Category: pencil coloring

Stay Kind | Castle Garden | Altenew

~ Sathya ~ 1 Comment

 Hi Everyone,

Am here today with a floral card using a new to me Colouring Medium. Yes you heard me right. I love to experiment my coloring skills with a variety of Colouring medium and this time, its happened to be 

Faber Castell Pastel Pencils.

They are chalky and unlike the regular wax based/oil based / or any other coloured pencils. The cardstock I used was Brustro Pastel assorted pack. It has a wonderful texture/tooth to pick the medium and the layering was pretty good.

Being my maiden attempt with this medium, I took a small floral spray from Altenew – Castle Garden for coloring. 

Over to my card,

  • Stamped Altenew – Castle Garden using Antique Linen DI.
  • Colored using the Faber Castell Pastel Pencils.
  • Used Brustro Paper stumps for smudging and layering the colors.
  • Used Brustro kneadable eraser to take off the colors which was smudged around the image during coloring process.
  • Sentiments are from 2 different Altenew stamp sets, yet wonderfully worked together. Stamped using Altenew Coral Berry crisp ink pad.
  • Diecut the panel using scalloped outline die set.
  • Mounted this panel over the ivory A2 sized cardbase using foam adhesives.
Hope you like it!
Linking this to 

Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 19 Comments

 Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Eva’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.

Craft Your Life Project Kit: Florescence Product Description: 

Enjoy floral florescence with stunning flowering blooms. Stamp the two elaborate clusters of poppies, chrysanthemums, and daisies to bring floral beauty to your projects. They are perfect to fill card backgrounds or frame your scrapbook layouts. Color the floral intricacies with watercolor or brush markers for a vibrant touch. Finally, stamp any of the uplifting sentiments or quotes to brighten a loved one’s day. Enjoy our Craft Your Life Project Kit, an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creative juices flowing! Featuring a 6×8 stamp set, coordinating die set, as well as a stencil set and embossing folder to fit the theme, this project kit has almost everything you need to start crafting. Just add ink and cardstock, and you’ll be good to go!


Over to my cards,


The first card features CYLPK Embossing Folder.
Blended light tones of purple on white cardstock before embossing and after dry embossing added darker tones to pop up the embossed portions. Added a die cut sentiment to finish off the card with clear dew droplets.
Other products are: 
Shades of Purple Cube inks
Sentiment Strips 2
Featured Sentiment Die Set

This card features CYLPK Florescence stamp set.
It has wonderful floral blooms. Stamped on the Strathmore Toned Gray sketch paper using versamark ink and Pencil colored it.
Blended with lighter yellow tones around the die cut focal panel and stamped the sentiment.
Matted onto an Olive green A2 sized cardbase.
Finished off the card with dew droplets.

Following card features CYLPK Florescence stamp set.
Stamped a floral bloom onto either side of white card panel and did No line watercoloring using markers.
Added the sentiment as shown and splattered white calligraphy ink generously over the colored images.
Matted onto a A2 sized Olive cardbase to finish off the card.

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 05/18/2022 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 05/20/2022

I hope you were inspired by my cards and will try out these Wonderful products from this new 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 May 2022 Dreams Come True Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 23 Comments

  Hi All, 

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew May 2022 Dreams Come True Collection Release Blog Hop

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from Awesome Nandini’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 Always Be Kind Stamp set. One of my super favourites from this release for the Wonderful sentiments and for this Beautiful Floral Stalk.
I stamped on a Toned Gray sketch paper using White pigment ink and colored to my heart’s content using Colored pencils. It’s such a breeze to color this inflorescence. The Large sentiment and the sub sentiment are from this stampset. I diecut the focal panel and topped over a A2 sized cardbase.
Other product: Midnight Violet, Jet Black Crisp ink dye

Next card features Educators Rule Stamp and Die Set. I have clubbed this set with Beautiful Inside Add-on Sentiment, which perfectly matches with the theme of the card.

This card features Always Be Kind stamp set and Small World Die Set from previous release. They made a perfect match!

The final card is my most favorite card using Wispy Joy Stamp set. No line Watercoloring it is. This time I wanna them to look like Floral Ephemera kind of diecuts. Loose watercoloring style I tried here for that using markers.
I topped the colored diecuts over a oval embossed panel. The sentiment is from Beautiful Inside Add-on Set, which perfectly matches my floral.

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 05/10/2022 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 05/12/2022.

Blog Hop List


Next stop in Hop is Awesome, Susan Busada


Complete Hop List

Altenew Blog

Vicky Papaioannou

Terri Koszler

Vicki Boutin 

Jaycee Gaspar

LauraJane

Nathalie DeSousa

Angela Brennan

Michelle Short 

Virginia Lu

Nenette S. Madero

Laurie Willison

Bridget Casey

Jenny Colacicco

Natasha Davies

Tenia Nelson

Linda Westfall

Reiko Tsuchida***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post.

Rosie Neustaedter 

Emily Midgett 

Amy Hill

Maryam Perez

Sande Woodson

Susan Stagno

Katrina Howe

Mindy Eggen

Eva Bussom

Ann Taylor

Daniel Diaz

Hussena Calcuttawala

Nandini Karmarkar

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Susan Busada

I hope you were inspired by my cards and will try out these Wonderful products from this 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 Spring Garden Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 24 Comments

 Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew April 2022 Spring Garden Collection Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Nandini ‘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. I have used different coloring medium on Embossed panels this time. Hope you like it!

Over to my cards,


This card features Chevron Background Hot Foil Plate, Wonderfully Made Die.
Hotfoiled the blue foil onto a pastel blue cardstock and topped with a navy blue die cut to finish off the card.

This card features Detailed Webcover Die and Itty Bitty Branches Die Set.
Other products are
 
Featured Sentiments Die Set
Sentiment Strips 2

This card features Morning Blooms Hot Foil plate. It has a wonderful co-ordinating stencil set but I have used Colored pencils as my coloring medium here. I have added a script diecut word from a gold glitter cardstock.
Other product is 
Fancy Hello Die Set

This card features Vibrant florals Hot foil plate. It has a wonderful co-ordinating stencil set but I have used Colored pencils as my coloring medium here.
Other products are
Featured Sentiments Die Set
Sentiment Strips 2

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 05/01/2022 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 05/03/2022.


Next in the Hop is Lovely Susan Stagno
Complete Hop Order

Altenew Blog

Jaycee Gaspar

Cheryl Espie

Terri Koszler

Mindy Eggen

Jenny Colacicco

Katrina Howe

Nathalie DeSousa

Nicole Watt

Virginia Lu

Carol Hintermeier

Laurie Willison

LauraJane

Keren Baker

Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post. 

Preeti Chandran

Tenia Nelson

Nenette S. Madero

Agnieszka Małyszek

Colleen Balija 

Teresa Litchfield

Natasha Davies

Rosie Neustaedter

Ann Taylor 

Sande Woodson

Linda Westfall

Nandini Karmarkar

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Susan Stagno

Bridget Casey

Eva Bussom

Amy Hill

Hussena Calcuttawala

Nichol Spohr

Daniel Diaz 


I hope you were inspired by my cards and will try out this Wonderful Products 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 Build-A-Flower: Giant Bellflower Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 45 Comments

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Build-A-Flower: Giant Bellflower Release Blog Hop + Giveaway 

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, Arjita Singh’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 using Giant Bellflower set.

Build-A-Flower: Giant Bellflower Product Description: 


Let your imagination soar with stunning florals and heartfelt greetings in this unique layering stamp and die set. The florals in this set feature an artistic take on giant bellflowers, showcasing beautiful open petals on a cluster of three flowers. Want to experiment with color? We have added separate coloring layers for each individual flower so you can get creative with colors for your paper crafting projects.


To create my card, I stamped Giant Bellflower onto a white cardstock using a light ink and attempted no line coloring. Die cut with the co ordinating die set after coloring. 



Took a white cardstock and embossed it with Diamond stars 3D Embossing folder . Rounded the embossed panel on all corners and matted over an Olive A2 sized top fold card base using foam adhesives. 


Onto that panel, the diecut flower is added using foam adhesive. The sentiment from same stamp set is stamped using Altenew Jet black cube ink and diecut using Featured Sentiments Die set. This sentiment banner too topped with foam adhesives.

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 03/06/2022 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 03/09/2022.




Blog Hop List


The next stop in Hop is Awesome Linda


Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you were inspired by my card and will try out BAF Giant Bellflower Set


Happy Hopping!!

Altenew: A Year In Review Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 18 Comments

 

Hi Crafty Peeps,

Am SO honoured and humbled to join this year Altenew’s A Year in Review BlogHop with such talented artists. Thanks SO much Altenew for this Awesome Opportunity. This is such a special year to me, as I joined Altenew as Guest Designer and joining them now in their Year end Blog Hop too.

You must be here from talented Sandhya Iyer’s blog

SO Stoked to share this graphic with you all !! 

These four are my most favorite projects done for Guest Designing and these showcases my Diecutting, Watercoloring and Pencil coloring projects.

Made a simple CAS card for this Blog Hop. 

Featuring Thanks Mega Die | Daisy Bed Embossing folder | Mega Greetings Stamp | Dainty Bouquet Stamp | Featured Sentiments Die Set

Sharing below few of my favorite projects done in 2021. 

Post  

Featuring Forever in Love Stamp | Beautiful Day Stamp

Post 

Featuring Statement Flowers


Hope you like all my projects which mainly showcases my Watercoloring / Pencil coloring interests. 

Prizes

Altenew is giving away a $30 GC to 5 lucky winners and $15 GC to 4 lucky winners!!
Please leave a comment on Altenew Card Blog or share Altenew projects with #AltenewBest2021 on social media by 01/06/2022 for a chance to win. 9 winners will be announced on Altenew Winners Page on 01/08/2022.

Additional Prize

I will announce a winner on my blog on 01/08/2022 for a $10 gift certificate to the Altenew store.

     Your NEXT STOP is Seeka

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Crafty Hugs!!

Favorite projects of 2020

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

 Hi Craftypeeps,

Heading towards 2021 and I take up this moment to thank all the souls who took out time to like, comment on my projects over my blog here and in my other social media links.

Your words means a lot to me and that is the driving force into my crafty passion.

Sharing here few of my projects in different interests as favorite 9s in collages.

First collage showcases my WaterColoring interest 🙂


This showcases my Pencil Coloring interest 🙂 

This collage showcases my Diecut Projects 🙂 

This showcases my Calligraphy Interest 🙂 


Hope you like as much as I love it!

Happy Crafting!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you : Floral card

~ Sathya ~ 7 Comments
Hey Hi Friends,

Colored this bunch of flowers from Varadasharma Designs. Varada Sharma, a new illustrator in town.
Thanks you, Varada for sending your illustrations my way 🙂

  • Printed the design on to watercolor card in grayscale to do No line watercoloring.
  • Colored using Gansai Tambi watercolors.
  • Pencil colored using Prisma colored pencils to deepen those shadows.
  • Generously splashed with white splatters and light green watercolor splatters.
  • Die cut the floral panel and matted over A2 sized card base.
  • Few enamel dots to finish off the card.
Hope you like it!
Linking this to following challenges:

Time out challenge: #160  Inspired by the colors

Stamplorations April CAS challenge

Scatter Kindness : Floral Card

~ Sathya ~ 6 Comments
Hi Friends,

Amidst of the prevailing chaos, Dedicating my time to color and of course at my little balcony garden too. All the floral cards in my Blog screams Spring loudly and my garden florals inspire me a ton.

  • Used the print out of these digital florals from Graciellie designs.
  • Colored them using Prisma colored pencils.
  • The centre were made using Black micron pen, White gel pen and yellow colored pencils.
  • The floral panel is actually a backing sheet of a product which is die cut using stitched rectangle die.
  • Fussy cut florals are added using foam adhesive and liquid adhesive for dimensional effect.
  • Stamped sentiment from HeroArts on vellum and added the strip to the panel.
  • The focal panel then added to the A2 sized white card base.
  • Few enamel dots to make all coherent.

Over to my Balcony Garden pics…

I love Cooking, Crafting and Photography a lot. Macro photography are my recent addiction.

Hope you enjoy it!

Stay Home, Stay Safe!

Cheers,
Sathya

Linking this card to following challenge:

Time out challenge

Simon says Wednesday challenge : Anything goes