Mudra Stamp Second Set of Inspirations - March Release

Hi All,

As a part of Mudra stamps Creative team member, I made few fun and elegant cards using Mudra Stamps. Here is a sneak peek of cards I made. Head over to Mudra Blog for full reveal!

Happy Crafting!
- Priya

AlteNew one layer CAS cards

Hi All,

Quickly sharing a set of cards I made. I love making multiple cards as supplies are already out and if design cane be mass produced nothing like it. I wanted to use AlteNew Painted flowers stamp set and also wanted to try stamping on colored cardstock. So I made 11 one layer cards at once. Misti reduced the time I needed to try multiple color combinations by many folds. I totally love my Misti tool. Even to stamp a little sentiment, I use Misti.. :P

I first selected my colors for the cardstock. I love the PTI cardstock as it's thick and comes in lovely colors. Then I selected by inks. Basically I used 3 sets of inks; reds, blue and yellows...  and decided which cardstock will go with which family of inks..

Since it's colored cardstock, I first stamped the base flower stamp with white ink. It helps in bringing out the true color of inks. I used Misti to prepare the design and stamped the base flowers on the cardstocks.. Then I went ahead to stamp rest of the layers..

Since there is nothing much do to on one layer cards, I added a border by using MFT basic stitched lines. I love this die set too.. It comes as a set of 6 with different designs. I hope you liked the cards.

I want to play along with following challenges :

1. Simon Says Stamp - Something New - Used my new Painted Blooms stamp set from AlteNew

2. A blog named hero - One Layer

3. CASology - Simple

4. Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes (All are birthday cards. You will never have enough :) )

5. Paru's Card making challenges - Keyword "NEW"

Thank you and have a great day!

- Priya

ICRPREWIN03 CAS Cards

Hello friends!

Wishing all my readers a great and a very happy new year! May this year bring lots of joy, love and happiness to you and your family!

So i have decided this year I will be more regular on blogging. :D

To start with, the new challenge is up in ICR! it's all about CAS cards! But as usual we have a twist. the twist is to use something new. Anything you never used before or any technique you wanted to try for long. This is your chance now. Come and play along!

Now the fun part! Prizes!!! Yay!

Our sponsor for this time is Craftshop.in and Rs 500 worth goodies as Prize! 

We're also announcing a special giveaway for participants who will play our challenges every month consecutively from January to April 2016. It has 2 Paper smooches stamp set, 1 Penny Black stamp set, 2 My Mind's eye paper pads and 4 Simon says stamp min ink pads. If there are more than one, we will do a lucky draw!

Time to reveal my inspiration for the challenge. I made one layer card, I used AlteNew inks, SSS-Wplus9 Many thanks, MFT Totally happy for the first time.

Thanks for stopping by! I would love to see your comments. We will have a mid month checkpoint with some more inspirations! 

Thank you,

Happy Crafting! 

Priya Sondhi

Papertrey Ink - Sweet Life

Alright Peeps,

I am super exicted to share this card of mine. I was finally able to lay my hands on PTI stuff and oh boy! I am completely blown away by the quality of their inks, stamps, CS, designs... in short everything! Even the packing was done so neatly and with lots of love and care.. I have to confess, the PTI CS is of the top most quality as compared to the other brand I have worked with during my entire crafting journey.. 3 years!

Check out my first card I made with PTI stamp and die set - Sweet Life. It's such a versatile stamp with such b'ful roses. This is suitable for beginners as well as stampers who has already mastered the stamping techniques. One can choose the level of stamping from single level to three level. I went with 2 level stamping. I stamped roses in the shade of pink. Then with darker shade, I stamped the rose shadow stamp with darker color.. and the final impression is so b'ful.. isn't it?

Challenges entered :

1. Penny black at all sorts - Anything Goes - (ends 3rd Sept.)

2. Sir stamp alot challenge - Anything Goes  - (ends 3rd Sept.)

3. Kraft Zone - CAS - (ends 30th Aug)

4. simonsaysstampblog - Anything Goes (Monday challenge)

Supplies Used :

1. Card Stock :Neenah White, PTI Classic Kraft

2. Stamps and Dies : PTI Sweet Life

3. Inks : PTI Hibiscus Burst, Scarlet Jewel Cube, Simply Chartreuse 

4. Enamel dots from my stash

This is it for today. Have a great day!

Love,

Priya

Stretch your stamps - Day 1 - Faux Watercoloring with Reverse Stamps

Hello Peeps!

How are you doing today? So I have joined my first ever Online card class which is Stretch your stamps. I really liked the concept and finally bought a seat. Seriously, all the girls at OCC really know their job. Each day is filled with lots of techniques and tips.

So on the first day, one of the technique they taught is 'Faux Watercoloring with Reverse Backgroud Stamps'. A reverse background stamp is the one which has lot of stamping area.

Here is the card I made for me. And I really loved the complete outcome. Have a look.

I used the leftovers from glittered 'hello' diecut and glued it to the body of butterfly to highlight these cuties and to spread a little gold to the upper part of the card for an even look.

I am loving the glitter paper which I was hoarding for a long long time and finally put it to use. Have a closer look.

Supply list :
1. Cardstock : Neenah Solar white 110 lbs
2. Stamps : Justrite Cling Background - Rose Garden
3. Dies : Avery Elle Simply Said Hello
4. Glitter Paper and Butterflies are from Itsy Bitsy India

Challenges Entered :

1. Simon Says Stamps - Make it Sparkle

I hope you guys will like it.

Thanks for stopping by!
- Priya

Watercolor effect with distress inks

Hello!

Today, I am sharing my colorful creation I made with distress inks.. I gave a watercolor effect to this.. have a look..

I stamped the Hero arts Blooming Meadows with various distress ink pads (list at the bottom) and spritzed water over it.. You can use spritz water bottles but since I don't have any, I used a tooth brush to sprinkle some fine droplets of water on the stamp...
Here is a closour look at the final effect..

Supplies used:
1. Distress Inks: Mustard Seeds, Tumbled Glass, Shabby Shutter, Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade, Frayed Burlap

2. Stamps: Hero Arts Blooming Meadows
3. Punches: 3 - in -1 butterfly punch
4. Sentiments and bling from my stash

Do leave a comment if you liked this card..

Happy crafting!

Priya

Happy Birthday little girl!

Hi!

Sharing today a birthday card I made recently. This is my 1st try on joy fold card. Have a look!

 this is the way it will open... The flower is acting as a stopper to keep the 1st flap closed.

opening 1st fold,

Opening second flap... and tada! the sentiments :D

Another view:

And the matching envelope:

Supplies Used:

Blank card and envelope: Itsy Bitsy

Stamps: MICIA and Fiskars

PPs: Echo park's Splash and dots n Strips

Die cuts: Ujjwal's Store

Flowers: Prima

Others: Doily punch, Faber Castell pencil colors.

Challenges entered:

1. My mums craft shop challenges - HERE COME THE GIRLS
2. Birthday sundaes - Birthday Card
3. Crafters cafe blog challenge - Birthday
4. Simonsaysstampschallenge - Spots and/or strips
5. Hooked on craft challenges - Try something new (my 1st joy fold card)
6. Cup cake inspirations - Photo inspiration
7. Fussy and fancy challenge - Happy Birthday

photo inspiration from the cupcake challenge!

I hope you people liked it... Please leave a comment.

Good night!
Priya...

My first Bitsy Bluebell card!

Hi all!

I thought of giving some rest to my distress inks and try my new Penny Black stamp set.. though I still have one more embossed resist card to share which I will post tomorrow. For today I am sharing my 1st Bitsy bluebell card and its so cute!!!

another view,

I colored it with my Faber Castell water color pencils.I loved the rosy effect on her cheeks.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Local buy

PPs: Echo Park "Splash"

Die cuts: from Ujjwal's Store

Stamps: Penny Black's Bitsy Bluebell

Flowers: Bitty Blossoms

Others: Doily Punch, Faber Castell water color pencils

I am entering this card to following challenges:
1. Simon says stamps challenge - Anything new (Penny black stamp set is new)
2. Creative inspirations paint- Something new
3.  Fresh brewed designs - Something new
4. whimsical-designs - On the edge ( I have used my doily border punch)
5. Polly craft challenge - Punch it
6. Pile it on challenge - Anything goes

Thanks for dropping by and one more thanks if you are commenting :D

Happy Crafting!
Priya...

Rainbow and butterflies!

Hi!

Another quick card made with resist embossing technique... I am glad that you people are liking my new projects.. :) Your comments keeps me motivated to do my best.. :)

Here I have blended 3 colors to give a multicolored background effect... I created the green color effect by blending yellow and blue distress ink... I used my doily punch for the first time.. my 1st MS punch!!! yay!!! :)... I distressed that too so that it should match with the pattern I created...

I goofed up here also. Noticed the big butterfly? Its placed there so as to hide a partially embossed butterfly as again I rubbed off  half of the embossing powder :( I will be extra careful next time onward.. :)

Supplies used:

Distess inks: Barn door red, Faded jeans blue, wild honey yellow

Carstock: White blank CS from Creativita's store, 

Fabriano Brustro painting paper(300gsm) for resist embossing

Stamp: Antique Engravings from Hero arts, Butterfly Magic from Fiskars

Embossing powder: Ranger's clear EP

Punch: MS Doily Lace punch

Pearls: Itsy Bitsy

Challenges entered:

1. Craft your passion - Anything with distressing
2. Simon says stamp - Something new (I have used my Doily punch for the 1st time)
3. Do you stack up - Rainbow - atleast 3 colors
4. Creative inspirations paint - Something New (I have used my Doily punch for the 1st time)
5. Lady bugs crafts ink challenge - Anything goes using your new stash (Dooly punch is new!)
6. Crafty creations challenges - Heat embossing
7. Housemouse-challenge - *NEW* (I have used my new goodies here)
8. Fresh brewed designs - Something New (I have used my Doily punch for the 1st time)
9. 7kids challenge blog - Something New (I have used my Doily punch for the 1st time)
10. Paper sundaes - Something old, Something new (Fiskar's stamps are old, MS punch, Hero arts stamps are new!)

Did you like this card? Please leave a comment. :)

Happy crafting!

Priya...

A set of tags

Hi!

I am back again. Today I want to share a set of tags that I made with distress inks. These days I am going crazy over distressing and embossing. Here I have used only distressing technique.

Each is of the size 3 x 1.5 inches. I got so addicted to distressing that I even inked the tiny flowers. I embossed these on the inkessential's blending foam with my embossing pen (again a RAK from Hussena!). Since foams already had leftover inks so their edges got inked while embossing :D
A different view.

Individual picture of tags.

Supplies used:

Distess inks: Barn door red, Faded jeans blue, wild honey yellow

Carstock: Fabriano Brustro (300gsm)

Flourish stamp: MICIA stamp

Punched flowers: RAK from Hussena

Bling and ribbon: from my stash

Challenges entered:

1. Craft your passion challenges - Anything with distressing
2. Simon says stamps challenge - Anything goes
3. Do you stackup - Rainbow - Atleast 3 colors (I have used blue, yellow and red)
4. Sparkles forum challenges - Anything but christmas card
5. Cupcake craftroom - Anything goes
6. Crafty cardmakers - Use it 3 times ( I used swirl stamp 3 times)

7. The pink elephant challenge - Anything goes
8. Truly madly crafty challenges - Anything goes

This is my 1st set of tags. I hope you like it.. :) don't forget to comment :)

Good night!

Priya...

Distressed background card

Hello people,

Quickly sharing another card. Here I tried creating a background with heat embossing and distress ink.

Since this was my 1st try please bare with the quality of neatness here. I literally rubbed off the embossing powder from the small butterfly at the top. :(

Supplies used:

Pink Cardstock : Creativita Store

Stamps: Hero arts Antique engravings

Embossing Powder: Ranger's clear embossing powder

Distress ink: Barn door red

Flower: Bitty Blossoms

Challenges:

1. Craft your passion challenges - Anything goes and distressing
2. Sir stampalot challenge - Monochrome
3. Pile it on challenge - Anything goes
4. Simon says stamps challenge - Anything goes
5. Incy wincy designs - Anything goes

I hope you liked my 1st try on making a background with embossing and distressing. :)
Don't forget to leave some sweet comments :D

Happy living,
Priya..

Welcome 2012 - A new year!

Hello!

How is everyone doing? I am enjoying the 1st morning of this new year and hoping that it will be the best one for me in every sense.. and wishes the same for you..!
With this new year, I wanna share few mini cards that I made with distress inks and heat embossing.. This is my 1st try on these and I am so loving these techniques.. In the next few posts, I will share my embossing and distressed projects only.. :)

I did the heat embossing on a frying pan .. :D I heated the frying pan on a medium flame and rotated the paper at a level above it... within seconds the embossing powder melted.. :) so when I say I am in kitchen doesn't mean that I am cooking!! I might be crafting..!! ;) 

Individual pictures of the mini cards. Distress ink used: Faded jeans blue

This one is made with Barn door shade of distress ink

3rd one is made with Wild honey ink.

I could have go on but Alas! I have only 3 distress inks.. :(

The butterfly stamp is from Hero arts Antique graving stamp set. The sentiment is from Penny black. Black cardstock is a local buy and the distressing is done on white Brustro painting paper.

Also, on public demand, sharing a picture of my latest goodies I shopped at Joann's on thanksgiving.

Challenges entered:
1. Stampin for the weekend - Anything goes
2. Charismacardz - Anything goes
3. Do you stackup - Use rainbow colors - atleast 3 ( I used red,blue and yellow)
4. Simon says stamps challenge - Anything goes
5. My mums craft shop challenges - Anything goes
6. Scrapbook sisters - Anything goes

I hope you people like these cute minis. 

Happy crafting!
Priya...

Mini cards - Stamping

Hello friends,

Weekend is here so is the crafting for me! yay! Working on some cards... I am planning to make lots of embellishments and 3-4 cards this weekend.. lets see if I am able to achieve the deadline I set for myself...

Today I want to share these 3 note cards I made for crafty JC challenge... I made these last weekend but couldn't post it... better late then challenge deadline passes away :P

These are 3 mini cards measuring 3 x 3 inches. 

I made the background with repetitive stamping on pink, blue and light yellow blank paper. 

I used different sentiment for each with different shapes and glued them at different positions to make the cards looks different and similar at the same time :P

Supplies used:

Cardstock and paper: Local buy

Stamps: Fiskars All year cheer

These were so easy to make. I am loving stamping! 

Do let me know how it turned out....
I am entering this card to following challenges:
Bling it on challenges - No pattern papers

Charmed cards and crafts - Anything goes with a blog candy :)
Crafty card makers - Anything goes

Have a happy crafty weekend!

Priya...

My 1st stamp card, CAS card and Sketch Card :)

Please enter here for my giveaway.

Hello!

Day before yesterday I tried my 1st stamp set and made a simple card. Also, this is my 1st try with card sketches and I choose this one from Ribbons etc.. It is my 1st CAS card too!!!

Here is the sketch:

and here is the card:

Its a Hero Art stamp set. and the ink is normal Chelpark ink that you can find in local market.

Another view: 

I couldn't think of anything else to do on this card.

Please tell me how it turned out.

Priya.