I had received a few Halloween themed dies in my Sizzix DT kit and I found this wizard die the cutest of all.It's known as Sizzix thinlits die set- Spooky and it consists of a total of 8 dies which can be used to make two different wizard characters.
To create that 'spotlight' effect, I sponged a couple of distress inks(fossilised amber, spiced marmalade) after masking the area. Then I smeared the area with some glue and sprinkled a little bit of Papericious Frosting powder to give that beautiful shimmery effect.
How are you all doing? I haven't been active around here lately and today I want to share a few of my pending posts. So expect a series of posts from me in the next day or so. In this post, I'm sharing a few of the envelopes that I made about a month ago. Few of these feature some watercoloured florals, while a few are made using die-cuts.
Here they are :-
The above set of three envelopes are made using textured cardstock in pastel colours. Watercolouring was done using Gansai Tambi watercolours.
I like this month for many reasons. One, for its not so hot, not so cold weather here in India. Second, for the festive and celebratory feel all around. And third(and personally most special reason): it's my daughter's birthday month. :)
Although we don't celebrate Halloween here, but for someone who has grown up reading Harry Potter and the likes, it sure is one occasion that has always intrigued us as kids :)
Isn't this die fabulous ? It comes as a set of 3 dies, one is the 'witch' that you can see on my card, the other is a template die for stars and there's also a 'cat' die which I didn't use here.
I masked and sponged a portion of the card using distress inks( spun sugar, abandoned coral, seedless preserves, faded jeans, black soot)
Sentiment is hand-written as you might've already guessed. Love that quote ;)
What are you all upto? As for me, I'm enjoying participating in a few ongoing challenges these days.
Today I'm sharing a very interesting interactive card idea known as Pop and Twist card(scroll right to the end of the post if you wish to watch the little mechanism video of today's card).
Here's the front of the card :-
Pretty clean and simple, isn't it?
Now check out the picture below to see how it pops open :-
A closer view of each of these panels:-
All the images used on this card are from My Favorite Things stamp set- Harvest Mouse. Colouring is done using Zig cleasn color real brush pens. I LOVE how vibrant they are.
To make the interactive element, I followed a beautiful video tutorial here --
White Cardstock- Iris sg
Patterned paper- MFT
Textured card stock- AC cardstock
Colours- Zig clean color real brush pens.
Distress Ink- Scattered straw
MS Score Board and bone folder
Ranger's Glossy Accents
Versafine onyx black ink for stamping.
How are you all doing? I'm sharing a cute and simple card today using My Favourite Things Stamp Set- Harvest Mouse.
To start with, I stamped the mouse and the leaves from the MFT set on Iris sg card stock. After colouring the images with Zig Clean color brush pens, I fussy cut the images and moved on to making the card base. Over a piece of standard A2 sized folded card base, I stamped a few pumpkin images from the same stamp set with the help of masking. Then I decided to make a little greenish area for the mouse to walk on and for my little scene to look complete. When I was happy with the arrangement, I mounted the mouse image using double sided foam tape and adhered the leaves here and there using white glue. Finally stamped the sentiment to go with the mood of the card scene.
All the colouring is done using Zigs. and I added colours keeping Fall colours in mind. That's why you see some reds, yellows and browns too.
Hey Friends ! Guess what I'm enjoying to do these days ! I'm having fun learning to make interactive cards and in today's post, I'm sharing a spinner card idea for Christmas using a Sizzix Bigz Old St Nick die from the recent release.
Check out the spinning mechanism in action in the video below:-
Check out a few behind-the-scenes of its making-
There are many video tutorials available on the internet to make such cards and I followed this video by Kristina Werner to make mine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLM3oio6i70
Have you started making holiday cards yet? Let me know if you liked this idea.
My blogger pal Sindu Jay from Paperminty blog is celebrating 5 years of her blog anniversary celebrations and I shared two cards as a part of my guest post.
Here's one of the cards:-
And hey, this card holds a surprise !! Do you wish to know what it is? Please click HERE to view both my cards and all the details.
Would love to know what you think about my cards.Thanks so much for stopping by.
I feel so good to be able to find time for blogging again. I realised that the reason why I kept pushing away blogging was my sluggish laptop I've been using since past five years. Actually, it was a netbook (a smaller version of laptop) with 1 GB RAM. Poor thing couldn't take too much of heavy pictures and files. Of late, editing a simple photo became a 1 hour task !! I simply couldn't afford 2-3 hours of writing one blogpost and uploading it and hence blogging took a backseat. My husband suggested me a few times to get a new laptop, but I kept procrastinating it, until I couldn't take it any more! Now I got a new laptop and I wish I had bought it before, it would have saved me so much time and frustration ;)
Hoping to visit your blogs more regularly now.
That script background was stamped (Impression Obsession -French Script background stamp) using versamark ink and clear embossed to give a subtle look to the background.
I had received a couple of stamp and coordinating die sets in my Sizzix kit last month. This one's called Folk flower and it is a beautifully detailed stamp. The pack contains a coordinated floral die that gives a perfectly clean edge with a margin of 1mm around the stamp. It contains a leaf die as well.
The florals were coloured using Zig clean color brush pens.
Looks quite dramatic !Would love to know your views about this card.
Wishing all my fellow Indian bloggers, crafters and readers a very happy Independence Day. Our country has a huge amount of talent, much more than we realize and may we keep striving to build a developed and highly efficient country.
Thanks to the long weekend here, I got a chance to attend to my blog which is being neglected for quite a while now.
I'm sharing a simple and fun up-cycling idea today with the help of Sizzix dies.
I had this brown paper shopping bag in my cupboard which I had saved for reusing it for shopping or gift packaging purposes. But it looked rather dull and plain and I decided to give it a little makeover, just to add a fun, colourful touch to it.
This makeover took me just 5-minutes. Now I'm on a lookout for more stuff at home that need a creative makeover ;)
Hello again !
This is my second post for the day. To check out the previous post, please click HERE.
I'm kind of hooked to watercolouring these days. I'm watching a lot of videos on YouTube of various watercolouring artists working on their process and learning along the way. It's so much fun and inspiring too ! I'm still on the intermediate levels as of now and I am truly enjoying exploring this medium and making some cards along the way.
Here are some of the cards I made in the past few days by watercolouring. Hope you like my attempts and please feel free to drop in any suggestions, tips or any feedback on my work. I'm still new so it would be helpful :)
Here are the links to the video tutorials that I got inspired from -
https://youtu.be/psrN-U5ftSk
https://youtu.be/25HwZzMraew
https://youtu.be/Y3S041mj1hk
Thank you for visiting me today. Will be coming up with more watercoloured cards soon.
Hello bloggers and friends! I'm back with a couple of cards I made using the Chapter 3 release die set from Sizzix Lifestyle-- Under the Sea.
It's a lovely die set designed by Katie Skilton and it contains a total
of 14 dies which can be mixed and matched to create some cute
summer-themed or holiday-themed cards.
The
colouring and the background building on both the cards is done with
the help of Zig clean color marker pens. The sentiment in the above card
is from My Favorite Things- Penguins in Paradise stamp set, whereas in
the card beow, it's hand-written. I also doodled around the edges of the
coloured die cuts to add some interest.
Zig Clean Colour brush pens-24 set Iris Sg Card stock Sakura Micron Pen for doodling and writing the sentiment. SIZZIX UPDATE :-
Do you remember had shared a news about the giveaway that was hosted by sizzix.co.uk last month? Well, the winners have been announced ! Please head over to the sizzix page by clicking on the link below to see if the winner is you :-
Hi friends! I recently received my newest Chapter 3 dies from Sizzix Lifestyle and I even did an unboxing video giving you a closer look of these new dies. If you wish to see the video, scroll right to the end of the post, but kindly overlook the little technical mistakes you might notice and please be kind. :P .I guess it would take a little more practice to get a hang of making videos and all the technicalities involved in video editing. Hopefully will come up with better and more professional videos in future. And now, over to my cards that I made using one of my favorite dies from the new release, it's Sizzix Thinlits Little Robin Die set. The first card below also features Sizzix Bigz die- Pretty Climber.
I started off by stamping the French script over one side of a 5 by 7 inch card base.I used Memento London fog ink for the same. I die cut the leafy vine and the little birdie using water colour paper and coloured the bird die cut using Zig brush pens. The diecuts were adhered over the card base and the sentiment(from Impression Obsession stamps) was stamped using Versafine onyx black ink. I also sponged some distress ink(hickory smoke) over the left side edge of the card, to highlight the stamped script. Finished off the card by adding enamel dots. And the second card features the same little robin die set, but used in a different way.
The negative portion of the bird die cut was used as a stencil here, with the help of which I sponged some distress inks. I added the sentiment from Cas-ual Fridays stamp- Big Treble using Versafine onyx black ink. This ink dries slower as compared to other pigment inks, and that makes it suitable to use it for heat embossing as well. For my one-layered and CAS cards, I prefer clear embossing my sentiments, especially if the main focus of my card is the sentiment. So after stamping, I clear embossed it and added the pearls to complete my card. Which one did you like more ? let me know :) Here's the unboxing video I shared on my YouTube channel -
You can also view it directly on YouTube by clicking HERE . Products used :- Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine(grey and white only) Sizzix Thinlits die set- Little Robin Sizzix Bigz die set- Pretty Climber White card stock- Iris sg Water colour paper- Canson Montval Inks- Versafine onyx black, memento london fog, distress ink- hickory smoke Zig Clean color brush pens enamel dots, pearls Stamps-- Cas-ual Fridays stamp- Big Treble ; Impression Obsession rubber stamp. I'm linking the cards to -: Happy Little Stampers- July Anything Goes with Dies See you all soon! Hugs, Jasleen.
One of the dies that I had received in my second DT kit from Sizzix was this thinlits die set - Peacock designed by Pete Hughes. I have been procastinating big time putting this die to use. I was kind of intimidated to use this die all this time, don't know why, maybe because it is so beautiful that I had some doubts if I would be able to do justice to it. :) But last week, I decided to give it a go and see how my card turns out with it. Here's how it looks:-
I wanted to keep the card very clean and simple, especially so with this die cut, because it looks so beautiful in itself. Cluttering the background would take away the spotlight from the peacock ! This die set contains a total of 7 pieces of die- One main body, three sizes of wings, two varieties of tiny feathers and one eye die. We need to assemble the die cut pieces together to form a peacock. I decided to die cut the pieces using Canson Montval water colour paper and then add colours of my choice using Zig brush pens to get a lovely watercolor look. If you are in a hurry, you can even die cut these from the coloured card stock. The left-hand side corner of the card base was inked using distress ink- spun sugar and the sentiment( from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps-Big Treble) was stamped using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I LOVE that sentiment !! I wanted the sentiment to look more prominent, so I quickly poured some Zing Clear Embossing Powder over it and heat embossed it. This is a great way to make your sentiment look more prominent. The assembled die cut peacock was then adhered over the card base and added some musical notes by doodling them next to the peacock.
Sentiment stamp- Cas-ual Fridays clear stamp set - Big Treble Distress ink- Spun Sugar Card stock- Iris Sg Water colour paper- Canson Montval Zing Clear Embossing powder Versamark onyx black ink Zig clean color brush pens-24 pk
Reminder :-
Sizzix is offering a chance to win Big Shot Plus Machine along with a beautiful collection of dies. Have you entered the Sizzix giveaway yet? If not, you still have time uptil 14th of July 2017, 10 A.M BST.(2:30 p.m. IST) To enter this giveaway, click on the following link :- https://goo.gl/SteF45
That's all for today. Have a great day ! Hugs ! - Jasleen.
I’m very impressed with their amazing and detailed designs.
And the co-ordinated dies fit perfectly well with their respective images and
give a clean cut with a perfect edge. It’s for the first time an Indian craft
manufacturing company has come up with a stamp and co-ordinated die set. They
also have a Super
Boy stamp set and die as well as patterned papers in the same theme too.
Here’s my first card:-
The image was stamped using versafine onyx black ink on Iris
Sg card stock and coloured using Faber Castell watercolour pencils. It was then
die cut using the co-ordinating die. I wanted to keep this card very CAS and
I’m happy with the way those colours look against the light grey background.
Sometimes, substituting a white card stock with some other neutral colours adds
an interesting appeal to the whole look and at the same time, keeps the card
clean and simple.
Second one:-
I started by drawing a cloud on a scratch piece of paper and
fussy cut it to use it as a mask for sponging distress ink. That skyline die is
from Sizzix and I stenciled some distress ink over it to add some interesting
texture. This super girl image is the second one from the same stamp set and it
was also coloured using Faber Castell watercolour pencils. It was die cut using
the coordinating die and then popped up on the prepared scene using double
sided foam tape.
Third One:-
This one’s my first attempt at making a pop-up card.I have kept it quite simple. I stamped the
‘bang’ on the outside of the card in versamark watermark ink and silver
embossed it. I die a cut a few stars from a Sizzix framelits Star die set using
golden and silver glitter paper and mounted these using 3D foam tape. Added a
few star-shaped sequins here and there. Have a look at the picture below to see
how it looks on the inside :-
I've also shared a small video clip to help you see better how the
pop-up card looks like on opening up:-
I had a great time making these cards. Hope you liked these!
To view my post on the hndmd blog, please visit this link HERE and I'm sure you'd also love to have a look at many more inspiring posts by the other talented crafters and the design team of HNDMD.
Thanks a lot for your visits, likes and comments on my work. :)
