Post 225 - Mixed Media Card: Celebrate

Hi folks!

How are you this fine morning? I'm a little exhausted from a lot of work lately, looking forward to relaxing over the weekend. 

I'd like to share a Mixed Media Style Card today. This is a 5 by 7 inches side folding card.  I played with my gelatos after a while today and it was fun. Basically blended colors on top of a card panel on which white gesso was applied then did some stencil work with yellow, black and white acrylics, also did some background stamping. Further, stamped and water colored floral images and fussy cut them. Then arranged the floral images on the card panel (Whose edges were distressed for a worn out torn look) and adhered them. Added few splashes of white and black ink. Finished off, by adhering a die cut sentiment "celebrate" which was die cut in black and white and layered slightly off set and then adhered on top of the card panel. In the end, the card panel was adhered to a black card base. 

List of Supplies:

Rubber Dance Stamps: Textured flowers, Textured Spring and Something Wonderful

Winnie & Walter Cutaways- The Big, the bold and party 

Canson Watercolor Paper 300 gsm

Black Cardstock 250 gsm

Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad

Camlin Watercolors 

Faber Castell Gelatos

Camlin White Gesso

Stencil- honey combo (small and big) and circles

Mont Marte Acrylics- cadmium yellow, black

Aqua brush 

Ranger's Archival Inkpad- Jet Black

Fine Point Black Sharpie

Here are a few photographs of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. Rubber Dance July Colour Challenge

2. SSS Monday Challenge- Distress It (distressed the edges to give a torn look)

3. Stampotique SDC277- Celebration 

4. HLS July Watercolour Challenge- (Water colored the floral images)

5. HLS July Mixed Media Challenge (Added texture with stencils and acrylics and layered flowers)

Thanks for your time!

Love reading your comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

Post 224: CAS Birthday Card

Hi friends :)

How's your week going? I hope all is well in your part of the world. Here in India, we have had a terrorist attack on innocent people and hearing the news was very disturbing. I wish we could all live in harmony, stop the intolerance and just get along. 

Onto nicer things now, I'd like to share a Clean and Simple card today. This is side folding and 5 by 7 inches in size. I did some water coloring on it with zig markers. I stamped the sentiments from various stamps.  

List of Supplies:

Stampers Anonymous Cling Stamp- Tim Holtz: Crazy Birds

Verve Stamp- Poppy Birthday (Happy Birthday sentiment)

Winnie & Walter stamp-The Big, the bold and the extras (celebrate sentiment)

Altenew Stamp- Floral Frame (Birthday Wishes)

Mudra Mini Stamp- Hexagon

Cutplorations- Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Die 

Enamel Dots

Canson Watercolor paper

Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad

Ranger's Archival Ink- Magenta Hue

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

Here are a couple of photographs of the card:

(close up)

(full photo)

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Calling All Sistahs CAS02 June Challenge (I was inspired by the colors in the moodboard)

Time Out Challenges #87- CASe with your own twist (I was inspired by the bird and the use of multiple sentiments in Cornelia's beautiful card) 

I Love Math Challenge #6 (used a hexagon stamp)

CASology #257- wish

Stamplorations Summer CAS Card Challenge

Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge (used a cutplorations die here)

HLS July CAS Challenge- Birthday

HLS July Watercolour Challenge

PCM July Challenge- Birthday

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your precious comments!

Stay Blessed. 

Post 223- CAS Fruity Birthday Card

Hi friends!

This is the third post in which I share my experiments of trying to convert other shaped stamps into summer fruits. 

This is a 5 by 7 side folding card. I was happy to use up some of my colored cardstock snippets here, I stamped on them with Ranger's archival inks, colored them with zigs where ever required and then fussy cut them to get the fruits. Added a few highlights with a white gel pen. Then stamped the rectangle base and the sentiment within it from the W & W The big, the bold and the happy set in versafine onyx black ink, after that stacked the fruits and adhered them to the card base and finally stamped a few hearts from the W & W Welcome to the Family with Evelin T Designs Stamp Set.  I think the strawberries came out quite nice and the watermelon could have looked much brighter stamped on a white cs, will remember that for future projects. 

For the strawberries (circled in red ), grapes (circled in green) and Kiwi Fruit (circled in blue) I converted these stamps from W & W's In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet

 For the watermelon I converted this circle stamp (marked in red) from W & W's A Tree for all Seasons.

 For the pineapple, I partially inked up the penguin's body from W & W's Stampet: Penguin

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

The Gossip Column with Taheerah Atchia No. 8- Summer Fruits

SSS Wednesday Challenge- Summer Sunshine 

SSS Work it Wednesday- Summer Icons

Pixie's Snippets Playground- Weeks 289 & 290

Thanks for your time!

Love reading your sweet comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

Post 222- CAS One Layer Card "I will always be there for you"

Hi friends!

This is the second post in which I share my experiments of trying to create summer fruits out of other stamps. This is an A2 sized cas one layer card. I created the background by sponging a couple of distress oxide inks (fossilized amber and spiced marmalade) through a hexagon design stencil, then stamped the penguin from the W & W Stampet: Penguin set and the sentiment from the W & W A Tree for All Seasons using versafine onyx black ink. Then converted the penguin into a pineapple by drawing and coloring on some details using zig markers and a white gel pen. 

This card really gives me a chuckle because the penguin masquerading as a pineapple with that huge crown on his head reminds me of King Julien from the kiddy movie series Madagascar, which is a brilliant funny flick and I really enjoyed that character. If you haven't checked it out, please do. It will make you laugh for sure. 

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

The Gossip Column with Taheerah Atchia No. 8- Summer Fruits

SSS Wednesday Challenge- Summer Sunshine 

SSS Work it Wednesday- Summer Icons

Thanks for your time !

Love reading your comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

Post 221- CAS One Layer Card (watermelon)

Hi friends!

I was really inspired by the Gossip Column Challenge over at Winnie & Walter and wanted to make a few cards on the theme of summer fruits. It's a super fun theme! Don't you think? I discovered that I did not have any fruit related stamps! So I did the next best thing :) I decided to experiment with the ones I already had to make fruity shapes. I made 3 CAS cards out of my lil experiments. 

This is the first one which is a top folding A2 size CAS One Layer card. I used a yellow colored cardbase to keep with the summery theme. To make the watermelon shape, I inked up part of the big circular stamp in the W & W Tree for All Seasons stamp set with zig markers and then stamped with that. Added a few black dots for the seeds. And poof! I had my watermelon image! I did not spritz the stamp with water because I wanted a look similar to Gelli printing. Then I stamped the sentiment from the same set in versafine onyx black ink and added a little shadow underneath the slice of watermelon with a grey zig. Finally, stamped a little heart (from the W & W Welcome to the Family with Evelin T Designs) using a red zig on the stamp.

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. The Gossip Column with Taheerah Atchia No. 8- Summer Fruits

2. Addicted to CAS #115- Summer 

 3. AAA Cards Challenge #94

4. Less is More #336-337

5. SSS Wednesday Challenge- Summer Sunshine 

Thanks for your time!

Love reading your precious comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

Post 220: CAS One Layer Card- Hi!

Hi folks!

Hows your week looking? The weather here has turned quite unpleasant lately. It is humid and so hot. There isn't much one can do except staying indoors, having a lot of liquids and putting on the air conditioning. So I spent many hours crafting and challenged myself to make cas one layer cards. They are quite difficult for me, especially, if I want to keep them totally flat. So no sequins or embellishments. 

Today, the first card I'd like to share is a CAS OLC. I was happy to use a couple of never before used supplies: a stamp and stencil. This is slightly smaller than an A2 card so it is 5.25 by 4 inches in size. I basically sponged on distress oxide inks through a hexagon shaped stencil and then heat embossed the sentiment and bee in bright yellow. I kept the color scheme as yellow and black to go with the summery "bee" theme. 

List of Supplies:

Paper Smooches Stamp- Garden Greetings 

Hexagon Design Stencil

Ranger's Distress Oxide Inkpads- Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade

Ranger's Round Blending Tool and Foams

Versamark Watermark Mini Inkpad

Homemade Emboss Buddy

Ranger's Embossing Powder- Lemon

Ranger's Heat tool

Here are a couple of photographs of the card:

 

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. Paper Smooches July Challenge- Anything Goes (I have used a PS stamp here and linked it to the store) 

2. I Love Math Challenge #6- Hexagon (I have used a hexagon stencil here)

 3. AAA Cards Challenge #94

4. Less is More #336-337

5. SSS Wednesday Challenge- Summer Sunshine (depicted by the bees and yellow hues)

Thanks for your time.

Love reading your sweet comments :)

Stay Blessed. 

PS: I have a small crafty giveaway running through the month of July with 2 prizes on offer. Its open world-wide. In case, you are interested, all the details are here. Thanks :)

Post 219: CAS One Layer Card- Pizza

Hi friends :)

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple One Layer Card today. I made this inspired by a few challenges. I did not have a pizza or food related stamp so I converted a round flower stamp into a pizza and the smaller circles were used for pepperoni on the pizza. I added a hand painted black plate under the pizza to make it pop on the kraft cardstock. I colored in the one of the pieces of pizza, to show that it had been eaten, to depict the sentiment that we must delight in the little things in life, like eating our favorite foods. (Pizza is one of my favorite foods :) ) I did the stamping with distress oxides and then some coloring with zig markers and pencil colors. I've added pepperoni, capsicum, olives and cheese on my pizza and made the crust crispy, just the way I like it. 

List of Supplies:
Stamplorations Stamp- Fond Expressions 2 (Shery Russ Designs)
Craftyscrappers Stamp- Doodly Blooms
Ranger's Distress Oxide Inkpads- Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage photo.
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens
Derwent Pencil Colors
Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad
Kraft Cardstock 250 gsm

Here are a couple of photographs of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

CASology #256- Pizza

Less is More #336 & 337

AAA cards challenge #94

Addicted to stamps & more #249 

 Stamplorations July Theme & Sketch Challenge (went with the theme of warm colors- yellow, orange, red)

 CIC413- Stamplorations 

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your precious comments. 

Stay Blessed.