An announcement

Hello friends, today I want to let out the secret, I have been holding in for many weeks now ;)

I am now part of Uniko Design team!!! When Bev emailed me in early August to invite me to join, I was over the moon. I am very happy to be joining the team. If you are a regular visitor here, you would know how much I love using Uniko stamps!!
 I hope I can do my best to showcase Uniko stamps with my work!
Thank you Bev for this wonderful opportunity!

That is all from me, I will be back tomorrow with my first DT inspiration for Uniko Challenge....stay tuned!

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Water coloring on black textured card

Hello blogger friends. I am up with an interesting card. You all know that I love coloring on black, but today I chose a black textured card stock to water color, using Chinese painting paints! These are very different from the usual water colors, the pigment is much more saturated in here, so the colors really pop well on the black. I painted on a scrap paper to see the effect, before going with the card.

I used Mama Elephant - freestyle florals, did some masking and stamping using white pigment ink from Lawn fawn. I colored the flowers first, I left it to dry naturally, as the heat tool might have cause the card to warp, which I wanted to avoid, as this being a one layer.
Once the colors were dry, I used a red copic and ran around the outlines of the flowers to give more depth to the design.
Used a green copic and ran on the leaves, I didn't wanted to color these in, as they look lovely just with the outlines.
I then took a calculative risk of stamping the flowers using black ink, I didn't mask this time, as I wasn't looking for defined lines - not usual self!!
The sentiment id from Uniko , I stamped i white and ran the green copic on it. A few gold jewels to finish off. I am very satisfied with this card, I had spent around 3 hours on this simple looking one layer card, can you believe it?

Linking this with:

Work it Wednesday
lot of stamping on this


Simon Wednesday Challenge
A CAS entry
Clean and Simple

STAMplorations September sketch 
Just moved the sentiment bit aside


Penny Black and more
A simple sentiment added
Add a sentiment

613 Avenue Create
a floral card with fall colors
Anything Goes with fall colors

Addicted to stamps and more
A CAS entry


Take it make it
Water coloring on black textured card
Anything Goes

SugarPea mix it up challenge
I have chosen the blackboard and the bright vibrant blooms from the picture as my inspiration here



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White and red

Hello crafty peeps, I am up with a simple Christmas cards. I need to send some Christmas cards to my friend in Thailand, so I am making these, as I ran out on Christmas card to send her.

I chose only 2 colors here, the front is a red textured card stock. I used Paper Smooches- gently seasoned tree and some snowflakes from here to stamp in white pigment ink. The bigger snowflakes are from Kaisercraft, so is the sentiment.
Nothing much to brag here, it is a simple card with just stamping.

Linking this with:

Addicted to Stamps and More



Paper Smooches September



CASology
A snow covered tree and bark, hoping it will qualify


HLS Christmas September
Joining in with  "merry Christmas song"


Merry Monday
Just used the colors here


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An upcycled plastic bag

Hey craft peeps, hope all are doing great. I am not very regular on my blog nowadays. Just not crafting much, MOJO is up and running, no issues with that. I think sometimes we just need to take a break ;)

Anyways, I made this card yesterday night.
I was sent some really nice card stocks from Thailand by a friend, the card stocks originates from Goa, India...that is one heck of a journey these have made to reach me!! She sent along some books as well. All these came in a nice pinkish -purple plastic bag. The bag was too pretty to trash, so I was thinking of ways to put use to it.

I had used it for my flowers. I stamped it with emboss ink and heat embossed in silver EP, I let the heat tool, run for a while to become hot, and then very quickly used it over the plastic.
I fussy cut the flowers to add.
The front panel is from the textured card stocks she had sent.
I used mama Elephant - freestyle floral set here, stamped the leaves in SU - wild wasabi, and added the flowers using foam adhesive.
Some jewels and sequins to finish of the design. The sentiment is from Uniko and HLS.

I will send this card to my friend, along with many more cards, her husband is here on a business trip,
I actually love this a lot, it has the right balance of all the elements.

The up-cycled bag, it is a big bag, so many more projects will be made!

Linking this with:

CAS-ual Fridays
I have used sequins and jewels, also silver embossing powder.


Take it make it September
Stamped and embossed plastic here
Anything Goes

Just Add Ink
Pinkish purple
Just add P

Seize the Birthday
Joining here after a long time with Anything Goes


STAMPlorations CAS September 
joining in with optional color


4 Crafty Chicks
A CAS birthday 
Birthdays

AAA Cards
Up cycled plastic bag here


CAS on Sunday
used some pastel shades
Use Pastel colors

Verve Diva September Challenge
Inspired by some of the colors


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A different appraoch

Good morning peeps, already Thursday here, the days are flying by nowadays.

I have a tag, and a card today.

For the tag, I used the die cut from Avery Elle. I started off with stamping the flowers and vines, from WPlus9 - embroidered bouquet. Then die cut it. The other tag is cut from a tissue transfer, I did it maybe almost 2 years back, and I had a small left over piece. I added a floral fabric tape, bit hard to see, as the sentiment is covering it! The sentiment is from Uniko Studio.. A sheer ribbon to tie it together and done!

 Linking this with
Tag You are it
I was inspired by the floral front tag, and the sentiment in black

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 For the card, I did something different this time, I have used a magazine page, which had a lovely sky and beach on it. The picture was half sky and half beach. I used the sky as the majority to cover up the front, as I was aiming for a CAS look. The palm tree and the crab are from Paper Smooches Summer lovin' set, I stamped in lawn fawn grey ink, on a water color paper and colored using the zigs. The sentiment is also from the same set, I heat embossed the sentiment in clear powder after stamping in black, The birds are also from the same set.

A closer look at the heat embossed sentiment.

Linking this with:

CASology
A simple beach scene here


Paper Smooches September challenge
A CAS entry here
 

Just Us Girls
Traveling to the beach
 

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TCC #57

Hello all, we are back on the Card Concept, after a long and refreshing break.
We have a wonderful inspiration for you today, feel free to interpret it in any way you like.

I made a one layer card, using a white texture base. I chose the chevrons from kaisercraft, and masked a panel, and stamped in rainbow colors, the sentiment is from HLS. A few jewels to finish off. Nothing much to this CAS card.

Here is the process.

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Sponged maple leaves in autumn

Hello friends, hope the week is going on great for all. I am somewhat free now. September always starts with bit of excitement, as the first week has my birthday and marriage anniversary within days apart. I am done with the two, so I can say the excitement is over, and I can focus on the crafting and blogging now ;)

This card is sitting with me for last 3 days, some of you might have seen a peek of the incomplete card on Instagram, I finished it 2 days back. So here it is.
I started of with a hand cut maple leaf stencil, and used the below inks to sponge the leaves in random fashion.
I used Uniko Studio - background builders - winter vines to stamp the pine leaves and cones. The sentiment is also from Uniko - all occasion sentiments. I stamped in black, and heat embossed using clear EP. It is a one layer card.

 

Linking this with:

Simon Monday Challenge

I did stamping along with sponging

Stamp it

TIME OUT Challenge

Another entry here

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” 

 

CASEplorations September

Inspired by the colors here

613 Avenue create

Another entry here

Anything Goes with fall colors

Addicted to CAS

 Another entry with a one layer card

Seven hills Craft challenge

joining in with a bit of variation to the sketch

One Layer Simplicity

Hoping to join with some old leaves in Autumn time

Back in time 

CWS

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Sunflowers with stencil

Hello all, I am up with a card. I am trying my best to get used to the desktop. It's bit frustrating at times!!! for me who is quit good with switching in between different OS.... lol, but I am getting there.

I have used a textured yellowish base here, and used a bamboo stencil to ink the background. Then I used another white panel, and did some smooshing using yellow and green distress inks, followed by a bubble stencil from ARTplorations in pink and blue distress inks.
I added a brown glitter paper to frame the panel. The sunflowers is from my custom made stamps, I stamped in mustrad seed Di, and used the zigs to color it, and fussy cut to add using foam adhesive. The sentiment is stamped in white ink on a black strip, from STAMplorations - trendy feathers. Love how it turned out, hope you find it interesting as well.

Linking this with:

Sugarpeas - Mix it up
Joining in with both , the sketch and picture


Penny Black and more

Add a sentiment

Inspired by all little things


4 Crafty Chicks

fussy cutting

613 Avenue Create

Anything Goes with fall colors

bastel-traum

stencil/mask/die cut


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