Post 667: Pair of Mixed Media Tags (Inspiration for Lindy's Gang September 2020 Color Challenge)

Hi friends!

Hope you are doing well :) 

Lindy's Gang September 2020 Color Challenge is in full swing. 

We have a beautiful mood board for you. 

There are generous prizes on offer, so please do join the challenge. 

All the details about the Challenge can be found on the Lindy's Gang Blog.

Lindy's Gang has gorgeous sprays, pigment powders, squirts & embossing powders, they ship worldwide, to check out their store, please click HERE. 

Also, to get product updates & lots of inspiration, we have a vibrant Lindy's Creative Gang Facebook Group.

Lindy's Gang September 2020 Color Challenge

Color Palette Guidelines: deep gold---purple---soft blue

To enter the Color Challenge you MUST use at least 2 colors from the monthly color palette and as always you may also use black, white, neutrals or metallic colors as well! We are finding that there are so many amazing artists who are joining our challenge, that we can’t keep up with choosing winners! So, we’ll still have 5 winners of $50 gift certificates to Lindy’s, (sometimes more if we get tons of participants), and of those, 3 projects will be picked by Lindy’s for style, linking, etc, (the details are below) and 2 will be randomly drawn. Hopefully more people are encouraged to enter and we’ll get even more gorgeous projects! We just love sharing the Lindy love & thought this would be a great way to do it without anyone feeling intimidated.

For the challenge inspiration, I've created a Pair of Mixed Media Tags.  

Lindy's Products Used:

Sprays- Urban Amethyst Flat Fabio, Tweedle Dee Denim Flat Fabio

Magicals- Martina's Marigold, Lara's Wild Malve, Bachelor Button Blue

Squirts- Polite People Purple

EP- Gimme Five Gold Detail EP

Mixed Media Tags

I've also used Stencils, Heavy Gesso & Soft Matte Gel by Finnabair; Vintage Photo, Stickers, Paper Dolls, Dies by Tim Holtz; Chipzeb chipboards by Mudra Stamps and floral dies by Fantasy Dies. 

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)
Stay Blessed!
Preeti

Post 525: Art Journal Page- Believe in Yourself (for Art & Soul Studio, Australia)

Hi friends!
Goodmorning :)

I've shared an Art Journal Page- Believe in Yourself on the Art & Soul Studio Blog today. There is a step-by-step pictorial of the process as well. To check out the post, please click HERE. To visit Art & Soul Studio's fabulous online store, please click HERE.

Art Journal Page- Believe in Yourself 

Please don't forget to join Art & Soul Studio's February Challenge. You can add a photo of your project inspired by the moodboard to the February Challenge album in the Soul Sisters Facebook Group. All the info. about the challenge can be found HERE.

I am linking this page to the following challenges:

1. Creative Embellishment Feb Challenge

2. Stamplorations Mixed Media Challenge- February (used 2 stencils here to create texture in the background)

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)
Stay Blessed!
Preeti

Post 486: Diwali Projects- 3 Mixed Media Gift Tags & 2 Cards (for Mudra Craft Stamps)

Hi folks :)
Good Morning !

Happy Dussehra to you :) I hope this festival season brings you & your loved ones lots of joy, happiness & prosperity.

I've shared 5 Diwali Projects on the Mudra Craft Stamps Blog today.
A set of 3 Mixed Media Gift Tags (with pictorial) and 2 cards.
To visit, please click HERE.

Here's a little peek at the projects:

Thanks for your precious time :)
Stay Blessed!
Preeti 

Post 341: CAS Christmas Card

Hi friends !

I'd like to share a Clean and Simple Christmas Card. This was part of my DT work for PABD, all the details can be checked out here. I heat embossed the Poinsettia and sentiment in gold and watercolored the flower with Festive Berries Distress Ink refill. I wanted a deep red color and whenever I use my zig markers, the red somehow looks pinkish so in order to attain a deep, rich red I used the distress ink refill and it worked beautifully. Then added a bit of washi tape at the bottom to balance the design, a few sequins for sparkle and a few dots of red stickles on the chocolate brown die cut. They aren't visible in the photo but they add a bit of shine to the crosses all around the dome die cut. Also, I foam mounted the dome die cut and the flower :) I kept the color scheme quite festive with cream, chocolate brown, red and gold and I must say I love that color combo and will be using it again!

List of Supplies:

PABD stamp- Poinsettia

PABD die- Dome Tower Dies

Ranger's Fine Embossing Powder- Gold

Versamark Watermark Mini Inkpad 

Homemade Emboss Buddy

Gold and red sequins

Festive Berries Distress Ink Refill

Cream and Chocolate Brown Cardstock

Tombow Mono Multi Glue

Red Stickles

Washi tape

3d Foam Tape

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Uniko Challenge #44- Christmas

CASology 276- Cheer (christmas cheer)

Less is More 356- Let it shine

AAA Cards CAS Game 104- Christmas

HLS November Christmas Challenge (skipped the twist)

November Rudolph Days Challenge

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments

Stay Blessed!

Post 320: Sparkly Birthday Card

Hi friends!

I'd like to share a Sparkly Birthday Card I made inspired by the Craftyscrappers Challenge. For the sparkle I have added gold foil and gold glitter paper.

I used foil for the first time. Basically used the Craftyscrappers Color Splash Stencil and added tacky glue through it and then the gold foil. It didn't transfer completely but I really like the splashy gold effect it gave :) then stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Craftyscrappers Doodly Blooms stamp all over the panel as well as a few pink hearts from the Beary Special Day stamp. I really like that cute baby image. My niece helped me by coloring it in using Zigs :) it was so much fun crafting with her. Then added the arrow stencil design on the pink heart and layered up everything. In the end, we added 3 tiny half pearls to the baby's crown. 

Supplies Used:

Craftyscrapper Fun Foils- Glitzy Gold
Craftyscrappers Stamps- Baby Prince & Princess, Doodly Blooms & Beary Special Day
Craftyscrappers Stencils- The Arrow & Color Splash
Gina Marie Stitched Rectangles Die
Sizzix heart die
White and Baby Pink Cardstock
3d Foam Tape
Gold Glitter Paper
Tacky Glue
Archival Inkpad - Jet Black
Distress Oxide Inkpad- Worn Lipstick
Snippet of watercolor paper (stamped the baby on it) and pink cardstock (die cut the heart)
Ranger blending tool and foams
Half Pearls

Here are a few photos of the card:

 The foiling is better visible at this angle

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Craftyscrappers Challenge #16- Sparkle it Up (used glitter paper and gold foil for the sparkle & craftyscrappers foil, stamps and stencils here)

Pixie's Snippets Playground Weeks 305-306

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments.

Stay Blessed.

Post 300: CAS Diwali Card (fish)

Hi friends!!

I'd like to share a Clean & Simple Diwali Card. This was part of my DT work for Peek-a-boo designs, all the details are here. This is an A2 sized, top folding card.

Process:

- Die cut white cardstock using the stitched scalloped rectangle die. Then colored the scalloped frame with Fossilized Amber & Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxides
- On the card base, masked off the edges and applied distress oxides through the Dimensional Stencil
- Stamped the beautiful fish from the new Madhubani Stamp on Canson Watercolor paper & watercolored it in with zig markers, then fussy cut it.
- Stamped the sentiment from the Diwali Greetings Stamp set onto a strip of watercolor paper & then colored in the strip with zigs and an aqua brush.
- To assemble the card, adhered the frame at a tilted angle onto the cardbase, also adhered the sentiment strip within the frame and then foam mounted the fish in the center, to add texture added a few gold strings under the fish to make it pop.
- In the end, adhered a few gold colored sequins for some sparkle

Here is a photo of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS #121- The PABD Madhubani Stamp is my new favourite and I've stamped the fish from it

Addicted to stamps & more #262

Stamplorations October CAS Challenge

HLS October Watercolor Challenge

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments.

Stay Blessed. 

Post 294: CAS Diwali Card

Hi friends!

I'd like to share a Clean & Simple Diwali Card today. 

Diwali is the festival of lights & festivities. And it is the time we spend with our friends & family. 

So I thought of making a few cards to give to my loved ones :) 

The sentiment on this is in the hindi language and it means "Have a Blessed Diwali"

For this card, I have done heat embossing in gold through a stencil. 

List of Supplies:
Peekaboo Designs Stamp Set- All Occasions Hindi
The Crafter’s Workshop Stencil- Mini Fleur De Lis Doily
Versamark Watermark Mini stamp pad
Ranger’s Embossing Powder- Gold (super fine detail)
Ranger’s Heat Tool
Homemade Emboss buddy (some corn flour stitched into a cloth bag)
Navy Blue Cardstock 250 gsm
Acrylic Block/Stamping Tool
Mudra Sequins- Gold
Ranger’s Glossy Accents

Procedure:

1. Prepared the cardbase by dabbing an emboss buddy on the surface (to avoid static so that the embossing powder doesn’t unnecessarily stick to it) then using the stencil as a template, dabbed the versamark stamp pad through the design. After that spread some gold embossing powder onto the sticky ink and flicked off any extra using a dry brush. Then heat embossed the design with a heat tool.
2. In a similar way, heat embossed the sentiment by stamping it in versamark ink.
3. Finished the card by adding a few gold sequins. 

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

(the shine from the gold embossing & sequins is more visible in this pic)

I am playing along with the following challenges:

WCMD 2017- Stenciled Challenge with Kate

WCMD 2017- CAS Challenge with Heather H.

Thanks for your time :)

Love reading your sweet comments.

Stay Blessed!

Post 233: CAS Card- Sparkle

Hi friends :)

How are you today ? Still recovering from the flu bug but that doesn't keep me away from crafting :) I'd like to share a Clean and Simple Card. This is a standard A2 sized landscape style side folding card. The process was simple enough, I've done some inlaid die cutting. The word sparkle has been made dimensional by adhering 2 black die cuts under the sparkly gold die cut. I've added some gold splatter with perfect pearls and in the end, added a few flat star sequins. The card is quite shiny and sparkly, I'm not sure it shows up in the photos. 

List of Supplies:

Winnie & Walter Essential Cutaways- Lana Cutaways

Die Cuts & More - Word Die: Sparkle 

Perfect Pearls- gold

Tombow Mono Multi Glue

Gold Flat Sequins 

White Cardstock 270 gsm

Snippets of Black Cardstock

Here are a couple of photos of the card:

I am playing along with the following challenges:

W & W Rerun No. 21 - I didn't have the Kindness stamp set so I chose the alternative, I was inspired by Kate's card. I loved the way she used the shine die cut in gold color across the middle of her card along with the gold splatter, I have done my own version of the same.

CASology #258 - Diamond (When I think of diamonds, I think of their shine and sparkle)

Less is More 338- No Stamps

SSS Wednesday Challenge- We're seeing stars (star sequins used)

Thanks for your time :) 

Love reading your precious comments.

Stay Blessed. 

Post 127: CAS Birthday Card

Hi friends !!

I'm so glad you've taken the time to visit me here. I truly appreciate it :) Today I'd like to share a clean and simple birthday card.

This is a top folding A2 size card. I wanted the focal image to be of a sparkly and shiny birthday cake. 

Synopsis of the Process:

On snippets of black cardstock, the cake, decorations on the cake, the candle and the sentiment were stamped (from the Hero Arts Birthday set) with versamark ink and then heat embossed in gold. Then the images were die cut with coordinating dies. A banner was created out of a snippet of purple cardstock which was layered under the black sentiment banner to accent it. Some ink blending was done in the center of the cardbase and then the die cut stamped images were adhered with tombow glue. To finish off the card, 3 gold sequins were added. 

List of Supplies:

1. Hero Arts Stamp and Die- Birthday 

2. Ranger's gold embossing powder (fine detail)

3. Ranger's heat tool

4. Homemade emboss buddy

5. Tim holtz mini distress inkpad- peacock feathers

6. Golden sequins

7.Iris white cardstock 250 gsm, snippets of black and purple cardstock

8. A pair of scissors

9. Sizzix Big Shot Plus for die cutting

10. Ranger's round blending tool and foam

11. Tombow mono multi glue 

12. Versamark watermark mini inkpad

Here are a few pictures of the card:

(the shine and sparkle of the gold embossing is more visible in this picture)

I am playing along with the following challenges:

A blog named hero- march challenge- bling it up (Have used hero arts stamp and die here and gold embossing and gold sequins to bling it up)


PCM Challenges- March (3 colors have been used here besides the neutrals- gold, purple and blue) 


Stamplorations March CAS Challenge (sky blue is present behind the die cut cake)


HLS March CAS Challenge (The cake and the cake stand are die cut and stamped images)

PS: I'm also excited to share that I am having a small crafty giveaway which is open to anyone worldwide (international folks are most welcome). All the details can be found here -- I'd be super thrilled and honored if you play along :) the prize is a 25 USD gift certificate to any store you like. It is open till the end of march and you can do as many or as few steps as you like. 

Thanks for your time :)

Would love to read your comments. 

Stay blessed!