Mini Album - Valentine

Hi Friends & welcome here again!

Made a mini album (8.5 x 5.5 inches) using lots n lots of pattern paper which I have been hoarding for long! Used coordinating papers from different stacks & brands. Maintained the color theme as pink........perfect for the Valentine season!

The album has lots of place for journaling & pictures.....

 

One of the pages has three toilet paper roll-like pockets made from CS to hold mini tags.......

Sixteen photo mats to hold postcard size pics........

This album also has two accordion fold inserts to accommodate 7 pics each or pen down thoughts/events.......

Tags & inserts........

So thats it.........I loved how this turned out & what about you? Would love to know!

Sharing at - 

Bunny zoes crafts - 8/2

Craftin desert divas - 1/2

Dream valley challenges#98 - 30/1

Eureka stamps#125 -1/2

Not just cards#11 - 1/2

Get creative challenges#7 - ribbon, pink,black,blue,stickers - 8/2

Avenue613#108 - pattern paper, charms, black solid color paper, flowers, ribbon - 31/1

Pile it on challenge#53 - 31/1

That craft place - 31/1

Hiding in my craftroom#184 - Valentine's day - 31/1

My sheri crafts#149 - 6/2

Brown sugar challenge#130 - 29/1 - TOP 3

Scrapping 4 fun challenges#34 - 5/2

Crafting musketeers challenges#21 - 29/1

Simon says stamp - 28/1

Wags n whiskers#146 - 5/2

Creative inspirations challenge#297 - 27/1

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EXPLODING BOX

Hiya Friends...................hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Thank you for your lovely comments on my recent creations........I truly appreciate your visits.

In this post I am sharing an exploding box I recently made......

The lid.....

The box has three layers of which the two inner layers have pockets for tags............lots of stamping, distressing & pattern paper used to make this simple yet elegant box.

 

Linking this to the following challenges -

• Paula Holifield Crafts#33 (29/12)
• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog#208 (6/1)
• Jellypark Friends Friday Challenges (2/1)
• The Corrosive Challenge Blog (3/12)
• Word Art Wednesday#163 (31/12)
• Scribble and scrap crafts#34 (3/1)
• Loves rubber stamps#131 (29/12)
• Divas by design (15/1)
• Dlart (1/1)
• Littleclairesdesigns #52 (15/1)
• Dies r us #16 (29/12)
• Creative card crew#77 (4/1)
• Cute card thursday (31/12)
• Sister act card challenge#87 (8/1)
• Imagination crafts challenges (31/12) - TOP 3
• Avenue 613#104 (3/1)
• My Craft Spot#162 (6/1)
• Simon says stamp (7/1)
• The stamping chef#61(30/12)
• Sparkles Monthly Challenges (13/1)
• Use Your Stuff#166 (31/12)
• Ttcrd (29/12)

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Craft Your Passion#241

Hi everyone!  I'm back with my weekly DT project for Craft Your Passion.  

This challenge theme is "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

For my card I have used this beautiful winter landscape digi by the sponsors "Delicious Doodles" used Faber Castell color pencils to subtly highlight the Christmas trees, the robin & the houses. The snowy scene suddenly came to life, perfect just as I wanted!!!

My card base is red over which I have overlaid vellum which had a green Christmas print. I like the red popping in the green background. Matted the digi over the same red card stock & popped it with foam tape on the vellum base. A red shimmery bow added to the festive feel!

Also added shimmer to all the trees with my favorite Wink of Stella & some distress stickles to the baubles to finish my card. The star

Playing this at the following challenges -

Crafty calendar (5/12)

We do doobadoo#19

Less is more#199

Doodle pantry#52 (24/11)

Crafty hazelnut spatterned paper 

Bearlymine challenges

Picture and scrap#86

Animal friends challenge

Brown sugar challeng#121

Crafty catz weekly challenge#256

Simply create too#75

The east wind#19

Christmas card challenge#52 

Sir stamp a lot challenge

 Bunny zoes crafts

Addicted to stamps#92

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Altered Bottle

Hello friends & a happy November to you all!

Sharing a project I made for the Swap group in my city (Bangalore). The theme set by Sonia for this round was to alter a bottle. I had never done this earlier & was a bit hesitant! I coated the bottle (courtesy - Rupa) with gesso & left it on my table for days until 2 days before the swap!

Played around with Lindy's Sprays (Tiffany Blue, Blue Hawaiian Blue, Jack in the pulpit teal), distress paint (trnished brass), Inka gold (old gold) some die cuts & embellishments to decorate the bottle. And trust me it was so much fun................I already have several wine bottles coated with gesso! So watch out this space for some more!

 

Used Inka Gold for the golden hue on the embossed logo, the MDF frame & the cap.  Loved the texture!

 Some more close ups -

 

Let me confess it was hard to part with this for the swap!!!!

Playing this at - 

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge (4/11)
Crafty Catz Challenge#253 (5/11)
Frosted designs (4/11) (TOP 3)
Imagination-crafts challenges(30/11)
Altered eclectics (30/11)
Cards galore challenges (30/11)
Rhedds creative spirit (30/11)
Party time tuesdays#187 (2/11)
Avenue613#95  (1/11) - TOP 3
My time to craft#265 
TTCRD
As you like it Challenge (the soft shimmer & colors make this so elegant, so definitely my style here is elegant) (5/11)
Divas by design challenge
Not just cards#5
Pennys challenge#201
4 crafty chicks (4/11)
DL art  (30/11)
We dodoobadoo#18 (WINNER)
Scribble and scrap crafts#30 (7/11)
Moo-mania - Charms, chain & metallic gold (4/11)

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Double Pocket Card

Hello friends & thank you for visiting me again. :-)

Over the past few days I have altered a couple of items & will share these soon. I have already posted a set of drawers here.

Today I have a double pocket card. You can find the tutorial for this card on the SCORPAL blog & a similar card I made here. I love adding tags to my cards, a fun way to add messages. The pattern paper is from the Lost & Found stack (My Mind's Eye) layered over a navy blue card base. I loved the busy pattern on the paper & decided to keep the embellishments minimal...............chipboard elements & a handmade flower.

 

This gorgeous bloom was made using Heartfelt Creations - Striped Sun Kissed Fleur stamp & co-ordinating SB die & distress inks -

 

These are the four tags - 

And one more glue to the inside - 

 

I truly loved the bright yet subtle look of this card. Would love to know if you too feel the same!!! 

This card is linked to the following challenges - 

Avenue613 #92 (11/10)

Catered crop - seeing red (11/10)

The fashionable stamping challenge#83  (21/10)

Fairytale stamper#45 (21/10)

Ribbongirls - October card challenge (11/10)

Crafting at theweekend#6 (27/10)

Crafting by designs - October challenge (28/10)

Crafty Calendar Challenge - bingo (flowers, sentiment, blue) (31/10)

Crafting with dragonflies#36 (14/10)

Crafting from the heart#39 (12/10)

Treasured times rubber stampschallenges#26 (17/10)

Pinspirational#125 (13/10)

Craftycatz weekly challenge#249 (9/10)

Daring cardmakers - October-colour combo dare (9/10)

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Have a crafty day!!

Monochromatic tag

 Good Morning friends.........as promised yesterday here am with another tag. This one is almost entirely done in blue. 
Let me briefly take you through the steps -

• To begin I used TCW - birds of a feather stencil with texture paste (homemade)
  to create the base layer, let it dry & then colored over with salty ocean distress paint. 
• Then stamped the script (stampaddicts - pot pourii) in archival black.  Added some crackle paint (rock candy) to the branches. A dash of brown & green highlights the branches.
• Next to tone down the color I added a layer of watery gesso.............

 

Look at the awesome texture! Added a bit of shimmer to all the birds with my favorite Wink of Stella glitter brush pen. 

The little black butterfly is from shrink plastic! 

And the bird charm compliments the theme of the tag, don't you agree? 

The cages were highlighted using vintage photo DI.

The maroon bird escaping from the cage is a rub on & I think is perfect to break the monotony of blue in the tag. 

Next I splattered run down gesso randomly over the tag.

 Playing this at the following  challenges -
http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.in/2014/09/challenge-148-anything-goes.html
http://beyondgrey.blogspot.in/2014/09/bgc58-textured-tag.html - WINNER
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/all-crafts-challenge-augustseptember.html
http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/ltscb-37-lets-fly-away.html

http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.in/p/new-challenge.html
http://imagination-craftschallenges.blogspot.in/2014/09/september-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://www.craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.in/2014/09/september-challenge-at-crafty-bloggers.html
http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/2014/09/craft-it-up-and-link-it-up-anything.html
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/challenge-108-anything-goes-make-it-go.html
http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.in/2014/09/throw-on-flowers-challenge.html
http://crazychallenge.blogspot.in/2014/09/cch-179-three-of-kind.html (three mulberry flowers, three cages)
http://acreativeneed.wordpress.com/join-in-the-monthly-challenge/- WINNER

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Ornate Tags

Hello lovely friends........hope you all had a great Diwali.

Sometime back I had participated is the swap organised by Swap Central India, where we were required to make three ornate tags. Sharing all these with you today.

In the first one I have created many layers using stamps, PP, diecuts..............

The second one is monochromatic & I created a pocket using vellum which holds a small bookmark......

Attempted a bit of parchment in this too.

The last one too has loads of layers & the pattern paper that you see is actually the packing of some Itsy Bitsy embellishments........

Used the CW template & texture paste for the birds

Pallavi was my partner in this swap & I hope she liked them.

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