A Baby Card!

Hello dear friends,

How was your weekend? Hope you had a great relaxing weekend. Mine was busy as ever. Last weekend before school closes. I cannot wait for the winter break and have a relaxing holiday. Monday is mad also as ever until afternoon. I generally craft in the afternoon on Mondays. This afternoon I wanted to colour. I coloured couple of cute elephants to make a baby card.

The elephants are  from Mama and Me stamp set from Taylored Expressions. This is such a cute set with some really good sentiments. I stamped and copic coloured the elephants. I sponged the sky and grass using Tumbled Glass and Mowed Lawn distress ink after masking the elephants. I then removed the mask. 

To add some dimension, I die cut the panel using the frame die from Frame in Frame Cutting Plate from Taylored Expression.  This gave me a frame as well as the inner panel. I adhered the frame to the card base using liquid glue and the panel using foam adhesives. You can see the dimension on the closeup photo below.

The sentiment is also from the same stamp set which I stamped on a white strip of cardstock and adhered using foam adhesive. Doodlebug's Sprinkles brings the card together. I also used copic markers to ground the elephants.

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I am over at Winnie & Walter today

Yes, I have a dapper card to share at Winnie & Walter Blog.

Here is a sneak peek of my card.

I have used masking technique and a lot of stamping.

 More details and photos on Winnie & Walter Blog.

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Custom make your own card background.

Hello dear friends,

I have a very colourful and vibrant card to share with you today. One of my favourite technique to do is to custom make my own background for my cards. This makes my happy because I use techniques or stamp or both and the result is very unique every time. The process itself gives me great pleasure and results are amazing. Of course, there are times when things don't turn out the way you wanted but this card turned out better than expected. Here it is.

This is how I did my background. I sponged Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Spice Marmalade and Ripe Persimmon  distress ink in that order on to my card panel. Distress inks take a little time to dry. I wanted the panel to be dry dry because I wanted to stamp on it. And you get a really clean crisp image when the distress inks are really dry. Of course you can zap it with heat gun. Anyway, I used the image from Sprigs stamp set by Penny Black to stamp with Versafine Black Ink. This is a pigment ink, so this ink also takes sometime to dry as well. Make sure you don't smudge the ink. I loved the contrast of black against the coloured background.

I then used the stitched rectangle die from Stitched Duo 2 die from Pretty Pink Posh to die cut the centre rectangle from the panel. I also die cut three more rectangles out of black cardstock and one using vellum cardstock. Now, I  stacked and glued the three black rectangle then the stamped rectangle on the top. The stamped frame negative is adhered to the card base. I then inlaid and glued the stacked rectangle panel back in place. This panel has a bit of dimension  although it is inlaid back in its place.

On the vellum rectangle die cut, I stamped and white heat embossed the flower bouquet image and sentiment also from the same Sprigs stamp set. I added tiny drops of glossy accent behind the heat embossed area and also on the four corners of the vellum panel and adhered it on top of the inlaid panel on the card front.You can hardly see the glossy accent behind the vellum.  I then used Strawberry Burst and Sunshine Glow iridescent sequins and Metallic Silver  4mm sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to accent and bring all the colours on the card together. Then used black twine to tie around into a bow. Here is a closeup of the card.

I absolutely love the background. To customize the background for another card, I do the same process but just change the colours. Or heat emboss the stamped images to get texture. So have fun customizing your card background and make it unique.

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My very first card for Simon Says Stamp.

Oh hello there!

My very first card for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is here.

This week the challenge is Anything Goes

We are showcasing Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used.

Here is my take on the challenge using Simon Says Stamp Exclusive products.

I have used Simon Says Stamp Tiny Dot stencil and sponged Sea Glass ink on white cardstock panel. I then sponged the edges of the panel also with the Sea Glass ink. The focal point is made using Garden Stems Tag and Song Bird Branch dies. I die cut them using watercolour paper. Watercoloured using Zig Real Brush Pens. Then layered and glued them on the panel. I brushed the flowers and leaves with Pink and Green Wink of Stella pen for shimmer. I attached a twine to the top of the tag to give the hanging effect. The sentiment is from To Thine Own Shelf stamp set from Simon Says Stamp. Here is a closeup of the card.

And finally I have added some iridescent sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. You can see the dimension and layering of the die in this photo below.

 

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

So now it's YOUR turn, Happy Crafting

Do you use Instagram?  If so please add  #ssswchallenge to your challenge entry uploads so we can see them on there too!

 

You have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in

No backlinking allowed, Only 5 new creations will be eligible in the prize draw

Hero Arts Tic Tac Toe Challenge!

Me again! Hello!

In this post I like to share a card I made for my solo post at A Blog Named Hero. 

I Played along Hero Arts Monthly Challenge - Tic Tac Toe.

I have used the first column on the left - circles, background stamp and watercolour. 

I have explained my design process at A Blog Named Hero Blog. So head over there to read more details.

If you like to share my excitement on my great news, click HERE!

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