Post 115: Mixed Media Tag: Spring

Hi Friends

I'd like to share a tag with you today. 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. 

Now onto the tag, this is a mixed media spring themed tag with lots of bright colored flowers, leaves and butterflies. 

Synopsis of the Process:-

The base of the tag is upcycled from the cardboard packaging of distress markers. White Gesso was applied to it along with that some thread was also stuck on to give texture and also wound around the tag. Then for the background, stamping was done with archival jet black ink using the designs by ryn- texture stamps. The leaves stamp and the circular design from the same stamp set and the clematis doodle stamp from so suzy stamps were also stamped onto some cardstock, colored with zig markers and distress crayons and then fussy cut. Then through a flower and butterfly design stencil some texture paste was applied onto the tag. Color was applied with sprays and mica powder. The fussy cut images and a few flowers were arranged onto the tag and adhered. The title is from the so suzy stamps - color of spring stamp, it was stamped and then the sentiment was cut apart, the edges were distressed and colored with black ink and then using adhesive foam tape, it was pasted onto the tag. To bring out the details more, some white dots and lines were added using a white gel pen and a charcoal pencil was used to give definition to the edges followed by an aqua brush to smooth out the lines. In the end, some splatters of watered down white gesso were made. 

Supplies Used:

1. Distress crayons set 1

2. Sprays by heidi swapp and color splash by little birdie (lemon zing, lime splash, ocean mist)

3. Snippets of white cardstock

4. Ranger's achival jet black ink

5. Designs by Ryn- Textures (rubber stamps)

6. So suzy cling stamps - color of spring and clematis doodle

7. Little birdie flowers 

8. Prima- Blue mica powder 

9. Double sided foam tape

10. Uniball Signo white gel pen

11. Charcoal pencil 

12. Aqua brush

13. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

14. Thread

15. Tombow mono multi glue

16. Tim Holtz distress tool 

17. Local stationery shop stencil- flowers and butterflies

18. Monte Marte Texture paste

19. Camlin White Gesso

20. Paint brushes, palette knife, water spray bottel and scissors 

Here are a few pictures of the finished tag:--

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Rubber Dance Stamps Colour Challenge- March (stamping has been done to create the  3d leaves and flowers as well as in the background, all the colors of the moodboard have been included) 

Butterfly Challenge #74- The butterflies were incorporated with texture paste and the color mint green is there. 

March Customer Creation Challenge- Designs by Ryn (2 of the designs by ryn texture stamps have been used here, in the background as well as on the fussy cut images)

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Make your own background

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #272-273

Stamplorations Mixed Media Challenge- March

Stamplorations Spolight Project Showcase (I was inspired by the Maria spotlights background stamping technique and have used it on the tag)

Stamplorations March Challenge - Theme  (spring)

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.

Post 114: Cheers Card (Ink Smooshing)

Hi Friends

I'd like to share a card with you today. 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. 

Now onto the card, this is a side folding A2 size card. I have used 2 main techniques in this card, ink smooshing and embossing with a die. 

Synopsis of the Process:-

The white stitched rectangle die cut panel was embossed using the Winnie & Walter cutaways "Cheers" using a sizzix embossing pad and a sizzix big shot plus machine. Then 3 colors of distress ink: mustard seed, picked raspberry and peacock feathers were smooshed onto a piece of acetate and then some water was spritzed on the acetate, this acetate was then smooshed onto the embossed panel to create a loose organic looking water colored effect. A black colored die cut of the word was then adhered to the panel. The panel was adhered to the blue card base using liquid glue and some sequins were added (using glossy accents) to finish the card.

Supplies Used:

1. Winnie & Walter Cutaways- Cheers

2. Ranger: Tim holtz mini distress inkpads- mustard seed, picked raspberry and peacock feathers

3. Water spray bottle

4. Sizzix Embossing pad

5. Sizzix big shot plus

6. MFT cup sequins- baby

7. Glossy Accents

8. White, black and blue cardstock 250 gsm

9. Fevicol glue 

10. Acetate sheet 

11. Gina Marie Stitched Rectangles Die

Here are a few pictures of the finished card:--

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Ink Smooshing Challenge with Heather H. (I have done ink smooshing of 3 distress inks)

Pattern Making Challenge with Mayuri (The embossed pattern background has been created by embossing with the die "cheers" repeatedly) 

Three Challenge with Shay (Three colors have been used for ink smooshing and for sequins) 

Sequin Challenge with Kate (sequins have been used to embellish the card)

Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia (bright colors of pink, yellow and blue have been used here)

Happy Little Stampers- March Watercolour Challenge (I have used the optional twist of smoosh)

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Make your own background

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.

Pink & Purple Birthday card

Hi Friends

I'd like to share a card with you today. 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. 

Now onto the card, this is a top folding landscape style A2 size card. The pictures don't capture it well but the stamped and embossed sentiments and especially the stars are very glittery and shiny. 

Synopsis of the Process:-

To start I took a white stitched rectangle die cut panel and stamped different birthday related sentiments on it randomly to create my background. This was a great technique shared by Jennifer McGuire on her youtube channel. Do check it out, its super fun to try :) I stamped the sentiments individually one by one using an acrylic block. These sentiments were mixed and matched from different winnie & walter stamp sets, these were heat embossed in purple to match the card base. Then I stamped stars from the winnie & walter- wishing you set in some of the blank spaces and heat embossed them with glittery silver powder. Then I used the w & w do you see what I see stencil and did some light ink blending using picked raspberry distress ink. This added the pink to the card. Then I stamped the critters from the mama & me stamp set by taylored expressions in ranger's archival jet black ink and water colored it with zig markers and an aqua brush. Then the critters were fussy cut and popped up with foam tape on the card panel. I wanted a little tag to go under the critters but for it not to be too distracting, so I die cut a mini tag from vellum and stamped it with a sentiment from the w & w penguin stamplet set (taped off the unnecessary words) and added a small bow to it and adhered it to the panel using glossy accents. Then I adhered the panel to the purple card base using liquid glue and to finish off I added few sequins. 

Supplies Used:

1. Iris white and purple cardstock 250 gsm
2. Winnie & Walter Stamp Set- A tree for all seasons

3. Winnie & Walter Stamp- Wishing you with Evelin T Designs 

4. Winnie & Walter Penguin Stamplet

5. Winnie & Walter Creative Screening- Do you see what I see?
6. Taylored Expressions Cling Stamp- Mama & Me

7. Ranger's Glossy Accents
8. Ranger's round blending tool and foams

9. Ranger: Tim Holtz Distress Mini Inkpads- picked raspberry

10. Ranger's Embossing Powder- Purple 

11. Ranger's Archival Ink- Jet black

12. Ranger's heat tool

13. Gina Marie Stitched Rectangle Dies

14. Homemade emboss buddy

15. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens 

16. Aqua brush

17. Acrylic block 

18. Sizzix Bigshot Plus for Die cutting

19. MFT cup sequin kit (baby)

20. Double Sided Foam Tape

21. Vellum

22. Pink Ribbon

23. Wow Metallic Silver Sparkle- Embossing Glitter

24. Sizzix Tim Holtz Tags Collection Die set

25. Fevicol Glue

26. Versamark Matermark mini inkpad

Here are a few pictures of the finished card:--

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Ink Blending Challenge with Vanessa  (I have done ink blending through a stencil)

Pattern Making Challenge with Mayuri (The background has been created by randomly stamping birthday sentiments) 

Three Challenge with Shay (Three sequins have been used) 

Sequin Challenge with Kate (pink and purple sequins have been used to embellish the card)

Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia (bright colors of pink and purple are used here)

Cute Critter Challenge with Gayatri (The 2 cats are the cute critters)

Stencil Challenge with Kelly (a w & w stencil has been used here in the background)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Tag You're It (1 mini vellum tag has been included in this card)

Word Art Wednesday Week 272-273 (The cats are from a Taylored Expressions stamp set)

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Make your own background

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.

Black and Silver Birthday Card

Hi Friends

I'd like to share a card with you today. I'm also excited to share that I am having a small crafty giveaway which is open to anyone (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. 

Now onto the card, this is a top folding landscape style A2 size card. The pictures don't capture it well but it is a very glittery and shiny card due to the silver embossing :) 

Synopsis of the Process:-

To make the card I basically smooshed the card front with a versamark mini watermark inkpad through a stencil (The stencil was taped down to prevent it from moving around) I used the Winnie & Walter Creative Screening- Do you see what I see? After That I sprinkled on Wow Metallic Silver Sparkle- Embossing Glitter and then heat embossed it with a heat tool. Then I did ink blending on 3 die cut mini tags using 3 of my favourite colors of distress inks (picked raspberry, peacock feathers and mustard seed). Then I stamped sentiments from 2 winnie & walter stamp sets (I had to do partial stamping of some of the sentiments so I covered the unwanted words with tape and then stamped) using Ranger's archival jet black ink. Some silver star shaped sequins were pasted on the tags to embellish them. A baker's twine was tied around the top of the card and the tags were pierced through them. The bow was tied on the side to be off the page. I wanted the twine and mini tags to give the look of a birthday banner :)

Supplies Used:

1. Winnie & Walter Creative Screening- Do you see what I see?

2. Winnie & Walter Stamp - Wishing you with Evelin T Designs 

3. Winnie & Walter Penguin Stamplet

4. Ranger's Glossy Accents

5. Ranger: Tim Holtz Mini Distress Inkpads- mustard seed, peacock feathers and picked raspberry

6. Ranger's Round blending tool and foams

7. Ranger's Heat Tool 

8. Ranger's Archival Jet Black Inkpad

9. Versamark Watermark Mini Inkpad

10. Wow Metallic Silver Sparkle- Embossing Glitter

11. Baker's twine

12. Sizzix Tim Holtz Tags Collection Die set

13. Silver star shaped sequins

14. Black and white cardstock 250 gsm
15. Double sided foam tape

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Ink Blending Challenge with Vanessa  (Ink blending has been done on the 3 mini tags) 

Three Challenge with Shay (Three w & w products have been used here and also the 3 mini tags are of 3 colors) 

Sequin Challenge with Kate (silver star shaped sequins have been used to embellish 2 of the mini tags)

Off the Page Challenge with Keren  (2 mini tags and the bow are off the page)

Stencil Challenge with Kelly (a w & w stencil has been used to create the heat embossed silver background)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Tag You're It (3 mini tags have been included in this card)

Word Art Wednesday Week 272-273

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Make your own background

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.

Scenery Card

Hi Friends

I'd like to share a card with you today. Just to let you know, I am having a crafty giveaway which is open to anyone (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 and you can join in at anytime till April 1, 2017 

Now onto the card, this is a side folding A2 size card in which I did ink blending to create a scenery. I wanted this to be a loving and encouraging card and to look like the big birdie is telling the lil birdie that "I will always be there for you" :) lol ! I think that is pretty cute 

To start I took a panel of iris white cardstock which was die cut using the largest of the stitched rectangle dies. Then I tore a snippet of paper to create the shape of a grassy mound, this was used as a screen. I started blending distress inks first to create the sky part (distress ink colors used- peacock feathers, mustard seed, chipped sapphire and broken china) and then using the other side of the screen to create the grassy ground part (distress ink colors used- twisted citron, evergreen bough and cracked pistachio). A light touch was used along with circular motions to blend the inks and I kept going back to add more color as and where required. A hand cut cloud shape (out of a snippet) was also used to mask off an area of the sky. Out of the Winnie & Walter - A tree for all seasons stamp set, the tree shape was stamped using archival jet black ink onto the grassy area. Then one of the leaves from the same stamp set was stamped on the tree repeatedly in order to create the pattern of a tree in bloom. A snippet of cardstock was used to cut a cloud and then it was colored using zig markers. This was adhered to the card panel on top of the white cloud shape to give more dimension. One of the birdie images from the Taylored Expressions Cling Stamp Set- Mama & Me was stamped on a snippet of iris cardstock with archival ink and then colored using zig markers and an aqua brush. The sentiment was heat embossed onto the panel after the area was prepped with a homemade emboss buddy. The birdie images were fussy cut and then adhered to the panel using double sided foam tape. Finally the panel was adhered to the card base using fevicol glue and in the end 3 star shaped silver sequins were added to the panel using glossy accents. 

Supplies Used:

1. Iris white cardstock 250 gsm for the card base and snippets for some of the images
2. Winnie & Walter Stamp Set- A tree for all seasons
3. Taylored Expressions Cling Stamp- Mama & Me

4. Glossy Accents
5. Gina Marie Stitched Rectangle Dies
6. Homemade emboss buddy

7. Ranger's Fine Detail Lemon Yellow Embossing Powder
8. Tim Holtz Distress Mini Inkpads- peacock feathers, mustard seed, chipped sapphire, broken china, twisted citron, evergreen bough and cracked pistachio.

9. Ranger's round blending tool and foams

10. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens 

11. Ranger's heat tool

12. Aqua brush

13. Acrylic block 

14. Sizzix Bigshot Plus for Die cutting

15. Ranger's Archival Ink- Jet black

16. Star Shaped Sequins

17. Fevicol Glue
18. Double Sided Foam Tape

Here are a couple of pictures of the finished card:--

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Ink Blending Challenge with Vanessa  (I have created the whole background, sky and grass using ink blending)

Pattern Making Challenge with Mayuri (The leaf was stamped onto the tree to create the pattern of a tree in bloom )

Three Challenge with Shay (Three star sequins have been used) 

Sequin Challenge with Kate (3 star sequins have been used to embellish the card)

Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia (bright colors of yellow and orange have been used to color the birds and for the sentiment)

Mooodboard Challenge with Heather P. (I was inspired by the colors- green, blue and yellow in the mood board along with the leaves) 

Cute Critter Challenge with Gayatri (The 2 birdies are the cute critters)

Word Art Wednesday Week 272-273 (The birdie stamp is by Taylored Expressions)

Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 271-272 (Snippets were used for the cloud and the birdie image, also to create the screens for ink blending) 

Penny Black and More Challenge- March- Anything Goes

TIME OUT's third birthday party (the card is a love and friendship themed one)

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.

Spring Leaves Card : Celebrate your day

Hi Friends

I'd like to share a spring time happy card with you. Also, would like to share that I am having a crafty giveaway which is open to anyone (international folks are most welcome) you can find all the details 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. 

Now onto the card, this is a 5 by 7 size side folding card.

I stamped one of the leaf design stamps from the Winnie & Walter Stamp Set- A tree for all seasons with Ranger's Archival Jet Black Ink, randomly to create my background. I wanted it to have an organic, loose water colored look so I water colored the leaves with an aqua brush and zig markers in 3 colors of spring- blue, yellow and green. This panel was die cut with the x stitched rectangles die. A piece of vellum was also die cut with a smaller x stitched rectangle die and then the sentiment from the W & W stamp set was heat embossed on it. The vellum was adhered to the panel using dots of glossy accents and then the panel was adhered to the card base using fevicol glue. To finish off the card, some yellow, blue and green sequins were added with glossy accents. 

Supplies Used:

1. Iris white cardstock 250 gsm
2. Winnie & Walter Stamp Set- A tree for all seasons
3. MFT Baby Sequin kit
4. Ranger's heat tool
5. Glossy Accents
6. Gina Marie X stitched Rectangle Dies
7. Homemade emboss buddy
8. Ranger's Fine Detail Black Embossing Powder
9. Versafine Onyx Black Inkpad
10. Fevicol Glue
11. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

12. Aqua brush

13. Acrylic block 

14. Sizzix Bigshot Plus for Die cutting

15. Ranger's Archival Ink- Jet black

16. Vellum

Here are a couple of pictures of the finished card:--





I am playing along with the following challenges:

Pattern Making Challenge with Mayuri (I have created a random background pattern with the leaf stamp)

Three Challenge with Shay (Three colors have been used for the leaves and sequins- yellow, green and blue) 

Sequin Challenge with Kate (sequins have been used to embellish the card)

Bright Colours Challenge with Lydia (bright colors of spring yellow, green and blue have been used)

Mooodboard Challenge with Heather P. (I was inspired by the bright colors of spring and the leaves in the moodboard)

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.