Botanical Rainbow Thank you Card!

Hi Crafty friends!

Am guesting over at The Twisted Challenges Blog.

Theme for the current challenge is Rainbow colors+Grateful/Thankful

Its a no flower/ No coloring card!!! Just dies and 3D embossing folder!

Over to my take on the challenge.

Simple card ..to shift all focus on the rainbow colored gorgeous bg 🙂

  • Took a smooth white cardstock and blended Mudra MAI inks in the colors of rainbow fashion.
  • The colors blends so smoothly.
  • Splattered water on both sides but dint show up much of blotchy effects.
  • Dry embossed it using Sizzix – 3D embossing folder- Botanical (This way cs won’t tear and show cracks)
  • Gorgeous embossed and debossed sides obtained.
  • Trimmed the panel and matted to the black cs.
  • Took a vellum heart diecut, to it added a layered Thankyou diecut from SSS, which has 1 black layer and 2 white layers, and the upper layer is heat embossed with UTEE clear for added interest.
  • Used Nuvo glue pen for adhering the diecuts as well as to the vellum.
  • Then the card panel added to A2 sized white card base.
  • Few enamel dots are added as accents.
Hope you like it!

Do play along for the chance to win lovely goodies and a chance for GD!

Happy Crafting!

Dream Mixed Media Canvas

Hi Friends!

Today i have a Mixed media canvas, which is a Guest Design post at Lulupu – Craft Lounge .

Here’s a look at my MM canvas. Oh yeah…Tutorial too 🙂

Took 9.5 by 11.5 inches primed flat canvas.
Took Dylusions Lemon zest in a palette and Peeled paint Distress stain dabbed in craftmat. Using separate wet wipes swipped these mists from top to bottom of canvas. This gives a neat coverage.
Then took a 5”x7 “ white cs and used Sizzix- TimHoltz mixmedia thinlits dies to diecut it diagonally.

Used Wendy Veicchi Embossing paste (translucent) and TimHoltz  Honeycomb stencil in the diagonal portion of cs. It gives such lovely sheen after drying.
When the paste is still wet, sprinkled generously Prima- Finnabair Mini artstones on it. Leave it to dry as such.
After drying, smooshed the versafine pad directly on the diecut areas and heat embossed it using Ranger Silver Embossing powder. Then mist the cs with LSG spray – Azure sea asters and sponged the edges with frayed burlap distress ink. And then it was matted with a pp, whose edges are distressed with Rich cocoa momento ink.
Using Sizzix –Pete Hughes, Magical butterfly die, diecut the butterfly from a white cs. Colored using Metallic Gelatos and heat embossed twice using Ranger’s UTEE clear. Prima junkyard metal zipper – Inspire, is smooshed with Picket fence stain is added as Butterfly body using foam adhesive.
A resin piece randomly colored using Prima Art alchemy paint– Steampunk copper is added on the matted cardstock with  ivory sisal at centre. Butterfly is then topped on it.
Few handmade florals are made using Sizzix- TH Tattered florals – diecut from pp, sponged with Shell pink, edges sponged with frayed burlap Distress ink, shaped and used pink rhinestones for centres.  Sizzix – TH Elegant flourishes die is used to diecut from a white cs, sponged slightly with frayed burlap DI. 
Leaves are from Sizzix Garden greens, diecut from pp, stamped with Bobunny script stamp randomly using Archival ink -sepia, sponged with Frayed burlap DI on edges.
TimHoltz word band is added to cs using natural hemp twine. Flowers, flourishes , leaves are arranged as per pic with few crocheted ribbon and white tulle. Stamped Kaisercraft stamp on a ivory cs and sponged with peeled paint DI and Archival sepia ink, added using foam adhesive.  Negative of leaf diecut is used to stencil at canvas corners using peeled paint ink. Same ink splatters finally on the canvas. Edges of the canvas is smooshed with vintage photo Distress stain for that final framed look. 

Hope you liked the stepwise instruction for the simple Layered MM canvas .

Linking this to

Stamplorations Mixed media April challenge – Used TH honey comb stencil, Negative diecut of Sizzix garden greens is used as leaf stencil here.

Anything but cute challenge -April – Earth day–  Inspired by flowery meadows, blues, butterfly

Ranganjali Challenge – Embossing (Butterfly is Heat embossed, The front panel diecut diagonally heat embossed)

Craft stamper – Make it Take it challenge – Flowers are handmade using Sizzix tattered florals, Kaisercraft Sentiments are stamped using Archival sepia ink.