Winnie and Walter 2nd Birthday Celebrations - Take 2!

Hello friends,

I am  back again with a card today and I am pretty excited about it too....A few days ago I came across a card on Instagram created by Diane Jaquay and it had a plaid background which was created using Distress inks and flat brushes. I was so inspired by the gorgeous card that Diane had made that I had to give it a try and here's what I have created using this technique

 And a another view :

This is how I created the panel for my card using three different colors of Distress ink along with two different sizes of paint brush to create the plaid pattern.

To create my focal, I first die cut three circles using different sizes of circle die and I lightly colored my circles using Distress inks and foam mounted them in the centre of my card. The flowers and leaves are from the Winnie & Walter :In Bloom : Elsa's Flora and In Bloom : Anna's Flora
I die cut the banner using The big,the bold and Extra cutaways on a piece of Vellum and the sentiment is from the : The Big,the bold and extra stamp set using Versafine  Onyx Black ink.
I have water colored my flowers and leaves using various Distress inks on a piece of watercolored cardstock and fussy cut it before popping it up on my card panel.

I am entering my card in the following challenges :

Winnie & Walter Belated 2nd Birthday celebrations : Create your own background with Gayatri
Winnie & Walter Belated 2nd Birthday celebrations :
Floral challenge with Lydia

Peek- a- boo Tic Tac Toe challenge ( I have selected Flowers, Sequins and Die cuts)


Hope you all like my card. Please do drop in your comments /suggestions, would love to hear from you :)
Have a nice day everyone!

Winnie and Walter 2nd Birthday Bash!

Hello friends,

I have a card to share today and this was made for the challenges that are taking place at the Winnie and Walter blog for their second birthday bash. There are a couple of fun challenges there and I have chosen to play along with a few :) Here's a look at my card first :

I created this card based on color challenge put by Heather P. The colors she chose for her challenge theme are so my kind of colors that I just had to play along with  it :) 

To make my card, I have used the W&W Thanks die and their floral stamp sets In Bloom: Anna's Flora, In Bloom : Elsa's Flora and In Bloom : Hollie's Festive florals. The stamped sentiment is from The Big, the Bold and You set also from Winnie and Walter.

I have colored the flowers and leaves using a few of PTI inks and Distress inks ..For the chartreuse green and aqua color, I have used the PTI dye inks the coral is from Hero Arts Peach ink and Abandoned Coral Distress ink.

I have very lighty colored my card base using Cracked Pistachio Distress ink and put some gold splatters using Heidi Swapp Color Shine Gold mist.

Used a gold glitter washi on the side of my card to finish it up.

I am entering this card for the following challenges :

Winnie and Walter - Color challenge with Heather P

Winnie and Walter - Gold + Watercolor challenge with Heather H

Winnie and Walter- Floral challenge with Lydia

Peek -a- boo Tic Tac Toe challenge (I've chosen the grid line -Flowers, Gold and Heat embossing)

Hope you like my card. Please do leave me your comments /suggestions ..I love hearing from you :)

You are precious!!

Hello friends,

I have a card to share today and this one is way overdue. I had created this quite sometime back and shared a sneak peek on my instagram too but just now getting to blog about it.

I have a Valentines' day card to share using a stamp set from Varna's Creations. This is an Indian based stamp company run by a super sweet person Varshitha and she had sent across this set to me. :) Her stamps are high quality photopolymer stamps and give really good crisp impressions. I had lot of fun creating with this set and here's is what I have come up with :

To create the heart, I first stamped and heat embossed the image using Ranger Super Fine Gold Embossing Powder and watercolored the image using Distress inks- Fossilized Amber & Picked Raspberry. Then, I paper pieced the heart anf foam mounted it on my card base. To create my background, I inked a piece of white cardstock using Fossilized Amber, Abandoned Coral and Fired Brick Distress inks. The sentiment is from Winnie and Walter- Precious stamp set. I also did a partial bleaching technique using a Winnie and Walter stencil and water.

I am entering this card for Winnie and Walter's Belated 2nd Birthday bash : Gold + Watercolor challenge with Heather H.

I hope you like my card. Do leave your comments/suggestions. Would love to hear from you!

Have a nice day everyone!

Happy Day!

Hello friends,

I am on a roll these past few days and  I have yet another card to share with you all, but in my defence I am trying to use up all my hoarded stamps and trying to put them to good use. My today's card is especially created for the Ellen Hutson Mix It up challenge and I have gone all bold and dramatic this time around.

Here's a look at what I have created :

A side view :

To create my card, I first die cut a water color panel and then stencilled the background using MFT Petal Circle stencil and distress inks Cracked Pistachio and Fossilized Amber inks, then on a separate cardstock, I stamped and watercolored my flowers and leaves using Ellen Hutson Bold blooms set. I fussy cut the images and created my flower cluster and glued everything down. Then I used my Stampoholic tool to stamp the sentiment and the dots around my flower cluster and as a final touch added some white gem stones to my flower centre and my card was finished. 

I was pretty happy with the end result as its quite a bit different from my usual style :)

I am also entering this card in the following challenges :

Paru's Cardmaking challenge : New
Word Art Wednesday # 217 : Anything Goes

Hope you all like my card. Please do let me know your views regarding it. I love hearing from you :)

Have a nice day everyone!

Altenew love!

Hello friends,

I  have a card to share today and I am kind of excited about this because it's completely stamped one layer card, in the sense that I did not use a card panel to adhere on the card base instead this was directly done on the card base itself and Its my first try with a background building stamps and I am so thrilled with the results.

Here's a look at what I have created :

And here's an another view :

These both view were clicked on different days hence the change in photo props :)

To create this card, I first stamped the border using the Wplus 9 Borders and Backgrounds 2 set using Altenew Warm Sunshine ink. Then I stamped the flower from the Altenew Vintage Flowers set using their Red Cosmos inks ..So perfect for the layered look.

The leaves and foliage were stamped from Altenew Beautiful Day set. It's such a gorgeous set with beautiful flowers and foliage images.... Totally in love with it :) The leaves and foliage were also stamped with Altenew Green Fields ink. I colored the small flowers using various Altenew inks. The sentiment is from the Beautiful Day set and stamped using their Jet Black ink. Finished the card with some black ink spatters and PPP sequins.

 The colors in my card are very much inspired from the gorgeous picture inspiration from the Fusion card challenge. They are celebrating their 2nd anniversary this time and they have such an amazing line up of inspiration from various designers ..I just had to play along !!

I am entering this card for the following challenges :

Fusion card challenge - 2nd Anniversary celebration.

Paru's Card Making challenge -New (I have used the Wplus9 and Altenew Beautiful Day set for the first time).
Addicted to Stamps and More- Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes

Hope you all like my card Please leave me your views regarding it ..I love hearing from you :)

Have a good day everyone!

Hello !!

Hello friends,

I have a card to share today and it was made using Neat and Tangled stamp and dies which I have been hoarding for quite sometime now!
This is my first buy at a stamp and die combo and I was like a kid with a new toy while trying it out :D ...I stamped and colored all my images on the Fabriano Brustro watercolor paper and believe me this paper is a pain to fussy cut with especially with tiny images, but thankfully I had the cordinating die set to rescue :)

So here's a look at my card ...I have clicked it in all angles possible because I loved it that much :D

I told you didn't, I ?
Okay, so a little bit about how I went about creating this ...All the elements on my card are stamped and die cut ..The embroidery hoop does not have a co-ordinating die ..Its an another stand alone die which you can buy separately but alas I didn't have it so I improvised with my circle dies to cut the inner circle the outer part was fussy cut then watercolored with Vintage photo Distress ink and embossed with the Darice Woodgrain embossing folder to give it a more natural look. All the flowers and leaves and even the butterfly were watercolored with a combination of Distress inks and the Nirmal watercolors that I mentioned about in my last post here.
The background of my cardbase is embossed using Wendy Vecchi embossing paste to which I added a little bit of vintage photo ink and the stencil I used is from Winnie and Walter creative screenings (Do you see what I see).
Hope you all like my card.Would love to hear your views on it so do drop me a line :)

I am entering this card in the following challenges :
Little Tangles #64 : Hello
Paru's Cardmaking challenge : New
Stamping Smiles Design : Tic Tac Toe ( I have used the middle grid. (Sparkles, Embossing, New).

Have a nice day everyone!

Celebrate

Hi friends,

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year.

Hope this year fulfills all the expectations you have and brings you a lot of joy and hope.

I wanted to start this new year by sharing a card I made using my favorite Altenew stamp ..This is one of their older release but I recently laid hand on it for the first time and I was quite happy to play with it...The only catch for me though is this stamp has open images meant for coloring and I have quite limited skills when it comes to coloring :( Nevertheless, I gave it a go using a new coloring medium which was gifted to me by a dear friend and fellow blogger Tejal...Its the Nirmal transparent watercolor booklet. This is small book which is filled with vibrant colors something along the lines of Peerless watercolors. I really had fun working with it.

And here's what I have created with it :

And a  close up of the glittered sentiment which is die cut from glitter washi tape:

To create this card, I first stamped and heat embossed images from Persian Motif set and colored it using the Nirmal transparent water colors. The butterfly is from the  Altenew Wild Hibiscus set and the  stripes on the side panel is stamped and heat embossed using a Bo Bunny stamp. Finished this card with some sequins from Winnie and Walter and spattered some droplets on the card using the same colors as the ones used for coloring the image.

Before I created this card, I first practised my coloring skills on some gift tags!

Here they are :

 Hope you like my card and tags!

Before I end this post I have some happy news to share. I have been selected as design team member for the PPS blog. PPS is an UAE based online craft store and I am quite thrilled to join their team. I can't wait to start working with the talented ladies on the team.

I am entering my card in the following challenges :
Paru's cardmaking challenge : New.

Stamping smiles Design : Tic Tac Toe (I have used the  middle row embossing, sparkle and new).