Creating landscapes on cards...

Hello friends, I am back with my usual style of masking, inking and creating landscape. The first is a set of cards, I created for The challenge A Blog Named Hero #32 - GAME, SET MATCH :) Here's my set of cards...

            

This set shows the rising of the sun and the movement of the bird. This was created by masking and inking. The silhouette was a handmade mask. The sun was also made by masking. Besides, I added few stamps... Leaves (from Studio G-iClear mini stamps), Bird (from Prima Stamp set) and sentiment (from Paper Sweeties - you make me smile set). The same process was repeated in all the cards, however the combination and strength of s specific color was changed. Hope you like it :)

The challenge image at ABNH #32 is

My second card is inspired by a wall paper on my iphone, yesterday we got an updated iOS 7 and with that came these awesome wall papers, I have tried to case one of these... sadly I am unable to attach the picture.

To make this card, I was inspired by the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #46 and by the colors at Festive Friday FFC17.

To make this I did two tone inking on my card panel. I cut out a few leaves from my Nestabilities Foliage Die set and turned them into the trees here. Finally did some shading to create shadow of the trees in water using my Pastel pencils and smeared some silver and blue glitter with my paint brush to create the snowy look. That's it :), it was fun making these ...

The challenge Images are -

        

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Struck by an arrow ;)

First I want to thank ATCAS Challenge Blog for picking me up along with all the lovely ladies in their Wall of Fame :) I am so honored and thankful to them :) 

So, when I saw the cue card Arrow at CASology Week -62, I wanted to go with a more graphic and modern approach, I guess that's what the word ARROW shouts at me... but at the same time it also shouts heart which is the more traditional approach to arrows :) So, what I did finally was to create two cards, yeah I did do that. To make these cards, I have used stamps, dies and also few of my handmade paper stencils. I know you must be thinking how weird is that but the fact is I like freedom in my creations and adding my elements does exactly that :D

So for my first card, I inked the color splat stencil, then masked it to do the rest. I then used the circle stencil to ink it with blue and green colors. Rest I did some stamping using the Arrows and Punctuation - Scrappy Cat stamps and Inkadinkadoo - Dots and Flourishes stamps. Finally, I hand drew and colored my arrow and pushed the tip into the color splat by making a small cut. The rest of the arrow was stuck using foam dots. Here's a peek into my stencils :)

This was hand drawn and cut with Exacto knife

This was made using Sizzix Circle dies

Now my second card was inspired by the traditional concept of an arrow and I was also inspired by the Colors at 10 Min Crafts Dash #26. I thought with my splat stencil ready, I can make another card within 10 mins and I did ;) It took me 8 min and 43 sec.

To make it, I used my Nestabilities heart dies to cut out the heart from red card stock, the little hearts were stamped using Studio G-iClear stamp set on red card stock and then fuzzy cut. The dots were punched out using my paper punch. The arrow was hand drawn and cut on gray card stock. Rest, I inked the color splat stencil, addes the heart over it using foam dots. Inserted the arrow into the heart by making a slight slit. Stuck the rest of the hearts and dots. Stamped the sentiment from Studio G Stamp set :)

I will play both my cards for CASology Week 62 - ARROW and my second card at 10 min Craft Dash #26 

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Yellow seems to be the color for today...

Hello friends!! I am back after Friday... Weekend was all busy busy with loads of shopping :D but I missed my crafting ;) So I am back with two cards. My first card is inspired by multiple challenges - Theme at ATCAS #22 - GET WELL, by theme at Less is More Week 137 - Get well soon OLC, by the Photo inspiration - Sunflower Surprise  at Curtain Call and by colors at Dyanamic Duos #70. Yeah four challenges all in one ;)

To make this, I made my own paper stencils for the green line at the base of sun flower and the central circle of the flower. I masked and inked these. To make the petals of the sunflower, I used the scrap of rubber stamp set, I purchased. I then inked up the rubber petal and stamped it so make my flower. Finally, the sentiment was added. 

The challenges are -

1. ATCAS #22 - GET WELL

2. Less is More Week 137 - GET WELL SOON OLC

3. Photo inspiration - SUNFLOWER SURPRISE  at Curtain Call 

4. Dyanamic Duos #70

My second card, is solely focused on one challenge CAS(E) This Sketch #45 . So here's my card...

To match the sketch, for this card too I created my own paper stencils to show the color blast. It was inked (using Memento Dew Drop inks) and butterflies (from Martha Stewart set) was stamped in Archival Black ink. The sentiment (from Paper Sweeties -you make me smile set) was stamped.

The sketch is-

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Lynn Hayes - Fascinating Friday's Featured Artist

Fascinating Friday's at Paperie Designs' Studio is back with yet another fantastic artist... This time our featured artist is Lynn Hayes of Creative Crafts by Lynn , I am sure you all are aware of her excellence in creativity and fun elements in her cards. So, I thought it was time to know her a little more :) Please check out the link here Creative Crafts to get an insight into her life and her creative journey :)

Now to my card, inspired by the colors at Color Q #206, sketch at CAS Colors and Sketches #42, embossing at Simon Says Stamp challenge - Emboss it and use of markers at Addicted to stamps and more - Make ur Mark... I came up with this card

To make this I drew horizontal lines with a pencil and a scale and colored them with my Sharpie markers (yeah.. I like Sharpie a lot). The butterflies (from Martha Stewart)were stamped and there opposite side was used to color them in one shade (coz, I don't have the butterfly die set ). The upper half of the card was embossed (with Brick embossing folder from Darice). Finally, butterflies were stuck one over the other with glue dots and foam dots. Sentiment (from Paper Sweeties - you make me smile) was stamped and pearls were added to finish the card :)

The challenges are -
1. Color Q #206

2. CAS Colors and Sketches #42

3. Simon Says Stamp challenge - Emboss it 

4. Addicted to stamps and more - Make ur Mark

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If you are looking for my CASology Week-61 Guest Design post, please click HERE...

Today, I sat down with  a decision to create a card for CAS-ual Friday's CFC114 Challenge- BACK TO SCHOOL. I was not sure what will I make, then the idea of schools using a quill and ink for writing in the ancient times hit me and I remember how my talented friend Tasneem, created her own feather. So, I took the inspiration from her brilliant creation, HERE and made my card... I was also inspired by the colors at Runway Inspired challenge #43 - Lela Rose, so I used there colors in my card.

To make this, I hand drew my quill, cut it out colored it with inks (Memento Dew drop dye inks) and then created fringes. I did a bit different from Tasneem here, I cut this out first and colored later, just to achieve different colors on same feather perfectly :) Then I embossed some vertical score lines (using Martha Stewart score board) on my card, suck the quill will glue dots and hand wrote the sentiment using my calligraphy marker ( which was picked for the obvious reasons). That was easy :)

Since, I have used marker and embossing, I will play it for Addicted to stamps #62 - Make your mark! and Simon Say's stamp Wednesday Challenge - Emboss it

The challenges are -
1. CAS-ual Friday's CFC114 Challenge- BACK TO SCHOOL

2. Runway Inspired challenge #43 - Lela Rose

3. Addicted to stamps #62 - MAKE YOUR MARK ! 

4. Simon Say's stamp Wednesday Challenge - EMBOSS IT

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