Come Fly With Me: Bird

I love working with birds and bird cages, and so I delightfully share with you my entry for Challenge #110 Come Fly With Me being hosted at Crafty Cardmakers and More.

Its a simple card in shades of white and lilac. The flowers are hand made; stamped and inked in dark and light tones of lilac. The bird and vine are chipboard, lightly inked, while the based is dry embossed. Sprinkled some white beads for finishing touches.

Happy Crafting!

Ripped Jeans: Male Themed Creation

Presenting to you my entry for challenge number 109: This is a Man's World, being hosted by Crafty Card Makers and More.
I wanted to make this card a little different from all the masculine cards I've seen so far. Since this was meant to be a male themed creation, I wanted it to have a rugged, rough, yet youthful look and feel. And so took my inspiration from the below "Ripped Jeans" image found online:

This is what I put together:

Worked with kraft card and blue cardstock. The blue base was first inked to appear as denim and then ripped to create the ripped jeans effect and inked further. Below is a close up, showing all the details =D [very happy with the effect]

 

The sentiment is embossed; black and copper.
The inside is simple.
And as you can see capturing the colors was a task in itself. =)

Happy crafting!

Red, White and Pink: Heart

Its a beautiful Monday morning here! (and just after typing that I had to pause-- so its a beautiful afternoon now =D) Received Country View Crafts gift voucher today, for winning the January challenge, yay! Challenge entry can be found here.

Coming back to the post; This red, white and pink themed card with a large textured heart was made for submission to Challenge no 58 being hosted at Lia Stampz, and the Have A Heart Wednesday Challenge being hosted at Simon Says.

The heart is hand drawn and colored. I wanted to add texture to it and did so by embossing it heavily. Here is an another picture where the texture is clearly visible.

 
That is about it. Love the heart :)


Happy crafting!

Mini: Chalkboard

Here is a mini expressing my love for chalkboard! =D
The mini is 4x4 with lots of flowers, mats, pockets and chalkboard accents.
I used purple, yellow and blue for flowers, and white for the leaves.

These two pages are my favorite! The inspiration came from clipart borders. Here though its all stamping.

 Happy crafting! =)

Chalkboard: Black and White Card

"Chalkboard" is the first thing I thought, when I came across the Black and White card challenge, being hosted at Crafty Cardmakers , and the Monochromatic challenge being hosted by Country View Challenges. 
The below card was made for submission to both challenges.

 Worked with a stamped and inked base, layered with chalkboard style sentiment. Added some flowers with white glitter.

The largest flower is hand made with chalkboard style details and glitter on the edges.

Chalkboard effect added to the inside of the card too.

Happy Crafting!

Mini Book: Poem

One of my clients, a poetess, approached me for some colorful card ideas for her friend. After reading the poem, we decided on presenting it in a Mini Book, instead of a card. (I consider myself fortunate to have extremely talented clientele.)

I was provided with a beautiful picture and the poem which was to be used for this project. The picture captured the warmth of their friendship and I decided to use it as the cover. As this was supposed to be a colorful mini, black was used as the base to make the colors prominent. I took the liberty of heat embossing "Friends", in gold, on the spine.

Each page has a stanza printed on one side and ample space for journaling, or adding more photos on the other side. Other than that there are 8 colorful photo mats and tags included within.

The mini was packaged in a box.

Happy Crafting!

Card: Special Heart

A very special heart indeed.

Made using white, and red cardstock (heavy) with a glittered hear in the center.

I gave the card a mosaic appearance by layering the top layer with 1 inch embossed squares (also referred to as inchies). The glittered heart is the heart of this card, and is outlined with gold.

Happy Crafting!