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

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