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The shaker window is filled with sequins, glitter dots, pearls and glitter all from ItsyBitsy along with the die used to diecut the glittery golden wreath.

Hope you all like it.

Hey guys
I ave a quick cared to share with you all today...I have made a CAS rainbow card along with some fusy cut clouds. I used Lawn Fawn rainbow die to make my rainbow....and I had no dies for clouds so I made my own from textured cardstock...this was a quick card and I spent most of my time in diecutting the rainbow.

1. Crafty Gals Corner Challenge# 197 - 3+ layers - My card has 6 layers - The panel is mounted on card. The rainbow is created by adhering diecuts 3 times and the clouds add another layer.
2. Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes #398- #399
3. Addicted to stamps and more Challenge #352- Make your Mark - have outlines the clouds using sliver stickles.
4. Cute Card Thursday Challenge #593 - Anything goes
5. Papercraft Challenge #42 - Sketch Challenge

Hey guys
Today I have 3 mixed media cards to share with you all along with tutorial to make them. I have been wanting to make cards with stencils instead of stamps and this is what I came up with....there is no stamping on these cards...which is quite a challenge on its own.

Here is a tutorial for these cards

• I started with watercolor panels from ItsyBitsy and cut 3 panels to 5.5"by 7.5". I added texture to this using Mixed Media Paste and Finnabair stencil.
  
  
  
  
• I left this to dry on the side and started to work on my flowers. I decided not to use any stamps and choose to use this flower stencil from ItsyBitsy to create my own flowers. So I taped it to the watercolor panels and then stencilled using Distress inks using Shaded Lilac, Spun sugar and Squeezed Lemonade.
  
• I then heat embossed the flowers with gold embossing powder and an embossing pen so that I could not color the flowers with ease. I am not watercolor expert and so I wanted to water to be contained in each petal so I could do some quick coloring. Just for fun, I used Lindys Magical shakers to color my flowers...these are super fun and leave an amazing shine. Once it was dry, I fussy cut all my images out.
  
  
  
  
• This is so fun to look at.....I did the leaves in the same manner too. I added some magicals ( Black Forest Black Magical Shaker and Frozen Jack Frost Magical Shaker) on a watercolor panel and spritzed it with water and then I diecut my leaves from it. My sentiment is also a diecut from MFT and I layered it 4 times to get a thick sentiment and the top layer is from gold foil paper....looks really fun.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
•  I arranged all my elements on the panel using some sisal fiber and then layered the panel on the card to add more dimension and texture. I finished my card with black splatters and some pearl drops here and there.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Hello everyone
I am sharing a new card I made for The Valentine's Day with you all today. I love making Shabby chic projects and cards are fun to make. I love playing with flowers and sequins and so I came up with this card.
This is a shaker card filled with sequins and glitter mix in the tones of red, pin and gold. The heart shaped shaker window is a embellished with pretty flowers and buds and a few flourishes.
 I finished it all with a white ribbon bow onto the side and few gold sequins sprinkled here and there.
The card has a gold heat embossed sentiment BE MINE which I think makes it a cool Proposal card...what do you think?
Supplies used - Mostly all the supplies used are from ItsyBitsy store.

1. Red Cardstock (250gsm)
2. White Heavyweight cardstock (270 gsm)
3. Gold Glitter paper 
4. Pink Cardedstock (250gsm)
5. Handmade flowers
6. White Satin Ribbon 
7. Sisal Fibre 
8. Heart die
9. Sequins and gold glitter
10. Gold heat embossing powder, heat gun and versamark
11. Be Mine sentiment - local stamp

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:

1. Cute Card Thursday Challenge # 565 - Banish the Blues - For me it means using anything apart from Blue colors as well as the mood blue.
2. Sisterhood of Crafters - Make it Sparkle
3. Crafty Gals Corner #183 - Make it Sparkle
4. HLS Anything Goes with dies - January 2019
5. Through The Purple Haze Challenge # 152 - Favorite Color - My Fav color is Pink and Red. So most of my work will have a bit of these.

Hey guys
Welcome back to my blog. Today's post is  a DT inspiration for ItsyBitsy challenge blog which will be running all this month. In India, its time for the most awaited festival....Diwali and we all are gearing up here. Its a very colorful, sparkly and happy festival filled with love and joy.
Since I am already into a festive mood since I have started with the mandatory cleaning of the house to welcome Goddess Laxmi, I have come up with a Tri Fold Money Envelope so I can gift them to my loved ones this festive season.
Here are few sneak peeks...for more information and a tutorial please visit the ITSYBITSY blog by clicking HERE.


I am putting this project up at the following blog challenges:-

1. Addicted to tamp and more Challenge#263 - Holiday - Diwali is an Indian festival and its a big holiday for us. Children get a month vacation from schools and colleges and the festival is on for 4 to 5 days. I have made a money envelope for gifting in Diwali.
2. I love Math challenge #7  - Use no.7 or 7 things - I have used 7 flowers to build my project.
3. HLS October Cahllenge- anything goes with dies- I have used Cottage Cutz - Spring Greenery die for the leaves on my project.
4. Inky chicks Challenge #89 - Anything but square
5. Word Art Wednesday Week #304-305 - Anything Goes
6. The Sisterhood of crafters - Pink october

Thank you for stopping by...Hav a fab day ahead.

Hey guys
I have a DT inspiration post for you all today for the Let's Craft and Create Challenge blog. The theme for this month is Hey Dude! and so I have a birthday card keeping this theme in mind. This challenge runs for an entire month and you still have 2 weeks to put in your entries. Please click the link HERE to go the challenge blog.
I am putting this card up at the following blog challenges:

1. Cards and more challenge #191- One Layer cards
2. Addicted to CAS challenge#171 - One Layer Cards
3. CWS challenge#17 - Boys to Men
4. Addicted to stamps and more challenge#255 - Photo Inspiration - This picture has inspired me to do the layers of balloons on my card.
5. Word Art Wednesday Challenge Week #296-297 - Anything Goes
6. Scrapping4fun challenge #97- Anything Goes

This is a fairly simple card and it took me hardly 15mins to do this.So I started with a standard A2 size card base in white and stamped balloons on it using 4 different distress inks...all in the shades of blue....Tumbles Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, Salty ocean and Faded Jeans. I stamped the same image with different colors in each row. You can add more rows with more shades but I had 4 shades and so I did 4 rows.
What's the fun of using distress inks without a little water... so I sprinkled a little water and waited for the magic to happen. Lifted the water with a tissue napkin and dried my card with a heating tool.
Then, I added silver strings to my balloons with a silver sparkle pen....but i did not press my pen too much and lightly drew all the strings using a t- ruler.
To finish my card, I stamped the sentiment with versamark and Black embossing powder from Wow. Sprinkled some fun sequins to give it a little hit of sparkle.
So here I finish my quick and easy birthday card...I hope you liked it and will give it a try. Thank you for reading this post and have a great day ahead.

Supplies used:

1. Distress inks - Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon, Salty Ocean and Faded Jeans
2. White cardstock
3. Sequins
4. water
5. Wow Black embossing powder
6. Versamark
7. Balloon stamp -  KAISERCRAFT Pop!- Treats stamp set.
8. Sentiment - Geometric Nature - Mudra Craft Stamps
9. Silver Gel pen
10. Heat embossing tool - Wow

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:

1. Addicted to Stamps and more challenge#250 - Photo Inspiration (Got inspired by the colors in this photo)
2. SimonSaysStamp - Monday challenge - Distress it.
3. CAS(E) this sketch #230
4. Craft stamper Magazine - Take it Make it July
5. HLS July watercolor Challenge - Optional Twist - Blue
6. Paru's Card making Challenges - July - Happy Birthday
7. Polkadoodles Week#28 - Anything Goes
8. Scrap and Craft Challenge#5 - Summertime + Butterflies 
9. Scrapping4fun Challenge #94- Birthday
10. The Ribbon Girl - July challenge - Anything Goes

So, I started with a textured white cardstock which I had bought maybe years back and I hoarded it for as long as I could possibly....Today was the last piece I could do with it and I am glad with the way my card turned out to be.....Ok ...so back to the process. I started with the cardstock cut to standard 41/4" by 51/2" and then generously spritzed it with water and then started watercoloring my panel. I have used 3 Distress inks - Mermaid Lagoon, Pinked Raspberry and Crushed olive. They blended and forned Violets and hints of Oranges. I let this panel air dry and it took good 4 hours before I could work with it again. I cut my front panel 1/4"from all the sides and then divided into 3 parts and assembled everything on a standard A2 size white cardbase (270gsm)
The Butterfly is from Mudra Stamps and I loved this stamp set....so much can be done with it. I heat embossed this stamp with white and then watercolored the geometric pattern with the 3 distress inks I used on the panel. I mixed then at few places and the result is simply unexpected.
Once the butterfly was all dried, I fussy cut it out and then adhered it to my panel along with some cheesecloth. Finished my card with the sentiment from the same stamp set which I heat embossed with White. To add more interest, I added sequins and splatter of white acrylic color.
I hope you like my card. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Supplies used:

1. White cardstock (270gsm) - Itsybitsy
2. Textured White cardstock (250gsm) - Personal Stash
3. Distress inks - Picked Raspberry, Crushed Olive and Mermaid lagoon
4. Mudra stamps- Geometric Nature
5. Mudra stamps - Sequins -Sugar Plum Mix
6. Watercoloring Brush
7. White Acrylic Paint
8. Ranger heat embossing powder - Superfine White 
9. Versamark watermark inkpad
10. Wow Heat gun
11. Ranger multi medium matte
12. Cheesecloth