Birthday card

Hello friends,

Nice to meet you all once again through this post. As you can see, Recent days due to some personal work I'm disappearing from blog land now and then :-). I'm missing many of your beautiful posts.Hopefully I will catch up soon!

My little one had is 3rd birthday in between these days. So I made a card for him. Here it is:

Thanks for visiting me. Its always a joy to see you all here :)
Sharing with:

Challenge #150 - Anything Goes @Word Art Wednesday

A NEW BEGINNING - WELCOME BABY # CHALLENGE 9@Kraft zone

 

Pattern paper flower

Hi all,

It's me again, with another post for the day :). I made this card today within minutes I should say!  It was a very quick one, since I had the flower made already.

I made this pattern paper flower with ciao bella pp. I hand cut the layers and misted with LSG Cactus gold. After letting them dry, I adhered them together and added a brad in the middle.The brad is a gift from dear Grace.
The pp I've used is from Yes please paper pad adhered to a lavender card stock which is then adhered to a white one.
I'm linking this with:
Pattern Paper Fun at Create something catchy challenges

CSCC #6 - Pattern Paper Fun

Floral pop up card

Hi friends!

I'm back very soon :). Yes, since I was not crafting for a while, my hands were very fast to make another card. It is a pop up one, which is the first of its kind I'm making and inspired by the Catchy challenges. They also are offering a candy. Will give the details below.

So to my card now.

This is the front of the card:

Here's the pop up inside

Liked the popping flowers the most:). Do let me know your thoughts. I used my favorite combination, which is pink and laces. The stamp set is Hero Arts, which is  a prize set from Jen at Faith Hope and Love challenges. Thank you Jen.

The joy crafts butterfiles are distressed with seedless preserve and have used the French lily corner in white. Hope it is visible.

Here's a closer picture of it:

 

  A closer look of the popping flowers and the stamps

Hope you liked my card. Do let me know how it is.Sharing this with Catchy challenges.

Thank you so much for your kind visit today. Please read the candy details below.

 

 

Catchy Challenges has a blog candy. Please take  a look for a chance to win it :)         

This is the candy they offer, very sweet of them:).

Shabby birthday card

Hello crafty friends,

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend. Today I have a birthday card to share with you, which I made with the inspiration from The shabby Tea Room. I created my own pale green pp for this card. But it;s not visible in the picture :(.

 The vintage birthday greetings is from Little Birdie blessings. Dear Abby provides such beautiful inspirational pictures. Do visit her blog for more inspirations.Thank you Abby.

Here's my card:

I layered pink card stock on a white one and then used the green pp. I made it by painting a light coat of Faber Castell paint. Then added some layers for the digi and the favorite part was embellishing. I purchased these cute paper roses recently and used them grandly for this card :) I also used the Martha Stewart three in one punch which I added to my stash now :). The Cheery Lynn flourish and the joy crafts butterfly added a good beauty. I gave a light watery coat of green to the polka dot paper too.
Linking this with:

Week #224 - 'Party Time'@The Shabby Tea Room

Challenge 24@Crafting From The Heart

Challenge #138 - Anything Goes@Word Art Wednesday

Challenge #63@Sister Act card Challenge

Lulupu Challenge #33
 Inspired by New Lulupu Logo(Have used the pastel colours of the logo)

Thanks for your sweet visit today and all the lovely comments.

I'm sharing this wonderful hymn with you today.

When I survey the wondrous Cross
On which the Prince of Glory died
My richest gain, I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride

See from His head, His hands, His feet
Sorrow and love flow mingled down
Did ever such love and sorrow meet?
Or thorns compose, so rich a crown

Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live

Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
All who gather here by grace, draw near and bless Your name

Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were an offering far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all

Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
Bids me come and die and find that I may truly live
Oh the wonderful Cross, oh the wonderful Cross
All who gather here by grace, draw near and bless Your name

May God bless you!

Birthday card

Hi all!

Hope you are having a wonderful week. Today I have a birthday card to share with you. I've used the pps from "Forever Friends". The balloons are stamped, coloured and then fussy cut. That is the special element of this card. I also distressed the small bow to coordinate with the blue-green theme of the card.I've also used the colours of the New Logo of Lulupu.

Here it is:

I  used Sakura markers, Faber Castell colour pencils and distress inks to colour the balloons.Hope it has come out well. But I liked coloring with distress inks the best.

Thanks for your sweet visit today and the lovely comments.

Linking this with:

 Challenge #17 Stamp.Color.Cut@ Crafters Corner
Challenge # 33 Inspired by New Lulupu Logo
Challenge-138-anything-goes @Word Art Wednesday

Birthday bear

Hi all!

With the cute bear image from "Friend's Forever" paper pad, I made this card based on the sketch provided by Seems a little sketchy.

Here's the card:

Patterned paper- downloaded from digitalcardfun.com
Ive also added the Happy Birthday on tag for a change.

Hope you liked my card.

Thanks for visiting me today and your lovely comments.
I have a special creation to show you all for my next post :)
Linking this card with:

Sketch 65 - QKR Stampede@Seems a little sketchy challenges

Challenge #58@Sister Act Card Challenges

CHALLENGE #69 BRING ON THE BLING.......but please make it cute!@The Cutie Pie Challenges

Challenge #65 ~ Use A Tag!@chocolatecoffeecards

Challenge #133 - Anything Goes@Word Art Wednesday

 

Shabby chic Birthday card

Hi all!

Hope you are all doing good. Hope all who celebrated Easter had a great time, celebrating the Lord's day.

Recently I'm interested in shabby chic style very much, you can see that with my cards. Today again I have a shabby chic birthday card. I'm planning to give this to an aunt who helped us in the church. She was very encouraging. So my card is totally feminine.

I've used the DCWV French stack as my paper base, on which I've placed a fancy square die cut from itsy bitsy,embossed with Corture creation Trellis EF.
I've also used mini fanciful flourish from Cheerylynn. The butterfly is from joy crafts.The roses and flowers are local buy and the pink nylon flowers are from itsy bitsy. They were given as compliment for shopping :)

Here's my card:

 Hope you liked my card.

I'm linking this with :
 Challenge #129 - ANYTHING GOES@Word Art Wednesday

Challenge 15@Crafting from the heart

{PIN}spirational Challenge #104 Ap 22-28

Challenge #63 ~ Spring@ChocolateCoffeeand cards

 

Lavender birthday card

Hello everyone,

Today I'm sharing  a birthday card. This has some very special additions :). One is the lavender lace which I bought recently and the very special addition  is the mini fanciful flourish die from cheery lynn designs. After learning about stamping and using die cuts in the craft projects, I slowly started adding things to my stash too :).

I've stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment with Momento sweet plum and inked the edges of the center die cut with the same.

Have added two quilled flowers.
Roses, pp, cardstock -local craft store
 Butterfly is from itsy bitsy.

Hope you enjoyed my card.

I'm also very happy to share the happy news of winning the Terrific Top Three at The Shabby Tea Room . 
This is a very special win to me because it was the first shabby type card I've ever made.I thank the dt of the shabby tea room and you, my special friends for leaving such encouraging thoughts on the card.

Thanks for your sweet visit today and lovely comments :).


Entering this for
Anything goes challenge @ Crafting by designs 
Challenge#157 Anything goes @ SweetStamps challenges
Challenge 7@ Crafting from the heart
Challenge #44@Sister Act Card Challenges

Challenge #157 Anything Goes

Vintage Birthday Card

Hello friends,

Happy to meet you all once again. I'm so happy for you all, who stop by my blog , read and share your comment every time. I'm so privileged to share your friendship. Thank you for following my blog and making my followers no 50. :-).

In this post, I'm sharing with you a Vintage Birthday card. I love vintage types :). Even visiting museums and heritage sites and collecting info about the past (history)is on my "interests" list. I also love ceramics(tea cups) and clothes(with laces) of vintage types. I think I'm sharing this for the first time :). Please do share if you too have similar interests.

I didn't make a vintage type creation before, since I thought, if I make, it should be  a proper one and was so hesitant to start. 

So this time, I loved making this card and sharing it with you. I cannot say, I achieved the best but was so happy to have started.

Here's my card:

I started with a cream card stock and layered a red on top of it and then the pattern paper. I've also used the red oval die cut from itsy bitsy and distressed the center die cut with frayed burlap-distress ink. The sentiment is stamped with momento ink-rich coco. The small roses are ready made and the leaves are hand cut and distressed.

The lace flower is hand made(my first attempt).

Hope you like my card and please do share your thoughts on it.  Thanks for your visit today and your valuable comments.

Entering this for the following challenges.

Digi Darla's #99 'Vintage Photo Inspiration' 

Vintage with lace  @ Divas by Design

Eureka Stamps Weekly Challenge #74 ANYTHING GOES 

Challenge #117 - Anything Goes 

@ Word Art Wednesday

The ItsyBitsy Picture Bingo Challenge ( I've chosen the first row)

New challenge 20/1-2/2 @ My Craft Creations

 Linking with ivyandelephants

Use your scraps

Hello everyone!

Today I'm sharing with you a card and a tag made from scraps of pp. This is inspired by the challenge at lulupu-craft challenge blog.

I hope many of you have "scarps savings" like I do :). The only issue is storing them!!. After some time you really don't know why you "saved" so much, specially when you have an active toddler at home :).

At this moment, when you see a challenge like this, you should really be happy to at least reuse them in a proper way .

So, this is what I came up with.

A "scrappy happy birthday card" Every thing from left over pattern papers, card stocks and embellishments, even the quilling papers are actually left overs.

I also made a tag and here is the picture :

Okay, now as per lulupu's blog challenge guidelines, I have to explain, how I used my scraps. So, here I go with the first picture of my left over craft materials and the current storage system.

I store them in hand made boxes for now. And the next picture shows how I started with this card.

As you can see, I started with this layout for my card and did the rest. The rose at the center is also from a scrap pp. I rolled the pp to make it and the butterflies you see on the actual card are slightly damaged. But I had them without throwing away. I did a few make over on them and used it for this card.

Now, for the tag, as you can see, I have used small pp strips and embellished with a quilling flower and some hearts.

So that's it. I think enough of explanantion from my side!!. A huge thanks, if you had really read till this  :) :).

Thanks for visiting me today and for your sweet comments. Have a great day!!

Entering this for the 

Challenge #24 Scrap your Scraps ! @Lulupu-the craft lounge

Lace and flowers

Hi all!

This week I really got crazy with my new laces :) as you've seen a scrapbook   lo with white lace, in my previous posts. This time I've made some birthday cards using another white lace.

 This is my first card. Clean and simple

In this second card I've  used some ready made roses as embellishments.

Thank you so much for visiting me today. I always love to read your comments and I appreciate it very much.

Birthday card

Hello everyone!

The cutie pie challenge  blog is celebrating its birthday and have asked to make a birthday card with their sketch. I enjoyed making this card , as I felt the sketch was interesting  and I've made it a little boyish as I'm planning to give it to my dad.

Here is the card:

 

Entering this card for the  CHALLENGE #54 CUTIE PIE BIRTHDAYS WITH A SKETCH

 



Thank you all for visiting me today.

Pretty In Pink

Hi dear friends!

As the title of today's post indicates,  have made a pink birthday card. However it's not fully pink, because have given some green touch with my new distress ink.( My first card using distress ink).

I distressed the punched flowers and even the flourish to give an extra touch to the pink card. Made this card for the pretty with p challenge @ the Itsy bitsy  blog.

I 've incorporated all the p's suggested by itsy bitsy. Pink, Pearl, Pattern Paper and Posy.

And here is the card:

 

 

Thank you for visiting me today. I loved all your comments for my previous post and thank all you so much :)

 

I'm entering this card for the The Itsy Bitsy Pretty with P Challenge with Some Changes 







Latte Special

Hi dear friends,

Today's post is very special, as it is about "Coffee"  :) which is my favourite drink. As I came across a new challenge blog called "Beyond Grey Challenges" , I decided to participate, as soon as I saw the theme coffee.

WARNING  :-))
 This post is going to be long, SO PLEASE HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE BY YOUR SIDE, SIT BACK,RELAX, AND ENJOY!

And now to my card

I had an old magazine cut out about a place in India,where coffee plantation is done. And I decided to use that in my pretty vintage type card. I also preserved the vintage type paper that came along with some embellishments, and decided to put it in use.

The challenge said to incorporate stitching any where in the card. So, I stamped my sentiment and attached it to felt background by stitching. Stitching on the felt was little tricky, as I was doing it almost in the borders. Made a bow with white satin ribbon, and attached a small piece of quilling strip at the centre of it.

On the inside, I've placed real pictures of two coffee cups on one side, and on the other side, I've stamped a sentiment all over a little piece of old canvas  to create a background and added one more sentiment in the centre. I've also added a small felt coffee cup stitched in the borders and the handle is a quilled oval.

Here is my card.

 A closer look of the sentiment and the bow:

 Inside of the card:

A closer look:

The background stamped sentiment says: May your birthday be special as you are.
Used Rich cocoa ink for stamping using Fiskar's clear stamp set.

Now with my  favourite coffee mugs:

Hope you liked the card.
Thanks for visiting today.
Your comments and suggestions are always an encouragement :)

I'm entering this card for

BGC #37 - Latte Love!

 

First Stamping experience

Hi all!

Here is the card, I made using Fiskar's clear stamp set. I was so excited while trying! Hope it has come out well.

Stamping is really a very interesting aspect in card making. But, only by experience, you can get a perfect stamping done. I realised it in my very first stamping experience. But I'm so happy I've started this new journey. Thank you dear friends,  for many of you have inspired me :).


cs-local buy
Fiskar's clear stamp  set- Bits n pieces paper boutique
Embellishments- Itsy bitsy craft store

Entering this card for 

Challenge #93 - Anything Goes

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Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great week.

A Pink Birthday card

Hi all!

Today I've made a birthday card based on the colour pink. I've used my punches to make small flowers and some adhesive pearls to decorate the flowers and the card. Painted the punched flowers with pearl metallic paint-pink. The  sentiment is hand written.

I had some pop up  stickers which were waiting to be used. Since the colours went along with my pp, I decided to make use of them.

Here is the card

 A closer look at the sentiment

  Sorry for the too much light.

  Thank you all  for your sweet visits and lovely comments!

   Linking  this card to

CHALLENGE #49 PRETTY IN PINK

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Birthday card

Hi all!


Here is a card I've made based on a sketch by catchy challenges. As some of you know, I made one already based on  the same :). But, this time I've added a "charm" to my card. And it was quite a new model for me. I've tried my best.... .

Entering this card for A CHARMing Challenge

Thank you  all for visiting and your sweet comments.

Quilled Birthday card

Thank you all for the encouraging comments!

Here is a birthday card I've made. I've used the sketch designed by catchy challenges.

Submitting this card for

Challenge #87 - Anything Goes  @  Word Art Wednesday

Thanks for visiting today! It is always a joy to see you visit :).

Card making

Hi all! In my search for making scripture cards, I ended up learning a new "Paper craft -Stamping technique." The previous posts have some of  the ideas which  inspired me  and made me try my hands on it. (The punched flower  B'day greeting card is one of them). And I'm so excited to have new friends in that field:).

Though, making a scripture card is my ultimate aim, I'm gaining knowledge in this new craft, as I keep doing these simple B'day cards. The previous one I made, was for my sister.

Now here is the second card, I've made for my friend who's celebrating her b'day today. And, I felt a little improvement making this one:) Hope she likes it.

Inside of the card

                                                   I've left space on both sides for sentiments.

I'm also very excited in submitting this card for

The Itsy Bitsy 'All that Glitters' Challenge

Thanks for visiting!

B'day Greeting card

 

Made this Birthday greeting card with all the little things  I had at home. I just  love the paper I've used, which has cute roses all over.

Recently got a flower punching machine. With that I punched those cute white flowers and added small sequin embellishments  on them.  Hope it's visible!

 A closer look