Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 10

Hello. Hope you have enjoyed my series of holiday cards. This is my last card in the series. You can view my other Christmas cards here. 

 

This card is inspired by another great artist whom I admire a lot - Kittie Caracciolo. I love her distinct style and the way she sticks to the same elements but creates such wonderfully different cards each time is so commendable.

 

The fun part about this card is that though it is a Holiday card, yet the colors are non-traditional. You will seldom see a pink poinsettia. The flower petals and leaves are all handcut.

 

 

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Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 9

Hello and welcome to my series of Christmas cards for the year 2014. This is my ninth card and this time I have made a set of cards. You may like to view all my Christmas cards here.

I have had this set of handcut stencils with me since I was in school. My friend owned the original stencils which she got along with an imported craft book. I traced and handcut them to create a copy for myself. Since they are cut in paper, they are quite fragile and I can't do much with them. I love these designs and I have been thinking of cutting another set with a transparency... huh if time permits :)

 

I have used distress inks to color my cards. They've not the best of cards and not too neat too, but still I love them :)

 

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Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 8

Hello. Here is my seventh Christmas Card for the year 2014. You can view my other Christmas cards here.

 

This card is inspired by the various Holiday scene cards that we see around. I wanted to try out the window scene with the moon and the hill in the background. The moon is made by punching a silver glitter paper with a round punch. The bg is distressed using distress inks. I made my own template for the hill effect. The small hut is also handcut. I added white borders to give it a snowy look.

 

At last, I added a mistletoe using punched holly leaves and a stamped bauble. The sentiment and bauble is from Penny Black stamp set, also used in my other Christmas cards here.

 

 

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Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 7

Hello and welcome to my series of Christmas cards for the year 2014. This is my sixth card. You may like to view all my Christmas cards here.

 

The technique used to stamp the Xmas tree is similar to the one I shared here. Only difference is, instead of mounting only two stamps, and repeating the same pattern, I mounted a variety of stamps on the acrylic block, around the central sentiment. The outlining was done separately using a border stamp. To give a twist to the normal stem, I stamped three words in order of their size, to build the stem.

 

For added interest, I made the hill with distress inks, and tried out bokeh stamping with my pencil eraser using distress inks. And Oh I love this bokeh look!! I am going to try it out more....

 

 

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Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 6

Hello. Here is my sixth Christmas Card for the year 2014. You can view my other Christmas cards here. 

The ornaments are from Penny Black stamp set. I stamped them on a light colored pattern paper that had small snowflake design on it. This way I didn't have to bother to color the baubles. The sentiment is also from the same set. The tiny Xmas sticker is from Pie Lane. The snowflake stickers are from my stash.

 

Below is the Penny Black stamp set that I used for my card.

 

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Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 5

Hello and welcome to my series of Christmas cards for the year 2014. This is my fifth card. You may like to view all my Christmas cards here.

 

I have CASEd Jennifer Mcguire's card. I really loved this technique and wanted to try it out. Though I did not have similar stamps that she used, I made the card with whatever I had with me. Hope I did some justice to her pretty card.

 

 

The sentiment is from Penny Black stamp set.

 

 And for embossing the Xmas trees I used the We R Memory Keepers' border stamp from Itsy Bitsy.

 

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Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 4

Hello. Here is my fourth Christmas Card for the year 2014. You can view my other Christmas cards here.

What's special about this CAS card is that I have used a totally unrelated stamp to make the Xmas tree.

 

I used two scroll stamps and mounted them side by side on the acrylic block.

 

 

 Then I cut out a tree shaped stencil and stamped over it.

 

Hope you like my simple experiment to use stamps in a more creartive way.

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Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 3

Hello. This is my third Christmas Card for the year 2014. You can view my other Christmas cards here.

 

This card is based on a sketch which I have worked with previously too. I have used miscellaneous papers from various Paper Mania paper stacks. The holly leaves are punched out and I used golden beads for the berries from my stash.  

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Handmade Christmas Card 2014 - Design 2

Hello folks! Over the next few days, I will be sharing a Holiday Card each day. The layout used is similar to the one I had made previously [Link here].

I think this layout is really easy to work with and great for mass production too. I have used various embellishments here -  a chipboard poinsettia, handcut glitter foam holly leaf, few rhinestones and a sticker sentiment.

Hope you like my simple card. Stay tuned to see a new Holiday card, every day, for the next few days. You may like to see all my Christmas Cards here.

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Revamped Blog and a Simple Card

Hello and welcome to my revamped, refurbished blog!! Thanks to Dr. Sonia for this inspiring post that gave me the push to update and declutter my blog. Not that I didn't like my earlier design, but since it was a custom template, I couldn't play around with it. Dr. Sonia, I have tried to incorporate many of your blogging tips here and would love to hear your feedback on the same.

 

Please do let me know how you like this new look by commenting on this post and by responding to the poll on the right side.

 

I am also sharing a rather simple card in this post. I really didn't have to do much here.

 

The card base is bright yelloe Fabriano CS. I used MS Loop punch to make that frame for the card. The black floral design is a sticker that I found in a stationery store. I wanted it look like a leafy vine behind a frame.

 

 

Challenges entered

BGC#63 - Monochromatic

 

 

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Special Fold Card with Bookmark

Hello Everyone! Today I have a Special Fold Card with Bookmark to share with you. I had seen this kind of card on the internet but I am not able to locate the tutorial right now.

 

Actually speaking, it is a tri-fold card with the third panel being less than half the width of one of the panels. It folds inwards and has a pocket to hold a bookmark.

 

Sorry the pictures are not that good due to poor lighting.

Waterfall Card - Baby

Hello everyone! Today I am sharing a waterfall card made for a baby. The colors are generic so it can be used for baby boy/girl. The alphabets are from Itsy Bitsy and the paper pad used is from Paper Mania.

 

 

The below collage shows how the panels of the waterfall card open up...

 

Challenges entered

Lulupu Challenge #41 - Child's Play

TCM Fancy Flourishes - Card 1

Hi Everyone! This is my third card using the TCM Fancy Flourishes stamp. I totally loved playing with it. I used it to make a bacnground and pop those three flowers on top. The flower stamp is a foam stamp from Hobby Ideas. I had initially stamped it on the base layer, but I thought it needed an extra pop. So, I stamped and fussy cut it again and adhered it with foam squares.

 

 The black and white strip on sides is a washi tape. I put some glitter on the flowers..

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TCM Fancy Flourishes - Card 3

Hello All. Here is another card that I made using TCM Fancy Flourishes stamp. I have used this stamp on the background and I stamped it twice using Memento New Sprout and Pistachio dew drop inks. The second time I stamped a bit away from the first image to give it a shadow look. The base paper is pre-embossed one. I used a paper matching with the quilled flower for the matting.

An interesting part of the card is that I have used lots of scraps that are left behind while punching. I added them to give detailing to the leaves and also as an added element on top right. The border at the top and bottom is also a piece of scrap from scallop punch.

In case you are wondering which punch scraps these are.... here is the punch I used - MS Diamond Fence.

TCM Fancy Flourishes stamp

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TCM Fancy Flourishes - Card 2

Hi everyone. Today I am sharing a simple card made using TCM Fancy Flourishes stamp set that I won at Lulupu. The flower is handmade using various punches. Sentiment is also from the same stamp set.

TCM Fancy Flourishes stamp

Floral Bloom in tea cup

Hi. In this card I have tried out a couple of new things like lace edge on card base, handmade flowers & leaves and glittery tea cup shaped vase.  I went so overboard with the flowers that I almost ended up hiding the cup and its handle. But I guess as long as it looks good I am okay with it :)