Diwali cards I made!!!!

Oh..Finally I have started crafting after a long break of around two months....

Always been wanting to start crafting again but had been postponing for a while. The day before Diwali I wanted to make some Diwali cards and made these two simple cards...

Here is the 1st one

The Second one:

Please leave me your comments. Any suggestions, feedback are always welcome...

And, Happy Diwali to all my dear Indian friends celebrating this festival of Lights....


Entering this card into the following challenge:
Crafters corner -MAKE IT FESTIVE


HUGS
-Catherine-

A simple Thank you Card using Distress Inks !!!

Here is a Thank you card I did using Distress Inks.

Tried the water Spritz Technique learnt from Rajini ji this month from Color conception Challenges Blog. I am glad with the end result.

Finished this card in less than half an hour....

Hope you all like it too.

Supplies used:
Distresss Inks - Tea Dye , Mustard seed and Peeled paint
(Tea Dye and Mustard seed DI from thecraftshop.in)

Entering this card into the following challenges:
1. color conception challenges -  Spread your wings with Distress inks   
2. Lulupu challenge - Fancy Me (I always fancy using Distress inks )
3. Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes  
4. cheerylynndesigns challenge - Lace (Real / Faux)
    (Used Cheery Lynn Lil Pink Bicycle Die, The Faux lace is a punch cut out)

A card made for Teacher's day!!! (A little delayed post)

I had to make a card for my lil one's Play school teacher and I had totally forgot that. Realised it only on 4th Sep night. So I did this simple card in almost an hour.

I had no Teachers day sentiment stamp with me. So I just wrote the Sentiment.

My Baby liked it and she was so happy giving it herself to her teacher.

Here is the card

I distressed the Pattern paper with Fired Brick and Tea dye Distress inks... The Flourish and the Sunflowers are diecut and the small flowers are punched. 

Hope you all like it. 

Supplies used: 

Distress Inks - Fired Brick and Tea Dye - thecraftshop.in

Sunflower die - Cheery Lynn - crafterscorner.in

Pattern paper - kraftzone.in

Entering this card into the following challenges:

1. Color conception challenges - Spread your wings with Distress Inks

2. Through the Craft room Door challenge - Anything goes 

3. craftyribbonschallenge - Anything goes with Ribbon

Hugs

-Catherine-

Name Boards I created recently for our new Home!!!

Today, Am sharing two Quilled name boards that I created for our new Home. This is my first attempt at Quilling typography.

The first one, I wanted to keep it simple bcoz it is to be kept out on the door. I wanted to make it look masculine but yet wanted to keep it Bright. While chatting with my Blogger friend Manu, she gave me a suggestion to use Red and Yellow. It turned out pretty good. No flowers, No Glitters....

My Lil one saw that and she asked me whats written in that(She is 2 n a half n she identifies very few alphabets). As I told her, its her dad's name, She immediately asked me Where is the one with my name. So I had to create one to hang on her Room door.  After I quilled her name, I placed a lil girl sticker. Then she demanded me to add everything she likes like Butterfly, Angry birds, Kitty, Car, Train,Winnie the Pooh, Teddy bear, Stars, Heart.... And it went so on and I stopped the list when there was no more space left in the Board.

Entering this into the following challenges:
1. Itsy Bitsy challenge - For the Kids
2. Crafters corner - Anything goes

 Hope you all like it.

Hugs
- Catherine -

A simple Layout - Mixed Media!!!

I created this Layout with Mixed Media technique.... Recently, Had been reading so much about this through Crafters corner Blog and Color conception challenges, I just wanted to try one. I didnt follow a specific tutorial from them. But I had used techniques from everyone whichever I could imply on mine.

Here is the Layout

I gave it textures with Pattern papers, Sakura's modelling paste, Sakura's Gesso, Laces. Colored them with Imagination crafts Inkadink Spray Inks and Mansi's Mistries(Have only 2 colors of them).

Entering this into the following challenges:
Color conception Challenges - Nail it Down with Textures

Hope you will leave your suggestions to improve.

Hugs
-Catherine-

A Birthday Card made on order!!!

Here is a Birthday card I did for a client. She had browsed the net and took a card. And she just wanted me to replicate the card for her.... But I did not want to do that. So I took it as an inspiration and created the card in my style except that I kept the color combinations same as it was a strict requirement from the client.

The card is an inspiration from Georgeann Manning. I was so impressed by her creations and each n every card in her blog was gorgeous.

Here is the card. It was for a man and So I kept it less embellished. Am happy I got to use my new Tim Holtz Alterations On the Edge Die for the Scallops and Pine designs.

Supplies Used:

Yellow Base card Stock - Local Buy Handmade Paper
Yellow Pattern paper -Itsy Bitsy 
Deep Red Textured Paper , Satin Ribbon - A1 crafty supply
Border Die - Sizzix On the Edge Die -Mini Scallop & Pinking (Used Both)
Spellbinder Tag Diecuts - Kukies Basket 
Jef Border Punch - Kukies Basket
Quilling strips - Kukies Basket 
Leaves Punch -Local Buy

Entering this card into the following challenges:
1. allsortschallenge -Use your new stash (Timholtz Edge die)
2. craftingbydesigns - Anything goes
3. craftsandmechallenges -Anything goes
4. Crafters corner - Anything goes 

Hope u all like it. Happy crafting.

Hugs
Catherine

A Simple Mixed media Tag !!

I sometimes spend my time in the craft room just doing random things like distressing a piece of paper, coloring some digitally printed image, try stamping with my unused stamps.... Two days back,I wanted to try using the new Sakura Gesso and Modelling paste I recently bought.

I tried inking, applying gesso and then used the modelling paste to create a texture. When I looked at that finally, It looked like a tag. So, Embellished the piece, added a sentiment and converted it into a Tag. 

This is the final result:

Entering this tag into the following challenges:

1. For the love of crafting - Make a Tag

2. Carabbie moments of craft challenges - Anything But a Card 

3. Flutter by Wednesdays - Any winged Creature 

Happy Crafting. Please leave your comments and suggestions. 

Hugs

-Catherine-