Crafty Meraki - November 28th 2020

 Hello friends! I am back with Crafty Meraki goodness. Crafty Meraki released a  huge collection of  their own Slimline Dies and Stamps. These are gorgeous, you can check them out HERE. Today I am featuring Crafty Meraki Stitch-A-Cross Slimline die. You can use it for stitching or just as a cool background like I did for my card :)

Let me show you what I made... 

To make this card, I die cut the panel with Stitch-A-Cross die using a kraft card stock. To add more interest, I tore the edges for a little grunge.  I then stamped the Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Paeonia Japonica Outline Stamp Set on a watercolor card stock and water colored it using Gansai Tambi watercolors. I then fuzzy cut these and arranged them on my card base.  I used the printed sentiment strip from Crafty Meraki Special Edition Watercolor kit

Hope you like this card!

For those of you who are not on Instagram I am sharing one more clean and simple card I made using the same die. 

Cross Stitch pattern of the flower is my own :)

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me some love.

STAMPlorations Inspiration - November 24th 2020

Welcome to the STAMPlorations Inspiration post. We the inspiration team at STAMPlorations are here to inspire you with our creations using STAMPlorations products through these weekly inspiration posts and there is more to inspiration... We'll have a monthly random drawing -- 1 commenter wins a $15 gift code. Yay!! Inspiration team is sharing some super amazing projects 

Let me show you my fourth Inspiration project for November 2020...

For his card I went with a Christmas card, also I recently bought Weathered wood Distress Oxide ink and I had to use it :) I inked the die cut panel and embossed it with the Holiday Words die plate. Then for focal image I added the heat embossed reindeer head and Noel sentiment die. I used Christmas Sentiments Phrase Dies, Holiday Words Plate Die, Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies, Yuletide Deer

Here is a close up into my card...

Hope you like it! Head over to STAMPlorations Blog, HERE for more inspiration :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

Crafty Meraki - November 21st 2020

Hello friends! I am back with Crafty Meraki goodness and today I am sharing a few Christmas cards featuring Crafty Meraki Christmas Miracle Stamp set. If you have been following me on Instagram @deesartutopia you might know that I illustrated three stamp sets for Crafty Meraki Little Things, Magical Christmas and Christmas Miracle. I was so excited about this since the time Bindu contacted me for the illustration and now the excitement never ceases every time I see the beauties made by teamies 

Crafty Meraki released a  huge collection of  their own Slimline Dies and Stamps. These are gorgeous, you can check them out HERE.

Let me show you what I made... 

To make this card, I heat embossed the poinsettia on a watercolor card stock and water colored it using Gansai Tmabi watercolors. I then fuzzy these and arranged them on a blue card stock.  The poinsettias were added with some dimension and sentiment was embossed on the panel before layering :)

Hope you like this card!

For those of you who are not on Instagram I am sharing here some other cards I made the previous month using this same set.

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me some love.

STAMPlorations 6th Giving Thanks Hop & Giveaway!

Hello friends! STAMPlorations is back with its annual event, "6th Giving Thanks Blog Hop" There is lots of inspiration and prizes for you in this event. So don't forget to hop along! 

PRIZES

Blog Hop prizes:

- 3 winners of a $15 prize code randomly drawn from comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and designers' blogs

Giveaway prizes:

- 2 winners of their choice of STAMPlorations products with a combined MSRP value of up to $25

- 1 winner of her choice of STAMPlorations products with a combined MSRP value of up to $50

Extra prizes:

- a few surprise winners randomly drawn from our social media accounts (FB, IG, Pinterest, blogs) to win either prize codes or products

Hop and giveaway are open until December 8. Winners announced on December 10 in the November winners post.

Let me show you the project I made...

Its fall all around me so I had to capture those colors for my card. I made a one layer card, very organic using this gorgeous stencil from Sanna Lippert Designs. I Inked the stencil. water sprayed it and stamped on the panel. Once the panel was dry. I also inked the panel through the stencil to better define the flowers.

I also added some fine line details using an illustrator pen. I then stamped the sentiment and a little silhouette leaf. Super fun to get all inky. I have used Art Flowers 2, Wooded and Big Greetings

I hope you enjoyed my card, thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me a comment. Don't forget to hop along follow STAMPlorations FB and Instagram account for addition prizes.

STAMPlorations Spotlight - November 19th 2020

Hello friends! I am back with another spotlight project over at the STAMPlorations blog. I hope I will be able to inspire you. For this Spotlight post I decided to make a couple of clean and simple cards. Unique thing about these is that I have used a stamp for a purpose different from what it is intended. Let me show you... 

I have used  Layered Snowman, and Beautiful you

Please head over to STAMPlorations Blog for a photo tutorial on this. click HERE. Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

STAMPlorations Inspiration - November 17th 2020

Welcome to the STAMPlorations Inspiration post. We the inspiration team at STAMPlorations are here to inspire you with our creations using STAMPlorations products through these weekly inspiration posts and there is more to inspiration... We'll have a monthly random drawing -- 1 commenter wins a $15 gift code. Yay!! Inspiration team is sharing some super amazing projects 

Let me show you my third Inspiration project for November 2020...

For his card I went with ink smooshed background using Distress ink refills and then I layered it with partial stenciling using Distress Oxide inks. For the focal image I used floral image and water colored it :). I used Mosaic in Squares Slimline Stencil, Bloomfully: Radiance and Shine Bright[for sentiment]

Here is a close up into my card...

Hope you like it! Head over to STAMPlorations Blog, HERE for more inspiration :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

Crafty Meraki - November 14th 2020

Happy Diwali my sweet friends! Today we Hindus celebrate the festival of lights, Diwali. Most important part of Diwali is lighting up our house and I have tried to capture that feel into my card :)

For my Crafty Meraki inspiration post, I made a Diwali card. If you have been following Crafty Meraki over on Instagram, you already know that the month of October was huge for them as they released their own Slimline Dies and Stamps. These are gorgeous, you can check them out HERE. Today I am featuring Crafty Meraki Happy Diwali Stamp set again. 

Let me show you what I made... 

I made a clean and simple card to capture the brightness of Diwali. Simple ink blending, stamping the mandala design followed by adding an embossed and water colored earthen lamp :) Here is a closeup...

Hope you like this card!

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me some love. If you would like to see more of my Diwali creations please follow me on Instagram. You can find the link on the top right of blog :)

STAMPlorations Spotlight - November 12th 2020

 Hello friends! I am back with another spotlight project over at the STAMPlorations blog. I hope I will be able to inspire you. I am always thinking about making simple, quick and easy to mail cards. Christmas is one of those times when I like to have simple and flat one layer cards that can easily be sent :) The Holiday Typografia stamps come in handy for these kind of cards and on top of that I just love these stamps :) I think they are a must have! Let me show you what I made...

I have used  Beyond the Trees – ARTplorations Slimline stencil, Aperture Slimline stencil, Facets Square Stencil and Joys of the season, Miracle of Christmas and Good Tidings for Christmas - Typografia Christmas

  

Please head over to STAMPlorations Blog for a photo tutorial on this. click HERE. Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment :)

STAMPlorations Inspiration - November 10th 2020

 Welcome to the STAMPlorations Inspiration post. We the inspiration team at STAMPlorations are here to inspire you with our creations using STAMPlorations products through these weekly inspiration posts and there is more to inspiration... We'll have a monthly random drawing -- 1 commenter wins a $15 gift code. Yay!! Inspiration team is sharing some super amazing projects 

Let me show you my second Inspiration project for November 2020...

This card features went with a slim line card, I took a colored card stock, did some partial stenciling in white. Masked and stamped the lemons on a white card stock and fuzzy cut the edges. I then adhered this on the base panel. to finish I added the sentiment. I used Aperture Slimline Stencil, Layered Citrus

Here is a close up into my card...

Hope you like it! Head over to STAMPlorations Blog, HERE for more inspiration :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

Crafty Meraki - November 7th 2020

 Hello friends! I am back with my Crafty Meraki inspiration post. If you have been following Crafty Meraki over on Instagram, you already know that the month of October was huge for them as they released their own Slimline Dies and Stamps. These are gorgeous, you can check them out HERE. Today I am featuring Crafty Meraki Happy Diwali Stamp set. I ended up creating a couple of cards with this set, besides all the other cards I created last month :)

Let me show you what I made... For my first card I did clear embossing on a colored card stock and did some ink blending with a darker shade. This color combo was inspired by a saree that I have :)

I simply love the intricate details of this stamp :)

I couldn't stop just there so I created another card using the firecrackers :)

Here I heat embossed these on a black card stock, colored them with pencil colors and inked around those with Distress inks representing the smoke :) I had fun creating these cards.

This set is incredibly versatile, I will share more ideas later :)

I hope you liked my cards!
Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me some love. If you would like to see more of my Diwali creations please follow me on Instagram. You can find the link on the top right of blog :)

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020!

Hello friends! I am super excited to be a part of "25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020" an annual event organized by fabulous Tracey McNeely of In my creative opinion. This event is very popular... not only will it inspire your Holiday tag making spirits but also will give you a chance at loads of prizes from the sponsors. 

I am here representing STAMPlorations who is one of the Sponsor of this event. I made a couple of tags featuring the stamps and dies from STAMPlorations. Let me show you my tags...

For my tags I have used Warm Hands warm hearts, Festive and Manila Tags Nesting Dies I kept my tags simple by stamping the sentiments completely on one tag background and partially on the other. To add more interest, I stamped and fuzzy cut the stockings image, I even did mirror stamping of the stockings 

Hope you enjoyed my fun Holiday Tags! Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me some love

Last but no the least. To make the event even more amazing STAMPlorations has select Holiday/Christmas themed products are 10% to 20% off instantly and they are all found HERE. Use my code mentioned below for additional 20% off on already discounted products :)