Craft Your Passion#239

Hello and welcome to Craft Your Passion#239.

WOW, can you believe it is November already? Well, its already time for winter & fun in the snow. Yes you guessed it right todays card is all about snow.

  So, without further ado let me show you my card - 

The adorable image & sentiment is by Diane's Daydream Designs our sponsors for this week. Our challenge for this round is to use elements with B's in your creations. I have used baby, ball, button brad, bow, blue. I had a beautiful snowflake vellum in my stash & wanted to use it on this card. I also wanted to retain the snowfall background of the digi (take a look at the snow under the vellum). I printed two copies of the colored image. Fussy cut the girl & the tub & pieced it over the image with foam tape & I was done! Loved the background & the dimensional look of the image.

Do pop over to the Challenge blog for more inspiration by our DT.

Linking this to - 
That craft place blog (22/11)
Pink gem challenge#132 (22/11)
Challenge up your life#1  (12/11)
Stamplorations challenge-stamps &layers (30/11)
A creative romance - winter-warmers (14/11)
Delightful sketches (12/11)
Virginias view challenge#9 (18/11)
Frosted designs (19/11)
Crafty sentiments (10/11)
Inkspirational challenges#69 (21/11)
Papertakeweekly (10/11)

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Craft Your Passion#238

Hi everyone!
Delighted to share that I am now a part of the design team at CRAFT YOUR PASSION. Our challenge theme this week is Bright & Sparkly. Inky Impressions is our wonderful sponsor & the winner gets $10 Gift Certificate to spend on-line in store. I chose to play with this adorable image - CAT LOVE.          

I colored the image with my Faber Castell pencils & then fussy cut it. I did a bit of paper piecing here - the fussy cut moon & the kittens are glued over the digi stamp. The background is with distress ink. Added some shimmer over the moon with Wink of Stella. Wanted to add a sentiment but I think the cute image & the banner say it all.
Do pop over to the Craft Your Passion Challenges blog to see the fabulous designs by our talented DT! We'd love to see you join us with your projects.........................you have until Sunday, 10/11        to join!

Playing this at - 
Glittern sparkle challenge#109 (8/11)
Fairytale stamper#46 (worked with a new digi) - 15/11
Crafty cardmakers#126 (9/11)
Creative fingers challenge#54  (3/11)
Ema-ginationstation#5 (4/11)

 http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.ca/2014/10/AG-ch-no-5.html
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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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Creative Colors Challenge#22

Welcome back! 

This Tuesday its time for Creative Colors Challenge#22 sponsored by Doodle Pantry Digital Doodles.

 

For this round we challenge you to use atleast three spool colors shown in the inspiration picture & lace in your card. Remember this is a card only challenge.

Pick 3 colors from the Spools PLUS use Lace. 

My daughter loves dream catchers & when I saw this digi by Doodle Pantry I knew I wanted to make a card for her!

Played around with distress ink, stamps & stencils to make the several layers of the background. The fussy cut digi is colored with distress markers. I love the sentiment - Dream a little dream!

Playing this at - 

Fitztown challenge#59 (2/11)

Craft creatoins (9/11)

TPE#274 (2/11)

Fairytale stamper#46 (15/11)

Brown sugar challenge#117 (29/10)

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Altered Spoon

Hello friends, welcome back, hope you all had a happy & joyous diwali. Best wishes! 

Another altered project today! Didn't I tell you I was on a roll altering items!

Any guesses what has been transformed here? 

Played around with gesso, acrylic paint & LSG spray to transform a soup spoon into a beautiful piece of decor for the kitchen!

The gorgeous blooms are handmade (Joy Craft die cut flowers)  & so is the nest beneath the metal nest charm.

Some dangling charms a tea pot & spoon..................perfect for the altered spoon!

Sharing this at - 
Delightful sketches#3s-not-crowd (29/10) - WINNER
Altered eclectics#Oct (31/10)
Decorate to celebrate#86 (28/10)
Imagination-crafts#Oct challenge (31/10)
Rhedds Creative Spirit# Oct  (31/10)
Inspiration Emporium (31/10)
SSS - (color of the twine is kraft) (29/10)
Pinspirational Challenge#126 (27/10) - TOP 3
Divas by design (28/10)

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Creative Colors Challenge # 21

Hi Friends!

Its time to have some fun at Creative Colors with Challenge #21 & the color palette this time is Orange + Brown + Ocean Green  along with die Cuts.

 

Our fabulous sponsors for this challenge are -

This is my inspiration using our sponsors' image - 

Colored the image with distress markers & added shimmer on it & the flutterby with my fav Wink of Stella (sorry the camera did not capture it!!!).

Please visit the challenge blog here for details & some more fabulous inspiration by our team. 

Playing this at - 

Fantastic Tuesday#57 (20/10)

Alphabet challenge (22/10)

Pile it on challenge (18/10)

Quirky crafts#21 (24/10)

Scribble and scrap crafts#29 (25/10)

House of cards#October (31/10)

Lawnscaping#patterned-paper (15/10)

Altered Book Box

Welcome back friends!

Another altered project today - a book box, the first one I made.

When I selected the DCWV Mariposa pattern paper for this box I was totally lost with regards to the embellishments that will go along with this!!!But I challenged myself! And the result............I think is totally adorable!

To highlight the chipboard laser cut from Itsy Bitsy I used white UTEE over it. This also added some dimension to make it stand out amongst the flowers. Used a large vintage key along with some dangling charms as a faux knob.

This is the spine of the book - colored the ornate chipboard letter with marker & embossed using clear EP. 

Sharing this at -

Sparkles forum challenge#60 (12/10)

The sisters of craft-october (31/10)

Craft creations (11/10)

Not just cards challenge#3 (12/10)

Imagination crafts challenge-october (31/10)

Dream valley challenge#92 (16/10)

Artistic inspirations challenge#112 (12/10)

Glitter n sparkle challenge#105  (10/10)

Avenue613#92 (11/10)

Craft my life#octobernovember (TOP 3)

TTCRD#October (13/10)

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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!!

Creative Colors Challenge#20

Good evening friends!

Its Tuesday & we are back with another awesome color palette at Creative Colors Challenge#20. This time we require you to use the colors -  pink, blue, green & a pink bow/banner.

Samistamps is our fabulous sponsor this time around!  They have kindly offered  digis to the lucky player AND provided images to our DT to create with this week!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month & our entire team has used digis from the Think Pink theme by Samistamps.

Please do not miss the inspiring cards by the DT..........................hop over to the challenge blog here.

Playing this at - 

Sisterhood of crafters (5/10)

Creative Moments#52 (5/10)

Altered Chest of Drawers

Hello friends!

I am here with a gorgeous girly altered project I made for my niece.

The 9 drawer chest is from Craftslane. Had a lot of fun with pattern papers  (co-ordinated papers from two packs here - Prima Fairy Rhyme & American Crafts - Lucky Charm).

The little frame here is a Kaisercraft embellishment colored with markers. The vintage image is fussy cut from the Prima - divine collection pack & covered with mod podge dimensional magic to give a faux glass effect.

 

The glass bottle have a cute lock & key charm set.

 

The MDF laser cuts on the side panels are colored with markers & heat embossed with clear EP for glossy finish. The key-charms are pretend pulls for the drawers.

Linking this to -

BGC#59 (30/9) - TOP 3

Simon Says Anything Goes#8 (1/10)

Decorate to Celebrate#84 (30/9)

Little Scrap Pieces#20 (27/9)

LTSCB#38(28/9)

Altered Eclectics - September (30/9) - TOP 5

Crafty Girlz#27 (1/10)

C.R.A.F.T#278 (30/9)

Creatilicious Challenge#67 (14/10)

Sugar Creek Hollow - word play (26/9)

Deep Ocean challenge#87 (5/10)
Lady Bug Crafts- September (30/9)

Creative Colors Challenge#19

Hello bloggers!
Tuesday evening & another challenge at Creative Colors!
This round we want to see polka dots & any three colors from the inspiration picture.

Please do  visit the challenge blog here for inspiration   by the design team using digis by our sponsors - 

As soon as I chose the digi I knew I wanted to make a bookmark card, so here it is - 

 I used distress markers to color the digital stamp. The card has a pocket which holds the bookmark. The little bag of flowers is so adorable!

You will find this card in the following challenges -  

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper September challenge (30/9)  

Creatilicious Challenge #67 - Flower Power (14/10)

DPDC#50 (24/9)

Imagination Crafts - September challenge (30/9)

The Crafting Cafe - September challenge (30/9)

Scribble and Scrapcrafts - challenge-27 (26/9)

Pile it on #37 (20/9)

Stamp and create - September challenge  (5/10)

Crafting from the heart #36 (21/9)

Craft Creations (27/9) 

LTSCB#38 (28/9)

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