Category: guest designing

Altenew 9th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 2 + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 115 Comments

 Hi from Chennai, India

Greetings!

I am SO honoured and humbled to be part of this 9th Anniversary celebration Blog Hop at Altenew. Every crafter has a special place in their Heart for Altenew and likewise, here too. Altenew’s pretty and unique designs of floral stamps and various colouring medium has increased my colouring ability. Thanks so much Altenew for this Awesome Opportunity.

Today is Day 2 of the Blog Hop with amazing artists. You would have arrived from the talented Kelly Griglione‘s blog. Am the last stop in the Hop. Hop over to Altenew blog and don’t miss to check all the stops and beautiful cards churned by the Wonderful Artists around the world.

Over to my card,

My card features

Greens from Set E Artist markers

Dry embossed a piece of white cardstock from Neenah solar classic crest using Beautiful Bergenia Embossing Folder and coloured using various artist markers from Red Cosmos set. Then matted that panel over an olive green panel using liquid adhesive. Then took a matching A2 sized card base and foam mounted the panel as shown. Then ‘Happy’ script die cuts and sentiments are added from Mini Delight Cupcake Stamp and Die set. Finally added 2 heart embellishments and notched the corners of the card base for an added interest.

9th Anniversary Special Offers

  • 4/5/2023-4/6/2023: Enjoy FREE U.S. shipping with code HAPPY9TH or $9 OFF shipping on international orders over $29 with code ANNIV23 at checkout and receive a FREE brand-new Playful Wildflower 3D Embossing Folder ($8.99 value) on orders over $69. Shop here: https://altenew.com/ (Promotional banners are uploaded HERE.)

4/3/2023-4/10/2023: FREE Mini Blending Brush Set(worth $26.99) with every order of the brand-new Billowing Peonies Complete Bundle. Shop here: https://altenew.com/products/billowing-peonies (It will go live in our store on 4/3/2023 at 12AM EDT. Promotional banners are uploaded HERE)

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway

Giveaway Prizes


Over $2,500 in total prizes! Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 10 lucky winners. There are also 24 awesome companies/crafty friends who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:

 

 


Be sure to leave comments by 4/16/2023 for a chance to win one of 56 prizes! To make the hop more exciting, start your comment with “Hi from (city or country where you’re from)!” 56 winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Blog on 4/21/2023.


BlogHop List

Am the last stop in the Hop. Hop over to Altenew blog and don’t miss to check all the stops and beautiful cards churned by the Wonderful Artists around the world. 


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!!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter


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:

Uniko Guest Designer Card: ‘Tis the Season

~ Sathya ~ 2 Comments

 Hi Crafty pals,

Am excited to share my Guest Designing post for Uniko Studio . 

You can view my earlier Guest Designer post here.


  • Made a Christmas themed card using Uniko’s Christmas stampset (retired)
  • I embossed the stamp using Silver embossing and distressed using various shades of Blue Distress inks.
  • Then generously splashed the panel with a mix of Water + Perfect pearls by masking the stamped portion. It was super sparkly in person.
  • Focal panel is topped onto a silver mirror diecut.
  • Matted the die cut panel over a Navy blue top fold A2 cardbase.
  • Added few silver enamel stars for the added interest.
Hope you like my take on the challenge.
See you all at Uniko blog
Happy Crafting!
 
Thanks for stopping by!

Love: MixedMedia Canvas: Guest Designing at HNDMD

~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments
Hi Crafty peeps,

Am so excited to guest design at HNDMD blog with a Mixed media Canvas which is perfect for their current challenge Love is in the air.

Today marks my 11th Wedding anniversary and made this Canvas for my hubby as gift. As always, his smiles says it all 🙂

Hop over to blog to see the pictorial shared.

Thanks much Khyati for the awesome opportunity and Lovely GD Kit.

Thanks for looking into!!

Linking this to

More than words Feb challenge : Always+Quote

Mixedmedia Wall art: PowerPoppy GDT

~ Sathya ~ 5 Comments
Hi Crafty peeps,

Am SO stoked to guest design at Powerpoppy blog today.

Truly humbled and honored. Such a dream come true moment for me!

Am always a big fan of Marcella’s soulful illustrations…It makes anyone to color so instantly.

Though the coloring took a long time, loved every inch of layering and making this into a mixedmedia artwork by altering a round chopping board.

Hope to see you there!

Thanks for stopping by!

Guest Designing at IBS

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Hi friends,

This is Sathya from Paperie Expressions. Am excited to share my Guest Design project for the month of June at IBS. If you have missed my earlier post using two Fabulous floral stamps, you can check here . 

For today, i have come up with a mixed media project, using Gorgeous Butterflies Stampset.

Let’s get started!

  • Took 5″x7″ canvas and gessoed it with Clear Gesso.
  • Added Wendy Veichchi Embossing paste (Translucent) on the diagonal corners of the canvas and with that added cheesecloth.
  • Few strings are randomly to create further textures.
  • The canvas is misted with Lindy’s gang sprays.
  • The butterflies are stamped using Black Archival ink and colored using Gelatos. Highlights are added using Fabercastell Polychromos pencils.
                 

  • Then colored butterflies are fussy cut, Ranger’s UTEE clear Heat embossed.
  • The canvas is randomly stamped using script stamp from Forever friends stampset and black archival ink.
  • Same stamp is stamped onto a chipboard and added as a focal interest.
  • To that added a vellum strip of sentiment from the Butterflies stampset.
  • Few Prima mini art stones and some gold glitter dots are added randomly for interest.
  • Finally butterflies are added using Hot glue gun.

Hope you liked today’s project.
Supply used:

Butterflies Stampset

Guest Designing at IBS

~ Sathya ~ 3 Comments
Hi Stampers! 

Thrilled to be here as Guest Designer for the month of June, at Inspired by Stamping.
Thank you Joanna, for this awesome opportunity to showcase my talent in your blog using your Gorgeous Stamps. Absolutely enjoyed using those beautiful stampsets.

Am here today to share two cards using Gorgeous floral stamp sets from IBS store.

First card:

Its a simple CAS card, which uses the focal element as cherry blossom cluster, from the Stampset Cherry Blossoms.

  • Took Neenah solar white cardstock in the size 4×5.25″.
  • Stamped the cherry blossom using Alcohol marker friendly ink – Memento Tuxedo Black ink here.
  • Colored the image with Chameleon markers carefully inside the periphery of the images.
  • Then the whole image, is highlighted using blue shade of chameleon marker over the outer periphery of whole image so as to pop the image.
  • Finally Fabercastell Polychromos colored pencils are used to bring out shades and shadows to the images.
  • Sentiment is stamped from the same stampset using Memento tuxedo black ink.
  • Few clear dew droplets were added as accents.
  • Then the focal panel is added to the standard A2 sized black card base.

Second card:

For this card, i made use of Gorgeous Magnolia Stampset, giving it a bit of Mixed media touch.



  • Took  12x12cm top fold kraft cardbase.
  • Then took a white focal panel which is bit lesser in size, is distressed around the edges.
  • Bit of stenciling done using TCW- Tile using Prima Light base tinted with Hickery Smoke Distress ink.
  • Colored ornated chipboard using Black soot distress ink
  • Used No line coloring technique for the Magnolia images using Fabercastell polychromes pencils.
  • Fussy cut it and kept aside.
  • Added the ornated chipboard onto the focal panel with fussy cut image on top and white doily as base.
  • Spanish moss, Prima artstone, tinted cheese cloth (Peeled paint distress ink) added along with the colored image, which is popped using Scotch foam adhesive.
  • Sentiment is stamped on vellum using Archival ink and added to the focal panel.
  • The focal panel is then mounted onto the kraft cardbase using foam adhesives.
  • Few enamel dots are added to finish off the card.

Hope you all enjoyed today’s projects. I can’t wait for you to see my second post.

Thanks much for stopping by!

Love,
Sathya

Stamps used:


Magnolia


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Guest Designer @ PCM

~ Sathya ~ 9 Comments
Hi Friends!


Am delighted to guest design today at ParuCardmaking Challenges. Its such an honor to be invited and Thanks much for the lovely opportunity, Paru.

This month’s theme is  “Anything Goes” at PCM and i have come up with a Mixed media card and a Tag.








 First up is Mixed media Card.
                                                                       




Made a mixed media square card. Lot of stamping , stenciling and texture pastes on the background.
Floral cluster along with tinted cheesecloth, twine bow are made on a doily.
Few vellum butterflies, generous splashes of white gesso and few clear droplets are added as finishing touches.

Next up is a Simple Tag.

                     


Made a simple Tag, with watercolor bg using Brusho crystals.
Stamped leaves stamp using Green archival ink followed by Watereffects Stamp using black archival ink.
Sentiment is stamped over Vellum and added with few vellum butterflies.
As a final touch, added glossy accents to few raindrops.

I hope you feel inspired to play along this month’s Challenge – “Anything goes”

Cheers,
Sathya


Linking to following challenges:

April Customer creative challenge :  Tag ( Watereffects stamps used here)



Simonsaysstamp blog: Anything goes 

Simonsaysstamp blog: Monday challenge blog: Things with wings  (Linking the Mixed media card)

Butterfly challenge: R is for repeat… (I have repeated the butterflies in my card below)  





Floral Mixed media canvas

~ Sathya ~ 15 Comments

Hi friends!!!

How are you all doing!

Sharing here a Mixed media canvas which i did as a Guest Design Project for Itsy bitsy a week before.




  • Took a 5″x7″ canvas and white gessoed it completely.
  • I used light paste for a textural touch with Lime splash spray and applied using IB Chevron Stencil from my stash.
  • Then added layering with gauze and corrugated packaging material over the stenciled area.
  • Gessoed down whole area again to tone down the colors.
  • Sponged the white frame with Metallic gold pigment ink and added over the layering.
  • On that added the handmade flowers from various collections .
  • Green heat embossed IB Flourish chipboard from my stash and added near the floral spray.
  • Took Lime splash spray on a brush and brushed around the floral cluster and added few art stones for the interest.
  • Stamped a few random print script over the entire canvas panel.
  • Then gave a generous splash of white gesso over the floral cluster area.
  • Then, die cut sentiment from IB backing sheet of chipboard, clear heat embossed and added over the chipboard.
  • Sponged butterfly with baby pink pigment ink and added to the canvas.




Am linking this to following challenges:

More than words : Beautiful + Butterfly

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