Namaste

If you’re a little baffled seeing my salutation, let me explain. For those of you who do not know what Namaste means, it is a form of greeting in India. If you have read my profile then you already know that I plan on going to college very soon. Well, I am planning to go to college in India which is my home country. And guess what?

THAT’S EXACTLY WHERE I AM! I’M IN INDIA RIGHT NOW.

I came here so I can go on with admission formalities like interviews, written tests and group discussions in the various colleges and universities I am applying to. So far I have 3 colleges on my list and by the end of next week, I’ll probably have 5. Yes, I’ve kept my options open but let us see whether I get into the course and college of my choice. *fingers crossed*

Anyway, moving on to crafty news, since I am busy with admissions you won’t see any new things on the blog for quite some time. I do have a couple of projects that I had wanted to share with you but I don’t have access to them as of now since the pc is back home in Kuwait. Our family is going to be shifting to India for a couple of years and my parents are busy packing while I try to keep a hold on my future.

Anyway, you will find me chatting once in a while about my life and happenings and I will also post about any new sites and blogs as well as candy that I find when I have the time to cruise through blogland. I’ll try to keep my blog candy roll updated as well but I can’t promise. The amount of blog candies I list on my blog is quite large and it can take me upto 7 hours to get the list updated. Well, I got to go and look through all the creativity out there while I’m at it, right? Seriously, I spend WAY too much time just admiring other peoples work and end up doing none of my own.

Anyway, this post was quite long and I hope you understand and don’t mind my being MIA for a while. Oh, and another reason why I can’t craft is cause none of my craft supplies are here. I mean, I don’t even have normal cardstock and paper. Yes I’m miles away from any crafting activity.

Did anyone even read the whole post? I know I sometimes cheat and not read the posts and just look at the pictures and since there are no pictures here, so……????

Happy Crafting,
Anu

The Color Dare Challenge Blog

Good Morning everyone. Are you up for a challenge and some blog candy? The color dare challenge blog is a new blog that has weekly challenges for you to join in. Since they are just starting, they are offering some great candy as well on the blog. So hop over and join the fun!

Here is where you need to go-

http://colordare.blogspot.com/


Happy Crafting,
Anu

Lucky Me on Tuesday!!!!!!

I'm posting this a week late cause I didn't get the time to earlier. Anyway, when it comes to crafting and blogging, my favourite words are blog candy and RAKS. Well, blog awards are on the list too but I haven't got any yet.

RAKS

Two lovely ladies whom I've known for over a year now have sent me some nice packages.

The first one is Karen Knegten. I think she has a blog but I don't have the link at the moment. I got a swap card from her. She sent me this awesome pocket card and the lovely goodies too. The goodies were actually tucked inside the pocket but I forgot to take a pick and took them out.





The images up next are of a pocket card and some great images that Val had sent me. You can visit her blog by clicking on the link on my sidebar.





I also wanted to share about some blog candy I won.

I won 2 candies on the past Tuesday. Can't wait to get the packages. Will tell you more once I get the new goodies :)

I also won 2 digi images from LPS for a challenge I participated in. I got the images on Saturday so you will probably see a project or two made with those soon.

Well, that was a lot of good news for a single day. Mom says Tuesday is a lucky day for me cause that is the day I was born.

Well, thats all for now folks. I'll have a post tomorrow with a project of my own. Stay tuned!

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

Blog Candy on Toodles and Binks

Toodles and Binks is having a blog candy for this month and 3 winners will win it. All you have to do is follow the link at the end of this post and then you can enter for the candy. Plus, even if you don't win, your name will automatically be added in the draw for decembers blog candy and maybe you might win then. Thats 4 chances! So head on over there!

http://toodlesandbinks.blogspot.com/2009/05/sah-015-swalk-and-blog-candy.html

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