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..

Thanks for visitng.

Pop-up Box Card

A few days back, I saw a tutorial for this type of card on Splitcoaststampers site and loved it to bits. It's like a short version of the explosion box, another favorite of mine. I wanted to try it out immediately. Here's a look at it.... and the beauty of this card is that it can be folded flat and tucked into a envelope or box!! How cool is that. I think I am gonna try more of these...

A close-up of the center part.... I have used a mix of stickers, flowers, feather and washi tape flag to adorn it.

I used brown paper from a cloth store paper carry bag and distressed it. I wanted an old vintage look on it. I have used the same paper to stamp the sentiments on. This space below, at the back of the box, can be used to scribble a private message.

This is how it can be folded flat....

The pattern paper used here is from Lulupu store: Bo Bunny Serenity Collection 6x6" Paper pad. 

Hope you like it and I would highly recommend to give it a try.

Challenges entered

Lulupu Challenge #25 - Oh So LOVE-ly!

Handmade Diwali Card with Distress Inks

Hi everyone. I am sure everyone is soaking in the festive fervor and so am I... all the colorful things around inspire me create to some quick and bright diwali cards.

I made this card using Wild honey DI. I have stamped the doily design using DI. The doily print is not perfect and it rather resembles a sunburst or halo effect. This is the kind of effect I was looking for. I have used stickers from Pie Lane on these circles and the smaller ones are from Hobby ideas. The sentiment sticker is a local buy.

Handmade Diwali Cards Using Stamps

Do check my other posts for today to see all the cards, or you can click the Diwali label to see all my Diwali cards.

For this card I have used wooden paisley and floral Mehendi (Henna) stamps that we get very commonly at the market. I colored them using sketch pens and added a hint of bronze paint. The golden stickers are from Hobby Ideas.

I have deliberately not added any sentiment here so that it can be used for other festivals as well.

 This is one card I really wanted to try out: coloring the Diya. I traced the diya using this stencil from Itsy Bitsy and deocrated and colored it. The border stamp is again from Itsy Bitsy. I added colored rhinestones on it. The sentiment stamp is from Jovita's store.

Handmade Diwali Cards Using Ganesh Stencils

Do check my other posts for today to see all the cards, or you can click the Diwali label to see all my Diwali cards.
For these 2 cards I used Ganesh stencil from Itsy Bitsy.
For the first card, I have done coloring using normal sketch pens and outlined using 3D outliner. The stamp used for the border below is also from Itsy Bitsy.

 For this card I colored the Ganesha using bronze paint and outlined using 3D outliner. The bronze stamp impressions on top and bottom is made using Hobby Ideas mini stamps.

Corner Bookmarks

Hi. Here are some of the corner bookmarks that I made recently. The PP is from Hobby Ideas

Which one do you like? :)

Challenges entered

Crafting for all Seasons - #33 bright colors

Fab 'n' Funky - #133 Pearls/rhinestones

Ink It Pink - #10 cool colors

Inky Impressions - ribbon

Ruby's Rainbow - Anything but a card

Shopping Our Stash - #63 Monochromatic

Top Tip Tuesday - #8 Focus On The Ribbon
Love to Create - Punches and Dies
Lollipop Crafts - Monochromatic

Birthday Card

Hi people. What are your plans this long weekend? I am sure if not anything else you will have some crafting plans for sure. Today's card is pretty simple but I enjoyed making it. For this I used my sponge stamps from Hobby Ideas. I have used normal water colors for this.

After stamping, I fussy cut (learned this word from my blogger pal Hussena) the flowers and leaves.

This is something I tried for the first time. I used black and green hole guards to make the border for the PP. This is how they looked before sticking the PP. 

 And after sticking the PP. It looks like a nice border. Isn't it?

And now the Freebie for today.......Please do link back to my blog if you happen to use my freebies. To download this, right click and Save As.

Challenges entered

CAS-ual Fridays - C4, must be CAS – Flowers / Trees

Clearly Inspired - Spring

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - Spring

Dilly Beans - Pastel Palette

Emergency Crafters - Bold & Bright

Fairy Fun Fridays - Anything with Flowers

Fairy Tale - Green & Yellow

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

It's Spring

Hi. This is my 4th card this week. Today I am sharing a spring card. I recently realised that I have lots of purple color things in my stash so I decided to match and use them. The PP is from hobby ideas. The frame is from Itsy Bitsy. The flowers and leaves are punched using daisy punch, 5 petal flower punch and leaf punch. The butterfly is from Hobby Ideas and the rhinestones are from Pie Lane.

A closer look at the flower.

Challenges entered

For the love of Crafting - #4 Sping Colors and Butterfly

BGC # 7 - Colourful and flowery

Clearly Inspired - Spring

Fussy and Fancy - Punches / Dies

Dilly Beans - Spring

Stamped Flowers Card

Hey guys, sharing a card that I had made quite some time back, but never got to post it.  The flowers are stamped using the sponge stamps from Hobby Ideas. I used water colors to stamp the flowers. After stamping the flowers on card stock, I cut them out and then stuck them on the card with dimensionals. I used small golden beads for the center of the flower. The leaves are punched using Jef punch. The large sequins used for the border are from my mom's old dress.

Challenges entered:
For the love of crafting challenge #4 - Blooming gorgeousness
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Creative Mondays -Anything Goes

I also wanted to share with you how I organize my ribbons. Ribbons are my favorite piece of embelishment and I find it very easy to acess them this way. I simply wrap them around tissue rolls and secure with tape at the start and end. And then I keep them in a box like this. Isn't it easy :)

 

DIY Bg with Stamp inks

Hi All!! I really didn't know what to name this card so named it on the technique used. I just randomly came up with this idea to create a background that matched the colored digi of perfume bottles that I had. I will post a tutorial for it soon. But for now to give you an idea, I used Hobby Ideas stamp inks for creating this bg. They come in round thick pen form. After stamping using pink and purple colors, I rubbed it down with a wet tissue.

The flowers used on the card are made using 3 different sizes of flower punch. The golden swirl sticker is from Pie Lane and the ribbon from my stash.

Do let me know how like this technique.

Have a good day!

Challenges entered:

That Craft Place - Anything Goes

Allsorts - #143 Free and Easy February

Crafty Calendar - February Love and Marriage

Hiding in my Craft Room - #35 Bring on some spring

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - must use a digi , Don't Be Square

Crafty Ann's - Bold & Bright

Delicious Doodles – Pink

Fairy Tale - Spring

Patties Creations - include a digi image, Vintage

Poodles Parlour - Mothers' Day/Female Card

Stamp Man - Colours of Spring/Easter

Stampin For The Weekend - BINGO - I used 1st row: Ribbons, Sparkle (Sticker) & Flowers

Colorful love card

Hi peeps! This is a love card that I made based on an old sketch from Card Patterns. It helps to use card sketches when you are in a dilemma or have no idea about what you are going to make.
The PPs used in the card are from Hobby Ideas. The flower is handmade without using any templates or punches. Only the dark innermost petal is a punched daisy. The sentiment is a digi. I used two ribbons for the border, one broad and one narrower than it, and placed the latter on top of the broad one. The tiny blue beads on top right are from Pie Lane.

Challenges entered:

ICR: ICRC15 -Love + Photo Inspiration

Alota Rubber Stamps - Love with NO red

By the Cute & Girly - Love is in the Air

Whimsy Inspiration - #24 make your own flowers

Sarah Hurley Challenges - Love is all around

Baby Card

Hi friends!! Today I have a cute little card to share.

Lots of baby news doing the rounds so I thought why not make a baby card. Also I thought the theme at ICR for this month's challenge suits a baby card very much.

For this card I have used paper scraps from my Triple Easel card.

I cut strips of left over paper and used them for topn and bottom borders.

The dots are punched out from a paper punch. The tag is hand-cut.

The baby stamp is from Hobby Ideas. The ribbon is also reused from candy wrapper.

I traced the elephants and hand-cut them.

 I really loved the tag. Here's a close-up!

Challenges eneterd:

ICRC12: Dots &/ Stripes + Tag

Color Conceptions: Use paper scraps

Do You Stack Up? - Inspiration Picture* Splash of Blue

Sir Stampalot - Blue & Green 

Alota Rubber Stamps - Dots

Top 3 and DT at Crafty JC

Hey folks!! I am delighted to be chosen among the Top 3 at Crafty JC's Recycling Challenge for my recycled tin can project.

This also means that I get to be the DT for their next challenge. This time we have a color palette to choose from, and my card is based on palette #2.

I made this card for my mom's birthday. The layout is based on card patterns sketch 138. 

The card stock, glitter balls and silver butterfly stickers are from Pie Lane. The ribbon is from Archies. I had found this colored digi from internet and it was lying with me since a long time. The purple and green paper and the star were part of a scrapbooking kit I purchased from Hobby Ideas. 'You are a star' sticker is from Ms Elizabeth, again bought from Hobby Ideas.

 Another view....

So, do play along and have fun! See you at the Crafty JC Challenge #11.

Challenges entered:

So Artful Challenge: Gypsy Spirit - Picture inspiration

2 Sisters - #64 Ribbon

Di's Digis Designs - 1stW Ribbons and Bows

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

Stampalot Challenge - Blue and Green

All Sorts Challenge Week 128 - Anything but Square

Mojo Monday 206

Hi. Today's card is based on Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 206. I have demonstrated below how I made this card. Most of the supplies used in this card are recycled.

 The background PP is cut out from a magazine. I used Levis price tag for the embelishment. The flower pot image is a stamp from Hobby Ideas.The ink used is also from Hobby Ideas.

The ribbon is actually the extra lining that we get with the readymade gents trouser. (They give it in a small packet with an extra button). The ribbon was placed such that it covered the text on the PP. Also the flower pot was strategically glued on the tag to hide text 'Levis'. The 2 sequins used on both sides of the ribbon are from an old top.

I cut the Levis tag into two parts. I punched out the flowers from the 2nd part of the tag. 

 Here's how you can make the flower. Punch out the flower in 3 different sizes.

 Ink the edges of the flowers to give a shaded look. I have used brown ink from Hobby Ideas. Emboss the biggest petal from the reverse side.

 It should look like this when turned upside down.

 Now emboss it from the center from this side.

 Emboss the 2nd petal in the same manner.

 Emboss the smalled petal from one side only; the side which will be upwards.

 Use a single punch to make the center of the flower in brown color. Emboss it too.

 Layer the petals as shown and glue. You can vary the flower by adding just 2 petals, instead of 3.

Challenges entered:

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 206

Crafty JC Challenge # 9: Recycle

Bearly Mine Challenge 9: Flowers Flowers Flowers

PaperPlay Challenges: Week 35 Make your own flowers

Cheerfulstamppad: Recycle
Creative Cards Crew: Anything goes

 Hope you find this tutorial useful!! Happy crafting!