BLOOM where you are planted

Happy New year!!! Well I am little late though :). After many days I have come with a card. Yesterday got some new stamp sets and was eager to get started with it.

I stamped few flowers and colored them using water color pencils, added few details with white gel pen and some glitter. From one side cut the edges and adhered on one side of a grey cardstock.
The sentiment is from the same stamp set(Mudra- Wild Rose), used a layer of vellum and foam tape to add the sentiment on the card.

Here are the pics....

I am playing along following challenges

CASology : Week 281 Encourage




Mudra Challenge#17





Paru's Card Making Challenge

I have used the new stamp set 



Inkspirational Challenge#151

Froggy Birthday Card

Hello,
Today I have a birthday card to share and some thing different that usual floral cards I post. I wanted to make some fun card but mostly what I have is floral stamps. However my son does have some aqua themed play stamps and he did not mind letting me use them. Using those I stamped and colored images and one of it I am using in this one.

I like that frog with a mischievous smile :).  I stamped it and colored with DI. The balloon, sentiment are from SSS. Finally assembled the card on colored card stock adding a DI colored yellow panel.

My son was happy I made something using his stuff. Hope you like it as well.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day ahead.

I am playing along

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge# 422



Alphabet Challenge Blog -  M for Make your Mark


Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Stamp It

Slide Pop-up Card

Hi Friends,
For a change today I am sharing something different from the usual simple cards. This one is a slide pop-up card. Usually I stick to single layer or max 2 layer cards, but to enter into few of the challenges I went out of my way to try something new.

Here is the card.

The front is simple with bunch of colorful flowers(Mudra stamps) and burlap border(Itsy Bitsy). Then when we pull the ribbon, the surprise message underneath can be seen and the flowers pop up! 

 The sentiment(SSS) is stamped on smooshed cardstock.

Another look. In the slider card I made a pocket so that any gift card or cash can be given.

Hope you like it and I would love to get feedback on it. Have a happy Friday and happy weekend ahead!


I am sharing the card in following challenges.

Mudra Challenge#11 - Interactive Card/Project
(Used Mudra stamps for this card)



Aud Sentiments Challenge #185 No Sentiment On front of Project
(Sentiment is visible only when the tab is pulled)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge :  Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze Challenge#130 Anything Goes

Smooshed background card

Hello friends,

Today I plan to share a card with smooshed background. I had this piece of smooshed paper since ages, decided to convert into a card. I have also used patterned paper. I usually don't use PP since I always have this block whenever I take them out for making a card. So finally in a very small way I am using it.

I have kept the smoosh and the sentiment(from SSS) as the highlight and bordered it with PP(from Papericious)

That's it for today, thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day ahead.

I am putting this card in following challenges.


AAA Cards CAS Game # 95 Rainbow




Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - You've got the edge

Watercolors

Hello everyone!!

Today want to share a card wherein I have done free hand drawing and colored using water color pencils. It's a very simple card.

With continuous rains since yesterday I am forced to stay indoor. I am on coloring spree and going crazy with drawing. I will soon post other cards. Do let me know your thought son the card it means  a lot.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

I am sharing this card in following challenges

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 289 and 290

Single layer floral card

This is a quick single layer card using one of my favorite floral stamp. I have used color pencils for the coloring.

Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp and the flowers from Inspired By Stamping.

Linking this to

TIMEOUT challenge#86 Celebrations with the Optional Twist of One Layer Cards

STAMPlorations - June CAS challenge

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

Triple Time Stamping

Hey there, hope you are doing fine. I am posting after a long time, have to do a lot of catching up of all the lovely blogs I missed in all this time.

Here is the triple time stamping card

 

for the Mudra Challenge#10.

I stamped the flower and leaves and also used stencil to add pattern on the other corner.

For my friend !!

Hey friends....hope you are enjoying your weekend!! I sneaked in some time today to create a CAS card today. I was able to put this together very quickly.

I am still in the "re-purposing the stamps" mode. So I used a tiny little heart stamp from Simon Says Stamp to create flowers in different colors. Then using black glitter pen added some finishing touches to it, also added black rhinestones to it. Then distressed the edges and finished it off with the sentiment from Inspired by Stamping.

A close up with flash to show the subtle glitter

Entering into following challenges

CAS(E) This Sketch #181

Just Us Girls #352 - Color Week

Less is More : Repitition (Have used heart stamp to create flowers)

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Flora and Fauna

"CASE"ing Therese Calvird

I was determined to CASE Therese's card on the TIME OUT challenges-Challenge#60. I am making a last minute entry into it.

This is her card, isn't it beautiful.

I was inspired by the stripped background, flowers and effective use of colors. Here is my version.....

 

I created the stripped background using border stamp with versamark ink and then used distress ink for the background. Stamped the flowers, used water color to add some color and fuzzy cut it. On the panel added the flowers, stamped the sentiment and few rhinestones. Finally adhered the panel on the colored cardstock.

Hopefully I did justice in CASE-ing Therese's card.

On another note, we went for lunch and there was this beautiful flower on the table, could not resist to take a picture of it. Signing off with this beautiful picture. Have a great day!!!

Colourful background card

Hello...welcome back to my blog. Today I am posting on a weekday, little unusual for me :)

I wanted to make use of stamps which I don't get to use much. There are quite a few which I have but not have used even once! So today's plan was use the unused.

I used a frame stamp to create the background using all the colors I possibly could use. Finished off with a simple sentiment.

Supplies used:
SSS "You can do anything" stamp set for the background
SSS "Big Birthday Wishes" for the sentiment
Ranger white embossing folder

Entering into following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes

Just Us Girls: Challenge#350 Word Week- Summer Used bright colors for summer

Penny Black and More: July Challenge - Anything Goes with Stamp

The Ribbon Girl: July Card Challenge - Anything Goes

CAS Birthday Card

Hi there....hope you are having a great weekend. I wanted to play along few of the challenges and made this card.

It's very simple one. I have used different distress colors to create the background using stamp. Then added a candle over it and put the sentiment. This was done very quick. I was very tempted to mount this on a embossed or a colored cardstock but wanted to keep all white and keeping focus on the design.

Supplies used:
Inspired by Stamping "Friends Forever" for background
Simon Says Stamp for candle and sentiment
Tim Holtz distress inks
Memento tuxedo black ink

Entering into

STAMPloration 3rd birthday link party Loved the bright colors and the birthday theme. Used them in my card.

CASology: Week 204 ROW Stamped in a row

Addicted to Stamps and more:  Challenge #200 and 4th birthday Inspired by the happy colors and birthday theme

Penny Black and more challenge: June - Anything Goes challenge

Stencil cards

Hello friends, welcome back!! I have never posted back to back but this time I am surprising myself. This would be third consecutive day for my post!

Today I played along with my stencil and I loved it! First one came out so well that I made another one as well.

Here we go.....

First made the background with Tim Holtz distress ink and then using stencil made the butterfly and the leaves. Added sentiment from SSS You Can Do Anything stamp set.

 This I mounted on a black card base and then on the distressed white card stock. Finished off with the twine. The black cardstock has a flap so that underneath message can be written.

Sending this for

CAS-UAL Fridays Challenge #150 Thanks with Twine

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Animal Magic

Peek-a-Boo Designs Challenge#7 and Blog Hop (Stencil is something I have it since couple of years and the sentiment stamp is new)

STAMPloration June CAS Challenge without twist

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Now for the second one.

This one is again using the same stencil but different images. Distressed the background before using the stencil. Used layer of black card stock and Papericious PP. Finished off with sentiment from SSS Big Birthday Wishes set and few pearls.

Sending this to

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

All Sorts Challenge: Week#368- How does your garden grow showcasing the plants and the butterflies which visits the garden

Simon Says Stamp: Monday Challenge - Use Patterned Paper

Ranganjali June Challenge : Anything But Flower

Have a great day ahead!!