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Making cards for men is not exactly easy. But this stamp from Hero Arts makes it, well, so easy :)   A bit of glitter and that twine adds the extra oomph this CAS card needed. The inside reads this Perfect isn’t it :) What went in Hero Arts Year Round Sentiments Twinery – Charcoal I picked these products up from etsy.com. You can find great deals there. Thanks for dropping by :)   Cheers, Jaya

 Many of us have drooled over many a products by Sizzix - may it be those yummy Tim Holtz products or Hero Arts collab products - there are so many wonderful products available on Sizzix. I'm so glad to say that I would be working with Sizzix products soon and hopefully we at Bangalore can get together to some Card making using these Sizzix lovelies very soon. I'll put together a Card-fest soon and we can have some fun :) What say?? :)) Please do hop over to the Sizzix Blog  for some great inspiration and many new ways of using the lovely Sizzix stuff. Thanks Alison for asking :) Cheers, Jaya

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and some laughter too! :) I soo love this sentiment “ sending you sunshine and laughter ”. What a way to send some cheer to someone special :) Here are two such cards. The background is from PTI’s Make it Monday technique #58 Graduated Background – only that I used regular watercolour cakes. The flowers were hand cut – yes, it does show isn’t it :) ETA – The curve of the panel is soo totally inspired by Susan’s card here The centre of the flowers are left colourless but with those gorgeous Ranger stickles. This one uses the same hand water-coloured panel with Papertrey ink ’s Tag its #3   The sentiment is from Hero Arts Everyday Sayings and stamped in two rows Entering these to Less is More – Week 60 Take Three { Week 3 Spring, #40 Red n Orange, #43 Bling, #51: Cut it out} Sentimental Sundays – Spring St Luke’s charity card – Spring Lilypad wants flowers onestopcraftchallenge – CAS   That’s all girls :) Thanks for poppi...

After those stunning yellows, here is something blue. Every wondered about the term “feel so blue”? Here is an article about the colours. Quoting from this article – “ The proximity of dark blue to black on the colour scale, and its historical grouping with dark colours, may have contributed to blue’s links to depression and to fear – to have the blues, or to feel blue ” I listened to a lot of Jim Reeves when I was growing up – dad loves him. I still do listen to him. This song Blue Christmas is what I remember when I see this blue bird .. ah.. well.. I am rambling :) The little bird & “you” is from Papertrey ink ’s Little Bitty Bird .  The “MISS” in the sentiment is from a dollar alphabet set. Added a tiny bit of glitter to the leaves and the bitty bird. Here is another variation – same stamp set but with the bigger bird and a bigger sentiment. The sentiment is hand stamped with that dollar alphabet. The sentiment must be stamped slightly closer together verti...

Did you read all that gossip on Papertrey ink ? We don’t have to worry too much about all that isn’t it ;) I love Papertrey ink – there is soo much one can do with one set of stamps. So many possibilities.. endless like Nicole says. I am just happy with the few sets I can afford from them and leave the gossip to the ladies there in the thick of things :D What say! :)))) This is NOT the rambling I’ve mentioned in the title.. it comes at the end of the post <grin> Well, I got a few Papertrey ink sets recently and here are a a couple of cards. This one is from the Flower Fusion #10 . When I saw this card by Danielle, I knew I had to have it. Her card is soo colourful, isn’t it :) Love how the flowers can mean a sunflower or any other colourful flower by changing the spots ;) The sentiment is from another PTI set – Little Bitty Bird And this one is from the Fruit  Fusion Cherries stamp set. The polka dots are from the Flower Fusion set I mentioned above.. clev...

I have two cards  to share with you. Hopefully you won’t see yellow everywhere after this :) These two cards are meant to be as per the faux Letterpress technique – but I think it is meant to be the other way round.. as in the white here must be yellow and the yellow white – YKWIM! But I love these cards.. super simple :) I inked the surface of the Cuttlebug Stylized Flowers – the surface where the design is a valley and not raised. Place your card within the folder and run through your machine. Voila – a very stylish card.. all I need to do is stamp a sentiment and pop it on this card as a banner – like in this card Here is another one using a similar technique – using the Blooms Dots folder. Would you like a tutorial for this easy peasy technique? I can post a few pictures :) Let me know. Tomorrow I have some interesting PTI cards to share and my thoughts on the problems which come with too many stamps. I would love to hear from you about that too :) Thanks for stoppi...