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Happy Monday everyone! Here's my second card for the Altenew September Challenge: From Places Abroad-Windsor Castle. 

The image is again from the "Vintage Flowers" set, the set is so versatile,  it can be used in endless ways. Also played along the CASology Week 165 Circles challenge

and the Simon Says Monday Challenge - STAMPtember® Use A Stamp Challenge And Blog Hop and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - No Designer Paper

A Vintage Card

Hope everyone's having a great weekend. I made this card for Altenew's September Challenge.....here's the inspiration for the card

I love the gold and crimson color combo Tasnim has used on her cards. Vintage Flowers is the only Altenew stampset I have and I love it (many more are on the way once my husband gets back from the US next week).

I stamped 2 layers of the vintage roses with distress inks, worn lipstick and picked raspberry, on watercolor paper. I went over the stamped roses with a waterbrush to blend the colors, once they were completely dry I added the final layer with Galaxy Gold Memento ink which I heat embossed with Zing  Gold Glitter Embossing powder. I did the same with the sentiment which is by WPlus9. Added some gold gelatos over the entire background to give it a vintage look.

This card was extremely difficult to photograph, it does look much better IRL. I usually use my iphone for photographing my cards, for this card I had to use my DSLR and I still couldn't get a very good shot :(

Playing along these challenges:

Simon Says Monday Challenge blog:Use a Stamp Challenge

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog: No Designer Paper

The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog: No Designer Paper Challenge

Simply Paper Craft Challenges: Challenge 14 Anything Goes

Life is a Song....

Happy Thursday everyone.....I'm sharing a card I made using an old Unit Stamp Set called "Music of my Heart" which I hadn't used in years...

Played along these challenges:
CAS(E) this Sketch #141

CAS-ual Fridays CFC143

Use Your Stuff - Challenge #142 - Fall Theme
Dream Valley Challenges #115 Autumn Colors
Our Crafty Corner Challenge 1 - Autumn Colors
Crafty Boots Challenges - Monochrome
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Pastel Colors Watercoloring

  

Happy Tuesday people, hope you are having a great week. I'm sharing my second card for this week.

I made the background of this one by coloring through a Crafter's Workshop stencil on watercolor paper using Gelatos and Tombow Dual tip waterbased markers. The stencil is called "mini swirly garden" if I'm not mistaken.
The colors are inspired by this week's Runway Inspired Challenge #ric92

Also played along the Happy Little Stampers September CAS Challenge 

and Addicted to Stamps Challenge #162 Make Your Mark and Cards Und More Challenge #141 No Designer Paper and Card Mania Challenge CMC#72 Pastel Colors
and Crafty Sentiments Challenge Blog - Color Combo Challenge

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Pink and Blue..

Hello Everyone, I hope you are having a great weekend. I stayed at home today and made 2 cards :)
Here's the first one. I created the back ground by randomly coloring with water color pencils through a stencil and then going over it with a water brush. Once it dried and splattered some metallic blue gelatos with a broad brush. The "happy" is made with 4 layers of hot pink "happy" die cuts and a final slightly skewed black one.

This card is inspired by this month's Pinterest Inspired Challenge

I also played along these challenges
Simply Paper Craft Challenges - Challenge #13 - Anything Goes
Cards Und More - Challenge #141 - No Designer Paper
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Challenge 140 Anything Goes plus a Sentiment

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You inspire me

Happy Wednesday Folks! Hope you are having a great week...
I'm back with another card, the third this week....had so much creating this. I created the background with MFT Large Chevron Stripes Stencil and Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst Sprays. The sentiment is from Altenew and the butterfly from Hero Arts. I wanted to some metallic silver thread under the sentiment but I didn't have any so put some silver beading wire instead :P

I played along these challenges:
CAS(E) this sketch #140

Try it on Tuesday - Add some Metal
Craft Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog - Anything Goes Challenge
Cards und More Challenge Blog - Challenge # 141 - No Design Paper / No DSP
Aurora Wings Challenge Blog - Challenge #17 Anything with Wings

Wishing...

Hello everyone,
I'm back with another card......tried some stamping and heat embossing on Kraft cardstock, don't you just love how white looks on Kraft? The image is from Hero Arts and the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp. I've colored the stamped image with Derwent Inktense pencils (my latest craft addiction!)

I played along in these challenges:
A Blog Named Hero - A Happy Challenge!
Less is More - Week 241 One Layer
Simon Says STAMPtember® Use A Stamp Challenge And Blog Hop
Sieze the Birthday - Anything Goes Challenge
Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog - Challenge #161 - Anything Goes

To the moon and back....

Hello Everyone, I hope you are having a great weekend. I finally managed to unpack most of my craft supplies and get them in some sort of order. I even managed to make a couple of cards, there is still a lot of organizing that needs to be done but I'm happy that I am finally able to craft, I even seem to be getting my mojo back!

Now over to the card....this is a rather simple card that quite did not turn out the way I wanted it to. I got myself a set of 24 Derwent Inktense Color Pencils this week and couldn't wait to try them out. I did the background with them and also colored the stamped sentiment with them; love the vivid colors. The stamps are from an old set by My Favorite Things.

Playing along these challenges:

Freshly Made sketches 203

CASology - Week 163:MOON

Time Out Challenges - Challenge #39 - 'Take some TIME OUT to 'Make your Mark'

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Happy Teachers' Day..

 I made these easel shaped cards for my daughter's teachers, I am so grateful to them for making Kriti feel at home in her new school. She is having such a good time there and just adores her teachers.
I haven't unpacked my craft stuff yet so making these was quite a challenge. I cut the easel using my Silhouette Cameo, this is the design I used.

The free teachers' day printables are from here and here.

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