Thinking of You

Hello everyone!! I was doing some coloring this month to join in Kathy's 30 day coloring challenge. Though I'm not able to join in everyday, I try to spend some time coloring. So you might see quite a few cards this month. I'm sharing a card that I made today.

I stamped the STAMPlorations - Dogwood stamp repeatedly on watercolor card stock and gold embossed it. I watercolored it with distress ink spun sugar.

I gold embossed the sentiment 'thinking of you' from Winnie & Walter - The Big, The Bold and You on vellum. I also gold embossed the edge of the watercolor card stock. I mounted the panel on pink card stock.

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments, so please keep them coming.

Submitting this to:

• Addicted to Stamps & More - Anything goes
• Power Poppy - Switch up your shades - watercoloring
• Word Art Wednesday
• Winnie & Walter Belated Birthday Bash - Gold + Watercolor
• Winnie & Walter Belated Birthday Bash - Create your own background
• Winnie & Walter Belated Birthday Bash - Two challenge - I used 2 stamp sets
• Winnie & Walter Belated Birthday Bash - Floral challenge

Deepest Sympathy

Hello everyone!! Wish you all a Happy New Year!! Hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating the New Year. 

It's time for a new challenge here at the Fairy Tale Challenges - from now on, the challenges start on Tuesdays. Our first challenge this year is - Anything Goes.

Here's what I made to inspire you:

I've been wanting to try this masking technique for a long time. I used the Dogwood flower stamp from STAMPlorations. I masked the flower and masked off a rectangle around it and spongged the rectangle with distress ink. I colored the flowers with marker. The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping - Big Sympathy. I stamped it with grey ink.

Do check out the Fairy Tale Challenge blog for more inspiration. This is my last post as a Guest Designer for them. I had a  nice time.

Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know your comments. Have a great day!

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Autumn Blessings

Hello everyone! I'm here to share to another card for Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. This time I decided to make a shaker card with lots of cocoa and pumpkin sequins goodness.

Here's my card:

I used the cut file from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbon which is a freebie this week, till Thursday. I modified the file to make a shaker window. The I filled the shaker part with orange and brown sequins. I stamped the pumpkin from STAMPlorations Holiday Expressions: Thankful for Autumn set with Distress ink ripe persimmon. The leaf is cut on my cricut with the SVG file from SVG Cutting Files and colored with distress ink wild ripe persimmon.

I embossed the word Fall on a dark brown panel with clear embossing powder. The stamp is from the STAMPlorations Holiday Expressions: Thankful for Autumn set.

The sentiment "Autumn Blessings" is also from the STAMPlorations Holiday Expressions: Thankful for Autumn set.

This card was inspired by the current Muse Challenge, which is a card by Tracey M. McNeely.

Please forgive the quality of the pictures. My camera was acting up and so, I had to use my mobile phone. Also, there's not much sunlight today. I'll try to get better ones tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by. Do let me know your thoughts.

Submitting this to:

• Beyond Grey Challenges - CAS
• Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop
  
• Happy Little Stampers - CAS with colors
• IBSIC - Sequins
  
• Let's Craft and Create - Use dies or punches
• Muse Challenge
• Our Daily Bread Designs - Make your own paper by inking or embossing
• Penny Black Challenge - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday - No Designer paper
• STAMPlorations Anything Goes
• Verve Stamps - Autumn
• Viva La Verve - Sketch 2
  
• Whimsy Stamps - Anything goes or Halloween
• Word Art Wednesday

Coffee Hugs

Hello everyone! How was your weekend? Hope you all had a great time. I made a card for the Fall Coffee Lovers Blog hop. This is my first time in the Coffee lovers blog hop.
Here's my card:

I used the cut file from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbon, which is a freebie this week. The pumpkin on the cup had eyes. It was cute. But I thought it wouldn't work well with the kind of card that I planned to do, so I removed that. I used Distress ink Ripe persimmon and Wild honey to color the pumpkin.

I used my Cricut Explore to cut a lot of construction paper and the mat lost its stickiness. The construction paper has lots of fibre which is difficult to remove from the mat. So whenever I tried to cut a design, the paper won't stick properly to the mat and while cutting, the paper will move. I was planning on changing the mat but was a little hesitant to do so. I was reading a post on one of the Cricut groups in FB where some people said they clean their mats with dish washing soap. I thought I'd give it a try before throwing the mat out. I'm glad I tried it!! I washed it twice with Dawn liquid soap and now it's sticking as good as new! So if any of you are facing this issue, you can give it a try. I mixed Dawn liquid soap with water and spread it on the mat. The FB post said to use a scrapper, but since I didn't have one I used a soft toothbrush. Once done, wash it with water and wipe with a clean towel or let it air dry. Mine became sticky after the first time, but not very good. So I did this one more time and it was perfect!

The sentiment is from STAMPlorations VIGNETTE: Art Deco Border Builders stamp set. I embossed it with white embossing powder. The Fall leaves are handmade. I used the cut file from SVG Cutting files, which is a freebie. I inked them with Distress ink Wild honey, Ripe persimmon and Hero Arts Dark Quartz and Red Royal.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you liked this card. Let me know what you think of this card and any suggestions as well!

Submitting this to:

• Fall Coffee Lovers Blog hop
  
• Beyond Grey Challenges - CAS
• Happy Little Stampers - CAS - coloring
• Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Use a stamp
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday - No designer paper
• STAMPlorations - Anything Goes
  
  
  
• STAMPlorations - CASEplorations CASE of Deepti's card (colors) and Kim's card (Fall leaves)
  
• Verve Stamps - Autumn Lovelies
  
  
  
• Whimsy Stamps - Anything goes/Halloween
• Word Art Wednesday

You Make My Heart Sing

Hello everyone! I think I'm pretty obsessed with gold embossing, especially on vellum, for sometime now. Here's another card with gold embossing and watercoloring!

I stamped the Dogwood Flower stamp from STAMPlorations repeatedly and embossed it with Hero Art gold embossing powder. I colored it using watercolor. For the background I used Distress Mini Evergreen Bough. This is a color combination I've been wanting to try for a while. I've seen quite a few contests having this color combo in the past.

The stamping on the vellum is a Treble clef with the sentiment 'You make my heart sing'. It is from Unity Stamp Co. I embossed it with the same Hero Arts gold embossing powder.

I love the background! Flowers always make our heart sing, doesn't it? What is your thought on this?

Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate all your comments.

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• All Sorts Challenge - Sparkle
• CAS-ual Chic - Musical
• Craftin Desert Divas - Favorite Color Combination
• Crafty Cardmakers - Sparkle
• Lulupu - Sparkle & Shine
• Penny Black - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Use a stamp
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge - No patter paper
• STAMPlorations - September Theme - Stamps & Music
  
• STAMPlorations - Anything Goes
  
• Whimsy Stamps - Halloween or Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday

Thank You Card

Hello everyone!! I recently bought and won a few craft goodies. I'm still waiting to play with them!! Yesterday night I was able to play with the new stamps I received from Stamplorations!

Here is the card:

I stamped the Stamplorations Dogwood Stamp with versamark and embossed it with white powder. Then I watercolored the flowers and the background.

The sentiment is from Stamplorations VIGNETTE Art Deco Border Builders. I stamped it with versamark and embossed it with white powder. 

After the break, I have some trouble finding my mojo!! Hope I'll find it soon :)

Thanks for stopping by. Do leave your thoughts and suggestions.

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• Addicted To Stamps - CAS
• CAS(E) This Sketch
  
• Craftin Desert Divas - Linky Party - Color Scheme
  
• Crafty CardMakers - No Pattern Paper
• My Time To Craft - Flowers
• Penny Black - Summer Flowers
• Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
• STAMPlorations - Anything Goes
  
• STAMPlorations - August Theme Challenge - Stamp & Watercolor
• STAMPlorations - CASEplorations - Shirley's card
  
• Vintage Stamping Challenge - Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday