Framed Flowers

Hi All. Happy Monday! Hope you all had a great weekend. Today I am sharing a card wherein I tried making a frame with some paper cutting and punching. I used a pre-embossed sheet to make the frame. Then I weaved the ribbon onto the frame by punching holes at various positions. Punched the edges with an MS punch.

The image is from Beccy's place. I printed and then colored it using Faber Castell watercolor pencils. Added some pearls on 4 corners to finish my card.

Challenges entered

Create Something Catchy Challenges #1 - Picture inspiration 

Lulupu Challenge #27 - Lulupu 2nd Birthday Special [L - Leaves, P - Punches, Pearls, Pencil colors, C - Coloring digis, Card Stock]

CAS Stamped Card

Hi friends. Posting after almost a week today. Not been feeling too well. The weather here is also very weird. It is sunny in the morning and rains every evening with lightning and thunder.
This is a CAS Stamped Card that I made. The colored paper is from Itsy Bitsy. I really like the colors and the texture of this paper. I punched the circles and randomly stamped the same stamp on the circles from different areas. The checkered ribbon is from stash. The star die cut is also from Itsy Bitsy.

Hope you all have a great day. Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges entered

Robyn`s Fetish - Circles

Sentimental Sundays - must include a Sentiment - Anything Goes

Catch The Bug - Anything Goes

Craftymess Challenge - #19 Anything Goes

DT post for Pie Lane Challenge - Anything Goes

Hiya! In the midst of all the celebrations on my blog, I am here to fulfil my duty as DT to post an inspiration for Pie Lane's June Challenge - Anything Goes.

Do hop by to join the fun and win an exciting good bag.

Here is my take on the challenge:

My card is based on Mojo Monday sketch #245. It is a fairly simple card. The cardstock, layering paper and PP are local buy. The beautiful metallic butterfly and blue frosted beads on top right are from Pie Lane. I have used daisy punch for the flowers.

Challenges entered

Mojo Monday - Sketch #245

For the Love of Crafting - #7 Anything Goes

Beyond Grey Challenges - #10 Color Palette

Divas by Design - #39 Summer theme

Freshly Brewed - #100 Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious -  Flower Power

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Fashionista Challenge - Simply Summer

Faux window card

Hi All. Here is a simple faux window card that I made recently. The colored tiles used here are from the brochure of a paints company. The ribbon is from my stash and the blue border is from Itsy Bitsy. The flowers used for embelishment is a RAK which one of my friends got for me from UK. The CS is a local buy.

Also taking this opportunity to share information about a fab giveaway from my friend Jaya. She celebrated her birthday yesterday and is offering a wonderful handmade Mini book amongst other things in the giveaway. Do check out the deets here.

Challenges entered

Fussy and Fancy - Swirls & Flourishes

Cooking It Up With Katie -#96 celebrate, ribbon, die cut

Stampotique Designers' Challenge - #55 bright colors

Card set

I find it very useful to make two cards together at a time, similar in look but may be in different colors. This way you don't have to repeat the efforts needed to make that card and in the end you get two similar looking cards.

So here is a set I made few days back. It is a very simple card. I have used PPs on one side and punched them to string the ribbon. I then stamped the branch on top right and glued punched flowers on it. All the cards differ only in color and sentiment. The sentiment stamp is from Jovi's store.
You can see my other card sets by clicking on the Cards set label.

Challenges entered

For the love of crafting: Recipe Challenge

Top Tip Tuesday - #76 Clean & Simple

Sparkles Forum Challenges - Get Well

Kaboodle Doodles - Clean and Simple

Ooh La La Creations - Ribbon or Twine (or Both)

Mother's Day Card

Hi All, sharing another Mother's Day card that I made yesterday. It is a really simple one. I wanted to weave the ribbons by punching holes in the card and use it on my card. So here is what I came up with. The sentiment is a digi. The PPs are from Mallika, which she had sent for a pattern papers swap. The ribbon is a local buy. I punched flowers in assorted colors to match the PP. Hope you like it :)

And the freebie for today is....

Please do link back to my blog if you hapen to use it. To download the image, right click and Save As. Keep checking my Freebies/Templates section for more and let me know your feedback about this.

Challenges entered

Crafts and Me - #83 punches and diecuts

Crafty Creations - #169 frame

More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday - #70 Mother's Day

Penny's Paper-Crafty - #79 Mom

Scrapalicious - Mom

Crafty Sentiments - Mothers Day

Celebrate the Occasion - #62 Mother's Day

Best Wishes

Hi All. Here is a simple card I made this week. The colors are very different from the ones I usually use, but somehow I liked the output. I have used the PPs from Paper Mania. The sentiment is from Itsy Bitsy. The image used is a digi. The ribbons, lace and pearls are from my stash.

Another view

Today's Freebie is a sentiment that I have designed. Please do link back to my blog if you hapen to use it. To download the image, right click and Save As.

Keep checking my Freebies/Templates section for more and let me know your feedback about this.

Challenges entered

Ribbon Carousel Challenge - #50 Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - #9 Ribbon 

Creative Stamp Friends - BINGO

Love to Create - Anything Goes

Victorine Originals - Anything goes
2 Sisters - #88 Use a digital image
Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Color blocking technique

Hi Friends!! I was too excited to post this card based on last week's Mojo Monday #236 until I found out that I missed the timeline. Ditto for the card I made for Card Patterns :(

Nevertheless, I am glad I could make 4 cards this weekend. And I loved both these sketches a lot and the cards I have made are very different from the usual stuff that I make.

The inspiration for the color combo for this card is the color blocking technique. I loved this new combo which I would have not tried otherwise. The pretty PP that you see here is a RAK from Mallika which came just in time to match this card I would say. The flower is made using a template I found from net. It can be easily made without the template as well. The template had 3 layers and I added a readymade flower in the center.

 Another view..

I am starting a new section in my blog and will be sharing Freebies and Templates with you all. So here goes the first template for this flower. Please note that not all the stuff shared in this section is made by me. I will also be sharing stuff that I find on the net with full credit to the source.

This pretty template is from Maria. She also has some interesting tutorials on her blog. Do check them out.

Have a nice day!!

Challenges entered

CAS-ual Fridays - CAS - Choose 2 opposite colours from wheel

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Ribbon or Twine

Craft Your Passion - Die Cuts and Punches

Lollipop Crafts - Spring Fling

Ooh La La Creations - Bold and Bright

Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time Challenge - Bright

Paper Sundaes - Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel Challenge - must include spooled item - #49 Use Bright Colours

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

White daisies card

Hi all. I am back with another card today. The blue embossed bg is a RAK from Paru. And the ribbon is a RAK from Neha. I cut big scallops to border the bg. I made the daisies with plain white printing paper. The leaves are handcut.

Thanks for dropping by my blog :) Hope you like my card.

Challenges entered

ICR: CJC#14 - CAS

Bildmalarna Challenge - Flowers

Card and Scrap - Clean and Simple

Creative Craft Challenges - The Colour Blue

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Quilled heart card

Hi all. This is yet another CAS card. I have tried the bee-hive technique for the first time.

It was discovered by Susan and also illustrated by Pritesh.

Nothing much to write about the card. I have added a red papaer on the inner side to write the wordings on.

Challenges entered

ICRC14: CAS + Anything goes
MyGrafico - Love and Valentines
Crafty Creations - #152 something new - [Tried bee hive technique for 1st time]
Simon Says Stamp - Spots/stripes
I Brake For Challenges - Clean and simple

Poinsettia flower with Satin ribbon

Hi friends!! Today I want to share with you a tutorial for making poinsettia flowers with satin ribbon. I had learned this from a lady in Assam, when I was in Std X. I love the way these flowers look.

I had made this hanging flowers bouquet with this technique, long back.
Also see my tin can luminaries project posted today where I used these flowers.

Now, onto the tutorial (P.S. This is a picture heavy post)

1. Take the broad satin ribbon which we easily get in craft stores. The effect with the double shaded ones is much better, but since I wanted to make poinsettias, I have used bright red color.

2. Trace the petal shape onto the ribbon and cut them. You will need 7 petals for one flower.

3. Make lines on the petals using hot knife.

4. Take craft wire and wrap it with green tape. Cut the wires a little longer than the petals and glue them to the back of the petals as shown.

5. Once the glue dries, take 7 flower centers, and fold them. Take one petal at a time, bending them backwards and start adhering them around the flower center, one by one with thread.

6. Tie 3 petals at first, for the top layer. Then layer the rest of the petals below them.

The wire makes it easy to bend and place the petals in any form.

Use the flowers for decoration or as embellishments for your projects. You can make leaves also in similar way with green ribbon.

Hope you like the tutorial :)

Please drop in a comment in case you have any queries regarding this. I will answer them in this post later.

Happy crafting!!

Challenges entered:
Southern Girls - Ribbon
ABC Christmas Challenge - Christmas - anything goes
Cooking It Up With Katie - # 86 anything goes
Create Me Pink Challenges - #5 Christmas Colours
Creative Belli - #132 winter/Christmas
Digistamps 4 Joy - #33 Christmas, no animals
Decorate to Celebrate - #13 Christmas party decoration
Inky Impressions - #26 ribbon
My Mum's Craft shop - 35 traditional Christmas
Penny's Paper-Crafty - #68 Merry Christmas
Paper take weekly - Anything goes

Happy Holidays

Its 1st Dec today and the holiday season has set in :) So here is my holiday card.

The colors and not the usual christmas colors and that's why I liked the card a lot. The PP was a RAK by Paru, The snowman and sentiment are digis. The snowflakes are punched. The laces are from my stash. I colored the snowman using Faber Castell watercolor pencils.

 Hope you like my card :)

Challenges entered:

Crafty Creations - #146 Christmas + sentiment

Divas by Design - #16 anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky - #101 Anything goes

7 Kids College Fund - Christmas, non traditional colors

Stampotique Designers' Challenge - #43 Christmas, non traditional colors

Shopping Our Stash - C12 #28 Digi Images &/or Sentiments &/or Recycle

Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - Christmas

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

Monochrome Card - Pink

Hi folks! Another monochrome card in Pink. The stamped background was sent as a RAK by blogger friend Anita Kejriwal. I added the ribbon and button from my stash. The flower is also a RAK sent by Kavitha. I inked the punched border in light pink to outline the bg. Easy peezee :)

Do let me know what you think of this card!!
Happy crafting :)

Challenges entered:
Paper Minutes - #187 Pink/ Black /Olive
Tuesday Throwdown -#70 Think Pink
Craft Your Passion - A Card for All Occasions
Link up for Pink - First Annual Linky Party
Dream Valley Challenges - Monochrome

Stencil flower card

Hi. This is my first card made using Pie Lane stencils that I bought during my visit to Pune. Those cute li'l blue beads used as embellies are also from Pie Lane.

Hope you like it :)

The blue scalloped border and blue bg for flower is from an old calendar paper. I liked the shaded effect of that paper.

Challenges entered:

Card Cupids - Use a Decorative Punch of Some Type

CAS Sunday Challenge - Must be CAS - Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges - Monochrome

One Stop Craft - #152 Anything goes

Crafty Catz - Recipe - 1 image, 2 papers, 3 buttons

Floral card

Hey frenz. A quick post for today. Some doodling and punched flowers make a simple and cheerful card :) Butterflies are from Pie Lane.

Challenges entered:

RCC 19: Anything goes  

Bearly Mine Challenge 9: Flowers Flowers Flowers

Creative Cards Crew: Anything goes

Ribbon roses for Silver Anniversary

Hey there! Its been raining non-stop in Mumbai since last night, and I've had a rather lazy Saturday. Over the week I had been thinking about 3 challenges and due to lack of time (or my laziness) ;) , I decided to club all the three together, and make one card to fit all three :) The card got ready very quickly, but as I started deocorating it, I kept adding one element after another, now that I have loads of embellies I bought from Hobby Ideas and Pie Lane.

I have catered to ICR9 challenge, Erum's challenge to create ribbon flowers for Yyam's blog 'Do More with Less' and Mojo Monday 205 Sketch Challenge.

The ICR9 theme is Celebrations + NO Digi/Rubber Stamping except for Sentiments. Here is their challenge pad. Click on it to know more about the challenge.

Mojo Monday 205 Sketch

Erum's challenge is to create ribbon flowers and she is offering these gorgeous ribbons as the prize! Do visit her blog to check out her gorgeous creations. 

Here is my card. Please click on the pics to enlarge.

I have made the roses as shown by Erum in the challenge post on Yyam's blog.

Few close-ups

The butterfly and glitter balls are from Pie Lane. I have used the glitter balls to adorn the flowers on the PP. Again inspired by Erum here :) She makes fabulous use of glitter balls and amazes us with her creations every time!!!

Hope u all like my card! Do leave a note to let me know.

Have a nice Sunday!

Also entering this card for the following challenges:

Phindy's place: Challenge # 70 Make your own embellishment

Paper Creations Ink: Challenge # 7 Show us your flowers

Birthday card

Hello! This is my second post for the day - A Birthday card. The cake cutout is hand-cut from an old card which I decided to reuse.

The ribbons, roses and charm are from my stash. I will soon be sharing a post on how to organize ribbons. I did it last weekend only and believe me, it has made my life so much simpler. So wait and watch out for it.

Since I was not liking the plain white background, I decided to punch out some green dots and stick on the background. And the dots matching the dotted green ribbon is a mere co-incidence. It looks intentional though, but is actually not!

The charm, up & close. 

 A close-up of the quilled roses...

Challenges entered:

Bearly Mine Challenge 16 - Charm the Spots off of You

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - DDCC#123 Birthday time

Truly Scrumptious Challenges - Buttons & Bows

Wags n Whiskers rubber stamps - Challenge #59 - Buttons & Bows

The Paper Shelter - Anything goes

Craft your passion challenges - #69

Come and get it challenges - Anything goes