25 Days of Christmas Color Revelations - Day 2

Hello my dear friends and fellow crafters :) I am back with another Christmas card as a part pf my 25 days card series. As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I will be showcasing a Christmas card using a Christmas Color Palette that I have on my Pinterest Board Called "Christmas Colors". 

"25 days of Christmas Color Revelations"

GIVEAWAY... to enter the giveaway leave a comment on each or all of these posts and by the end of 25 days I will draw TWO winners to receive the following Christmas Stamp sets designed by me "Christmas Bell Medley" and "Santa is here" respectively

My  second card is inspired by colors in THIS pin. 

Here is my card... 

To make this card I have used Christmas Bell Medley, heat embossed the bells and pine needles in silver, did some water coloring inspired by the color palette. and layered the water color panel over a striped patterned paper panel.

I was also inspired by a few challenges to make this card... so I will share this card at Just Us Girls Challenge #319 - Watercolor, Inkspirational #95 - Anything Goes with Silver, The Friday Mashup #234 - Winter Theme and The Paper Players #271 - CAS Christmas Card

     
 

Stay tuned for more inspiration tmrw. Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !!

GOOD NEWS and 25 days of Christmas Color Revelations!!

Hello my dear friends and fellow crafters :) I know I have been missing in action lately. Though you see my DT posts often, they were scheduled long time ago and I haven't been able to catch up with all of you lovely people. Sorry about that!! But not any more... coz I am tooooooooooo happy to just sit back and relax, I want to craft as much as I can. You must be wondering why???!!!??!! So here's the Good News... "We are in the family way and our lovely little one is expected to arrive in the end of January" This calls for celebration and I am celebrating with creativity. 

So from today onward I am starting a 25 days card series on my blog. 25 day must have made it obvious, yes!! I will be showcasing a Christmas card both to inspire you and also to build up my Christmas stash. But there is a twist to it, I will make each of these cards using a Christmas Color Palette that I have on my Pinterest Board Called "Christmas Colors". I decided to call this series ....

"25 days of Christmas Color Revelations".

My very first card is inspired by colors in THIS pin. 

Here is my card... 

To make this card I have used Santa is here  and Mixed Media Grunge set

I was also inspired by a few challenges to make this card... so I will share this card at CAS Colors and Sketches #150 - Birthday Bonanza Sketch, Addicted to Stamps and more #170 - Photo Inspiration, House of Cards November challenge - Stamped and cut window and Christmas Card challenges #50 - Inspiration photo

      

 

Since this series is starting with a happy note, I thought I will do a GIVEAWAY... and for that all you have to do is leave a comment on these posts and by the end of 25 days I will draw TWO winners to receive the following Christmas Stamp sets designed by me "Christmas Bell Medley" and "Santa is here" respectively

Thank you so much for all your love all along, all I need now is more of your lovely wishes for the  upcoming new member in our family :)

Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment !!

Twelve Tags of Christmas with Loll and friends - Day 10

It's that time of the year when we need loads of inspiration for our Christmas card and tag stash and my dear and super talented friend Loll is doing just that by organizing the "Twelve Tags of Christmas"  event

Loll has put together an awesome line up of crafters who are inspiring you every day since November 4th with their gorgeous mixed media tags and today I have the honor to Guest design for her event. There are loads of prizes to be won :) all you have to do is create a mixed media and link it HERE for your chance to win!!! 

For this event, Mixed Media is defined as stamps + ink, plus two other elements which add texture and/or dimension.

Winner - $40 gift certificate from STAMPlorations

Top Three - $20 gift certificate each from STAMPlorations

Random Draw - $20 gift certificate from Happy Little Stampers

Random Draw - Christmas Bell Medley set from Dee's Artsy Impressions

Since, I am giving away my Christmas Bell Medley set to one lucky winner, I thought I will make the tag using the same set :) 

 

I made this tag using lot of textures and dimension. I did some stamping, masking and water coloring of the bells. I added embossing paste using a sun burst stencil, water color splash and some more stamping with pine needles and addition of a partially inked die cut sentiment. I also added some wink of stella for additonal sparkle :) Here is a closeup into my tag...

I had so much fun creating this, I hope I was able to inspire you :) will look forward to see your tags and last but not least I want to thank Loll for having me over :)

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

Supplies used - Canson water color paper, Stamp - Dee's Artsy Impressions Christmas Bell Medley; Inks - Archival Jet Black; Dies - SSS Large Tag dies, Papertrey Ink - Peace die cut; Sun burst stencil, Hemptique - Black Hemp; Koi water colors; Wendi Vecchi white embossing paste; Wink of Stella Clear; Patterned paper - Glitz Raven 6x6"

STAMPlorations Inspiration - November 13th 2015

Hello friends! Today at the STAMPlorations blog, we have got more inspiration for you. You can check out the Inspiration Posts HERE and we invite you to CASE one of our cards and link it up to the Inspiration CASE Playground. You are not required to use STAMPlorations stamps to play along, You can use any stamps from any company as long as you are making the card for fun.

At the end of the Inspiration Post on the STAMPlorations blog you will find InLinkz which will be open until the November 5th and wait we also have prizes. One winner will be randomly drawn from all entries to win a $15 gift certificate towards your purchase at STAMPlorations (or your choice of any 2 ARTplorations stencils). We will also be highlighting the best CASEs.. Sounds like fun !!

So let me show my second inspiration card for the month of November...

To make this card,  I used Shery Russ Designs - Hope Blooms and Mixed Media Elements stamp set. The card was fun and easy to make. On the card base, I added the Damask patterned paper panel and took a water color panel and tore it along the edge. I then did some watercoloring and stamping on it with some mixed media stamps. On another watercolor panel, I stamped the blooms and water colored them as if the colors are dripping, adhered it all on the card base.
I am sharing this at Virginia's View Challenge #20 - All about textures, Make Art Challenge November - Celebrate Fall, Craft Stamper Take it Make it Nov Challenge - Take a Stamp anything Goes! and 613 Avenue Create #149 - Anything Goes

 

Head over to our STAMPlorations blog to get more inspiration. Thank you for stopping by and leaving me a comment.

STAMPlorations Spotlight - Coloring with the reverse side of stamp!

Hello friends! Today I am up with a spotlight project over at the STAMPlorations blog. This is my 25th spotlight feature and I hope I will be able to inspire you.  I am showcasing a step by step process to make this card, the idea is to use the back of an outline stamp to add color :)

So, here's a look into the finished card ...

I am sharing this at Christmas Card challenges #49 - Anything Goes!, Color Me #97 and Craft Stamper Take it Make it Nov Challenge - Take a stamp Anything Goes!

  

I have used Dee's Artsy Impressions - Christmas Bell Medley to make this card.

    

    

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