Bokeh Technique on a Card

Hello there!
 Hope this post finds you in good health and spirit.

I have quite a number of projects waiting to be shared on my blog. Hopefully, I'll share them all this week.Today, I'll be quickly sharing a card I made while trying the Bokeh Technique. Well, let's just say, it's a very milder version of Bokeh background ;)

Here's my card:-

And here's the video by Dawn Woleslagle where I got inspired from>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghp6-Ga4wIA

Bokeh background needs more intense-looking white circles , but somehow, I liked this softer look so stopped stenciling more circles and let it be.
Will be coming up soon with some more cards using this technique.


Linking this card to:

Cas(e) this sketch#133

Hope you liked it. Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day. :)

Layered Embossing Technique

Hello Friends !

I made a card for the Cas-ual Fridays challenge where the theme is 'Embossing' and cas(e) this sketch challenge #131.And I tried a new technique by Jennifer McGuire, that I learnt in Clean and Simple online card class 4 earlier this year.
So glad that finally I found time to try this out. Here's my card:-

In this technique, you can see that the embossing is done in two layers, hence the name. Here's the step-by-step process I followed:-

• Prepared my card base for embossing, so that the stray powder particles don't stick to the undesired areas. Usually you need a powder tool for this, but since I didn't have a powder tool, I just heated my card base area using my heat tool, the heat reduces the moisture from the paper and the stray powder doesn't stick. Thanks Rajni Chawla Ma'am for this useful tip.
• Stamped 'celebrate' using versamark ink and heat embossed using Ranger's enchanted gold embossing powder.
• Then, on a separate piece of card stock, stamped the solid balloon images from Mama Elephant -good times stamp set using memento dew drop inks.
• Stamped 'celebrate' again overlapping the coloured balloon images and this time around, heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.
• Fuzzy cut the images and stuck them over the gold embossed sentiment in such a way, that the word 'celebrate' appears complete. Used 3d foam adhesive to stick the images.
• Drew those balloon strings with my microtip gel pen and stamped the sentiment' the good times'.
• Added a few rhinestones and the card was complete.

Let me know how you like it. I love reading your feedback on my work always.

Thanks for visiting me and have a great day. :)

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 :)

Altered Photo Frame-- Step-by-step process

Hi Friends.

A few days back I got an order from a friend who wished to gift a hand decorated photo frame to her husband on his birthday. I jumped up at the idea of decorating the frame with some beautiful quilled flowers. But, my excitement turned into anxiety the moment she stated her requirements of "No Quilling decoration" and "No Flowers please". Instead, she requested on mixed media alteration! You see, quilling is something I'm confident about, whereas I've very limited experience with mixed media. Nevertheless, after checking out some much-needed inspiration from the internet and pondering over it, I thought why not take up this challenge that let's see how it goes !

So, here's how I altered it:-

1. I gave a coating of homemade gesso over the frame, after placing a napkin over the photo area to protect it from gesso smearing over it.

2. After the layer dried, I doodled some random dots using different colours of gelatos , followed by blending them with a finger.

3. Stamped some music notes randomly using archival black ink.
4. From the Lindy's stamp gang magical micas set-- Drink me silly, mixed the pigment powders in water in separate mini misters and used them to spray over the base.
5. Applied some Ranger's Texture paste through Kaisercraft's brick wall stencil with the help of a discarded credit card.

6. After letting it dry, sponged some memento rhubarb stalk ink over the edges of the textured wall to give it a more realistic look.
7. Since flowers were not to be used, assembled some feathers, burlap hearts, felt hearts, doily , stamped couple image and 'together' tag from the prima junkyard findings to complete the decoration.

Packed and ready to be shipped

So, how's it? I know there's a room for improvement here, and I'm going to try my hand at more  mixed media projects .

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