Bragging time today:)

G' Morning! It is Mad Monday today. After a very long day at Music Awards yesterday, I am still exhausted. Kids off to school and hubby to work. Cooking lunch at the moment. So I thought I will share some photos from Music Awards yesterday. Ready for a photo heavy post?

 

Siddarth got his trophy for Under18 Fretted Strings and Aditi received hers for Under 11 Piano. Aditi also came second in her singing. Both very happy. I love when they told me that it was their everyday practices that got them where they are right now. Proud parent moment:)

Normally I don't post personal photos on my blog. But these ones are special. So Thanks for sharing my excitment:)

See you soon!

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Readers' Choice!

Well, did you see this? Papercraft magazine has for the first time asked to select two cards out of 10 by the readers for publishing in their Jan/Feb issue under Valentines for Guys. How cool is that? So I went to see all the cards. And to my surprise (sweet of course lol!) my card is one among the 10. Wow!

So here is the link if you wish to vote.

 

I am out of town and don't have a good internet connection. It is frustrating to have the internet go off and on at its own will! And I never thought I am so dependent on it too :( So all my posts have to wait until Tuesday. This post took me like 10 minutes to type and more than half an hour to publish it!!!!

Anyway, thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Ta!

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I am a Heroine

This interactive card of mine was picked as one of the Heroines @ A Blog Named Hero's Challenge #3.

I am happy and excited. Thank you, Mary Dawn and Linda!

And here is the badge I received :)

Cool badge hun! Thanks for sharing my excitment.

Good Night from Australia!

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Featured!

Yay! this card of mine was featured as winner at Case Study #89 challenge. 

I am so happy and thrilled. Thanks you so much. Those neon colours are the trend at he moment atleast with fashion. I am seeing a lot of neon colour shoes on store fronts. I love bright colours and neon is a bit of an overdo but hey, they make me happy :) I even bought come nice neon colour pens lol!

This is my first at Case Study challenge blog and I get to wear this badge.

Thanks for sharing my excitment :) Have a great day!

See you soon.

Ta!

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I am a Rock star!

Toot! Toot! Sharing my toot today. 

This card was featured at Retro Sketches as a Rock Star for sketch #5.

I am particularly very pleased with how this card turned out for me. The colours and patterns all came together beautifully with the Retro Sketch. So glad it is featured :) Thank you Retro Sketch team. I am very excited about it and am proud to wear this badge.

Thanks for stopping by! See you soon :)

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Some Birthday Invitations :)

I made some birthday invitations for my friend's son's birthday party using the sample invite made for the blog hop here. It became popular that I am asked to make a girl version of it using butterfly for a little girl's birthday party.
So here is what I came up with.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Stampers Select White from PTI, Tempting Turquoise from SU

Stamps: Party Elements Critters from Clean ans Simple stamps. Father Knows Best from PTI

Inks: Pixie Pink from SU and Stazon black ink

Accessories: Stripes embossing folder from SU, brayer, cuttlebug, Beautiful Butterflies dies from PTI and rhinestones from Kaisercraft.

She liked it so much especially the butterflies and the rhinestones on it. This card fits into a normal envelope. I adhered a butterfly on the envelope to coordinate the invites.

 I only wish I can get colour envelopes here in Australia. If you know where to get colour envelopes in Australia, please email me at scrapawayg3 at gmail dot com.

Thanks for stopping by!
 If you like to play a fun challenge with me, then check it out here.

See you soon!

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Gilded Lily Award

I am going to brag today because I am given the rights to unlimited bragging (giggle). I saw a few comments congratulating me on my win at Lily Pads Blog. So I went over to the blog and scrolled down. I saw my card and I don't know what came upon me that I closed the page. I think I didn't expect it as a winner and also it has been sometime since I made this card. After a few minutes, I went back to the blog and re read it again. I am honoured and humbled that this card of mine is picked as a winner :) 

Thank you so much.

I also get a $25 gift certificate fro Purple Onions Designs. This will be my first buy from them. I have seen a few fantastic projects made using their stamps. Very excited. Cannot wait to choose some of their stamps :)

I did promise to blog about my opinion on The Hunger Games Movie today. It has been a busy and long day. I am hoping after dinner I will get sometime with my laptop to blog. So hopefully another blog post coming soon :)

See you soon!

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Liebster Blog Award

For past few days, I have been humbled and honoured by the generosity of some talented crafters who have awarded me with the Leister Blog Award.

Here is the list of  talented crafters who have awarded me this award.

1. Kay Demonbren

2. Indira Tanwar

3.Lyndal Higgins

4. Chaitali  Narla

5. Michelle Lupton
6. Jen Adcock

Your work is gorgeous and you are all very talented. Love all your work. I enjoy visiting your blogs and seeing all your amazing projects and certainly learn something new. Thank you so much for nominating me for the award :)

I hope I have not missed anybody. I went through my list but if I have missed anybody, please remind me and I will definitely add your name to the list.

The idea of the Liebster Blog Award is to spread the love from one small blog (under 200 followers) to other small blogs. This helps to spread knowledge and readership.

To accept the award, you must:
1) Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you.
2) Post the award to your blog.
3) Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.
4) Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know.

 It is hard choosing just 5, isn't it?

 Nevertheless, here are my chosen 5

1. Deb

2. Euna

3. Therese

4. Susie

5.Tejal

The work all these crafters are just wonderful and I always find some great techniques or fantastic colour combinations when I visit their blogs. So please visit their blog and leave them some love :)

Thanks so much for visiting and see you soon :)

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Blog Award!

Kara honoured me with this award yesterday! Thanks Kara! You are very sweet. Love your work :)

Liebster' is German for 'dearest'.  The award is a 'share-the-love' arrangement, given to inspirational bloggers with less than 200 followers.

Here's the to-do list of any Liebster award recipient:

Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.
Reveal your five blogger picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog
Copy and paste the award on your blog (see above)
Hope that those you award forward it to their favourite bloggers

Below are five favorite bloggers who have different styles but always inspire me with their work. I love having this chance to let them know how lucky I have been to meet them through this shared stamping adventure!

1. Joy of Less is More

2. Debbie of Lime Doodle

3. Jen of Only Love Is Real! Papercraft

4. Michelle of Amusing Michelle

5. Cara of Cards by Cara

I love the styles of these stampers. They are different but fabulous work.Love love their styles.

 Please visit their blog and leave some love for them :)

Thanks for visiting!

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Introducing Charlie!

Charlie is our new 8 week old Cocker Spaniel puppy. We brought him home yesterday and he has been a good boy. He only woke up thrice at night and cried. But soon settled down. So we all had a good night sleep.

Here are some pictures of Charlie.

 Isn't that little pointy tail cute? He is not able to control his tails completely. It just goes all over the place. lol!

His ears are so big that when he bends to drink water from his bowl, his ears get wet lol!

He is quick learner. He has already knows to sit upon command. Love his big floppy ears and how they go up and down when he runs and jumps lol! Trying to potty train him. Its a challenge but he will learn soon.   Its been so much fun and busy since his arrival. Love him :) Hope you like my little fella :) Got to go now. Will have to see how I craft with him around!

See ya soon!

Luv!

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Cupcake banner!

Hello everybody, 

How are you all? I have been busy getting into my routine. This year my children's school has their big school fete. Of course, we are going to have a craft stall and I am busy busy getting things organised for the stall. One of the item for the stall is banners. So I have started making a few and here is one. I have used Papertrey Ink's cupcake die to make this banner.

Here are the closeups. I choose bright colors and embossed the cake using cuttlebug polka dot to give texture.

 Aren't the buttons yummy? Love this banner especially if you have a cupcake themed birthday for kids. Oh, Yum!

I have also made couple of banners with Baby Onesie die and they are at school. I forgot to take photos of them. Will have to wait for a few days to get access to them and take photos.

Anyway, Guess what? we are getting a puppy!!! Yay!

One of the school teacher has  pure breed cocker spaniel pup litter. We went and saw them yesterday and could not say no. Absolutely CUTE with long soft hairy ears and big beady eyes Aww!. There were two boys and one girl. The girl was already choosen by another person. We had a tough time choosing one out of the two boys but we did. He is 8 weeks old and weaned off as well. We are bringing him home this evening. My kids are still in shock because we kept saying no to dogs for such a long time and one fine evening out of nowhere we said yes we can get one. lol! I still cannot believe it that my DH said yes but its true.  He is going to be called Charlie. Will take some photo and share tomorrow.

See ya soon!
Luv!

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For the love of bicycles

I have recently fallen for bicycles. Especially the old antique bicycles with the baskets. Its just chic, I think!I used to ride to school in my bicycle until my 12th grade. I don't have that bicycle but I have a mountain bike now. I ride during spring and summer. Love to ride.
I once owned  a purple bicycle with a green basket 8 years ago in India. I left it with my in-laws when I moved to Australia. I love that bike. It was so pretty and chic.
I love them so much that I made a board for bicycles on Pinterest. Here is a link if you are interested - BICYCLE INSPIRATION

 Here is a Bicycle card, I made today :)

Kaisercraft this month released a collection called Pink Gelato which has  beautiful bicycles on them. Of course, I wanted them and bought the Paper Pad and Chipboard. Here is another picture of the card.

Sentiment and cardstock from Papertrey Ink and pattern papers from Kaisercraft as well. I now hope that Papertrey Ink or any other company release a nice bicycle stamp set. Don't you think so? Its a must have to me and a great set to add to my stamp collection :)

Thanks for stopping by!  And if you know of any Bicycle stamp set, please don't forget to add a link on the comments. Thanks in advance.

Luv!

Look what I received in my mail today!

Today I received my prize from Craft's Meows I had won couple of weeks ago. I am jumping with joy. 

 

 This set is called Celebrating You  by Nina Brackett. I love love these Fushia flowers. I loved all the DT inspiration and when I won the set, I was thrilled.

 Now I can't wait to ink them. Tomorrow maybe (wink!)  Thanks so much Craft's Meows team.

I have another post today sharing my recent love of bicycles :)

See ya soon!

Luv!

Updating on the flu

Just updating on my flu. Still pretty much down with flu and sinusitis.  Hate evenings when cough flares up and difficulty sleeping. I have all the symptoms you can imagine with flu. On medication every 4 hours and hoping the worse is over. Rest is what is needed at the moment and maybe in a few more days I should be back to normal.

 

For the good news, I won the random Tuesday Trigger Challenge last week. for the blue and white card below. Click here to see on Moxie Fab World blog :)

 

Thanks for stopping by! Hoping to see you soon :)

 

Luv!

Prayer request please

 Last couple of weeks was very stressful and exhausting. We had so many deaths in our family for past 6 months.We lost most of our older generation. Now there is a one more family member on life support at the hospital. So my in-laws had only one week to spend with us before they had to rush back home. All this me put us under tremendous stress.  We are still dealing with the situation but now its a waiting game. Everything has been done and we are hoping for a miracle. So please keep me and my family member in your prayers.

I had no time to craft until today and I thought a little time off making a card would help me reduce my stress. I have tried to focus and make a card and I did make one. So there is a post coming soon with a card share.

Thanks once again for your prayers.

Happy to be back!!!!!

Hi everybody,

I am so happy to be back. I had been away for the holidays to visit my parents and in-laws and now back home in Australia. Home Sweet Home always and forever, don't you think?  :) 

For past 3 weeks I had been super busy. Did not time to even open my laptop. Last week of holidays was like visiting friends and families. We had to come back home 10 days early due to an important reason. After coming back, ofcourse there is cleaning, washing, sorting out the suitcases.....DH was sick with fever, diarrhoea and vomiting during last week. He is getting better.Kids went crazy coming back home and looking at their gaming things. All of us were jet lagged for a few days and the weather is hot!

Anyway, now that I am back home, I can't wait to restart stamping and blogging.I have some new stuff to play with and hoping after my DH goes back to work next week I can restart blogging. I don't know about you all, if my DH is at home, its chaos at home. Nothing goes as per routine and I cannot plan and do anything at home. And my kids are still on school holidays and constantly I am cooking and cleaning. So hoping atleast on the weekend I will get to stamp and take photographs.

So Happy New Year 2011 everybody and keep tunning in for new projects this year.

Luv!

Look what I made!

Wrinkled ribbons!!! I have been drooling at them for a while especially on Sarah Martina's and Melissa Phillip's blog. Finally I got to making my own wrinkled ribbons.I am so thrilled :)

These are all dyed using SU reinkers. Such gorgeous colors and the wrinkle and there is sheen to the ribbon which the camera has not picked up. I am going to try more colors tonight! So happy with myself today! lol!

Thanks for sharing my joy today :)

Luv!