Thank You Teacher

This Wednesday it was my son's badminton sir's birthday and I thought this was the perfect card for him. He's a very patient, caring, pushing and challenging coach and Varun is lucky to be training  with him. Happy Birthday sir!

Summer Card

Ages since I participated in a card challenge. As I was browsing I came across CAS-ual Fridays where every Friday a clean and simple challenge is hosted.( hmmm, I wonder where it was hiding all this while?:) . This weeks CFC50 is to create a card using flowers or trees

And here is my summery hello card.

Thanks for dropping by...

Indian Stamper Challenge

Hey guys, Indian Stampers are holding a Christmas + non traditional colors challenge ICRC13

The first thing that came to my mind was Christmas decorations and then I narrowed it down to Christmas tree ornaments cause what a lovely spectrum of colours they have and well here's my take on ICRC13 Challenge using ribbons and ribbons..enjoy!!

CCC :)

Circle Card Challenge!!
Sketch card challenge at Moxifab and combining with ICR ICRC9 challenge (no rubber-digi stamping except for sentiment) whewww.

I made a bright sunny card for Teachers day.

For the apple did a patchwork of felt and hand wrote the sentiment. Distress the background using Tim Holtz Red Barn, Yellow Mustard and Forrest Moss.

The background was cut using the Nestabilities classic scalloped circles. Paper is from DCWV "The Grade School Stack, Anita's Essential. The sentiment is on a leafy green vellum from local store on which I have stroked with dark green pencil color. X'mas Red, Yellow and Green stickles glitter glue.

The only trouble I had (which took away a better part of the day) was trying to fit in the sentiment on the leaf. But the end result was worth it.

Nahh...its only Tuesday!!

What a weekend....again!! Internet down!! withdrawal symptom's kicked in....oh no!! then remembered had a pay as you go connection, put in some money and yippee am connected to the world again!!

Am taking part in The play date cafe, the color scheme is black and white with a touch of green...hmmm. A piece of cake....

IT WASN'T . Somehow I struggled and struggled. I had couple of ideas , had also sketched them out, but after the card was made nahhh didn't like it one bit. In one of the card I felt that something was missing and then in another one it was too much. So I decided to just shelf everything and sleep over it :D and yes it worked...

So here it is

Have used clear emboss on the black card as a base, and stamped again using black versamark black chalk and memento green on the white card, paper and stamp bought locally, and sentiment hand written!!

Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC80

Today I am participating in Play Date Cafe Challenge and the challenge is to create anything using the suggested colour palette.

To stick to a palette and that also so vibrant was very frustrating. And though the greens and the creams came out, I had decided that I was going to use only these three colours. And the outcome...

Flower Power!!

Stamped the background with distress inks and the same for the square background and the strip. Embossed the flowers white and hand wrote the sentiment.

MaRtYn's BirThDay

Its our dear friend Martyn from Leeds "Birthday" and here are some of the cards that I have made for him...

Martyn is a true Santa. Only thing is his gifts come all around the year. He just loves giving gifts and he spoils us rotten. He knows I love dairy milk chocolates from England and every trip he gets me kilos of it and gummy bear for Vipul, Cds, magazines, beads and all sorts of teenage stuff for Roshni and Thomas the tank engine thingy for Varun.

The list is endless. So here is a card which I hope he likes...

Birthday Wishes:

I have stamped the image on the base of the card and done paper piecing, the strings are heat embossed using metallic powder and using sakura black have done the faux stitch.

Martyn loves elephant ( who doesn't) and we always joke around as to how one day he is going to wake up and find an elephant in his backyard. And then Martyn along with food photography (which is his core business) will start an organic manure farm and will be called King of Manure :D and other silly stuff we keep joking about.

So here's an elephant for you Martyn...

Elephant Banner

Pencil colour for the elephant's body and Stickles and Martha Stewart glitter for the head gear and the cape. I don't enjoy using Martha Stewart glitter as the nozzle is not as fine as Stickles...

Have used a silver hammered head pin for the stick and the sentiment is hand written.

Taken the leap

Aftermany many months of contemplating finaly have taken the leap and started my own blog.

Mother of two, I love card making, Zentangle®, anything creative :D