Month: April 2019

You are Awesome: Floral Card

~ Sathya ~ 4 Comments
Hiya Crafty peeps,

Happy Tuesday!

Am here today with a last moment entry to the current Altenew challenge.

Over to the project!

  • Onto Canson Watercolor card, stamped roses and leaves from Altenew’s Bold Blossoms stamp set in Antique linen distress ink.
  • Tried no line coloring using Zig clean color brush pens.
  • The florals and leaves are fussy cut once done.
  • Onto the watercolor cs, misted the bg heavily with water and dropped the colors of blue followed by yellow from Gansai Tambi watercolors to create a hazy bg.
  • I went for a hint of colors in the bg.
  • Once dried, splattered fine black paint over the panel.
  • Added a chipboard and onto which the fussy cut florals and leaves are added with adhesive tapes.
  • Then generously spattered white paint onto the panel to make the whole card come together.
  • Sentiment from Altenew’s You are stamp set is white heat embossed onto a black cs and added to the panel.
  • Few clear dew droplets for added interest.
Hope you like it!
Happy Crafting!

Stencil Stamping & Coloring : Mudra DT post

~ Sathya ~ 6 Comments
Hi Friends,

Am on Mudra’s blog for today’s monthly post. I have made 3 cards focusing Stencil Sponging. Sponging over Stencils is a pretty basic way to use. Stencils can also be used for mists/sprays or to apply the texture pastes to get the desired patterns. For which, whole stencil or a portion can be used to create the focal image or even a background.

Always start loading the sponge with the ink and lightly sponge over the stencil in one direction only. Once a layer of ink on your cardstock is dried, you can sponge over top with more inks and more pressure to intensity to get a layered look.

Went ahead and colored the sponged areas of the stenciled portion to make my focal images for first 2 cards and in the last card, used stencil for background on yupo paper using alcohol inks .

Check the  Mudra blog for the complete procedure and pictures.

Hope you like it!

Happy Crafting!

Linking this card for the following challenges

Virginia’s Show and share 

The card concept : Spring Celebration (Inspired by soft pastel shades of florals and greens)

Bowl of Beauty : PowerPoppy

~ Sathya ~ 6 Comments
Hi All,

My dear Mom’s birthday today and made a floral card for my Plant Nerd Mumma 🙂

She absolutely love plants and religiously maintains a huge garden at my hometown. This blog is the sample of her creative streaks which she transferred. Such a fabulous oil painting artist she is and all my childhood days were spent watching her create layers and layers of those artistic paintings.

Way back in 2011, this day, I made a handmade Quilled birthday card to Mom and from that there wasn’t no looking back…The moments were in search of “Me time” when little one was 2 yrs old and I ended up to this wonderland of Art and Handmade rightly!! Kind of soul-seeking!

Over to the card for today!

  • Printed Bowl of Beauty, a digital stamp from Powerpoppy.
  • Colored using Faber Castell polychromes colored pencils.
  • After finishing coloring, the bg around the flowers were made by Zig clean color brush pens.
  • I did a very light hazy bg with a baby blue brush pen.
  • Few enamel dots to finish off the card.
  • The focal panel matted to the black cs.
  • Then it’s mounted onto the 5×6.5″ white card base.
Hope you like it!
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Crafting!
Linking this to

Powerpoppy : Think Spring

CAS on Sunday Challenge : Spring 
Simon says stamp Work it wednesday : Spring flowers
The Card concept : Inspired by florals and the colors

Virginia’s April show and share (The floral digi is a new release from power poppy)

There’s Always Sunshine : Graciellie Designs

~ Sathya ~ 2 Comments
Hello All,

Am here today with yet another Sunflower series card. Yay! Love this Summer Sunflowers Digital set from Graciellie Designs. This time, I have used one of the lovely paper from the co-ordinating digital paper pack called Summer Sunflowers . I absolutely love this duo release!!

  • I took print out of one of the digital paper which has collaged with the Trio Sunflowers and the sentiment.
  • Colored the florals using Cretacolor FineArt Graphite pencils – 4B,8B.
  • Then the colors are slightly smudged using Mont Morte paper stumps.
  • Floral centres are lightly colored using Prisma colored pencil: Cream.
  • Matted this panel to black cs.
  • And then to the cream top fold 5.5″ square card base.
  • To go with the sentiment, kept the florals simple with bright bg paper.
  • Just few grey enamel dots are added as accents.
Hope the sentiment, bg and the florals go together to convey the meaning 🙂 
Hope you like it!
Happy Crafting!
Supplies used:


Hello Sunshine : Graciellie Designs

~ Sathya ~ 4 Comments
Hello Friends,

Am here again today with another Floral card. Yay! It’s another one in Sunflower series. Am smitten with these Summer Sunflowers from Graciellie Designs. Yesterday’s card is with alcohol markers coloring on florals and so today, took out my Zig clean color real brush pens and put to good use.

  • Arranged the florals in the desired look and printed out onto a watercolor cs.
  • Colored the florals using Zig clean color brush pens.
  • And bit of shadows using Prisma colored pencils.
  • The loose hazy bg is made using Gansai Tambi watercolors.
  • Matted this panel over the black cs.
  • Trimmed the sentiment and matted over black cs.
  • This matted panel is added then to the ivory A2 sized card base.
  • Added the sentiment strip to the focal panel.
  • Few clear dew droplets are added as accents.
Hope you like this!
Happy Crafting!
Do check out this Gorgeous paper pack from Graciellie designs along with the Summer Sunflower Digital set.
Product used:

Summer Sunflowers : Graciellie Designs

~ Sathya ~ 4 Comments
Hi Friends,

Made a card using the new release Summer Sunflowers from Graciellie Designs. This set has 2 gorgeous florals and lovely sentiments as always. This beautiful digital set has a co-ordinating paper pack- Summer Sunflowers Digital pack. Its just filled with awesomeness!!

  • Printed the sunflower to the desired size onto the white cs and colored using Alcohol markers.
  • Fussy cut the floral and trimmed the sentiment strip too.
  • Took a watercolor cs and did bg using Gansai Tambi watercolors.
  • Adhered the floral to the focal panel and added the sentiment strip.
  • Wink of stella clear shimmer pen was used on top of the florals and the colored sentiment strip. 
  • This focal panel then mounted onto a A2 sized top fold kraft card base.
Product used:  Summer Sunflowers
Don’t miss to check this awesome pack too! Summer Sunflowers Digital pack
Hope you like today’s card!
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Crafting!