Pink & Brown Christmas Ornaments

Hello everyone!! It's time for a new Rudolph Days Challenge!! As you may remember, I'm one of the GDTs for the months of January, March and May. If you are new to this challenge, you should definitely check it out here! The theme is anything goes as long as it's Christmas!!

Here's what I've made for the current challenge.

I used the LOTV - Christmas Baubles stamp and gold embossed it. I colored it with my markers using non-traditional colors of pink, brown and olive green.

A closer look at the gold embossed ornaments. I always love gold embossing, especially when there are very few flaws/errors! The sentiment is from the Sweet n Sassy Stamps - Christmas Penguins stamp set. I gold embossed the sentiment as well, to go with the mood of the card.

Please do check the challenge rules here. I hope you will be participating in the challenge. You have until March 31st midnight PST.

Thanks for stopping by. Your comments make my day. Have a great day!

Submitting this to:

• Addicted To CAS - Delicate - This image as a whole looks delicate with the thin vines and the delicate glass ornaments that hang from them.
• Addicted to Stamping - Anything goes
• Craft Rocket Challenges - Anything goes
• One Layer Christmas Cards - Anything goes
  
• Word art Wednesday

Spring Fairies

Hello everyone!! I wanted to share a card that I made yesterday and some news.

First on to the card:

I cut the quatrefoil lattice on my Cricut. I downloaded this cut file from Bird's cards a long time ago and was waiting for a chance to use it. I stamped the Fairy Friends from Lili of the Valley on white card stock and colored it with Yasutomo water colors. I love the shimmer of these water colors!

I hope you can see the shimmer on this picture. I made the calla lilies with foam. I followed the tutorial by Dr. Sonia. I've been wanting to try this flower since the time I saw this tutorial. I finally got some foam that I could use for this. For the flower center, I rolled a thin strip if paper and colored it with Hero Arts Lemon Yellow. I cut some green handmade paper for leaves.

Onto the news now. We are expecting our second child in Aug. So you might not see me posting very often. Also, we are moving. My husband got a job in Kansas and we're travelling this weekend. So I might not be able to visit your blogs in the next week.

Also, as most of you might already know, Dr. Sonia is celebrating 5 million page views of her blog. I'm sure most of you, like me, enjoy her tutorials and posts. Let's help her celebrate it in style! I'm submitting this card to her celebration. If you have never been to her blog, stop by her blog here and check out her beautiful creations and easy-to-follow tutorials on many topics.

Thanks for stopping by. Thank you so much for your comments.

Submitting this to:

• NBUS  - I have never ever used foam before!! and the cut file is also NBUS
  
• Stamping Sensation - Flower Power
• Time out challenges - Easter/Spring
• Word Art Wednesday

Faux Silk

Hello everyone!! I'm sharing a stamping technique that I tried out recently. I was inspired by Rajni Chawla's contest to follow a video tutorial on Youtube and create your own project using the technique. I used to shy away from the video tutorials and used to prefer pictorial tutorials until a few months back. Maybe it was because, back then our internet connection was very slow and the videos used to take a lot of time to stream and I usually don't have the patience. Now I've started to watch videos from certain channels on a regular basis and I really enjoy them!!

I found this technique called Faux Silk technique or the Tissue paper technique. Most of you might know it already. But it was certainly new to me. So I decided to try it. I watched 2 videos on this technique - Lisa's Faux Silk technique and Christine's Faux Silk technique. Both of these videos explained the technique very well. Do watch them when you get the time.

Here's the first card I made using this technique (Ya!! I made 2 cards):

I used white tissue paper and stamped it with the rose and leaf from Winnie & Walter's - The Big, the Bold and Extras with grey and silver inks. I also stamped the dots from the same stamp set with white ink to give a soft accent. I really tried hard to get them on picture. I then glued the tissue paper on to white cardstock and trimmed off the excess.

I stamped the banner from the same set on to white tissue paper with grey ink. The sentiment is from Winnie & Walter's The Big, the Bold and You. I glued this tissue paper on to white cardstock and fussy cut it. I then mounted it on the other tissue paper panel with foam tape. I added a few iridescent sequins. I mounted it on 5x7 card base. I didn't have grey colored cardstock. So I used my marker to draw the border around the tissue paper panel.

The color combination was inspired by Shay's card in the Parentville Extras Rerun. This is her card.

Submitting this card to Beyond Grey Challenge - Cards only, Winnie & Walter's Parentville Extras rerun, Virginia's View Challenge - Monochromatic and Word Art Wednesday.

For the second card, I thought of trying embossing.

I used a light peach colored tissue for this. I love this color. I stamped it with LOTV Corners Magical Florals (psst this was my first stamp set :D) and embossed it with gold powder. The sentiment is from Unity Stamp Co's Basically Said. I embossed it with Hero Arts gold powder. I glued the tissue paper on to white cardstock (actually it is advised to use the same color cardstock as the tissue, but I wanted to try using white cardstock.) I wanted to add a border of gold, but I preferred the gold color to be similar to the embossed one. So I drew the border on my card base with my embossing pen and embossed it with gold powder. Then I mounted the panel onto my card base. I hope you can see the beautiful color combination of peach with gold.

Submitting this card to A Blog Named Hero - Favorite - embossing is my favorite technique, especially with gold powder, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Favorite technique/product - Embossing is my favorite technique, especially with gold

So do you like this technique? Do let me know your thoughts and suggestions. Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day!!

Submitting this to:

• Rajni Chawla's Challenge
• Addicted to Stamps - CAS
• Scribble & Scrap Challenges