Happy 2nd Birthday to ATSM!!

Yippee!! its our second birthday :) and I am so glad to be a part of this special day. Kylie and my team mates are the sweetest friends I have found and I truly cherish this part of my life. Hope you will join us in our celebration with this challenge. The challenge this week at Addicted to stamps and more...  is an inspiration image that has the rainbow colors, I am sure you all love rainbow as much as I do. Here's the  inspiration photo and my card...

To make this card, I did masking and inking of the horizontal panel, followed by generational stamping of the dots in the same color to create the bokeh effect. Then I heat embossed the birds and stamped 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 Stichy Bear's Digi Outlet. Take a peek at their store here

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

I would like to submit this card to the following challenges -
1. A Blog Named Hero #46 - Bokeh
2. Sketch Saturday #314
3. Simon Says Monday Challenge - Anything Goes!
4. The Paper Players #200 - OLC CAS

  

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

Supplies used are -  Stamp: Hero Arts Best wishes clear set, Scrappy cat dots; Inks: Distress inks Dust concord, Chipped sapphire, Peacock feathers, Mowed lawn, Mustard seed, Spiced Marmalade, Barn door, Memento Tuxedo black and Versamark ink; Whisper Opaque embossing powder; Heat tool Darice, Post it notes

Yay! Guest Designing at Stamplorations bi-weekly challenge #14

If you are looking for my Merry Monday Guest Design post, please click HERE...

Yippee! I am just getting lucky :) I won a sketch challenge #11 at Stamplorations and was invited to Guest Design for the bi-weekly sketch challenge #14. I am so excited to be designing with the amazing and talented team of Stamplorations. Thank you so much for having me over :)
So here's the sketch and my card...

I have a tendency to make my card as CAS as possible so I saw scored lines in the horizontal strips on the sketch. I worked on the focal image, I created a mask for the heart and stamped it with Stamplorations - SUBWAY Art builders stamp - dare, multiple times in different inks. Then I added an inlaid die cut heart and added butterflies with some hand drawn stitched lines. The heart and butterfly were picked to match up the sentiment :) The colors used are from Color Q #245, so I am linking this up there as well. Also, linking it up at Less is More Week 176 - OLC Off the edge

Hope you like my card and will join in the fun at Stamplorations :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

Supplies used - Stamps: Stamplorations Subway Art builders Dare, Technique Tuesday Happyville cars; Dies: Nestabilities Heart dies; Punch - Butterfly Picture punch from Darice; Inks: Hero Arts Shadow ink - Mint Julep, Pool; Fresh peach, Butterbar and Memento bamboo leaves; Martha Stewart Score board; Sharpie fine tip marker

Yay!! Guest Designing at Merry Monday #113

Hi friends!! recently I won the challenge #111 at Merry Monday and was invited to Guest Design. I am so glad to be designing with the lovely and talented team of Merry Monday. Making cards for Christmas challenge is a real help in taking the load off ur head when holiday season is nearing.

So, we should keep participating just to help build up our Christmas Stash :) The inspiration image is adorable for this challenge and I love it :)

So here's my card...

To make this card, I masked the edges and heat embossed snowflakes and also inked the edges. I then did some inlaid die cutting of the Christmas trees. I also partially heat embossed these in silver. To finish my card, I added some glitter on snowflakes and added some sequins.

Hope you like my card :) and will join in the fun at Merry Monday.Thank you to the entire team of Merry Monday for having me over.

I am linking this up at
1. AAA Cards #7 Create - Embossing n add some pink
2. Word Art Wednesday #136 - Anything Goes!
3. The Paper Players #200 - I picked the OLC CAS

 

And thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !

Supplies use - Ink: Versamark, Distress Sugar Spun, Memento Rose Bud; Embossing powder Whisper Opaque, Metalic Silver; Dies - MFT Roughing it up; Stamps: Inkadinkadoo - Christmas Characters; Pretty Pink Posh - Transparent sequins

New stamps and more !!

Hi friends, how are you all? I finally managed to take some time out to make a card with the new goodies I ordered from TAWS. I have been eyeing on the new release and few other stamps for a long time, finally I managed to buy them and make a card :) These stamps are so good, I have so many ideas flowing into my head with these stamps but due to shortage of time... I could make just one :) More to come soon...

Also, my dear and very popular Darnell from djkardkreations is celebrating a landmark of 500 followers on her blog by a NBUS #1 challenge. I am sure u know what NBUS is... its a cool term coined by Darnell - Never Before Used Schtuff :) She is one talented lady, if u don't follow her, I bet u r missing some real fun in life :) So I decided to join in her celebration with my new NBUS :)

I was inspired by the TAWS Be Inspired #53 photo inspiration to create this card. 

To make this card, I did some inlaid die cutting. Stamped the heart with the rainbow colored crossing lines stamp. I stamped, colored and fuzzy cut the birdies and laid them on the card base over the heart. Stamped the sentiment and some diamond shapes to finish my card. Since this card has birdies and is CAS, I am linking this up to two more challenges

1. Inkspirational #58 - CAS

2. City Crafter Challenge Week 215 - it's for bird

    

Also, thought I would share the things that I have been busy doing :) One is a water color painting of a bird, which I did coz I felt like... seeing water colors all around in the blog land. I hand drew the bird and then water colored it :)

And another is a canvas painting in Acrylics of Lord Ganesha, our Hindu God who brings prosperity and all things good in life. I made this one for my sister-in-law :) who recently got married. Hope she likes it!

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

Supplies used - Stamps: TAWS - Crossing lines, Bugging out and Lighter than Air; Inks: Hero arts Butter bar, Pool, Memento Bamboo leaves, Grape jelly, Tuxedo black, PTI Summer sunrise and Distress barn door; Dies - Nestabilities heart dies; Spectrum Noir Markers 

ATSM #99 - 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 and here's my card....

To make this card, I did some masking and stamping of sea animals, followed by masking and inking to create the waves. Then I stamped a few circles to give the illusion of bubbles and finished my card by added balloons and birthday sentiment banner
I was inspired by the following challenges -
1. Retro Sketches #118 
2. CAS Colors and Sketches #77
3. Seize the birthday - Summertime
4. Inkspirational #58 - CAS

  

There is a lot more lovely inspiration from the DT, Please visit our challenge blog here. The winner will receive three digis from our sponsor this week QKR Stampede. 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 :)

Supplies used - Inks Hero Arts Shadow ink Butter Bar, Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Mowed lawn, Peacock feathers; Spectrum Noir markers; Stamps: Recollections - Sea Creatures, Scrappy cat - Mini dots and rings, Martha Stewart All Occasion sentiment set; Dies - Li'l Inkers Balloon dies