Ringing in another year!

What a year this has been :)

Our lil bundle arrived this year. And what a blessing she has been.

May God bless you and your loved ones with Peace and Joy and everything Beautiful this coming year. God bless.

Keerthana – which means “A song of praise”  - also joins Anand and I to wish you guys a Blessed New Year.

This is on the way to Christmas midnight service :) with a sleepy lil baby! :))

Thanks for visiting. And thanks Shalini was asking :)

Say it with flowers

Using the same paper as here, this card was a quick card.

OLFA circle cutter, black gel pen and some ribbons. I think I could have added a few gems to it though.

And I am thinking, I need a few circle punches smaller than what the circle cutter can cut. What size circle punches do you use frequently?

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Cheers,
Jaya

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World’s Best Dad!!

I’d made this card for my dad. He is my super hero! :)

No stamps here. The multi-coloured strips were are hand drawn using water colour pencils.

The layout inspire by a card I’d seen long ago on web. Sorry but I fail to remember.

 

Thanks for looking! And apologies for the not so good photograph.

Cheers,
JC

Christmas is near!

Love Christmas! And so for my very first Card Pattern challenge, I chose Christmas as my theme. The challenge post is here Challenge #40 Here is my take.

Papers are all from Venus Traders – a local Pune craft shop.  I {heart} the gold paper. Sticker is from Daisy and Dandelion.  

 

Would love to know you liked this! : ) My lil baby girl Keetee seems to love it ;)

Cheers,
JC

ETA: Added a couple of snowflakes on the Red panel.. it was looking forlornly

Again ETA: Changed the picture again. The previous didn’t show the gold too well.

Say it with a Birthday hat!

It’s my mom-in-law’s birthday in a few days & I made this for her. She doesn’t check this blog so it is OK (I hope) to post this early :)



This has the dry emboss technique – which I read online. Have a look at this link on "from my ink pad to yours" for further details.

More pictures below


   




What took me the most time is what embellishment to add – stones or ribbons or glitter.

Thanks for dropping by.
Cheers,
JC

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Here a chick.. there a chick..

Everywhere a chick chick! :)

For once I made these in bulk – read three

Thanks for lookie-seeie!

Cheers.

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Wow! Thanks a lot  Shalini :)

Ok – now to answer these questions..

1. Where is your cell phone? Charging
2. Your hair? Curly
3. Your mother? Inspiration
4. Your father? Best-friend
5. Your favourite food? Biryani
6. Your dream last night? none
7. Your favourite drink? aha!!
8. Your dream/goal? Crafting-big-time
9. What room are you in? Living room
10. Your hobby? Cards making
11. Your fear? mmmm…
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Bangalore
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. Something you aren't? Quiet
15. Muffins? slurppp
16. Wish list item? 
17. Where did you grow up? Palayamkottai,Tamil Nadu-India
18. Last thing you did? blogging ;)
19. What are you wearing? T and pants
20. Your TV? off
21. Your pets? Puppy
22. Friends? Few
23. Your life? Blessed
24. Your mood? Content
25. Missing someone? yes
26. Vehicle? car
27. Something you're not wearing? anklet
28. Favourite store? None really
29. Favourite colour? PINK! :o)
30. When was the last time you laughed? 3 hrs back
31. Last time you cried? Can’t remember
32. Your best friend? Husband
33. One place I go to over and over? Home!
34. Facebook? Yup!
35. Favourite place to eat? Gongura’s, Bangalore

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Birthday Cupcake

Hero Arts have these wonderful Cupcake stamps. This is NOT one of them. But inspired by them.

Materials used: OLFA circle cutter, Fiskars scissors for the scallops, Printed out the sentiment.

Hope this helps when you are short of craft supplies :)

That’s my HP printer on which the cards are propped.

Thanks for looking and would love to hear from you :)

Cheers

No patterned paper? No problem! :)

Didn’t have any patterned paper. So hand drew this. Since this was not defined drawing, I could go to town with the scribbling and colouring

Coloured using water colour pencils and ran over it with a wet painting brush.

Thanks for looking.

Flowers for you!

Here is a card with stamped flowers in a pot!
I use Fiskars scissors for edging the papers. Got the stamp in HobbyIdeas (the Pidilite venture) – they don’t have too many stamps though.

Thanks for looking

Birthday with flowers

Again using the gift wrapper to make those flower cut outs.

I made this for a Mrs. Margaret in our church choir. She sings Alto beautifully.. I loved to sing Alto  - actually sing and not just string notes together – from her. I admire her. She is seventyish and I wish I’d be as young as her when I am 50!  My husband (Polly) says I am this wide-eyed-fan of hers :D

And he is right! :))

Thanks for looking!!

A simple Birthday card

But I love this one – if I may say so myself :)

 

Thanks for looking.

Message in an Envelope.. yea!

I like this one. Versatile. Can be used for anything. And the envelope can also be number of anything..

Think about a bunch of hearts pouring out of the envelope.. for Val day. Well now that’s an idea :)) Will try to make one a post it.

There are a lot of free templates available online to make envelopes of various sizes and types, though I didn’t use on here.

Thanks for looking.

Happy Everything!!

Made this for a friend’s dad’s birthday.
Well.. ideally should be using patterned paper. But in India we get none – I think – if you know of any place where I can lay my hands on some nice stuff please please let me know.
So as a substitute – I’ve used gift wrapper :D.
Embellished and a little glitter bling on the background.

Thanks for looking.

Happiness Always

Made this card for my friend celebrating her fifth Wedding Anniversary – and so the five flowers.. – obvious huh! :)

Envelope has butterflies punched on the flap to match the one in the card. The butterfly in the card is actually mounted on the inside of the card.

Thanks for looking.

O Christmas Tree!

An embellished Daisy an Dandelion Christmas tree , with “Wishing you a Merry Christmas” sentiment.

Thanks for looking!!

My Christmas Reindeer

Another Daisy and Dandelion stamp – this time a Reindeer for you :)

6 x 3.5 inches approximately.

The popped-up Reindeer has eyes he can roll to lookie and seeie :) The background is stamped with metallic blue snow and embellished Christmas Trees.

Thanks for looking! :)

Christmas time angel

Christmas wishes from an angel. Card size: 4.5 x 3 inches approximately
The angel is stamped on a white card stock and then matted with red and silver. Other colours could be Red and Green – very Christmas colours.


Thanks for looking :)

3-D Christmas tree

This is one of my favourites. Background stamped with Daisy and Dandelion stamps, this Christmas tree has three layers, matted in silver.

A tag “Merry Christmas” pops out of the tree with an unconventional silver wire.

The whole ensemble is mounted in, yes, the Christmas colours of Green and Red.

Thanks for looking.

Christmas Tags

I love Christmas and everything that has to do with Christmas
These are two tags I made recently. Do let me know if you’d like me to make some for you.. they come as a set of 4. I’ll try and post all 4 soon.
They are about 2.5 x 2 inches approximately. The tags have has “Season’s Greetings” stamped inside.














Waiting for Christmas now :)


Thanks for looking!!