ICR “RE-CREATIONAL” BLOG HOP!

ICR turns a YEAR OLDER tomorrow…..  

Yes..It's our Indian Craft Room's first birthday tomorrow and this calls for a grand celebration.

We are having considerably a BIG BLOG HOP termed as “Re-Creational” Blog Hop! And this is to celebrate all our GUEST DESIGNERS at Indian Craft Room for the year 2011…. YAY!

We are RE-CREATING the MAGIC that paved our way to being the Guest Designers for the respective challenges on ICR for the year 2011….

You should have arrived here from Anita Kejriwal's blog.If not make sure you begin the re-creational hop from the INDIAN CRAFT ROOM!

My "You are special" card made it to top 3 in ICRC3 and I was selected as the Guest DT. The theme of ICRC3 was - Photo insipration + Handmade emblishment. The inspiration photo was "Dhin chak" with lots of blight colours.  Here's it -

And here's my Re-take on it -



 

The colors are inspired from the lady's and the gentleman's dress in the inspirational photo. The roses are handmade and I have used black magic technique.

Submitting this to-
pie lane challenge 3 - wedding
For the love of crafting challenge 4- Blooming gorgeousness

RULES TO THE HOP:

·         Make sure you hop around to each designer from the START {ICR} & leave your thoughts in the comments section, on every SPACE.

·         Like the Indian Craft Room PAGE on Face Book!

There are prizes awarded to blog hoppers who fulfill the above criterion. There will be 2 winners each for the 2 prizes sponsored….We are generously sponsored by Khyati’s Store & Sudha’s Store respectively!



Khyati's store





Sudha's store



The blog hop will be OPEN through Wednesday, February 29, 2012 @ 11:59 pm IST.  Winners will be announced on ICR on Thursday as well as all the “RE-CREATIONAL” MAGIC blogs.

So be sure you leave, love & like!

We are having a GRAND CELEBRATIONS PARTY at the INDIAN CRAFT ROOM, all day tomorrow…… with lots of games & prizes sponsored by few well known sponsors like Scraps N More [PIALI]  & Itsy Bitsy!

Come over to the party for a Once in a While chance to win, to get to know your fellow crafters & your TEAM & for all the surprises your way!

All the games & events will be listed at the INDIAN CRAFT ROOM!

Catch up with you on ICR tomorrow…. : D

So hop on to next blog and meet Priya Sondhi -

Distressed - Part 2

Here comes another disress inked card -

Supplies:
Distress inks : Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed
Stamps : Hero arts Wild flower garden
Inks: Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK

It's very simple and easy and it just took me 15 mins to make this card...Earlier I was not getting the distressing right as I didn't have a blending tool and was using a sponge. But now I made my own belnding tool and it works wonders. I had a wooden stamp handle. I attached a piece of foam (The one which u get in packings) using a two way tape. And voila! The blending tool is ready. You can change the foam for using different colours or when if gets worned out.

I am submitting this card to following challenge -
CraftyJC Challenge #10: Simplicity

Distressed - Part 1

Since this weekend I have been obsessed with distress inks and my new hero art stamps that I purchased from Ujjwal. Here are some of the bookmarks that I made using them -

Supplies -
Distress inks : Spiced Marmalade, Shabby shutters, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint and Tumbled glass
Stamps : Hero arts Wild flower garden, Maya Road Geometric designs stamp set
Inks: Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK, Colorbox FROST WHITE Ink Pad Pigment Stamp, Creativ pigment inks
Clear Embossing powder from Hobby ideas.

Some more distress ink works to follow :)

A circle flip up book card

Finally I made the circle flip up book card : ) Was planning to make one since I saw on Khushboo's blog. The only difficult part is decorating the panels. It has 4 panels + the top of the card and I had to think really hard. As it was my first attempt, I decided to go with a smaller size.

Top

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

Panel 4

Thanks Khushboo for the inspiration!
And here's the supplies list -
1) Card stock - local
2) Blue PP - It's a navy blue card stock with white core. It is embossed using Cuttlebug -Swiss dots embossing folder and then sanded to reveal the white core.
3) The striped PP - DCWV stack 7
4) The die cut on top of the card - Cuttlebug Disney Combo Embossing & Die Set : CELEBRATIONS
5) The  die cuts on the inner panels -Cuttlebug Die 3X3 PARTY: CELEBRATIONS
6) Scallops - Spellbinders Die Set-Classic Scallop Circle Large

I am now going to let my cuttlebug rest for a while as the poor thing is tired especially with die cutting. Actually I hate seeing the mark ups on the B plates :(. So the next few cards with be stamping ones with some embossing (no die cutting).
I am submitting this to -
1) ICR challenge 9 - CELEBRATIONS+ NO RUBBER/DIGI STAMPING EXCEPT FOR SENTIMENT!!!
2) Simon Says stamp - MULTIFOLD CARDS/CREATIONS

My First...

Posting a card that I made few days back. I had not posted it earlier as it was yet to reach the recipient.
It's an Easel card -

This is my first card using cuttlebug, Penny black stamp and distress ink. I wanted to add some more punched flower emblishments, but as I sending the card with post, I was not sure if it would reach properly. Please let me know if you know any tips for posting such cards.
I am submitting it to  - Charisma Cardz Challenges!!! - Anything Goes

It's time to Celebrate!

A quick post to display my experiments with my latest buys.

My mojo is super high and my craft room a super mess :D. So here's a card that I made last night -

Not a very good picture..But you may click on it to view the details.

I used the Coredinations white core paper - Embossed using cuttlebug(d'vine swirls folder) and then sanded, Martha Stewart butterfly punch with sparkles (glitter glue). The green glitter balls are from Pie Lane The sentiment (MICA stamps) is stamped using distress ink on a scallop cut using the spellbinder die. The edges are distressed too. I took inspiration for the scallop with glitter balls from Khushboo's card. She has used red gem stones. I hope you don't mind it Khushboo :)

I am submitting it to the ICR challenge 9 - CELEBRATIONS+ NO RUBBER/DIGI STAMPING EXCEPT FOR SENTIMENT!!!

I missed last few challenges due to some or the other reason. Glad could made it this time.

More experiements coming up soon.. So keep watching :)

Baby girl Album!

WARNING : Loads of pictures
Hi All,

I have been MIA since almost a month..and that's because something was cooking in the background. I had been working on a baby girl album.. and finally it's complete..It's my first attempt and hence it took so long.. It's meant for an adorable baby "Saachi" - a friend's baby girl who stays in US. My husband was to leave for US yesterday and was going to take the album along. So just finished it some 4 hours before he left for the airport and managed to take some pictures and a video :)

Here are photos of the pages from the album -

And here's the video -

 I don't possess any MS or other border punches..nor I have cuttlebug..but I had bought some border cutouts and embossed papers from Kavitha's store. So I could use them. I have also used emblishments(ribbons, buttons and die cuts) from A1 craft supplies store. The stamps are from Karuna's store.

Comments awaited :)

*Update* - I added photos of all the pages :)

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...

My first ever stamped image card!

Hey All,
Today I have a new card, my very first attempt with stamped image. Earlier I had tried with digis. I didn't have good stamps and ink pads. It's very difficult to get these supplies in India and that too in Hyderabad. But Thanks to Karuna's Crafting Queen Store. I got loads of clear stamps and ink pads from here and you'll see my creations using them soon.
She has very good variety of craft goodies and runs many offers. Surely check her store out if you haven't already!

And here's my card. I gifted it to my friend who's my colleague too on her birthday. She loved it so much that she kept it in her cubicle for display :)

The image is inkadinkado clear stamp, stamped with blue ink and clear embossed.
I will be back soon with my other cards :)
Happy Stamping!