Christmas Cards Day 2 - Color me trees from SSS!

Hey, fellas, It is day 2 of my Christmas Cheer card making this year and I plan to do as many as possible and share it with you guys until Christmas.

Today I have a card which is not the usual dimensions of an A2, but I went for a smaller squarish card.

I stamped the tree images using some embossing ink and heat set it with White embossing powder.
Then I blended in some cheerful colors on to the trees and fuzzy cut them. I was not very careful about the fuzzy cutting and kept in playful!

For the sentiment, I used the sentiment from the same SS COlor me Trees stamp set and added it as a banner on the top of the card.

Since the card is a simple and nondistracting one with mild color pop, I wanted to envelop to be bright and screen Christmas! What better than a Red polka dot envelope!
I used the WRM Envelope punch board to create the envelope.

Hope you liked the card fellas!!!

Linking it to the following challenges.
Crafting From Heart : Challenge 180
Crafting by Designs: October Christmas
A Snowflake Promise #45
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra
Christmas Challenge #24

Spotlight stamping - Inspiration for Christmas

Hi Friends,
I recently saw the video posted by amazing Jennifer on her channel describing the spotlight stamping technique and gave it a try.
Although my take is not as elaborate as hers and uses a single outline stamp with minimal colors, I loved the effect and the fact that it was really so easy to do after hearing her explain!
Here are the cards.
A bit early for Christmas, but hey, better late than never!

               

To see the original blog with Details from Jenifer, jump here

Linking this to the following challenges:
Crafting From Heart : Challenge 180
Crafting by Designs: October Christmas
Stamplorations: Spotlight project showcase. I was also inspired by the following showcase project by Maria
A Snowflake Promise #45
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra
Christmas Challenge #24

Stencilled jewelry -A First Take

Hello there fellas!!!

Hope you are doing good. I am slowing getting back to crafting for some time everyday and taking time out to calm my nerves by crafting a bit. 

The festival seasons are upon us at India and this is the right time to start making some jewellery!!!! 

I got out all of my bead boxes and wanted to try something different. 

I had these stancils out on my desk left from some paper crafts and scrapbooking and I felt why not use those designs to get some pendants done..

So here are a couple of examples on how you can use stencils and create really beautiful jewellery out of it.

The first one is a damask kind of pattern that is stencilled and converted to a pendant and linked to some very earthy tone stone beads.

The next one is one of my favourites. It has a simple small repeating pattern that I stencilled in and added some lovely violety beads along with shell pearls.

Do let me know what you feel about this guy's and leave me your comments on the same.

Linking this to the

• Path of Positivity Challenge #51: I am surrounding myself with beautiful objects by creating things from unexpected sources.
• 613 Avenue Create: Anything goes
• Crafting By Designs
• making Memories Crafting Challenge Blog
• A Perfect Time To Craft
• Love To Craft challenge blog

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!!!

More than words - A Keepsake Pregnancy Journal

Hey there fellas!
I know it has been a crazy long time since I wrote a post! Let me try to be more regular from here on :)

One of the most satisfying things for me is to craft and give away the result to friend or colleague. Just to see the happiness and feel work appreciated is an awesome feeling.

My two best friends are entering the world of motherhood and this gave me an opportunity to make something special for them.
Here is what I made for one of my friends Vyshali.

This one is a tab bit more special as I had the help of her husband who is a really good friend of mine by getting the pictures selected and printing them out and sending them over so that I could use them right away.

Here are the pics for you!

The stamps are mostly from Craftyscrappers, they have an amazing collection in the Pregnancy and Baby theme. The others are from Jane's doodles, Peekaboo, and some various other manufacturers.
I will try to update with links to products in this post sometime later :)
Hope you enjoyed the album! Let me know what you think of it in the comments :)

Linking it to the below challenges:
Create and Inspire #64: Anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore Blog:
A bit more time to craft

Till next time then :)

Cereal Box Upcycle - Paper Holder

Hey guys, Hope you enjoyed my decoupage Organizer caddy post here. Today I am sharing a quick DIY that you can do with all those cereal boxes that you go through (maybe) every month and convert them into a multi functional organizer.

I cut up two cereal boxes into shapes of magazine holders so that they stack up nicely and covered them in pattern papers. Boxes fit the 6 X 6 pattern pads nicely and some other precut cardstock that I have goes in as well.

Now that is one pile of paper clutter sorted out!

Let me know what you think of it guys .

Decoupage Organiser Caddy

Hey fellas!!!
I am posting after a really long time. I have been too held up with work and home stuff that I couldn't get some me crafting time. But hope to rectify this soon enough!

Today I have a decoupage organizer for you. Here are the pics first.

Th caddy is from Craftslane and they have some wonderful products. I painted the base with gesso and applied some beautiful tissue napkins on it. I have distressed the edges and napkin by going over with matching colors and painting the insides with acrylics.

Finally, I have given a couple fo coats of varnish to protect it from water.

Let me know how you like it in the commets!

Mudra First Birthday Blog Hop


Hello and welcome to our “First Birthday Blog Hop”! 

Yes, Mudra is one year old this month and what an amazing journey it has been so far. And this month, we want to celebrate our big milestone with you because it wouldn’t have been possible without your support. We have so many fun things lined up throughout the month with lots of chances for you to participate and win some cool prizes.

We wanted to start the celebration today by bringing together our amazing creative team and few of our friends to share some of their beautiful creations with Mudra products.

We have an amazing line-up of projects that you sure are going to love!

I have personally loved Mudra from the inception of Varnas's creation banner and it has been a amazing journey for the Mudra team.

     

RULES:  z

- Follow Mudra Blog

- Like Mudra Facebook Page

- Follow us on Instagram 

- Subscribe to your Youtube

- Visit all the designer's blog hop post and leave them some love.

- After finishing the blog hop, add your name in the inlinkz in Mudra Blog Hop Post.

PRIZES:

To celebrate, Mudra is giving away a beautiful pack of crafting supplies from Mudra to 1 WINNER, selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop.  You have until Wednesday, March 15th at 11:59 PM IST to enter, and the winners will be announced here on Monday, March 20th.

One Additional Goodie Bag to a random participant sponsored by The Craft Shop, Chennai. 

And to sweeten the deal, some of our designers in the hop also have giveaways, so make sure to leave comments on all the blogs for a chance to win!

    If you have come from Ruchi Crafeteria,  you are on the right track. You can check out the complete list of participating blogs on the Mudra Blog. 

     So let us get onto some fun cards using Mudra products, shall we!!

I have three cards to share for you all today!, all the celebrate something!

Here are they first :)

 First card: Starry nights :)

        For this card, I wanted a distressed night sky background and created this effect with various Distress inks and some archival inks. For the stars, i splattered on gesso. 

The lotuses were stamped and colored using Lotus Blooms set and akashiya watercolor brush pens. 

The sentiment is from the peacock set and encourages you to celebrate the beauty in you and personify it. 

Second card: Celebrating Love

This is a simple water wash background in soft pastely shades and some focal point background using some darker shades. I stamped the LOVE word using the super cool alpha set from Mudra and adhered the panel to some black card base and made some fun border pattern.

Third card:  Celebrate

This card is very generic and can be very quickly customized to create specific occasions. 

I stamped the Celebrate sentiment from the brushed sentiments set and the floral border using the On the special Dat' stamp set with some basic coloring. Here too i wanted a fun colorful background look and did a water wash effect. 

Here are the stamps that i have used from Mudra :)

Hope you enjoyed the post for the day.

Your next stop in the hop is the wonderful Rajni Chawla 

Have a fun hop fellow friends :)

Lots of love 

Uma