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

Freehand drawing + "Love is sweet" card

Hello friends,
Hope you are having a great start to the week. My craze for drawing has still not seized but I am not complaining :) , I am just loving it. So today again I am sharing a card for which I did some freehand drawing and then made it into a card.

Special thing was, this is the first card which my hubby said he liked the most. I was over the moon !!!!

Here it goes...

I did not capture that well on camera, but it looks much better in person. I just used my black pen to make the design first and colored it using DI. I wanted a small sentiment for this card so went with the one from SSS( Should have done 1 more layer of stamping, I stopped at 2 :( ). Added colored cardstock before mounting it to finish the card.

I am playing along

CAS(E) this Sketch #238

Inspired By All the Little Things #63 Featuring Bev Kastman Buenker

Challenge #201 Anything Goes / Optional Twist Distress It : Playing with the twist- used DI to color

HLS September Watercolour Challenge:  Going without the twist

Another doodle ...

Hey there, hope you are having a good start for the week. I am still hooked on to doodling and converting them into cards. So today again I am sharing one of the designs I made. Last one I had kept uncolored so this time I thought about trying to color it and I enjoyed every bit of it.

So here's the card.

I have used DI to color and the sentiment and the banner design is from Inspired by Stamping.
For the colors I was inspired by the Cupcake Inspiration challenge. I totally love that combo.

I am linking this to

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #421

Update: This was chosen as favorite in the Cupcake Inspiration challenge

30 Day Coloring Challenge

Thanks for visiting, have  a great day ahead!

Doodle + Card

Hi folks, happy Friday! It's been quite some time I did not post, thanks to some issues with my laptop. I am trying to workaround that and sneak in few of the posts. Meanwhile I am spending time in doing some coloring, recycling and some projects apart from cards, I will post those soon.

For now, a quick card which I made from one of the doodles element I had created.

I had doodles this flower on a white cardstock, added the rainbow colors at the background using brush pen and some masking. Added sentiment( from IBS) at the bottom.

Please share your feedback, it means a lot. Have a great weekend ahead!

I am linking these to 

AAA Cards -  CAS Game #97 Masking 

TIMEOUT Challenge - Challenge #91 CASE Beverley Brown

Paru's Card Making Challenges - September 2017 'Rainbow' Challenge

Blogger Recognition Award

Hi friends,
I am excited to share that I have been nominated by Sharada from Happy Momentzz for the Blog Recognition Award. Thank you Sharada!! She blogs about her crafting experiences and there are loads of inspirations. You should definitely check her blog!

When another blogger nominates you for this award, there are a few steps that you need to take to accept:

• Thank the nominating blogger
• Write a post about the award
• Share a story of how and why you started your blog
• Offer at least two pieces of advice for new bloggers
• Pass on the nomination to another 15 bloggers
• Respond to the nominating blogger with a link to this post on their blog

My story....

Now the story on how did I start my blog. Well I was always fascinated by craft and during school days I would draw and paint a lot, experiment with different things including crochet, cross stitch, glass painting, sand art etc. This was all thanks to my mother who herself is a very quick learner and her interests rubbed on to me. However somewhere down the line I lost touch as I got busy with education and job. Few years back I again started crafting on insistence of my friends I started this blog. I really feel it was one of the best things as I got to know so many lovely people and a whole universe of creativity.

Advice....

Blogging is a serious business. There are times I do not post for weeks together due to lulls or any personal reasons but I realize what I miss when I do regular posts. I feel so happy, creative and I think it also helps to become a better person!

So I would definitely suggest to have regular posts. (Which I am trying to do as well :P)

Photography skills are definitely a add on. Again this one is something I am trying to improve upon. But photographs are a very important part of the blog so these have to be excellent.

Other awesome bloggers

It is difficult to list only a few bloggers, but below are some of the awesome ones I have come across.

Rahmat from  Cards and Cooking Corner

Annie from Creations by Annie

Debra from Crafted by Debra

Suchi from Suchi's CardStock 

Pauline from Crafting with Cotnob

Thank you for visiting and have a lovely day ahead.