Floral Thank You card :)

Yet another post and of course a last one before my India trip on 24th June 🙂

In my last India trip, carried few craft supplies and it was lying almost 1 month unused. Atlast now find some time to use those.

Stenciling is done with TH honeycomb stencil using Texture paste and by masking a central portion of the card using a scallopped oval diecut, misted the card with Heidi Swapp Georgia peach shimmer mist.

MFT fluorishes are added and Flowers are made from CLD Gardenia strips by misting, distressing with various distress inks – Tumbled glass, Fired brick, Dusty concord and those CLD ivy fluorish leaves are distressed at edges by Crushed olive distress ink.

And a butterfly is stamped on White CS, colored using distress inks – Mustard seed and Wild honey and fussy cut and added near floral spray.

Used Gauze on adhesive side of masking tape and  sponged it with Distress ink Victorian velvet. A sentiment is stamped, then diecut it using Spellbinder Ribbon Banner die and added to the card. Misted stenciled cs are used as banners at right top of cards and few pearls are added as final touch.

Hope you like the card!!

Supplies:
White CS 
Inks – Dusty concord, Tumbled glass, Fired Brick, Wild honey, Mustard seed, crushed olive, victorian velvet, Rangers Archival Black
Dies – Spellbinder ribbon banner die, MFT florish die, CLD gardenia strip, CLD ivy florish die
Stamp – Stampendous Butterfly, IBS – Small label frame sentiment
Stencil – TH honey comb
Mist – Heidi Swapp Georgia peach shimmer spray

Challenges :
Lulupu – Inspired by Lulupu logo    (used colors from palette given and banners are used )

BGC – Stamping in fabric and misting (misted with Heidi swapp georgia peach spray on bg and stamped sentiment on diecut gauze)

IBS June customer gallery – (used sentiment from Small label frame)

Imaginations – Anything goes with DIs (Dusty concord, Tumbled glass, Fired Brick, Wild honey, Mustard seed, crushed olive, victorian velvet)

Curtain call challenges –Sweet pea theme (inspired by colors)

Pink Posies :)

Very happy to share that, today my card is being featured at Inspired By Stamping blog. Would like to thank Joanna and IBS team for this opportunity. This card and the co-ordinating box is made by IBS products  such as Spring liliac, Vintage floral paperpads, Sweet Valentine and Butterfly wings Stamp sets

Now onto card 🙂

Used this pic for inspiration.

The pps from Spring floral and Vintage floral are taken in light mint and baby pink color and matted. Used Picket fence distress stains randomly on pps to tone down their colors. This card front is matted with 6×6 white base cs.

Tore the pp at top left corner and curled up the edges, such that inner pp later is visible. And inbetween that space, tucked a baby pink tulle. Baby pink roses are made using Joy craft die and leaves are made from CLD rose leaf die and muted the color of it by applying picket fence DS on it.

Fillers flowers, mini rose buds are added to create the spray and teeny tiny bow added. Butterflies are heat embossed on vellum and colored with spun sugar Distress ink. Sentiment is stamped on a white vellum and heart pearls are added. Few white pearls as accents.

Box 🙂

Box and Card:)

This box is so very apt for holding 3dimensional projects such as 6×6 cards. Made a box from 300 gsm kraft cs and used velcro for its closures. On the sides, used CLD tiffany border on white cs. And on top of it, followed the same color scheme as card. Used digital freebies for pps and matted on each other using foam adhesive. Mulberry flowers with candi polka dot centres, a mft florish, grosgrain ribbon and few pearls are added. Sentiment is added on a Venetian label frame and added at centre.

I absoultely enjoyed doing this monochromatic shabby chic project. Hope you like it too!

Supplies:

Card:
White Fabriano CS
PPs- IBS – Spring liliac, Vintage floral paperpads
Dies – Joy crafts die, Itsy Bitsy Venetian label frame
Stamps – IBS – Sentiment :Sweet Valentine ,Butterfly – Butterfly wings
Picket fence Distress stain, pearls,vellum, Zing white embossing powder

Box :
Kraft CS
PPs -Digital freebies
Dies – Venetian label frame
Sentiment – IBS Sweet valentine stamp set
Mulberry flowers, candi dots, mft florish, pink pearls, pink grossbrain ribbon

Challenges entered:

Dubai Scrapbooking – Pic inspiration (pic shared above)
Itsy Bitsy – Monochromatic challenge
Crafters corner –  Go 3D (Box for a dimensional card)
613create Avenue – Anything goes

Pink Posies :)

Very happy to share that, today my card is being featured at Inspired By Stamping blog. Would like to thank Joanna and IBS team for this opportunity. This card and the co-ordinating box is made by IBS products  such as Spring liliac, Vintage floral paperpads, Sweet Valentine and Butterfly wings Stamp sets

Now onto card 🙂

Used this pic for inspiration.

The pps from Spring floral and Vintage floral are taken in light mint and baby pink color and matted. Used Picket fence distress stains randomly on pps to tone down their colors. This card front is matted with 6×6 white base cs.

Tore the pp at top left corner and curled up the edges, such that inner pp later is visible. And inbetween that space, tucked a baby pink tulle. Baby pink roses are made using Joy craft die and leaves are made from CLD rose leaf die and muted the color of it by applying picket fence DS on it.

Fillers flowers, mini rose buds are added to create the spray and teeny tiny bow added. Butterflies are heat embossed on vellum and colored with spun sugar Distress ink. Sentiment is stamped on a white vellum and heart pearls are added. Few white pearls as accents.

Box 🙂

Box and Card:)

This box is so very apt for holding 3dimensional projects such as 6×6 cards. Made a box from 300 gsm kraft cs and used velcro for its closures. On the sides, used CLD tiffany border on white cs. And on top of it, followed the same color scheme as card. Used digital freebies for pps and matted on each other using foam adhesive. Mulberry flowers with candi polka dot centres, a mft florish, grosgrain ribbon and few pearls are added. Sentiment is added on a Venetian label frame and added at centre.

I absoultely enjoyed doing this monochromatic shabby chic project. Hope you like it too!

Supplies:

Card:
White Fabriano CS
PPs- IBS – Spring liliac, Vintage floral paperpads
Dies – Joy crafts die, Itsy Bitsy Venetian label frame
Stamps – IBS – Sentiment :Sweet Valentine ,Butterfly – Butterfly wings
Picket fence Distress stain, pearls,vellum, Zing white embossing powder

Box :
Kraft CS
PPs -Digital freebies
Dies – Venetian label frame
Sentiment – IBS Sweet valentine stamp set
Mulberry flowers, candi dots, mft florish, pink pearls, pink grossbrain ribbon

Challenges entered:

Dubai Scrapbooking – Pic inspiration (pic shared above)
Itsy Bitsy – Monochromatic challenge
Crafters corner –  Go 3D (Box for a dimensional card)
613create Avenue – Anything goes

Altered Frame :)

Hey Hi Friends!

Today’s post is about an altered frame. This frame was lying with me for more than 1.5 yrs now and current challenges demand it to alter it and so this sweet trial 🙂 
This frame fits 4″x6″ pic and it was gifted by a friend when we left Taiwan. So wanted to place a pic which we took in Taiwan in an outdoor shoot, before our relocation to UAE.
This pic was taken during onset of Spring season and so wanted to give more cheery and colorful blooms which is signature of Spring 🙂
Gessoed down the frame and added these lacey distressed Tiffany border by modpodging it. Border is distressed with Walnut stain – Distress stain. Then blooms are made from Cheerylynn Designs (CLD) Gardenia strip and the floral leaves are made from CLD Olive branches and MFT florish dies which is again sponged with peeled paint Distress stain. 
Closeup views of Blooms 🙂
Flowers are misted with Distress stains (Milled lavender, Mustard seed, Dried marigold, Dusty concord) and embossed to give shapes. (Love making these as i never used these colors for flowers earlier). Centre is made using styrofoam balls which is filled with Pop microbeads. (Oh ya…its my new add to my stash..Just loving it) Fillers flowers are added to clusters.
Love Heart woodchip is gesso-ed first and then misted with Heidi Swapp Georgia peach shimmer and lastly added glossy accents for that glossiness. Lastly added pearl strips and FAMILY glittered alphas as final touch.
Before
 After
I totally loved altering this frame and planned to gift it to Mom as Mothers Day gift 🙂
Hope you too like it!!

Supplies:

CS-  Fabriano brusto
Distress stains – Milled lavender, Dusty concord, Dried marigold, Mustard seed
Dies – Tiffany border, MFT florish die, CLD olivebranches and gardenia strip
Pop microbeads – pink and black
Heidi Swapp – Georgia peach shimmer
Freckled fawn -Heart woodchips
FAMILY – Itsy bitsy glittered alphas, glossy accents
pearls, filler flowers,

Challenges:
Dubai Scrapbooking Blog – Altered frame 
Color conception – Anything but cards  (mine is Altered frame)

IBS#81 – Flowers

Stampartic- Using dies (CLD tiffany border die, flowers from CLD gardenia strip dies, CLD olive branches dies, MFT leafy florish die)

Curtain call challenge- Confetti crush

Altered Frame :)

Hey Hi Friends!

Today’s post is about an altered frame. This frame was lying with me for more than 1.5 yrs now and current challenges demand it to alter it and so this sweet trial 🙂 
This frame fits 4″x6″ pic and it was gifted by a friend when we left Taiwan. So wanted to place a pic which we took in Taiwan in an outdoor shoot, before our relocation to UAE.
This pic was taken during onset of Spring season and so wanted to give more cheery and colorful blooms which is signature of Spring 🙂
Gessoed down the frame and added these lacey distressed Tiffany border by modpodging it. Border is distressed with Walnut stain – Distress stain. Then blooms are made from Cheerylynn Designs (CLD) Gardenia strip and the floral leaves are made from CLD Olive branches and MFT florish dies which is again sponged with peeled paint Distress stain. 
Closeup views of Blooms 🙂
Flowers are misted with Distress stains (Milled lavender, Mustard seed, Dried marigold, Dusty concord) and embossed to give shapes. (Love making these as i never used these colors for flowers earlier). Centre is made using styrofoam balls which is filled with Pop microbeads. (Oh ya…its my new add to my stash..Just loving it) Fillers flowers are added to clusters.
Love Heart woodchip is gesso-ed first and then misted with Heidi Swapp Georgia peach shimmer and lastly added glossy accents for that glossiness. Lastly added pearl strips and FAMILY glittered alphas as final touch.
Before
 After
I totally loved altering this frame and planned to gift it to Mom as Mothers Day gift 🙂
Hope you too like it!!

Supplies:

CS-  Fabriano brusto
Distress stains – Milled lavender, Dusty concord, Dried marigold, Mustard seed
Dies – Tiffany border, MFT florish die, CLD olivebranches and gardenia strip
Pop microbeads – pink and black
Heidi Swapp – Georgia peach shimmer
Freckled fawn -Heart woodchips
FAMILY – Itsy bitsy glittered alphas, glossy accents
pearls, filler flowers,

Challenges:
Dubai Scrapbooking Blog – Altered frame 
Color conception – Anything but cards  (mine is Altered frame)

IBS#81 – Flowers

Stampartic- Using dies (CLD tiffany border die, flowers from CLD gardenia strip dies, CLD olive branches dies, MFT leafy florish die)

Curtain call challenge- Confetti crush

Birthday blooms :)

Today’s post is dedicated to my Dearmost Mom.

“Very Very Happpppy Birthday Ma…Love u soooooo much”.

This is a CAS card i made for her..

White CS is embossed  and this front panel is matted on a base White CS. To the front panel, Twine is wrapped at centre of it and on it added vellum flowers. This is the first time tried using vellum to make flowers. And these are colored using Distress Stains- Rustyhinge, Mustard seed, Milled lavender and Dusty concord.

CLD ivy florish diecuts are added around the flowers. Scalloped sentiment banner is added on top of a layered diecut. The sentiment banner is embossed and distressed at edges for the sentiment to pop up.

Butterfly is embossed with Black Ep and distressed with tumbled glass for that slight blue tint.
Few pearls are added for the final touch.

Hope you like it.

Supplies:

White CS – Fabriano Brusto
Darice Interlocking Embossing folder
Thick White Vellum,
Dies – CLD Ivy florish, Itsy Bitsy – Scallop oval , Panel Venetian frame
Distress Stains – Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed, Dusty Concord, Miled Lavender.
IBS -Summer Florals stamp set for flowers , Lovely birthday
Baker’s Twine, pearls.

Challenges :

Lulupu –Summer theme CAS cards (Used orange, yellow and blue and made floral CAS card)
BGC- Grown with love (used florals, butterfly)
IBS – Customer gallery (used Summer Florals stamp set for flowers , Lovely birthday for sentiment)
CLD – Anything goes (used CLD ivy florish dies)

P.S. Recently bought Distress Stains from a Bulgarian paper artist – Lidiya Baltova. Actually she destashed it as she gonna pursue her business. Am so delighted to receive from her and she is the past designer team of Paperlane, whose work, i have admired a lot. Thank U Lidiya and just loving those Distress stains a lot 🙂 Love this sweet gesture!

Birthday blooms :)

Today’s post is dedicated to my Dearmost Mom.

“Very Very Happpppy Birthday Ma…Love u soooooo much”.

This is a CAS card i made for her..

White CS is embossed  and this front panel is matted on a base White CS. To the front panel, Twine is wrapped at centre of it and on it added vellum flowers. This is the first time tried using vellum to make flowers. And these are colored using Distress Stains- Rustyhinge, Mustard seed, Milled lavender and Dusty concord.

CLD ivy florish diecuts are added around the flowers. Scalloped sentiment banner is added on top of a layered diecut. The sentiment banner is embossed and distressed at edges for the sentiment to pop up.

Butterfly is embossed with Black Ep and distressed with tumbled glass for that slight blue tint.
Few pearls are added for the final touch.

Hope you like it.

Supplies:

White CS – Fabriano Brusto
Darice Interlocking Embossing folder
Thick White Vellum,
Dies – CLD Ivy florish, Itsy Bitsy – Scallop oval , Panel Venetian frame
Distress Stains – Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed, Dusty Concord, Miled Lavender.
IBS -Summer Florals stamp set for flowers , Lovely birthday
Baker’s Twine, pearls.

Challenges :

Lulupu –Summer theme CAS cards (Used orange, yellow and blue and made floral CAS card)
BGC- Grown with love (used florals, butterfly)
IBS – Customer gallery (used Summer Florals stamp set for flowers , Lovely birthday for sentiment)
CLD – Anything goes (used CLD ivy florish dies)

P.S. Recently bought Distress Stains from a Bulgarian paper artist – Lidiya Baltova. Actually she destashed it as she gonna pursue her business. Am so delighted to receive from her and she is the past designer team of Paperlane, whose work, i have admired a lot. Thank U Lidiya and just loving those Distress stains a lot 🙂 Love this sweet gesture!

Spread ur wings…

Yet another Butterfly card from me. Little one is back to school today and now in KG2 🙂

Used only CheeryLynn designs dies to make this card. Love the DCWV Mariposa collection a lot. Matted this to the kraft cardbase. Diecut CLD English teaparty doily from a Pattern paper and distressed with Tumbled glass DI. And the Tiffany border diecut is added to it.

And top of doily, Bloom is added by embossed and distressed petals using CLD sunflower die and CLD tropical florish is diecut from vellum to tone down the effect and tucked underneath the bloom. CLD  small exotic butterflies are diecut and distressed with tumbled glass DI and rich cocoa momento ink.

Sentiment is stamped from IBS butterfly wings stamp set and so the butterflies and the dragon fly. As a final touch, used fiskars tetra corner punch, added white rhinestones on corners and mini pearls on butterfly bodies.

Wanted to try out this combination and just went on what heart desired and this is the result. Hope you like the card. Many thanks for the visits and comments and that is what driving me in this crazy passionate crafty world 🙂

Supplies

Base- Fabriano Kraft CS

PPs -DCWV Mariposa collection, Zephyr pattern paper 

Dies – CLD Tropical florish , CLD Tiffany border, CLD sunflower die, CLD small exotic butterflies with wings, CLD English tea party doily with wings.

Stamps- IBS Butterfly wings

Inks – Tumbled glass DI, Rich cocoa momento ink, Ranger Archival black ink
pearls, rhinestones

Challenges:

CLD – Back to nature (added diecut butterflies, stamped butterflies, butterfly pp, stamped dragonfly)
(Dies – CLD Tropical florish , CLD Tiffany border, CLD sunflower die, CLD small exotic butterflies with wings, CLD English tea party doily with wings)

IBS – Customer gallery  (IBS Butterfly wings)

Inky Chiks – Butterflies (used diecut butterflies, stamped butterflies, card front from Mariposa collection)                 
                      

Spread ur wings…

Yet another Butterfly card from me. Little one is back to school today and now in KG2 🙂

Used only CheeryLynn designs dies to make this card. Love the DCWV Mariposa collection a lot. Matted this to the kraft cardbase. Diecut CLD English teaparty doily from a Pattern paper and distressed with Tumbled glass DI. And the Tiffany border diecut is added to it.

And top of doily, Bloom is added by embossed and distressed petals using CLD sunflower die and CLD tropical florish is diecut from vellum to tone down the effect and tucked underneath the bloom. CLD  small exotic butterflies are diecut and distressed with tumbled glass DI and rich cocoa momento ink.

Sentiment is stamped from IBS butterfly wings stamp set and so the butterflies and the dragon fly. As a final touch, used fiskars tetra corner punch, added white rhinestones on corners and mini pearls on butterfly bodies.

Wanted to try out this combination and just went on what heart desired and this is the result. Hope you like the card. Many thanks for the visits and comments and that is what driving me in this crazy passionate crafty world 🙂

Supplies

Base- Fabriano Kraft CS

PPs -DCWV Mariposa collection, Zephyr pattern paper 

Dies – CLD Tropical florish , CLD Tiffany border, CLD sunflower die, CLD small exotic butterflies with wings, CLD English tea party doily with wings.

Stamps- IBS Butterfly wings

Inks – Tumbled glass DI, Rich cocoa momento ink, Ranger Archival black ink
pearls, rhinestones

Challenges:

CLD – Back to nature (added diecut butterflies, stamped butterflies, butterfly pp, stamped dragonfly)
(Dies – CLD Tropical florish , CLD Tiffany border, CLD sunflower die, CLD small exotic butterflies with wings, CLD English tea party doily with wings)

IBS – Customer gallery  (IBS Butterfly wings)

Inky Chiks – Butterflies (used diecut butterflies, stamped butterflies, card front from Mariposa collection)                 
                      

Altered Wooden Ladle – A Wall Hanging :)

Hey Hello!!!

This time have come up with an altered wooden ladle….into a wall hanging 🙂

New wooden ladle was taken and painted in white acrylic paint and after drying,  distressed with Rich cocoa momento and sanded with sanding block to give a shabby chic look.

Before:

To level the depth of the ladle, added some packaging cardboard as strips and hot glued it. Then on top of it, added 2 English Tea Party Doily Angel wings is diecut from IBS vintage florals pp as base. The focal element – Butterfly is a diecut and distressed with Danube momento ink and added just below the sentiment diecut,which is also distressed with rich cocoa momento. A scallop border sticker is added as a trim under doilies on the baby pink tulle.

Handmade blooms 🙂

Tried making some crinkled flowers with pearl centers and added with florishes. Those leaves are from Ivy florish diecuts. Flowers are distressed with rich cocoa momento and Tumbled glass DI and misted with water to get shapes.

Wrapped the handle with pink grossgrain ribbon and added MS butterfly stamp and punch butterflies in series and a big butterfly diecut is added on a sentiment diecut saying “Spread your wings and Fly”. Few trims on the handle with blue grossgrain ribbon as loop for hanging 🙂

Love those sentiments and now only had time to create apt project for that 🙂
Hope you like it!!

Supplies:

Diecut – IO butterfly
MFT florishes die
Joy crafts florishes die for flowers
Itsy bitsy Scallop die,
Itsy Bitsy Venetian label frame die
CLD English tea party doily with wings
CLD ivy strips

Pattern papers- Vintage floral

Stamps- Butterfly wings from  IBS

Grossgrain ribbon, pearls, MS butterfly stamp and punch,momento danube, momento rich cocoa, Tumbled glass DI.

Challenges Entered:

BGC – Altered Dinnerware (Altered wooden ladle – Shabby chic style)
IBS – Customer gallery (vintage floral paperpad and Butterfly wings stamps set used)
Lulupu- 2nd bday celebration – Everything else – (used P- Pattern papers, pearls,pink
                                                                                    L – Ladle, Lavender,
                                                                                     T- Trim, Tulle,
                                                                                     C-Cardstock, Cheerylynn dies)
IBS- Gift ideas (Wall hanging – Its a perfect gift idea to gift dear ones)