Love- Mixed Media Wall Art and Tutorial

Hello friends!

I have a Mixed Media Wall art and fridge magnet to share today along with a step by step tutorial. Here's a look at what I have created :

This wall hanging would make a perfect accent to your craft room or even as a home decor and I have created this based on the current theme this month at Pretty Paper Studio which is “LOVE”. I have a step by step tutorial on how I have created this, so sit back and relax and hope you enjoy seeing the creative process .

 I first started by roughly drawing a freehand heart shape on a recycled cardboard packaging and fussy cutting it and for the magnet, I have die – cut a heart shape using my die directly on the cardboard. I have used papers from 6″ X 6″ Crate Paper pad : Craft Market collection.

After I had cut the heart shape, I cut out the papers from my paper pad and glued them on the cardboard base. (The brown woodgrain & dotted paper). Then it was time to add some texture to the base so I used Tim Holt Lace stencil and embossing paste along with some Heidi Swapp mists to create my background.

This is how the base looks once the embossing was done . On my dotted heart, I mixed some blue mist with my embossing paste before applying it through the stencil.

This is how the base looks once the embossing was done . On my dotted heart, I mixed some blue mist with my embossing paste before applying it through the stencil.

To create more background texture, I water colored two images from Prima Marketing Everyday Vintage Paintables Cards- Bohemian 4 ”X 6” using my Distress inks and I fussy cut the images and layered them on my heart base.

After I watercolored and fussy cut my image it was time to start embellishing and putting down all my elements on my heart base . I decided to use the Prima Marketing Resin icons in a Box- Chalk Black Lock and Key Sets for this, so I painted it with gesso and colored it with my mist to give it a hint of blue.

After playing around with my embellishments, I finally arranged them on my final piece. I have used handmade flowers and some die cut and colored leaves using Joy! Crafts Die- Leaf #2, added a American Crafts/Amy Tangerine Stamped Myflair Flairs – Embossed Gold along with the Prima Marketing Resin icons in a Box- Chalk Black Lock and Key Set.

 I also made a co-ordinating fridge magnet  to go with my wall hanging :

For the fridge magnet, I have used paper from Crate paper : Craft Market collection 6 ” X 6″ paper pad. I have die-cut a scalloped circle from this paper pad and have foam mounted it on my heart base and used some mulberry flowers and a Prima Resin Icon Key to embellish it, finally used some sequins to finish my project.

I'm linking my wall hanging and fridge magnet to the Winnie and Walter Belated Second Birthday challenge-

Anything but a card, Gold + Watercolor challenge with Heather (I have watercolored the Prima Paintable image) and Floral challenge with Lydia. 

Also entering it in the Artful Crafting- Love challenge.

I hope you liked my post and tutorial. Do leave me your comments/suggestions. I always look forward to them. :)

Gift Tags!

Hello everyone,

I am back today sharing a few tags I have made using some Winnie and Walter stamps for their belated birthday celebration. I had a lot of fun watercoloring the images and creating watercolor background for these. Here's a look at the tags I have made :

To create my first tag I did some masking and stamped my image and sentiment before watercoloring that cute 

bird from the Winnie & Walter set Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs. The background is stencilled with some distress inks using Winnie & Walter Creative Screening Scenery - Do You See What I See? Creative Screenings.

For my second tag, I used a black cardstock as my base and stamped and heat embossed the dotted wreath using Ranger Super Fine Gold embossing powder and Winnie & Walter stamp - Comfort + Joy. The flowers and leaves are from Winnie & Walter In Bloom: Hollie's Festive Florals and The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom. The sentiment is from the Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs stamp set.

The third tag was pretty quick to make! I just stamped the flower and leaves from the In Bloom : Anna's flora set and water colored it using Distress inks.The sentiment is from Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs  I masked it and stamped it one by one.

I am entering these tags in the following challenges :
                 

 Winnie and Walter Second Birthday celebration - Anything but a card with Kate 

 Winnie and Walter Second Birthday celebration - Floral challenge with Lydia 

 Winnie and Walter Second Birthday celebration - Rainbow challenge with Vanessa

 Winnie and Walter Second Birthday celebration - Create your own background with Gayatri 
SSS wednesday challenge : Anything goes

Hope you all like my tags .Please do drop me your comments & views regarding it. I love to hear from you :)

Altenew - February Challenge

Hello everyone!

I have a quick card to share which I had created a few days back. It is totally inspired from the gorgeous inspiration picture that Yana had shared on the Altenew blog.

Here's a look at my card based on the inspiration picture.

Here's a look at the inspiration photo from where I have derived my inspiration for this card!

I was not only inspired by the colours, but also the ornate detailing of the metal grill on the doors. I tried to incorporate it in my card by dry embossing a strip of black cardstock and  lightly coloring it using Viva Decor Inka Gold on the embossed area.

The strips of yellow, black & blue on the side of my card were inspired by the background stripes of this inspiration picture. For me the inspiration was not only mainly visual, but also color based too! 

I have used the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp set to create my main focal as well as for the sentiment too which was heat embossed using Gold Tinsel embossing powder from Ranger. The coloring on my flowers & leaves were done using different shades of Distress inks. I just stamped the outline image of the stamp and tried to shade it to give it a more natural look.

I am also entering my card in the SSS wednesday challenge - Anything goes

I hope you like my card & my take on the challenge. Looking forward to hear your views. :)

Birthday Wishes - Inlaid Die-cutting Card

Hi friends!
I'm back again and today I have a card to share made using the Inlaid Die-cutting technique. This is my first try at this technique and I totally loved the end results. Here's a look at the card I made using it.

Another view :

To make this card, I first die cut the flowers using Winnie & Walter The Big, the Bold and Extras cutaway from a 4.5 inch X 5.5 inch card panel and then I stamped and colored my die cut pieces using the co-ordinating stamp The Big, the Bold and Extras set. Before I placed my die cut pieces back into my original die cut panel I distressed one side of my panel using Squeezed Lemonade Distress ink and stamped my sentiment on the base using the stamp set from Winnie and Walter, The Big, the Bold and Party.

I took a quick photo of my inlaid die cut pieces before I completely assembled it and this is how it looks :) 

Hope you all like my card. Do leave me your comments/suggestions I love to hear from you :)

Entering my card in the following challenges :

Winnie and Walter 2nd Birthday celebration - Two with Shay ( I have used two flowers here).

Winnie and Walter 2nd Birthday celebration - Floral challenge with Lydia

Winnie and Walter 2nd Birthday celebration - Inlaid Die-cutting with Mayuri

Wish you the most beautiful day!

Hello friends,

I have a card to share today and it's a watercolored card using the Winnie and Walter floral stamps. I had so much fun stamping and coloring these papers using my trusted, Distress inks, yet again! Here's a look at what I've created.

The gorgeous red rose is from Winnie and Walter - In Bloom: Elsa's Flora which has been stamped and watercolored using three shades of Distress inks - Abandoned Coral, Fired Brick & Vintage Photo.

The leaves are colored using Twisted Citron Distress ink and are from Winnie and Walter - In Bloom: Elsa's Flora & Winnie and Walter in Bloom - Anna's Flora.

The background trellis against which I have done my floral arrangement is also a beautiful stamp from Winnie and Walter called Mini Scenery - Do You See What I See? which I have gold embossed using Ranger Super Fine Gold embossing powder and watercolored that panel loosely using Distress inks!

I was pretty happy with the outcome of this card & I hope you all like it too!

I'm entering my card in the Winnie and Walter 2nd Belated Birthday Celebration challenges :-

Create your own background challenge, Gold + Watercolor challenge, and Floral challenge.

Stamping Sensations- Anything goes

Peek- a - boo Tic Tac Toe challenge ( I've chosen Flowers, Gold/Silver and Heat embossing!)

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 :)