Stencil Card | TCW

August 11, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 1 Comment

Hi ya Friends,

Am here today with a simple stencil card.

Blended the diecuts of MFT Stitched Rec Stax with DO – Rusty hinge, Worn lipstick and at edges distressed with Black soot Distress ink.
Stenciled a portion of the TCW stencil : Tiny birds of a feather with black ink.
Added a black twine and on it mounted the sentiment label.
Matted this trio panel to a corrugated cardstock.
And finally matted over a black A2 sized black cardbase.

Hope you like it!

Happy Crafting!

HLS August Stencil challenge

Inkblended-Embossed-Stencil Love Card | Brutus Monroe

August 9, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hi Friends,

Made a card for Brutus Monroe‘s monthly inspiration card.

This time took Brutus Monroe’s Pinwheel Stencil and ink blended and embossed through the stencil to get a beautiful pattern using a subtle and soft toned shades.

Over to my card,

Love how the plain stencil other than using for Ink blending technique, when clubbed with dry Embossing technique, gives such a whole new texture to the card panel.

Hope you like it!

Altenew Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

March 1, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 69 Comments

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew’s Build-A-Flower: Semi- Double Chrysanthemum Release Bloghop!

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, Rachael Shedeed’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 today using Altenew Semi Double Chrysanthemum set.

Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum Product Description:

Love and flowers don’t need to be perfect, but these gorgeous florals come very close to perfection!

This layering stamp set features a beautiful 4-layer chrysanthemum and three 3-layer leaves to add to your handmade cards, scrapbook layouts, bullet journal pages, and other DIY paper crafting projects.

The Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum special edition stamp and die set is only sold as a bundle. It includes one 6″ x 8″ clear photopolymer stamp set (16 individual stamp images) and one coordinating die set (4 dies).

To create my card, I first stamped solid image of flowers followed by using second and third images, which are detailed layers. I used the Summer Afternoon mini ink cube set for the flowers. And then they were die cut using co-ordinating dies.

I did two such flowers and diecut using their co-ordinating dies and kept aside.

The green leaves are also from Semi-Double Chrysanthemum set, which were stamped onto white cardstock using Green Fields mini dye ink cube collections. They were also die cut using co-ordinating dies.

The sentiment ‘Love’ is gold heat embossed on black cardstock and fussy cut it to give a defined look. The second part of sentiment is gold heat embossed onto a black cardstock strip.

Finally for the background, took Altenew Classy strips stencil and embossing paste and created a partial stencilling to give a subtle texture to the card.

Then added Brusho – Lime green color pigment onto a watercolor cardstock, to create the organic styled background on the stenciled areas. Left to air dry and trimmed the focal panel.

Matted this focal panel onto A2 sized black Top fold cardbase using foam adhesives.. Then arranged the flowers and leaves to get a desired look. Popped the fussy cut sentiment and sentiment strip as shown above using foam adhesives.

Finally added some black enamel dots to finish off the card.

And now for the most 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 03/07/2021 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 03/09/2021.

Blog Hop List

The next hop in this blog hop is the Talented, Seeka

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Seeka

Terri Koszler

Verity Biddlecombe

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you were inspired by my work and will try out Semi Double Chrysanthemum set.

Have a great week everyone!

Hope : Jane’s Doodles

January 7, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

Hiya Crafters,

Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2021.

Am sharing my first post for this year. As always, Love watercoloring and Love floral stamps.

Recently Jane’s doodles had drew a digital stamp to raise money for the Earthquake struck areas of Croatia. Kindly check their website and extend your generous help towards the noble cause.

I did my part of buying this digital stamp called Hope and gonna spread the word as maximum as I could by my card making and watercoloring.

Over to my card,

Printed the digi on Canson montval watercolor paper.
Colored using Daniel smith watercolors.
Fussy cut and kept aside.
Took a Grey A2 sized cardbase.
Topped with a white panel which was stenciled with Wendy Vechi Embossing paste using a TH stencil flourishes.
Splattered the left over paints over stenciled paste once dried.
Added the fussy cut florals using Foam adhesives and adhesive tapes for dimension.
Splattered generously with white acrylic paint.
Added few clear dew droplets as accents.
Took TH small talk and added to white strip and mounted on the card panel using foam adhesive.
This panel then added to the cardbase to finish off the card.

Hope you like it!!

Happy Crafting!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking this card to the following challenges:

HLS January Stencil Challenge

(Used here TH flourishes stencil)

HLS Watercolor challenge

Stamplorations Jan Stencil challenge: (Used TH flourishes stencil)

Christmas Cheers : Mudra

December 25, 2020 ~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hi All,

Very Merry Christmas to all here!!

Sharing few christmas card inspirations today at Mudra blog today using their recent christmas releases.

Hop over to the blog to view card details and participate in our monthly challenge.

Watercolored Peony : Stampendous

April 29, 2020 ~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hi Bloggy buddies,

Hope all are staying home and doing their bits to flatten the curve at this moment of Pandemic.

Stay Strong! Stay Safe! Safe Home! Stay Creative!!

And for today,

Stamped Stampendous Peony spray using Antique Linen DI over arches CP watercolor paper.
Did no line watercoloring using Gansai Tambi watercolors.
After drying, added prisma color pencils to deepen the areas of shadows.
Fussy cut the floral and set aside.
Took a white panel, ran through big shot with Altenew Class stripes stencil to get the subtle texture for the bright floral.
Splattered diluted colors of the used colors over the stenciled bg diagonally.
Then mounted the floral using foam adhesive.
Matted this panel to a A2 sized light beige colored card base.
And generously splattered Perfect pearls powder+water and white ink over the floral and background to tone down the brightness.
Stamped Sentiment from Stamplorations Trendy butterflies-2 over a piece of chipboard using Mudra Mai Jet black ink and trimmed it to add near floral spray.
Finally few enamel dots in mixed colors and sizes to finish off the card.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking this to following challenges:

ASTM: Make your mark (Used Watercolors +Prisma colored pencils)

SSS Wednesday challenge: Anything goes

Butterflies’ Birthday Wish

May 6, 2019 ~ Sathya ~ 46 Comments

Hi Friends!

Am here today with a simple birthday card with a bit of Watercolor play with Brusho.

It’s been a long time since I played with it!

Took watercolor cardstock and sprayed water with a mister.
Added the Lime green Brusho pigment. One of my favorite of all for the pigments it holds : Green, Yellow and a dash of blue.
Heat set when the pigments moved and formed a desired look,
Using TCW ‘Art is’ stencil, stenciled over the colored area with Prima’s Platinum crackle paste.
Being a thin font style, the crackles aren’t that prominent. Nevertheless I love the metallic sheen of the platinum paste.
Stamped the sentiment from Inspired By Stamping ‘Wishing you’ using memento black ink onto the focal panel.
Using Ranger White EP , heat embossed the butterflies from Stamplorations Trendy Butterflies2 onto Vellum.
Fussy cut those butterflies and added to the focal panel.
This panel is trimmed and mounted onto a baby blue top fold 4×6″ card base.
Few clear dew droplets added as final touch.