CAS Spring!!

Hello all... I haven't posted in a long time. After the baby, we moved half way around the world to the US.. It took us some time to get settled here with the baby and now we have to look after the baby alone!! So now I get very very limited time to craft. It was very exciting to see snow for the first time and now I'm waiting to see Spring bloom.

Anyway, on to the card!!

I was inspired by the lattice cards that Indira had posted (check them here) and was determined to make one!! And now, especially with the time crunch I'm attracted to CAS cards!! (check my previous one here) So here is my card, inspired by the Spring flowers.

I made a Spring wreath around the round lattice window. I made the flowers using some new punches that I bought recently. I cut the leaves using punches. I couldn't stop myself from adding a cute butterfly, again to show off my newly bought punch :D

A closer look

A view from the side.

I have not added any sentiment. I'm planning to add it as required.

I love how this card has turned out!!

I'm planning to buy a die-cutting/embossing machine in the near future. Any suggestions/advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance.

Do tell me your thoughts and comments. Hope to see you soon!

Submitting this to:

• Addicted to CAS - Challenge 35 - Wheels (Wreath is a flower wheel)
• A Creative Romance - Spring Flowers
• 3 Girl Jam - All things spring
• Bearly Mine - Spring
• BGC 49 - Grown with love - Flowers, leaves and butterfly
• Catchy Challenges- CSCC #2 - inspired by the colors
• One Stitch at a time - Challenge 206 - Anything goes
• Pinque Peacock Challenges - Challenge 4 - Flowers.html
• Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 126 - Anything goes
• Scribble and Scrap crafts - Challenge 15
• Case Study Challenge -185
• Just Keep on Creating - Anything goes

Calendar - July 2013

Here is my page for July 2013 (yes!! after March, I jumped to July, for no obvious reasons!) for the calendar that I'm making (To know more about it, start from my previous post). I tried to make doilies with my punches and here are the results :)

I used the same pattern paper throughout. I'm not sure if this can be called shabby-chic.

Submitting this to :

• The Paper Shelter - Challenge 100 Celebrations
• Word Art Wednesday - challenge #68
• Crafters Corner Challenge#5 : Expressions of Love
• Craft- Room Challenge - Something For A Man
• ItsyBitsy - Pattern paper
• Unstampabelles Challenge #20 - Doilies (No stamps Rubber or Digital)

Gate-fold Wedding Card

I started using my punches and I'm not able to stop :)
So here comes my next card, heavily 'punched' :D
This is a 'Congratulations' card that I made for a wedding. This is a little modified version of gate-fold.

The flowers are hand-made. The flourishes (I guess, it is called that) are made using the 'negative' punches of  one of my punch.

The inner card has a lacy border and I have left it blank for some personal message. The golden twine is from an old wedding invitation ;)

I'm submitting it to the following challenges:

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• Charisma Cardz - Challenge #6 - Anything Goes
• IBSIC #46 (the outer card is dark brown and light pink and light green are also used)
• Crafters Corner Challenge#5 : Expressions of Love (this is a wedding card)
• Lulupu Challenge #9 - Splash of colors (colors used - brown, pink, green, white and golden)
• Crafty Cardmakers - Challenge 85 Blooming Images (flowers and flourishes form the centerpiece)

'Punch'ed tags

I recently bought some punches (my first!!) and was waiting to use them. So I made a tag and embellished it using the punches in a different way!!

I used an old invitation (I liked the color - light cream!!) as the CS. I used a border punch and cut it to pieces and stuck two together to form a butterfly like pattern. I used this as embellishment.

 Then I punched out the border in another piece of paper and wrote the verse "All things were made by HIM".

Submitting this to the following contests:

• Craft Room Challenge - Handmade Embellishments
• Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 67
• Lulupu Challenge 9 - splash of colors
• Charisma Cardz - Challenge 6
• Paper Playtime - Border punches