Month: February 2021

Happy Birthday Card : Stamplorations

~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

Hiya Crafters,

Made a floral birthday card for today. Used a brand new Brustro Colored pencils,  from Creative Hands. These are proudly Made in India Wax based pencils. 

I started my coloring with Bi colored pencils from Faber castell, then upgraded to 24 pencils of Polychromos. I felt so fortunate when my DH gifted me Polychromos 120 set + Prisma colored pencils 132 set for my 2017 Birthday. And then there is no looking back 🙂 My experiments with it are still continuing.

With regard to this new in town Brustro Colored pencils, it convinced me so much with it’s wide range of colors especially with Greens. The soft core wax based pencils gives rich color tones and work wonderfully for shading and blending. If you are yet to own Poly or Prisma, this 75 pencils set can be a great investment in testing Wax based pencils and can grow your coloring interest with this.

And…Over to my card for today 🙂

  • Stamped Stamplorations Blossoms Sprays#3 from Dee’s Artsy Impressions using Antique Linen onto a white cardstock.
  • Colored using New Brustro Colored pencils from Creative Hands .
  • Sentiment from IBS (a retired stamp )company using Mudra Jet black ink.
  • Trimmed and mounted this focal panel onto a Cairo Cream Top Fold A2 cardbase.
  • Few clear dew droplets are added as accents.
Hope you like it!
Happy Stamping!
Linking this to following challenges:
Time out challenge                      “Happy Birthday TO Team”

Forever in Love – Altenew – Floral card

~ Sathya ~ 3 Comments

 Hi Friends,

Am here with a floral card and tried Negative Painting for the first time. Yesterday, Emily Midgett ‘s Altenew blogpost inspired me a lot. She generously shared her knowledge and immensely inspired me to give it a go today, as I was too intimidated to try this technique.

She focused on Negative painting and a contrast paler/muted/ floral spray. But I tried this with current Altenew challenge colors .

Over to my card,

  • Stamped roses from Altenew Forever in Love stampset onto watercolor paper using Antique Linen.
  • Watercolored the whole painting using Bright palette of Jane Davenport Watercolors.
  • Splashed generously white acrylic paint.
  • Stamped the sentiment from Altenew Beautiful day stampset.
  • Trimmed and matted over a A2 sized top fold Black cardbase.
Hope you like it!
Thanks for stopping by!
Linking this to 

Uniko Challenge:


Hugs & Kisses : Uniko Floral card

~ Sathya ~ 6 Comments

 Hiya Friends!

Am loaded with Guest Designing projects for next month and so squeezed in a bit of time for my personal project to play along few challenges in Blogland.

Over to my project,

Absolutely love pencil coloring as much as I love watercoloring. I love to experiment with different mediums and this peony bud was one of my favorite from Uniko stamps. I was using the large peony floral many a times and neglecting this small peony and today was the perfect time to do Pencil coloring with Prisma colored pencils.

  • Stamped on a fine grain watercolor cardstock using Antique Linen to do a online coloring using prisma colored pencils.
  • Colored using various shades of pinks and greens of Prisma colored pencils.
  • Splattered white acrylics over the floral liberally.
  • Stamped the sentiment from same stampset using Mudra Mai Jet black ink pad.
  • Matted over a black cardstock and then to a kraft A2 cardbase.
  • Few clear dew droplets and paper pieced butterflies to finish off the card.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Linking this to

Uniko Birthday challenge 

Uniko Challenge: #63


Bloom in Love : Guest Designer : The Flower Challenge

~ Sathya ~ 24 Comments

 Hi Crafty peeps,

Am excited to be Guest Designer today at The Flower Challenge. 

Thanks SO much Viv and TFC Team for giving me this lovely opportunity.

The theme for this month is “Use your latest Stamps or Dies” with Flowers as Focus. 

Over to my card for today!

Got my first ever MFT stamps during last year end sale. Used here is the MFT Fresh cut florals cling rubber stamp.
  • Stamped using DI Antique Linen onto Canson Montval 300gsm watercolor paper.
  • Colored using Daniel smith Watercolor dot cards.
  • Fussy cut and generously splashed white acrylic paint.
  • Mounted this fussy cut floral on the diecut panel.
  • Matted this over Grey A2 sized cardbase.
  • Stamped the sentiment.
  • Added few grey enamel dots for the added interest.
Hope you are inspired enough to play along the challenge. Check the TFC blog for the Designers’ inspirations.
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Crafting!
Linking this to following challenge:

Enjoy Little Things : Power Poppy

~ Sathya ~ 3 Comments

 Hi Friends!

Made a card today using a digital stamp , Trumpet Vine Visitor from Power Poppy.

This Trumpet vine digital took me back to my cherished childhood memories. We have a huge Honeysuckle Vine trellis in my garden. It’s bright inflorescence is such a sight to watch in our Indian Summer for its beauty of vivid reddish orange flowers filled with Bees and butterflies. 

I framed the beautiful sentiment with florals in a delightful way. It’s one of my favorite quote from the  Wildflower Mini digital stampset .

Over to my card,

  • Printed the vine onto a watercolor cardstock with grayscale to attempt No line watercoloring using Karin Brushmarkers Pro.
  • Topped the watercoloring with Prisma colored pencils for the shadows.
  • Matted the panel onto a black cardstock and topped over a card, bit larger than A2 sized cardbase.
  • Few clear dew droplets are added as accents.
Hope you like it!
Happy Crafting!
Thanks for stopping by!
Linking this to following challenges: