Welcome! Little one - Handmade Card.

Hello guys
Its all about BABIES this month and I have a handmade card this time to celebrate the arrival of the Little One/s which fill our hearts with love and joy......so here is what I made and this is also my DT inspiration for Lets Craft and Create Challenge blog where the theme is Child's Play all this month. Purple is by far my favorite color and since the baby themed card/ project are usually Blue and Pink, I thought to do something a little out of the box and made a card in my fav color - Purple!

You all can join in the blog challenge which will be running all month by clicking HERE.
Now, back to the card. I started with 270 gsm White cardstock cut to standard A2 size card base. For the front panel, I have used pattern paper from Papericious - Whimsical 6" X 6"paper pack. I have cut the paper to the size 4"by 51/4"and then dry embossed it with Sizzix embossing folder. Later I tied a White satin ribbon on the lower part of the paper and finished it into a cute bow. I mounted this panel on my front of the cardbase using some white fun foam sheet.

I did some die cutting now using Cottage Cutz Baby border die on a Purple cardstock and White cardstock. I mixed the 2 die cuts and adhered it on the front panel above the satin ribbon. To make the center element, I diecut few shapes from white, purple and design papers from the Whimsical collection using Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Labels one, ItsyBisty Nested Stitched Circles and Sizzix basic dies. I added them on the panel using some foam tape to give it a little dimension.
On the center, I added a cute Teddy Bear Sticker from Handmades Sticker collection. I do not have the name as its an old collection and I cannot find it anywhere.

I finished my card with a Welcome sentiment from Mudra craft stamps stamped on a white cardstock with Grape Jelly dye ink from Memento and then matted it with some more design paper in green from the same paper pack. The inside of the card is kept pretty clean. I do not know why its looking so blue in the pictures...in real its Purple and so royal looking...But that's Camera with its own drawbacks.

I am putting this card up at the following blog challenges:

1. The Ribbon girl Blog - September use any image challenge
2. HLS September - Anything goes with Dies Challenge
3. Inky Chicks - Challenge#88 use your favorite colors - I have used my fav color Purple.
4. Scrapping4fun challenge #98 - Use Techniques - I have used Dry embossing and diecutting.
5. Word art Wednesday Week #300-301 - Anything Goes

Supplies:

1. Purple cardstock - ItsyBitsy
2. White Cardstock - ItsyBitsy
3. Papericious Whimsical paper pack - 6"X 6"- The craft shop
4. cottage Cutz- Baby border die
5. White satin ribbon - ItsyBitsy
6. Foam tape - ItsyBitsy
7. White Adhesive
8.  Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Labels one - ItsyBitsy
9.  ItsyBisty Nested Stitched Circles - ItsyBitsy
10.  Sizzix basic dies-ItsyBitsy
11. Big shot - ItsyBitsy
12. Welcome sentiment - Mudra carft stamps
13. Grape Jelly - Memento Dye ink - The craft shop
14. Teddy Bear Sticker - Handmades

I hope you all liked this card...Thank you so much for stopping by.

Happy birthday - With just a pop of orange

Hello guys
I dunt know why but i am just hooked on to handmade card.....everyday I wake up with something new buzzing in my head and I can't rest until its done. July for me marks the beginning of Birthday season for me and I have a lot of Birthdays lined up....so I decided to stock up on my cards so that I have enough to send to everyone I know.

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:

1. Paru's Card making Challenges - July - Happy Birthday
2. Scrapping4fun Challenge #94- Birthday
3. The Flower Challenge#10 - Embossing Dry/Heat
4. HLS July CAS card - Birthday
5. Addicted to CAS challenge #115 - Summer - My card has summer bright colors
6. Addicted to stamps and more challenge #251 - Anything Goes
7. Double D challenge - A pop of color with Black and White - I have my inspiration from the moodboard.

Its a fairly simple card and took me 1 hour to make it considering that I colored the flower with watercolor pencils. Though, I did use water to blend them initially and so I started with a watercolor cardstock. But then, I was very unhappy with the blending and went back again with the pencils and did some shading on the flower..

 So, I heat embossed the flower and colored it with my pencils. I then fussy cut it out and kept it aside ready to mount on the panel. For the front panel, I stamped the leaf from the same stamp set several times using dye ink. I added a little black thread and on top adhered my flower. I glued this panel to a black cardstock making sure it was peeking out from 2 sides only. I added this to my chrome yellow standard A2 size cardbase. I finished my card with the sentiment stamped on vellum and added it to the front of the flower and sprinkled some clear sequins. I hope you liked my simple card with a pop of orange.

Supplies used:

1. Watercolor cardstock
2. Geometic Nature - Mudra Craft stamps
3.  Sequins- Clear- Mudra stamps
4. Black cardstock- 270gsm - A1 Craft
5. Chrome Yellow cardstock - 270 gsm
6. Watercolor pencils - FaberCastle
7. Momento Tuxedo Black Dye ink- The Craft shop
8. Ranger Multi medium matte- The craft shop
9. Wow Heat gun- ItsyBitsy
10. Wow gold Embossing powder - ItsyBitsy
11. Versamark - ItsyBitsy
12. Vellum - ItsyBitsy
13. Black thread

Happy Birthday - Geometric flower card

Hello guys
So today I have a handmade card which is again inspiration driven and here is the picture which inspired me to make this card. I was going through Pinterest for some inspiration for a project and I saw this picture. I was so driven by it that I decided to make a card.

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:

1. Paru's Card making Challenges - July - Happy Birthday
2. Polkadoodles Week#28 - Anything Goes
3. Scrapping4fun Challenge #94- Birthday
4. SimonSaysStamp - Monday challenge - Distress it.
5. YNS color challenge#68 - I have used Pale pink, Bright pink and Green color.
6. Color Throwdown #451
7. DLART July Linky challenge
8. DLART Thankful thursday #208 - Anything Goes
9. The Flower Challenge#10 - Embossing Dry/Heat
10. HLS July CAS card - Birthday

It took me a while to make this as all the flowers and leaves are stamped and heat embossed on a watercolor cardstock and then individually watercolored using Distress inks. I fussy cut everything out and kept them aside while I readied my card base.

For the base, I started with a white cardstock(270gsm) cut to standard A2 size. I cut a frame out from the front of this cardbase leaving a 1/2"border for the frame. Then, I arranged and adhered my flowers and leaves on the front panel. Then, I added a piece of clear acetate behind my frame and secured everything.

On the inside, I added Kraft cardstock which was splattered with white acrylic paint and heat embossed sentiment which I glued behind my front panel. I finished my card with few sequins and a coat of wink of stellar sparkle on the flowers and leaves. I hope you all like liked my card.

Supplies used:

1. White cardstock (270gsm) - Itsybitsy
2. Kraft cardstock (270gsm) 
3. Watercolor cardstock (250gsm) - Personal Stash
4. Distress inks - Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar, Crushed Olive and Cracked pistachio
5. Mudra stamps- Geometric Nature
6. Mudra stamps - Sequins -Sugar Plum Mix and Harvest Mix
7. Watercoloring Brush
8. White Acrylic Paint
9. Ranger heat embossing powder - Superfine White 
10. Versamark watermark inkpad
11. Wow Heat gun
12. Ranger multi medium matte
13. Clear Acetate sheet - Itsybitsy
14. Wink of stella - Clear

Summertime Birthday -Watercolor card.

Hello guys

Welcome back to my blog. I have a watercolor card or you all today. everything you see from the panel to the butterfly is all watercolored using distress inks...They are my favorite goto for watercoloring. I am new to this technique and have recently stumbled upon it and trying my hand as much as I can. So, here I have made a Birthday Day with lots of bright coloring and splatters which I feel would be perfect for a girl...... or even someone young at heart.

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:

1. Addicted to Stamps and more challenge#250 - Photo Inspiration (Got inspired by the colors in this photo)
2. SimonSaysStamp - Monday challenge - Distress it.
3. CAS(E) this sketch #230
4. Craft stamper Magazine - Take it Make it July
5. HLS July watercolor Challenge - Optional Twist - Blue
6. Paru's Card making Challenges - July - Happy Birthday
7. Polkadoodles Week#28 - Anything Goes
8. Scrap and Craft Challenge#5 - Summertime + Butterflies 
9. Scrapping4fun Challenge #94- Birthday
10. The Ribbon Girl - July challenge - Anything Goes

So, I started with a textured white cardstock which I had bought maybe years back and I hoarded it for as long as I could possibly....Today was the last piece I could do with it and I am glad with the way my card turned out to be.....Ok ...so back to the process. I started with the cardstock cut to standard 41/4" by 51/2" and then generously spritzed it with water and then started watercoloring my panel. I have used 3 Distress inks - Mermaid Lagoon, Pinked Raspberry and Crushed olive. They blended and forned Violets and hints of Oranges. I let this panel air dry and it took good 4 hours before I could work with it again. I cut my front panel 1/4"from all the sides and then divided into 3 parts and assembled everything on a standard A2 size white cardbase (270gsm)

The Butterfly is from Mudra Stamps and I loved this stamp set....so much can be done with it. I heat embossed this stamp with white and then watercolored the geometric pattern with the 3 distress inks I used on the panel. I mixed then at few places and the result is simply unexpected.

Once the butterfly was all dried, I fussy cut it out and then adhered it to my panel along with some cheesecloth. Finished my card with the sentiment from the same stamp set which I heat embossed with White. To add more interest, I added sequins and splatter of white acrylic color.
I hope you like my card. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Supplies used:

1. White cardstock (270gsm) - Itsybitsy
2. Textured White cardstock (250gsm) - Personal Stash
3. Distress inks - Picked Raspberry, Crushed Olive and Mermaid lagoon
4. Mudra stamps- Geometric Nature
5. Mudra stamps - Sequins -Sugar Plum Mix
6. Watercoloring Brush
7. White Acrylic Paint
8. Ranger heat embossing powder - Superfine White 
9. Versamark watermark inkpad
10. Wow Heat gun
11. Ranger multi medium matte
12. Cheesecloth

Christmas in July - Handmade card.

Hello everyone
Today I have another handmade card for you which is inspired by the thought of " Christmas in July". So I made some Christmas cards which are very simple and easy to do and I have so much fun making them. This is the first of the many cards which are lined up.

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:-

1. Addicted to Stamps and more Challenge #248 - Holiday
2. Cute Card Thursday Challenge -#284 - Anything Goes
3. HLS June 2017 Christmas Challenge - Optional Twist - Tree
4. DLART June Linky Challenge - Anything goes
5. Inky Chicks Challenge #85 - Christmas 
6. Word Art Wednesday  Challenge #288-289 - Anything Goes
7. Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

So to make this card, I started with a standard A2 size grey card base. I then heat embossed some pine leaves with Ranger White Super fine heat embossing power on a grey cardstock cut to 41/4" by 51/2". I made my own little christmas tree which was peeking from one of the edges of the card. Then I also heat embossed the sentiment using the same. Thats all I had to do.....Then was the fun part...to decorate the tree with ornaments and I used Mudra sequins to decorate the tree and sprinkled a few here and there.

Then I trimmed my card by 1/8" on all sides and layered it on some gold glitter cardstock. Before the layering, I added red organza ribbon bow tied around the bottom of the card with sequins in the center.
I mounted this to my card base and my card was ready. Simple and quick and so festive....feeling like Christmas in July.

Supplies used :-

1 Grey 220gsm cardstock
2 Christmas decor - Mudra Stamps
3 Sequins- Silver (My Stash) and Gold - Mudra stamps
4 Sheena Douglas Festive stamps -A Little Bit Festive A6 Stamp Set - Christmas Elements Stamp
5 Red Organza Ribbon
6 Gold  glitter paper- Itsybitsy
7 Versamark - ItsyBitsy
8 Ranger Multi medium matte- The craft shop
9 Wow Heat gun- ItsyBitsy
10 Ranger Superfine White Embossing powder - The craft shop

Thanks for all you have done.

Hello everyone

Today I have a new card for you all and this one is made for a Doctor..... The patient wanted me to make a colorful card for her doctor just to express how colorful her life is now after he healed her.....so on the inside it says "for all you have done"

I would like to put this card up at the following challenges

1. Dl.ART - June Linky Challenge - Anything Goes
2. Simon says stamp - Wednesday challenge- Emboss It
3. Word Art Wednesday#288 289
4. Mudra Challenge#10 - Triple Time Stamping
5. HLS June Anything Goes with Dies Challenge
6. Cute Card Thursday #482 - pinks
7. DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge#206 - Patriotic/ Thank you card
8. Scrapyland challenge#68 - Embossing

I used the embossed resist technique for making this card. I white heat embossed all my little roses and leaves which are from the Mudra Wishing You stamp set. then I did a little distress ink blending using Spun sugar, Shaded Lilac, Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron.

I made a triple stamped card by diecutting 3 dies from Sspellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Labels 1. Then, I also diecut white cardstock using same dies. The then trimmed the diecuts I cut from my front panel so that I could add them on the white mats. The largest one is flat, while the second one has a little dimension to it while the smallest has dimension foam behind it. I layed the entire panel on silver glitter cardstcok and then mounted everything on white standard A2 size cardbase (270gsm).

I added the sentiment on clear vellum with Black Achival ink and cut little banner ends. Finished my card with lots of sequins which are all from Mudra. My client requested a lot of sparkle and sequins and I was more than happy to oblige.......

Supplies used :-

1 Iris White 220gsm cardstock
2 Thanks - Mudra Stamps
3 Distress inks- Spun Sugar Shaded Lilac, Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Cirton- ItsyBitsy
4 Wishing you - Mudra stamps
5 Sequins- Sugar Plum Mix, Harvest Mix and Clear - Mudra stamps
6 White cardstock- 270gsm - A1 Craft
7 Silver glitter paper- Itsybitsy
8 Black Archival ink- The Craft shop
9 Ranger Multi medium matte- The craft shop
10 Wow Heat gun- ItsyBitsy
11 Ranger Superfine White Embossing powder - The craft shop
12 Versamark - ItsyBitsy
13 Clear Vellum - ItsyBitsy
14 Spellbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Labels One - ItsyBitsy
15 Foam dimension

Wishing you Safe Travels - See through shaker card.

Hello all  you wonderful people
Today I have a card for you. I have got really addicted to watercoloring technique and am making as many as I can. So this card is again for a special reason....I have a workout friend who is leaving for USA forever and Monday is her last last with us. So this one is for you Upasana.... I have know her only for a month...and got attached to her...you just connect so easily with some people. She was all emotional and so I have used a sentiment very carefully for this card.....I cleverly swapped a Farewell or W'll miss you with a "Wishing you Safe Travels"

The inspiration for this card comes from Tulle Shaker Cards by Jennifer Mcguire and you can know more about this by clicking the link HERE. I really loved the way she used Tulle...but I have used Clear acetate instead. So this my first try at this type of shaker card and it surely is fun.

I am putting this card up at

1. Dl.ART - June Linky Challenge - Anything Goes
2. Addicted to stamps and more- Challenge #246 - Anything Goes
3. Penny Black and more challenges- June- Anything Goes
4. The Ribbon Girl- June card challenge-Anything goes
5. Simon says stamp - Wednesday challenge- Emboss It
6. Word Art Wednesday#287 287
7. Craft Addition Challenge - challenge #6 - Flowers flowers and yet more flowers
8. Papericious June challenge- Try something new - This is my first attempt at such see through shaker card
9. HLS June Watercolor Challenge - optional twist Masking
10. Paru's Card making Challenge June- Interactive

So more on to my card, I stamped and heat embossed some flowers, buds and leaves on a watercolor cardstock using some Clear embossing powder. I used distress inks to watercolors all my images and once they dried, I fussy cut them out.

 To make this panel, I started with a standard A2 size card base(A) and 1 white cardstock piece cut to A2 size (B). I stacked them and arranged my spellbinders die and ran it thrice through my bigshot. Then, I cut a acetate sheet bigger than my frame and box folded it in half (Basically it helped me to give room for the shaker elements to move freely inside the window  I have just folded the acetate instead of using 2 pieces so there is no tape on the exposed side. Also, I gave it a small 1/8" gap between the 2 folds lining my edges. I hope I am able to convey well. Rest 3 sides are sealed with dimension foam..) I filled my window with some fun sequins, flowers and clear sparkle from Papericious and then sealed it with foam tape on 3 sides. I adhered this shaker window to my A panel carefully so that one no foam tape is visible from any where and the shaker window is correctly lined up on the edge. The frame is rhombus in shape but the shaker panel is square inside.

Then added more foam tape everwhere else and added the B part over it carefully.I added little black splatters on the front panel using black watercolor and then started layering my flowers and leaves. I did stamp my buds with Memento Dye ink by masking off the flowers and buds and quickly watercolored them as well.
Finished my card with the sentiment stamped with Black dye ink on white cardstock and sqeuins.
I hope you all like my card and will try it out.

That finished my card. I have a small shaker video for it and you can watch it to see how fun this is.

Supplies used :-

1 Watercolor cardstock
2 Clear Acetate - ItsyBitsy
3 Distress inks- Picked Raspberry, Shaded Lilac and Wilted Violet for the flowers and bud                                             and Crushed olive and Twisted Cirton for the leaves- ItsyBitsy
4 Simply Floral - Mudra stamps
5 Sequins- Sugar Plum Mix - Mudra stamps
6 White cardstock- 270gsm - A1 Craft
7 Sequins flower
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
15 Papericious clear Sparkle and white sequins.
16 Camel watercolors