Post 531: CAS Mixed Media Card- You Rock (Inspiration for Craft Stamper Magazine's Take It Make It Challenge- March, 2019)

Hi friends!!

Hope you are well.

Craft Stamper Magazine's Take It Make It Challenge for March is live. It is an "Anything Stamping Goes" challenge with beautiful prizes on offer. You could also win the chance to Guest Design & be published in the magazine, so please read the rules and do link up your gorgeous creations :) To visit the Craft Stamper blog, please click HERE. 

For the inspiration, I've created a CAS Mixed Media Card. 

Here are a few photos of the card:

Supplies Used: Aall & Create Stamp #54- Strings & Scripts, Distress Oxides and Distress Inks, Uniko Stamp- Simply Said Blocks, Winnie & Walter Essentials- Lana Cutaways, Scrapman Die, Versafine Onyx Black Ink, Canson Watercolor Paper, Tombow Mono Multi Glue, 3D Foam Tape. 

Look forward to seeing your beautiful entries in Craft Stamper's TIMI challenge for March, all the details are on their blog, HERE. 

Here's a photo of the gorgeous prize on offer: 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)
Stay Blessed!
Preeti

Post 443 : Celebration Card- Inspiration for Craft Stamper Magazine's TIMI Challenge, June

Hi folks!!

Craft Stamper Magazine's Take It Make It Challenge (TIMI) for June is on. Please join in for a chance at beautiful prizes, to Guest Design & be published in the magazine! It is an anything goes stamping challenge, so it is super easy to play along. All the details can be found HERE.

For the inspiration post, I've created a card. To view all the lovely creations made by my teamies & I, please click HERE.

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

Process:

This is a 5 by 7 inch card. The central panel is 300 gsm Canson watercolor paper. I sponged on the geometrical designs in the background using distress inks and distress oxides (in brown and blue colors) through Stencils 72, Stencil 61 & Stencil 3 by AB Studio (Aga Baraniak). Then I darkened the edges with black soot distress ink and stamped on the beautiful mandala design using Uniko's Marvellous Mehndi Stamp Set. Then colored in the mandala using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. The sentiment is a die cut from WaffleFlower. I matted the panel in black and adhered it to a kraft card base. 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti 

Post 285: Christmas Card (Let it Snow)

Hi Folks!

I'm sharing a Christmas Card today. This was made for a Guest Design post for stencils. All the details can be found here. For this card, I sponged on the Christmas tree design from the stencil using Emerald Green Archival Ink. I used archival Ink because I knew I was going to spray water over top of the design and archival inks are permanent once dry. Then I sprayed on 3 colors of Lindys Stamp Gang Starburst Sprays (Blingy Blonde, Drop Dead Gorgeous Green and Sassy Sapphire) and sprayed on some water to make them mix. Once this was dry it looked shimmery and green. Then I stamped the snowflakes and sentiment using the Uniko Stunning Snowflakes Stamp. In the end, I added sparkle with silver stickles by creating tiny dots and a hand drawn border around the foam mounted panel.

Here is a photo of the card:

 I am playing along with the following challenges:

September Rudolph Days Challenge
NBUS Challenge #12 (used the new Uniko Stamp for this card)
WWC# 138- Marsha's all about christmas challenge

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

Post 275: CAS card- Hello (autumn inspired)

Hi peeps :)

How are you this Tuesday afternoon?
I'm having a little giveaway to celebrate my 1st blog anniversary. In case, you'd like to participate, all the details are here.

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple Card. This was made for a Guest Design Post using Stencils, all the details are here.

For this Autumn Inspired Hello Card, I did some watercoloring (on a watercolor paper panel) to create an organic background with the colors of autumn and then sponged on black soot distress ink through the stencil. Then added a little splatter with black ink. Kept the design CAS by embellishing with a little strip of cardstock and 3 tiny squares cut out from cardstock snippets.

Supplies Used:

Uniko Stamp- Simply Said

CrafTreat Layered Stencil- Leaves

Cutplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectange Die
White Cardstock 250 gsm

Distress Inkpad- Black Soot
Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad
Camlin Watercolors
Aqua Brush
3d Foam Tape
Canson Watercolor Paper

DCWV Cardstock (Autumn Colors)- Snippets

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Uniko Challenge #43- Autumn (skipped the optional twist)

HLS Watercolor Challenge- September (skipped the twist)

HLS CAS Challenge- September- Silhouette

Stamplorations CAS Card Challenge

Pixie's Snippets Playground 299-300

AAA Cards Challenge #99- Autumn Colors 

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your comments.

Stay Blessed. 

Post 273: CAS Card (Celebrate Today)

Hi peeps :)

How are you this Tuesday afternoon?
I'm having a little giveaway to celebrate my 1st blog anniversary. In case, you'd like to participate, all the details are here.

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple Card. This was made for a Guest Design Post Stencils, all the details are here.

For this Celebration Card, I sponged on Manganese Blue Archival ink through the Stencil to create the bird which was fussy cut. Then, did watercoloring on a watercolor panel to create the ombre look of the sky. Stamped on the sentiment and adhered the bird to the panel. In the end, added a few half pearls for embellishment.

Supplies Used:
CrafTreat Layered Stencil- Poppy
Cutplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectange Die
Uniko Stamp- Simply Said
Ranger's Archival Inkpad-Manganese Blue
White Cardstock 250 gsm
Camlin Watercolors
Aqua Brush
3d Foam Tape
Canson Watercolor Paper

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

TIME OUT Challenge #92 (was inspired by the quote, specially the words, "paint" "flying" and "bird") 

Allsorts Challenge Week 434- things with wings

Stamplorations CAS Card Challenge

HLS Watercolour Challenge- September (skipped the twist)

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments 

Stay Blessed. 

Post 191- CAS One Layer Card (coolest dad)

Hi Friends!

Hows the week looking so far? Mine is going great, I have been organizing and cleaning my craft space, it is a tiring process but much needed. I will slowly go through the room by taking up mini areas to work on instead of all of it together, otherwise, it becomes too overwhelming for me. I've gotten the stamps and inks kind of sorted for now. Will move onto the cardstock next. 

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple One Layer Card today. This is an A2 size top folding card. Boy! oh! Boy! I have to tell you, one layer cas cards scare me because it is so tough to get them right and working directly on the card base is so difficult for me. So I challenged myself to do it today :) 

I wanted it to have a summer theme so went from yellows and oranges into blues near the word "coolest". I have done Heat Embossing in black and white here along with Distress ink and Distress oxide Ink blending, this was a resist technique since heat embossed images resist distress ink. I wiped off the ink that sat on top of the embossed letters. This is a masculine card for father's day so I added triangle borders to the ink blended panel because with masculine cards I think geometrical designs go so well. I added the word "pop" by hand using an embossing pen because I thought it was a nice play on words and made for a cute pun, "pop"- "popsicle". The sentiment reads, "Dad, you're the coolest pop ever". I also colored in some of the triangles black and blue for added interest. I'm so happy I kept the card totally flat by adding no more embellishments and was true to the CAS OLC spirit.

List of Supplies:

Uniko Stamps- Background Builders: Triangulate (for the triangular borders)

Lawn Fawn Stamps- Best Pun (for the sentiment)

Distress Mini Inkpads- Chipped Sapphire, Broken China, Peacock Feathers 

Distress Oxide Inkpads- Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade

Memento Mini Inkpad- Tuxedo Black

Versamark Watermark Mini Inkpad

Homemade Emboss Buddy

Ranger's Super Fine Detail Embossing Powders- Black and White

Ranger's Embossing Pen (for writing POP)

Black Sharpie- Fine Point (for coloring the triangles)

Blue Zig Marker (for coloring the triangles)

Masking Tape

Ranger's Heat Tool 

Here is a photograph of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. Uniko Challenge #41 (This is a masculine card for father's day)

2. Less is More #332 (This is a OLC and the popsicle is the sweet thing)

3. AAA Cards: CAS game #92- Resist Technique (used emboss resist here) 

4. Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Make it masculine

5. Penny Black & More Challenge- Anything Goes 
6. D2BA June Challenge- Summer

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your precious comments.

Stay Blessed. 

Post 186- Masculine CAS card- Happy Father's Day

Hi friends :)

Father's day is soon approaching so I thought I would make a Clean and Simple Masculine card for the occasion :) I used masculine colors of greys and blues for the colors besides white and black. This is a standard A2 size top folding card. Also, used geometricals to keep with the masculine theme. 

List of Supplies:

Uniko Stamp- Squared

Mudra Stamp- Dad (Sentiment)

Ranger's Archival Inkpad- Shadow Grey, Watering Can and Jet Black

Gina Marie Designs x stitched rectangles die set (for the heart)

Lawn Fawn Dye Ink Cube- Mermaid

Enamel dots

Iris White Cardstock 250 gsm

Snippet of Grey Cardstock

Here are a few photographs of the card:

 

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Uniko Challenge #41 (I've twisted with a father's day card and used the Uniko squared stamp)


CASe This Sketch #224

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Masculine
Craft Stamper: Take It Make It Challenge for June

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

Post 123: Spring Card 1

Hi!!

I'm so glad you've taken the time to visit me here. I truly appreciate it :) Today I'd like to share a floral card in celebration of spring and good friends.

This is a top folding A2 size card and there are 3 colors used on it besides the neutrals: pink, purple and green. 

The process is pretty straight forward, I took the panel which is a stitched rectangle die cut and did ink blending through a beautiful floral stencil by artplorations, to get a soft pink floral pattern in the background. Then I stamped the floral images and the sentiment from the uniko stamp set onto the card using archival ink. Did some simple coloring with zig markers. And finally adhered the panel to the card base in a tilted "off the edge" way for added interest.

List of Supplies:

1. Uniko Stamps- Originally Organic

2. Artploration Stencil- Bloom Boldly 

3. Gina Marie Designs Stitched Rectangles Die 
4. Tissue Tape

5. Iris Cardstock 250 gsm

6. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers 

7. Ranger's Archival Inkpad- Jet black
8. Sizzix Big Shot Plus for die cutting

9. Ranger's round blending tool and foam

10. Tim holtz mini distress inkpad- picked raspberry

Here are a few pictures of the card :--

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Uniko Challenge #40 - Spring 

Stamplorations March Challenge - Theme & Sketch

CFC 169- Off the edge

Casology week 240- Foliage

Spring Festival Challenge 4- Erica- Flowers

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Bit O' Green

Word Art Wednesday Weeks #274-275

PCM Challenges- March (3 colors have been used here besides the neutrals- green, pink and purple) 

Spring Festival Surprise Challenge with Jessica (threes) - (3 colors have been used here besides the neutrals- greens, pinks and purple, 3 stamps from the set have been used on this card, the mini flowers have been stamped thrice on the bottom left)  

Paper Sweeties March Challenge (I was inspired by pink and green color and the flowers in the vase) 

Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge

PS: I'm also excited to share that I am having a small crafty giveaway which is open to anyone worldwide (international folks are most welcome). All the details can be found here -- I'd be super thrilled and honored if you play along :) the prize is a 25 USD gift certificate to any store you like. It is open till the end of march and you can do as many or as few steps as you like. 

Thanks for your time :)

Would love to read your comments. 

Stay blessed!