Priya and Papers: October 2011

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Lacy circles easel card

Hi Friends,

I am back with another easel card. This one is again using one of the lacy circle die cuts I purchased from Kavitha's craft store. It's the last one of the lot and now I am ready to buy another lot :D

It's similar to the one I made previously (check here)... but this one is little smaller than that.

I have used the stickers from the same sticker sheet I used in my previous lacy circle easel card.

and the warm sentiments.. :)

Look of the card when laid flat...

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Fabriano Brustro

Die cut: Lacey circle by spellbinders from Kavitha's craft store

Flowers stickers: Hobby Ideas

Sentiment: Fiskar's All year cheers stamp set

I am entering this card to following challenges:

ICRC11 - Easel card + basic shapes(I have used circles)

Simon Says Stamps - Anything goes

Card making Mamas - Die cuts

Sweet stamps blog - Easel card

The Paper Shelter - Anything goes

Love,

Priya...

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Tejal's Card.... Full view...

Hi All,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Diwali.... I enjoyed it to the core with my family around me after 6 months!!! My childhood days got refreshed... I just love this part of the year...
Ok now onto the card I made for Tejal on her b'day... The card was a flowerpot card... with lots of flowers n bling and cute buttery b'day wishes for Tejal... Here it is...

If you pull up the top big flower, you can read the message inside...

And the coordinating envelope...

I hope Tejal liked this card... and what about u?

Love,
Priya...

Friday, October 21, 2011

Happy Birthday Tejal!!! Let the celebrations begin!

Hey all!!! It's celebrations time once again... 'coz Its Tejal's Birthday!!! Tejal needs no introduction... She is a super talented stamper and must have helped every Indian stamper in one or the other way.... This is for you Tejal... Happy Birthday!!!

This day obvious calls for celebrations so we have organized a Birthday blog hop...

Here is the order...

Priya Sondhi ---> you are here!

Last stop is at our birthday gal Tejal's blog!

Here is a sneek peek of what I made for her...

Your next stop is at Priyadarshini's blog

So please join in, hop along and don't forget to leave birthday wishes for this lovely lady..... Blog hop ends on 26th Oct at 23:59 hours( midnight Diwali)... Have fun!!!

Love,

Priya...

Monday, October 17, 2011

Another Easel card...

Hiya!

Just a quick post.... This weekend I made 2 Easel card and 3 boxes!!! yay! a fun filled crafty weekend for me... I will share those one by one... 1st an easel card...

I so wanted to use the die cuts that I purchased from Kavitha's store. After looking at Hussena's this card I decided to make a circular easel card...

The bird is from a sticker sheet that I purchased from hobby ideas. These are gorgeous 3D stickers. Isn't it?

Sentiments are from Itsy Bitsy.

This is how the card will look like when folded.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Fabriano Brustro

Die cut: Lacey circle by spellbinders from Kavitha's craft store

Bird and flowers stickers: Hobby Ideas

Sentiment: Itsy Bitsy

I am entering the card to following challenges:

Indianstampers - Easel card + basic shapes (I have used circles)

Daring cardmakers - a bird on the card

Stampin' B's design team - use a bird on the card

Corrosive challenges by janet - Flying things

Scrapbook sisters - Anything goes

Please leave your comments.....

See you guys soon!
Priya....

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Mini cards - Stamping

Hello friends,

Weekend is here so is the crafting for me! yay! Working on some cards... I am planning to make lots of embellishments and 3-4 cards this weekend.. lets see if I am able to achieve the deadline I set for myself...

Today I want to share these 3 note cards I made for crafty JC challenge... I made these last weekend but couldn't post it... better late then challenge deadline passes away :P

These are 3 mini cards measuring 3 x 3 inches.

I made the background with repetitive stamping on pink, blue and light yellow blank paper.

I used different sentiment for each with different shapes and glued them at different positions to make the cards looks different and similar at the same time :P

Supplies used:

Cardstock and paper: Local buy

Stamps: Fiskars All year cheer

These were so easy to make. I am loving stamping!

Do let me know how it turned out....
I am entering this card to following challenges:
Bling it on challenges - No pattern papers

Charmed cards and crafts - Anything goes with a blog candy :)
Crafty card makers - Anything goes

Have a happy crafty weekend!

Priya...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Cake easel card

Hello!

Last week I made a b'day for a very sweet friend of mine... She is a girly gal.. So obviously it has to be pink and all glittery!...

So I made this card for her... an easel card...

Its a huge card... 12 x 9 inches...

Some blingy flowers! I bought these from a small local shop in my native place... these are really pretty...

this is my 1st personalized creation too ;)

This is how the card will look when folded...

Supplies used:

CS - Fabriano Brustro

Pattern Papers: My mind's eye, Echo park Dots n strips, Itsy Bitsy

Flower embellies : local buy

Border embellies (cake icing), pearls, alphabet diecuts: Itsy Bitsy

Sentiments: locally bought 3D stickers

Please please leave your comments in case you liked it... or even if you don't.. it will help me improve... :)

I want to enter this card to following challenges too:

Indian stampers - Easel cards

Simon says stamps challenge - Sparkle and bling

Aud sentiments challenge blog - Birthdays

Kraftin kimmie stamps - Sparkle and shine

Sentimental sundays - Anything goes

Good night!

Priya...

Sunday, October 9, 2011

My 1st Easel Card and a boyish Card!

Hello friends,

How is your weekend going? I am having a crafty weekend... Made few cards and lots of CC holders for my friends. :)

Ok now back to the topic... I made my 1st easel card recently. I got an order to make a b'day card for a boy. The customer wanted a champagne bottle on it . :P
This is what I made,

An easel card!

This is how it will look with easel down. I drew the champagne bottle and all the bubbles... I got the idea from this free digi. I don't have a printer and didn't had time to go out and get it print. Then colored it with my faber castell water color pencils.

and the matching envelope to go with it.

Supplies used:

Blank card and envelope: Itsy Bitsy

PP: Itsy Bitsy (Circle pattern), from stash (Nvay blue)

Alphabet Diecuts: Itsy Bitsy

Sentiments : Itsy Bitsy

CS (to draw champagne) : Fabriano Brustro

Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments that you guys leave. Your feedback values alot to me.

With this card I want to play following challenges:

ICRC11 - Easel Card + Basic shapes (Basic shape is square and you can see lots of circles)

Ruby's Rainbow - Something for boys

Young crafters unite - Matching envelope

See you soon with my CC holders :)

Love,

Priya...

Friday, October 7, 2011

Love is a garden... Beautiful!

Hello!

Today I am sharing a card that I made for ICR DT post... I wanted to be a part of DT but dropped the idea at the end though I was ready with 3 projects!... as many of here can bet on how bad I am with the deadlines... :P moreover I will be on vacation for Diwali.. Will try next time for sure...
Anyhow... ICR core team wanted a project with a scene.. and I came up with this....

I tried to make a b'ful garden on a bright sunny day with a cute little gal playing around... I hope you are able to make it from the card... :P

Isn't the bird house cute? Its from Itsy Bitsy...

The Garden... I made the flowers by paper piecing a flowery pattern paper.

The little girl is from a MICIA stamp set. She is just so adorable. I colored her with my faber castel water color pencils..

And the matching envelope...

and it has lots of dimensions too!

I hope you liked this one... Please leave you love for this little cutie...

I want to enter this card to following challenges:

Young crafters unite - Matching envelopes

Ces challenges - Pretty girls!

Lawnscaping Challenge - Add dimensions...

See you soon!

Priya...

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Its black.. its white.. yay yay yay!!!

Hello friends,

Sorry for being so lazy in updating my blog... :( Sharing the 4th card of the lot I mentioned in my previous post... its a black and white card... I saw the monthly challenge at Little claires designs to make black and white card... and so wanted to make one... So here it is...

All the embellishments are from Itsy Bitsy. I won these at Crafty JC challenge. Punches and diecuts are from Kalalyaa Craft Store.

I liked this flower pot in particular. Isn't it Fab?

Sorry for the poor photography. So how is it? Please leave a comment. Apart from Little claires designs Challenge, I want to participate is following challenges:

Paper play challenges - White + one color

Catch the bug - Anything goes

Dream valley challenges - Monochrome

Crafts4eternity - Anything Goes

The beary scrap design team - Free for all

Shellys images - Tic Tac Toe - Flower, Free, Bling

Allsorts challenge - Atleast 5 flowers

Abc-challenge - Anything goes

Anything goes challenge - Die cuts and/or punches

Good night!

Priya...

Monday, October 3, 2011

Quick and easy Cards...

Hello!!!!

How is everybody doing? I hope all is well with everyone... I am here today with few quick cards... These were easy to make...
I usually take hell lot of time to make one card.. so I challenged myself to Make 3-4 cards in 2 hrs... I achieved my target (Yay!!!) and I end up with these b'ful cards... I couldn't take the picture of 4th one as I was in a hurry... Sorry for the bad qualities of photos as I click these in night which I don't usually do...
Here are these...
Multicolored Card!... Or i would better say it as Itsy Bitsy Card? Each and every thing I used to make this card is from Itsy Bitsy... I like it alot coz of its colors...