Life's Adorable!

Hello Beauties,


Are you enjoying the Tuesday evening?? Here in Ct its hot and humid..phew!! So, to cool off some heat, I come up with a quickie card and a quickie post. This is for CAS-tastic Challenge. This week's challenge is 'Inspired by Summer'. And I am just squeezing in my entry on time at the last minute..lolzz


Here's my card:

Somehow, I am not able to click a picture that does justice to the card. [Can please someone advice me how to capture a card beautifully :(]
Another look, a closer one :) :

And I have done some fiddling with a cute ant stamp on inside of the card too.

It says, life is adorable but I think the stamp in itself is adorable. I stamped the image on cream cardstock. The side poles are made from toothpicks, tied 2 of them with a thread for each side. The cloth string is also made from bunch of thread, rolled together to form a thicker string. It is tied to the side poles. For the greener ground, I cut out a form sheet and punch it for the flower-bed. Sentiment "Life is" hand-written and "Adorable" is stamped. And lastly made small small clouds over the top.
For the inside of the card. I stamped this cute little ant stamp (got it for some cents :D) several times over the edge.


Recipe for this card:
Paper - cardstock in creme from Potpourri and form sheet in green
Stamps - clear stamp from Brenda Walton (kiddie cloths and sentiment), rubber stamp of little ant from The Little Classic
Inks - from Petal Point in green, mauve and blue; Martha Stewart in coal
Punch - border punches from McGill

Thanks for stopping by. I {heart} your wonderful love.

You Rock!!

Hello Craft Buddiezz,
Good Evening!


Have you seen today's Soccer match between Germany & Spain. Spain had put on some fab show there. Isn't it?? With all those nail-biting moments, exchanging of ball and the last minute shufflings, I was also working on a card. You can very well imagine, what I was doing more..lolzz. After completing my card layout, I was indecisive with the sentiment. And then goes the whistle, and the team for the final clash was rocking high. So, I got my sentiment..lolzz. Here for the Spain - Congrats, You Rock!!


Now, enough of my blah-blah :)... coming to the card, my very sweet friend Monika invited me to play Jazzy Paper Designs Challenge. Its a color challenge, based on a CD cover of Herbie Hancock album, The Headhunters. Very funky shades, I must say :)

Here's my take on the colors:

Here's another look:

I used the sketch from CPS # 174

The DP used are from Best Occasions and Deja Views (Star Studded). I placed the circular paper on form sheet to give it an embossed look. The diamond shape cut out is adding glint to the layout. The sentiment is from Stampendous - "Congrats, you rock!". Although, I come up with this sentiment coz of Spain's victory; but the sentiment also goes along celebrating Graduation day also :D. I added some rhinestones for extra shine :).


I am also playing other challenges with this card:

Simon Says - photo inspiration challenge, and their exotic summer cocktail is :)

2 Sisters - Anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Vibrant Colors (I used blue, orange, yellow and fuchsia)
Shelly's Images - Anything goes with a celebration
No Time to Stamp - star light, star bright


Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your beautiful comments.

Card with Fruity Wishes

Hello Creative Crafters,

I am out with an another card :). I made this card for one of my friend's daughter. She is 6 months old and truly a cutee pie :). This is for her ceremony called "First Rice Ceremony". [In India its significance is after this ceremony a baby can eat semi-solid & solid foods :)]. Different places, varied ceremonies but with the sole purpose -  Come Together and Enjoy!! Am I right??

So suiting the occasion, I chose food theme :). And for some added fun, I mixed it with different challenges :)).

Here's is my take of the card:

I used a beautiful sketch drawn by Sharon from Truly Scrumptious Challenge 35 - and used the theme "Strawberries and Cream".

Since, the card was to be signed by group of friends say 20 ;), I had to make it really big ;)... I took 2 whole sheets, punch them from top and joined them with a ribbon. The DPs are from Martha Stewart. The beautiful 'peeker' digi is from Bugaboo Stamps and colored it with water-color pencils. I clipped various pictures of fruits and food items and color them with copic & markers. For the 3D effect, I pasted all the pictures first on form sheet and them pasted them with sticky tape. The sentiment is written on a basket shaped cut-out and the woven print is by me with color pencils.

Here is an another look of the card:

and another one :)

And one more from other dimension :)

I am also playing the following challenges with this card:

The ABC Challenge - X for Xtra dimension (the digi and all the fruits)

Pile it On - Stickers

Phindy's Place Challenge#11 - 3D

Paper Sundaes Challenge#23 - Pretty as a Princess

The Crazy Challenge - Anything Spotty (Ribbon, DP and strawberries;)

DDSB Challenge#13 -Anything goes

Cupcake Crafts - Strawberries and Cream

Crafty Catz - Lets go digital

SMC#19  -Anything goes

Winter Wonderland - Strawberries and Cream

Thank you so much for stopping by. I {heart} all your comments :).

Have a wonderful summer time :)

Perfect Summer Sunshine!

Good Evening B'ful People,
Hope you had a relaxing Sunday. Mine was spent in some shopping (grocery of'course ;), some in cooking and some wonderful time in Crafting :). This Friday, Bugaboo posted another set of their creative stamps and call them 'Beach Monkey'. They are so cute. Instantly it gave me a feeling of beach fun!! And when some wonderful challenges are lined up to capture the summer moments. Why not dive for them :D!!


I used a nice sketch form Digi Doodle Shop's Best Challenge#12.

And this is how it turned out by me :)

I created a perfect beach day with sun, sand, water, balls and mat. I used Best Occasion card stocks in blue and yellow. The cute playing digi is from Bughaboo. I color it with my pencil water colors. I cut out sun and the balls from the form sheet and color them with the markers. The border of the mat is also cut out from form sheet. You cannot enjoy beach if you don't play in sand. So for the sandy feeling, I sprinkle some glitters in gold & silver. The sentiment is punch out stickers, cos I don't have any appropriate stamp for the card.


This card is also going to these challenges:
Stamp Something - Something Summer Challenge
Quirky Crafts - Challenge#30 Summer
The Shabby Tea Room - Summer Fun (Week#14)
Pile it On - Stickers
Pals Paper Arts - Summer Theme
ABC Challenge - W for Weather
Daisy Doodle Creative - Summertime


Thanks for looking :).
Cheers till our next meeting :)

Happy Father's Day!

Heelloo Carfter-buddies,


Hope you all are enjoying every bit of crafting :). So am I. As Father's Day is approaching and every challenge is based on the same theme. I have also plunged into and flowing with the theme ;). I made this Father’s day card for my dad. Though it is simple, yet I adore the way it turned out. So, here’s for you dad with all my love :). 

The diamond shapes are cut from the solid and patterned paper and aligned side by side. I cut these punch out flowers from the border sticker from K&Company and place them on the blocks. I like these cute things because it got the printing impressionJ, which I think is perfect for manly card. The stamp is ‘impressions every time’ from Stampendous. And I added the ribbon from my stash to give it a filling effect. 


This card goes to the following challenges:
CPS Sketch #171

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - Father's Day Card
Scrapbooking All Sorts - Blog Candy
My Partner for Crafting Crime - Manly
Crafts and Me - Father's Day
Craft Challenge - Father's day/ Manly
Daisy Doodles Creative - Father's day
Cupcake Craft Challenges - One for the Boys


Supplies:
Card/Paper - Cardstock white(Recollection), patterned(White Out) & solid
Punch flowers - K&Company
Stamp - Stampendous ‘impressions every time’
Ribbon - from my stash


That is it for now. It's 1am at my place and feeling very sleepy :o
Have a happy crafting!