ATCAS #35 - WHEELS

We are back with a new challenge at Addicted to CAS . I was unable to play along in the last challenge as I was on a vacation but can't miss any more :) The code word WHEELS for this week is selected by our very talented Sylvia. She is also the host for this challenge. I would like to welcome our talented Guest Designer Karen back with us for the last challenge for the month of  March. You can see her projects by clicking here, Made by Meadie

Our sponsor for this challenge is Stamplorations and the prize will be a pack of her rubber stamps called "It's all about You".

 So here's my card...

To make this card, I stamped the hedgie (from Penny Black - Hugs), masked it off and then stamp the cycle (from Technique Happyville - Wheelie set) Then I did some more stamping of birdie from same set and the yellow flowers (from PTI Ruby reprise set), and leaf (from Recollections hello friend set). Finally I masked of the card to ink the landscape and colored the rest of the images with my sharpie markers and hedge hog with Spectrum Noir. I was inspired by the Colors at Color Q #234 and by the theme at Stamplorations March challenge- Stamps and Spring and Simon Says stamp Blog Work it Wednesday - SPRING

 

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 have another card to share, this one is dedicated to a great friend. If she is reading she will know. I am so lucky to have found her. She is a wonderful person at heart and has guided me a lot through my crafty venture. This card uses the Hero arts stamp and Paper Smooches Die send by her. You are the best. my sweet friend!!

To make this card, I stamped the image and created a mask. Then I did some distress inking using Chipped Sapphire n Tumbled glass. Then I colored the focal Image in Spectrum Noir markers. Finally. I die cut the frame and stamped it with CAS-ual Friday's - Clover set :) I was inspired by the sketch at CAS(E) this sketch #70 and Theme at CASology Week 88 - LUCKY

 

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

Fusion #7

Hello friends!! time for another Fusion :) I hope you had fun playing along in our last challenge :) Now let us see how will you interpret our this challenge !! You can go shabby chic, vintage to CAS

FUSION is a very interesting, it gives us a photo and a sketch, so possibilities are endless with the freedom given in the challenge. You can just work with the sketch or just photo but in my case as usual. I Fused the two.

For my card, I did some ink splatter on kraft card base, then did stenciling (using Balzer designs Stencil and Liqutex Modeling paste), the flowers were punched out using a picture punch from vintage paper that icreated by some inking n stamping. Brads on flowers were purchased in my India trip. I adhered all the elements on card base n finished my card with sentiment from Paper Sweeties.

I am submitting this card to the following challenges as well -
1. Less is More Week 164 - use 3 of something
2. Moxie Fab World - Styling with stencil
3. Cut it up #41 - Anything Goes!!

There is a lot more inspiration available for you by our lovely team. Go and check out :) Also, for more details about the challenge please visit Fusion Card 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

Now to my second card, I very much inspired by Lyndal's card at Muse #60. She is a great crafter and she always inspire me :) I followed the Sketch at Freshly Made sketches #129 and the theme at CASology Week 88 - LUCKY to create my card.

I did some distress inking on the panel (using Mustard seed, Tumbled glass n Chipped sapphire) and some water splashes. Then I die cut the stars using my Momenta star dies. Adhered the hand written sentiment on vellum n all the stars on card base.

  

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ATSM #88 - HOLIDAY

We are back with another amazing challenge this week at Addicted to stamps and more... HOLIDAY which opens up a wide range of ideas, from projects for any festive holiday or for some holiday destinations or whatever comes to your mind when you think about holiday... There are numerous possibilities. We also have very talented Guest Designer Anni of Annikarten, joining us back this week with a very adorable card :) Now to my DT card, I went with the Christmas theme for my Holiday card...

To make this card, I was inspired by the sketch at Retrosketches #107 this week, the beautiful photo inspiration of ornaments at Merry Monday #101 - Red, gray and white . To make this card, I first die cut a partial circle from white card base, scored lines on it. Cut out a red panel to go underneath. The mitten are free digitals from The Alley way stamps which were colored with Spectrum Noir markers.
rest I adhered all the elements on card base, embellishes with some sequin stars and wrote the sentiment.

 

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 Stamplorations. Take a peek at their store here

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

I have another card, this one made for a few challenges :) I was inspired by the Case Study #183 where the talented and one of my favorite crafter Joni Andaya of Papel with love is the Muse. I was also inspired by the House of cards March #2 - Add a button Classic/ CAS challenge. The buttons added are special to me as I got these wooden buttons from India :) and finally I am linking it up to Seize the birthday - Topping of stitches

 

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

Dance in the rain...

I am back with another card, I was so excited to play along with Time Out Challenges #1- Dancing in the rain for two reasons one it is a challenge started by my dear team mates Nonni and Sandie, two it has an amazing format of the challenges that will intrigue ur creative thinking. Besides, I was also inspired the photo inspiration at Inkspirational #52 and the sketch at Freshly made sketches #128. So here's my card...

To make this I created the rain by making strokes of colors using my spectrum noir pastel markers. I hand drew the tree trunk and stamped the leaves from Studio G leaf rubber stamp. I created scored lines for my landscape. Umbrella was made by die cutting a circle and stamping it with CAS-ual Friday's chevron stamp, followed by fuzzy cutting n inking. All elements were adhered using foam dots. Sentiment was hand written. 

 

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Happy Birthday Maria!!

Hi friends!! I am back after a break, I was off on a mini vacation and am so excited to get back into the blog land with the Birthday Party celebration of Maria, her blog Rieslingmama. I guess most of you already know her, if u don't check her out, she is a terrific crafter and inspiration.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MARIA, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.... I wish Maria, loads of love, happiness and a whole lot of crafty goodness ;)

This party was put together by another amazing and inspiring crafter, Shirley her blog Shirley-bee's stamping stuff . I am so glad to be a part of this lovely celebration :) She is setting up a inlinkz tool, HERE for all of us to join in the celebration. So here's my card...

To make it I did some inlaid die cutting which is the in thing and stamping :) I was inspired by a few challenges to create this one, so linking it up to these...

1. CAS(E) this Sketch #69

2. CAS on Sunday #29 - One layer wonder

3. Color Me #12 - Color me subtle
4. The Card Concept #6 - Create a birthday card

 

Happy birthday Maria once again, hope you like my card :)

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Wohooo!! Guest Designing for STAMPlorations...

I am just getting lucky, I got another amazing opportunity to Guest Design for a Fab Company STAMPlorations. Previously I won a bi-weekly sketch challenge at STAMPlorations #5 and therefore was invited to Guest design. I am so excited :) there stamps are fab and so is the Design Team. Hope you will join the fun there :)

This time its another sketch Challenge and here's how I interpreted it.

To make this card, I heat embossed (using Whisper opaque embossing powder n Versamark ink) the flowers (from Inkadinkadoo BG flowers cling set) on white card stock and fuzzy cut them. then I lightly inked them in green. Next on card base, I did some sponging with a stencil (I bought from Walmart) stamped the floral stems (using Recollections jar set) and stamped n fuzzy cut the leaves (from Hampton art - Fern wood mounted stamp). I added some anthers on the flowers and adhered all the elements on the Card base. Embellished with pearls and stamped the sentiment (from Martha Stewart set).

I want to submit this card to
1. The Card Concept #5
2. Simon says Wednesday Challenge - Mother's day/ special girl
3. Word Art Wednesday #123 - Anything Goes
4. Less is More Week 163 - Stenciling
5. The Paper Players #187 - CAS Spring

 

Hope you like my card. I would like to thank Shery and the entire team of STAMPlorations for giving this opportunity to me. Please head over to the challenge blog for more Inspiration and challenge details :)

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Yay!! Guest Designing for Crazy for CAS

Hello friends!! a special day for me as I am guest designing for Crazy for CAS challenge blog. I was in the Top 3 for Challenge #30 and was invited to Guest design. However, things did not work for me earlier as I was travelling. But now I got this opportunity and I did not want to miss it. Crazy for CAS is a great challenge blog for all CAS lovers. I am excited !!

This time the challenge is a Photo Inspiration. I am sure you would love this. I was particularly inspired by one of the photos in this inspiration picture and I recreated the same picture.

To make this, I cut out a panel of water color paper and heat embossed it with Whisper opaque embossing powder n Versamark ink (using Recollections Heart and bird stamp set) then I water colored it in grey n pink. This panel was then stuck on black card stock. On the card base, I did some stencil sponging in Hero arts soft granite ink and stuck the panel over it. Finally stamped the sentiment from Martha Stewart sentiment set)

I am submitting this card to the following challenges -

1. CAS-ual Friday's CFC #129 - Shades of Gray
2. Stamplorations March Challenge - Stamps & Spring

3. Virginia's View #1 - Water coloring
4. Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Mother's day/ Special girl

   

Hope you like my card. Thank you so much Sientje and the team of Crazy for CAS for this opportunity . Please head over to the challenge blog for more inspiration n details on the challenge :)

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Fusion #6

Hello friends!! time for another Fusion for you to create :) I hope you had fun playing along in our last challenge :) Now let us see how will you interpret our sixth challenge !! 

FUSION is a very interesting, it gives us a photo and a sketch, so possibilities are endless with the freedom given in the challenge. You can just work with the sketch or just photo but in my case as usual. I Fused the two. 

For my card, I used a water color paper as my card base, lightly marked the rectangle within which I will focus my stamping. Then I stamped the flowers (from Autumn leaves - second nature set) in the two corners with Memento Bamboo leaves) Then I did water coloring in two shades of green. Finally, I hand drew the twig like frame using a brown Sharpie marker and stamped the sentiment (from Paper Sweeties)

There is a lot more inspiration available for you by our lovely team. Go and check out :) Also, for more details about the challenge please visit Fusion Card 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

I am submitting this card to the following challenges as well -
1. Less is More Week 162 - OLC spring flower
2. One layer Simplicity #3 - Just add water
3. Virginia's View Challenge #1 - Watercoloring
4. The Card Concept #5 - Color Inspiration

 

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

ATSM #86 - Anything Goes!!

This is my second post for today, if you are looking for my CAS-ual Friday's Stamps March release post, please click HERE

Hello crafters, its time for your favorite 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. Our Guest Designer, Darnell from Djkardkreations, is joining us back with another awesome creation. Here's what I did...

To make this card, I clear embossed (using Inkadinkadoo mini flourish stamps) the black card stock panel. I cut out the leaf from card base and another one on black card stock. I die cut double sided adhesive sheets using Nestabilities flower dies, Punched a hole in the center and adhered them on black card stock die cuts of the same flower. I then added Recollection Silver glitter on these flowers. I stamped the sentiment on vellum n adhered it all on card base.

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 Stamplorations. They have an amazing collection of stamps, do check them out :)

I am entering this card to the following challenges -

1. Runway Inspired Challenge #55 - Pamella Roland
2. Retrosketches #105
3. Word Art Wednesday #122 - Anything Goes!!

 

  

I am excited to see what you will come up with ....
Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me a comment :)

CAS-ual Friday's Stamps March Release - Day 3

Welcome back friends for the day three of the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps March release :) This is the last day of my Guest Spot and I want to thank Michele and the rest of the team of CAS-ual Friday's for this opportunity. I loved being a part of this amazing team and I absolutely love their stamps n dies :)

The new set is called "Wait for it", these stamps have a variety of sentiments bold, medium bold and just the normal font size for our cards and I absolutely love this set.  So let's see what I made...

I heat embossed the sentiment and masked off along each alphabet to create my striped rainbow. I want to enter this card for the challenge Keep it Simple #35 - Stripes and City Crafter's challenge blog Week 202 - Beautiful Rainbows 

For my second card, I create a crossword kind look with the sentiments and embellished it with stars made out of transparency. I want to play this for the The Friday Mashup #150, I went on to create a masculine project. Also, entering this to Shopping our stash #142 - Sentiment(s) only challenge.

Please head over to the CAS-ual Friday's Stamps blog for a sneak peak into the stamps and much more inspiration .

The challenge images -

  

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