A Quilled Thank you Card!!

I created this Thank you card for my Brother-in-law who helped us in our time of Need. I wanted to keep it simple but attractive.

Took a Pattern paper and Distressed it with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. The Flowers are Quilled and the leaves are punched. I used a floral tape around a twine and created the plant's stem.

I really loved the outcome and I hope My Brother-in-law likes it too.

Here is the card:

Submitting this card to the following challenges:

1. Crafter's Corner Challenge- Thank You 
2. Whimsical Designs Challenge - Favourite Color 
     I love Green with Yellow and Pink and red. Thats always a Bright color combination while making cards.
3. simplylessismoore challenge - Handmade Flowers 

Hope you all like it...

Happy Crafting guys.

HUGS
- Catherine -

Upcycled Shoe Box into a Basket!!

I always loved upcycling / recycling waste boxes. But didnt get to do them much.

Oneday, when I was just browsing through Pinterest,I found this link of upcycling a shoe box. I saved it to my system and totally forgot abt it. Recently, when i was just organizing my system files, i came thro this again.As soon as I saw this I wanted to try. Here is the link pic for ur reference.

But I had a different shoe box which didnt have the extra layer inside so that it becomes a compartment.  I attached an extra sheet to it with tape and secured them.

Here are the pics

The insides of the box - I painted them with Acrylic colors.

I used a packaging paper of a wall sticker in pista green to cover two sides of the box and a striped pattern paper for the other two sides.

After sticking all those there were small gaps where the two compartments met.I used Washi tapes to cover them.

I wanted to keep it in my craft space so I used sticker based embellishments.

The box was ready and then I realized that it occupies more space in the table. So I just punched holes, fastened a golden twine to it and hung it in the wall. Now it stays in my craft space holding my small tools and small paper scraps in seperate compartments.

Entering this into the following challenges:

1. Natalieandamy challenges - Trash to Treasure  (Shoe Box into Basket)
2. Lessology challenge - Packaging central (Used a Shoe Packaged box and a Packing paper with a wall decor)
3. colorconceptionschallenges -Trash to Treasure Using Washi Tapes
4. berry71bleu challenge -Anything goes
5. challenges4everybody - Anything goes

Hope you all liked it.

Hugs
-Catherine-

A Quick CAS Card!!!!

This is a Clean and Simple Card I tried today. Am normally very poor at CAS.

Completed this card in almost half an hour.

The image is a freebie from Beccysplace. I colored it with my Faber Castell color pencils n for the first time, I love my coloring.

Here is my creation

Entering this card into the following challenges:

1.crafting by designs challenge – Anything goes

2. Addicted to stamps challenges – CAS

3. cas-ual Fridays – Polka Dots

4. crafts and me challenges – Anything goes 

Hugs

CAtherine 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGHA- A BLOG HOP!!!

Welcome to our Birthday Blog Hop for our own DT Member Megha…

Now, Together , Sing

1…...2…….3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MEGHA

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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Our Team at KUKIES BASKET want to wish our

Wonderful, Highly Talented, The Creative Crafter

MEGHA JAIN

A Very Happy Birthday

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A Successful Year Ahead…

If you follow the hop and leave a Happy Birthday comment for Megha

on all the blogs you have a chance at winning a goodie bag of diecuts from Kukies Basket…

Here is the blog hop Blogs order just in case you get lost along the way

Devika– KB 

Catherine Joseph 

Darshana Krishnadas 

Manu Gupta 

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Megha Jain 

(you can leave a Happy Birthday comment anywhere in her blog)

Here is the card I came up with for Dear Megha… 

This is an inspiration from Deepti's creation here and would like to participate with this card in her Celebration. For details, Check it out here. 

Deepti's card:

All you need to do is leave a Birthday comment here

And then 

pop on over to 

 Darshana’s blog and 

follow the links, enjoy the hop…

You have till Thursday,the 18^th July to leave your comments.

We are very sorry that currently this small candy is for Bloggers with Indian Addresses only. Thank u for Understanding..

Have a Great Day….

-KUKIES BASKET TEAM

Supplies Used:

Flower and Leaf Diecuts from Kukies Basket 

Entering this card into few challenges:

1. LULUPU - Colour Crush

   

I have used a green cardstock, Yellow Quilling Strips for the Lattice, Pink cardstock for the Background of the Lattice and Brown Diecut Flowers. Have used two diecuts here- one is a Flower diecut and the other one a Leaf diecut.

2. liastampz Challenges - Birthday

   

3. imagination-craftschallenges -Anything goes

4. Little tangles challenges - Birthday

5. Unstampabelles Challenge - Birthday 

 HUGS

-Catherine- 

A huge giveaway from Liva!

Check out this gorgeous huge giveaway from Liva here. Am joining too…

Happy crafting.... 

Hugs

Catherine 

DT project for the month of July - Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers

Hi All Crafty Friends,

This month at Kukies Basket, We have all planned to play with Tim Holtz Tattered flowers.

I had been wanting to do a photoframe for a lovely couple in my family and send them along with the First Birthday gift of their daughter. I decide to incorporate the flower into the Photoframe.

And here is the Outcome. And I really loved the end result.

The Frame is a plain white cardboard frame. I just stamped the cute lil design with my daughters Stic Colorstix Stamper color set n gave it a pattern.  

The Diecuts were in plain white. And as recently I have fallen in love with the Distress Inks n the gorgeous effects they create in a project ( Note: u will see some distressing in every other project of mine...Pls dont get bored) , I decided to give my diecuts a shade of Pine needles. Then I stamped them with a stamp in black randomly all over.  

Added a leaf diecut , a corner diecut (colored with Bronze acrylic paint)to it. 

The family Alphabets are Acrylic Alphabets in white. Painted them with Pearl Blue Acrylic paints. 

Wanted a nice color shade for the butterfly. Had some colored chalk pieces. Just randomly shaded the colors in a white paper, Sprayed some water mixed with pearl acrylic paints so that it got a subtle glitter on it. Then Punched Butterflies with MS punch.

Hope you all like it... 

The tattered flowers diecut is available in the Kukies Basket Shop- The Best place to shop for Diecuts. Lots of Designs available in the shop at a very affordable cost. 

Supplies used :

Paper Photo frame from Kukies Basket 

Tattered flowers Diecut from Kukies Basket 

Leaf Diecut from Kukies Basket 

Corner from Kukies Basket 

Entering this into the following challenges:

1. Imagination crafts challenges - Anything goes 

2. craftsandmechallenges - Anything goes

3. craftingforallseasons - BINGO (Pink pattern,Flowers -Tattered flowers , Blue - Main color theme of the project)



HAPPY CRAFTING >>>>
Big Hugs
-Catherine-

A Thank you Card!!

This is a card I created following the lovley sketch at Mojo Monday.

The Sketch :

My Card:

http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/challenge-39.html

Used my imagination crafts Decoupage stamp set for the center piece and the flower on the Tag.

The Thank you Tag can be removed.

Hope you all like it...Happy Crafting...

Entering this card into the following challenges: 

1. Mojo Monday 300 celebration sketch 

2. Crafters Corner - Thank you card

3. glitter n sparkle challenge - Thank you card

4. pin and tack challenges - Anything goes -Spark Your Creativity Now
5. imagination-craftschallenges -Anything goes

    The stamp used is from the Decoupage set from Imagination crafts

Hugs

- Catherine-