Happy Birthday - Get Your Fiction On

Hi There! I had a little time to craft last night and I made this CAS birthday card inspired by the current Your Next Stamp - Sketch and Color Challenge #84. I absolutely LOVE the color palette and used three colors for this card. I also played along with the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches #328 challenge which is perfect for a CAS design.

I used the nerdy bookworm from YNS - Get Your Fiction On stamp set as the focal point of the card. I stamped and colored the image with Copic Markers. I added some details with white gel pen and glossy accent on his glasses. I used Simon Says Stamp Lemon Zest to ink up the background. Next, I stamped the birthday sentiment from the same stamps set and white heat embossed it. To finish off the card, I added some sequins. A quick card for today! I hope you like it.

I’m also playing along with the following challenges...
Simon Says Stamp - Work It Wednesday February 2018 - Green
CAS on Friday #128 - Celebration card with sequins

Thanks for stopping by! Have a nice day!

Hugs! :)
Valliam

Merry Christmas

Hi there, I'm back in action! This is my very first Christmas card. I'm a big fan of Christmas characters and the bold colors and glitters of Christmas. So I decided to make a Chirstmas greeting card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge using the color combo from Color Throwdown challenge.

The snowflakes background paper is from Recollections - All Seasons paper pad and I inked up the edges using distress ink. Then I worked on the sentiment and snowman from Inkadinkado - Christmas Characters stamp set. The image is stamped using Stazon black ink and colored with aqua painter and I adhered it on a green striped patterned paper from DCWV -The Basic Stack paper pad.

I'm entering this card in Simon Says Stamp challenge - Let It Snow

Well, I badly wanted to make a similar card using the traditional Christmas colors. Hopefully I can post more here!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday! :)

Thanks and bye for now.

You're Some Kind of Wonderful

Hi everyone!! It's weekend and finally I had time to make a card. Here is my entry for this week Freshly Made Sketches. They are celebrating their 100th sketch and I'm so happy to participate in this week challenge. It's so exciting to play with their very first sketch and a big thanks to Cindy for choosing this sketch! The color inspiration for this card came from Color Throwdown challenge.

Okie! That's all for today. Have a great week ahead!

Get Well

Hi! I made this card today to get some creative mojo flowing. It's been a while since I touched my quilling kit. I was little confused whether to use quilled elements or buttons... but for some reason I ended up using both. It's not exactly what I had pictured in my head. Well, this sometimes happens! The reason is because I desperately wanted to use the leaf stamp because it's just so cute. So, I used buttons to pop out like flower buds and stamped the flower image on the background. Then I made a small quilled butterfly and attached above the sentiment. Little messed up though! But, I'm still happy with what I have done :) I used Freshly Made Sketches sketch and the colors from the Color Throwdown challenge. Here is my card!

Thanks for stopping by!

Miss You Like Crazy

Hi all! I'm back with a Miss You card. Not only miss you...It's "Miss You Like Crazy"! Such a fun and cute sentiment. I was inspired by this week's Freshly Made Sketches sketch and the colors from Color Throwdown challenge. So here is my take...

I inked my base card using distress ink with two different blue/turquoise tones and allowed it to dry. Then, I pulled out some lovely grid patterned papers from the Simple Stories Snap! Life Basics paper pad to ink up the sentiment. I'm a big patterned paper lover and I'm so attracted to the bold and bright colors of this paper pad. There are also lots of other cool, trendy and vibrant patterned papers from Snap! Life collection such as dots, stripes, mini calenders and etc. Totally awesome!

Next, I simply stamped the sentiment on three different colors of grid patterned papers. Then, I cut the letters out and adhered them nicely on a piece of gray colored grid paper. I made a small arrow with a little heart shape on it and placed it on top of the card. I thought it would be cool to use a paper clip to hold the layers together. So I tried that and it looks so perfect!. As a final touch, I added glossy accent to the cute little hearts and some white gel pen stitch lines to frame the sentiment.

I'm also linking up my card at the Simon Says Stamp challenge which is "Anything Goes".

Thanks for stopping and have a nice weekend!

Best Wishes

I hope everyone having a great weekend. Last night, I made this Best Wishes card using this week's Freshly Made Sketches sketch and the colors from Color Throwdown challenge: Tempting Turquoise, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, Chocolate Chip and White. These colors are perfect for summer! I've made quite a lot of beach card. So, I've decided to make a simple greeting card this time. I got everything from a single pattern paper. It's actually a double sided paper from K&Company. The patterned paper and base card are edged in Chestnut Roan Chalk ink. I added a little ribbon and its done.

Thanks for stopping by!

Grow Where You're Planted

Hi everyone! :) I made a card with the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches this week. The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this sketch was the Yin-Yang symbol! It's a totally different sketch by Jennifer Brum. Anyways, my idea was to try some soft colors for the card. Thus, I used a lovely color combination from Color Throwdown challenge this week : Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Pretty In Pink and Cool Caribbean. This is the first time I'm entering a color challenge. Do check out their fabulous creations!

I bought some cute tag paper pads from Michaels recently and I picked a lighter color tag to stamp on the sentiment. I love the sentiment "Grow where you're planted" and decided to use it for this card.  I embossed the flowers, leaves and the sentiment with clear embossing powder. I couldn't resist doing some faux stitching around the images as well as the tag! I finished off the card with a thread around the pink patterned paper and tied a little bow. That's all!

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Super Star Dad!

It's been a month since I shared a card. My craft room was in a big mess. Totally unorganized! Finally, I fixed a date to clean the room and started working on my card for this week Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I made this card for my dad. He is my first hero! Although I couldn't share the day with him, I can show my love by sending him this fun card. So, Daddy this is for you. Love you always! :)

I usually take more time in choosing the right patterned paper that best suits the image/sentiment. But, this colorful stars patterned paper really caught my eyes. Undoubtedly it was the right choice for the sentiment that I decided to use on my card. So, I had no confusion! :) I'm so happy to achieve a bright and colorful card in the end. It was a great challenge indeed!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! :)

Be Mine

Hi! Hope everyone had a great weekend! I had a nice weekend :) Here is my take on this weekFreshly Made Sketcheschallenge by Linda Suarez. I felt I could have done a much better design than this... but I was a little short on time to do my craft work this week (thanks to my little one!). So, I decided to do a simple layering technique using some pattern papers for my card.

To start of with, I chose a textured card base in yellow and to layer the card I have used some contrasting pattern papers. Then I punched three different sizes of hearts out of polka dot patterned papers and used them as an embellishment. These heart shape punches are my favourite and most often used on my cards. They are super cute and neat!

I love this sentiment as the font type looks kinda funky... isn't it? I really enjoyed layering these pretty pattern papers on my card. I designed the inside card using the same pattern papers... it's exactly the same as the front design but without the sentiment.

Hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by!

Welcome Little One

Phew! It was a crazy busy week. I made this pretty baby card for a friend of mine who has given birth to a beautiful baby girl recently. I've been waiting to use some of my favourite polka dot patterned papers and here is my attempt for this week Freshly Made Sketches by Jennifer Brum. I'm so pleased with how this card turned out.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Easter Card

Hi! I totally love the sample cards posted by the design team for this week's sketch at FMS. Truly inspiring CAS (clean and simple) creations! Here is my card for this week Freshly Made Sketches challenge by Rita Wright.

I am sure all of you are in the process of making lots of wonderful Easter day cards by now. I've been wanting to make an Easter card myself since I started my crafting hobby because I love the pretty colors of Easter. So here, I picked pink, yellow, orange and light green embroidery thread to decorate my card. I used kraft card as base and layered it with white card to show up the bright thread colors. I adore the cute little bird stamp from Inkadinkado. I embossed it and layered it on a pink circle and green scallop punch card.

Thank you and have a beautiful Easter weekend!

Smile Card

Hello! Again popping in to post a card that I made for this week Freshly Made Sketches by Jen Mitchell. It was quite a challenging sketch... I planned something and ended up with this Smile card.

I tried to keep it simple with the white polka dots base card. I have had some paper flowers that I made months ago and decided to use one of them to embellish this card. The sentiment is embossed with clear embossing powder.

Thank you and have a great weekend!

Congrats!

It was another great week to play on FMS sketch! I loved this Freshly Made Sketches by Jennifer Timko. I have always wanted to make a card with circles in it. So, I decided to play with my circle punch this time and came up with this casual congrats card :)

Thanks for stopping by.

I Love U

Hello all! Hope you all had a great weekend. Here is the card for this week Freshly Made Sketches by Linda Suarez. I really missed their past challenges. Love the new look of their blog. Well, I thought of making a simple and neat card for this week's sketch.

I'm amazed looking at all the other gorgeous creations. Don't miss it! Thanks for stopping by.

Miss You!

Hello! I am back with another card for this week Freshly Made Sketches by Rita Wright. It's a wonderful blog with extremely talented ladies on board, and I am really happy participating in their sketch challenge every week. I am inspired by all the other beautiful entries. Such a great site!

Here is my take on this week's sketch!

I am glad to make this card because it's little different from the usual card that I make. Yes, I have added some paper roses to create some 3D effect :) This is the first time I ever made roses using paper and I guess it turned out well! I used to make roses out of ribbons during my school days. I was so excited to make one after a long time. Well, for this card, I heat embossed the roses with white glitter powder to make it little shiny over the petals. The rest of the stuff are pretty simple - "Miss You" sentiment, two gold brads on the corners, and lovely swirls to finished off the card. 

Closer View

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by! :)

Good Luck!

Hi there! Happy Friday to you all. It's been a while since I last posted cards here. Well, I finally have one to share. Actually, I have had many cards to share but just not enough time for me to photograph and post. I am trying my best to be a better 'crafty blogger'! Hence, I decided to participate in some craft challenges. I came across this Freshly Made Sketches blog with full of super cool sketches. I am totally inspired by their sketches. Below is the sketch that inspired me! Next, is my creation using this sketch.

I love the sketch by Lesley Croghan. The first thing that came to my mind was these colorful clouds. Of course there are a lot of possibilities...but I thought this idea of using cloud shapes would be even more attractive...and that's how I came up with this fresh and cheery good luck card.

Hope you enjoyed viewing my creation. I'll be back soon with another creation to share with you all. Thanks!