CraftyJC Cards

Hello and welcome back :) I am so happy to see you :) You know how much I love stamping - and the more the better :))))) So I went to town with this multi page girlie birthday card using Sizzix Scallop Bow die Here are a bunch of pictures.. The cover page - which is made of chipboard to make it last forever. All supplies are archival safe - including the glue used :) A bright and bold page, with a bit of journaling spot. More journaling in these two pages - for handwriting birthday wishes and blessings. A flowery girlie-girl page.. the right page is 100% stamped and the left is a mix of die-cuts and stamping. And this is my most favourite page ever. Again 100% stamped. Tell her how special she is Every child must be encourage to follow her dreams. Add your own wishes to this page too. The right page is 100% stamped and the left is a mix of die-cuts and stamping Another spot to write your wishes to the birthday girl. The back ...

A friend’s little girl turned 11. Not a little girl anymore. Not a grown up one either. Here is a mini book I made for her. I used the Flower shaped album by Sizzix . These make the process super easy. I die cut chipboard twice, and then Fabriano card stock 6 pieces and DCWV paper 12 in number. Remember that half of these will have to but upside down – to help cover both sides. Then I went to town with stamping. Oh stamping.. stamping.. How I doeth love thee. If I were Shakespeare, probably that might have been my sonnet :) Now this page. This is top most favourite page. Ever. The stamps are from this HUGE Waltzing Mouse stamp set called Pint size Heroines. Tell her how so very precious she is. How much you love her. These are three tags, for the mum, dad and bro to write notes for her. The left side stamps & dies are from Sizzix. The right tags die cut using Sizzix dies. And stamps are from Hero Arts. This is another awesome Papertrey Ink stamp set. Both pages re...

Heylo all :) When Deepti from Catchy Designs asked me to Guest Design in her latest challenge, I was beyond thrilled :) I love her work and love her stamping style. You all know how partial I am to stamping.. And I love her doodling, she isn’t afraid of free hand drawing and experimenting. Fabulous combination I say :) The theme for this challenge is Masculine and only cards are allowed. And here is the yummmmmy inspiration. Gorgeous huh :) And here is my take on it. My dad’s birthday was around the corner and I made this for him. All supplies linked below. I was inspired about a lot of things in the inspiration picture – apart from the obvious of course. :D The red and black panel on the left reflects the brick wall, the clock representing a Birthday and the same colour as the hunk’s golden skin, the green backdrop is from the grass and don’t miss the three birds from the lamp posts. And yes, I had to make a one layered card… but the collage-ing is a new one to me. I am so g...

I’d posted about Jaanu’s birthday card which I’d made for my friend T. It was Jaanu’s 10th birthday and T wanted to give her little girl something very special. I have two girls myself, and when she asked me to make this it was a ‘fast-forward’ for me – you see my elder daughter is going to become 5 in a week. So, well, I poured my soul while making this one :) I kept imagining K becoming 10 very soon.. after all I don’t know where the last 5 years went!! Well, here are the rest of the pages. In all I’d made 5 pages, 2 pages to wish her the best birthday, and the other three was one page each from the dad, mum and bro. I hear the young little girl loved it :) I am thankful to God I could add a little more happiness on her special day. Cover Page This first page is to reflect everything about this 10 yo – the dress form to reflect the little diva, the mirror like frame for the fairy tale Snow White ‘Mirror Mirror on the wall.. who is the prettiest of all!’, the crown for the dad’s ...

This morning K woke up and told me it was her favourite teacher's birthday and she wanted to make a card. Out came a couple of Sizzix dies and a few papers and we whipped up this card in minutes. K insisted on doing circles with the Sizzix - meaning turning the handles - and she could with a little bit of assistance from me. She could easily stick the papers and die cuts together and this card came together quickly and easily. What went in Sizzix - Card Phrases Set #3 Sizzix - Card, Ribbon Insert Cheers Sizzix - Bigz Die - Branch w/Leaves & Flower Fabriani Card stock ItsyBitsy - Half pearls sticker My little K loves to colour images I stamp for her and the die cuts are quite easy for her too too. Do you craft with your little ones? What do they like to do? Entering this to Crafters Corner - Bingo : Center down: Pearls, Patterned Paper, Diecuts Would love to hear from you. And thanks for stopping by. Much appreciated :) Cheers, JC PS: The Banner ...

Hello and Happy New Year. May God bless you with a healthy, happy New Year filled with His peace. My first post of the year. Thanks for the applause :) I’d embossed some white Fabriano card stocks with gorgeous Sizzix folders and left them on my messy table for inspiration. And this is what I came up with. I love the strip of Scalloped border from Sizzix – Border and Hydrangeas . These work so well with Scrapbook layouts as well as cards. Don’t you think? I’m stamping a sentiment directly on the Patterned Paper – it took away the stress of adding another strip of paper. NOTE: If you want to emboss – always stamp and then emboss :) Once I photographed this, I wanted to see what a bit more of green can do to this and this is where I arrived at Though the green strip adds a bit more colour, I think right now I prefer the first version. What’s your take? What went in Sizzix die cut border -  Border and Hydrangeas Sizzix embossing folder - Psychedelic Dreams Set by Rac...

Scott here is none other than this adorable Dog from Sizzix It was a friend’s son’s first birthday and I wanted a fun card – which he – the 1 yr old :) – might like to see when he grows up. And I’ve been wanting to use this adorable pup forever. So here it is – a cute pup with a bow.. wishing the little boy a Happy Birthday. Bless you T. The Happy Birthday die cut is from this neat – super useful – set called Card Phrases #3

My little girl loves to colour.. when she is happy the colours are all rainbows and when she is in one those toddler-moods everything is coloured black! :) So to encourage her and use her lovely colouring, I am introducing a series of cards with the focal element done up by her but, of course, assembled by me.. Here are a couple of cards And a close up of the colouring. She chose the colours all by herself.. and I used those colours for the background stamping. And here is another one Hopes this helps you to have some crafty fun with your children too.. What went in: Papertrey Ink – Itty Bitty Bird for the background curls Hero Arts Cup cake (thanks Tejal for letting me use it) and Sentiment And gorgeous Memento Dew Drop inks – I love them – they make stamping a breeze!! Cheers, Jaya

Yesterday’s search yielded this card as well over at Simplicity . But I resisted making them both :)) Now, I am SO glad I didn’t make them both :) I loved the colour combination and a touch of glitter – so cased both. Since the cake itself had a sentiment I had to add that bow. Maybe I’ll try one without a bow. Hero arts prisma glitter. Yumm. Thanks for dropping by. Really appreciate you coming over :) Cheers, JC

AWIC 2 – Day5 :) Fun. Today’s card is super simple. I wanted to make a birthday card and Google-d Simplicity and this is what I decided to CASE. Mine is super simplified :)) This Felt embellishment is from ItsyBitsy – I am glad I could finally use it. Sentiment is from Hero Arts Ink-n-Sweets Stamp set .This set has a lot of fun elements :) Thanks for stopping by. So appreciate you dropping in. Cheers, JC

I hereby state that I made these cards before 11PM last night and would like to emphatically blame Power Supply for the delay in posting them :) Well, the final post for AWIC Edition 1. I have two super simple cards to show you. Super simple to make after the not so super simple thought process :o) Cuttlebug Swiss dots and Birthday die cuts. I don't to use any other folder than my Swiss dots.!!  Maybe I should sell them.   Thanks for visiting. Looking forward to Edition 2 which starts tomorrow. Email me at mail.craftyjc(at)gmail.com if you like to play along for a week of madness! :)) My AWIC playmates thanks for all the fun!  YOU girls rock and HOW!! Cheers, JC

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 a card which exactly the same as this but with a cute embossed butterfly. I am liking the fact that once a card is made – it is soo quick to make a few more! :) And I told you – I just have this one Birthday stamp :D Now – how would you like some embossed die-cut butterflies?? Add a link to the blue froggy below and I’ll select a winner. And while at that, let me know if you want the butterflies in some specific colours. I’ll see what I can. Candy closes October 8th. Will ship world-wide :o) lol Cheers, Jaya

Sometimes its just a couple of cute sticker is all it takes to whip up a cute card. Here is one witnessing this truth! :) Moral of the story – keep buying stickers from wherever you find some. And these days, you find them everywhere. Stitches  added with a silver Uno pen from Venus Traders. I need to find out shops in Bangalore now! And yes, that’s the only Happy Birthday stamp that I have :) I need one where the sentiment is in one single line. Any suggestions? Did I tell you I am shifting to Bangalore? Mid next month yes! Mid October.. so that is actually, well, mid-this-month! Am I going to miss Pune – a BIG YES! sighh! Cheers, Jaya

Here is a card I’ve made after a month. Well more than a month. Yes it is true :) This was to case this card I made a long time back. But ended up with this – I am glad where I ended! :) First time ever to use those tucks in lace :) Loving it! So feminine isn’t it? Flowers and pearls from none other than itsybitsy :) Bee is hand drawn. The green polkas is a digital DP. Thanks for stopping by :) Have a great weekend ahead. Cheers, Jaya PS: Have you popped by the new CraftyJC Challenge ? What wonderful entries! My oh my! Such creativity! :)))

Here is my maiden attempt on Paper piecing. Oh so simple!! Never knew it is so easy! :)  Stamped the image on the card stock. Stamped same image on Patterned Paper Cut the paper out. Pasted the middle one flush  to the Card stock Popped up the front two using dimensional Simple isn’t it? Did you know you can paper piece using Digital images & Digi-papers? Cheers, Jaya

After almost a month here I am with another card :) The sketch very very similar to this one here . Just the paper and digi image are different. The little girl is from 123coloring . There are a stupendous number of images. I picked one for the Precious Moments collection. It is actually two girls in this. I cut one of the out. Coloured the little girl with pencils and a little bit of bling. I loved colouring this picture! And that’s my little girl trying to grab it :) What went in: Polka paper from itsybitsy . If you want a digital paper you can find download it from my freebies here Fiskars Threading Water punch. Bought from Joann on a sale. Card stock and other papers from Venus traders, FC Road, Pune Thanks for looking. And I am so glad to be making something new! :) PS: If you need any help with digital stamping, please feel free to ask! :)