Author: Sathya

The Flower Challenge#88 |Add a Heart |Reminder | Brutus Monroe

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Hi Friends,

It’s time for the reminder card at The Flower Challenge blog with the theme ‘Add a Heart’. 

This time, used a brand new die set from my stash. Of course made use of my Gemini Junior (yet another new in my stash) which was lying for more than 1.5 yrs was put to use to diecut this beautiful intricate die set. Such a clean crisp cut in just one go!! It was too hard to photograph cards made of mirror cardstocks, tried my best not to cast shadows and got few decent clicks.

Over to my card,

  • Used Brutus Monroe ‘With Love’ Die set for the intricate diecut as well as the scripty word ‘love’ .
  • Made use of gold mirror cardstocks for the diecuts.
  • Love scripty word alone is diecut twice and doubled up to get an embossed effect.
  • These diecuts are added to A2 sized ivory white cardbase as shown.
  • Few store bought flowers in pink shades, embellishments like little hearts and pearls are added as accents.

Hope you like this sweet simple card.

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Noline Watercoloring | Forever in Love | Altenew

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Hiya Friends!!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my viewers and visitors here.

Whipped a quick card using my favorite Noline watercoloring. I love this stamp set called Forever in Love from Altenew for the beautiful roses and the wonderful sentiments.

Over to my card,

  • Did Noline watercoloring on the stamp – Forever in Love from Altenew.
  • Used Karin markers for coloring. These are highly vibrant juicy markers and so little colors goes a long way. I did a wet on wet coloring mostly for the larger petals and dry on wet for smaller petals.
  • Altenew’s Hot pressed Watercolor paper is the one used here and by far my favorite of all hot pressed watercolor papers I have used.
  • The focal panel is cut from Altenew’s Mix & Match Frames Die set.
  • The panel then matted over A2 sized top fold Olive green card base using foam adhesives.
  • Few heart embellishments were added as accents.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

The Flower Challenge#88 | Add a Heart

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Hi Crafty Peeps!

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you Strength, While loving someone deeply gives you Courage.” – Lao Tzu

Am sharing today my first card for the TFC blog and this month’s challenge is ‘Add a Heart’. Of course you need to add the flowers as focus plus add cute little hearts 🙂

Just like today’s card, on certain days the card making process is done in a jiffy. The elements fell in place with no much efforts and a card could be whipped in no time. Used these floral ephemeras and a beautiful sentiment diecut which was lying for ages in my stash.

  • Took a patterned paper matching my A2 sized top fold Avacado Cardbase.
  • The patterned paper was diecut using Gina Marie scalloped die.
  • Then its added to the cardbase using adhesive tape.
  • On the focal panel, the floral ephemeras and sentiment diecut is added.
  • Heart diecut and few enamel dots were added as accents.

Hope you like it!

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Happy Holidays | Altenew

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Hi Friends,

Am here today to share a floral card made with new supplies in my stash. The cute rose stamp set – Shrub rose is the newest addition and it clubbed with the Watercolor Hot pressed paper from Artistry by Altenew. Made this card using the colors from April inspiration challenge 2023 of Altenew for their Year in Review Challenge 2023. I have chosen Joy Dsouza’s color palette and did noline watercoloring using Artistry by Altenew’s Watercolor tubes.

Over to my card,

  • Stamped Altenew’s Shrub rose stamp on to Artistry by Altenew’s Hot pressed Watercolor paper using Ink on 3 Noline coloring ink.
  • Colored using Artistry by Altenew’s Watercolor tubes – Toluidine Red and greens from my stash.
  • The diecut panel is from Mix and Match frames from Altenew onto which the berry branches is stamped.
  • The fussy cut floral images are liberally splashed with Artistry by Altenew’s Titanium White Gouache.
  • Sentiments are stamped from same stamp set using Versafine Onyx ink.
  • The panel is added to the A2 sized top fold Olive green card base using foam adhesives.
  • Then onto which the fussy cut images are added as shown.
  • Few red enamel dots are added for interest to finish off the card.

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The Flower Challenge #87 |Use Gold | Reminder | Stampendous

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It’s time for the reminder card at The Flower Challenge blog with the theme ‘Use Gold’. Made a card with floral noline copic coloring with few diecuts to jazz up the card. And for the gold part, I had used gold mirror cardstock and you can use gold embossing powder, gold glitter pen, gold stickles or anything that fancies you with florals as main focus.

Over to my card,

  • For today’s card, I had taken Stampendous Cling Christmas roses stamp set.
  • Did No line coloring using Copic ciao alcohol markers.
  • Fussy cut the image and liberally splashed it with white gouache for the wintery floral look.
  • Die cut Spellbinders Petite twisted oval from a patterned paper and onto it mounted an ornate diecut of Spellbinders using Gold mirror cardstock + White cardstock.
  • The focal panel and the florals are arranged as shown in pic over the Olive green A2 sized top fold cardbase which was notched at top corners.
  • SSS Holiday words on line – Joyful wishes Die (twice cut from white cardstock) is added on top of flowers for sentiment.
  • No embellishments added so as to keep the focus on the florals.

Hope you like it!

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The Flower Challenge#87 |Spellbinders | Use Gold

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Hi Crafty peeps,

Am sharing today the card made for the current challenge at The Flower Challenge. This time theme is ‘Use Gold’ and as always florals are to be in focus. You can use Gold heat embossing, Gold diecuts, Gold glitter cardstocks, Gold glitter washitapes or even Gold mirror cardstock just like me for diecuts.

Over to my card,

  • This time thought to play with just diecuts. Actually a recreation of my earlier card with a bit of new additions. December is such a merry season and I would love to play with my christmas stamps, dies, white sparkly embossing powders only during that time of the year.
  • Made this lovely holiday card using dies from Spellbinders-Amazing paper grace Petite Lacy dies and Twisted Oval Elegant dies.
  • Florals aren’t colored this time rather added Fussy cut white florals from Embellishment sheets. This season called for some white florals.
  • Sentiment is added to the inner oval diecut.
  • Few pearls, enamel dots are added as accents.

Hope you like it!

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The Flower Challenge #86| Reminder | Altenew

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Hi All,

Sharing today reminder card for the current challenge at The Flower challenge blog. As always florals are the focus with this month’s theme – Yellow, white and black colours.

Over to my card,

  • Took a Neenah solar white crest cardstock and sponged with Yellow dye ink from Mudra on both ends of the card as shown.
  • Then stamped the floral branch from Altenew BAG- Magnificent branch stamp set with sentiments from the same stamp set.
  • The panel then diecut using Gina Marie’s scalloped die set.
  • Then its matted over A2 sized black cardbase using foam adhesives.

Hope you like it!

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The Flower Challenge #86 |Bountiful Bouquet | Altenew

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Hi All,

Am sharing today the card made for the current challenge at The Flower Challenge. This time, its a colour challenge with Black, White and Yellow with usual florals as focus.

Over to my card,

  • Stamped Altenew- Bountiful Bouquet stamp in Versafine Black ink.
  • Colored in different yellow Copic markers for the petals and shades of grey and black for the leaves.
  • Topped the diecut colored image onto a white panel and then to a black panel and trimmed it.
  • Then matted the panel over a yellow colored A2 sized card base.
  • Sentiment is from the Altenew Sentiment strips 2.

Hope you like it!

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The Flower Challenge #85 | Anything goes | Reminder| LDRS

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Hi Crafty peeps,

Am here today to share a floral card for the current challenge at The Flower Challenge. This month our Blog is celebrating its 7th birthday and join us as we celebrate. The theme for this time is “Anything goes” and the focus is florals as always.

Over to my card,

  • Stamped the images onto the watercolor cardtsock using Antique Linen DI to attempt the no line watercoloring.
  • Used Karin brush markers for the coloring.
  • Then diecut the watercolored panel using MFT stitched rectangle die set.
  • Stamped a sentiment in jet black ink from the same stamp set.
  • Foam mounted the watercolored panel on to an olive A2 sized top fold cardbase.
  • Few clear dew drops are added as accents.

Hope you like it!

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Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!!

The Flower Challenge #85 | Celebrating You Today

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Hi Crafty peeps,

Am here today to share a floral card for the current challenge at The Flower Challenge. This month our Blog is celebrating its 7th birthday and join us as we celebrate. The theme for this time is “Anything goes” and the focus is florals as always.

Over to my card,

  • Took a gold foiled patterned paper and trimmed to fit in a A2 sized cardbase.
  • Then partially colored the patterned paper using Green copic markers.
  • Matted over the Olive A2 sized top fold cardbase.
  • The sentiment from Altenew- Sentiment strips 2 is fold embossed on an olive cardstock and die cut using Altenew Featured Sentiments Die set.
  • Mounted the sentiment die cut on focal panel with foam adhesive.

Hope you like it!

Do hop to our Flower Challenge Blog to see the wonderful projects churned by our Guest Designer and Awesome Team mates.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!