Smooshed Background

Hey Friends!

Sharing a card I made inspired by this month’s Happy LittleStampers’ CAS challenge, where we have to incorporate the smooshing technique on our CAS cards.  I love distress inks and most of us who use these inks know how versatile they can be when it comes to techniques. Don’t we all love to see the magical effect they have when blended with water.  Quickly sharing a card for you all to see the smooshed background I made:-

 

 

For those wondering what smooshing technique means, it is a very technique by which we dab the ink pads directly on our craft sheet( re-inkers can also be used instead of in pads if you prefer), acrylic block or acetate, spraying a little water over that and pressing the card stock or the paper over the ink-water mixture. The effects it produces are very beautiful, artsy and unique each and every time. Quick, Simple and effective.

For the one-layered card above, distress inks (fired brick, spiced marmalade, squeezed lemon) and rose bud memento ink were dabbed on an acrylic block, some water sprayed over it and the block was dabbed over the card base. The layers were dried using Rangers’ heat tool before repeating the steps again, until the desired effect was achieved. After letting the paper dry thoroughly, stamped the sentiment from Inkadinkado-Kid’s quotes stamp set, in Archival black ink. Stamped the same sentiment again in versamark ink over the previously stamped sentiment and clear embossed it. This is a good way to add some interest to a simple card.

Stamped some colourful hearts here and there and finally added those handmade embellishments (colour palette and paint brush ) using 3D foam tape.

A real pep-me-up card. Don’t you think? J

I would also like to thank the amazing CAS design team members at Happy Little Stampers for choosing my penguin card as one of the favorites for the December CAS challenge J

Thanks for visiting my blog. Have a lovely day.

Love,

 

Believe

Hello friends!

The inspiration picture at this fortnight's Runway Inspired Challenge#76 gave me an excuse for another card with a sponged distress ink scenery. As if I need one :) , because I really enjoy playing with my inks. You can view a few of my previously made scenery cards here and here.

Also linking it to Addicted to stamps and more- Holiday ( Because the scenery created looks like a nice holiday destination to me )

Over to my card:

And the outfit it got inspired from:

The outfit shows patches of colourful scenery over a black background. I sponged an imaginary scene using both distress and memento inks.

The tree was hand drawn and the corn grass was stamped.

The sentiment (Heidi Swapp) is heat embossed.  Added a few drops of glossy accents next to the sentiment to add interest.

The dimensions of this card are 6 inches by 3 inches.

Hope you liked it ! Thanks for visiting !

Supplies used:

Tim Holtz distress inks--- tumbled glass, salty ocean, mowed lawn, spiced marmalade, barn door.

Memento dew drop inks --- Dandelion, angel pink, rose bud.

Inkadinkado meadow stamp set

versamark ink

Ranger's heat embossing powder.
Ranger's glossy accents

More Distress Ink scenery cards

Thank you dear friends for your wonderful comments on my previous post, which was about creating a scenery with distress inks. Due to your encouraging comments, I felt motivated to try more of them, and as a result of which, I have come up with two more inked cards.

Here's my first card:

I have kept this one pretty simple and one-layered. I just wanted the beautiful colours of the dawn to rule the scene.  The silhouette stamp is from Impression obsession. It is my recent purchase and I really love it because it reminds me of my childhood cycle rides with my brother. :)
Linking this one to:
Addicted to CAS-- Family 

And here's the second one:

Okay, this one took a little more time to finish. I love how rich and vibrant it looks. The Tim Holtz distress inks used in this one are spiced marmalade and fired brick. In addition to these, I've also used memento inks- dandelion and rhubarb stalk. After a few moments of masking and inking, messy craft table and a few inky fingers, this is what I came up with. :) And the stamped meadow silhouette is from Inkadinkado- meadows.
Linking this to:
Runway Inspired Challenge#74-Escada

Also linking both the cards to:
Virginia's View Challenge-- All things Distressed

I did make a third scenery card as well, one-layered with snow, but the stamping on it went horribly wrong and it was discarded. Hopefully, will give it another try and share it soon.

Until then, let me know what you think about these. I appreciate your views on my work.

Happy Crafting!

Fun With Distress Inks

Hi There!

I played with my distress inks this afternoon. I just love the versatility of these inks. The more I use them, the more they surprise me with their results. One of the uses of the distress inks is making  scenes with the help of sponge daubers or/and ink blending tools. I tried my hand at creating an autumn scene inspired by a real photograph I found on the internet.

Here's my card:

And here's the picture it got inspired from:

The Tim Holtz distress inks used here are- Mowed lawn, tumbled glass, salty ocean, fired brick and spiced marmalade. Have also used a couple of memento inks-dandelion and tuxedo black. Added a few splatters of watered down inks using a paint brush.
Sorry, I don't have the step-by-step pictures of the process because it was just meant to be a trial and I had no idea how it would turn out to be. But after it's completion, I'm quite satisfied with the way it looks.

The tree trunk and the smaller tree-silhouttes are hand-drawn using a black marker. The leaves that appear to be blown outside the framed scene are stamped(hero arts leaves stamp set), fussy cut and coloured with distress inks.

So, that's all about this card. Do let me know what your views are. :)

Linking it to the following challenges:
1. CAS(E) this sketch#102

2. Virginia's view challenge--All things distressed

3. Casology#124-- Old ( Well, I have used distress inks here, and 'distressed' means 'old', so with that logic, I hope that counts)

4. Addicted to stamps and more#124--- CAS

Sea

Hey everyone!

Great to be back crafting and blogging. I wasn't getting any good ideas and was feeling creatively low since I was away from crafting for quite a while (I shared the reason for my absence in my last post here), but as soon as I saw this week's CASology cue word-Sea, I knew what I had to come up with.

Here's how I made it :
1. Inked a piece of white cardstock with tumbled glass and salty ocean distress inks, darker on the sides and the corners and lighter on the inside
2. Made it look like a white foamy wave by tearing it on one side and stuck it over the card base
3. Used a 'small foot' punch on a scrap piece of paper, used the negative as a stencil of inking up those footprints
4. Stamped the sentiment from Fiskars-all around quotes
5. Finished off the card by embellishing it with an antique metal anchor charm.


Quick and Simple.

Also linking up with:
Virginia's View Challenge#9--All things metallic(Have used a metallic anchor charm)

Would love to know your views. Thanks for visiting.

Have a great week ! :)

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!

Greetings- An Afternoon well-spent

Hello Friends!

Feels great to be posting again after a while. Last few days have been super-busy for me.  I did manage to sneak in to my blogger to see what my friends have been upto, but haven't been able to comment on most of the blogs. Will try catching up soon.

First onto my card:

Today I did try to sqeeze in some 'me' time in the afternoon. Sharing this card I didn't want to miss making after I saw this week's sketch at Cas(e) this sketch-79

 And then came this fortnight's Fusion  inspiration sketch, which looked like a twin to the CTS sketch, and I was happy that I would be able to aim two birds with one arrow. (was inspired by the sequential arrangement of colours in the picture and the sketch)

 Or rather three, the sentiment 'Greetings' is the NBUS, from a stamp set I bought from itsy bitsy but didn't get a chance to use it until now. Definitely wanted to play along Darnell's  NBUS challenge#1, a celebration for reaching the 500-followers mark, where you have to dig out some of the Never Used Before stuff from your stash and well, use it now. If you still haven't come across talented Darnell's blog, well you are really missing the fun. She's one of the most warm and charming ladies I have come across and I'm so glad to have known her. I love reading her posts always.

Just found out that this fortnight's challenge at Inkspirational is about Clean and Simple Projects. So linking it up there too.

My dear friend Kimberly suggested that I also link this up to Paper Crafting Challenges#11 where we are supposed to use stencils in our projects. Thanks, Kimberly, I wouldn't have liked to miss playing along.

And now the making:

Stenciling with some selective masking and sponging

Today I realised that masking tape is such a blessing for us crafters. The making of this involved some stenciling and sponging some Tim Holtz inks( Salty lake,spiced marmalade, mowed lawn,fired brick, peacock feathers, tumbled glass) after sequetial masking using the tape. 

The stencil used here is from the Clear Scraps collection-Swirls.

Closer view of the heat embossed butterfly

The butterfly was stamped on a piece of vellum using Versamark ink and heat embossed using Lindy's silver EP.  And yes, it shines beautifully.

The making of this one was fun, although it did leave me with a dusbin full of discarded trials.  Do let me know how you like it. 

Thanks so much for visiting me. Have a great week. :)

One-Layered and Off the edge

Hello there.

I've been missing in action for quite a while, a few health issues in the family and a new job being the main things ruling my mind in the past few days. The past week just flew by. Thankfully, things appear settled now and I got some time to make a card inspired by the versatile sketch by N@ Ali at .CAS(E) The Sketch-75, the beautiful picture inspiration at Inkspirational Challenges-56 , Addicted to CAS-38-Off the Edge and Less is More-171- One layered card

Also, adding this to another wonderful challenge-Time Out Challenges-5, where we have to create something based on the phrase, "Time flies, Love Lasts". We can take inspiration from either the complete phrase, or just a word or two. Interesting, isn't it? :) So I guess my card fits here too, because the word 'flies' is interpreted in my card through the flying balloons. Thanks Sandie for reminding me about this, I wouldn't have liked to miss playing along. :)

Here's what I've come up with:

I loved the photo provided at Inkspirational Challenge and tried to make a scene similar to that using my distress inks. The silhoutte is hand drawn and those balloons are fuzzy cut. Those irregular edges of the little scenery are because of the torn paper used in masking. I love the effect. Finally, stamped the sentiment, added some bling and it was done. 

Thanks for visiting me today. Have a creative day ! :)

LIVE your life!

Hello friends,
Sharing a card inspired by a few challenges.

Here's the card:

 And the challenges it got inspired from:
1. cas(e) this sketch-74

2. Cas-ual Fridays#131( That twisted band is made up of three colours)

3.casology#93 -Electric--( This design kind of reminds me of the colourful laser lights and also of a beam of light splitting into different colours---so electric, hope I've not swayed away too far)

4. Less is more- 3 colour challenge- Three colour challenge( I have used rose bud memento ink, mowed lawn distress ink and salty ocean distress ink)

Well, nothing much to explain here. You may have guessed already that I have used Tim Holtz inks alongwith my hand made stencil to make this design, well, after involving some precision masking  ofcourse :) I have used water colour paper for the white panel here, which is mounted on a black card stock.

The sentiment  is a part of a stamp from the Fiskars-All around quotes stamp set.

Thanks so much for visiting me and leaving kind words on my work. 

Have a nice day. :)

Summer CAS card

Hello Friends,
It feels good to be back after a refreshing vacation with near and dear ones. Before I go ahead, I would like to wish all my friends a very Happy Vaisakhi. Vaisakhi is the beginning of a new year observed by the followers of Sikhism. It's one of the most celebrated festivals in our religion.I wish you all a great year ahead, full of love, prosperity and happiness .:)

Sharing a very CAS card that I had made before going on the holiday but didn't get time to post it. Linking it to the following challenges:- Lulupu- Summer CAS cards, ATCAS-Far Away , CASology#90-WET and OLS#4- Road Trip(The boat that you see is made by a small piece of paper shaped and stuck  dimensionally directly over the base and the ore is made from a small piece of toothpick, don't know if they are considered to be embellishments or another layer,I would leave that for you to judge if this qualifies a one-layered card)

Here's my take :

The colours I have used from the given colour palette are Blue, yellow, orange, pink and kraft. If somebody asks me where I would like to go to beat the summer heat, my reply would be either some far away destination like hilly region or some relaxing beach with clear blue waters and white sand  where I could just put my feet up and sip on my favorite mocktail and hear the gushing of the waves. ahhhh!!! How I wish to be there right now! (LOL, just back from a holiday and already dreaming about the next one :P) Although it may not be possible right now, atleast I got a feel of it while making this card ;) 

 As you may have guessed, I have used distress inks to make this beach scenery. 

And as for the CASology cue card 'WET', I think it's quite obvious why this card fits there, isn't it? ;)

Did you enjoy this 5 minute escape to a far away beach? :D 

Thanks for visiting me today. Have a great day!