Not 1... Not 2.. but 4 Christmas Cards!

Hello everybody,
After a cyclone in south India, weather in Bangalore also has become very cold. Its raining for past two days and temperature has come down. I was feeling very sleepy whole day but I had done only sleeping yesterday. Lol. So I geared up and thought of making a Christmas card. I made one and then another and then another and made 4 in total.

I made this card first. And I liked it so much that I started making another immediately :) I just love kraft and white and it was on my mind for so long to try this combination. I stamped that Christmas tree, sentiment and those lights with vintage sepia Versafine ink and then added some details with white gel pen to depict the snow. Tree and lights are from Jingle bells stamp set and sentiment is from Santa and friends stamp set from Mudra.

And Now I present my second card

I used almost same technique as earlier card to make this card as well. Only I used white colour pencil to colour those beautiful bells because white gel pen would have been too much white pigment for those bells.

Both bells and sentiment are from Jingle bells stamp set from Mudra.

Now I come to my third card

 I stamped those poinsettias and sentiment with vintage sepia and added details with white get pen. I drew outlines for poinsettias and added some white dots as well. And while doing this I started thinking that the earlier look of the card without white details was also not bad.. In fact I thought it was better. So I did 4th card without white details :)

In this version I just added little white colour at the centre of poinsettias with colour pencil. What do you think? Which version do you like better? Please let me know in comments :)

I enjoyed so much making these cards and I hope you too like them.

Here is how all 4 cards looked together

I am linking all my cards to 

1. AAA cards challenge  CAS Game #79 - Christmas 

2.Simon says stamp Monday Challenge  # Let there be Snow

3. Paru's Cardmaking Challenges December Challenge

Mix it up!!

Hi people,

Have you already heard of a very interesting challenge by Ellen Hutson? Its called Mix it up challenge where they challenge us to create a project by mixing two brands. One is always of course Essentials by Ellen and second brand keeps on changing!! Sounds interesting Huh!! This time We have to mix it up with Art impressions  I came up with this!!

That Beautiful "Beautiful" die is from Ellen Hutson and the lady with wine glass in her hand is from Wine Tasters Set - 4383 from Girlfriends series. While colouring this cute image from Art impressions I also kept the  Day 1 of 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist 2016  in my mind.

And used the same colour theme. Red lips, pink wine, teal shirt and green stool :) I just loved making this tag and I am so happy that it turned out so pretty.

I hope you like it:)

Love and Hugs

Parul

Congrats!! card with bokeh background

Hi everybody,
Today I am here with a brand new card which I made for Altenew's November Inspiration challenge. The inspiration picture was so tempting, even after being quite busy these days I couldn't resist playing.
Please have a look at the inspiration picture..

 And I came up with this card

I had put some Gansai Tambi starry night water colors over flowers and they looked so pretty with that light shimmer. But because of this my card was reflecting the light so I had to take picture in one more orientation.

For making this card I first created the background of bluish green colour with the distress inks. I used evergreen bough and mowed lawn colours. Second step was to create bokeh effect as in inspiration picture. I used my Hero arts unicorn white pigment ink and sponged it over handmade circle stencil. ( I die cut different size of circles out of a OHP sheet)
Once background was ready, I stamped flowers from wild hibiscus stamp set. and then coloured them using Tombow dual brush markers. To give a 3D effect in flowers I put I glued one set of them on the prepared background and glued partially the second copy on them. If you notice left flower you can make that out. :)
I also spluttered some Gansai Tambi gold water colour it just enhanced the beauty of the card beautifully :) I also put a very light coat of this shimmery gold on flowers as well just to make them even more prettier.
I tied a red twine and stamped the sentiment on a stripe of card stock which was also my card base's colour.
And finally I foam mounted the card panel on the card base. And Ta da.. My card was ready!!
I hope you like the card
please let me know your feedback in comments
Love and Hugs
Parul

You are spectacular

Hi friends,
I made this card quite a while ago when I didn't have a blog. But it remains to be one of my all time favourites. So I thought of sharing with you guys.

I have used "Incognito" stamp set and "Glasses" dies from Paper Smooches in this card. The background has been made with first heat embossing the glasses in white.  Then I sponged tumbled glass distress ink to give it a more of masculine look.
The sentiment was stamped on vellum to give the card a very subtle look. And I used pink glasses with blue frame joust to increase the interest.
Hope you like it :)
Love and hugs
Parul

Happy anniversary card with Paper Smooches

Hi friends,
I am back from a long break and today I made this card for one of my cousin for her marriage anniversary :)

The word "Love" is heat embossed and distressed with festive berries distress ink. Sentiment is stamped in black Versafine ink. Both "love" and "happy anniversary" are from Good Gab stamp set from Paper Smooches. Those fish tail banners have been made with scraps of pattern papers and held by a heart shaped brad.  Quite easy huh!! 

Hope my cousin likes it and you too.

Love and hugs

Parul

DT post at Mudra

Dear friends,
Today I am at Mudra blog with a new inspiration.  Here is sneak peak for you. Hop over and leave some love :)

See you soon with next blog post soon.

Love 

Parul

Best mom in the world and Daisy stamp set from Altenew

Hey people,
I am here with a quick post. The inspiration picture of current Inspiration Challenge of Altenew is so colourful that I instantly thought of participating. I had only one day at hand and I came up with this card :)

I liked so much those blue and green washi tapes that I created whole card on that colour theme. This beautiful layered flower is Daisy stamp set from Altenew.  "Best mom in the world" sentiment is from Wild Hibiscus stamp set also from Altenew. :) Other than stamping there is some inking to create that green border.

I am linking this card to Altenew September 2016 inspiration Challenge

I hope you like it

Thanks for stopping by

Parul

Invitations and Invitations !!

Hi lovely people,

I am today at Mudra Craft stamps blog showing how to design beautiful invites!! Here is a sneak peek for you !!

So head over to Mudra Blog and leave some love. 

I am linking the white and gold embossed invitation card to Simons says stamp Monday challenge : Emboss it

Thanks 

Parul

I love Math

Hi creatives,
I  am back from my holidays and I feel so relaxed. I must say I misses crafting :) Today I am here with a card which is inspired from an inspiration board at I love math challenge #1. Maths being my favourite subject I wanted to play along as soon as I saw this challenge.
The inspiration board is quite interesting

 and I came up with this card

I just hope that its easily understandable :)

I had to use some circular shape so Venn diagram were only choice I could think of to incorporate that shape mathematically. And after lot of brain storming I thought I will show the union operation. 

I used "<" + "3" = <3 (heart)

Second, I had to use positive negative effect. I had a hard time understanding it :) so I used masking and stamping to give that effect. I first stamped the "<" in black ink through mask and then sponged yellow ink. Next, I put a acetate over this circle and stamped the "<" again with yellow ink.  I hope you are getting me. Same process was followed in all three parts. 

I used yellow and red in first two circles and then orange in third to show their union ( red+yellow=orange) :) It also fulfilled the third requirement of challenge( yellow and orange colours)

Next, I stamped the sentiment on a card base and adhered the trimmed focal point with foam tapes to add some dimensions.

And that completes my card for today.

I am linking this card to following challenges

1. I love math challenge #1

2. Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge   Stencil it  

Hope you like it. 

Thanks and regards 

Parul

Lotus blooms and Polka dot Butterfly

Hi everybody,

I am on Mudra's blog today; sharing my creations. The Lotus Bloom, Polka dot butterfly and Metamorphosis are main features. :) Here is a sneak peak for you:

For more details please hop on to Mudra.  I would love to here from you :)

Thanks
Love
Parul

Congrats on your new home

Hello people,

Happy new year !! And here comes my first post of 2016. I was asked by a friend to design a card as a gift for her sister, congratulating her on her new home. And I came up with this card.

Yes its a shaker card !!Initially I didn't have any idea what I was going to make but it turned out really well. I have had this mini stamp set from Papertrey ink for so long but never got to use it. It is so apt for this occasion.

In India when people buy a new house they usually organize a Pooja (Worshipping God) before starting to live in it. That's why I chose these traditional colours (shade of saffron and reddish pink).

The house image is stamped with Avery elle inks Fizz and Raspberry and then fussy cut. Ashley's fussy cutting tips came really handy. you can check out her video here. The sentiment is stamped with black archival ink. And to provide the matting of matching colours I actually smooshed the Fizz and Raspberry ink pads on the edges of mats. And They looked really cool.
I just looveed it!! hope you also like it.
I am linking this card to
1.Paru's Card making challenges # New. As my stamp set is new and this card is for a new home. Paru has started a really cool challenge with awesome prizes. Do check it out and participate.

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2. MAKE IT MONDAY #236: 2015 A LA CARTE
3. Simon Says stamp Monday Challenge # something New

Roses, candles and a birthday card

Hello People,

My today's card is inspired by the colour combination of this beautiful outfit by Tory Burch for ric #97 .

I was always fascinated to this not so common colour combo whenever I saw it. But never gave it a try ( I don't know why...). Thanks to ric# 97   who made me to try this And I came up with this card

You must be wondering why have I posted two photographs with slight difference. Well, I was not able to decide which one is better. LOlz.. So How do you find it. I really liked the overall design.

Along with this colour combination there is one more thing which I used in this card after so much delay. That is  Vintage roses stamp set from Altenew. I had got this stamp set  2 months ago but kinda resisted using it. May be I was not confident enough of layered stamping. So these orange coloured roses are my first try at Vintage roses. I know they could have been better...

The background was super fun to make. I had lot of blue squares left over from polaroid die so I just stuck them over a piece of white card stock 1/2" smaller than white card base. 

Stamped roses and fussy cut them. I stamped the sentiment (Cas-ual Fridays) on a oval die cut in versamark and white heat embossed it. I also sponged the edges of this oval to add some depth.I had few negatives of candle die so used it as mask and sponged some ink to make candles. Don't they look pretty??

So when almost all elements were ready I assembled the card. First took a blue card stock 1/4" smaller than card base and adhered the tiled background on it. Arranged the roses, adhered them as well in desired fashion and foam mounted the sentiment oval. And finally foam mounted this complete assembly on card base. The pictures are bit flat. May be you can observe the layers in following picture.

Hope you like the card. Please leave your comments to let me know.

I am linking this card to Runway Inspired Challenge #97

and  Addicted to stamps and more challenge#174

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs 

Parul

Happy Holidays !!

Hello everybody,

My today's card is inspired by the photo inspiration of Sparkle and Shine Challenge # 19. You can have a look at it here..

The colour combination is so tempting that I could not resist myself from giving it a try. And I came up with this card

I went for a layered yet simple card. The purple glittery border, snowflakes embossed background , a flourish and a beautiful sentiment were the ingredients in my card recipe.

From the first look on this photo inspiration I thought of a purple glittery washi tape in my stash. This is a light shade washi tape with very subtle glitter in it. I put this on all four sides of a card stock (1/4 ") smaller than card base  and my first layer was ready!!

I took another half inch smaller card stock and dry embossed the snowflake background. To match it with purple colour scheme I sponged dusty concord distress ink very lightly over it. Next I die cut a flourish from white card stock and sponged it with dusty concord in a darker shade and glued it on snowflake background. Thus, second layer was ready. Both these layers were foam mounted on card base. I stamped the sentiment on a white stripe and adhered it with foam tape in just centre and glue on both ends. Which gave it a look of raised banner. So my card was ready!!

I hope you like the card. Please leave comment to let me know.

I am linking this card to

Sparkle and Shine Challenge # 19 

Simon says stamp Monday Challenge - Holly Jolly Stamping

Virginia's View Challenge # 21

Addicted to CAS challenge # 78 

Thanks for stopping by

love

Parul

RIC # 96

Hello all,

How are you doing? My today's card is inspired by Runway inspired challenge # 96. I LOOOVE this dress. That floral pattern with hint of purple compelled me to make something. And you know what! My elder sister is going to receive this card. Its her wedding anniversary next week. 

So here we go!!

This card has lot of layers, stamping and inking. I started with a white card stock and stamped the florals from Altenew lacy scrolls  with purple pigment ink and  clear heat embossed it. Next, stamped the leaves from same stamp set and white heat embossed them. Then I sponged lot of chipped sapphire and black soot distress inks and sprayed some water on it. Water droplets were pat dried with tissue paper to add an artistic look. Lolz.  After drying it cut out a quadrilateral out of it and kept aside. Took another white card stock and sponged some seedless preserved through falling heart stencil (Simon says stamp) and foam mounted it on card base. Further I stick the ready panel on in. I heat embossed the main sentiment (penny Black) on a black circular die cut and stamped the supporting sentiment (Mama Elephant)  on a stripe of white paper. Took some silver thread, made a lot of loops and put them behind black circle ( which I cut at bottom :P) and adhered it to card. Then adhered the supporting sentiment stripe and my card was DONE!!

It looks beautiful and I am hoping that my sister will also love it.

Thanks for stopping by. Your comments will be highly appreciated :)

I am linking this card to following challenges

1. Runway Inspired Challenge # 96

2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge # Anything goes

3. Addicted to stamp and more # 172

4. CAS-ual Chic #05 Precious Metals

Love

Parul

Pretty Pink

Hello all,

Hope you all are doing well!! Since today was a busy day and I really need some sleep; this post is short. This card is one of my commissioned work and involves lot of  stamping, embossing,inking and fussy cutting. I will share the picture of envelope as well because like me you may also love envelope more than card.. Lol. So have a look at the card first :)

One of the sentiment and high heel shoe stamps are from hero arts. Happy Birthday stamp is from paper smooches and other pretty party accessories including cake are digis. Shoe and dress are colored with Victorian Velvet distress ink. Every thing is fussy cut and sentiments are stamped on vellum so that the pink theme is not disturbed. Background is embossed half in white and half in pink. I am in so much love with this new pink embossing powder from Wow.Card has 4 layers and its  a two fold card as you can see below

So card is pretty thick and that led to design a box envelope

I did embossing on envelope as well.. Isn't this Pretty?
well that's it for today.
Hope you like it.
Love
Parul

love for blue

Hey crafters,
Hope you all are doing well. I am back with one more card after a long time. Actually I was engaged in some commissioned work. Diwali is around the corner and is the most celebrated festival in north India. Its a 5 days celebration where fifth day is for brothers and sisters. Its called Bhaidooj. One of my client wanted a card for her brother and she didnt want simply "Happy Bhaidooj" written on it. She wanted some meaningful general message and hence I came up with this card. I always reach out to blue whenever I design a masculine card :)

I just loved the outcome. The combination of gold, blue, black and white turned out just magical. my client also loved it at first sight. Well here are the steps I followed:

Step 1: I took a piece of white card stock 1/4 inch smaller than card base and sponged tumbled glass distress ink over it through a chevron patterned stencil from Heidi Swapp.

Step 2: I sponged salty ocean distress ink around the edges of the same piece.

Step3: I took another piece of card stock, cut a quadrilateral with craft knife and stamped the floral pattern(penny black) on it with versamark ink. Next, I heat embossed it with golden embossing powder.

Step 4: I sponged this piece with salty ocean and peacock feathers heavily and adhered it to the chevron patterned card stock.

Step 5: I die cut a circle out of black card stock and white heat embossed the sentiment on it from my brand new stamp set from penny Black. And at this point my presence of mind came handy ..LOl I remembered about this stamp set from mama elephant and this sentiment went very well with the main sentiment. So I cut one part of the circle to make its bottom flat and stamped the sentiment directly to the chevron card stock according to planned arrangement.

Step 6: I made some loops with silver twine, put them on card stock and adhered the sentiment on it.

Step 7: I provided fun foam backing to whole panel and mounted it on white card stock. 

And my card was ready.

Hope you like it.

 I am linking this card to following challenges:

Simon Says stamp Monday Challenge # create something beginning with letter 'N'

Virginia's View Challenge #20

Cas-ual Fridays CFC# 145

Sparkle and Shine challenge seventeen

CAS-ual Chic (utterly adorable layers)CCC 05 # precious Metals

Have a Rocking Birthday

Hello creative people,

Today I am here with a layered and heavily embellished card. A client of mine wanted to give a very masculine card to his boyfriend and I came up with this

I thought of every element which was associated with birthday party and was in the liking domain of a boy. Lol.. And then took out all relevant supplies as guitar stamp and propose a toast die from PTI, glasses die from Paper Smooches, headphone die from MFT, and sketch heart Die from SSS (after all this card was for BF ). The sentiment in the card is from Keep on Rockin' stamp set from MFT. And here goes the process:

Step 1: I chose some grey card stock for card base as well as layers. I took a grey card stock 1/4"smaller than card base and put black glitter washi tape on all four sides. 

Step 2: I took another card stock 1/2" inch smaller than card base and stamped some script from 2-3 different stamps in versamark and heat embossed it with charcoal embossing powder. To make this grey color darker I sponged some black soot distress ink over it.  It made such a subtle and attractive background that you can possibly appreciate it to full when you look it in person.

Step 3: I took a stripe of black card stock and stamped the sentiment with versafine and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. ThenI cut fish tails in this stripe on both ends.

Step 4: I stamped guitar with black archival ink and fussy cut it, die cut two wine glasses (one in sparkling silver and one in red). I also die cut headphone, glasses and sketch heart. To make heart more attractive I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder as well.

Step 5: I tried different arrangements and settled for the one showed in picture and glued every thing at their respective places. Guitar and one wine glass were foam mounted to give some extra dimension.

Step 6: While assembling I first sponged some black soon on card base to match the color and then   I foam mounted the card stock with washi tape border on it and then glued the top layer with embellishment on it. The washi tape provided very charming as well as sparkling border.

And this completes it. My client is super happy. Hope you also like it.

I am linking this card to CAS-ual Chic # 04 (CCC04) challenge under last row (distressing, sparkling, embosing),

Beyond Grey Challenge # 72

Lulupu Challenge # 54 embossing magic

Paper Smooches Sparks challenge (Wk3)

Thanks for Stopping by

Parul

Miss You

Hii,

Its weekend here already an we have to attend a family function as well. So this post will be really quick. This weeks the inspiration picture of Paper Smooches Sparks Picture perfect challenge is so pretty. You can have a look at it.

It made me think of fall theme going everywhere on blogs but in India we don't celebrate fall really. October is packed with lot of festivals but they are mostly associated with lord Rama. I said its goig to be a quick post right? Lol..

So I came up with this card

I have lot of Paper Smooches stamp sets but lately I  have fallen with digi stamps so thought of using one from Paper Smooches free digi stamps. I printed these cute leaves in two sizes on water color paper and colored them with distress inks ( picked raspberry, spiced marmalade, festive berries and mustard seed) and fussy ,s them. I know it was a lot to do but I enjoyed it and leaves too look really cool.

Next, I took  a water color paper 1/4" smaller than my card base and generously painted it with water. Once it was completely wet I started painting  with weathered wood and black suit inks. I dried it and sprinkled some ink with brush over it and thus my background was ready. 

I stamped the sentiment in the middle and foam mounted the panel over card base. Then assemble the leaves around the sentiment. And to express the emotion visually I left the pattern incomplete. Hope,I am making sense :)

That completes my card for today.

Hope you like it..

I am linking this to Paper Smooches Spark Picture Perfect Challenge and 

Simon says stamp Monday challenge Wonderful Watercolor, 

CASology Week # 168, 

Virginia's view challenge# 19, 

Addicted to stamps and More chellenge# 166

Beyond Grey Challenge # 72

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge 

Smile is the best thing

Hello Creatives!!

Runway Inspired Challenge is one of my favourite challenges and I am really glad that I am participating in this time. The inspiration picture; the costume designed by Emilio de la Morena is really cool.  Haven't you seen it? No problem. Here it is..

And after looking at it lot of times I came up with this card

             

I got my inspiration in this fabulous color combination. And This may sound funny but I started designing this card around the sentiment. I have recently bought this beautiful Jillibean soup stamp set and wanted to use it desperately.So following are the steps I followed to make this card:

Step 1:  I tool a white card base 1/4" smaller than card base and dry embossed with the very relevant embossing folder (Darice Dress form small.Thank God I had it in my stash.) and then sponged it with salty ocean distress ink.
Step 2: I cut a 2' wide vellum stripe and stamped the sentiment in onyx black versafine ink and clear heat embossed it to prevent smudging.

Step 3: This step was most difficult one.I wanted to embellish this card with same color combination as that of skirt of the model. It had many colors as blue, pink, purple, yellow green etc. To convert that thought into reality my Avery Elle Laurels stamp set and dies came to rescue. I pulled out all my inkpads and tried many combination to achieve same kinda color combination. And when I was happy with the result I diecut them.

Step 4: I started assembling the card by first sticking the vellum stripe to the dry embossed panel and foam mounting it over the card base. Just to give the look as if vellum stripe is held by brads I put two enamel dots on either sides of sentiment :)

Step 5: I arranged the flowers and leaves symmetrical and when I was happy with the arrangement I glued them, added a clear wink of stella over them and card was ready!!

I am really happy that this card is also eligible for Cas-ual Friday's Cas-ual Chic challenge #04 as well. I am going for third row (Distressing, sparkling and embossing)

I hope you like the card as much as I enjoyed it making :) Do let me know !!

I am linking this card to Runway Inspired challenge #93,

 Lulupu Challenge # 54 Embossing magic,

Beyond Grey challenge # 72, Addicted to stamps Challenge # 166, Cas-ual fridays CCC04