Category: cardmaking

Sending Good thoughts : Power Poppy

~ Sathya ~ 10 Comments

 Hi Friends,

Happy April!

Am here to share a floral card suing Power Poppy’s Big Flouncy Peony Digital Stamp set .

Over to my card for today.

  • Printed the digis onto Canson Montval Watercolor paper.
  • Colored the digis using Jane Davenport Glitz sea palette of Watercolor set.
  • Fussy cut the digis and kept aside.
  • Took Strathmore Toned Tan, Die cut it with MFT stitched die and sponged with Spun Sugar DI .
  • Stamped the sentiment from Power Poppy Everything Even Rosier Stamp set.
  • Foam Mounted the fussy cut digis and slashed generously with white acrylic paint.
  • Few clear dew droplets are added as accents.
  • Foam mounted the focal panel onto a A2 sized white Top fold card base to finish off the card.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking this to following challenges:

Uniko Challenge#64 Signs of Spring

HLS Watercolor challenge

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Coral Sunset Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 75 Comments

Hey Hi All,

Welcome to Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Coral Sunset Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop.

SO Stoked to join Altenew for this Blog Hop

You must have arrived from the Talented Jaycee Gasper‘s blog.

Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have created two coloured variation cards using this Beautifully Detailed Floral Outline Stamp : Coral Sunset. 

To create this card, first I stamped the image using second generation stamping with the Altenew Limestone Crisp Dye ink. 

Colored the images using Graphite Lead pencils and smudged it with paper stump for the shadows. Used Yellow Colored pencil to color the floral centre. Main sentiment is stamped over the floral panel and White heat embossed sentiment strip is mounted onto the panel. This floral panel is then trimmed and foam mounted onto a black A2 sized cardbase and finished off with few clear dew droplets.

For my second card, stamped the floral outline using antique linen Distress ink and attempted the No line coloring technique over the image using Watercolor markers.

The colored panel is then fussy cut. The sentiment is stamped over a white A2 sized cardbase using Altenew Jet black crisp dye ink in such a way leaving space for the focal element.


Fussy cut floral spray then foam mounted and few clear dew droplets are added as accents. 

Hope you like my two colored version cards. 

Now onto the most interesting 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 03/27/2021 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 03/30/2021. 


Complete Blog Hop List :

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hope I have inspired you to try Altenew’s New Beautiful Floral Outline Stampset: Coral Sunset

Happy Hopping!!

Crafty Hugs!


Linking this to following challenge:


Uniko challenge #64 Signs of Spring (Linking my 2nd card)



Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Antique Rose Layering Die Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 81 Comments

Hey Hi All, Welcome to Antique Rose Layering Die set Release Blog Hop.

SO excited to join Altenew for this Release Hop.

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

I have created a card today using the Beautiful Antique Rose Layering Die Set .


To create my card, first I diecut all the respective floral layers from Watercolor cardstock. Then colored all 4 layers using Summer Afternoon Dye ink cubes. Darkest inner layer Paper Bag to lighter top layer Buttercream applied using ink applicators. This is my first time using Die cut layerings and am absolutely enjoy colouring and building the layerings. Gorgeous Antique Rose blooms are made once the layerings are arranged as per guide sheet.



Then for the three layered leaves, diecut with Watercolor cardstock, sponged with Green Fields Crisp Dye ink cubes . Arranged the diecuts and splattered heavily with watered down white acrylic.

Mounted the floral spray onto white card panel and sentiment is stamped using Altenew Jet black ink from Forever in Love stampset .

Matted this panel over a corrugated cardstck and tied a beaded natural twine for an added interest. Added then to a black A2 sized top fold cardbase.

And now for the most interesting 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 03/12/2021 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 03/15/2021.

Blog Hop List

You are in the last stop, Hop to Altenew Card blog to check the complete Hop list.


Thanks for stopping by!


Hope I have inspired you to try out Altenew’s Antique rose Layering Die set.


Happy Hopping!


Crafty Hugs!

Altenew Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 69 Comments

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew’s Build-A-Flower: Semi- Double Chrysanthemum Release Bloghop! 

Am a sucker for flowers and Absolutely love Altenew’s varied range of products right from their brand launch. I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

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

I have created a card today using Altenew Semi Double Chrysanthemum set.


Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum Product Description: 


Love and flowers don’t need to be perfect, but these gorgeous florals come very close to perfection!


This layering stamp set features a beautiful 4-layer chrysanthemum and three 3-layer leaves to add to your handmade cards, scrapbook layouts, bullet journal pages, and other DIY paper crafting projects. 


The Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum special edition stamp and die set is only sold as a bundle. It includes one 6″ x 8″ clear photopolymer stamp set (16 individual stamp images) and one coordinating die set (4 dies).

To create my card, I first stamped solid image of flowers followed by using second and third images, which are detailed layers. I used the Summer Afternoon mini ink cube set for the flowers. And then they were die cut using co-ordinating dies.


I did two such flowers and diecut using their co-ordinating dies and kept aside.

The green leaves are also from Semi-Double Chrysanthemum set, which were stamped onto white cardstock using Green Fields mini dye ink cube collections. They were also die cut using  co-ordinating dies.

The sentiment ‘Love’ is gold heat embossed on black cardstock and fussy cut it to give a defined look. The second part of sentiment is gold heat embossed onto a black cardstock strip. 

Finally for the background, took Altenew Classy strips stencil and embossing paste and created a partial stencilling to give a subtle texture to the card.

Then added Brusho – Lime green color pigment onto a watercolor cardstock, to create the organic styled background on the stenciled areas. Left to air dry and trimmed the focal panel.

Matted this focal panel onto A2 sized black Top fold cardbase using foam adhesives.. Then arranged the flowers and leaves to get a desired look. Popped the fussy cut sentiment and sentiment strip as shown above using foam adhesives.

Finally added some black enamel dots to finish off the card.

And now for the most 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 03/07/2021 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 03/09/2021.



 

Blog Hop List


The next hop in this blog hop is the Talented, Seeka


Altenew Card Blog

Virginia Lu

Nathalie DeSousa

Laurie Willison

Amanda Baldwin

Carol Hintermeier

Dana Joy 

Jenny Colacicco

Katrina Howe

Keren Baker

LauraJane

Michelle Short

Rachael Shedeed

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Seeka

Terri Koszler

Verity Biddlecombe


Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you were inspired by my work and will try out Semi Double Chrysanthemum set.


Have a great week everyone!

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:

Always Believe – Uniko -Floral Peony

~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

 Hi Friends,

Made a card using my favorite Peony from Uniko Studio. 

Watercolored using my new Karin brushmarkers Pro.

Over to my card,

  • This time tried some loose watercoloring style. The organic styled bg is made using acrylic block and watered down inks.
  • Stamped Uniko Peony using Antique Linen DI onto Canson Montval Watercolor paper.
  • WaterColored using my new KarinMarkers Pro.
  • Splattered white acrylic liberally over the finished piece.
  • Trimmed the edges to fit A2 sized cardbase.
  • Stamped the sentiment from Uniko Spring Botanical Daffodil stampset.
  • Matted onto A2 sized top fold Kraft cardbase.
  • Added few clear dew droplets as accents to finish off the card.
Hope you like it!

Happy Crafting!

Linking this to 

Uniko Challenge : Anything goes

Time out Challenge : You (Coloring is Art Therapy for me)

Stamplorations CAS Challenge: Anything CAS goes

Hope : Jane’s Doodles

~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

 Hiya Crafters,

Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2021.

Am sharing my first post for this year. As always, Love watercoloring and Love floral stamps.

Recently Jane’s doodles had drew a digital stamp to raise money for the Earthquake struck areas of Croatia. Kindly check their website and extend your generous help towards the noble cause. 

I did my part of buying this digital stamp called Hope and gonna spread the word as maximum as I could by my card making and watercoloring.

Over to my card,

  • Printed the digi on Canson montval watercolor paper.
  • Colored using Daniel smith watercolors.
  • Fussy cut and kept aside.
  • Took a Grey A2 sized cardbase. 
  • Topped with a white panel which was stenciled with Wendy Vechi Embossing paste using a TH stencil flourishes.
  • Splattered the left over paints over stenciled paste once dried.
  • Added the fussy cut florals using Foam adhesives and adhesive tapes for dimension.
  • Splattered generously with white acrylic paint.
  • Added few clear dew droplets as accents.
  • Took TH small talk and added to white strip and mounted on the card panel using foam adhesive.
  • This panel then added to the cardbase to finish off the card.
Hope you like it!!
Happy Crafting!
Thanks for stopping by!
Linking this card to the following challenges:
(Used here TH flourishes stencil)

Stamplorations Jan Stencil challenge: (Used TH flourishes stencil)

You are Loved: Amazing Paper Grace + Spellbinders

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 Hi Crafty peeps,

Am here today with Weekly Wednesday post for Amazing Paper Grace.


  • Took 5″ square sized white top fold cardbase.
  • OPAL glimmer foiled the Lovely Ladybug Glimmer hot foil plate onto a watercolor cardstock.
  • Watercolored it with Jane davenport sea glitz palette.
  • Fussy cut the florals and mounted onto the focal panel as shown.
  • Added a Gold Glimmer foiled ladybug and diecut it to add to the card.
  • For the sentiment, Gold glimmer foiled and diecut, one of the the Heartfelt sentiments Hot foil plate and dies.
  • Added the sentiment diecut to the panel.
  • Few white pearls are added as accents.
Hope you like it!!
Thanks for stopping by!

You are Amazing : Amazing Paper Grace +Spellbinders

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

 Hi Crafty pals,

Am back here with a Weekly Wednesday post for Amazing Paper Grace.


  • Took A2 sized Navy blue top fold cardbase.
  • Added a rectangular Picot petite diecut is gold as a focal panel.
  • Gold glimmer foiled the Sweet blooms border Glimmer hot foil plate onto a watercolor cardstock.
  • Watercolored it with Jane davenport bright palette.
  • Fussy cut it and mounted onto the focal panel as shown.
  • For the sentiment, Gold glimmer foiled and diecut, one of the the Heartfelt sentiments Hot foil plate and dies.
  • Added the sentiment diecut to the panel.
  • Few clear dew droplets are added as accents.
Hope you like it!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Power Poppy Quiet Christmas Release : Seasons’s Greetings

~ Sathya ~ 4 Comments

 Hi Crafty pals,

Today is Day3 of November Release of Quiet Christmas Launch of Powerpoppy. It’s Season’s Greetings for today, which is available in both Digital and Clear stamp versions.



Pencil colored the wreath for this release.

  • Printed the wreath onto a white cardstock.
  • Coloured using Prisma colored pencils.
  • Fussy cut and mounted onto a Navy blue A2 sized cardbase.
  • Notched the two top fold corners using corner punch.
  • Added a sentiment strip to the bottom portion of the card using liquid adhesive.
  • Then foam mounted the fussy cut wreath just above the sentiment strip.
  • As a final touch, added few blue pearls to the sentiment strip and glossy accents to the berries in the wreath.
Hope you like it!
Now hop onto the fellow designers’ blog to have Visual treat.
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Hopping!