A Card that got Late

Well this card was meant for taylored expressions I think....ok maybe not but it was for a sketch challenge but I wasn't able to post it since my internet connection failed to initiate. Anyhow, I'm posting it now. I tried to keep the focus on the background itself and added gemstones to the center of the flowers to add interest. The butterfly is a punch and I've added two gemstones for the butterfly's body. I didn't have matching ribbon so instead, I decided to use some embroidery floss to do the job. lol

I'm in Delhi right now with my parents so won't get around to creating till next week or so but I have a couple of my own projects and I also have mail that was waiting for me here! Will take pics and show you!

Happy Crafting,
Anu

Card for Crafty Pad Sketch Challenge

Hi,
This is my submission for the Crafty Pad Sketch Challenge for this week. I substituted some of the shapes and things in the sketch to accomodate my card though I tried to stick to the original sketch as much as I could. The oval shape in the right bottom corner has given way to a line of some gem stones.

Oh boy, I've been using too much purple these days. Better go look up some color challenges so I don't get a chance to do that. But then again, I can be a little sneaky and add a dah of purple here and there, can't I? lol

More coming up later.

Happy Crafting,
Anu

one for a guy, one for a gal

Flourishes has a challenge this week to make 2 cards. One of them should be for a female and the other needs to be for a male. Besides this, the other condition they have for the challenge is that both cards must be made using the same sketch. The sketch is your choice. So, I gave it my best shot. The sketch I used is from Taylored expressions. So, both my cards qualify for that challenge too!



First up is the male card. I created this birthday card thinking it can be given to a boy. Pretty simple image used which I colored with water color pencils. It was really hard to restrain myself from adding some bling, so I sneaked in some glitter. I think blue is the ideal color for this card.

And although I had not initially planned it, my card also qualifies for the color challenge on color create which is blue and green.

High Hopes Stamps wants a guy card created so I'm entering this card there as well.



Now we have the girl card. I thought this would be a nice card for a lady who likes gardening or loves her garden. I think we all love our gardens. Ok, I don't have a garden but I love my potted plants anyway. I like how the coloring came out. I used colored pencils and water color pencils. The can and the grass are the watercolored parts of the image.

This card is also my entry for Three Clovers Designs Thursday Challenge. We need to have flowers on our cards for this one!


All in all, I'm quite pleased with myself for todays creations. Do u like? Let me know!

Till later,
Happy Crafting,
Anu

I'm trying out for a design team

Funky Hand Designs is looking for one new member to join their design team. I thought that even if I don't get selected, it would be nice to atleast try. So, here, I have some of the cards that I had made and am proud to show off.

These are just short descriptions of some of the cards-

The sort of vine u see is a part of the green, yellow and red card. Its made using rice grains positioned to look like flowers and leaves and then I watercolored them.

For the black and white card, I strapped rubberbands around a peice of styrofoam and used it as a stamp to make the background.

The 2 butterfly cards with the same layout have butterflies which were actually originally a part of a dp.

For the card with the dresses, I drew the dresses and cut them out. Then paper pieced them and added more bling with the help of embroidery floss, star shaped gems and glitter.











Well hope you like and the ladies at Funky Hands do too!

Happy Crafting,
Anu

Combined Challenges

Today has been a bad day so far. I made this card feeling a lot of ideas coming up. It is supposed to be my entry for 3 different challenges and so I wanted the picture to come up really well. I tried connecting my mobile to the pc but for some reason that isn't happening. I tried scanning the card instead and for some reason, no matter how I scan the card, the sentiment is not visible enough. Now, I have given up and here is the picture of the best I could do.




I used small beads for the stem and a glass bead for the center of the flower which is a combination of a die cut and a prima flower.

The sentiment which you can barely see reads, Live life to the Fullest.

The sketch is from Mojo Monday. I have used a flower and that is the challenge for LPS which is being hosted on PCP. The Crafty Pad wants us to show "holes" on our cards this week. You can use eyelets, paper piercing etc. I used a hole punch to punch the holes on my card. Then, I put a strip of blue dp behind the hole to make them more visible. You can only see 4 of those holes thugh since the rest got blocked by the image panel.

Happy Crafting,
Anu