Category: CLD dies

Altered Wooden Ladle – A Wall Hanging :)

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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)

Hello Spring!!

~ Sathya ~ 42 Comments
Spring is here!
Spring is here!
How do u think i know?
I just saw a butterfly/bee/blue bird 
And that is how i know….

This is the first rhyme taught to my little one when he joined KG1, in last Spring. His favorite one too.

And today’s card is about the Spring mood…Handmade Blooms in pastel shades to welcome the lovely season 🙂 Made this card with just Cheery Lynn Designs Die only!

Used patterned papers from Zephyr paperpad and these are matted on the White CS. The front panel edges are jagged with scissors and on it mounted the Teal blue panel to which handmade blooms are added. To CLD Tropical Fluorish die, a baby pink Tulle is spread and on top of it all handmade blooms are added.

The big roses are made from peach duplex papers using the CLD Gardenia die, and those rose buds (white, yellow, peach) are made using the same die. Duplex paper gave a nice texture to the rose and rose buds. The yellow flaky kind flowers are made using the stamen kind patterns in CLD embellishments (B256) die and sepals of rose buds are made from same die.

Close up shot of Floral spray:

CLD olive branches and CLD rose strips die is used to make the floral cluster. CLD small exotic butterfly with wings die is used to made the butterflies and few pearls,tendrils added as final touch.

Blooms 🙂

Sentiment is added on a banner and placed near the floral spray. Used tracing wheel to make the faux stitches.
This is all for today…Hope you like it!

Supplies

Dies: CLD tropical die, CLD gardenia die, CLD olive branches, CLD rose strips die, CLD embellishments B256 die, CLD small exotic butterfly die
White CS – Fabriano brusto
Green CS – Fabriano
Sentiment – Fiskars All occasion stamp set
Duplex papers, pearls,Rangers’s Archival black ink, Tumbled glass DI.

Challenges entered:

CLD – Think Spring (Dies used: CLD tropical die, CLD gardenia die, CLD olive branches, CLD rose strips die, CLD embellishments B256 die, CLD small exotic butterfly die)

Lulupu – 2nd year celebration – Card (Used P – patternpapers, pearls,pink
                                                                   C- Cardstock,Cheerylynn dies
                                                                     T – Tealblue, Tulle, Tracing wheel
                                                                      L – Layers)
613 Avenue create – Anything goes with flowers (All flowers are handmade using various dies)

IBSIC #81 (Inspired from Colors from pictures)

Cardabilities – Sketch

Hello Spring!!

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment
Spring is here!
Spring is here!
How do u think i know?
I just saw a butterfly/bee/blue bird 
And that is how i know….

This is the first rhyme taught to my little one when he joined KG1, in last Spring. His favorite one too.

And today’s card is about the Spring mood…Handmade Blooms in pastel shades to welcome the lovely season 🙂 Made this card with just Cheery Lynn Designs Die only!

Used patterned papers from Zephyr paperpad and these are matted on the White CS. The front panel edges are jagged with scissors and on it mounted the Teal blue panel to which handmade blooms are added. To CLD Tropical Fluorish die, a baby pink Tulle is spread and on top of it all handmade blooms are added.

The big roses are made from peach duplex papers using the CLD Gardenia die, and those rose buds (white, yellow, peach) are made using the same die. Duplex paper gave a nice texture to the rose and rose buds. The yellow flaky kind flowers are made using the stamen kind patterns in CLD embellishments (B256) die and sepals of rose buds are made from same die.

Close up shot of Floral spray:

CLD olive branches and CLD rose strips die is used to make the floral cluster. CLD small exotic butterfly with wings die is used to made the butterflies and few pearls,tendrils added as final touch.

Blooms 🙂

Sentiment is added on a banner and placed near the floral spray. Used tracing wheel to make the faux stitches.
This is all for today…Hope you like it!

Supplies

Dies: CLD tropical die, CLD gardenia die, CLD olive branches, CLD rose strips die, CLD embellishments B256 die, CLD small exotic butterfly die
White CS – Fabriano brusto
Green CS – Fabriano
Sentiment – Fiskars All occasion stamp set
Duplex papers, pearls,Rangers’s Archival black ink, Tumbled glass DI.

Challenges entered:

CLD – Think Spring (Dies used: CLD tropical die, CLD gardenia die, CLD olive branches, CLD rose strips die, CLD embellishments B256 die, CLD small exotic butterfly die)

Lulupu – 2nd year celebration – Card (Used P – patternpapers, pearls,pink
                                                                   C- Cardstock,Cheerylynn dies
                                                                     T – Tealblue, Tulle, Tracing wheel
                                                                      L – Layers)
613 Avenue create – Anything goes with flowers (All flowers are handmade using various dies)

IBSIC #81 (Inspired from Colors from pictures)

Cardabilities – Sketch

Spring Love – Mixed Media Frame :)

~ Sathya ~ 29 Comments
This is my first frame in mixed media style. Am completely unknown of intricacies of this art, just enjoyed the fun playing with different mediums and colors and getting inky fingers 🙂 Wanted to bring spring mood with cheerful blooms and fluttering butterflies is the basic idea and hope i have done some decent job 🙂 Now onto my work…

Another view

Last week, we enjoyed Chocolate Truffle cake for little one’s birthday and i couldnt throw the cakeboard in trash. Instead wanted to turn this to be a keepsake artpiece 🙂

This altered / upcycled work is done from scratch. The glossy layer was torn off and on the thick cardboard, i made the base using the white acrylic paint and Homemade Gesso. And to that pps were added from Handmade memories paperstack and formed the base. Here Teal layer is added as if pink layer was torn off and showing the underlying layer. And few other places too, Teal pp were added as layers at corners. A portion of mint green pp were paper pieced and added to the pink pp and all glued and layered down with Homemade Modpodge.

Homemade Textured paste is used to give those textures at background, using Tessatina border diecut. And on sides, comb were used to bring about the semicircular concentric patterns with same Homemade texture paste.

Homemade mists were prepared using acrylic colors, pearlescent, metallic acrylic colors and sprayed using mini mister. At few places, i washed down the frame with mists and muted the colors using Homemade gesso layers.

See the clustered floral spray. Those blooms are all handmade roses and muted with layer of gesso. Blue flowers were first white ones and then misted with blue acrylic paint and toned down again gesso. Diecut florishes, leaves were all layered with on top with gesso.

Baby pink Tulle pieces are tucked under few roses to give soft shade. The shiny glossiness of the glittered diecut hearts are due to UTEE clear embossing. Done stamping using Ranger Black Archival ink. Diecut butterfly , few pearls, florishes diecut and Glittered Alpha diecuts LOVE were added to get this overall effect.

Must thank Shilpa of Neon Diary for the wonderful kickstart about the mixed media, which she shared on Lulupu, which made me to make an attempt at this. And of course, special thanks to Pooja, Reusing with Quilling for generous sharing of the links for preparing DIY mists/sprays.

Being first time, i let my heart to work on more and just followed it!! All your comments and views are much appreciated.

Supplies:

Handmade memories – 12/12 paperstack
Dies- CheeryLynn Tropical florishes, Cherry Lynn Rose strip, Joy crafts Floral florishes, Nellie Snellen Doily frame, IO Butterfly die
Itsy Bitsy Boutique elements – Diecut hearts, Florishes, Polka dot stickers,
Itsy Bitsy Glittered Alpha stickers
Stamps – Itsy Bitsy Love birds
               Butterflies from IBS Butterfly wings
Acrylic paints, Homemade Modpodge, Homemade Gesso, Homemade Texture Paste,Mini Mister,pearls,

Challenges Entered:

Lulupu #27 – Everything else –
             Project consists of all letters – L – Layers, Leaves, Love, Lavender shades
                                                           U – UTEE clear,Upcycled frame
                                                           P – Patterned papers, pearls,paints, Pink
                                                           T – Texture paste, Teal color, Tulle
                                                            C – Cardstock (flowers), CheeryLynn dies

Itsy Bitsy – Say it with roses (All are handmade roses using diecuts)

BGC- Torn and Floral full ( Added torn portions of pps, torn tulle tucked under flowers and Roses cluster as focal point)

Kraftzone – Celebrate Spring with Mixed media ( Mine is 10″ frame)

Avenue 613 – Use stash ( Mine is Cakeboard used as base for mixed media work here)

Spring Love – Mixed Media Frame :)

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment
This is my first frame in mixed media style. Am completely unknown of intricacies of this art, just enjoyed the fun playing with different mediums and colors and getting inky fingers 🙂 Wanted to bring spring mood with cheerful blooms and fluttering butterflies is the basic idea and hope i have done some decent job 🙂 Now onto my work…

Another view

Last week, we enjoyed Chocolate Truffle cake for little one’s birthday and i couldnt throw the cakeboard in trash. Instead wanted to turn this to be a keepsake artpiece 🙂

This altered / upcycled work is done from scratch. The glossy layer was torn off and on the thick cardboard, i made the base using the white acrylic paint and Homemade Gesso. And to that pps were added from Handmade memories paperstack and formed the base. Here Teal layer is added as if pink layer was torn off and showing the underlying layer. And few other places too, Teal pp were added as layers at corners. A portion of mint green pp were paper pieced and added to the pink pp and all glued and layered down with Homemade Modpodge.

Homemade Textured paste is used to give those textures at background, using Tessatina border diecut. And on sides, comb were used to bring about the semicircular concentric patterns with same Homemade texture paste.

Homemade mists were prepared using acrylic colors, pearlescent, metallic acrylic colors and sprayed using mini mister. At few places, i washed down the frame with mists and muted the colors using Homemade gesso layers.

See the clustered floral spray. Those blooms are all handmade roses and muted with layer of gesso. Blue flowers were first white ones and then misted with blue acrylic paint and toned down again gesso. Diecut florishes, leaves were all layered with on top with gesso.

Baby pink Tulle pieces are tucked under few roses to give soft shade. The shiny glossiness of the glittered diecut hearts are due to UTEE clear embossing. Done stamping using Ranger Black Archival ink. Diecut butterfly , few pearls, florishes diecut and Glittered Alpha diecuts LOVE were added to get this overall effect.

Must thank Shilpa of Neon Diary for the wonderful kickstart about the mixed media, which she shared on Lulupu, which made me to make an attempt at this. And of course, special thanks to Pooja, Reusing with Quilling for generous sharing of the links for preparing DIY mists/sprays.

Being first time, i let my heart to work on more and just followed it!! All your comments and views are much appreciated.

Supplies:

Handmade memories – 12/12 paperstack
Dies- CheeryLynn Tropical florishes, Cherry Lynn Rose strip, Joy crafts Floral florishes, Nellie Snellen Doily frame, IO Butterfly die
Itsy Bitsy Boutique elements – Diecut hearts, Florishes, Polka dot stickers,
Itsy Bitsy Glittered Alpha stickers
Stamps – Itsy Bitsy Love birds
               Butterflies from IBS Butterfly wings
Acrylic paints, Homemade Modpodge, Homemade Gesso, Homemade Texture Paste,Mini Mister,pearls,

Challenges Entered:

Lulupu #27 – Everything else –
             Project consists of all letters – L – Layers, Leaves, Love, Lavender shades
                                                           U – UTEE clear,Upcycled frame
                                                           P – Patterned papers, pearls,paints, Pink
                                                           T – Texture paste, Teal color, Tulle
                                                            C – Cardstock (flowers), CheeryLynn dies

Itsy Bitsy – Say it with roses (All are handmade roses using diecuts)

BGC- Torn and Floral full ( Added torn portions of pps, torn tulle tucked under flowers and Roses cluster as focal point)

Kraftzone – Celebrate Spring with Mixed media ( Mine is 10″ frame)

Avenue 613 – Use stash ( Mine is Cakeboard used as base for mixed media work here)

Vintage-y Love :)

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Another Valentine card for today, a shadow box card with a vintage color scheme. This card technique and vintage style is my first time try. Hope you like it.

White, cream, black, brown, light mint green,kraft are the shades i have played with.
Made a shadow box with cream CS and mint green pp whose edges are distressed with momento rich cocoa are added on the outer frame. A square frame is cut from pattern paper which has music notes, is added as inner panel and to it added a heart diecut from same pp, is with stamped florishes and its edges too sponged with rich cocoa.

All the flowers are handmade. Florishes, roses, mum, are diecut from various dies  and distressed and dry embossed to make these. To add bit interest to the CLD tropical flourish, added a single petal flower with stryofoam ball centres. Big roses are made from Gardenia strips and small roses bunch are made from Memory box fancy blossoms and of course, single petal flowers too. Big bloom is from CLD sunflower die. Leaves are from olive branches.

Sentiment too is stamped on music note pp diecut, which i hope goes well with the sentiment saying 🙂
A small CLD butterfly and few pearls, rhinestones are added as final touch.

Hope you all like it…Your comments and visits are much appreciated.

Supplies:

PP – Handmade memories 12/12 stack, Papermania Christmas tidings
Dies – CLD sunflower die, CLD gardenia die, CLD tropical florish, CLD small exotic butterfly, CLD olive branches, Memory box fancy blossoms, Itsy Bitsy Heart Thinlits and Venetian Label frame.
Sentiment – Fiskars
Dye – Momento rich cocoa, Archival black ink

Challenges entered:

Cheerylynn Designs – Diecut flowers ( used CLD sunflower die (big bloom), CLD gardenia die (big roses), Memory box fancy blossoms (small roses and single petal flowers)
(CLD tropical florish, CLD small exotic butterfly, CLD olive branches, )   (W I N N E R)

PPS- All about Love

IBS blog hop – flowers

Lulupu –Try something new (Vintage Style and Shadow box card technique is new to me )

BGC – Love is in air

Vintage-y Love :)

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment
Another Valentine card for today, a shadow box card with a vintage color scheme. This card technique and vintage style is my first time try. Hope you like it.

White, cream, black, brown, light mint green,kraft are the shades i have played with.
Made a shadow box with cream CS and mint green pp whose edges are distressed with momento rich cocoa are added on the outer frame. A square frame is cut from pattern paper which has music notes, is added as inner panel and to it added a heart diecut from same pp, is with stamped florishes and its edges too sponged with rich cocoa.

All the flowers are handmade. Florishes, roses, mum, are diecut from various dies  and distressed and dry embossed to make these. To add bit interest to the CLD tropical flourish, added a single petal flower with stryofoam ball centres. Big roses are made from Gardenia strips and small roses bunch are made from Memory box fancy blossoms and of course, single petal flowers too. Big bloom is from CLD sunflower die. Leaves are from olive branches.

Sentiment too is stamped on music note pp diecut, which i hope goes well with the sentiment saying 🙂
A small CLD butterfly and few pearls, rhinestones are added as final touch.

Hope you all like it…Your comments and visits are much appreciated.

Supplies:

PP – Handmade memories 12/12 stack, Papermania Christmas tidings
Dies – CLD sunflower die, CLD gardenia die, CLD tropical florish, CLD small exotic butterfly, CLD olive branches, Memory box fancy blossoms, Itsy Bitsy Heart Thinlits and Venetian Label frame.
Sentiment – Fiskars
Dye – Momento rich cocoa, Archival black ink

Challenges entered:

Cheerylynn Designs – Diecut flowers ( used CLD sunflower die (big bloom), CLD gardenia die (big roses), Memory box fancy blossoms (small roses and single petal flowers)
(CLD tropical florish, CLD small exotic butterfly, CLD olive branches, )   (W I N N E R)

PPS- All about Love

IBS blog hop – flowers

Lulupu –Try something new (Vintage Style and Shadow box card technique is new to me )

BGC – Love is in air

Valentine Card

~ Sathya ~ 45 Comments
A valentine card for the valentine month. Just 4 days away for my Wedding Anniversary and so this quick card with roses again 🙂

Made an easel card with roses and fluorishes. The card front has a pale pink pp whose edges are distressed and on it matted another red digi freebie. The lattice is made from tessatina border die and its added to the circle die and made as a focal point.

Cheery lynn gardenia strip die is used to make roses and tropical florishes diecuts are added in different tones. Red florish diecut and paper pieced butterfly are from DCWV Mariposa collection.

MS double arches border punch is used to create a lace with the same pink pp from Zephyr paper pad and added just below the focal lattice.

Sentiment is stamped on the venetian label diecut and placed on a pp from Simple stories paperpad and this acts as a stopper showcasing the roses on card front 🙂 Few pearls for final touch.

Hope you like it !!

Supplies :

Patterned papers  – Zephyr, Simple stories
Gardenia strip die, Florish die – Cherrylynn Desings
Stamp – IBS Trendy circles
Lattice – Tessatina border die
MS doucble arches loop punch, pearls, White CS,Red bug momento ink

Challenges entered

Cheerylynn Desings – Add a fluorish (Used Gardenia strip die, Tropical florish die)
Color conceptions –  Trendy chevrons, Triangles (inspired by colors and symmetrical patterns)
Kraftzone – Valentine connection (Easel card with pink, red, white)
Lulupu  – Oh so lovely (used red digi pp (card front), pink pp from Zephyr paper pad, red pp from Simple stories (pp below sentiment), for red florish and paper pieced butterfly are from DCWV mariposa matsack)
IBS feb customer gallery (used trendy circles stamp set)
Crafty boots – Bingo (“Pink -stamp- diecut” “Embossing-Heart-Diecut )
Divas by designs – Diecuts
ABC challenge – E for embellish ( diecuts, punches, flowers, butterfly, florishes)

Valentine Card

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment
A valentine card for the valentine month. Just 4 days away for my Wedding Anniversary and so this quick card with roses again 🙂

Made an easel card with roses and fluorishes. The card front has a pale pink pp whose edges are distressed and on it matted another red digi freebie. The lattice is made from tessatina border die and its added to the circle die and made as a focal point.

Cheery lynn gardenia strip die is used to make roses and tropical florishes diecuts are added in different tones. Red florish diecut and paper pieced butterfly are from DCWV Mariposa collection.

MS double arches border punch is used to create a lace with the same pink pp from Zephyr paper pad and added just below the focal lattice.

Sentiment is stamped on the venetian label diecut and placed on a pp from Simple stories paperpad and this acts as a stopper showcasing the roses on card front 🙂 Few pearls for final touch.

Hope you like it !!

Supplies :

Patterned papers  – Zephyr, Simple stories
Gardenia strip die, Florish die – Cherrylynn Desings
Stamp – IBS Trendy circles
Lattice – Tessatina border die
MS doucble arches loop punch, pearls, White CS,Red bug momento ink

Challenges entered

Cheerylynn Desings – Add a fluorish (Used Gardenia strip die, Tropical florish die)
Color conceptions –  Trendy chevrons, Triangles (inspired by colors and symmetrical patterns)
Kraftzone – Valentine connection (Easel card with pink, red, white)
Lulupu  – Oh so lovely (used red digi pp (card front), pink pp from Zephyr paper pad, red pp from Simple stories (pp below sentiment), for red florish and paper pieced butterfly are from DCWV mariposa matsack)
IBS feb customer gallery (used trendy circles stamp set)
Crafty boots – Bingo (“Pink -stamp- diecut” “Embossing-Heart-Diecut )
Divas by designs – Diecuts
ABC challenge – E for embellish ( diecuts, punches, flowers, butterfly, florishes)

Tag card

~ Sathya ~ 60 Comments
Hello All,

A quick update about today’s card. 2 days before i received my Cheerylynn dies which i bought using the gift certificate. From that time, was badly wanted to try my hands with those lovely dies.

Oh ya…Those  roses made from Gardenia strip dies and i love love love those Rose leaf dies. Was longing to buy both for a long time and now had a chance to work with 🙂

On Ivory CS, pp is matted and on it a tag is matted made from a cream CS whose edges are distressed with Spun sugar. Another pp from same pack is chosen and hearts where diecut from it and to add little interest,stamped decorative lace stamp on it with Black Archival ink and heart pearls are added.

Roses are distressed with victorian velvet DI and made from gardenia strip and a bunch of buds made with the pollen sticks. Rose leaf are diecut and sponged with new sprout momento ink and all these are mounted on a tropical florish die which is ticked underneath the tag. Small cream CS is used to diecut the butterfly and added near the floral bunch. Baby pink ribbon in tied and a small bow is made from 1.5mm pink satin ribbon  and added on to the tag.

Sentiment is stamped on a banner and mounted using dimensionals.Few heart pearls are added as final touch.

The sweetheart theme is chosen from CLD challenge, the color palette and tag idea are used from IBS and January Bloghop and Picture bingo is used from Itsy Bitsy.

Hope you like it.

Supplies:

Pattern papers – Handmade memories paper pad (12/ 12)
Gardenia strip, Rose leaf die, Tropical Florish,Small exotic butterflies – Cheerylynn Designs
Heart die – Itsy Bitsy
Inks- Spun sugar, Victorian velvet, New sprout momento ink
Baby pink , Pearls  – Stash

Challenges entered:

Cheerylynn Designs – Sweethearts (used CLD gardenia strip, rose strip, tropical florish die, small exotic butterfly die)
IBS- customer gallery – used trendy circles stamp set
IBS – Blog hop (made tag card)
IBS – color palette – #74

Artistic stamper – Love is in air
RRR 87 – Love/Valentine with ribbon
Sentimental sundays – more than 3 layers
Incy wincy designs- Flower frenzy
Simply create too – Valentine/Hearts
Delightful sketches- U have my heart
Itsy Bitsy – Picture bingo  (used 1st row – Pattern paper, ribbon, Inks )