Baby Boy!!

My dear friend Priya had given birth to a sweet little boy. Just minutes before leaving home to see her at the hospital, I made this little card for the little one....(sorry for the poorly shot pic)


















I stamped the stars on plain white cardstock to create a background.
The blue teddy with balloon is a digi image from mygrafico.

I am submitting this card for the below challenges:
Our very own Indian Craft Room Challenge #4
CAS card challenge at Lawnscaping Challenge #11

Happy Birdday!

My sweet sis celebrated her birthday yesterday and this is the card I made for her. Hope she liked it:)
The card goes to the below challenges
Indian Craft Room Challenge #4
Clean & Simple - Lawnscaping Challenge # 11

Stamped the flower onto white cardstock for a background pattern. The bird stamp is from Scrappabilities and added some glitter on to the Prima blue flower with a rhine stone at its center.

ILU

The sketch for this card was from Sweet Sunday Sketch #116.
The papers and ribbons are from the Scrappabilities set gifted by my dear brother (thanks bro for the wonderful set of papers, ribbons, stamps, flowers, stickles.... a scrapbook layout is still pending from me to you).. The sentiment tag is from Hero Arts.. love it.:)

The flower shaped blings are from M's old dresses that I had saved:)..
I had entered this card for the below challenges:
Sweet Sunday Sketch #116.
Square card color challenge

As the blogger was not available during the challenge period, I had uploaded pics to the Splitcoaststampers gallery and linked to the challenge.
I am posting this today since I did not want hubby to grab a look before I give him the card on our anniversary:)

A is for Apple

It was teacher's appreciation week in my daughter M's school and I thought that it would be nice to appreciate the care and love her teacher showed towards her. Also, M just loves her teacher and I felt that she would be happy if she gifted the card herself.
M was all smiles when she gave the card to her teacher and I hope her teacher liked the card too.

I got my first ever Hero Arts stamps and they are wonderful. The Thank You sentiment is from Hero Arts
Quilling again..an A for Apple this time..for teaching does not begin without this:)

The inside of the card says ..

Mother's Day + ICR Challenge # 2

Back to blogworld after a month long gap..
I have been creating few cards and haven't found time to post them on the blog..

This is a simple card I had created for Mother's day (yeah..I am a week behind!!)..but I was able to post it only today and I am entering it to the ICR challenge # 2 -Mother's Day + Digital image challenge. The digital image is from mygrafico and they have some wonderful digital images. I have not ventured much into coloring images and luckily for me, the site offered some cool colored images that I could print and use..it was that simple.

Birthday Cupcakes!

Whew!.. what a close match that was between India & Srilanka. Congrats to the Indian Cricket team for emerging champions and winning the coveted World Cup. As for me, I had a wonderful weekend, rising early (3:30 AM CST!!!) to watch the nail-biting grand finale, shouting..clapping for the runs and wickets:)..and..and..gulping scoops of icecream whenever an opponent wicket fell..;)
April has started good for me..was able to make some cards over the weekend..:)..

This is my first paper pieced card..couldn't wait to try this technique with the little cup cakes from my birthday stamp set. Loved the way the cupcakes have turned out..added some glitter and glossy accents on the banner and cakes. Guess my stamping needs more practice as the stamped sentiment appears faded towards the end!

The inside of the card says

Best Wishes!!..

One late afternoon, hubby called up and informed that one of his colleague M was leaving his team and we were invited for her farewell party that evening!..I had known M for quite some time and was aware that she loved quilling. I wanted to make her a quilled card (a quick one) and surprisingly A too felt that a quilled card would be apt:)..

With my 2 year old, constantly tailing me, it was quite difficult to get a card done, not without letting her do the paperwork..Only after A came home and played with her, did I get time for the card.

I had been wanting to quill a duck for quite some time and this card fulfilled the wish:)..So here we go, three quilled ducks (A, me and my little gal:)) wishing M, love and happiness always!!