Friday, April 29, 2016

Mother's Day

Hello everyone!
Since Mother's day is fast approaching, I created a card for my MOM using various collections by Richard Garay. My mom is a doctor, a famous one...so while growing up, I always saw her very busy and she hardly had time for hobbies BUT somehow she managed to have beautiful flowers around us and we would all have a couple of hand knitted sweaters :) She manages to find time about her passion for gardening and knitting besides being so passionate about helping the sick.

Anyhow, her love of flowers is what inspired me to create this card. I used 2 techniques for this card. Creating watercolor background and faux watercolor stamping.


Love how it came along. Here is another view for you:


And here are some steps by step photos :)

I started with dabbing my inks onto Ranger craft mat. Spritz with water


Next, put a watercolor cardstock onto this ink and water. Dry and if you dint like the color intencity, repeat the step again.


Ink the flower stamps using distress inks, spritz with water and stamp. We get different result each time.


In the similar way, ink the leaves, spritz and stamp. 


Die-cut the diagonal stripe plate using white cardstock and layer it with the watercolored background piece. Die-cut the flowers and leaves. Create a collage of it.
Stamp and emboss the sentiment onto black cardstock. Assemble everything together.


Here is a close-up of the flowers


Have a great Day!!

Adding my card to the Work it Wednesday Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp: Flowers

You can check the catalog HERE

Make Amazing HappenCelebrations,   collections by Richard Garay

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

RG Make Amazing Happen Mini Album

Hello everyone!
Today I am sharing a fun project using various collections by Richard Garay. This is what I like the most about Richards collections…they are so versatile and are easy to mix and match. I created a mini album from our trip to the mountains last week. I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed creating this fun project. I find minis are the perfect way to have some photos together in one place.

Here is how it looks along with some photos of step by step too. I made my Album base using the square die from the Noteworthy Card Set dies.


This is how the front page looks. I kept it simple, a bit of patterned paper and Enamel Elements star. For the background, I kept the blue watercolor wash as my common element.


On our way we stopped by at an old palace called Chateau de Chillon
For the 2nd page, I sponged some Rock candy ink over the washed background through the brick stencil by MFT. I die-cut the leaves from Branch Out Die-Set, colored using watercolors and die-cut flowers from Lumberjack Blooms Die Set, which I sponged using FSJ and Celebrations inks. I used the Amazing Accent dots for the flower centers.
For page 3 I die-cut the patterned paper using Die from the Let’s Meet stamp and die Set and used it as a border beneath my photo. I also used some Enamel Elements from the Celebrations. Finally stamped the word “SMILE” using FSJ Cranberry Bliss ink and did some generation stamping.


 Here is a close up view of page 2 


Page 4-5


For the 4th. Page, I created the background as page 3. I matted the photo using patterned paper from Make Amazing. I stamped the word Sister and die-cut the word LOVE from Celebrations.


For added interest and trendy look I masked the word Love partially using a washi tape piece, applied VersaMark ink and then sprinkle Mint Mojito Embossing Glitter by WOW! Then I heat set the powder and removed the mask



Page 5 was fun to create, I used some washi Tape. Do you see tiny bit of chevron embossed vellum, well I just used the emboss part of the Tag die from build a Tag 1 (Celebrations). I then cut a star from patterned paper and used the back Amazing Accent Dots. Love love love the mat finish of these.

Once we saw the castle, it was time to head towards the mountain and the snow fun part starts in my album J The place we went to is called Zermatt and from there we took various cable cars to reach the Mountain.




For the base I used the same watercolor wash, once dry I applied some embossing paste though the stencil and applied glitter. 



To create the camera embellishment, I used the camera die from Camp Out Die Set. I masked the center circle, applied VersaMark ink to the die-cut and added Vintage Peacock embossing powder by WOW! Then I heat set the embossing powder and removed the mask. Sponged some ink in the center and applied Journey Glaze. It really looks pretty in real life. 


I then stamped the words and also used some Jean Cord from Lumberjack collection. Next I created a Vellum pocket using the FSJ Gift Card Sleeve. I adhered the cable car ticket onto the back of it.


On the back side of the pocket I sponged some ink through the Starburst Lines stencil. I will use this pocket to write some of my notes.


Next page base again is sponged ink through the same stencil. I made a gate-fold pocket and put the photo inside this. Here is how it looks when we untie the Jean Cord.



It was such a nice, sunny day and beautiful mountains all around. I really love this photo of my younger daughter. I watercolored the background. Applied some iridescent Creative Medium through the Starburst Lines stencil. I also embossed the red cardstock and adhered the strip of it. Love the Knitted Pattern Embossing Folder from Lumberjack. Finally, added a little patterned paper, die-cut a vellum star and adhered some Amazing accent dots J


For the last page (well I will be adding more pages to this album :) I used photo of all of us. I die-cut a vellum heart and the word FUN from Celebrations. Adhered it to the page. I added some torn vellum underneath the photo and adhered some Amazing Accent Dots.

Thank you for being there till the end…this sure is a looong post :)
Have a great Day!!

You can check the catalog HERE

Make Amazing HappenCelebrations,  Lumberjack Days and Noteworthy collections by Richard Garay

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Mixed Media Fun

Hello Everyone! Yes, it's been sometime that I didn't post on the blog. We had spring break, hubby took surprise break too and we weren't home most of the time. It was the worst weather in April but we managed to find something or the other to do :)

So the schools re-opened and I hope to be back to routine. First I have a mixed media home decor to share with you, which I made for the Taylored Expressions Blog HERE. My daughters love owls and this was a nice surprise for my elder one. She loves it and it now is on her wall :)

I used lots of products by ImagineCrafts, Heidi Swapp, Tim Holtz along with this cute Owlie by Taylored Expression. You can check lots of photos on the BLOG.


I will be back with more projects soon!!



Monday, April 18, 2016

Celebrate

Hello and Happy Monday everyone! Today I am sharing a card using the lovely inspiration photo challenge at Waffle Flower Crafts

I got inspired by the colors in the photo. The green of the umbrella turned into the embossed vellum balloons, The flowers inspired me to use this pretty lacy Flower die.


Here is my card. I used Celebrate Stamp SetCelebrate Word Die and Lacy Flowers Die. These pretty patterned papers are from Pink Fresh Studio.




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.

Friday, April 15, 2016

SugarPea Designs April Release Day 5

Hello and welcome to SugarPea Designs April Release blog hop. Each day this week, we have been sharing projects created using the new release. Today we are introducing Chatterbox Sentiments and SugarCut Journal card

I went with a graphic and CAS look for my card :)








Would you like to win the "Talk is Chic"stamp set? All you need to do is leave a comment on the SugarPea Designs blog! It's that easy! You have all week to comment! Winners during our April Product Release will be announced on Sunday, April 24th. 
For more inspiration and chance to win extra prize, don't forget to comment on every stop at the hop!
REMEMBER!!  The entire April Product Release will be available for purchase TODAY at 6PM EST.



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Thursday, April 14, 2016

SugarPea Designs April Release Day 4

Hello and welcome to SugarPea Designs April Release blog hop. Each day this week, we are sharing projects created using the new release. Today we are introducing "Quackers" and "coordinating SugarCuts Die"

I love these adorable ducks and the small stamps from this set. For today's card I enjoyed the idea of duck floating by in the lovely umbrella die from our day 1 of the release. I used my new peerless watercolors for coloring. I created the water texture using Simon says Stamp stencil. I embossed the outer lining of the umbrella using silver glitter embossing powder by WOW!



Here is a peek at the products being released today: 







Would you like to win the Quackers stamp set? All you need to do is leave a comment on the SugarPea Designs blog telling us Who or What QUACKS you up the most! It's that easy! You have all week to comment! Winners during our April Product Release will be announced on Sunday, April 24th. 
For more inspiration and chance to win extra prize, don't forget to comment on every stop at the hop!





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