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

Valentine's Day Gift Box and Card

Hello, hello friends !

Today I'm sharing a last minute Valentine's day gifting idea using the newest Chapter 1 release by Sizzix Lifestyle.

I got this very cute heart shaped gift box known as Sizzix Thinlits- Heart Box, in my kit from the new release by Sizzix. I have never seen such a heart shaped die anywhere before, and I think it's hands down, my favorite box die ever. :)

Check out what I made using it :-

The tiny heart die cuts that were left behind after creating the front of the box were used to make a CAS card co-ordinating with the box.

A closer view of the card :-

Linking the above card to the following challenges :-

AAA Cards: CAS game#108- All You need is Love

Addicted to CAS challenge#129 - Teal

CAS(E) This Sketch#258 

CAS-ual Fridays #192- Hearts

CAS on Friday#126-- Dies

            




The products used for making this cute and simple gifting set are :-

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

Sizzix Thinlits Die 4 Pk - Heart Box by Sharon Drury (#662518)

White cardstock- Iris sg
Zig Clean Colour Brush pens
Distress Ink- Coral Pink
Stamp- My Favorite Things, Neat and Tangled
Cord, Pearls for embellishing


For more inspiration, please head over to www.sizzix.co.uk

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Framed Wall Art Using Sizzix Dies

Hello bloggers and crafters !

I'm posting here after a gap of more than a month !! A few health issues kept me away from crafting and blogging during the past month but I'm better now, well-rested and energized, all set for something new and creative for 2018. Wishing all my friends and readers of this blog a very happy and healthy New year. Hoping to give more love and attention to my blog this year ;)

Today I'm sharing a quick and easy idea for a home decor and I was inspired to make this when I saw my friend Sindhu's idea HERE. I loved it and I thought it would be great to come up with one of the quotes that I would like to be reminded of everyday. Check out what I made :-

Those roses are made using Foamiran sheets and Sizzix Bigz Die 3-D rose. Making these flowers was very easy using this die. It also contains a leaf die to go along with the flowers. Adhering was done with the help of a glue gun. 

I prepared a 5 by 7 inches base using Iris sg card stock and added a light watercolour wash using Gansai Tambi water colours. I let it dry for a while and kept it aside pressed in a thick book so that it straightens out before I add anything to it.  Added the quote over the straightened base using Sizzix Thinlits die set- Delicate letters. These die cut letters are very thin and that's when a humble tweezer comes to rescue. It's easier when such delicate die cuts are picked up and adhered with the help of tweezers. 

The frame that you can see was made using 1 12 by 12 inches sheet of Kaisercraft pattern paper- Base coat and I followed this tutorial to make it >>> http://www.gatheringbeauty.com/2016/05/diy-3D-shadow-box-paper-frames.html

I hope you liked my attempt and first make of this year. :) Many more to follow. Have a great week !

Products used :- 

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

Sizzix Bigz Die- 3-D Rose(#661750)

Sizzix Thinlits Die set 28 pk- Delicate Letters(#661040)

Envelopes

Hello friends ! :)

 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.

The above envelope three little roses as embellishment, made using Sizzix Thinlits - Flower scallop,mini die set(#661788)

This one features Sizzix thinlits die set- Doodle rose(#661742)

The above envelope features Sizzix Bigz die- Moroccan Flower(#661713).


These are few of the envelopes I made in the last month. Will be sharing more cards on my blog soon.
Have a great day !

Spinning Santa Card

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.

Products Used :-
Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine(white and gray) (#660020)

Sizzix Bigz Die - Old St. Nick(#661733)

White Cardstock- Iris Sg
Coloured textured cardstock -AC cardstock.
Patterned paper- My Favorite Things.
Enamel dots - Happy Little Stampers

Thank you for stopping by.

Love,

Zig Zag fold Card with Sizzix flowers

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.

Enough of ranting. :P
 I wish to share a Zig Zag-fold card I made a few days ago featuring Sizzix Framelits Folk flower stamp and die set.

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.

Linking this card to :-
CAS(E) This sketch challenge#235



Find out more inspiration on sizzix.co.uk :)

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

Sizzix Framelits Die set 2pk w/stamp Folk Flower (#662165)

5-minute Upcycling Idea

Hello  !!

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 ;)

Products used:-

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

Sizzix Thinlits Antique Doily (661720) 

Sizzix Thinlits Brush Capital Alphabet(661710)

Will be back with a new post soon.

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.

Sizzix Giveaway

Hello friends !

Have you heard about the latest giveaway at sizzix.co.uk ?

Sizzix is offering a chance to win Big Shot Plus Machine along with a beautiful collection of dies.

To enter this giveaway, click on the following link :-

https://goo.gl/SteF45

If this is not HUGE, I don't know what is !! 

 Last date to enter this giveaway is 14th July 2017, 10 A.M. BST.

I would love to see two of my crafty pals win this, you might get lucky this time so do not miss this. ;)

Love,
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.

Butterfly Shaker Card

Hello ! :)


Quickly sharing a clean and simple shaker card idea made using the newly released Sizzix thinlits die set 4 Pk- Detailed Butterflies, Mini (#661802)

The stamps are from Mudra craft stamps- Butterfly wishes.

I love making shaker cards. They add such a fun element to a simple card ! That detailed butterfly die cut on the envelope is also from the same Sizzix die set.


Products used :-

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

Sizzix thinlits die set 4 Pk- Detailed Butterflies, Mini (#661802)



For more such ideas, visit sizzix.co.uk

Linking the card to :-

1. AAA Cards- CAS game#87- Shiny Spring

2. Addicted To Stamps and More#236- Anything Goes

3. Happy Little Stampers April Challenge- Anything Goes with Dies
  


That's all from my end today. Hope to see you soon.
Hugs ,
Jasleen.