Merry Christmas!!!

Jingle Bells all the way and it is the time of year I miss my school and Christmas festivities a lot!!!
Hello friends!

Wishing you all a merry Christmas and happy new year. There are a couple of Christmas cards lined up and here is the first one :)

I stamped the holly tree which is close to 6 inches tall on a white cardstock using Ranger Archival Black Ink and colored using watercolors the leaves and berries. I sponged some lime green chalk ink on the entire tree and cut it out as a triangle.
I then stamped the sentiment in Red cardstock and fuzzy cut it out and adhered to the tree.
I wanted to give a night background to this. So I sponged some Peacock feathers, Blue chalks and tuxedo black inks to give a light sponged effect. Finally added some stars using Signo White Gel pen.

These gorgeous stamps are from CraftyScrappers!

Linking this to the following challenges.

Paru's Card making Challenge: Christmas

Craftyscrappers: Christmas Excitement

Path Of Postivity Challenge #42 Friendship : DT Delight

Hey there!
A fantastic recognition today. I am selected as the DT pick for the Challenge #42 Friendship on the Path of Positivity Challenge. Here is my winning entry. Thank you Suze for icking my creation.

Do head over to the POP blog here to view the other top picks.
You can also visit the original post here

Here are the other DT delights alongside me.

Head over and leave some love fellas!

I am in Hog Heaven!!! Feat. MFT stencils and stamps

Hey there!
It is the last month of the year and all around the world there is this festive cheer of Christmas and the upcoming year. Will all that jubilation I have a fun and cute card to share with you all today. Here it is!

I have used the MFT Mixables Paisley stencil with Mementonto Tuxedo black ink an create a background here. Once done, I took a MDF chipboard cutout and painted it white using Camlin Texture Paste. I adhered it onto the centre to define a main focal point. Then I stamped the flying pig from the "Hog Heaven" stmapset from MFT. The sentiment goes perfectly with the image. I simply colored over the image using watercolor pencils.

Hog Heaven Cutie card

Finally added a couple of flowers for dimension.

With the envelope

Supplies:

• MFT Mixables Paisley Stencil
• MFT Hog Heaven stamp set
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
• Ranger Archival Black Ink
• Faber Castell watercolor pencils
• Flowers
• MDF Chipboard
• Gesso/Texture Paster

Entering this to the following challenges:
Freshly Made Sketches #265:

Inspiration Destination #114

Bit More Time To Craft #33:

Crafting with an Attitude #22

Shine Bright!

Hey, friends!
I am sharing a bright card today. Here it is first!

I wanted to create this piece as tags first and layer them on top of each other. But then, it struck me that it would do well as a one layer card too.  SO I drew out the placements of the tags and stamped some encouraging sentiments from Itsy Bitsy stamps on each of the tags. I used my Impresso stamping tool to get good impressions. Also for the stars, I inked up the stamps in Versa mark and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
I sponged the whole card with various shades of distress ink and blended the whole card.


For the envelope, I made a custom envelope from a pattern paper and it looks so much better rather than being plain old white. What do you all think!

Entering it to the following challenges:

Craft your passion #138 Anything goes:

Country view challenges: Stars

Beautiful butterflies

Hey fellas, Hope you all had a good thanksgiving :)
It must have been a long weekend for all those folks in the US and the UK and elsewhere who celebrate Thanksgiving :)

Anyways it was a pretty much routine weekend in my place and here is a quick card that I created.

And the envelope

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I love this stamp set absolutely. This is from Mudra and I am totally in love with this one.  it has two beautiful butterflies that I have stamped in mild tones and kept the color palette to a minimum.
The sentiment just adds on nicely and it will be a perfect card for your mom or sister or your girl friends.

Here is the envelope and the back of card stamped with the same set :)

Entering this to the following challenges:

Mudra Create your own background:


Love all!

Fall themed card - Special greetings :)

Hey friends !
How are you all doing today. Hope you got a chance to look at the shaped card that I did a couple of days back. You can check it out here.

Today I have a fall themed card. I know it is not the season but it feels fresh to include those colors throughout the year and it really helps to add more vibrancy with minimal embellishments. Here it is first!

Card with matching envelope

For the card, I took a kraft card base of 4X6 inches (top folding). I added a mat of papericious naturals paper. This pack has some awesome papers fellas. You should totally check it out. I then added a Itsy Bitsy Color Yoga tag after coloring it with alternates of orange and yellow using sketch pens and smooshed distress inks for the backgrounds. Added a stip of colorful paper and a flower and some jute twine for the tag and assembled it all .

For the sentiment ,I stamped the base using Memento gum drops ink and heat embossed the sentiment from Mudra stamps.

Let me know what you feel about this guys.

I am entering it to the following challenges.

Love to scrap Challenge:

Craft Your Passion Challenges

Love to Create Challenge

Here is the previous card I created for the same challenges. Visit them here.

You and Me! Shaped Card

Hey there friends!
It has been a really time since I blogged. Wor and travel have kind of kept things realy bisy.. I am sharing a really simple card that I made for a friend. I have used some new supplies and embellishments that I got and I am totally loving it.
Here it is first for you.

Banner shaped Card and matching envelope

I cut out this card using the Peek-a-boo designs fist tail banner nesting dies on some great mettalic cardstock.
I wanted to keep the embellishments really minimal and throw more focus on the shimmer on the paper. So I clear heat embossed on a die cut that I recieved as a gift using the versafine black ink to get that brilliant effect. I embossed multiple times to get it really shiny.

I added a butterfly and a few tiny roses to add interest.

For the envelope I used a 12X12 pattern paper and created a DIY envelope in the matching size. Here are a few more shots.

Some effects there :) 

Envelope

Complete card

Linking this to the below challenges :)
Love to scrap Challenge:

Craft Your Passion Challenges

Love to Create Challenge

Let me know what you think about this in the comments!!
Lotsa love :)