Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive 2023 Blog Hop + Giveaway

March 14, 2023April 13, 2023 ~ Sathya ~ 11 Comments

Warm Greetings to All,

Am totally thrilled to be part of Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive 2023.

Thank you so much, Altenew for this Awesome opportunity.

You would have arrived from Maria’s blog. Am the last stop in the Hop. Hop over to the Altenew blog to check all the stops and beautiful cards churned by the Wonderful Artists around the world.

South Indians call their Mother as AMMA, and I grew up with my granny and lovingly call her MA. These words are SO much filled with emotions and must say, all my Creative Streaks are from both of them! Today’s card is dedicated to to them.

Over to my card,

My card features Always Be Kind Stamp

Other products are:

Woodless Watercolor pencils

Fine Alphabets Die Set

Best Mom Stamp set

I have used the pretty florals from Always Be Kind stamp set. I recently gifted Lavender shaded Morning glory plant to my Plant Nerd Mom. So I coloured my florals in Lavender shade as am gonna gift this card on her birthday in April. Used Woodless watercolor pencils for colouring.

The word ‘AMMA’ is diecut from Fine Alphabet Dies from ombre bg created by the woodless watercolor pencils.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 03/20/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 03/21/2023.

I hope you were inspired by my card.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this BlogHop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

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Cupcake Birthday Shaker Card | Altenew

October 26, 2022April 13, 2023 ~ Sathya ~ 2 Comments

Hi ya Friends,

Am here today to share a birthday card with shaker elements made for a Sweet Daughter of a crafty friend, Elysha Walker.

It took a while to reach Australia yet am happy it reached its destination safe and sound.

Over to my card,

Stamped Altenew’s Mini Delight Cupcake using Altenew’s Crisp dye inks.
Made them into a shaker card with tiny heart shaker bits.
Used Altenew’s Fine Alphabet Die set to make the recipient name and to make this a personalised card.
Sentiment is from Altenew’s Happy Sentiment stamp set.
Then, the card is assembled as shown here.

Hope you like it!

I appreciate you stopping by!

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Crafty Hugs 🙂

Linking this card to,

AAA birthday card challenges: (Favourite technique : Stamping)

Altenew Mini Delight Release: You’re a Classic

May 15, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hey, crafty friends! I’m joining a fun Instagram Hop with @altenewllc today to celebrate the release of the Mini Delight: You’re a Classic

Feel free to start the hop over at @altenewllc!

I hope you were inspired by my card and will try out this cute stamp set from today’s release.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Insta Hop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

May 12, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ 19 Comments

Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Eva’s Blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have made few cards using the variety of products in this Awesome Release.

Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence Product Description:

Enjoy floral florescence with stunning flowering blooms. Stamp the two elaborate clusters of poppies, chrysanthemums, and daisies to bring floral beauty to your projects. They are perfect to fill card backgrounds or frame your scrapbook layouts. Color the floral intricacies with watercolor or brush markers for a vibrant touch. Finally, stamp any of the uplifting sentiments or quotes to brighten a loved one’s day. Enjoy our Craft Your Life Project Kit, an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creative juices flowing! Featuring a 6×8 stamp set, coordinating die set, as well as a stencil set and embossing folder to fit the theme, this project kit has almost everything you need to start crafting. Just add ink and cardstock, and you’ll be good to go!

Over to my cards,

The first card features CYLPK Embossing Folder.

Blended light tones of purple on white cardstock before embossing and after dry embossing added darker tones to pop up the embossed portions. Added a die cut sentiment to finish off the card with clear dew droplets.

Other products are:

Shades of Purple Cube inks

Sentiment Strips 2

Featured Sentiment Die Set

This card features CYLPK Florescence stamp set.

It has wonderful floral blooms. Stamped on the Strathmore Toned Gray sketch paper using versamark ink and Pencil colored it.

Blended with lighter yellow tones around the die cut focal panel and stamped the sentiment.

Matted onto an Olive green A2 sized cardbase.

Finished off the card with dew droplets.

Following card features CYLPK Florescence stamp set.

Stamped a floral bloom onto either side of white card panel and did No line watercoloring using markers.

Added the sentiment as shown and splattered white calligraphy ink generously over the colored images.

Matted onto a A2 sized Olive cardbase to finish off the card.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $ 25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/18/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/20/2022

The next Stop in Hop is Awesome Ann Taylor

Blog Hop List

Altenew Card Blog
Jenny Colacicco
Mindy Eggen
Virginia Lu
Cheryl Espie
Nathalie DeSousa
Nenette S. Madero
Terri Koszler
Angela Brennan
Jaycee Gaspar
Colleen Balija
Tenia Nelson
LauraJane
Maryam Perez
Preeti Chandran
Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post.
Nandini Karmarkar
Laurie Patterson
Amy Hill
Bridget Casey
Linda Westfall
Eva Bussom
SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)
Ann Taylor
Rosie Neustaedter
Sande Woodson
Susan Stagno
Daniel Diaz
Hussena Calcuttawala
Natasha Davies

I hope you were inspired by my cards and will try out these Wonderful products from this new release.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Butterfly Bush Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

May 7, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ 29 Comments

Hello All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Butterfly Bush Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from Awesome, Preeti Chandran’s blog Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

Made a floral card using this new Butterfly Bush.

Over to my card,

Diecut different layers onto cardstocks and stacked using guidelines. Topped the inflorescence over a top fold A2 sized cardbase using foam adhesives and liquid adhesives for dimension. Stamped sentiment directly over cardbase.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 04/13/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/15/2022.

Blog Hop List

Next stop in Hop is Lovely, Susan Busada

Altenew Card Blog

Nenette S. Madero

Virginia Lu

Carol Hintermeier

Nathalie DeSousa

Angela Brennan

Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post.

Rosie Neustaedter

Amy Hill

Hussena Calcuttawala

Nandini Karmarkar

Nichol Spohr

Preeti Chandran

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Susan Busada

I hope you are inspired by my card and will try out this Layering Die Set.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

Altenew May 2022 Dreams Come True Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

May 4, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ 23 Comments

Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew May 2022 Dreams Come True Collection Release Blog Hop

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from Awesome Nandini’s Blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have made few cards using the variety of products in this Awesome Release.

Over to my cards,

This card features Always Be Kind Stamp set. One of my super favourites from this release for the Wonderful sentiments and for this Beautiful Floral Stalk.

I stamped on a Toned Gray sketch paper using White pigment ink and colored to my heart’s content using Colored pencils. It’s such a breeze to color this inflorescence. The Large sentiment and the sub sentiment are from this stampset. I diecut the focal panel and topped over a A2 sized cardbase.

Other product: Midnight Violet, Jet Black Crisp ink dye

Next card features Educators Rule Stamp and Die Set. I have clubbed this set with Beautiful Inside Add-on Sentiment, which perfectly matches with the theme of the card.

This card features Always Be Kind stamp set and Small World Die Set from previous release. They made a perfect match!

The final card is my most favorite card using Wispy Joy Stamp set. No line Watercoloring it is. This time I wanna them to look like Floral Ephemera kind of diecuts. Loose watercoloring style I tried here for that using markers.

I topped the colored diecuts over a oval embossed panel. The sentiment is from Beautiful Inside Add-on Set, which perfectly matches my floral.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/12/2022.

Blog Hop List

Next stop in Hop is Awesome, Susan Busada

Complete Hop List

Reiko Tsuchida***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post.

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Susan Busada

I hope you were inspired by my cards and will try out these Wonderful products from this release.
I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.
Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.
Happy Hopping!!

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Gerbera Revolution Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

April 22, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ 22 Comments

Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Gerbera Revolution Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Preeti Chandran’s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

This is such Gorgeous Gerberas. I did No line watercoloring with Woodless Watercolor pencils on these large blooms.

Over to my card,

This card features Gerbera Revolution Stamp set

Other products are:

Featured Sentiments Die Set

Woodless Watercolor pencils.

Jet Black Crisp Dye cube ink

Made a simple CAS card for today. Did No line Watercoloring and then splashed with generous amount of White calligraphy ink and then let to air dry. Then fussy cut and mounted onto a white diecut panel. Sentiment from the today’s release set is added and die cut using Featured Sentiments Die set.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/30/2022.

Next stop in the Hop is Lovely Nandini Karmarkar

Blog Hop List

Altenew Card Blog

Nenette S. Madero

Virginia Lu

Teresa Litchfield

Nathalie DeSousa

Terri Koszler

Preeti Chandran

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Nandini Karmarkar

Rosie Neustaedter

Natasha Davies

Carol Hintermeier

Hussena Calcuttawala

Eva Bussom

Bridget Casey

I hope you were inspired by my card and will try out this Wonderful stamp from today’s release.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

Altenew Mini Delight Release : Petite Reverie

April 15, 2022December 24, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hey, crafty friends! I’m joining a fun Instagram Hop with @altenewllc today to celebrate the release of the Mini Delight: Cupcake Stamp & Die Set!

Feel free to start the hop over at @altenewllc!

I hope you were inspired by my card and will try out this cute stamp set from today’s release.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Insta Hop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

Altenew April 2022 Gardens Around the World Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

April 14, 2022December 24, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ 20 Comments

Hello All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew April 2022 Gardens Around the World Collection Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Reiko’s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have made few cards using the variety of products in this Awesome Release.

Over to my cards,

This card features Meadow Reflections Stamp Set. It has a co-ordinating die set, which has not been used here. The bg is by ink blending the Distress oxides. This set is one of my favourite from the release for its very beautiful silhouette images and Pretty butterflies. It’s a must-have stamp set for Perfect Sentiments too.

This card features Morning Flowers Stamp and Die Set.

Used Altenew cube inks: Cool summer Night for the flowers and Green Field cube inks for the leaves.

This card features the Oh-So Beautiful Castle Garden Stamp set. Wanna make a monochromatic goodness with this stamp. Stamped with gray cardstock using Rock collection cube ink and used graphite and white charcoal to do the subtle coloring. White gel pen inks for the centres of the flowers. Splashed generously with white calligraphy ink for interest and the sentiment is from Fancy Greetings Stamp set.

This card features the stunning outline flower bouquet of pretty arrangement of roses and calla lilies. This set has 6 cheery sentiments. Did No-line watercoloring on this pretty set and showcased it with a lovely sentiment.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/22/2022.

Free Gift

Get a FREE brand new Gardens Around the World Mini Inspiration Guide with every order from 04/14/2022 through 04/16/2022. Shop HERE!
Get a FREE brand new Gardens Around the World Stamp & Die Release Inspiration Guide Ebook (worth $5.99) with every order of high-value Sweet Moments Bundles. Shop HERE! *Exclusions apply.
Get a FREE brand new Online Cardmaking Class with every order from the new Gardens Around the World Stamp & Die Release Collection from 04/14/2022 through 04/20/2022. Shop HERE!

Blog Hop List

Next stop in Hop is Awesome, Katrine Howe

Altenew Blog

Jennifer McGuire

Jaycee Gaspar

Vicky Papaioannou

Mindy Eggen

Jenny Colacicco

LauraJane

Erum Tasneem

Nenette S. Madero

Norine Borys

Linda Westfall

Natasha Davies

Nathalie DeSousa

Colleen Balija

Virginia Lu

Rosie Neustaedter

Bridget Casey

Emily Midgett

Teresa Litchfield

Michelle Short

Preeti Chandran

Therese Calvird

Tenia Nelson

Agnieszka Małyszek

Tania Ahmed

Maryam Perez

Reiko Tsuchida

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Katrina Howe

Sande Woodson

Ann Taylor

Eva Bussom

Nandini Karmarkar

Hussena Calcuttawala

Nichol Spohr

I hope you were inspired by my cards and will try out these Wonderful products from this release.

I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.

Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.

Happy Hopping!!

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Fragrant Florals Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

April 12, 2022December 24, 2022 ~ Sathya ~ 16 Comments

Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Fragrant Florals Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Reiko’s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have made few cards using the variety of products in this Awesome Release.

Craft Your Life Project Kit: Fragrant Florals Product Description:

Send hugs and snuggles to your loved ones with this beautiful arrangement of anemones. The large stamp size makes it quite versatile, as you will be able to stamp it off of your card base at different angles and proportions to get different looks. It is a lovely image to color or use stamped as is. We have also incorporated some heartfelt sentiments in bold fonts to contrast the delicate nature of the flowers.

Enjoy our Craft Your Life Project Kit, an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creative juices flowing! Featuring a 6×8 stamp set, coordinating die set, as well as a stencil set and an embossing folder to fit the theme, this project kit has almost everything you need to start crafting. Just add ink and cardstock, and you’ll be good to go!

Over to my cards,

This card features the CYLP Fragrant Florals Embossing Folder

Other products:

CYLP Fragrant Florals stamp set for the sentiment

Featured Sentiments Die Set

I dry embossed a white cardstock and matted over a darl gray A2 sized cardbase.

The sentiment is stamped over a light gray cs and die cut using Featured sentiment die set.

This card features the CYLP Fragrant Florals Stencil, Stamp & Die.

I stamped the fragrant florals and then stencilled with the cube inks. Pencil colored at few places for interest. Then its die cut using the co ordinating die.

This card features the CYLP Fragrant florals Layering Stamp set.

I did No line watercoloring using the outline stamp set.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $ 25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 04/18/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/20/2022.