Post 346: Mixed Media Motivational Card (shine)

Hi folks!

I'd like to share a Mixed Media Motivational Card today :) I love the sentiment on this card which reads, "don't let someone dim your light simply because its shining in their eyes"

For this motivational card, I did gelli printing using the Icraft grid design stencil and then die cut the gelli print. Then distressed the panel with yellow and orange hued distress inks, stamped on the sentiment and added the die cut butterfly.

List of Supplies:

Visible Image Stamp- Shining Bright
Cutplorations Flutter Zen 1 Layering Dies
Winnie & Walter Essentials- Lana Cutaways
Distress Ink Mini Inkpads- Carved Pumpkin and Mustard Seed
Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad
ICraft Grid Stencil
Acrylic Paints
GelliArts Gelli Plate
White & Black Cardstock

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. Mixed Media Monthly #42- Silhouette (butterfly)

2. Butterfly Challenge #90- Lemon- yellow color used here

3. Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge (cutplorations butterfly die used here)

4. SSS Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments.

Stay Blessed. 

Post 272: Guest Designing for CrafTreat Stencils (Post 2- Part 2)

Hi Dear Friends :)

I was so thrilled and honored when I was invited back to Guest Design for the September Release of CrafTreat Stencils.

The Craft Shop has launched a brand called CrafTreat wherein they have Made in India products like stencils, papers etc... I had a lot of fun playing with the stencils.

I've shared 7 projects for Part 2 of this post on the Craftreat Blog.

There are CAS cards, 3 cards using gelli prints and 1 Mixed Media Layout.
I hope you will visit and like what I have to share. 

*fingers crossed*

Would love to read your sweet comments :)

Stay Blessed!
Preeti

Here is a little sneak peek:

Post 250: Thanks Card (Gelli Printing)

Hi friends :)

I'm sharing a card today. Made this as part of a GD post on FB. All the details can be found here.

This is a standard A2 sized card. The lines background is created by doing gelli printing with a stencil. The thanks die cut is layered with a black one at the back to give a shadow effect. I've added thread, some silver sequins and silver stickles as embellishments. 

List of Supplies:

Cutplorations Thanks Die
Lawn Fawn Small Dotted Rectangle Die
Icraft Stencil
Black Acrylic Paint
Black and White Cardstock 250 gsm
Thread
Sequins
Silver Stickles
Tombow Mono Multi Glue
GelliArts Mono Printing Plate

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge

HLS August Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Thanks for your time.

Love reading your sweet comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

Post 247: Best Wishes Card (Gelli Printing)

Hi friends :)

I'm sharing a card I made for a Guest Design Post on Stencils a few days back, you can check out all the details here. I didn't get a chance to blog about the cards so I am doing that one by one as time permits.

This is a standard A2 sized card. The background is done with a gelli print which was made using acrylic paints and a bubble design stencil. Then I die cut the gelli print and simply added the die cut branch and word, finally, I stamped the word best. 

List of Supplies:

Winnie & Walter Essentials Lana Cutaways
Winnie & Walter- The Big, The Bold & Party Cutaways
Icraft Stencil- Bubbles
Acrylic Paints 
GelliArts Gelli Printing Plate 
Peekaboo Designs Stamp- Bold You
Dienamites Die- Summer Branch
Black Cardstock 270 gsm (snippets used for die cutting)
Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Winnie & Walter Rerun No. 22 (I didn't have the sugar rush set so I was inspired by Kelly's pretty card, I used 3 warm colors for the gelli printed background and also used a stencil) 

Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 295-296

SSS Wednesday Challenge- Add a sentiment

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments.

Stay Blessed!

Post 178: CAS Birthday Card: The Letter Press Look

Hi friends :)

I'd like to share something new I tried today. This is an A2 size top folding CAS birthday card. 

I went for the typography/letter press look in it.
The artist whose work I was inspired by is Alan Kitching. One google search on the name reveals so many gorgeous examples of very unique and interesting work. But I must say, I found it very challenging to convert that into a card, for the longest time I did not know what to do or how to do it. So I experimented with a new techniques for me Gelli Printing and used that to create this look. I also used the word dies I had in a different way by using alphabets from different words to create varied sizes. 

I loved the number of bright and bold orange and yellow color combinations that I saw in Alan Kitching's work like in "why are the arts so white", "nuclear meltdown" and "stars" so went with that color scheme with some blacks thrown in. So basically, I created some gelli print papers (A4 size) using a Gelli Arts Gelli Plate and acrylic paints. Then die cut words from these gelli print papers then cut apart the letters and pieced them together to create the words. Finally. stamped 2 of the words to complete the sentiment (partially inking the birthday so the die cut "y" could act as the y for birthday). 

The sentiment reads, "Hi Wish You A Happy Birthday" I pieced the alphabets inspired by Alan K.'s work in how he makes them into a puzzle and plays with horizontal and vertical positioning of the alphabets like for example in "cross rail".

List of Supplies:

Winnie & Walter In a Word Cutaways: Wishes 

Winnie & Walter In a Word Cutaways: Baby

Winnie & Walter In a Word Cutaways: Hugs

Winnie & Walter In a Word Cutaways: Happy 

Winnie & Walter Stamp: The Big, the bold and the happy

Ranger's Archival Inkpad- Jet Black

Tombow Mono Multi Glue 

Iris White Cardstock 250 gsm

Gelli Arts Print Plate 8 by 10

Camlin Brayer

Camlin Artists' Acrylic Paints

Copy Paper 

Here is a photograph of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

The Gossip Column with Taheerah Atchia No. 7- Alan Kitching 

Stamplorations May Theme & Sketch Challenge (I went with the theme of alphabets)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes 
AAA cards Challenge- The 3rd big birthday bash 
Addicted to Stamps & More #244: CAS 

Thanks for your time!
Love reading your precious comments :)
Stay Blessed.