Ikebana Inspired Card

Hello everyone!! This card is made using WPlus9 Fresh Cut Florals stamp set. The sentiment is from WRMK stamp set and the flower pot is from a Micia stamp set.

I have arranged the flowers in an Ikebana style floral arrangement. First I gold embossed the background with a WRMK bee hive stamp set and lightly watercolored it with Broken China and Shabby Shutters distress inks. Then I stamped and fussy cut all the pretty flowers and leaves and arranged them at two points on the card creating a link between them.

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Altenew - Lacy Scrolls

Hi everyone! Today I am sharing a card made using Altenew stamp set - Lacy Scrolls. This is my first try with this stamp set and I am still practicing shading those flowers. The card base is black and I used washi tape on the sides as border. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold with Ranger Gold embossing ink. 

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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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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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Sending you love

Heya there! I am back with a CAS card today. Have been waiting to upload this since last few days. This card is inspired by Jennifer Mcguire's cards. I love the way she uses stamps to create such wonderful cards.

 

 

I have used the Inkadinkado Clear Stamps MOD FLOWERS INCHIE stamp set for this card. I have tried to mix and match the flowers and leaves to create a random bunch.

 

 

Challenges entered

Lulupu Challenge # 28 - Summer Theme CAS Cards

BGC#49 - Grown With Love!

 Catchy Challenges - CSCC#2

Stamp and Create - Spring Flowers

The Crazy Challenge - Spring is Here 

Using Multiple Stamps on one card

Hey there. Here is a card that I created using stamps from multiple stamp sets simply because one stamp set did not have the kind of images I was looking for. I found this technique quite fun and I now feel I can get more from my stamps by combining them this way. The overall card is inspired by Jennifer Mcguire's this card.

I first stamped in the sentiment 'Hello' and then positioned the flowers and leaves around it. After stamping all the images with black ink, I started coloring with my Faber Castell color pencils. The alphabet stamp that I used here only has the outlines, so I filled the alphabets using silver pen. Then I finished the card with some gemstones in flower centers. For the border I have used a washi tape in the background.

Challenges entered

Lulupu Challenge #26 - Try Something New !
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
Ribbon Carousel Challenge - RCC90 Washi Tape
Sweet Stamps - # 157 Anything Goes

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.

Shabby Chich Card with stamped flowers

Hey everyone! Here is a shabby chic card that I made last weekend. I have used 2 pretty stamp sets from Lulupu called  Flower Fancy Micia wood mounted stamp and Thank You. I stamped the flowers and leaves and fussy cut them. Then I arranged them into a floral arrangement. The B&W border below is actually a washi tape from Lulupu that I stuck on CS and punched out.

Challenges entered

For the love of Crafting - My heart goes shabby

Let's get trendy now - Sequins

Heya. I made this card to make use of the sequins that I have been hoarding for so long. And the challenge at Let's get trendy inspired me to get them out.

I have tried many new things in this card. Did some background stamping and then embossing on it. Created the bg with inks and made a border with faux stitching. Then glued the sequins to add some bling to the card.

Challenges entered

Lets Get Trendy Now 3: Day 2 - Sequins

Baker's Twine Border

I was really impressed with the idea of using Baker's Twine in so many ways by Color Conceptions challenge blog. I decided to use the BT that I had in my stash since a long time, waiting to be used.

This is what I came up with. It's a circular easel card in red base. The top white portion is the card board type material that lines the inside of the lid of cereal bottle, like Muesli, etc. I stamped directly onto it with Micia Birthday song stamp from Lulupu store. Then I decided to sew a frame with BT for the top portion of my card. I glittered the cake, the dress, bow and cheeks of the girl with stickles glitter glue.

 Here are a few close-ups...

Challenges entered

Color Conceptions Challenge #1 - A New Beginning and use Bakers Twine!

Lets Get Trendy Now 3 - Day 4 - Stiching

CAS Spring card

This is a rather simple spring card that I made using one of my spring stamp set. I have stamped the branch thrice to get a bigger branch look and stuck punched blooms randomly.
I have created a lattice background with MS Scoreboard.
If you'd like to see my others cards made using this stamp, please click here...

Movie Inspired Card

DISCLAIMER: "Although I have made a card for the movie 'Gupt' it does not in any way mean it is my fav movie"  LOL :)

I had this piece of poster with me from a furniture company's brochure which I thought to use. I have tried to get a grunge look for the card keeping in mind the story line of the movie and used stamped elements which reflect the same.

I am planning to give this card to an ardent Bobby Deol fan :)

Challenges entered

BGC #26 - Movie Inspired CAS
All That Scrap Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Cute Animals Card

Hi there. Today I am sharing a card which is quite different from my usual type. It is a tall card and I have done stamping also to try out this new stamp set that I purchased :) 

I have kept the card pretty simple and added a punched border on sides. The orange panel is stuck using foam tape, so it has this 3D feel to it.

I would also like to share some of my recent wins at various blogs for my Shabby Chic Cart. I am overwhemled with such great comments and appreciation for my project.

1. I made it Top 3 and won the Shabby Chic Challenge #24 at BGC

2. I made it to the Top 3 at MilkCoffee Challenge - Make it Cute

3. I won at Sarah Hurley Challenges #77 - Anything but a Card
4. I won at Crafter's Corner #5 - Expression of Love

Hope you like my today's card as well.

Challenges Entered

Crafter's Corner #6 - Stamping 

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.

Notecards Gift Boxes - Stamped Design

Hi All. Here is my 3rd set of Notecards Gift Boxes - Stamped version. I have made 2 of these designs with stamping. You may see my other sets here.

This is the first box with three set of notecards. Each card has a different sentiment.

This is the second box. The flower stamp is from Varna's store.

The 3 cards all by themselves.

The 3 cards all by themselves.

Crafts and Me - #105 Anything Goes

Divas by Design - #56 Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty - #97 Anything but a Card

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

Clean and Simple 207

Hi. I made a card based on Clean and Simple Sketch #207. I really liked this simple sketch and wanted to play with it :)

The bright colored papers are from Itsy Bitsy. The floral stamp is from Varna's Store. And the sentiment stamp is from Jovita's store.

Challenges entered

Clean and Simple - Sketch #207

This Used to be...Price Tags

Hi All. This is the second card I made using Tim Holtz Stamp set. I have used 4 elements from the stamp set to create the bg. If you scroll below, you will see the stamp used and also the elements that were recycled to embellish the card.

 I have made these flowers using 5 petal punch. This is the same punch I used to create the roses here.

 I have used 3 different tags to make the leaves, flowers and to place behind the die cut.

The tutorial to make these leaves is shared here.

In case you missed the other card that I made with same stamp, here it is..

I am entering them in PPS Challenge.

Challenges Entered

Lulupu #4: This used to be.. [I have used tags]

PPS - Maximize Your Stamp

Stampotique Designers' Challenge - #64 combining stamps