Just because...

Sharing a card which was on the Taylored Expression Blog a couple of weeks back. As soon as I saw this die-cut plate, I had this idea in my mind and I am so happy, it came out exactly how I envisioned.

I wanted to create a white elegant card with a touch of gold and glimmer. You can check out how I created it HERE

Hope this card makes you look at your dies differently :)

Hello Friend!

Hello Everyone!! It's Tuesday and that means I have a card up on the SugarPea Designs blog :)

I decided to make a CAS card today. I love these cute Dinos from the Prehistoric Pals stamps and dies. I decided to used the dies and then adhered some patterned paper from behind the die-cuts. For the grass I simply used the watercolor brushstroke stamp...Love the effect. Some ink sponging, sequins and an embossed sentiment :)

Stamps: Feeling Sentimental, Watercolor Brush Strokes 

SugarCut Dies: Prehistoric Pals

On another note, If you love to learn new techniques or need some new ideas, then  Craftsy has some awesome classes to offer!

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Planner Time!!

Hello Everyone! Spring is finally here and hope it brings some warm weather. Flowers are blooming now :)

I want to share this little personal size planner from Fun Stampers Journey, which I decorated using the Celebrations collection by Richard Garay. This line has everything from florals to party stuff, balloons, hats etc...

I am new to planner world so I don't have many things yet, but while decorating it I was having too much fun, so you will see me making lots of embellishments and stuff :)

I am sharing the weekly spread for April  here as it's very special week for me. My younger daughter is going to be 12!!! Where does time fly?? I still feel like she was just born yesterday. Love her sooo much and her coming to me all the time for hugs :)

So, I used balloon stamp and stamped using various inks from Celebration and FSJ.

 I then stamped the flowers using generation stamping technique to give some deapth. I used florals as our 2 weeks Spring Break start this week :)

 Then I stamped the Sentiment, again using the generation stamping for some added interest. Finally used some patterned paper to create my clip and strips. and love the color pops of a little washi tape and star enamel embellishments.

Do you use a planner? I would love to know what all you decorate it with or what your favourite part of decorating is? Do you make your own embellishments or just buy them :)

Lot more coming soon.

Have a nice day!

RG Journey Girl Locket

Hello Everyone!! Today I have something different to share. What..."Jewellery" YES!!! I love these Journey Girl Locket as I can personalize them as I want.You can put the pretty charms which are available or get a bit creative and create to your own liking. 

For today, I decided to give it a touch of Switzerland :)

So let's go to Switzerland's most famous mountain: The Matterhorn - mystical, majestic, kind of tooth shape pyramid :) You all must be familiar with it as it's on the packaging of the famous Toblerone Chocolates!

I decided to draw and watercolor one for my locket. For the texture I used Ranger Crackle Paint.

While creating this I got another idea...Do you know the national flower of Switzerland? It's "EDELWEISS" and my inspiration

I am very happy with the result. Hope you get some inspiration to create lockets from your country or a country you're going to for holidays...the possibilities are endless.....

Happy Birthday

Hello Everyone!!! 

It's Monday and that calls for more inspiration on the Waffle Flower Challenge Blog. This month we challenge you to use "Watercoloring" in your creations. As you all know watercolor is in Trend and how much I love it :) We have some Gorgeous creations by some of the talented ladies and we still have time so, hope you will join us.

And we have a sketch too, which I used for my card today. For this card I went with traditional watercolor and love the effect. These Lotus Stamps by Waffle Flower are gorgeous and fun to color.

Challenge ends on the 25th of each month. You can link up your creations and will find all the information along with the prize details HERE.

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Coffee!! Yes Please...

Hello everyone! Today I am sharing a card which I created for the Coffee Lover's Spring Blog Hop. 

 I made this card using stamps and dies by SugarPea Designs who is one of the giveaway sponsor for this hop. I used SugarPea Designs Caffeine Addict & Funky Wreath - Spring Addition stamp set.
I feel coffee and friends double the FUN of having coffee :) What do you think?

You can find out all about the hop and prizes HERE.

Thanks for dropping by and Have a nice day! 

Shine Bright

Hello Everyone!! It's Tuesday and that means I have a card up on the SugarPea Designs blog :) So after having lots of gloomy days we had a little sunshine for few hours a few days back and it made me so happy. Juts a little sunlight makes such a big difference. So I had the theme "SHINE" in my mind and saw this stamp set and rest is history....lol

Love how this card turned out. I made the light grey stripes first and then used all the pastel shades from my Caran d'Ache neocolor2. Love the soft feel :)

I used "Sparkle and Shine" stamp set and "Layered Treat Label, ZigZag Stitched Rectangle " dies.

If you love to learn then  Craftsy has some awesome classes to offer!

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Special Day

Hello everyone!

Today I am sharing a card using the "Celebrations collection" by Richard Garay. This collection has fun and bright feel to it and is perfect for most of the celebrations. I made this Rainbow 3D balloon using the new stamps/dies in the collection. I used the rounded big balloon die from "Balloon Fun Stamp/Die combo"

I added lots of clear wink of stella so the balloon glitters. It was difficult to capture in the photo but I think you will get an idea from one of the close-up photos. 

I also created the cloud background using Vellum, and love how it turned out :)

You can check the catalog HERE. 

Celebrations by Richard Garay

Celebrate!!

Hello Everyone! I have to share a couple of projects with you. Let's start with this card, which I created for Taylored Expressions Blog in February.

I love love this stamp set and the colorful patterned papers. Check out the supplies, about my card and  more photos HERE.

Also, if you want and like to learn new things and have never tried any class before, you might want to give a try at Craftsy. They have wonderful classes for everyone! You can check it out HERE or click on the banner below:

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SugarPea Design 2nd. Birthday Bash Hop

If you are looking for the International Scrapbooking Day Celebrations with Richard Garay, please click HERE.

Hello and Welcome everyone! Today we are celebrating  2nd. Birthday of SugarPea Designs with a special hop and have tons of wonderful creations by the DTs and guests!

I created a fun card by mixing various stamps and dies. It is so easy to mix and match all the elements using various products by SPD.

I used this cute Birdie from "Everyday is Christmas stamps and matching sugar cuts", the balloons from "Tons of Fun stamp set" and the frame using  "Polaroid Journal Frame" dies.

I colored the images using Copic markers and applied Glossy accents to some. I also stacked the frame with 3 more die-cuts to give it some dimension.

Here is the list of all the  hop participants:

 SugarPea Designers

 SugarPea Designs Blog

 Lesley Croghan

 Anita Madden

 Jenny Peterson

 Tracy Valure

 Simonne Clay

 Stacey Schafer

 Wendy McGaffey

 Vera Yates

 Isha Gupta (you are here)

 Chaitali Narla

 Brianna Loeffelbein

 Kerin Sylvester

 Amy Rohl

 Lori Tecler

 Dana Joy

 Our Special Guests

 Lisa Lara

 Tara Godfrey

 Veronica Zalis

 Amy Tsuruta

 Amy Kolling

 Francine Vuilleme

Now, how can we celebrate without prizes. SugarPea is giving away lots of prizes, be sure to hop and comment on all the stops on the hop to win some yumm goddies :)

AND

It's also  a Link Up blog hop where anyone can participate for a chance to WIN a Heidi Swapp Mini Minc Machine by creating a birthday card and linking up on the SPD Blog post here…http://wp.me/p45zXr-17D

AND there is more....so make sure to visit the SugarPea Designs blog HERE for more info on the other prizes along with a Discount code!!

Blog hop and LinkUp ends midnight, March 11th 

Winners will be announced on March 14.

Amazing You!!

Hello and Happy International Scrapbooking Day!!

Now to many it wouldn't mean anything but for us crafter's it's a special day!! I know my hubby didn't quite get it when I was creating this LO a bit late at night...lol

There is lots of inspiration throughout the day over at RG's blog using some of the yummy products from his collections. I used some from the  "Lumberjack Days and Make Amazing collection" by Richard Garay.  

This is a photo of my daughter when she was in "Kindergarten"and her teacher got married this day and we were invited to join the ceremony. All the girls had these handmade floral crowns and a rainbow pinwheel :) And I instantly fell in love with the floral dies from the "Lumberjack Days" collection, which is just perfect for this photo!

And here are some step by step:

Die-cut the flowers using a thick white cardstock and arrange onto the page.

I used Journey Gel Medium to adhere them to a 12 by 12 white cardbase. Then I applied Journey Gesso all over the page. Let dry.

I then applied various ink spray mixed with water for the watercolor effect.

Finally, a bit of modelling paste through the FSJ Starburst Lines stencil. Let dry.

Once the background was done, I adhered the photo and some of the patterned papers from the Make Amazing 6 by 6 pad. The sentiment is stamped onto vellum is also from the Make Amazing collection.

You can check the catalog HERE. 

Supplies:

Bromance Blooms Dies

Make Amazing Printed paper

Amazing You stamp and Die Set

Fun Stampers Journey

Journey Gesso

Journey Gel Medium

Stencil: Starburst Lines

Others

Heidi Swapp CREAMSICLE Mixed Media Color Shine 399789 Heidi Swapp PRIMROSE Color Shine 00797 Heidi Swapp PROJECT LIFE Color Shine Spritz 312056* Heidi Swapp MUSTARD Color Shine 00795 *Heidi Swapp MINT GREEN Color Shine 00799 Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain BLACK SOOT Ranger TSS42167

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