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Friday, February 5, 2016

CASology feature - My craft space



Hey everyone today is the last week of my feature at CASology. Today I am sharing my craft space with you all. This space is subjected to change with any house move we make. We moved to this house in April last year, and it took me a while to setup my space. I am lucky to have a room to all for myself, usually no one disturbs me while crafting! Since I am not working full time, I craft in the mornings when everyone leaves home ;)
It is a decent 12/12 sq ft room with a huge window with a good view, and to let plenty of natural light in. My helper is the only one who shares this room with me, but we are never together in here, she iron clothes here, which happens early in the morning in between 8-9am, and I don't start my crafting that early.

I managed to click a picture with the sunlight in, this is how it looks from the outside( Usually the clothes rack is with clothes to be ironed, looks like I picked a good day to click the picture. My kids might not have done their laundry)

My desk is to one corner, I have also used up the space on the window sill, which is as wide as a single bed. I can reach everywhere from my chair, call me lazy but I usually don't have to get up, everything is in my reach.
There are 2 shelves on the window sill, the wooden one holds my papers. There is not a lot, as Macau is very humid, hence I don't stock a lot. I buy as and when required. I don't like my paper to get the humidity and lose the crispiness. It goes all the way up to 100%humid. So all my paper is kept in the original plastic cover to keep it crisp . 


Above that in the boxes I keep all the finished cards, all sorted out.
Next to it, there are my beads and some small embellishments, again all sorted.
This shelf below holds my water-colors, sewing kits, fabric and other miscellaneous stuff.

The basket right next to my desk holds all my stamps.
  
All the stamps are place in this folder sorted, I don't mind that the folder cannot be closed ;) , I don't have big collection of stamps, but it is decent for my crafting needs, and I keep adding stamps every now and then.

To the left of my desk, there is a small shelf on wheels, it hold my Sizzix big shot on top, and the drawers hold heat tool, embossing powders. The other ones hold stencils, and punches


 This is my desk, I didn't bother for a matching chair, I took one chair from our dinning chairs, we are family of 4 and have 6 chairs.

On the top left , I keep my ribbons and assorted embellishments in boxes.
Below those, I have my felt embellishments, and rubber stamps.

Next to that, I keep all my sponges, I mostly use the household sponge for sponging, but I do have the distress ink dabbers as well. The box next to it holds embossing folders, and dies. 

Next sits my markers, scissors, and color pencils

The draws on my desk hold inks in the first 2, and sequins and rhine stones, twines etc on the third one.
 

 Since this is a computer desk, I have a keyboard place, where I keep my acrylic blocks.



I click pictures of my cards by the window in natural light.

And finally the view from my crafting desk or room, this one is clicked on a cold and rainy day with no sun. I get to see my kiddos getting of the school bus from my room. But seeing the swimming pool always, I forget that there is no sun at times, which happens a lot. We don't get much sun in Macau.

 

 I thought of sharing a space I use as much as my crafting space, it is from where I write my blog posts. It is in my living room, I usually sit by the window, and do my blogging from there.
and the view is pretty nice all throughout, during day you can see far, actually to another country. The mountains are in China. The bridge takes you to China border. Behind the golf course, the huge shiny buildings are part of Macau, those are the casinos, If you don't know this, that Macau is a replica of Las Vegas, it is a tiny casino country/city which are all beautifully lit up in night, so a great view. They usually have laser shows in night ;)
So this is it, my crafting place, not much in there, but it has grew a lot in supplies wise in last few months, and I see it growing in near future, which my frequent trips to Hong Kong for supplies ;)


Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback :) Have a great day!


As suggested by my friend - a card

Hello friends, I am up with another card today. This one is just finished. A friend of mine, who is also a saree designer, she suggested the colors to me a while ago and both of us talked through the idea and I immediately sat down to execute it. Actually my lunch time had already passed but, I gave priority to the card... LOL.
OK the colors she suggested was red, black and gold, also the idea for the couple. I used the font to print the silhouette and the words(again from quotes collection!!).
I used a black textured base and a red textured front, Once the printing part was done, I used sizzix valentines stamp to stamp the word "LOVE", and heat embossed in gold. The 'I' and 'You' are from Avery Elle - handwritten notes. The tiny hearts are from Wplus9. That's it. I kind of love this card with different colors for valentine. I hope you like it too.


Linking this with:

AAA Cards
Another entry here

The Card Concept
I have used the red color and the hearts from the picture

Curtain Call
I was inspired by the red and black colors here

4 Crafty Chicks
Another entry here
4CC #284 Love

Simon Wednesday Challenge
Another entry here

Have A Heart

STAMPLorations February CAS
Going with the optional twist

TIME OUT Challenge
Another entry here
'Love is the flower you've got to let grow'


Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback :) Have a great day!

Interlocked glitter hearts

Hello everyone, this is my second time writing this post, can you believe that I accidentally deleted the post before publishing it!!!! I am so glad that I didn't delete the pictures, I usually delete once I am done posting from my computer *sigh*

I am going to keep it short, I made this card yesterday. I had used the double sided glitter technique for this, and used silver and pink glitter. I die-cut the hearts in different sizes, and interlocked 3 of the hearts and added the remaining as whole. The sentiment is computer generated and I stamped "you" in pink ink from momento.

 The glittery hearts against the sunlight.
There are quite a few challenges going on with the love theme, so I chose a few to link this up with:

CASology
Another entry this time with pure glitter

AAA Cards
Here is another entry here based on the theme

The Challenge
I had moved the sentiment up and hoping that it qualifies!

Double D Challenges
I had used pink, a different shade from the picture though

Inkspirational
Another entry here
Simon Wednesday Challenge
A simple entry here

Have A Heart


4 Crafty Chicks
A simple card here
4CC #284 Love

TIME OUT Challenge
I wasn't sure if I wanted to add this card here, but here I am adding it.
'Love is the flower you've got to let grow' 


Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback :) Have a great day!

Thursday, February 4, 2016

xin nian kuai le - Happy Chinese New Year

Hello friends, I am up with 2 cards today, I just finished making these. Chinese new year is in just 2 days time, and I wanted to make cards for kids Mandarin(Chinese language) teacher and tutor.
I had printed the sentiment for both the cards, as I don't have any mandarin stamp sets, maybe I should look around next time in the stationary store, or should get one custom made.

Today I had to ditch my favorite white card stock, as Chinese people don't like white, it is considered inauspicious, I might have to make the envelopes as well!!
 I chose a red textured card stock and printed the sentiment in black, I didn't use Mandarin to write but chose Pinyin - Chinese writing and reading in English.

For the first card, I chose a brown base to match the cherry blossom branch. I doodled the branch myself and added the cherry blossoms, as you can make out that these are stickers!! I bought these in my local stationary store, I think it looks ok, and for the buds I used my pink acrylic marker, and added the dots on the branches.
That's it. The sentiment on this translates to - wish you prosperity.

 Linking this one with:

My crafting stories
Anything goes - a simple entry here

CAS(E) this Sketch
I am hoping my branches and the placement of the sentiment will count in as a fit here.

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For my second card, I used a bamboo stencil, which I bought in India last summer. I traced the bamboo using the Versamark embossing pen, and heat embossed the image using gold glittered embossing powder. Here the sentiment translates to - Happy New Year. It is a one layer card, and I just didn't feel the need to add anything else on it.


Linking this with:

Addicted to CAS
A simple one layer here

CASology
Playing with glittered embossing powder and hoping the plain red will count as a open space.

The Male Room
An oriental entry here

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback :) Have a great day!

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Finally a breakthrough

Hello blogger friends, I am finally up with a card to share. Off lately I had no crafting mojo, I didn't step foot in my craft room for about a week, for some reason there was no interest or motivation. Even the challenges were not able to inspire me to create anything.
The weather has been pretty bad, and no sun for many days in a stretch is not really a good thing for me, I am a solar powered soul, I need to see sunshine every now and then at least!! I had been cooking a lot with the weather being so cold, so I am guessing the brain decided to shift to the kitchen ...lol...
Anyways, I forced myself yesterday in my craft room, and this is what I created.
The graphic from AAA cards was sitting in my head, I love the necklace with the heart pendant. So you an say this was one of my inspiration, and the second one was Michelle's song challenge at MUSE.

I used all whites here for the base and front, and I needed something more than stamping to sit through the crafting process, so ended up doing sewing. I stitched the beads, as it takes great concentration to do this ;)
I doodled the string and then pierced the holes and added the beads, and a heart pendant....Oops, I should have mentioned that the sentiment is computer generated, even though I have many stamps for 'Love" but not size I wanted. So ended up printing it. Used foam adhesive to add the front panel, a super simple looking card, was an easy one to make as well, took me about 20 mins to put together.

Now on the song, I have only the first two words on the front, and the rest 4 words on the inside, it is the same song song I chose last year as well. If you have a teenager in the household, you would have heard it, it was very popular 2-3 years back, the singer is Selena Gomez. If you know it leave a comment.
I couldn't guess Michelle's song, now I know it, after reading other fellow crafter's posts, but I really don't know the song. I am a multi linguist, even when it comes to music, my playlist consists of 4 languages, predominantly Hindi, English, Telugu and Korean. If it was a Hindi song, I would have guessed it right away ;)


After fiddling between transparent beads and white beads, I ended up using the white ones.
 A closer look


Linking this with:

AAA Cards
 A simple CAS entry inspired by the graphic here.

Muse
I love the song challenge here

Inkspirational 
 I was inspired by the neutral colors and love theme

Uniko Studio
 Another entry here with the twist

Love To Scrap! Challenge
 A simple card with a tiny heart
Have A Heart!

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback :) Have a great day!

Monday, February 1, 2016

I adore you

Good morning friends, happy Monday to all of you. Its back to cold and rainy weather, but I am not going to rant about it.
I am sharing a card which I made last week Wednesday. It is a super simple card. I chose ta black base, and the words are printed of computer, all I did was to add few hearts around to finish off.


Linking this with:

CASology


AAA Cards


Tuesday Throwdown
 Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate your kind  feedback :) Have a great day!