Cristmas Cards - Day 3 Organza Cards

Hello there friends!
Welcome to yet another post on Christmas Cards. Today I have a fun technique to share with you to bring in subtle shine to the cards and give a wonderful texture to it at the same time.

No Glitter, no texture paste, no shimmer sprays here, but the trick is to use some Organza ribbon with shimmery colors and variety in a width that can cover the entire card.
I am not sure where you get Organza strips that are about the size of a 4x6 card here, but I had got some from my brother on his travel to UK.

The cards as such are very simple. I stamped the tree from Craftyscrappers onto different card panels and blended some bright colors using both Distress as well as pigment inks. Then I placed the organza piece on top and taped the edges neatly behind the card panel.
Then I added it onto a top folding 4x6 card on matching shaded and stamped the insides with a simple Christmas sentiment from the same set.

Do let me know how you like this look guys! The subtle shine on the cards is very different from what you get using heat embossing or glitter or shimmer sprays.

Linking this to the following challenges.

MHK Designs - Anthing Goes
Love to scrap - Anything Goes
Bit more time to craft - Anything goes
Inspiration Destination
Crafting By Designs

Happy Teachers Day - A Day Late...

Hello there fellas,
I promised I would come back with a set of Teachers' day cards for you.
So here they are!

The supplies are from different Manufacturers, but mostly from two dear Indian manufacturers Craftyscrappers and Mudra. Konica and Varshita and two wonderful souls and I wish them all success at their entrepreneur life.

Let me know what you think of this fellas!
Linking this to the following:
The card concept: withered florals. I have incorporated flowers with distressed and withered feel to it.

Linking this to the Path of Positivity Challenge #51: Teachers deserve a lot of love and this is an attempt to surround them with art and love!!!

Handmade Pregnancy Keepsake Album

Hi all,
I am here after a really long time bring you a pretty pregnancy album that I made for my friend.
Here are the pics.
But before that the stamps are all from the awesome awesome CraftyScrappers collections and a couple from other Indian manufacturerss like Peekaboo designs.
Let me know hwat you feel about these fellas!
The album measures 6.5 X 6.5 and has 4 pages with each page having flaps and two photograph flaps.

Cover

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

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 :)

Vintage Shabby Chic style Wall Decor

Hey Blogger Pals!
I am sharing a mixed media layout/wall decor that I made for a trio of best friends. Here it is first!

Handmade Vintage Wall Decor for friends!

Handmade Vintage Wall Decor for friends!

This layout depicts the everlasting friendship of three friends from college and I thought what better way to emphasize than to have their names on it.
I have prepped the layout mdf with a coat of Camlin Texture white and stamped the leafy stamps from mudra. I painted over the stamped images using Acrylics. Once done, I added mdf laser cut embellishments of partial gate and corners.
For the name, I used mdf alphas for the first letter and stamped the rest of the name using Mudra Alpha stamps.
To create a messy layout, I distressed the panel with Picked Raspberry DI and stamped some mixed media stamps like scripts and honey comb from Itsy Bitsy, The sentiment stamp on the top is from Craftyscrappers and it adds such a nice touch :)
Finished off the layout with few flowers and leaves (from Hibiscus stamps - Mudra) and added the 'bff' for eternity :)
The back is kept pretty simple with a tag space for personal message.

Handmade Vintage Wall Decor for friends!

Let me know what you think of this guys!

Entering this to the following challenges!
Aud Setiments: Vintage + sentiment

Path of positivity: Friendship

Added!:
This piece is selected as a DT Delight for the Path of Positivity Challenge: Head over to view more

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#ReusewithKrafttime Day 11 : Love You Forever

Hey peeps!!!
I am sharing a card that is very close to my heart and that I made for my husband on our anniversary last week.

It is a very simple card and did a background building using solid and outline stamps of a small heart stamp in various colors.

The sentiment is my favourite..... It means exactly who he is to me.

Hope you enjoyed the card.
Entering this to
Paru's Card making Challenges: WORDS