Clean and Simple Card with MFT

 Hello bloggers,

I'm hoping you are are doing well.

It's been long since I participated in any card making challenges owing to time constraints. But this one challenge is something that I love to participate every year. Last night, I made a card for participating in  2021 Card Design Superstar Contest hosted by My Favorite Things for the Clean and Simple Genius category. 

I started by diecutting a watercolour paper panel using the LOVE die from MFT Die-namics. I stamped those cute pigs from BB Hog Heaven stamp set using Spun sugar distress ink. I did no-line watercolouring using Tim Holtz distess inks (coral pink, spun sugar). Adding a third piggie peeking through the "O" window was a last minute idea, just before taping down the panel over the card base. I love the idea of that cute piggy peeking out ;) After adjusting the panel and taping it down over a 6 by 6 inch card base, I stacked a few "LOVE" diecuts and added those to their respective negative spaces, except "O." Finally, added the sentiment from MFT- Hug in a Mug Stamp set--- I like how the sentiment feels complete-- "Love makes things better" :)

Thank you for stopping by. 

Dreaming about Vacation

 Well, we all are, aren't we? ;)

Anyhow, a real vacation is not happening for me anytime sooner, so I thought why not try and mimic that experience and feeling of going on a holiday. Yeah, card making does that trick for me ;)

I made this holiday-themed card to paly along a couple of my favorite challenges using dies from Sizzix.

I started by masking the upper third area of my card base and sponging distress inks to create a night sky. The white splatters were added using white acrylic paint and a brush. For making that curvy landscape panel edge, I used Sizzix Thinlits Die- Build a Landscape (#662839). Those cute little tress are from the same die set. I like the simplicity of those trees. Perfect for CAS cards!

The car is from Sizzix Thinlits die set-- Summertime (#662547). The die cuts were sponged using distress inks too.

The sentiment from MFT was aligned on the stamping tool such that it aligns along the edge. After stamping the sentiment, I still felt that something was missing. Therefore, I stamped that curvy line along with the tiny heart form Neat and Tangled stamp set (Thank you, Pooja for gifting this to me) to add interest.

I hope you like the card.

Linking this up with the following challenges:

AAA Card Challenge-- CAS Game #174 - Up To One Third + optional twist Woodland Animals

CASology Week 374: VACATION

Uniko Challenge #61 - Anything Goes + optional twist Thanks

Thanks for stopping by! Have a super week ahead.

Most wonderful time of the year

Hello friends!

I'm sharing a card that I made using the die from Impression Obsession- Birds Songbird branch. I had won this beautiful die in one of the card making challenges long ago, but I only got a chance to use it now.

I started by sponging the corner of a card panel using distress inks (tumbled glass and salty ocean) and splattering a few drops of water over the sponged area for some texture. Next, I die cut the branch with the birds multiple times--once using the black card stock and the remaining using a white card stock. I then carefully cut out the birds from the white die cut and adhered these birds over the black die cut after ensuring that the birds are suitably positioned. The birds were sponged using the Fired Brick distress ink. I decided to complete this little scene by adding a "Sun" and a "cloud" to it, both of which are the die cuts created with Sizzix dies. Sentiment is from Your Next Stamp stamp set- Snow Wonderful.

Linking this up to
CASology week 358| Branch

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Inked background with an uncoloured image

I got my distress inks out after ages, or so it seems. I have always enjoyed making inked backgrounds by sponging distress inks; however, I had overused my sponge-daubers and ink blending foams owing to which they were badly worn out! I got my new ink blending tools from Amazon (Thanks, Ishani, for the recommendation). These work beautifully with Iris cardstock.

Now onto my card.

I sponged the distress inks (fossilized amber, squeezed lemon, spiced marmalade) over the top edge of a 5 by 7 card base. Next, I sprinkled some water droplets randomly over the sponged area using a paint brush and I dabbed over these drops lightly using a tissue paper; this step lifts some water off the sponged area, giving a beautiful texture. Because I wanted to add some shimmer, I sprinkled some silver paint from the Gansai Tambi watercolour paint set. The effect looks beautiful in real.

Next, I added a strip of black coloured card stock with a heat embossed sentiment, on the card base using double-sided foam tape. I stamped the Elf image on a piece of Iris card stock, fussy cut, and adhered it over the sentiment strip, using double-sided foam tape. I decided to leave it uncoloured, mainly for two reasons: 1) I liked the effect of black-and-white image against a vibrant background and 2) I was running out of time and had to finish making this card quickly ;)

What do you think? Yay or nay?

Have a great Sunday, folks!

Linking this card to the following challenges:
AAA cards- CAS game#155- Along the edge (I chose to skip the optional twist)

Hugs !

Recently, I received my box from Sizzix containing the dies from Chapter 4 release. Exactly what I needed to get my almost-vanished mojo back after almost 5 months.

 I decided to use the Sizzix thinlits Scattered hearts die(#662599) to make one card but I actually ended up making two ! I realized that the best way to get the creative juices flowing again are simply to start something. Anything. Even if we don't have a plan in mind. You wouldn't realize when ideas start coming in. I sat with a blank mind and just had the die and the coloured cardstock in front of me on the table. And during the process of making, I was getting more ideas that I could've used for making 3 more cards if only I had more time in my hands.But I had to stop at two.

I absolutely love the gorgeous colours included in the Sizzix cardstock sheets(#663007). There are all shades in pastel hues and I love pastels. 


Which card did you like more? I am slightly more biased towards the one with a white background. :)

Are there any challenges going on in the blog land where I can link up my card? Please let me know if you know of any. :) 

Hugs!

Life's a Joyride

Do you like cards which have little sceneries in them ? Or a story to tell? I really enjoy creating such sweet scenery cards which have a lot to say with less.

I made one such card for my better half [Yes,Valentine's day special ;)] using some cutest little dies from Sizzix Lifestyle. Here it is:-

The die set I used here is Sizzix thinlits die set- Spring Time, which contains 18 varied dies including some tine florals, rabbits, butterflies, bicycle, leaves, everything Spring !! Perfect for making CAS cards with sceneries.

Those tiny flowers are die cut using foam sheets in different colours and added a touch of pearls(my favorite embellishment) to these. Sentiment, as you might have guessed, is handwritten.

Products used :-

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine Only(white and gray)(#660020)

Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 18 PK-- Spring Time by My Life Handmade (#662515)

White cardstock- Iris sg
Pastel Cardstock- American Crafts textured cardstock
Distress ink- Mowed lawn
pearls, micron pen,cord,coloured foam sheets.

Hope you are having a good day! Happy Valentine's day to all :)

Linking the above card to the following challenges:-

Paru's Card making Challenges- February- Love

AAA Card Challenge- CAS game#108- All You need is love.

Addicted To Stamps and more#279-- CAS

Guest Designing at CAS(E) This Sketch #256

Hi there!

I'm happy to share that I'm guest designing for this week's challenge at CAS(E) This Sketch. I had won one of their challenges few months ago and I was excited when Chrissy asked me if I would like to guest design for one of their challenges. I have always loved their sketches and I often use them to make my CAS cards. This week they have challenged everyone with a very interesting sketch. Check out below :-

And here's my interpretation of the sketch :-

Pretty clean, simple and quick one to make. Those hearts are from Sizzix Bigz die- Heartfelt, which are watercoloured using Gansai Tambi paints. The sentiment on the white heart is from My Favorite Things- Harvest mouse stamp set. I wanted to define the hearts more clearly so I doodled along their edges uising my micron pen. That's pretty much about the making process. Nothing too elaborate. 

Hope you feel inspired to participate in this week's CAS(E) This Sketch challenge # 256. :)

I Pick You

Hey friends!

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. 

So what do you think?  Would you pick him? :)

Linking this card to -

1. MFT Card Design Superstar Contest 2017- For Clean and Simple Category.


2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge- Clean and Simple.

3. Addicted to stamps and more challenge- Clean and Simple
Addicted To stamps and more


4. AAA Cards : CAS Game#98- Creatures great or small

5. CAS on Sunday- Challenge#116-Colour Me Pretty-Using Zig Brush Markers.

6. Always Fun Challenges: Create a Scene





 


Thank you for stopping by. 
Hugs!

Friendship Card Using Peacock Die | Sizzix

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. 

That's all. I love the way it has turned out.

Linking the card to :-
1. Addicted To Stamps and More Challenge#249- CAS
 

2. AAA Cards Challenge# 93-  Words Take Centre stage
 

Products used:-
Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine Only(White and gray)(#660020)

Sizzix Thinlits die set 7 Pk - Peacock by Pete Hughes (#661707)

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.

SuperGirl Cards | Guest Post for CrafTangles

Hi friends !
Hope you all are doing well.

I'm guest designing today at CrafTangles official blog (blog.hndmd.in) and I made three cards featuring their
SuperGirl stamp and co-ordinated die set.

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. :)

Love,

Jasleen.

Floral Card- Altenew Challenge

Hi friends !

How's your weekend going? As for me, I managed to make a card to play along a challenge after ages, so yes, my weekend is going great ;) 

I loved  June month's Altenew Inspiration Challenge picture and decided to make a card inspired the gorgeous floral bouquet of deep pink and light yellow coloured flowers against the light gray backdrop.


 

 The design of this card was inspired by Ardyth's card I saw here. I'm a huge admirer of Ardyth's work and there are so many of her cards I wish to CASE.

The flowers are from Altenew Hennah Elements stamps set ( I can never get bored of this stamp set) coloured using my newly bought Zig brush pens. Now I know why everybody is crazy about Zig pens.;) They are so amazing to work with.
The sentiment is from Mudra Craft Stamps- Butterfly wishes.

I'll be sending this card to a friend and decided to go with yellow envelope. Do you think this envelope goes well with the card or should I go with the one that looks less brighter? 

Thanks for visiting my blog today. 
Hugs !

- Jasleen.

Geometric Shaped Dies- Card #1

Hey friends!!!

How're you all ?

In my last kit from Sizzix, I got a few tiny geometric shaped framelits dies such as circle, hexagon, triangle, scalloped circle and star dies. So, I have challenged myself to come up with some card ideas using only these geometric dies in the next few days ! I hope I manage to complete my own challenge. Great way to get my lost mojo back on track, don't you think ?

So here's the first card of the series :-

Father's day is just round the corner so I thought it would a nice idea to have few such cards in my stash. ;)

So, for this CAS card, I made use of Sizzix Framelits little bunting and Sizzix Framelits small  Scallop Circle die sets. That sentiment is hand-written, as you might have already guessed ;)

And if you are looking for some interesting patterned papers to help with your Father's day makes, there are some free paper downloads available at sizzix.co.uk

Here' the link where you can download these free patterned papers -
https://www.sizzix.co.uk/fathers-day-2017

Will be coming up with more cards soon. Thanks for stopping by.

Linking the above card to :-
1. CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #175- Use Pattern Papers



2. Uniko Challenge- Masculine with an optional twist - Father's Day ( I don't know really if my card falls under the masculine category, but it sure does for father's day, so anyway didn't want to miss entering here. )
 

Products Used :-

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine(White and Gray Only) (#660020)

Sizzix Framelits die set 2 Pk- Little Bunting(#661780)

Sizzix Framelits die set 2 pk- Small scallop circles (#661779)

White cardstock- Iris Sg
Grey Cardstock(for making the ice cream cone)- Locally bought
Patterned papers - Lawn Fawn
Distress Ink- Salty Ocean
Micron003 Pen- For writing the sentiment and for doodling .
Googly eyes- Locally bought.

Mother's Day Cards | Sizzix Post

We are observing Mother’s Day in India on the 14^th of this month and I came up with a couple of last minute mother’s day card ideas featuring the newly released dies from Sizzix—Butterfly Meadow by Debi Potter and the Sentiment Words Thin by Tim Holtz.

First One:-

Although this one was quick to put together after planning the design, it took a lot of time and brain-storming to finalize the card layout. Yeah, guess that happens when you’re low on creative ideas. I usually find it difficult to incorporate patterned papers on my cards. But I have a huge stock of pretty patterned papers kept in the drawers unused and it hurts me to see them getting dusty. So I challenged myself to try using PPs onto my card.  That beautiful die cut is a single piece with the butterfly, flowers and the leaves. I sponged the die cut using different colours of distress inks with the help of sponge daubers.

And now over to the second one:-

For this card, I wanted to try out a stenciling technique with my distress inks. I started by sponging three colours(abandoned coral, scattered straw, evergreen bough) of distress inks on a 4 by 5 ¼ inches sized Iris Sg card panel.

Then I chose my stencil I wished to use, sprayed some water over the stencil and placed it over the sponged card panel. I saw this technique in one of the recent card-making videos by Jennifer McGuire.

That gave me a beautiful background. The reason why this technique works so beautifully with distress inks (or even distress oxides) is the unique tendency of these inks to react with water.

And because I already had a colourful and striking background, I decided to keep the butterfly meadow die cut uncoloured.

How do you like these cards? Would love to know. :)

Products used:-

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine Only (white and gray)(#660020)

Sizzix Thinlits die set- Meadow Butterfly#2  by Debi Potter(661687)

Sizzix Thinlits die set 21 pk – Sentiment words, Thin by Tim Holtz(#661799)

Linking my cards to :-

Paru's Cardmaking Challenges- May-- Mother's Day

Love,

Jasleen.