Catchy Design's : Let's Get Pinspired # 1

Hello Dear Friends!

My friend Deepti Stephens of Catchy Design is hosting a brand new challenge on her blog today which is all about getting inspired from some of the most amazing images found on the Pinterest and she invited me to be a guest designer for this month's challenge- Let's get Pinspired # 1. Thank you so much Deepti for this opportunity and I'm thrilled to be a GD at your blog. :)

What makes it even more exciting is the fact that it's being sponsored by Papericious , a Delhi-based company which comes up with exquisite patterned papers and the winner of this challenge would be receiving the gorgeous 12 by 12 Vintage Rosewood Paper pad. Tempting, isn't it? :)

Here's how I got Pinspired :--

There's so much to get inspired from in the picture. I loved the black and white background, the pop of colours- pink, yellow, blue , green, the worded background, the word 'Joy', etc.
I started by stamping my own background over the base of an A2 sized card. I wanted to use the word 'Joy' and some other words which would compliment each other . So I chose to stamp 'joy', 'hope', 'journey', 'thankful' from Heidi Swapp 'Journey' stamp set. I just love how interesting those fonts look. :)

Then I used this coloured vellum which was a result of  the coloured vellum technique I learnt in Clean and simple online class-4.A very simple and effective technique- just mix some distress ink of your choice with isopropyl alcohol (commonly known as rubbing alcohol) or nail polish remover and paint it over your piece of vellum. It dries super fast and the results look beautiful. The benefit of using rubbing alcohol over water is that water takes a long time to dry and it also leads to excessive warping of the vellum.

I drew and cut out those three feathers from a piece of white card stock, coloured them with memento inks, embossed the edges in enchanted gold EP (which could not be clearly seen in the picture) and arranged them over the base.

Finally tied a twine over the base to bind the whole design together and added the sentiment from mama elephant stamp set.

That's all from my side today. Please head over to Catchy Designs blog and check out the wonderful inspiration by Deepti Stephens and Pooja. I'm sure you'll love them.

Hope you join this absolutely fun challenge.  See you there :)

Guest Designer at Kraftzone for Challenge#8--CAS

Hello dear friends and fellow crafters,

I'm really excited to share that I was invited over at Kraft zone blog to be a Guest designer for this month's Challenge there, it's about Clean and Simple or CAS cards. For those who have been following my work for a while now may be aware that I love making CAS cards. So, when I was invited by Khushboo to be this month's guest designer, I felt truly honoured and happy. Also, this is my first ever GD post for an Indian Blog challenge, which makes it ever more special.

Below are the two cards that I made as an inspiration for this challenge. If you would like to read more about the making process, please hop over to my GD post at Kraftzone. I would really love it if you leave me a few words there. :)

Linking this above card to:

1. One-layer Simplicity Challenge #8--Shades of Summer. My card has two colours from the Shades of summer#3 colour palette given there. The colours are blue and orange(salty lake DI, faded jeans DI for the shaded corner and bamboo leaves and potter's clay memento inks for the leaves)

2. Less is More #184--One-layered and with Foliage

3. Hero Arts One layer Challenge(The hero arts stamp used here is Scattering leaves from Hero Arts cling rubber stamps.

And the second card:

I used the stamps from the lovely Waffle Flower Bowtiful stamp set that I had won in a giveaway hosted by May of Mayholic in Crafts. Thanks May, I totally loved it. :)

Linking the above card to

CASology Week 107--Stripe 

Reminding again, please hop over at Kraftzone blog to see the detailed post and I would appreciate if you could leave me some words there. Hope to see you all play along :) 

Thanks for visiting me today. Have a great day!