Sharing some published cards

Sharing with you three of my cards published in Australian Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft Magazine

Here is my first card which is on the cover as well.

This card uses Wplus9  Milk and Cookies to make a Valentine's Day card. Something different from a traditional Valentine's Day card using hearts, red and pink colours.

These second and third cards were made for Stamper's Challenge using Stampin' up! Oh Hello Stamp set. 

The Australian Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft Magazine is awesome with so many great inspiration and tutorials. I am blessed to be published in the magazine. If you like to subscribe, click here!

Thanks for sharing my excitment.

Celebrate Everyday!

What do you do when you have flu and no energy to get out of bed and do chores? Go on Pinterest and keep pinning :) That is what I was doing for past two days. I very recently repinned this picture from somebody into my "Inspirational Patterns" board.

I love the colourful graphics on the background and wanted to recreate it.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Stampers Select White from PTI

Stamp sets: Grunge Me, Flight of a Butterfly and Day Dreamer from PTI, Extreme Elements from SU, The Silhouette stamp is from Inkidinado. Sorry don't know the name of the set. Celebrate Everyday from Hero Arts

Inks: Bubblegum, Sage, Watermelon, Ocean, Papaya, Lemon, Cherry ffrom Amuse Inks, Stazon Black Ink,Perfect Plum and Crumb Cake from SU

I am entering it for Papercraft Connection''s March Gallery Challenge. Hope you like my take on the inspirational picture. Thanks for stopping by! 

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Inspired by Pinterest

I have a board on Pinterest called Inspirational Patterns. When I look at a picture and I think, this will work on a card, I pin it to this board. I saw this yesterday and I pinned it. 

I liked this layout especially the masking part of it. I was inspired by it and wanted to make a card immediately. So this is what I came up with.

 

Perfect spring card right? You could use leaves like in the inspirational picture and make a card for Autumn. Use snowflakes and make a card for winter and for summer, use ball, flip flops, bucket, star fish, umbrella, cocktail glass. So versatile. I love finding such inspirations. 

Supplies:

Cardstock: Stamper's Select White from PTI

Stamp Sets: Day Dreamer and Think Big Favourites # 10 from PTI

Inks: SU's Pink Passion, Tempting Turquoise, Plum Pudding, Summer Sun, Tangerine Tango.Kiwi Kiss and Poppy Parade. Stazon Black Ink

Accessories: SU markers

Thanks for stopping by! 

Have a great day!

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Second post for today!!!!

Afternoon everybody,

Gosh! its a furnace today! 45 degree celcius and humid as well. I am melting and sticky and yucky!!!! I feel like sitting in the tub filled with cold water throughout the day! Sorry about that but weather is horrible today. Its going to stay this way for the next two days. Hate it especially during the weekends :( But that did not deter me from making this card using Card pattern #99 and Do More With Less.

Check out Card pattern blog for the sketch. Its such a beautiful sketch. And Do More With Less has Dana W Seymour challenging us to do more with pattern paper. I have stamped valentine definition from Su's Love Defined stamp set on the blue panel and hearts tree on the green panel.Here is closeup of the blue panel incase you don't see it.

I have used Prima Analee papers sent by Kris from PTI forum for the holiday swap. Thank you Analee your goodies are beautiful. I have used SU's Love Defined and PTI's Signature Greetings stamp set on the card. Die cuts using PTI Limitless layers dies. Rhine stones and Pearls from kaisercraft and Twine from stash.I enjoyed making this card and is one of my favourite card too :)

Thanks for stopping by!

You have a lovely day!

Waltizingmouse challenge #17

Morning everybody,

Its Monday here for me and the day is hot, windy and sunny. The time is 9.45 AM now and the temperature is already 35 degree celscius! Tops redicted today to be 42 degree celscius!!!! I went out to take some photos of my card and gosh!!! it so bright that I could not open my eyes. I had to wear my sunglasses to take the photos. So the photo are not as good as it should be!

Anyway, here is the link to Waltzingmouse sketch challenge blog to see this week's sketch and if you want to play the challenge too :)

Here is my take on the sketch.

The bell is an image printed from the computer and die cut using Spellbinder label die and stamped with its compatible WMS stamp using SU's Elegant eggplant ink. The sentiment  and DSP are from PTI. Cardstock, brad and lace ribbon from SU. This card came together in 10 minutes last night. What a surprise!!!

Thanks for the lovely sketch. And have a lovely day. I am turning the A/C on now as my eyes are burning. I wish it rains and bring the temperature down but its not predicted on the weather forecast :(  I somehow have to get through this day well hydrated and in the evening there is a carol singing and awards nights at school on the school ground :( Hoping the temperature cools down by then!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Luv!

Sasya Sketches # 40

Its time again for another sketch at Sasya's sketches. Here is sketch no #40

Here is my take on the sketch. I have turned the sketch around and used it.

Love the black, cream and red combo a lot. The papers are from Stampin' Up!, the sentiment from PTI, the tag stamp is from WMS and cardstock from Stampin' Up!

If you are interested in participating, here is the link to the challenge.

There are many DT projects to inspire you and a fantastic prize too.

All the best!

Luv!

Tags with coordinating cards

Well, yesterday I had posted a lot of tags for PTI's blog hop. You can see it here. 

Today I have some cards to coordinate with the first set of tags.

 

 

 

 

 They becomes a gift set now ready to give away. I like gift sets. These can easily made for a class as well.

 

Tomorrow I have another set of tags and coordinating cards to show you.  

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Luv!

A productive afternoon....

Today is such a fantastic day for me! I had the entire afternoon to craft. I seriously made use of it. I made some 3 sets of Christmas and holiday tags, a few DT projects and a thank you card. Well, I cannot share the tags and DT projects yet. So that leaves me with the Thank you card to share.

I love the idea of plethora coffee mugs as background. I saw it on Nicole Heady's blog and also on Moxie Fab World Alert. So here is my version of it. The coffee stamps are from Stampin' Up! I think its retired! I love the sentiment image a lot. There is one more senitment in the set which is cool. So I kept the set.
Among the Moxie fab Alert, there is Moroccon Tea Glass candles which is so beautiful. Love the bright colors and the golden flourish design. If you want some inspiration, check out Moxie Fab World blog. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend :)

Luv!

A set!

Wow! I am  posting one to two post each day since a week. I cannot believe my self! 

Today I have a card and a bag set I made for  Tuesday Trigger Fall Festival Challenge. Here is the  inspiration picture of  Fall Festival.

How cute is that pumpkin holding those roses? I love roses. At the moment, my town is filled with lots and lots of roses in everybody's garden. I drive around the town and watching rose shrubs full of roses and different colors. I have just one rose shrub in a pot and its blood red color. So I have focused on roses and the colors of these roses on my project.

Here is my project. Its a set of congratulations card and a matching favour bag to give a special couple on their special day.

 I have used SU's retired A Rose is a Rose set. I love this set because I can create roses in two layers and looks real. I love to use different hues on the same rose and still look beautiful. Here I have used SU's Summer Sun and Tangerine Tango for the roses and Old Olive for leaves.

Here is the matching Favour bag.

Aren't the colors gorgeous against white? I love it especially with the gorgeous lime green organza ribbon.

This is the other side of the favour bag.

Here is the card and bag together. The bag is made using PTI's favour bag #2. The sentiment from SU.

Thanks for the inspirational photo and challenge. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a lovely day!

Luv!

2S4Y #65

Another card, I taught in my yesterday's class is this one. 

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Another Teacher's thank you card. This card is based on Laura's Sketch #65 at 2S4Y blog. 

Here is the sketch for you.

Another cool sketch and versatile. The DSP and cardstock is from SU. The DSP is retired. The sentiment are from PTI. Not my type of color combination but I like the card though. Vibrant combination is how I will describe it though. As I was finishing this sample card, my friend came along for a chat and she liked it so much that she bought this one too :) Yay!

 

Thanks for a versatile sketch and thanks for stopping by too!

 

Luv!

Diggin on Damask

 I made this card  for Diggin on Damask challenge on Moxie Fab World.

Here is the card for you.

The challenge says to use Damask in a innovative way. This card is a Diwali card. Diwali is festival of lights. I have tried to use Damask as the light from a lamp. Hope I make sense! Am I?

Here is a  picture of Indian Lamp called Diya and I have tried to achieve it using Damask.

The damask and the paddy are rubons. And the sentiment and diecut is from PTI. The cardstock is SU's Poppy Parade. I love the clean result of the card. Thanks for the challenge. It made me think outside the box.

Have a great day!

Luv!

New arrival card!

I have a card today, I made for our family friend who delivered a baby boy yesterday night. 

Here is the card for you.

My friend came home last week with her Circut machine and I cut out a few shapes out of it. See the big onesie and little lamb, they are Circut cut. I embossed the onesie using PTI's impression plate. So cute hun!

I also love the polka dot embossing folder from Cuttle bug on the Certainly Celery cardstock.  The card came together so quickly and I am happy with it. hope my friend is too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Luv!

Sweater inspiration!

This week's Tuesday Trigger inspiration at Moxie Fab World is a gorgeous sweater. 

Here is the sweater for you.

 Here is my take on the challenge.

A simple and clean card. I was inspired by the colors and found this SU DSP so similar in color to the sweater. Loved the button and added SU antique brad to make it look similar to the one on the sweater. Dry embossing to get the texture seen on the sweater and finally I tried to recreate the ruffled collar by punching border using Martha Stewart punch.I made that flower using Laurie's flower tutorial. Here is the link to her video. Gorgeous flower and so easy to make. Thanks Laurie!

I am thrilled with the card! Hope you like it too...:)

Thanks for stopping by!

Luv!

Curtain Call Color Challenge {ACT 53}

Morning everybody, Gosh! its just 9.15 AM and the temperature is already 29 degree C. Going to be a hot and humid day, I reckon! Hate it! I cleaned the carport yesterday! 2 hours of backaching work and the overnight the wind blew all the leaves back in.... Grrrrr! Always happens! :(

Edited: Sorry the link says "I am the first" I had used it for another challenge and forgotton to delete it.  Ooops!

 I am sharing a card I made for Curtain Call Color Challenge. 

Here is the inspirational photo and the colors for the challenge.

Here is my take on the challenge.

 Halloween is not something we do in Australia!  So I chose a birthday card instead. Birthday cards are fast moving too! I love the embossed polka dots (my fav embossing folder) and the sparkly black diecut. The flourishes are from my scrapbooking stash. Sentiment, felt diecuts are from PTI, Vintage brads (my fav), cardstocks from SU, Rhinestones from Kaisercraft. Love the result. Earthy feel to the card don't you think? :)
Thanks for the challenge :) And thanks for stopping by too!

Luv!

 

Exciting news

Well, I am sorry I did not post my second post yesterday! I was so tired after taking kids for different lessons, that I slept on the couch watching TV.

The exciting news is that I am given the opportunity to design for Sasya Sketches blog. Here is the Sasya's sketch blog for you. I had applied a while ago and yesterday I got the good news. I love love sketches and

I am so excited to design for them. Can't wait to start.

This is their sketch #33

Here is my take on the sketch.

 

 

Well, there is something not right about this card! I don't know what it is yet...  I think its the ribbon..... I will figure it out today and replace the photo. Everything else is good. I love the Element of Style stamp from SU. They are so versatile. On the Bashful Blue cardstock the stamp looks vintage right? 

Thanks for the sketch, Sasya! Looking forward to designing your sketches :)

 

Cheers!