trying out a variety of techniques that I always wanted to try!
 
For my first card, I have 2 variations.  The process is same , there is just a minor change. 

For this card I created the background on a Recollections Cream Carstock Paper (65 lb)

 For this card I created the background on a Distress Watercolor Cardstock 

To make these cards, the backgrounds are created using Distress Ink Mini inkpads and Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool. Colors used are listed in supplies. Then used Spellbinders Nestablities - Picot Edge Circles . I heat embossed a cardstock piece in Recollection Embossing Powder - Champagne and cut a lamp shape out of it. Also the flame is had cut from gradient created using Distress Ink Minis. Decorated the lamps with Rhinestones and Ranger Ink Stickles. Using a Versamarker I wrote the "Happy Diwali sentiment on the background panel and heat embossed using Zing Embossing Powder - 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: Paper: Recollections Cardstock -Cream
Distress Watercolor Cardstock
Distress Ink Mini inkpads  (Fired brick, Festive berries, Spiced marmalade, Mustard seed, Wild honey)
Spellbinders Nestablities - Picot Edge Circles 
Recollection Embossing Powder - Champagne
Zing Embossing Powder - Gold
Ranger ink Stickles - Blue, Gold
Ranger ink Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool 
Versamarker watermark pen
Versamark stamp pad
Rhinestones
Tombow Mono Permanent Adhesive

 

Thank You card

Hello Everyone!
I got a sweet and simple card for you today. It's a Thank You card. I have used the Watercolor + Stencil technique show by Jennifer McGuire long back in this video . Here is the card:

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: Paper: Recollections Carstock - White, Yellow, Turquoise Punch: Recollections 8 petal punch - 5/8 inch , 1 inch Stamp: Stampendous - Happy messages
Stencil: Tim Holtz - Dotfade
Inks: Rangers Distress Ink minis - Mustard Seed, Peacock feathers, Mowed Lawn
Modeling Paste : Golden
Inkssential Glossy Accents
Rhinestones
Tombow Mono Permanent Adhesive

Warli Painting - First Attempt

Hello Everyone!!!
The other day I was going over some Indian artist articles on Pinterest and I came across Warli Painting. Warli Painting is a tribal art mostly done by Adivasi from North Sahyadri Range in India. I quickly remembered the Warli print bed sheets mom had for our bed back home. One thing led to another and an hour later after lots og Googled image references and watching 2-3 Youtube videos about Warli,  I was at my desk painting a canvas brown prepping for doing a Warli painting of my own. 

I painted a 8x10 size canvas in brown acrylic paint , let it dry, did a basic sketch of the scene I wanted and started off with white acrylic paint. Half way through I realized that I was making small mistakes as this was my 1st attempt. The OCD  inside me did not let me make a lot of mess and so I decided that I needed some practice before I worked on a canvas. I had a perfect base to work on. Few days back at a Micheal's sale, I had picked up the Canson 5.5x8.5  XL series Acrylic paper book (136 lb). Its heavier and sturdier than the canvas. So I got a little carried away and painted a few pages of it in various dark acrylic colors like brown, black, dark green, navy blue , voilet etc. I'm going to use it as a practice. 

I did my 1st page yesterday night. Here it is for you to see

One thing to note here is that the background is an acrylic color but the white figures are done using a white Sakura Jelly Roll gel pen. It took me 2 hours to complete this entire scene. I hope to improve even more. 

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:
Paper: Canson 5.5x8.5  XL series Acrylic paper (136 lb).
Paint: Apple Barrel acrylic paint - Chocolate Bar
Pen: Sakura Jelly Roll - white

Digital Doodle - Part 3

Hello Everyone!!!
Last week I had posted an image of a mandala on Instagram which got a lot of likes. I thought why not transfer it into a digital manadala. So here is the image is for free use to anyone. Please to link back to my blog if you use it in any projects. 

 
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:
Pilot Precise Rolling Ball V7
Sketchbook
Adobe Photoshop CS6