Post 379: Simple Seasons Greetings Card 2

Hi friends!

I'd like to share a Season's Greetings Card I made a few days back. This was part of my Guest Design Post for Hndmd, all the details are here. For this card, CrafTangles Ruby Red Cardstock was used to die cut the main card panel. The sentiment is from the CrafTangles Seasons Greeting Stamp. I used a glittery foam dove as the focal element and the wreath is a die cut, I used the vibrant CrafTangles Sap Green Cardstock to die cut the wreath & then embellished it with silver sequins.

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

Thanks for your time :)
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Post 378: Simple Seasons Greetings Card 1

Hi friends!

I'd like to share a Season's Greetings Card I made a few days back. This was part of my Guest Design Post for Hndmd, all the details are here. For this card, the soft green background was created by sponging on the christmassy images from the CrafTangles Christmas Background Stencil using Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide. The sentiment was stamped from the CrafTangles Seasons Greeting Stamp. I used a cute little penguin sticker as the focal element of this card. The bright green pop in the card is from CrafTangles Sap Green Cardstock.

Here is a photo of the card:

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Post 377: Cute CAS Thanks Card

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I'd like to share a Cute Clean & Simple card :) I love this cutie pie lil elephant! I did water coloring with zig markers and then die cut the image with a stitched scalloped circle die. To add a pop of color, I colored the frame with a bright pink. In the end, added a few yellow sequins. 

List of Supplies:

Tubby Craft Stamp-Baby Elephant
Peekaboo Designs Stitched Scalloped Circle Dies
Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad
Canson Watercolor Paper
Tombow Mono Multi Glue
Yellow Sequins from Mudra
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
Aqua Brush
White Cardstock

Here is a photo of the card:

 Here is a close-up photo:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

CASology Week 280- Kindness (a thank you card to send to a sweet & kind friend)

Thanks for your precious time :)

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Post 376: Floral Card with Ink Smooshing

Hi friends!!

It's the last day of 2017 :) and boy! has it been an eventful year. Its been a big learning experience. I want to thank everyone for welcoming me into this sweet crafty community with open arms. Thank You so much for everything. I hope you have a great year ahead full of creativity, awesome crafty supplies, smiles, friends, love, good food, sparkle, hugs, happiness and family. 

I'd like to share a card today. For this card, I stamped the floral arrangement from the Tubby Craft Floral Invitation Stamp onto Canson Watercolor Paper and then smooshed on blue and green color inks (from zig markers) using a piece of acetate onto the paper, then die cut it with a scalloped rectangle die. This panel was adhered to a black card base and a die cut word was added as the sentiment. To create the shadow effect, a black die cut was adhered below the white die cut word.

List of Supplies:

Winnie & Walter Essentials: Audrey Cutaways

Winnie & Walter- The Big, The Bold & Party Cutaways (new die)

Tubby Craft Stamp- Floral Invitation

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Acetate

Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad

White & Black Cardstock

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

 

I am playing along with the following challenges:

SSS Monday Challenge- Party

SSS Work it Wednesday- December (1st entry)- used a new stamp and word die here

SSS Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes

Thanks for your time :)

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Stay Blessed!

Post 375: CAS One Layer Floral Invitation Card

Hi friends :)

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple One Layer Floral Invitation Card. This was part of my Guest Design post for Tubby Craft Stamps. All the details are here.  For this card, I stamped the floral arrangement & sentiment from the Tubby Craft Floral Invitation Stamp onto a black card base (A2 size) using versamark watermark ink and heat embossed in white using Ranger's super fine white embossing powder and heat tool. Then lightly colored the images with prismacolor pencils. 

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

SSS Monday Challenge- Party (3rd entry)

Less is More Challenge #360-361

Thanks for your time :)

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Post 374: Mixed Media ATCs (for the holidays)

Hi friends :)

I'd like to share a set of 4 mixed media ATCs or Artist Trading Cards I made recently for the holidays. They were a lot of fun to make :) these were part of my guest design work for Hndmd. All the details are here. The organic looking backgrounds for these ATCs were created using Lindy's Cuckoo clock cardinal magical shaker, drop dead gorgeous green shimmer spray and blingy blonde shimmer spray. The sentiments were stamped using CrafTangles Seasons Greeting Stamp & the focal elements were sponged on using distress oxides through the CrafTangles Christmas Elements Stencil. The gifts in one of the atcs were stamped using the CrafTangles Bearing Gifts Stamp. Snow was added using white gesso and the CrafTangles Speckles Stencil. The edges of 2 of the atcs were deckled and the edges of all the atcs were darkened & distressed with black soot distress ink. Details were added with silver stickes, antique gold perfect pearls, glitter and a white sharpie pen. In the end, the panels were adhered to white atc sized bases (2.5 by 3.5 inches) to give a finished look.

Here are some photos of the 4 ATCs:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Lindys December Challenge (was inspired by the yellow, green and red in the moodboard)

HLS Dec ATC Challenge- Christmas

HLS Dec Mixed Media Challenge-anything goes

HLS Dec Christmas Challenge- used stencils

Stamplorations Dec Mixed Media Challenge

Thanks for your time :)

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Stay Blessed!

Post 373: Mixed Media Card- Yay! (dancers)

Hi friends!

I made a card just for fun because I wanted to play in a couple of challenges and also try out some new stamps. This card is 5 by 7 inches in size. I die cut some rectangles from snippets of watercolor paper and then stamped the dancer on them, then did watercoloring with zig markers and an aqua brush. For the card panel, I stamped the leaves around the edges, then added some colorful splatters with a stencil and distress oxides, then stamped the sentiment and for added interest in the background, also added the scripty background stamp. In the end, distressed the edges of the panel, drew hand drawn borders around all the panels with a sharpie, adhered the die cuts to the panel and created some ink splatter. I wanted this to be a happy, cheerful card which could be used for any happy occasion :) 

List of Supplies:

Rubber Dance Stamp- Celestial Dancer #1

Rubber Dance Stamp- leaves from the Crazy Flowers #2

Hero Arts Cling Background Stamp- Thanks 

Altenew Celebrate Stamp 

Tim Holtz Splatter Stencil

Distress Oxide Inkpad- Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade

Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad 

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Black Sharpie Pen

Tim Holtz Paper Distressor Tool

Tombow Mono Multi Glue

3d Foam Tape

Snippets of Canson Watercolor Paper 

White cardstock and black card base 

Gina Marie Stitched Rectangle Dies

Here is a photo of the card:

Here are a few close-up photos:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Rubber Dance December Challenge (was inspired by the colors) 

Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 313-314

SSS Monday Challenge- Party (2nd entry)

SSS Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes

Thanks for your time!

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Stay Blessed!

Post 372: Cute CAS Christmas Card (penguin)

Hi friends!

I'd like to share a cute Clean and Simple Christmas Card I made. This was for a Guest Design Post at Tubby Craft Stamps. All the details are here. For this CAS card, I stamped the Penguin from the Tubby Craft Penguin Love Stamp Set onto a snippet of Canson Watercolor paper, colored it with prisma color pencils and then fussy cut the image. Further, stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set, on the kraft cardbase and foam mounted the image. Then added a few snow-like dots with a white gel pen. In the end, added a few silver sequins & silver stickles.

Here is a photo of the card:

 Here is a close-up of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

AAA cards CAS game #105- sparkle (added silver sequins for the sparkle)

SDC288- Christmas

SSS Monday Challenge- party (christmas party) 

Uniko Challenge #44

Inkspirational challenge 150- gift

Thanks for your time :)

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Stay Blessed!

Post 371: Season's Greetings Card (cute reindeer)

Hi friends!

I'd like to share a season's greetings card today :) I made this for my Guest Design post at Hndmd. All the details are here. For this card, the focal element is the cute reindeer, I sponged it on using Black Soot distressink, a sponge dauber and CrafTangles Christmas Elements stencil. The sentiment is from the CrafTangles Seasons Greeting Stamp. CrafTangles Moss Green Cardstock was used to create the mat (it looks black in the photos). I used Gina Marie Stitched Rectangle Dies here for all the die cutting. For embellishment, I added a little silver bow and red pearl to the neck of the reindeer. 

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

HLS December Christmas Challenge

SDC 288- Christmas 

Thanks for your time!

Love reading your sweet comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

Post 370: Christmas Card (snowfall scene)

Hi friends!

I'd like to share a card today :) I made this for my Guest Design post at Hndmd. All the details are here. For this card, I wanted to create a night time snowfall scene, so I used the CrafTangles Skyline Stencil which has detachable pieces that can be used as masks. So I used the skyline mask to mask off the black cardstock and sponged on picket fence distress ink onto the rest of the cardstock. Then I added the windows with a white sharpie. And then to create the snowfall, I applied White Gesso through the CrafTangles Speckles Stencil. The sentiment was stamped from the CrafTangles Seasons Greeting Stamp. I added a few silver star sequins to finish the card.

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Double D Challenge- Baby its cold outside (snowfall scene)

HLS December Christmas Challenge

Thanks for your time!

Love reading your sweet comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

Post 369: Cute Card (Beary good friend)

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I'd like to share a cute card today :) I made this for my Guest Design post at Hndmd. All the details are here. I like that this card can be used for christmas or even for a birthday or any other celebration since the sentiment, "to a beary good friend" is very neutral. For this card, I stamped the adorable bear & sentiment from the CrafTangles Bearing Gifts Stamp onto Canson Watercolor Paper & then did watercoloring with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. I’ve matted the card panel with a stitched rectangle die cut (Gina Marie Stitched Rectangle Dies), cut from CrafTangles Rich Red Cardstock which is the perfect color for Christmassy creations. 

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

HLS December Watercolor Challenge

HLS December Christmas Challenge (skipped the optional twist)

Inkspirational Challenge #150- gift

Uniko Challenge #44-Christmas 

Double D Challenge- Baby its cold outside (polar bear here)

Thanks for your time!

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Stay Blessed.

Post 368: Simple Layered Christmas Card (mandalas)

Hi folks!

I'd like to share a Simple Layered Christmas Card. This was part of my DT work for Bob n Betty. All the details are here. I wanted to use decoupage papers in cardmaking because the mandala designs were so pretty, I thought it would be so cool to use them for non-traditional cards all year round. I used very few supplies for these as I wanted to process to be very simple. I made a set of 4, which I will share one by one. Hope you like them :) These cards are approx 4 by 8 inches in size. I used a die cut phrase for the sentiment (creating a shadow effect by adhering a black die cut a little off centre underneath, to make it more visible) and a few butterflies stamped, heat embossed in white and fussy cut out of vellum as an embellishment. 

List of Supplies:

Cutplorations Peace Love Joy Phrase Die
Mudra Stamp- Butterfly Layers
Bob n Betty Decoupage Papers- Imperial Collection
Ranger's Super Fine White Embossing Powder
Ranger's Heat tool
Versamark Watermark Mini pad
White & red cardstock
Tim Holtz Paper Distressor

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Cutplorations December Challenge (was inspired by the christmas theme in the photo)

Stamplorations Never Ending Anything Goes Challenge


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Post 367: 4 Wintery Holiday Themed Mixed Media Tags

Hi friends :)

Hope you are having a great time during the holidays :) I'd like to share 4 winter/holiday themed Mixed Media Tags I made for the Holiday Season recently. This was part of my DT work for PABD, all the details are here along with a photo tutorial. The poinsettia has been stamped and heat embossed in white on vellum. I love the delicate look vellum provides :) I made the flower dimensional by adhering 2 fussy cut flowers together. Multiple layers have been created by using gauze, die cuts, chipboards, vellum flowers, threads & twine. The white splatter created at the end, looks like snowfall. I really love the fresh color combination on these tags and will probably use it again. 

List of Supplies:

Lindys shimmer spray-Drop Dead Gorgeous Green, Magical- TiffanyLou Blue from the Sweet Treats Shimmer Magical set, Guten Tag Teal Magical Shaker and Purely White embossing powder here.

PABD dies- dual stitched hexagon die, dome tower die, chloe die

PABD stamps- with love daisy, ampersand, madhubani, Poinsettia

PABD Washi tapes 

Ribbons

Snowflake Chipboards

Liquid Pearls- Opal White

Prima's Heavy White Gesso

Lace

Gauze

Distress Oxide Inkpad- Peacock feathers

Distress Inkpad- Twisted Citron

Archival Inkpad- Manganese Blue and Watering Can

Silver Stickles

Vellum

Canson Watercolor Paper

Versamark Watermark Mini Inkpad
White Twine and threads

Here are some photos of the tags:

Tag 1:

 Tag 2:

 

 Tag 3:

 

 Tag 4:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Lindy's December Challenge (I've used the blue and green and included the twist of snowflakes)

MMA Dec Challenge  (was inspired by the wintery theme)

More MM Challenge- anything goes+ optional white

HLS December MM Challenge

HLS December Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

December Tagplorations Challenge

A Vintage Journey- Winter Wonderland

Creative Embellishments December Challenge 

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments.

Stay Blessed!