Series of cards with Winnie and Walter - 1

Hey All,
Looks like February has been a super crafty month for me. This month is a 2nd birthday celebration month at Winnie and Walter. Coincidently, I happened to buy "In Bloom Addie's Garden" stamp set from www.thecraftshop.in and was super excited to play with it.
The first card of the series of cards I made with it is a Valentine themed card. I made this card keeping 2 challenges in mind.
One is Winnie and Walter 2nd birthday bash challenges-

 and other is peek a boo designs - Challenge 3 Tic Tac Toe.

I have selected the diagonal Red/Pink, Gold/Silver and Die/Punch Out
And here is my card -

I have used W&W's stamp set In Bloom : Addie's garden and have colored the images using my new Zig markers. The sentiment is from TPC Studio Greetings.

I am submitting this card for following Walter and Winnie 2nd birthday bash challenges -
Two Challenge with Shay - The card has 2 panels one for image and one for sentiment, 2 butterflies and sentiment has 2 words
Gold + Watercolor Challenge with Heather H
Over the Edge Challenge with Kelly
Floral Challenge with Lydia
Image Inspiration with Taheerah - The colors - Pink, green, black, white and golden

Hope you liked it :)

Love,
Piyu

PTI challenge : Dress inspiration

Hello!
Papertrey ink is having a huge celebration on the occasion of their 9th anniversary. There are lots of challenges and Giveaways. Do check it out at - http://nicholeheady.typepad.com
Today I am posting a card for the Papertrey ink Dress Inspiration challenge.
I made a card  using the PTI - Beautiful blooms 2 stamp set and I used my baby girl's dress for inspiration.
So here are a couple of pics of my card -

And here is my doll displaying her mommy's work :) -

Linking up this card to the PTI challenge -dress-up-dolls

Love,
Piyu

Back with Unconditional Love!

Hello Friends!! How have you been? I had been MIA for a long long time and missed you all so much!..Thanks to my hectic professional and personal life. My weekends are more busy than weekdays. But while I was missing, I did manage to make some cards and will be sharing the backlog one by one(Once I click the pics :)..Those who know me well...also know how lazy I am at clicking pics..).
Now without wasting more time...I will show you my latest card made specially for Kalindi's unconditional love challenge. There are still couple of hours left for the challenge to close...and thankfully I made it on time :D

The dolphins are hand drawn and coloured using steadler water colour pencils. The glitter on waves is from pie lane. Sorry for the poor picture..

Kalindi also has a candy for celebrating her blogaversary. So click on the picture to check it out -

And now here's the card I had made for Tejal's birthday. I had posted a sneak-peek..but went missing before uploading the complete one :)

Supplies: Parchment paper, Hero arts blossom art stamp, colour box frost white ink, MS glitter, clear embossing powder

I will be back soon with the back logs :)

Best Wishes

Today's card is based on Piali's sketch below for ICRC10 -

And here's my card -

It's the first time I used fabric on my cards and quite happy with the outcome. The yellow lace and the fabric cutwork patch is from my mom's stash. The sentiment is a peel off sticker. The red dotted pp is DCWV stack 7, the bottom pp is from paper mania. The doily is from Shruti. Thanks girl! I need some more :).
And now the show stopper of this card - the handmade flower. It is made using handmade paper using pielane glitter balls at center. I learnt this from Laura. Thanks Laura for the wonderful classes!
I will be uploading pictures of other flowers that I learnt in her class in my next post.

Submitting this at - ICRC10 - Sketch + use fabric/felt

And one good news! This card of mine made it to top 3 at the ICRC9 challenge. This is the third time I made it to ICRC top 3 :)

GDT for ICRC5!

Hello!
Last week has been very hectic with loads of work in office. And hence the delay in posting my latest card which I designed for ICRC5. My card for ICRC3 made it to top 3 and I was choosen as he guest DT :) and this is the second time that I won ICR.
The theme for ICRC5 is "Interpret the word RAIN and decorate the inside of the card or the envelope".
When Tejal informed me the theme, I thought of raining hearts. But didn't find a good digi with a couple so dropped the idea. Next I thought of raining butterflies, but last minute I got loads of work in office leaving me with just 4-5 hours to complete my "RAIN" task. So I decided to go for raining cupcakes/goodies. I had a DP which went well with the theme. I had also bought some cupcake borders from Kavitha. So had enough things to go well with the theme.
And here's my card-

It's raining goodies - coz it's ur b'day!

Inside of card

I was still in the doodling mood :) so doodled the gifts, cupcakes and ballons and colored them with staedler water color pencils. Later I coatedd them and the digital cupcake with "Glue n Gloass". Honestly, I am not so happy with this card and I think I could have done better...but anyway, there's always a next time :).

Isn't this a challenging challenge? So what are you waiting for? Join the fun at ICR and get drenched in the RAINY challenge!

Back after a break...

Hey All,
I am back along with my mojo after a gap of 5 long days. Long..because I was on bed rest after a small surgery..Anyways.. I am feeling much much better and completed a half left project today.
This card was initially meant for Anita's Challenge at Kavi's Anniversary celebrations. But missed the deadline due to my health issues. Hence I would be submitting this for Anita's Friendship Challenge. And I dedicate this card to Khushboo my newest blogger friend.

The flowers are handmade following Anita's tutorial. Thanks so much Anita for the wonderful tutorial! The flowers look like real ones and I am going to experiment more with it.
Here's a closer look at the flowers-

An year back, I had got some handmade papers from Singapore which were very thin and I thought were useless. But I was mistaken. These papers are just perfect for making these flowers. The pattern paper is from Paper Mania and butterfly is stamped on parchment paper with black ink, clear embossed and coloured on back side using water colours. (As I am at my mom's place and I didn't have my markers with me). The sentiment is MICIA stamp and the circle punch is from Fiskars.

I also wanted to flaunt my prize for winning Karuna's Just heat embossing challenge. Thank you so much girl! Super loved it :) .

 Now that my mojo is back..I'll be soon experimenting with the embossing pen :)

You are Special!

I have a "You are special!" card today.
I started with this card for participating in Kavitha's inspirational challenge. But as I continued, I figured that the colors I am using are apt for the "Dhin Chak dhin" challenge at ICR. So this card will go to both the challenges.

I got inspiration from Tejal's this card. I simply love her cards especially the CAS ones.
Thank you Tejal for this wonderful inspiration!
And here's my card-

And here's a closer view at the "Special butterfly".

The black butterflies are stamped on parchment paper using black creativ ink and then clear embossed. The silver butterfly is stamped using creative glue pad and then embossed with silver embossing powder from Ranger. Yellow paper has tiny stars embossed and is form making memories.
Finally I am using things from my stash :). The dark blue pp with golden dot is from Paper Mania. Cardstock is local and flowers are quilled :)

Only Embossing!!

Finally I am done with my embossing only card! I had promised Karuna that I would be participating in her challenge..and with the frequent travelling and hectic work load, feared that I would miss the deadline. But I am happy I could make it...what if it's just few hours before the challenge closes :)
So here's my card using only heat embossing...

It was difficult taking a picture as everything is embossed and it gives a glossy finish. So I have some more pics with the close ups.

Sentiment

The sentiment is a MICIA stamp, stamped using Creativ glue pad and heat embossed using Silver Embossing powder.

Butterfly

The butterfly is also a MICIA stamp, stamped using Creativ glue pad and heat embossed using Golden Embossing powder.

Flowers

The flowers and stems are MICIA stamps, stamped using Creativ inks and heat embossed using clear Embossing powder.
Hopefully I will be back with some more posts over the weekend :)

Sk8er boy!!

Hi there! Just a quick post as I didn't want to miss the deadline for the Designed 2 Delight image challege. So here's my sk8er boy!

It is a simple card..but I am sure you'll agree that designing masculine cards is difficult. And this is my first attempt at masculine cards.  Next time I'll come up with something better!

Pail of flowers

This is my second post of the day and it is for the Delightful inspitaion image challenge.
It is a simple card using free stamp for the month of may at delightful inspiration. I didn't want to miss the deadline and made it just few hours befire closing.
Here's my card -

The image is coloured using colour pencils. As I am in at my mom's place for few days, I didn't have my craft supplies and had to make do with whatever I had.

Mother's day card!

Hello Peeps!  I am a little late in posting this Mother's Day card but just in time to make it for the IRC challenge and Kavitha's colouring challenge. Ever since I saw Kavitha's colouring tutorial, I wanted to give it a try.

The picture is not so good, but this is what I managed to get before I gifted it to my mother in law.
It's a side stepper card. Digi image is from Anne's blog. Surely check it out. It has some awesome free digital images. The sentiment is made in MS Word. The flower stamps are MICIA bought from Crafting Queen's store.
And the digi image is coloured using steadler water colour pencils.
I have one more card ready..so see you soon!

Today I have a card made specially for the IRC challenge where we had to interpret ICR and use the colour hues - Yellow, Green and Brown/Maroon. I interpreted IRC as I -> Inks, C->Chocolates, R-> Ribbon. And here is my card -

I->Ink, C->Chocolates, R->Ribbon

I wanted to make quilled chocolates since long time. So as soon as I thought of C for chocolates, I decided to give them a try. I am just in time for the challenge..the challenge would end today (30th April) at 12am.
The stamp (flourish) is MICIA clear stamp and the sentiment is foam stamp from hobby ideas.
The ribbon is sent to me by Kavitha as a part of ICR swap.
Yellow pattern paper is form Making Memories. It has embossed stars which would be visible if you click and enlarge the image. Brown paper is local.
More quilled chocolates to follow soon...

Another Spring Card

This week I made another spring card especially for challenge - http://sketchandstashchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/sketch-n-stash-challenge-57.html
The sketch provided was -

And here is my card -

The flowers and leaves are punched and the butterfly is a digi colored using color pencils and then clear embossed to give a glossy finish.
I am getting so addicted to punch craft and stamping that I just hope that I don't forget my dear quilling :)

This card also goes for following challenges -
Delightful Sketches  - Show us some Green....
SimonSaysStamp -  Happy Birthday!
Aly's Sunday Sketch - Spring
Mami doodles - celebrate spring
wags'n whiskers stamps - spring
Stamping with dragon - bring on spring
Paper Crafting Journey - Up in the air
Crafty Purple frog - Show us some Green
Stamping Vacation - No Fancy Borders
Bee Crafty - Spring Florals

My Scrappy Scrap Challenge card!

Hey All,
This time I have a new card for the Scrappy Scrap challenge. For this challenge, Shalini had sent us few scraps and this is what I had received -

And this is what I made -

It's a Easel card with a color changing butterfly. Here's a video to view the changing colours.-

It's the first time I experimented with acetate sheet and as soon as I saw the jute flower, I thought of making Easel card. We were not supposed to use anything else other than the scraps, cardstock, single stamp,punches (only on card stock or scraps), adhesives and paints/writing material.  So, for rotating the wheel, I used a paper made brad. I will soon post a tutorial on this.

I hope you like this card :)
Warm Regards,
Piyu

Hearts and Hugs and a kiss too :)

Hi All,

I am back after a long time and here I am with a Valentine card. Although I had made it before 14th Feb, some finishing touches were remaining.
It's a slider card and I am entering it in the CraftyJC Challenge 6 - "Hearts & Hugs"

The card has "Hearts" and when you pull the slider, it has a hug and a bonus kiss too :)

Do check out the stamped sentiment on the slider! It's the first time I have used stamps on a card :)

Take A Quill Pill

Hey friends,
Please help me spread a word about my quilling challenge blog Take a quill pill by becoming a follower and mentioning about it on your blog as post or on side bar. It would be great if you could participate too. Believe me, it's going to get interesting as the winner would get to design the next challenge and it could be you too :). The winner's work and blog link would get displayed in the "Hall of Fame" and this is surely gonna fetch some visitors.

I am also looking for sponsors. Hoping to find one soon.

So Hurry up..only 4 days remaining until challenge 1 closes and a chance to become the very first winner on this blog :) You never know..there might be some hidden surprise  ;)

My new Quilling Challenge Blog - Take a Quill Pill

Hey Friends,

I have launched my new blog - http://takeaquillpill.blogspot.com/
This blog is a monthly dose of quilling for those who want to learn quilling and for those who already know quilling but don't know what to quill or want to enhance their quilling skills.


In this blog, a new quilling challenge would be put up every 1st of month. A winner would be chosen at the end of 20th of month. For those who wanna learn quilling, the challenges will contain tutorials too.
 
To know more, please visit - Take a Quill Pill!