Guest Designing at Paru's Card Making Challenges

Hi All!

I am super excited to be guest designing at Paru's Card Making Challenges! The challenge is to make a card or a tag with a Hint of Gold.

I made both a card and a tag to provide some inspirations for the challenge.

Diwali Card :

I love making Diwali cards! Since it's already October I took it as an opportunity to make one. I used Fringed die from MFT and die cut strips of cardstocks in warm colors. I also diecut a strip of Gold foiled cardstock and added in between to add a touch of gold. Then I adhered all the strips to create an Ombre effect.

I also heat embossed Diya Stamps from Mudra's new Diwali release. The sentiment is from Varna's Diwali stamp set which they released last year.

Here is a closure look at the gold + Ombre effect. 

Best Wishes Tag :

For the tag, I diecut a watercolor cardstock using Avery Elle Bookmark die and then used Gansai Tambi watercolors for some rainbow effect. I heat embossed the Lacy circle stamp from Waffle Flower using white embossing powder.  For the gold, I heat embossed Honey Bee's Zen Floral Stamps on vellum with gold embossing powder from Ranger and fussy cut the images and created my own bouquet. I added some sentiment and Twine to finish off my tag. It's an any occasion tag which you can use for birthday's, anniversaries, Diwali, etc.

A closer look at the gold effect. The gold embossing on Vellum looks fabulous!

That's it from my side. I hope I inspired you a little today to make some festive projects with a pinch of Gold. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

Have a great day!
Happy Crafting!
Priya Sondhi

Cute Tags!

Hi All!

Note: A picture heavy post!

Sorry for being such a bad blogger.. Lots of things are happening at the same time.. uff! I will update one by one :D...

Now onto the main topic of this post, My DT project for the new challenge at "For the love of crafting"... Anita has set a recipe challenge for us... Here are the ingredients..

1. Use a Bow-it can be any sort of bow with ribbon, twine or any material of your choice.
2. Use some stamping on your project. It can be any stamping type-either on your back ground or in corners etc. the choice is yours.
3. Use either a sentiment or a flower or both. The sentiment can be stamped or hand written but this is a separate ingredient and does not coincide with the above ingredient.

And here is my take on the challenge... 

Yes... I have designed a set of tags!

There were simple and pretty easy to make.. Here are their individual pics.. 

Supplies Used:

CS: Fabriano brustro (White), colored (Local buy)

Stamps: inkadinkado Humorous Birthday

Ribbons: a Mix of American Crafts and local buy

So start mixing all the ingredients of the recipe.. would love to see what all you can create with it...

Have a good day!

Priya...

A set of tags

Hi!

I am back again. Today I want to share a set of tags that I made with distress inks. These days I am going crazy over distressing and embossing. Here I have used only distressing technique.

Each is of the size 3 x 1.5 inches. I got so addicted to distressing that I even inked the tiny flowers. I embossed these on the inkessential's blending foam with my embossing pen (again a RAK from Hussena!). Since foams already had leftover inks so their edges got inked while embossing :D
A different view.

Individual picture of tags.

Supplies used:

Distess inks: Barn door red, Faded jeans blue, wild honey yellow

Carstock: Fabriano Brustro (300gsm)

Flourish stamp: MICIA stamp

Punched flowers: RAK from Hussena

Bling and ribbon: from my stash

Challenges entered:

1. Craft your passion challenges - Anything with distressing
2. Simon says stamps challenge - Anything goes
3. Do you stackup - Rainbow - Atleast 3 colors (I have used blue, yellow and red)
4. Sparkles forum challenges - Anything but christmas card
5. Cupcake craftroom - Anything goes
6. Crafty cardmakers - Use it 3 times ( I used swirl stamp 3 times)

7. The pink elephant challenge - Anything goes
8. Truly madly crafty challenges - Anything goes

This is my 1st set of tags. I hope you like it.. :) don't forget to comment :)

Good night!

Priya...

Unusual Color Combo!

Hi Friends,

A quick post to share a card I made last weekend using some unusual colors... Here it is:

Basic reason to make this card was to use my scraps and stickers that were laying around.

Still some scraps where left so I made a tag too.

I made this card keeping in mind following challenges:

ICRC12 - Dots, Strips and a tag

Colorconceptions - Use scraps effectively

Thanks for looking,

Good night!

Priya...

You and Me... :)

Hey friends,

Its very late in night but have to post about a card of mine... that is again on the ICR's new challenge theme.. that is Dots and strips + a tag... Here it is:

Along with the tag, I made its matching envelope too.. That black stamp is from MICIA stamps that I won at ICR event sponsored by Crafting queen store. Thank Karuna, I had a good time playing with it.

A close look:

I have got loads of stickers  that I bought locally and wanted to finish it off as they are just occupying my craft space... So you might see a sea of stickers on my upcoming projects... Those red hearts are puffy stickers... 

I have also decorated the inside too. have a look:

Supplies used:

Cardstock: Red (local buy), White (Fabriano Brustro)

Stamps: Fiskars all year cheers and MICIA

Heart embellishments: local buy

Doily punch: Kavitha's craft store

Scalloped Punch: Ujjwal's store

Red strips: Itsy Bitsy

Hows it? do leave your comments :)

Good night!
Priya...