Gossip card

I was looking at one of the free digi I had and wanted to make a card which is general and can be given to any lady on her birthday or even just for Hi. I can't imagine how many things I have added in this card link coloring the image, paper layering, I even used pink ribbon with hand stitching with pink bottom on top. I have also added some funny sentiments inside which I simply printed.



Inside of the card,





Challenges:

Paper works(su): Sketch
Scrapmaster's paradise(mon): color

Craft you passion(Mon): button N
Crazy challenge(Mon): button N
Cheerful stamp pad(wed-27th Jan): Let's relax(and have a cup of coffee and talk on phone) N
Paper Sundae: Sketch#1 (how about the very first sketch) N

Happy birthday Dude!!

I wanted to make one dude card so on this long weekend finally today I made one from one digital image i found online. I printed my own sentiment for this card. I used some of my new blue paper I bought from Micheal's.



Challenge:

Stamping with dragon(th): for special stud (winner)

Sunday sketch and stamp(su-30 Jan): Sketch N
Creative cowgirls(su): color N
All sorts(sat): color N
There magic in air(mon): Sketch N
I did it creation(su): turning blue N
Mami doodle(fri): mostly blue N
Stamping for weekend: new and blue(I used some of my new paper and I bought from Micheal's) N
Rubber Redneck(wed): color NP
Cute card thursday(th): Monocromatic N
Meljens design(wed): Square card N
Paper romance(th): Birthday and men card N
Raise the bar(fri): one for a kid N

Wedding card

I made one wedding card last week and I have to make at least 3-4 more cards so here comes one more card for my friend who got married in India in December. I used the image which was given to me from I did it creation vellum challenge. Just like last card I have made a pocket for a gift in this card too.



Challenges:

Kaboodle Doodles(mon): black, white and one more color(red) (winner)

Fussy and fancy(Fri): Sketch N
Ellephantastic challenge(sat-4th Feb): New beginning N
Crafty calender challenge(sat-4th Feb): New beginning N
Scrapbook sister(th): Hearts desire N
Delicious Doodles(fri): 3 colors(white, red and grey) N
Mark's finest paper(sat): hearts N
CES challenge(sat): No designer paper N
One stitch at a time(sat): New(new life after wedding) N
Stampin' sisters in Christ(su): Something new(new life after wedding) N
Cupcake craft challenge(mon): wedding N
Karber weekly(mon): ribbon N
Ooh la la creation(mon): bling it on N
The shabby tea room(mon): white and one more color(red) N
Die cut dreams(Mon): Digi and rubber stamp(congratulation is a rubber stamp) N
Reasonable ribbon's rambling(sat-29th Jan): heart N

Little sweetheart

As such I am not a fan of pink but it seems like pink is my color this days for making cards. This week I bought lots of new items for my card and one of them was Doilies I bought from Joann. I made this card from one the card Ayana's card.



Challenges:

Design dollies(MOn): Color

House that stamp build(th-26th Jan): Sketch N
Pile it on(su): anything goes (monthly winner) N
Stamp, scrap and doodle(sat): anything goes N
Color throwdown(wed): Color N
Crazy challenges: animals N
Creative Cottage(wed): SOmething new(new Doilies) N
Paperplay challenges(th): Cutie patootie NCraft your days away(sat): anything goes N
One stitch at a time(sat): New(new Doilies) N
Stampin' sisters in Christ(su): Something new(new Doilies) N

Birthday girl

One of my good friend in San Diego's birthday is coming and she is girlie girl so I thought to make something from pink with my stamp from My Favorite Things. I love stamps which has some cupcakes, coffee etc so I grabbed this from Memories Love On store on this Wednesday when they accept Micheal's 40% off coupon when my final purchase amount is more than 10$. I used the paper piecing for her clothes and blueberry cupcake. In my last Make and Take in the same store I learned to also stamp the same image inside of the card to tie it more with the card. I hope you love my girlie girl birthday card.



Inside of the card, once again blogger is not aligning my inside card properly but I think it's quite visible.




Challenges:

Creative inspiration(sat): Birthday N
Let's ink it up(su): Anything goes N
Scrappy frogs challenge(su-5th Feb): Hey cupcake N

Home tweet home

I have decided now to make some cards which can be used anytime and don't need to create last minute. Just like this new house/home card on gate-fold. I have a special love towards birds and flowers when I am making cards and then I found this image on Doodle Pantry which has 2 things which I wanted to do, make a new home/house card and birds...



Tweet's home n details,



I tried to take a picture outside and tried to show you he gate-fold.



Challenge:

Challenge up your life(sat-28th): clean and simple N
Top tip Tuesday(Tue): Anything goes N
Creative card crew(tue): fancy fold N
Crafty Creations(wed): New beginning(new home) N
Paper Pretties(wed): Unique fold N
Doodle Pantry(Tue): Their digi N
Sassy Studio Design(th): Stash atleast one year old (green background paper is the first cardmaking paper bunch I bought almost 5 years back in upstate NY, now I am in CA :-)) N
AI Factory(Th): Anything goes N

Flower pot birthday card

I have never made a card with the oval share as I don't have any tools to cut the oval shape and a template. And of course I didn't want to create a oval shape with any engineering way. :-) So over the weekday I simply created a word doc with 4-5 different oval shapes and I got my cheapest(actually free) template which I have used in this flower pot card. I used some glitter in the middle and used a ticket for birthday greeting. I have used the lace trim smartly by cutting the trim in middle and stick it on both the side of paper. I am trying for GT call for Fairy tale challenge.

I made this cards watching Modern Marvels on History channel. The episode was on packaging, it also covered water bottle packaging. Can you believe, shaping the water bottle requires proper designing and the one I saw was inspired by Capsicum? As the vacuum in the bottle changes the shape of it, the bottom of bottle is not flat but concave(just like capsicum). :-)

Anyways my card is,



The flower pot in details,



Challenges:

Creative inspiration(sat): Birthday N
Fairy tale challenge(fri): Flowers(I also want to try for GT) N
2 Sister(sat): flowers N
Fairy fun friday(fri-28th): Birthday N
Stamptacular Sunday(su): sketch N
Kaboodle Doodles(Mon): Do it with digi N
Stamping Scrapping(Mon): flower power NPaper crafting journey(Th-19th Jan): let's get digital (my flower pot) N
The sisterhood of crafters(wed-23rd Jan): birthday N
Incy Wincy Design(Mon): Go dotty N
The pixie cottage(wed): Sketch (and coloring with regular sketch pens) N
Digi doodle(Th): color N
Totally papercrafts(fri): Birthday N
Just Us Girls(sat): color N

The bride and the groom Congratulation card

One of my best friends(Pooja and Abhbishek) just got married and we couldn't attend their wedding as it was in India and we didn't do our India trip this time. We were housemates when I was doing my Master's. We had a great time together studying, doing assignments, taking, sharing, cooking etc. together. I am really happy for their new beginning. Now I am planning to invite them to my house next weekend for lunch or dinner to give them their wedding gift. As I am planning for a gift, I thought to make a card with the gift card pocket inside. This one is my first attempt on wedding card and I love the out come. Now I have to make 3-4 more as all my good friends decoded to get married in Dec of 2010. :-) My inspiration for this card is here.



Inside of the card with gift card pocket,




Challenges:

Stampin B's(th): new and old(I just bought this pearls in this new year and my beloved technique paper cutting and layering) NP
Crazy 4 challenges(Sat): colors NPStamp, scrap and doodles(sat): New Beginning N
Lets ink it up(su): anything goes(Congratulation under vellum is rubber stamp) N
Ellephantastic challenges(sat-2nd Fab): New Beginning N

Pink elephant card

Another card for guest designer Paper Works Co. I colored the elephant and then tried to ake on pink. I am as such not a big fan of pink but I think these days I have made multiple pink cards. And this is one of them... I found this ribbon some where laying in my stash and how perfect it matches this card!!



Challenges:

Do you stack up? (th): buttons (winner)

Creative inspiration paint(su): Texture (monthly price) NP

Pile it on(su): Cute children N
The fuzzy wuzzy challenge(31st Jan): Anything goes(with elephant as an animal) N
Color throwdown(wed): colors N
Delightful challenges(wed): buttons N
Digi doodle shop(th): buttons N
Pixie Dust studio(th): Tie it up with ribbon N
Sketch and stash(Mon-17th Jan): Sketch N
Curtain call color(su): color N
Create 4 fun(th): sketch N
One stop craft challenge(Sat-15th Jan): card for a child N
Cupcake inspiration(su): baby theme N
Paper sundae(su): circles N
Cooking it up with Katie(wed): button, ribbon, animal N
Paper crafting journey(Th-19th Jan): let's get digital (my elephant) N

Celebrate with a flower

I am really celebrating my first guest designer on Paper Works Co. I love that blog and their images and challenges. I used my beloved technique layering and paper cutting for my flower and leaves. I hand-stitched the stem on metallic paper and used a ribbon(which was on one gift I got) to tie the whole card together.



Challenges:

Paper works Co(su): sketch (guest designer)
In style stamp(18th Jan): inspiration
Lets ink it up(su): anything goes(celebrate is the cling stamp)
By the cute and girly(sat): bling it on
Creative inspiration paint(su): Texture (monthly price)

Cards and things: colors NP

Flourishes timeless tuesday(tue): flowers N
Oldies but a goodie(tue): sketch N
I love promarker(wed): recycle(a ribbon, which was on one gift I got ) N
Moving along with time(th): Ring out the old ring in new(a ribbon, which was on one gift I got ) N
Cute card Thursday(th): out with the old(a ribbon, which was on one gift I got ) N
Scrapbook sister(wed): Anything goes N
Paper sundae(su): circles N
Gingerloft challenge(sat-23nd Jan): celebrate N

Silhouette Bird

I have found this digital stamp free from online sometime back. It's very elegant silhouette bird image with some flourish. I thought to go for a generalized card which can be for any event for a girl/lady.



The full card is below. I tried to rotate but some how blogger doesn't upload my image properly, so bare with it.




Challenges:

Double Delight: Color NP

Pixie Dust studio(th): Tie it up with ribbon N
Paper play(th): clean and simple N
Colour Create(th): Color NCES challenges(sat): all creatures big or small(Silhouette Bird) N
All sorts(Sat): fancy fold N
Paper crafting journey(th-19th Jan): let's get digital (Silhouette Bird and inside sentiment) N
2 sisters(fri): getting girly NIn style stamp(14th Jan): inspiration N

Fairy Birthday

Once again another project with digital image on Z-fold. This time I used one fairy image, I colored it with my favorite purple color with silver wings. I am not sure you are able to see the silver sparkly wings but I colored it with silver pen. Sentiment is also a digital image and just to coordinate it with the entire card I colored the sentiment too.

Front look:





Challenges:

My Time to craft(tue): Up in the air(my fairy with wings) NP

Bunny Zoe's(Mon): Sparkle and shine N
Aly's Sunday Challenge(sun): Anything goes N
One stitch at a time(sun): Anything goes N
Stampin' Royalty(wed): Birthday N
Paper take weekly(tue): Anything goes NIn Style Stamps(wed): Colors N
Charisma Cardz(Th): Birthday N
Paper play(th): clean and simple NCraft your passion(Mon): Anything goes N
All sorts(Sat): fancy fold N
One stop craft challenge(sat): card for a child N2 sisters(fri): getting girly N
Craft your days away(21st Jan): Anything goes NFab and Funky(wed): Anything goes N

Sending U Love

This days I have found my new love(of course after my husband ;-) )... Digital stamps... I think I started using digital stamps 1-2 weeks back but I love to use them as they are quite handy and just print the image you like, color it and you are almost done... Even I create my own sentiments too... It's surely the most economical way of card making. With my new love(technique), I am sharing a new card for DT call for Prairie Fairy Designs with the cute bunny image. I have also used my new Martha Stewart butterfly punch for the first time which I bought over the Christmas(to New year) break. I hope you love my creation.



Challenges:


Creative inspiration(sat): Something New(My new butterfly punch)
I heart to stamp(31st Jan): Sketch
The fuzzy wuzzy challenge(31st Jan): Anything goes(with bunny as an animal)
Secret crafter(Sat): Tones of texture (monthly price)

Crazy 4 challenges(Sat): colors NP