Month: December 2016

MHKD Designer SathyaSankaran

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Hi Friends!!

This is my last DT inspiration at MHKDesigns. I had a great year working with the Awesome digisets and Wonderful DT team. Thanks much for this opportunity, Mynn. I learnt a lot from my fellow DTs and this team.

I was asked to share my fave project. As i couldn’t pull out just one project out of all my MHKD DT inspirations, i made a collage using my fave digisets.

I absolutely enjoyed working with these Digi sets.

Each card here is SO close to my heart.

Open Bloom, Butterfly Wisdom, Butterfly Elements, Blossoming are my favorites among the digisets of this year.

If you wish to know how each card is made, click on my name in the label section, to know more about the card.

Thanks much for all your likes, comments, and Support on FB, blog and Instagram.

Thanks SO much for stopping by!

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Guest Designing at So Suzy Stamps: Day 3

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Hi Friends!
Am at Sosuzystamps today with a final Guest designing post of this December.

Made a Layered Love card with Embossed florals using SoSuzy Stamps : Bride and Groom, Love takes off the mask, Chrysanthemum outline, Wispy Chrysanthemum outline.
  • Took a A2 Sized Metallic gold Cardbase.
  • Diecut a gold foiled patterpattern using Spellbinders Divine Elequence largest die and layered on cardbase.
  • The couple is stamped onto a narrow strip of vellum using black archival ink and mounted on the diecut centrally.
  • The florals are gold heat embossed on watercolor paper and colored using Zig cleancolor brush pens.
  • Fussy cut those florals and mounted using Foam adhseives.
  • The sentiment is then stamped onto a shrink plastic and baked in oven.
  • It’s then added on top of the watercolored florals.
  • No extra embellies are added as the gold foil accents gave an elegant look.

Hope you like the inspiration for today.

Absolutely enjoyed working with SoSuzy stamps and Thank You so much, Suzzane for this wonderful opportuniy.

Beautiful day!

~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments
Hi Crafty pals,

Made this card for Altenew’s Year in review Challenge .

I have chosen June 2016 for Today’s project, as i wanna play along that challenge and couldn’t do due to my Vacation in June. At last had a chance to play now.

Am much inspired by the lovely colors, all those sparkles, Gorgeous blooms…

  • Took a half white A2 cardbase.
  • Stenciled with Prima Poppy stencil with Prima Lightpaste and sprinkled Stampendous White jewelkit chunky white Embossing powder and heat set it.
  • Just to mimic that all those touches of sparkle in the Inspiration pic. 
  • Stamped Beautiful day stampset on watercolor paper, colored using Zig clean color brush pens, and fussy cut all florals leaves and infloresence clusters.
  • Just to give a fabric touch, added a White Tulle.
  • Onto which, Prima resin frame added, for all those dimension and layerings. It was totally lost sight due to the floral spray arrangement.
  • Few clear droplets are added as final touch.
  • Sentiment stamped on vellum and added on to the card. 
Hope you like it! 

Guest Designing at ICR Bloghop

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Hi Crafty Friends!!

Am happy to welcome you all for ICR Year End Bloghop. Am even more happy to start Bloghop at this year 2016 beginning and to join them at the year end too!!!

Thanks for inviting me, for being part of this Blohop!

This bloghop emphasized on Technique : “Wet/Dry Embossing”

  • I throughly enjoyed making this card, as its my first trial at no line coloring.
  • I wanna showcase all Embossing possibilities in this card to give participants an idea to work along for the bloghop challenge.
  • Done dry embossing on the background,before which i distressed the central portion heavily with Evergreen bough Distress ink in a circular portion and faded out at the periphery.
  • Then Dry embossed it with WRMK 3D embossing folder- Weaves
  • For Wet embossing, applied Wendy Vecchi Embossing paste to the central portion to create a texture and sprinkled mini art stones generously for extra added textures.
  • Using foam adhesives added the colored image along with a piece of cheesecloth.
  • Sentiment is Heat embossed using White Embossing powder on vellum and tucked near the image.
  • Few clear droplets added to finish off the card.
Hope you like this card.
Blog hop order:

Akshma (Host): 







Sathya  (You are here)




Our Sponsor this time is Nagasri arts and there is an awesome bag of goodies to grab as prize!!!


Thanks much again for the ICR team for the opportunity.

Guest Designing at So Suzy Stamps : Day 2

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Hi Crafty pals,

Am at SoSuzystamps today with GDT Day 2 project. You can view Day 1 project here and here. 

Today’s card is using SoSuzy stamps : “Rose Bloom” and “Forever and Ever”




  • I love doing watercolor projects and coloring and so this attempt on noline coloring today.
  • Took a watercolor cardstock and stamped Rosebloom stamp using Antique linen distress ink, being the lightest ink.
  • Then went over with coloring using Zig clean color brushpens.
  • Then masked the whole image using Masking fluid and colored the outline of the bloom and the surrounding area randomly with Light Blue Zig cleancolor brush pens and added water to give a nice waterwash look.
  • After its dried totally, took off the masking fluid by rubbing it, and it revealed the image.
  • Mounted this panel, onto a baby blue A2 sized cardbase.
  • Few baby blue enamel dots are added as accents to finish off the card.

Hope you like my inspiration. Meet you next week with another inspiration.

Happy Stamping!

End of Year party…Something you shouldn’t miss 😉 🙂 Hop over to check all lovely stamps 🙂 


MHK Designer : Fanciful Feathers

~ Sathya ~ 9 Comments
Hi Friends!

Am excited to welcome you to the December 2016 MHK Designs release. We have some really fun sets to check over the next few days, as well as chances to win either one of the sets OR all of them.



Digi on focus:



My take on this set:




  • Bg was done using Brushos.
  • Feathers are colored using Faber castell polychromos.
  • Two of which are colored and fussycut and added to the focal panel.
  • This then added to Mint A2 sized cardbase.
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Guest Designing at So Suzy Stamps – Day 1

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Dear Crafty pals,

Am So stoked to Guest Design at So suzy stamps and i had an opportunity to pick my faves as GDT kit 🙂 Absolutely thrilled, when i received a mail in June just before my Vacation to India 🙂 

Have come up with projects using my favorite stamps. Have been showcasing whole of this month December as weekly inspiration 🙂 Hope you like it as much as i loved making these 🙂 

First up is a Layered Mixed media, using Sosuzy stamps : Bride and Groom and Judy Garland sentiment stamp .



  • Took a 5.5” topfold white cardbase.
  • Layered with DCWV Luxury matstack papers with bordered punch cutouts and paper laces, as shown in the picture.
  • Stamped the Bride and Groom on a patternpaper and gold heat embossed it and fussy cut.
  • The baselayer is stenciled at diagonal ends using TCW Tiles stencil + embossing paste and heat set it by sprinkling gold embossing powders.
  • The fussycut couple is then added on focal panel with base white doily.
  • The layering of the floral cluster is made with tulle, pearl string, metal charm, chipboards and handmade blooms, hip roses and few diecuts.
  • Sentiment from Judy Garland is stamped onto a patternpaper using Black Archival ink, fussy cut and tucked near the floral spray.
  • Few clear droplets and some Prima mini artstones area added as final touches to the card.

Few closer shots:



Hope you like my Mixedmedia card. Hope to inspire you with another project on 15th December. Don’t forget to check back here:)  

Until then, Happy Stamping! 

End of Year party…Something you shouldn’t miss 😉 🙂 Hop over to check all lovely stamps 🙂 



MHK December Release :Realistic roses

~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments
Hi Friends!

Am excited to welcome you to the December 2016 MHK Designs release. We have some really fun sets to check over the next few days, as well as chances to win either one of the sets OR all of them.




Digi on focus:



My take on this :



  • Took a white A2 sized cardbase.
  • Printed sentiment and sponged on focal panel with mustard seed by heavily at one end and gradually faded it out.
  • Printed roses digi image in different sizes and colored using Fabercastell polychromos and fussy cut it.
  • Mounted using adhesive foam near focal panel, to finish off the card.


Project supplies:


MHK December Release : Pretty Petunias

~ Sathya ~ 10 Comments
Hi Friends!

Am excited to welcome you to the December 2016 MHK Designs release. We have some really fun sets to check over the next few days, as well as chances to win either one of the sets OR all of them.




Digi on focus:

Pretty Petunias

My take on this :

  • Took a light lavender A2 sized cardbase.
  • Printed Petunias in different sizes, colored using Polychromos colored pencil, fussy cut and mounted on the card.
  • Sentiment banner is distressed with scattered straw distressed ink and added to the card.
  • Few purple enamel dots to finish off the card.
Project supplies: