Winter Peggy... Craft Your Passion #340

Heyloo everyone! This week, I start with my DT project for Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes challenge #340. Our sponsor is Sasayaki Glitter. The image that I've used here is called 'Winter Peggy' and can be found here.

For this card, I've tried creating a 'magical' background with alcohol inks. It was my first time and I like how it turned out.

I've used my Derwent watercolour pencils (and I'm completely enjoying playing with them) to colour the image.

I've also stamped certain sentiments randomly and have raised a few to give a nice 3D effect.

Thanks for dropping by and I appreciate your feedback :).

Participating in:
Crafting from the Heart - AG
TTCRD - AG

Fedora love... Inspiration Destination Challenge No. 102

Heyloo everyone. This week I have a special card to share. One that I made for my mom's birthday. It's also a part of the latest challenge over at Inspiration Destination blog (Challenge #102). The image that I've used here is the Fedora digi stamp provided by our sponsor this week Rick St. Dennis.  I just LOVE his digi stamps. And I completely love this one!!! So elegant and beautiful! Had so much fun colouring the image with my Spectrum Aqua markers.

Thanks for dropping by and I appreciate your comments.

Elven Beauty... Inspiration Destination Challenge No. 100

Heyloo everyone. Sorry for a late post, but I've been really REALLY busy :(. So getting on with this week's Inspiration Destination Challenge #100, I've had so much fun colouring this amazing page provided by our sponsor Fabrika Fantasy. This colouring page is called Elven Beauty and can be found here.

I've always enjoyed colouring since my childhood and I was so happy when I get to colour pages again! I've coloured this gorgeous page with my Spectrum Aqua and it's no secret now that I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Spectrum markers. They are versatile and you can take your own time to play around with them.

Thanks for stopping by and I would love to know what you think.

Spring Bouquet... Inspiration Destination #97

Heyloo! I'm back with a new and exciting DT project for Inspiration Destination Challenge #97. 

This week, I've worked on Vellum! I love Vellum! Ever since my jewellery designing days when we had to design on it! I always loved the translucency and the classy feel it possessed. I used to print all colourful designs and stuff on it for fun (always intuitively wanting to do something more with it but back then, I did not know anything about crafting).

So imagine my delight when I finally knew how I could put my vellum sheets to not just good, but fantastic use!

So without further ado, I'll get on with my yummy project for this week, I love flowers and I love colours. My stamp for this week is Spring Bouquet by Just Inklined. And instead of using such a beautiful stamp on a card, I wanted to lend it a bit more personality. I present to you my floral home decor which can be put up as a wall hanging or a table decor.

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It was so much fun colouring on vellum with my Spectrum Aqua markers (I just love these! colouring with them is just so much fun), albeit I should tell you that colouring on vellum with water colours requires a lot of efforts than colouring on a cardstock. But it was totally worth it! Especially with the raised and a little wrinkly effect that it lent to my project. To contrast that, I've added a circular layer of crackle glaze between the two pearl lines and coloured it brown.

Hope you liked my project and I would love it if you could leave some feedback and let me know how I've done.

Our sponsor for this week's challenge on Inspiration Destination is Just Inklined. Hop on over to the challenge blog to check out what fabulous projects the DT has churned out this week.

Participating in:

Spectrum Noir Monthly Challenge

Decorate to Celebrate - AG

Lemon Shortbread Challenge Blog - AG
Crafting By Designs - AG

Crafty Sentiments - AG
Ooh La La Creations Challenges - Ribbons and Bows
Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Altered Art/Mixed Media
Craft Your Passion Challenges - AG

After Party madness - Inspiration Destination #95

My 2nd DT project this week on Inspiration Destination is for Kenny K stamps.

I've created a mixed media, shaker tag using the digi stamp 'After Party' which can be found here.

Since it's a fun stamp, I wanted to try something different. First of all, I coloured the digi stamp using my Spectrum Aqua markers (I just love these!). I then created a tag, stuck a contrasting colour pattern paper and started assembling the shaker elements. I covered the corners with crackle paste and highlighted everything with gold, green, blue and pink colours. I added some glitter here and there to tie up the whole tag. I simply love how the cracks show (some very fine and some deep and big ones).

If you liked my tag, please leave some feedback and encourage me to do better :). More such yumm posts coming up soon.

Participating in:

Mixed Media Place - July Challenge - Moodboard

Crafty Creations - Ombre

Love to Create Challenge Blog - Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes
613 Avenue Create - AG with Optional Twist - Colour Challenge - Grey, Pink, Green

Summer Love... Kidz Daisy - Inspiration Destination #95

Hello everyone. First of all, a good news. I'm so happy to share with you that I am one of the DT members at a fabulous blog called Inspiration Destination Challenge Blog. It's a wonderful blog with a very talented DT group. I'm so honoured to be a part of this amazing 'Dream Team'.

This is my very first DT project and blog post for Challenge No. 95: Always Anything Goes. Our wonderful sponsor for this week is:

The image that I worked with for this challenge is: Bug Kidz Daisy, which you can find here.

The moment I saw this image, I knew I wanted to make a colourful, vibrant and fun card. The image is so chirpy and innocent that I knew it had to be filled with colours. This is also the first time I have used my Spectrum Noir Aqua markers (colours from Primary and Nature sets used) and I completely loved how the colouring turned out. I've distressed the edges of the base green panel on which my digi image is stuck to give it a nice raw effect to break the monotony of 'kewtness'. I've carried the same effect for my prime sentiment (Something Special for you) to balance the look.

I've colour co-ordinated the background with the stamp colours and added fun elements and sentiments to spruce up the card and lend a cohesiveness. I'm completely in love with these colours.

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A close up look of my coloured image.

I hope you liked my card and would love it if you could leave your feedback below.

Participating in:

Lemon Shortbread Challenge: Always AG

Crafty Sentiments Design - AG

Through the Purple Haze - Peaceful/Harmony

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Summer Florals

613 Avenue Create - AG with an optional twist - Colour Challenge - colours used: White, Purple, Orange

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Typically Tropical

Crafting with an Attitude - AG

Crafting from the Heart - AG
Simply Papercraft - Always AG
Craft your Passion Challenges - Always AG

Bielo cardstock card...

I love experimenting with my craft supplies and projects; and this time, when I received the free Bielo cardstock from the Craft Shop/Priya Sivaraj, I couldn't wait to try my hands on something different.

The cardstock is buttery smooth in texture and really sturdy and thick. It's absolutely white. I was really excited the way my distress inks (and painting with them) reacted with the cardstock; so absolutely smooth and receptive.

Since I love using distress inks, my card features those in quite a few different ways. But my absolute favourite is the watercolour effect derived from distress inks (and Bielo cardstock is so perfect for that).

So for the card, I first used a sparkly brown 'ribbon' for the edges and embellished it with resin corners. Then I started my background and used distress inks (all purchased from The Craft Shop) with water and made brush strokes diagonally for the base. Then I sprayed a couple of sprays from Lindy's stamp gang. Used Graphic 45 stamps for the corners (purchased from The Craft Shop).

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I used my mini distress ink (peacock feathers) and blotched it all over my card and added some gesso randomly and very thin. I then took some gorgeous Prima papers and cut them to align them as in the card. I distressed the edges boldly and used one of the Graphic 45 Happy Birthday stamps. Made random lines all over to make the card more cohesive and painted the edges with the same distress inks and water.

Hope you like the card and thanks for stopping by.

Participating in The Craft Shop Birthday Celebrations.