Playmates!

Its Friday and I am looking forward to a relaxing crafty weekend!..
I have been away from card making for more than a week, but I did manage to do some scrapbooking:)
This layout is based on Stretch Your Sketches Challenge Series, Sketch #11 from EllaPublishing.
It features two of my favorite people - my daughter and my brother!:). M is always happy in the company of her Mama (uncle) and it is always fun to watch them play!:)

ICR Design Team Call

I had been thinking that I had posted this DT call on my blog and for some reason I had not.
Glad that I found it missing from my posts just before the end of the call (that is today, the Midnight of September 20th, 2011)

Pls visit ICR Designer Auditionsfor more info and fun events to follow!:)

LOVE U!

Today's card is inspired by the Horizontal sketch challenge at Moxie Fab World. I had fun playing with the circle stamps and this sketch was perfect for my attempts:)..I stamped and white embossed the circles and included some rhinestones and metal brads..

A closer view of the card..

The inside of the card...

This card goes to the below challenges

Moxie Fab World - Horizontal Sketch Challenge

Studio Calico Weekly Challenge - Project with a circular title

Celebrate U!

Hiii..Today I am sharing a simple Birthday card inspired by the square sketch at Moxie Fab World. The color inspiration is from Jay Gee's Nook challenge. This card would go to my niece who is celebrating her birthday this month and I hope she likes it:).

I inked the doily edges with yellow memento ink and embellished its center with flowers.The center of the doily also has a very light shade of yellow which is not quite visible here! (The whole card has a little more yellowy tinge to it which did not come up well in the pic!:(..). The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn Plus One and the pearl flourish is from Scrappabilities.The monogram and rhinestones are from my stash.

This card goes to the below challenges:
Moxie Fab World - Square Sketch Challenge
Indian Craft Room - ICR Challenge # 9
Jay Gee's Nook - Challenge #11
TLT Challenge#37 - Flowers

TWINS!!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend:).. I had a relaxed weekend and even got time to create a baby card for my friend who had a naming ceremony for their sweet little adorable twin girls!:) I tried out a fun technique of reverse stamping to stamp the double strollers in the card and heat embossed them with white powder. I need to be more patient and careful with this technique since I did not get the reversed image right on the card the first time and I had to outline the image using my embossing pen to get the image better. But I am quite happy with my first try.
The banners were hand cut for the title and I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on vellum.  I included some foam stickers for the wheels and topped them off with snowflake colored pearls.

One more view of the card..

This card goes to the below challenge
Lawnscaping Challenge -  Embossing

Ribbon Flower!

Just popping in to share a card that I created for a few of my favourite challenges:).. I love E.T.s creations and she makes some of the most gorgeous cards I have ever seen. I wanted to try her ribbon flower technique and while I did find it difficult to match her finish, mine managed to look like a flower and I liked the way it turned out. I used a wired ribbon (both the ends are wired and it is easy to ruffle them) and included a brad to the flower center to complete the flower.  I should say that one can never go wrong in making flowers out of ribbon and they tend to come out lovely always!:)

I loved the Card Patterns Sketch for this week and it was the perfect base for my card. I got to use my new Lawn Fawn stamps (Yippee.I was sure excited to hold them and stamp!)..they are so awesome and perfect.

This card goes to the below challenges
Do More With Less - E.Ts Ribbon Challenge
Wee Memories - Simply Sentiments
Card Patterns - Sketch 131

HB 2 U!!

Hi All.. I am sharing a quick birthday card created using Hero Arts paper and some felt stickers that I had been hoarding for a longg time:). The title is from Graphics 45 and I love their vintage style:).

This card goes to Moxie Fab's Fabulous Felt Challenge.

 

Back to School!

Today I would like to share a school themed card that was inspired by the "Back to School" challenge at Wee Memories. My little one is in her pre-school and loves to recite ABCs and 123s as often as she can:) A couple of days back, she was reciting the numbers and she knew upto 20. When she finished off with 20, I continued the sequence with 21 and to my surprise she took the clue and came up with 22,23..upto 29 and then she stopped..She couldn't think of what would come after 29! and gave us a "whatz next?" look:)..These sweet little moments really make us smile and be happy and proud of her!..

Coming back to the card, I love to gift people and teachers were no exception. When I was in school, I would appreciate them in whatever way I could..be it with flowers,chocolates,greeting cards..Only thing I missed doing was gifting handmade cards which I wasn't aware of how to make them then..I would like to make up for it thro' my daughter and lead her along the way..

I usually do not blog much except for a few details about the card, but this post has had me pour out my feelings!!!..is it because I was missing my School deep down!..yeah we all do!..guess, everyone reaches that part and life has to go on!. ok.enough of my ramblings and here is my simple card.

I love the polaroid stamp from Lawn Fawn, but I do not own one..I wanted to give a blackboard look to the card and used my own version of the polaroid for the same:)

This card goes to the Back to School challenges at:
Wee Memories
Stamp Something
Totally PaperCrafts