My FUSION begins...

Hello!! all my crafty ladies, I am back after a long break that too with a big news... As you already know that the Fusion Challenge Blog is coming back with a bang in 2014 and the big news is that I am a part of the Design Team of this amazing challenge.

Betty J
Cathy Weber 
Dannielle Robeson
Deepti <you are here>
Geri Freeman
Julia Aston
Katie Brooks
Kelly Griglione
Kimberly Wiener 

Lyndal Higgins

Lynn Mangan 

Michelle Williams

Michelle Lupton

Sindhu
Stephanie Severin

You would be glad to know about the entire team of brilliant ladies, I am a great admirer of everyone's work. Thank you Lesley for bringing me on board.

The very first challenge of FUSION 2014 goes live on January 2nd, so stay tuned and join the fun with us. Hope I will be able to inspire you :)

Here's a glimpse into my Favorites for 2013...

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

Miss you my friends!!!

My dear friends, I am writing this post in the middle of my trip to India... well yes, I have been missing all of you and also the fun in the blog land for quite sometime, precisely from November. I know you are seeing my DT posts but they are all pre-scheduled and I haven't done any paper craft in such a long time :(

But today, I am here just to say a "BIG THANK YOU"  to all my friends who have been very kind and sweet to visit my blog and leave me their sweet comments, to all those who thought my creativity is worthy enough to be followed and to my DT at ATCAS, ATSM, Catchy Challenges and for being the sweetest team ever. I want to let you know that even though you don't see my comments on ur posts... I always try to take sometime out to admire your creativity :D Thank you for being my inspiration.

But creativity doesn't stop anywhere.... yep I am sharing something I learnt here in India from my Sister-in-law who runs an art school SHINY COLORS.... my very first oil painting. 

Hope you will like this :) And yes, my trip will end soon and I will catch up with you in the new year :)

WISH YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

By the way I am enjoying my family time after two long years :)

ATCAS #28 - SNOWFLAKE

It's Saturday and therefore its time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS and all our dear CAS lovers and winter lovers get set as the code word this week is SNOWFLAKE selected by our amazing and talented Karen. She is also the host for this challenge. It's time for the snow lovers to create some sweet cards that incorporate snowflakes. Also, this is a perfect cue word for holiday cards which you must be in a rush to create.

Our winner will get a wonderful prize from our amazing sponsors StampArt Designs by Kathryne

For my DT card, I wanted to create that snowy elegance that snowflake gives with white and blue colors. Here's what I did...

To make this card, I used a snowflake Paper stencil which I did purchase from a grocery store (Yeah!! I always try to find things in all the stores that can be used in my crafting LOL!!) I put some repositionable glue behind the snowflake and did some masking and inking using light and dark shades of Blue Memento Dew drop dye inks keeping the snowflake off the edges of the card base. I then inked the same snowflake which was used for masking and stuck it on the card base. To add finishing touches I added some white pearls. Hope you like my card :)

Our DT has come up with some amazing projects this week. Pop over to our ATCAS challenge blog here and take a peek. I am looking forward to the challenge this fortnight and am very excited to visit your blogs.

I also want to play this for the following challenges -

1. Keep it Simple #28 - SNOW

2. Inspired by #99 

3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make your own Background

Have fun in creating a some sweet snowy CAS card :) and thank you for visiting my blog.

ATSM #74 - Addicted to CAS

We have a wonderful new challenge for you this week at Addicted to stamps and more... Addicted to CAS. We all know what clean and simple is right? It's all about the design, not the technique,  not the tools, not the embellishments. It's all about the design Uncluttered, lots of white or open space and one main focal point. For my DT card I followed the same rules...

This is very quick and easy card and to make this card,  I used a wood mounted stamp of coffee mug (from Studio G) and stamped it once on the card base and another on a separate piece of card stock and fuzzy cut it. Stuck it over the same stamped image on card base. Then I stamped hearts from Studio-G iClear set and and arrow and stuck it. Finally, Sentiment (from paper Sweeties) was stamped. Hope you like my card. 

There is a lot more lovely inspiration from the DT, Please visit our challenge blog here. The winner will receive a wonderful prize from our sponsor this week Digi Darla Designs. Take a peek at their store here 

I am excited to see what you will come up with ....

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

ATSM #73 - HOLIDAY

This time ATSM team decided to start a new series of challenge titled "Holiday", so the challenge this week at Addicted to stamps and more... HOLIDAY opens for you a wide range of ideas, from projects for any festive holiday or for some holiday destinations or whatever comes to your mind when think about holiday... There are numerous possibilities. Here's what my interpretation of Holiday is...

For me holiday is having fun and then i thought about the way people tend to enjoy their holiday's. Then I decided to go with kite flying and hand drew the kite and it's string spool, fuzzy cut each and inked them. I stamped some circles and dots (from Inkadinkadoo Dots and Flourishes stamp) to create a whimsical sky and land. Then stuck the kite and the spool with foam dots connecting them with a hand drawn string. Sentiment was stamped (from Paper Sweeties). I kept the card CAS by using two colors. Hope you like my card. 

There is a lot more lovely inspiration from the DT, Please visit our challenge blog here. The winner will receive a wonderful prize from our sponsor this week Deedee's Digis. Take a peek at their store here

I am excited to see what you will come up with ....

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

ATCAS #27 - PET

It's Saturday and therefore its time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS and all our dear CAS lovers get set as the code word this week is PET selected by our brilliant and talented Vicki. She is also the host for this challenge. It's time for the pet lovers to take out all their lovely pet stamps and bring them to use to create some cute and lovely cards.

Our winner will get a wonderful prize from our amazing sponsors Digi Darla

For my DT card, I decided to make a miss you card. Here's how I have depicted that on my card...

Since I don't have any pet stamp but I do have some stamps with the paw prints and I wanted to make use of them so I decided to make a pet home (kennel). I hand drew the kennel with a pencil and scale, outlined it with a fine tip pen and inked it with Memento Dew drop inks.  Stuck this on the card base with foam dots. Then I stamped the paw prints ( from Scrappy Cat - Cats & Dogs Set) showing movement from kennel to the outer edge of the card base. I added a strip of DCWV pattern paper to ground the entire scene and fuzzy cut some grass to be stuck on each side of the kennel. Finally , I wrote the sentiment. Hope you like my card :)

Our DT has come up with some amazing projects this week. Pop over to our ATCAS challenge blog here and take a peek. I am looking forward to the challenge this fortnight and am very excited to visit your blogs.

Have fun in creating a Pet special CAS card :) and thank you for visiting my blog.

ATSM #72 - Make your mark

It's time for another favorite challenge at Addicted to stamps and more... MAKE YOUR MARK

This is a challenge that requires you to use Markers, Pencils, Pens, Textas, Chalks, Crayons etc. If it writes or colours - use it! I am sure you love coloring as much as I do :)

I recently purchased some Neon Markers from Sharpie and I had to use them :) So, I thought what would be a better place to use them than the Make your mark challenge at ATSM :D To make the multi colored panel on my card base, I hand drew the parallel lines and divided it into 5 equal sections. I then drew some zig zag lines in each section with different neon markers. Then I stamped these doodled circles (from Inkadinkadoo dots and flourishes set) using Archival black ink. I punched out some dots from neon foam stickers and added them. The sentiment (from Martha Stewart) is stamped. Hope you like my card. 

There is a lot more lovely inspiration from the DT, Please visit our challenge blog here. The winner will receive a wonderful prize from our sponsor this week Fresh Squeezed Stamps. Take a peek at their store here 

I am excited to see what you will come up with ....

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

ATSM #71 - ANYTHING GOES!!

Hello crafters, its time for another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and more... ANYTHING GOES !! and I am sure you all enjoy this challenge as much as I do, it gives us an opportunity to explore so may unlimited ideas. So, you have so much explore, get going and create what your heart desires. Here's what I did...

I decided to give a final shot to the Fall season as now the only color that I get to see around would be white with snowfall all around for few months. To make this card I did some masking and inking to create sunburst on the little window on my card base. Then I hand drew the tree branch and colored it with some makers and pencil colors. I punched out some mini Maple leaves from my picture punch and inked them in red, stuck then on the branch. Finally, stamped the sentiment (from Paper sweeties). Hope you like my card.

There is a lot more lovely inspiration from the DT, Please visit our challenge blog here. The winner will receive a wonderful prize from our sponsor this week Sami Stamps. Take a peek at their store here 

I am excited to see what you will come up with ....

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

ATCAS #26 - ANNIVERSARY

It's Saturday and therefore its time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS and  also a very special day for ATCAS, it's our first Anniversary!!! Yippee... I am so glad to be a part of this :) and all our dear CAS lovers get set as the code word this week is ANNIVERSARY selected by our brilliant and amazing Marie. She is also the host for this challenge. We are giving an awesome chance to create anniversary cards for all your loved one :)

We have added a Guest Designer Feature for ATCAS!  We are so excited to announce that Bonnie Klass(Stamping with Klass) will be our first Guest Designer for the month of November.  Welcome Bonnie!!

Our winner will get a wonderful prize from our amazing sponsors Deedee's Digis

For my DT card, I was hit by the idea of perfect match, match lead me to match stick. So here's my card...

To make this card, I took a red card stock to cut out the smaller heart using my Nestabilities Heart die and for the other bigger heart, I used a white card stock, stuck some rows of red washi tape purchased from Michaels'.  Then I cut out another smaller heart from this stripy heart. Rest, I stuck all the elements together using Glue dots and foam dots. Added some red sequins from Art minds and wrote the sentiment. Hope you like my card :)

Our DT has come up with some amazing projects this week. Pop over to our ATCAS challenge blog here and take a peek. I am looking forward to the challenge this fortnight and am very excited to visit your blogs.

Have fun in creating an anniversary special CAS card :) and thank you for visiting my blog.

ATSM #70 - Photo Inspiration

So, this week the challenge at Addicted to Stamps and more... is a Photo Inspiration. The photo has so many elements that will inspire you, the colors, the elements, theme...

To make this card,  I created a mask to make that inked wave and I also created the waves of silver glitter by cutting out wavy strips from double sided adhesive sheets. These waves were stuck and Recollections silver glitter was added I then stamped a flourish (from Inkadinkadoo - Dots and Flourishes stamp set) and added some blue sequins (from Art mind). Hope you like my card. 

There is a lot more lovely inspiration from the DT, Please visit our challenge blog here. The winner will receive a wonderful prize from our sponsor this week Digi Darla Designs. Take a peek at their store here 

I am excited to see what you will come up with ....

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

Happy birthday, Tracey!!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Tracey !! May God bless you we pray... Happy birthday to you !!

Many bloggers are getting together to celebrate the birthday of our dear friend Tracey McNeely! And I am one of the lucky ones to have known a little in advance about this and all thanks to Joyce who is behind this surprise and you can find all of the details for the celebration.... Here

Well, as far as I am concerned.... All I want to say is that I am a huge fan of hers. Have known her from not ages but just a few months but yet feel that she is one of the sweetest card makers. Her creativity speaks for itself. 

So, on this special day I wish her love, happiness and all that her heart desires :)

Happy birthday Tracey !!

Here's my card for you 

Please do join the fun in celebrating her day !!

Diwali Bloghop 2013

Hi, my dear friends... I am here to share a couple of cards I made for the Diwali Bloghop -2013 an initiative of Chaitali Narla. There are some amazing prizes to be won with this Bloghop, all you have to do is to hop and comment and bring yourself a chance to win..

THE PRIZE!!

Chaitali has 2 sets of her newest stamp set, Henna Swirls, to give away to 2 lucky winners of the hop!  and the sponsor of this prize is There She Goes

You must have arrived here from amazingly talented Gayatri's blog... 

So, when Chaitali asked me, I had to say yes because Diwali is my favorite festival. We call it the festival of lights. This Festival is known to bring prosperity and wealth :) The festivities begin must before the final day of celebration and prayers. We clean the house and decorate it with lights and earthen lamps (it is said that Goddess Lakshmi - the Goddess of wealth arrives in clean houses... and who doesn't want to be wealthy ;) lol ) Besides, we also meet our friends and relatives and greet them with gifts, just the way it is done in Christmas. And for crafters like me... this is another chance to make cards and more cards...

So here are my cards...

 

The diyas (earthen lamps) in both the cards are hand drawn and cut. First card was inspired by the Jennifer Mcguire tutorial and it involves stamping and  glitter smear on stamped dots and the second card has my favorite technique of masking and inking :) Hope you will enjoy my card.

Now you have to head over to Pooja's amazing creation, here..

Also, this is the bloghop list, in case u have missed anyone...

Chaitali http://cutscropscreativity.com/

Smriti 

Sanketi

Gayatri 

Deepti < you are here >

Pooja
Indira 

Wish you a very happy and prosperous Diwali !!

More cards and challenges...

Well, friends... I made these two cards because I am heading off for a holiday and will not be able to craft for a while. So I squeezed in some time for crafting in the mid of rigorous packing ;) lol can't help it...

My first card is inspired the the theme at CASology week 68 - BLACK and by the sketch at the Retrosketches #87. Here's my card....

To make this, I embossed some lines using Martha Stewart score board. Cut out a black panel, further cut out the black panel to display the light coming from flash light and replaced it with inked white panel. The flash light is hand drawn n colored. The heart ( from Studio G - iClear set) is stamped and fuzzy cut. Sentiment is hand written :)

My second card is a Christmas card inspired by the lovely Muse #41 card from Janet Ribet and by the challenge started by our  very talented Nonni from Korttikarkuri My Christmas cards Challenge #2- use old stash.

To make this I inked the base of the card just above the snowscape. Snowscape is hand drawn and cut out from white card stock scrap, the birch trees were made from old scrap (DCWV - Basics), the deer is made by inking using a stencil. Star are embossed, cut (using Momenta dies) ans inked. All elements are stuck on the card base :)

Muse Card :)

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

Catchy Challenges - Keep Calm and Go girly

Hello, lovely ladies... it's the 1st of November which means it's time for another month long challenge at the Catchy Challenges. This time we are having a challenge to create a Scrapbook page with the Theme - "For a girl" ... we have numerous possibilities with this theme. You can create a page for a new born, for a birthday, for wedding, graduation... basically any idea of celebration for a girl.

For my DT card, I went with the wedding theme... I kept the page CAS by using minimal colors. 

To make my scrapbook page, I cut the white pattern paper (from The Paper Studio - Blank Boutique pearl finish) to 8x8" and did the rest of the layout. For a photo I cut out two ovals in white and pink (to form the frame). I cut out a square panel to write a note and embossed it. Next, I decorate the entire page with some punched flowers, butterflies and leaves (using Nestabilities foliage dies) A final touch was added by some gems and pearls.

There is a lot of inspiration for you from our lovely DT, please head over to the challenge blog, HERE to get a glimpse of some amazing inspirations and the details of the challenge. Excited to see what will you come up with...

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

ATSM #69 - Addicted to CAS

We have a wonderful new challenge for you this week at Addicted to stamps and more... Addicted to CAS. We all know what clean and simple is right? It's all about the design, not the technique,  not the tools, not the embellishments. It's all about the design Uncluttered, lots of white or open space and one main focal point. For my DT card I followed the same rules...

To make this card,  I used a wood mounted stamp (from Anita's Inque Boutique) and did some paper piecing. I also created the glow behind the gift boxes by masking and inking. The shadow from the boxes was created using grey pencil color. Sentiment was hand written. Hope you like my card. 

There is a lot more lovely inspiration from the DT, Please visit our challenge blog here. The winner will receive a wonderful prize from our sponsor this week Nicecrane Design. Take a peek at their store here 

I am excited to see what you will come up with ....

I am also linking this up at -
Seize the birthday - Anything Goes!!
CAS on Sunday #20 - Sketch Challenge

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

ATCAS #25 - ONE LAYER

It's time for yet another challenge at Addicted to CAS and all our dear CAS lovers get set as the code word this week is ONE LAYER selected by our sweet and talented Kylie. She is also the host for this challenge.

Our winner will get a great prize from our amazing sponsors Digi Darla Designs

For my card, I decided to go one layer for recreating a typical tree with all the fall colors that I see here. I am so much in love with the Fall, this card can be a tribute to nature's gift to us :)

To make this card, I roughly and lightly hand drew the tree trunk with a pencil, Then I used my wood mounted Studio-G leaf branch Stamp to stamp with shades of green, orange and red and yellow (using Memento Dew drop Inks). I also masked and stamped a few leaves at the base to indicate that they have fallen. Then, I did some inking in the corner to show that sun is shining through. Finally I made my tree trunk using Sharpie Markers :) The bird (from Prima Stamps) and the sentiment (from Paper Sweeties - You make me smile set) were stamped for finishing touches. Hope you like my card :)

Our DT has come up with some amazing projects this week. Pop over to our ATCAS challenge blog here and take a peek. I am looking forward to the challenge this fortnight and am very excited to visit your blogs.
I am also linking this up to the following Photo Inspiration challenges (coz all Fall begins from the tree ;))
1. Crazy for CAS #30 - Picture Inspiration
2. Inkspirational #42 - Photo Inspiration
3. Just Us Girls Challenge #212 - Photo inspiration

 

Have fun in creating one layer CAS :) and thank you for visiting my blog.