Category: monochromatic

Monochromatic card | Fragrant Florals | Altenew

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 Hi Friends,

Am here today with a floral card, but as Monochrome Goodness.

Just with Charcoal pencils in White and Black with a gel pen here and there.

Over to my card,

  • Stamped the Altenew Fragrant Floral onto a slate colored cardstock using Altenew Limestone cube ink.
  • Colored the florals with Charcoal pencils in White and Black and used White gel pen for centres.
  • Splashed White gouache generously around the florals.
  • Added sentiment sticker from Tim holtz small talk.
  • Matted over A2 sized off white card base to finish off the card.
Hope you like this simple card. 
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.
Happy Crafting!

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Magnolia Rustica Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 17 Comments

 Hi All,

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

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Nandini Karmarkar 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 Magnolias. I gave a Monochromatic twist to these florals.

Over to my card,

This card features PAF: Magnolia Rustica Rubra Stamp set.

I used Black graphite and white charcoal pencils to create this Monochromatic card.

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 05/28/2022 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 05/30/2022.


Next Stop in the Hop is Awesome, Colleen Balija

Blog Hop List

Altenew Card Blog

Emily Midgett

Ann Taylor

Nathalie DeSousa

Carol Hintermeier

Jenny Colacicco

Angela Brennan

Tenia Nelson

Nenette S. Madero

Virginia Lu

Natasha Davies

Amy Hill

Terri Koszler

Nandini Karmarkar

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Colleen Balija

LauraJane

Bridget Casey

Linda Westfall

Rosie Neustaedter

Preeti Chandran

Hussena Calcuttawala

Eva Bussom

Sande Woodson

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

~ 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


$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 04/20/2022 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 04/22/2022.


Free Gift

Live in the Moment | Altenew PAF Anemone

~ Sathya ~ 11 Comments

 Hi Friends,

I whipped a quick monochromatic goodness for today. Was SO inspired by Jaycee Gasper ‘s this video tutorial using Graphite and Charcoal pencils. I have done couple of Graphite projects earlier but this it bit different to all those.

Over to my card,

  • Stamped the Altenew PAF Anemone over the grey cs using Altenew Silver stone Cube ink.
  • Colored using Graphite and White wax pencil. Smudged using Paper stumps.
  • Sentiment stamped using same cube ink.
  • Splattered white acrylic ink.
  • Trimmed and matted over an Off White A2 sized top fold cardbase.
Hope you like it!
Thanks for stopping by!
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Sending my Love :)

~ Sathya ~ 17 Comments
Today’s card is with just roses!!! Rose making madness continues!
What better way to express the love other than these roses!

The front panel is a diecut from Spellbinders A2 Devine Eloquence and its matted with its 2nd largest die which is popped up with adhesive foams. The largest diecut is from prima Zephyr paperpad and the roses are made from Joycrafts die and the blue CS used is from DCWV pastel shades.

The leaves are diecut from Spellbinders foliage dies in pale yellow cs, whose edges are distressed with shabby shutters DI.

The IBS sentiment is stamped on heart thinlits die and the edges are distressed using Tumbled glass DI.
Few blue pearls o finish off the card.

Hope you like the card!

Supplies:
CS- Fabriano White, DCWV pastel -blue, 
PP – Prima Zephyr 6×6 paperpad

Dies:
Spellbinders Foliage die, A2 Devine Eloquence die
Joycrafts floral florishes
Itsybitsy heart thinlits

Inks – Tumbled glass,Shabby shutters DIs
Ranger’s Black Archival ink

Pearls

Challenges:

IBS #91 used color blue, green

IBS customer gallery – Trendy circles stamp used by selectively masking

613 Avenue create – Anything goes with RAK day
ABC cahllenge – D is for diecuts
Sisterhood of crafters – Sweethearts and Roses

Sending my Love :)

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment
Today’s card is with just roses!!! Rose making madness continues!
What better way to express the love other than these roses!

The front panel is a diecut from Spellbinders A2 Devine Eloquence and its matted with its 2nd largest die which is popped up with adhesive foams. The largest diecut is from prima Zephyr paperpad and the roses are made from Joycrafts die and the blue CS used is from DCWV pastel shades.

The leaves are diecut from Spellbinders foliage dies in pale yellow cs, whose edges are distressed with shabby shutters DI.

The IBS sentiment is stamped on heart thinlits die and the edges are distressed using Tumbled glass DI.
Few blue pearls o finish off the card.

Hope you like the card!

Supplies:
CS- Fabriano White, DCWV pastel -blue, 
PP – Prima Zephyr 6×6 paperpad

Dies:
Spellbinders Foliage die, A2 Devine Eloquence die
Joycrafts floral florishes
Itsybitsy heart thinlits

Inks – Tumbled glass,Shabby shutters DIs
Ranger’s Black Archival ink

Pearls

Challenges:

IBS #91 used color blue, green

IBS customer gallery – Trendy circles stamp used by selectively masking

613 Avenue create – Anything goes with RAK day
ABC cahllenge – D is for diecuts
Sisterhood of crafters – Sweethearts and Roses

Pink Posies card – CLD DT call !

~ Sathya ~ 19 Comments
Today ‘s card is especially for Cheerylynn Design Team call. Its one of the finest dies, which cuts paper like butter. I love to work with those dies very often and this DT call, urges me to attempt my luck to work among the wonderful designers’ team.

Always love to find ways to use my flower dies and this time too attempted to make different flowers. Used only Cheerylynn dies to make this card 🙂

Diecut the CLD Mexcian tile die from white CS and matted this against a pink CS and layered this panel on a White CS.

The large bloom is made from CLD sunflower die and distressed with Tattered rose and Wornlipstick DIs. The roses are made from CLD Gardenia strip die and this time tried to attempt peony kind flower than usual roses.These are distressed with worn lipstick DI on edged, misted and shaped. Small roses are made from CLD medium rose die and the single petal pollen centered too are from same die. Those are distressed using the Worn lipstick DI.

These flroal cluster are arranged on the CLD tropical florish die with CLD rose leaves and CLD olive branches.

The Sentiment banner is diecut from Itsy bitsy venetian label,and IBS sentiment is stamped using Black Archival ink and mounted using adhesive foam.

Hope you like this!!

Supplies:
CS- White from Fabriano, Pink from DCWV pastels stack

Cheerylynn Designs dies – Mexican tile die,
                                            Olive branches,
                                            Gardenia strip die
                                            Rose leaf strip
                                            Medium rose strip
                                            Tropical florish die
DIs-   Tattered rose, Worn lipstick

IBS Sentiment, Ranger black archival ink,pearls,

Challenges:

Cheerylynn Designs DT Call

Cheerylynn Designs – Tickled pink (CLD Mexican tile die,
                                            Olive branches,
                                            Gardenia strip die
                                            Rose leaf strip
                                            Medium rose strip
                                            Tropical florish die)

Pink Posies card – CLD DT call !

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment
Today ‘s card is especially for Cheerylynn Design Team call. Its one of the finest dies, which cuts paper like butter. I love to work with those dies very often and this DT call, urges me to attempt my luck to work among the wonderful designers’ team.

Always love to find ways to use my flower dies and this time too attempted to make different flowers. Used only Cheerylynn dies to make this card 🙂

Diecut the CLD Mexcian tile die from white CS and matted this against a pink CS and layered this panel on a White CS.

The large bloom is made from CLD sunflower die and distressed with Tattered rose and Wornlipstick DIs. The roses are made from CLD Gardenia strip die and this time tried to attempt peony kind flower than usual roses.These are distressed with worn lipstick DI on edged, misted and shaped. Small roses are made from CLD medium rose die and the single petal pollen centered too are from same die. Those are distressed using the Worn lipstick DI.

These flroal cluster are arranged on the CLD tropical florish die with CLD rose leaves and CLD olive branches.

The Sentiment banner is diecut from Itsy bitsy venetian label,and IBS sentiment is stamped using Black Archival ink and mounted using adhesive foam.

Hope you like this!!

Supplies:
CS- White from Fabriano, Pink from DCWV pastels stack

Cheerylynn Designs dies – Mexican tile die,
                                            Olive branches,
                                            Gardenia strip die
                                            Rose leaf strip
                                            Medium rose strip
                                            Tropical florish die
DIs-   Tattered rose, Worn lipstick

IBS Sentiment, Ranger black archival ink,pearls,

Challenges:

Cheerylynn Designs DT Call

Cheerylynn Designs – Tickled pink (CLD Mexican tile die,
                                            Olive branches,
                                            Gardenia strip die
                                            Rose leaf strip
                                            Medium rose strip
                                            Tropical florish die)

Winter Whites :)

~ Sathya ~ 48 Comments
First post in this new year 2015!!

Like last year, this year too i have started my first post on WOW card (white on white). Am a big fan of WOW cards. Earlier done 4 Wow cards and you can check here .

This card done entirely using Cheerylynn dies only 🙂

CLD’s Mexican tile die is used for the front panel and for me every tile look like a snowflake 🙂 .Its matted against a front and base panel using foam tape for the dimensional look. White Thai tissue paper is used for the central portion and the texture of it, mimics snowy feel and on it added my new CLD Snowflakes die, which has very many sizes and patterns of the snowflakes. At one go, you can have lots of snowflake diecuts 🙂 IBS sentiment is stamped using versamark and silver embossed.

Diagonally at corners, the flower clusters are made using CLD gardenia die, one of my ever favorite for making roses and this time i used diamond dust glitter for that frosty look on flowers.
The Flaky flowers are made using CLD embellishment die and the CLD build flower-2 leaves are being used along  with CLD ivy flourish die, CLD tropical flourish die.

Few more shots

Pearls of various sizes used as centres in snowflakes and flowers.

Hope you like it!!

Supplies:

Base CS, Front panel – Fabriano 

Dies:
CLD -gardenia strip,
CLD tropical flourish
CLD snowflakes die
CLD mexican tile die
CLD ivy flourish
CLD embellishments die
CLD build a flower 2

Zing silver embossing powder, pearls.

Stamp – IBS winter wonderland

Challenges:

Cheerylynn designs- Winter white

IBS customer gallery – winter wonderful stamp set used

Cardmania – CMC#64 Make it sparkle (Diamond dust on flowers for sparkle look)

Dies r us – Anything goes with something new  (used my brand new stuffs – Cheerylynn Snowflake die , Cheerylynn Build a flower-2 )

Pinspirational challenge – Snowflake

NBUS#3 (used my brand new stuffs – Cheerylynn Snowflake die , Cheerylynn Build a flower-2 )

Vintage card – Just for U :)

~ Sathya ~ 16 Comments
Its my second time try at Vintage style. Earlier card can be seen here. Love this style for the dark tones of brown, beige, tans, black hues and still creating magic.

This is the last card for this year 2014 and also DT inspiration card for the Cardabilities challenge.

Felt like IBS Vintage floral PP is so apt for this theme and so matted this against the black CS. To achieve the look, pp is roughed,rolled at edges using scissors, distressed with vintage photo DI and to give a bit more darker shade, distressed pp at various places and stamped randomly with IBS script stamp from Friends forever stamp set using same DI. Am in love with the effect it has created on bg.

Used Doily die and cut the doilies of various sizes in brown CS. And on it, arranged the floral using Joycrafts die. This time, tried a different flower other than my usual flower style. Hope you like it!

Closer shot of flowers

For stamens, used CLD embellishment dies and cut in black CS. The rose strips are diecut in white and distressed with Vintage photo DI and the florishes of black and white to balance the flowers.
Sentiment is stamped in oval scallop diecut and distressed with DI.

Thats all from me 🙂

Wishing all my readers, blogger-pals, a very very Happy and Wonderful New Year 2015. May your days ahead be more joyous and lovely 🙂

Thanks so much for the support and lovely comments, which is the only source of driving force for me.

Supplies:

Vintage floral PP – IBS
CS- Brown,Black
Dies – Joycrafts florishes die, MFT scrolled florishes, CLD embellishments die, CLD rose leaf strip, Nellie Snellen doily die,Couture Scalloped oval die

Stamps- Script from IBS forever friends set
              Sentiment from Small label stamp set
Inks – vintage photo DI

Challenge:

IBS customer gallery – vintage floral pp and forever friends stampset.