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 ....

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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 :)

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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 :)