Laura’s sketch 35 was a lovely sketch to work on. Once I knew what image I was going to use, the rest was a breeze :). Otherwise it takes me eons to decide what DPs I want in a particular card!
Here’s my take on the CPS 134 sketch. This is card is a perfect case of when a crafter is so proud of something that an observer will not care about. What am I proud of in this card? I combined two different stamp sets seamlessly :), that’s what I would like to believe. The small flowers are from PTI Guidelines Two and the main image is from Inkadinkado Borders. I started with a red and yellow theme but when it became too hot a combo, I added some royal blue to cool it down.
For those familiar with SCS would notice that this challenge is prefixed SC and not SCS, can you imagine how old this challenge must be? :) This sketch was really a challenge for me and I loved it!
I saw this card and wanted to make a card with a similar embossed border. Presently there is no existing die that I could use as it is. So I started scouring the internet to see if anyone had done this. To my dismay none had. However, looking at various other things that people had done with their cuttlebug embossing folders, I got an idea about how I could achieve this look. So I got working and lo and behold! The results were fantastic – I got the look I wanted! Here’s the card I made:
The center image is printed on gold shimmer cardstock and the base is also shimmer cardstock – don’t you simply love it?!?!? I do!!!!
Ok, here’s the tutorial.
What you need:
Steps:
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 Multipurpose platform, with the cardboard thing we created in the step above, followed by the embossing folder with the cardstock inside. |  Note that the embossing folder is placed such that the cardstock aligns with the outline that we drew in step 2. |
 Acrylic plate on the top |
And you’re done!I’m trying to devote one week to one stamp set so that I ink as many stamps as possible. Let me tell its very hard – the feeling that you’ve to stick to just one stamp set in one week!! I’m trying…:)
So here’s another hedgie from Penny Black for 2S4Y challenge. I made the border of the circle using the tiny flower punch and added a white dot topped with stickles to the flower centers. I think that was the most time taking part of the card! LOL!
Caardvarks has some lovely sketches for their challenge! If you haven’t seen them check them out at caardvarks challenge.
This is what I made for their challenge, its based on sketch #1. I popped the feet, the scallop circle and the sentiment on dimensionals and the gift is paper pierced.
This stamp is extra special to me as it was given by my DF – a non-stamping DF at that. I’d been looking for a way to use it: it seemed too fine for my coloring skills and embossing seemed to be the perfect way. I also want to try paper piercing with it. It looks awesome when embossed as you can see in the card below. So this is my entry to the PWC “Angels and Fairies” and CPS 131.
It was after such a long time after which I was using a rubber stamp as opposed to a clear stamp. It sure felt good!
My affair with Guidelines two continues. I’ve liked almost all the cards I’ve made with it but I’m still waiting for my “Aha!” moment :). Somehow I’ve been unable to beat my imagination. Anyways…this card is based on Kazan’s sketch 34. I wish the red ink in the background would’ve been brighter and the brown, a deeper shade like chocolate brown. That was my imagination. This is my creation; but in the end I like it though its not exactly the image I’d started with.
Some time back I’d read on somebody’s blog “There’s a difference between home made and hand made”. Since then I’ve been careful in using the right qualifier :)
So I made a light box; its only functioning as a background provider right now because I don’t have the appropriate lights but still I would say its doing its job! I don’t worry about the light while taking teh photo and later just fix it using Windows photo gallery. I must say the software does an awesome job with just one-click! Look at the photos for yourself.
This is a fusion of Nichole Heady and Becca Feeken style and I love the way it turned out. There are stickles on the centers of the green pendants which are probably not visible in the photo. Guidelines two is my first and only PTI set, when I started making this background today I’d to trash the first attempt and re-start. In my second attempt too it seemed that the images were not aligning exactly. I was so frustrated and regretted buying this set. However, when I finished it I realized that the mis-alignment was not glaring in the eye.
Here’s my entry for 2S4Y Laura’s sketch 33 challenge.
There are tiny rhinestones on the flowers and piercing all along the scalloped border. Maybe I should’ve colored the bird brown and that would have been appropriate with the color scheme. I’m into using my PPs these days because I have way too many!!
I’m not so fond of Bellas because they don’t give me ample playground for coloring and I love to color! Most of these I get through image swaps. Somehow for this bella I’d a catchy saying so I was motivated to make this card. In fact I’d been thinking of making it for mother’s day with the saying “for the super-mom” but never got a chance so here’s what I did…
I was so keen on using eggplant CS for this and just couldn’t decide what PPs would go with it. After spending couple of hours on just picking the right paper, I think it wasn’t a bad choice :).
The trailing hair and cloak is popped on pop dots. I created the sentiment using MS alphabet set and then clear embossed it.
This was my second attempt at Guide Line Two and I really love it! The alignment is just right. This stamp set if beautiful but its a lot of hard work! <a href="http://www.millan.net" title="Free Smiley Courtesy of www.millan.net"><img src="http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/groooansmileyf.gif" border=0 alt="Free Smiley Courtesy of www.millan.net"></a>
…that’s what this card is – one card for two challenges: A spoon full of sugar – Challenge 63 and CPS 127. The SFOS called for lots of flowers and CPS had a sketch. There’s no dearth of flowers here: we have tulips, daisies and what not! :)
Doesn’t it look beautiful?!?!? The bright colors were once again achieved using blending with the pencils rather than OMS. The only place where I used the OMS is the face and hands.
After reading Becca Feeken’s blog I got inspired to make a card with the sentiment as the focal point. She has such beautiful cards with that concept. And I wanted to be all in one soft color. One after the other everything fell into place leading to the creation of this beautiful card. To think of it, the background paper that I used here, whenever I’d looked at it I’d always wondered how in the world am I going to use this! In this card, it seems I couldn’t have used any other :). I printed the sentiment on white CS.
Its based on Kazan’s sketch 42.
I made this card using the sketch for Friday Sketchers 63 challenge. I’d colored this image sometime back when I was trying to see how sponging with inks worked. It had been lying in my stash since and calling out to me every time. This sketch seemed the perfect time to use it.
I’ve been making almost a card every day!! If you don’t know then yeah it’s a lot by my standards :) and this is getting so addictive!
I’d been reading so much about this shadow box that I HAD to make one. Looked up the tutorial on SCS.
I’ve done a lot of paper piercing here – the napkins and the paper cup. I think they look much better than they would with coloring. So it is just right for the Paper piercing challenge at Stamp Something!
I love the name of this blog, it’s so sweet! So I worked on one of the challenges by Caryn, Challenge 62.
The past week I’ve made a lot of cards but didn’t post any of them. Well it was very hot (read 100 F!) and making cards helped me get distracted from the heat but posting it wasn’t easy. So like an assembly line, I kept making them and putting them in my card box. It was fun and oh! I was so glad to use up my supplies! The more you use, the more you buy :D. Nah! Just kidding! My goal is not to buy any craft supplies (except adhesive, of course!) till Nov. at least.
Coming back to my card…
Here’s a card for Dawny’s sketch #20. There were lots of iterations on this card. I really wanted to use this sketch because it looked so awesome but somehow the material that I had refused to fit in. Finally I settled on what you see below.
I put some stardust stickles on the patterned paper and that made it look very fancy! Then I added some to the flowers too. I hadn’t realized that I haven’t used stickles in a long long time! :D
Yippee! One more challenge done! This card took me a really long time, actually not the card but the image. I’d colored it about a month back but I just wasn’t sure what sentiment to attach with it. First I thought “I’d flip for you” but that didn’t make sense to me, then I found “king of the grill” but that wouldn’t be too useful in my family as we don’t do BBQ…another one that came to my mind - “Have a smoky day”…finally settled on “Lets’ Celebrate”. It seemed universally applicable :).
Oh and I made it for the CPS124 challenge. It appears that I’m into flipping sketches these days!
One more card for a challenge, I seem to be on a roll! New supplies and a long vacation from stamping have totally re-energized me! I can talk, eat and drink stamping! :D. Since I got my guide lines two set, whenever I see a sketch all I want to do is try to fit that stamp set into the sketch. So here’s another take using this stamp set. It is for the 2S4Y Challenge 30. I worked a really long time on this card, initially there was no embossing and no brads; but the way the card looked didn’t make my happy. So in came the brads and quite some time was spent on deciding whether golden would be better or copper. Sometimes all that glitters is not better, so copper was the popular choice. Still something seemed missing and my eyes were stealing a glance at the cuttlebug folder and hence the big shot started rolling. Alls well that ends well – I’m happy with the card now! :)
No posts for two months and now two in a day :). Wanted to post this as a separate one so that I could link it in the challenge. This is for Friday Sketchers 60. This uses another new item that I bought yesterday – Sizziz Garden Delight alphabet dies!!! They were on sale at Michaels for $10 (originally $150). I’d gone there to buy just an acrylic block but my DH pointed out that there were some Sizzix items on sale and I thought I might just look at them – I’ve never bought any dies except nestabilities. When I saw these alphabet thingies I couldn’t resist and bought two of them – the Funky brush and this one. I’d long wanted ONE such alphabet die set but since they were so expensive, they never went up my wish list. Long story short – here’s the card :). Simply love the dies and the way the card turned out!! It looks much better than I thought it would.
Yes its been a long time since I posted anything – my family was here! We’d lots of fun and I learnt a couple of things from my mom like stitching and crochet –mainly so that I could crochet those little flowers for cards :). Will post their photos soon. Now that everybody’s gone, I’m back to my crafting frenzy. Here’s a card I made with my new (and first) PTI stamps “Guide Lines Two”. Its for the Stamp Something challenge “Pink, Yellow and Green”.
I was inspired by this dress card on SCS. I wanted to try the same design as well as a different one that came to my mind, primarily because this is the kind of dress I used to my friend’s daughter in and she would look soooo cute! So I thought the card would be too and it does, not as cute as her though :). I was finally able to use a ribbon that I’d kept from a packaging – that’s the one at the waist. It was double the width that I needed, so I simply folded it :).
…I was able to make a masculine card to my satisfaction. I hope it does look masculine to others too :). It also fits in with the Something yellow, blue and green challenge at Stamp Something.
I created the background paper using some ol’ forgotten foam stamps that I had and which I thought I would never be able to use :). Can you believe it – this is the first time I’ve used Versamark?!?! I’ve been stamping for over a year now and had never used Versamark ?!?! Which world was I in :-?. Then I created the sentiment using another set which I didn’t have any hopes of being money-well-spent; it does have a weird “r”, almost looks like a “z”.
The moment I saw this week’s sketch at Ismaki, I knew I wanted to make a card on the sletch – it is so beautiful and different! Totally fell in love with it.
The sketch:
Yeah I know I haven’t posted a creation in a long time and in this post too there won’t be one. For one I haven’t been making too many things, I did make 4 cards in last 2 weeks but couldn’t take a photo of them as all of them had to be posted in a haste. Hopefully I should get back in full swing soon.
Lately I’ve been so fascinated with butterfly stamps that I decided to hunt one for myself; but there is such a mind-boggling variety that I haven’t been able to make up my mind. Since I’d spent so much time and energy looking around that I thought I should post my findings to enable those who have a similar dilemma :)
Here are all the sets.
Stampendous Perfectly Clear Butterfly stamp set - $15
Stampendous Perfectly Clear Butterfly stamp set - $15
CHF Vintage Butterflies - $15
Gel-a-tins Butterflies are free $22
PTI Butterfly Kisses - $22
CTMH Butterfly Wings - $23
TAC Butterfly Swirls - $20
Phew! What do you think of that lineup?!?!? Which is your favorite – whether or not its listed here?
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