A one layer card

Good morning everyone! I hope you all are having a great weather, right now we are stuck with a crappy weather, yesterday was better, but since night it is drizzling, and grey skies....not my favorite weather at the moment. I have a feeling this winter is going to be a grey skies one :( hopw I am really wrong!

To beat the weather, I made a bright colorful card.  It is a one layered card, I masked the side with a post it note, and sponged the green pigment ink to create a side panel. After this, I sponged some pink pigment ink on the card, then I stamped the flowers, these are from custom made stamps. I colored the flowers with sharpies, and stamped a simple sentiment. A few sequins to finish off the look. Its a simple card, I hope you all like it!

Linking this card with:

CAS on Sunday
A one layered card for this challenge.

CAS(E) this Sketch

This week sticking to the sketch, no flipping;)

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Muse #92

Hello everyone, today I am sharing a card which I made for the Muse Challenge. I was just reflecting how many times I had played here, and I figured out, every time I had played, it was Vicki's card!!  and today again it is :) I would call it a coincidence, may be I should start playing every week.

I usually make complete different card from the muse, but for some strange reason, today I am sticking pretty close to Vicki's card, not exactly same but close enough same ;)
I chose shades of green to work with, and the sponging for the front panel is done with 3 shades of green pigment inks. The stamped flower is from my custom made stamp sets, and so is the sentiment too, which I stamped on the vellum. 2 shades of green sequins to finish off the look. I am happy that I finally managed to something similar yet different. I like it, and hope you all like it too!

Linking with the Muse

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Sponged rough sea

Good morning everyone! My second post of the day, if you are looking for my ATSM DT post, please click here.
Its a better day today here in Macau, at least the visibility is good and you can see China(never thought I would be looking at another country from my home!), across the border, and even the sea is visible very clearly.

 Adding a picture of the sea view, not very picturesque view, more like a concrete jungle with a patch of sea visible. well 7 years back I had the whole sea visible, before this huge building showed up!

And the card I made is also based on sea :D
I saw CASology cue card last night, and the moment I saw the cue, I already knew that I would be sponging a sea, I love sponging by all means!
So walked to my cluttered table(usually a clean table, I am a neat freak ;) ), I am working on a custom card requested by someone, which I couldn't finish last night. I still have time to finish that one later, so I worked on this card.

 I made a one layer card, the sentiment is computer generated, the quote is again one of my favorite one(I know this what I say every time I use a quote :-O ). Then I used the peacock feathers distress ink to sponge the sea, I didn't go for a smooth finish, as I wanted to sponge a rough sea with waves splashing to match up with my sentiment. I smoothed it of as I went up, covering the whole sentiment in sponging. Oh I forgot to mention that I added"Keep Going" to the quote, since it is a motivational card, I thought the addition of extra words were needed. A friend of mine is going through some real hard times, and this card would be perfect for her! A simple card, I like it, hope you all like it too :)

Linking this card with CASology

Design defined -   Just a dash of color with plenty of open white space.

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ATSM #120

Hello everyone, it is a challenge time at ATSM, and today we have a picture inspiration for you. You can choose any elements from the picture to make your card.

It is a very colorful and festive picture, and I decided to just work with the colors from the picture. I chose a sponsor's image to work with.

I chose a white textured card base, and then I started with inking the gold shimmer ink on the side panel, and then lightly inking using the red and green ink. I kept a very light hand , since I wanted the colors to be barely visible. I colored the sponsor's image -Pretty wings, using red, green and a gold gel pen. I added a decorative string in the above 3 colors and added the sequins to finish off. I have used all 3 colors in a very subtle or rather stingy way!

Our sponsor is offering 5 free digis to the winner. Hop on to the ATSM blog to see inspiration from our talented DT's. We love to see what you all come up with.

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3 in 1

Hello everyone, today I am joining forces of my 3 hobbies, here...nails, embroidery, and card making....there is one more hobby which cannot be included, my love for cooking though *wink*

Ok I chose a white base card and a white front panel too. I masked the front with a circle and painted with my OPI glittery lavender nail paint, and then on top of it another purple shimmery coat also from OPI. Once the nail paint was dry, I pierced some holes to add stitches, and sequins. I chose a shaded thread to add the stitches and lavender colored sequins. A simple sentiment to finish off, with a scatter of nail paint here and there. A bow added at the top using the same thread. I like it, it is shimmery yet simple, I hope you like it too!

I switched on the flash to click this picture, just to show the metallic shimmer on the bauble.

A close up at the stitches and shimmer .

 Linking this with:

Virginia's View Challenge
 I thought of making a card using the metallic shades in my nail paint collections.

Less is more

The theme is non-traditional Christmas cards, and I chose purple shades to do this card.

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Hello Friend

My second post of the day, I was really motivated by the sketch for this card, I thought of giving it a try, regardless of my mojo ;)

I chose white card base and front panels to work with. I used STAMPlorations - trendy feathers. I inked up the feathers with 2 different distress inks - barn door and forest moss, randomly inked up and stamped the feathers. The sentiment is also from the same set. I decided to add it diagonally, I had flipped the sketch too.
A few big and small sequins to finish up the look.

Linking this card with

STAMPlorations Anything goes

CAS(E) this Sketch
I had flipped the sketch sideways.

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Metallic Christmas

Good Morning its a new week here, and I am back to crafting after a 2 day break, I am not in my best crafting shape, so yesterday was a day in kitchen....made some olden days food, which is almost disappearing.....I am hoping my kids can learn and keep it alive. I made sorghum bread, which is shaped with hand and bit time consuming, but it is very healthy and gluten free, I made my mom's fish curry using Salmon, and to wind up my day I made some Tapioca /potato fritters. Will be uploading the recipes soon to my blog.

I felt like I am ready to make a card(off lately, my mojo is on a holiday *wink*), so sat down to make a Christmas card. I used my custom made stamp's snowflake to create the background. Chose my favorite white to work with. Added a metallic Christmas tree, it is a ready made embellishment. The sentiment is computer generated, I love this font now, I used it for the baptism card in my last post.
Here is the card, not easy to get the right picture.

Forgot to mention that I added a blue fabric tape too.

 Linking this card with:

Mod Squad Challenge Blog
 Sticking with the theme of blue Christmas.

Hero Arts Holiday Challenge
 I am linking this as my Metallic entry.

The Pink Elephant - Anything goes

Virginia's View Challenge

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CSSC #9 - November Challenge

Hello everyone, today I am sharing some Christmas tags I made for our november challenge at CSSC. This month's challenge is all about Christmas tags, you can use any medium or technique, so it is pretty easy to join this challenge.


I made 2 tags, here is the first one:

I used a white card stock and stamped the STAMPlorations - trendy feather to create the background, using 2 different distress inks - forest moss, and brick fire. Once done with the stamping I rounded the bottom most corners, and added a washi tape and then the sentiment, finally a wreath to finish off the tag.  oh wait, I forgot to mention the festive string, it is a decorative string in shiny green and red color, looked very Christmasy to me, and it goes pretty well with the tag.


The second one:

This one is a simple one, I used a font to create the snowflakes in shades of blue, printed off. and then cut the tag,and sponged the edges with blue pigment ink and added a blue fabric tape, and sentiment, a sheer blue ribbon to finish off, plus added blue and white rhinestones on the snowflakes. Done!

I hope you do join us with your Christmas tags, you at CSSC blog, join now!

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