Thinking of you

Hello everyone!! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. It's time for a new GD inspiration using Fun Stampers Journey at Paper Crafters Anonymous. Please visit here to see today's card. Click on the link to see more details about how I made it.

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Watercolored Christmas Card

Hello everyone!! It's time for the mid month inspiration here at Where The HeART Is. Our theme this month is Christmas Colors. Here's what I made to inspire you:

This is my first trial at 'freehand' water coloring. I used a rough pencil sketch as guide. Well, it's far from being perfect, but I guess it's ok for a first try. I used Yasutomo Pearlescent water color paint. It has a shimmer to it.

I love how the brush lettering has turned out. What do you think? Do you have any tips or tricks that you follow?

Please visit the Where The HeART Is blog for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your thoughts and comments.

Holographic Bells

Hello everyone!! It's time for a new week inspiration here at the Unstampabelles. Our current theme is 'Sparkle' and the twist is to make us smile. Please remember not the use stamps :)

I recently bought a pack of holographic sheets from the local Dollar Tree. It had both foiled sheets and holographic sheets in colors of gold, red, silver and blue. I was planning to use them for Christmas cards. Well, I finally got the chance. I cut it on my cricut. I don't remember from where I got the bells cut file, but I have it on my Cricut design space for a long time. I cut the bells in red and used kraft card base.

I made another one with grey and silver. The sentiment is hand written on both.

I hope you will join us for this challenge. You can submit your entries here.

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Warm Wishes

Hello everyone!! Have you ever wondered if you could use Postage stamps on cards? Well, it's time for a new challenge at Fairy Tale Challenges. Our theme for this challenge is to use a stamp along with a postage stamp. Here's a quick and simple card that I made using the both.

I used one of the stamps from the recent Peanuts stamp sheet. I loved this one with the mail box. I used the sentiment from the FSJ Wish in a Bottle stamp set.

I added the snow with the correction pen. This is a really simple and quick card, that can bring a smile on someone's face. Don't you think? And please stop by the Fairy Tale Challenges blog for more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your thoughts and comments.

Sending Warm Coffee Wishes

Hello everyone!! It's time for my GD post at Paper Crafter Anonynous. Please visit here see today's post. I have created a simple and quick coffee card with the FSJ pattern papers. Visit my post at Paper Crafter Anonymous to see more details.

I would love for you to leave me some love over there as well. Please know that all your comments are very much appreciated with gratitude.

Submitting this to:

• Coffee Lovers BlogHop - Holiday
• MFT Sketch Challenge
  
• Mod Squad Challenge - Anything but Christmas
• Power Poppy - Rewind - Hang some paper
• Verve Stamps - Inspiration Challenge - Cup of kindness
• Word Art Wednesday

Cup of Cheer

Hello everyone!! I'm back to share one more card that I made now.

I used one of the cups from the Verve Stamps - Cup of Kindness Digi set, which is available for free till Dec 25th. The sentiment is also from the same set. I took a printout of the cup, fuzzy cut it and colored it with markers. I cut the sentiment into a rectangle and layered it on red card stock panel. I wrapped red baker's twine around the sentiment panel. I love this sentiment. It's perfect for New Year cards.

I adhered the cup with foam tape. I didn't add any glitter or bling on this one, as I wanted to keep it simple and masculine.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your comments.

Submitting this to:

• Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Winter/Holiday
• ODBD - Color Inspiration
  
• Power Poppy - Time to rewind - Cut it out
• Verve Stamps Inspiration Challenge - Cup of kindness
• Word Art Wednesday

Cup of Kindness

Hello everyone!! After a small break, I made a few cards today. Many of you might know that 2015 Winter/Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is open now. And that today is National Cocoa day! I made a few cards to celebrate that!!

In lieu of this hop, Verve stamps has released a digi set, which is available completely free of cost, till December 25th. You can get it here. Both the cup and the sentiment in my card are from this digi set. I've always tried ti shy away from digi images in the past (though I've used them on rare occasions), now that we've bought a printer at home, I'm trying to make the most out of it. I have a lot of figuring out to do!!

I printed the sentiment and cup on white paper. I fuzzy cut and colored the cup with my marker. I used a single marker to color my cup and had to use 5 - 7 coats to get to this stage. But I'm happy with the result. I used silver glitter gel for the snowflake in the cup. I used the same glitter get to draw a thin strip on the top and bottom end of the sentiment panel.

I used grey card stock for card base. I stamped some snowflakes from Hero Arts Tree-Mendous stamp set with white and grey ink. I hope you can see the tone on tone look of the grey ink.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions.

Submitting this to:

• Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Winter/Holiday
• CAS-ual Fidays - Snowflakes
• Mod Squad Challenge - All that glitters
• Power Poppy - Time to rewind - Cut it out
• Verve Stamps Inspiration challenge - Cup of kindness
• Word Art Wednesday

Thankful For You

Hello everyone!! Have you ever felt that whatever you do, it doesn't turn out good? Well, I'm in one of those phases right now!! So I'm here to share a card that I made few weeks back for the STAMPlorations CAS DT call.

I used the Penny Black Promenade stencil and Distress inks - Bundled sage for leaves, Dried marigold and Ripe persimmon for the flowers. I selectively used the designs from the stencil and re-positioned it multiple times to get this design.

The sentiment is from STAMPlorations - Holiday Expressions: Thankful for Autumn stamp set. I embossed it with brown embossing powder. I used ivory card base.

Thanks for stopping by. Please do leave your thoughts and comments.

Submitting this to:

• All Sorts - CAS
• STAMPlorations - Flash stencil linky party
• Word Art Wednesday

Sparkling Snow

Hello everyone!! Most of you might already know that I'm guest designing for Heather of Paper Crafter Anonymous for Fun Stampers Journey products. You can check out my latest creation here.
 Here's a look it:

I would love it, if you could leave me some love over at Paper Crafter Anonymous as well :)

Thanks for stopping by. And thank you so much for all the lovely comments. I read everyone of them. See you soon!!

Christmas Window Shaker Card

Hello everyone!! I should have posted this card yesterday. I'm so sorry for the delay. It's been a hectic week. It's time for a new challenge here at the Unstampabelles. Out theme this month is to add sparkle and the twist is to make us smile!! The prize for this month is a $20 Aust. Gift Voucher to an on-line shop of choice.

Here's what I decided to make:

I decided to use sequins for the sparkle, and there's something about shaker cards that make me smile. I merged two SVGs from The Lady Wolf - Window panes and cut it using my Cricut. I reused acetate from an old packaging. The sequins are from Dollar Tree. I hand drew the leaves and berries on top and the snow. The sentiment is also hand-written.

This is one of the card for the Caring Hearts Card Drive.

We had my daughter's 2nd birthday party yesterday. The theme was Minnie Mouse. I was busy this entire week making banner and buying return gifts. I will post the banner and other decorations that I made soon. I'm still behind on visiting your blogs. I hope I will make it this week.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your thoughts and comments.

Submitting this to:

• Natalie & Amy - Christmas
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday - Let it snow
• Sparkles Christmas - Die cuts for Christmas
• Word Art Wednesday

Hello Friend

Hello everyone!! It's time for a new challenge here at Fairy Tales Challenge. Our new theme for this challenge is to add Metal to your project.

Here's what I made:

I have this stamp set from Whimsy stamps (I think it's retired) for a long time. I stamped and embossed it with Zing Silver embossing powder. I love the chandelier image. I made a double loop bow using silver sheer ribbon. The charms are from my stash (I have those for almost 2 years I guess). This color combination had turned out to be one of my favorites now!!
Thanks for stopping by. Do visit the Fairy Tale Challenge blog for more inspiration and to check the winner of the previous challenge.

Submitting this to:

• Addicted to CAS - Dimension
• Craft Rocket Challenges - Anything Goes
• HLS CAS - Fevorite Technique - heat embossing!!
• IBSIC 100 - ribbon
• Mod Squad Challenges - I used Embossing, Ribbon & Fav color
• Retro Rubber Challenges - This stamp is truly retro - it's even retired now!!
• Word Art Wednesday

Note in a Bottle

Hello everyone!! I'm so excited to tell you that I'm one of the guest designers for Paper Crafter Anonymous for Fun Stamping Journey products. Do check out my first post today at Paper Crafter Anonymous. Here's a sneak peek for you

I would love it, if you could leave me some love over at Paper Crafter Anonymous as well :)

Thanks for stopping by. See you soon.