CraftyJC Cards

Day 6! :) Phew! Am I thrilled or what! :D My first monochromatic card.   Just a hint of glitter on the flowers. Both the flowers and sentiment are digital – from my stash. The flower digi stamp is from papergardenprojects – called Spring Blooms . Sentiment computer generated – you can download it here . I was VERY tempted to pop in a button or some colour somewhere – but I resisted, only just adding a tiny amount of bling. Entering this to these challenges: craftyourdaysaway – Black n White stampchallenges – Digi Day Thanks for stopping by :) PS: What a concidence! LOL! :) Ujjwal also has posted a monochrome card! :) Cheers, JC

I’ve seen these beautiful hand made flowers on blogosphere – especially likes these one: Juhi’s and Creation-Faeries . Have always wanted to make one but never have before today. The card stock is more Kraft than Gray :) But Gray is what my camera thinks it is. Scallop Nestabilities layered and scrunched to make the flowers A few pearls and my silver gel pen finishes up the card I am thrilled with the results :) Entering this for these challenges allsortschallenge – hand made flowers ABC Challenge – P is for Pink stampwithfun.- Challenge 100 – Sketch crazy4challenges – Spring cutecardthursday – Signs of Spring Thanks for stopping by. Cheers, Jaya PS: AWIC – A Week In Cards. If you want to play along with Edition 2 starting March 8th email me at mail.craftyjc(at)gmail.com

Thanks for the lovely wishes for my little K. Here she is – our little flower :) Ah! we’ve survived! :)) Day 4! I feel so good! Ok I was tempted to put away one card for tommo :D But .. lol.. here they are. This is one is just a random one – a couple of CB die cuts, CB Swiss dots emboss and Fiskars punch and a random layout And this one – I LOVE!! Can you see the Glitter Strip on which the flowers are resting?  I read about it on Paperlicious about Nichole Heady ’s Make it Monday - Glitter Strips with Scor Tape . When embossing, I left a bit of empty strip on which I laid down a double sided tape I got in Venus Traders (Pune) and sprinkled Hero Arts’ Prisma Glitter on it and wow.. it is beautiful. I am soo pleased with the result. Do try this and let me know! Challenges I am entering this card to: incywincydesigns - SPRING tellensplace - Buttons ceschallenges - Flowers & Flutterbys flutterbywednesdays - Anything with a flutterby Thanks for stopping by. ...

Well, today is my little girl's second birthday and this is what we gave her. The right stickers and the card came together easily. All stickers from Venus Traders, Pune. My lil girl loves animals, Elle the elephant and butterfly butterfly and ducks :) K – I love you much. God bless you with many more birthdays. This is my entry for the 3rd day of AWIC – A Week In Cards Thanks for stopping by. Cheers, JC

Looks like all my posts are going to be close to midnight :) But I am so glad I am in this with the other girl :) A Week In Cards ( AWIC ) is a brilliant way of kick starting your mojo and sustaining it! :) I am soo loving it. Here is a birthday card I soo enjoyed making . Again – I will repost pics tomorrow if I can :)   Circle die-cuts using Nestabilities, stamps are from Hero Arts Ink-n-Stamp Sweets and Cuttlebug embossing folder. I am entering this to these challenges Sketch based on: Card  Patterns Sketch 104 Colours from: Charisma Cardz Challenges Week 8 - BLACK and WHITE with ONE other colour thesecretcraftersaturdaychallenge – Sweet Treats Speedy Cat - #44 - Food   :) I am grinning here. Love being a part of this AWIC! :) Thanks for stopping by! Cheers, JC

Here is therapy for everyone who wants to kick start their mojo – kick being is the operative word here and therapy mean over-dosing any one particular remedy! :) So here we have AWIC – A Week In Cards – the idea is to make and post a card the same day for one whole week. Phew! That is my addiction program, girls! With 6 more minutes go, here I post my first card :) If my midnight photography is miserable, I’ll re-post the pics alone tomorrow. When I saw this post on Paperlicious, I’ve always wanted to case it. That’s the main reason I bought this five petal punch.   This card’s layout is inspired by this week’s Card  Patterns Sketch 104 . If you are wondering about the similarities, please look closely :o) The layout is REALLY inspired by this sketch. A 2x3 layout, ribbon and two accents. :))         5 Petal Punch from itsybitsy , butterfly punch from Venus traders, Pune. Paper from a DCWV stack I got years back from J...

Here is a card I made recently – which I sent to Karuna – she is my Secret Sweetheart :) (a fun game we played in India amongst fellow crafters) Did you know that while stamping large images – especially backgrounds – standing on the stamp after inking and placing it  on the card provides an even impression? I think I read this on Savitri’s blog . It actually worked! The felt flower was meant to be a die cut – it started as a cuttlebug die cut – but ended as hand cute :D I couldn’t get a nice cut out.   The butterflies are from a tiny punch and the flourish is a Sizzix Sizzlit die - Decorative Swirls Set . The Sizzix Outlet has great deals throughout the year. Sizzlits works with cuttlebugs too. The “ hi ” sentiment is from a Stencil which kids use. I think they are good to use for short sentiments. Thought I will pass on that idea to you :) PS: Coming up with titles for the blog post is no easy :D Thanks for dropping by. Cheers, Jaya