Wishing you a Speedy Recovery

Hello everyone
I am back today with yet another watercolor card but I have also used watercolor pencils this time. I did do a watercolor card yesterday and I got a lot of positive comments and reactions from a lot of crafters. So it really motivated me to do some more and this is one of the 2 cards I did today.

I am putting this card up at the following blog challenges

1. Craft Addition Challenge - challenge #6 - Flowers flowers and yet more flowers
2. Dl.ART - June Linky Challenge - Anything Goes
3. Addicted to stamps and more- Challenge #246 - Anything Goes
4. Penny Black and more challenges- June- Anything Goes
5. The Ribbon Girl- June card challenge-Anything goes
6. ModSquadChallenge - Make it Square
7. Simon says stamp - Wednesday challenge- Emboss It
8. Word Art Wednesday#287 287

I started with heat embossing all the floral images I wanted to use on a watercolor cardstock (I do not have a fancy watercolor paper...just some local made) using Super fine Clear embossing powder from Ranger.

Then, I taped it to a writing pad I have using some washi tape and started watercoloring using distress inks. I used Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Abondoned coral for the flowers and bud and Crushed olive and Twisted Cirton for the leaves.
I did color some more flowers in shades of purples and I will do another post and tell you more about them there.

Then, did add some depth to my flowers and leaved using some watercolor pencils....again not very fancy...I have old FabelCastle pencils...and I used Red, Orange, Yellow, Light and Dark Greens...Just basic colors. Once everything was air dried, I fussy cut them out.

I started with a 5.5" square card base (White Cardstock 270gsm). I then diecut a frame from a silver glitter cardstock using Spellbinders Nestabilites Scalloped Labels One using the largest die from a 5 1/4" square glitter cardstock. I then adhered this frame to the cardbase using some foam tape to give some dimension.

Then I started adding my flowers, buds and leaves to the card creating some layers. Added few of then with foam dots to create layers.
Thata all, I finishes my card with few sequins from Harvest Mix from Mudra and added my sentiment using some Momento Tuxedo Black ink. The sentiment used is from Mudra stamps Wishing you stamp set.

Supplies used :-

1 Watercolor cardstock
2 Silver Glitter cardstock - ItsyBitsy
3 Distress inks- Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Abondoned coral for the flowers and bud                               and Crushed olive and Twisted Cirton for the leaves- ItsyBitsy
4 Simply Floral - Mudra stamps
5 Sequins- Harvest Mix - Mudra stamps
6 White cardstock- 270gsm - A1 Craft
7 Watercolor pencils - FaberCastle
8 Momento Tuxedo Black Dye ink- The Craft shop
9 Ranger Multi medium matte- The craft shop
10 Wow Heat gun- ItsyBitsy
11 Ranger Superfine Clear Embossing powder - The craft shop
12 Versamark - ItsyBitsy
13 Wishing - Mudra stamps
14 Spellbinders Nestabilites Scalloped Labels One - ItsyBitsy

Sending you sunshine and happiness - Watercolor Card

Hello everyone
I am very excited about this one...I have a watercolor card to share with you. I have never made a watercolor card before...and this is my FIRST ATTEMPT and I hope you guys will be a little lenient with me just for this one time....
So let me show you what I have made...

I have made this card for my husband who is working far away from me on an oilfield rig....I called me up yesterday evening and he sounded very low and in a bad mood...so I thought why not send him some sunshine..... so dear husband this one is for you.. I hope it cheers you up a little.

I started making this card the first thing after I woke up this morning and started digging in my stamp stash and found this very beautiful stamp set from Mudra Stamps...which is a part of their new release.

I am putting this card up at the following challenges -

1. Addicted to stamps and more- Challenge #246 - Anything Goes
2. Craft Stamper Magazine- Take it Make it June- Anything Goes
3. Craft Addition Challenge - challenge #6 - Flowers flowers and yet more flowers
4. Dl.ART - June Linky Challenge - Anything Goes
5. HLS - June Watercolor challenge - Optional Twist - Mask
6. Mudra Challenge#10 - Triple Time stamping
7. Paru's Card making Challenge June- Interactive
8. Penny Black and more challenges- June- Anything Goes
9. The Ribbon Girl- June card challenge-Anything goes
10. ModSquadChallenge - Make it Square

I started with a 53/4" square watercolor cardstock. I did some clear heat embossing using the beautiful floral stamps from the Simply Floral Stamp set and made my floral frame. The, I started watercoloring all the stamp images using Distress inks.

 I used Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, Worn Lipstick, Spun Sugar,  Crushed Olive, Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbles Glass, Hickory Smoke and Twisted Citron. I did watercolor in layers. I did individual petals and kept adding layers.

It took me 2 hours to do all the watercoloring. After, I was happy with it, I watercolored  the background with Tumbled Glass Distress inks and gave some dimension using Hickory Smoke Distress inks. I stamped my sentiment using Black Archival ink.

Then was the fun part, I created a triple layer card from the watercolored background and made the center part into a shaker window filling it up fun sequins also from Mudra and some are from my stash. I used a grey beige cardstock to created the triple layer card.

 Once, I assembled everything, I added a white 6"cardbase and finished the card with some more sequins on the top.

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I hope you like my first attempt at watercolor card. Below are the list of supplies I used.

1 Watercolor cardstock
2 Grey Beige cardstock - ItsyBitsy
3 Distress inks- Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, Worn Lipstick, Spun Sugar,  Crushed Olive,                                 Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbles Glass, Hickory Smoke and Twisted Citron- ItsyBitsy
4 Simply Floral - Mudra stamps
5 Sequins- Harvest Mix - Mudra stamps
6 White cardstock- 270gsm - A1 Craft
7 Clear Acetate - ItsyBitsy
8 Black Archival Ink pad- The Craft shop
9 Ranger Multi medium matte- The craft shop
10 Wow Heat gun- ItsyBitsy
11 Ranger Superfine Clear Embossing powder - The craft shop
12 Versamark - ItsyBitsy

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Mini album/ Scrapbook for Baby Boy

Hello all you beautiful people

Its raining here in Mumbai and the climate is really lazy with all the dark clouds and cool breeze…which make it tough to complete my work…… But it’s a good break from all the summer heat and sweat.  I have a new mini album to share with you guys whose cover is inspired by all the rain and sun….So excited to share this with you all today.

I have a 8” by 8” mini album with 4 ¾” spine with 5 interactive pages (12 sides including inside covers).  This is a 1^st year baby album with tons of picture space and 12 onesie tags. I have used Carta Bella Rock- a-Bye baby boy paper pack, chipboard elements and ephemeras and Papericious Color Conception paper pack. The colorful cardstock is from ItsyBitsy. Lot of different elements are used to make this album which are chipboard elements,  clear sparkle powders, ribbons and laces, magnets, brads, doilies, etc. The album is built using 1200gsm chipboard and 220gsm Iris cardstock from A1 craft. I did 12 onesie tags which can also be used as journaling tags to write monthly information. These tags are placed in a separate box

Tons of details and elements are added to make this album and its really difficult to list it all but the Supplies used are from:-

1 The craft shop : Carta Bella pattern papers, ephemeras and chipboard element, Papericious pattern papers, Papericious laces, Distress inks, Papericious clear sparkle

2 Itsybitsy - Silicon glue, chipboard clouds, Ribbons and trims, doilies, Distress inks, Numbers, Colorful cardstock

3 A1 craft- Chipboard, Iris Cardstock, Doilies

4 Jasmine Siddhiqui (Kraftily Konnect)-  Metal charms, mdf words

Without much adieu I am a video walkthough of this project and few pics below here. I hope you all like it.

I am putting this project up at
1 Papericious June challenge - Try something new -  I have a 3D picture cube at the very end of the album...sumthing I did for the first time...so excited about this.

2 Craftsneed - Masculine - I have made a baby boy album

3 Scrap and craft challenge#4 - Add ribbon, twine or sting. - Have used lots of ribbons and twin in                                                       my allbum.

4 Addicted to stamps and more- Photo inspiration - I have taken inspiration from the work Sparkle and Little - and I incorporated in my mini album. I have added some sparkly elements to the cover and tags.

5 Simon says stamp - Monday Challenge- Touchy Feels - i have a lot of textures on my album cover.

1st Month

2nd month

3rd Month

4th Month

5th Month

6th Month

7th Month

8th Month

9th Month

10th Month

11th Month

1 Year

So thats all folk....I am so sorry about such a long post...I hope you all liked my album. Ty for reading this.....Hugs