Squigglefly - Living on the Edge

Squigglefly challenge #82 is to have some edges to your creation. I used the Fiskars Border Punch and punched out the front of the card. I used the Squigglefly image Singing in Rain. I had seen Dawn McVey use this pink and orange combo a few times and wanted to try it out. It looks much more pink than I would have liked, but still..

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Supplies:
Stamp - Squigglefly Digi - Singing in Rain
Paper - PTI White and Raspberry Fizz CS, My Minds Eye Patterned paper
Ink - Copics
Other - Nestabilities, PTI Vintage Ribbon, PTI Clouds Die, PTI white felt

MFT Weekly sketch #4

This is the card that I did for the MFT Weekly sketch #4. I used their Digi stamp for this card. Very neat sketch. Since, I did not have the MFT Doily Die, I just used a regular paper doily for this card.

Here is the sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - MFT Digi Ride'em Cowgirl
Paper -PTI White and Dark Chocolate CS, SU Patterned Paper
Ink - Copics
Other - Nestabilities, Doily, GKD Brown Saddle stitch ribbon

Thanks so much

I made this card for the Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - Sewing.

I used the Outlawz Wednesday Sketch for this card as well. Here is the sketch,

I used the Paper Pretties Digi stamp - Basketful of Apples. Colored it with Copics and the sentiment is from PTI Mega Mixed Messages set. After assembling the background layer of the card, I sewed on it and then added the brad and the images.

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Supplies: Paper Pretties Digi - Basketful of Apples
Paper - SU and 7 Gypsies Patterned Paper, PTI Kraft, Dark Chocolate and White CS
Ink - Memento Grape Jelly, Copics
Other - Nestabilities, SU Square Punch, Brads

Bugaboo Snowman Polka

I wanted to share this Card that I did for the Catch the Bug - Winter White Project using Bugaboo Snowman image. I kept the coloring minimal for the snowman and added some silver snowflakes and some stickles. :)

I love the Bugaboo Snowman images. They are really cute. I kind of like how this card turned out.

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Supplies:
Stamp - Bugaboo Snowman polka scarf
Paper - GKD Blue and White CS
Ink - Copics, PTI Chai Inking Cube
Other - Nestabilities, MS Snowflake Punch, Stickles

Sweet Cupcake

I made this simple card for Belles 'n Whistles - Anything but Winter Challenge.

I used the Cupcake image from Belles 'n Whistles and colored her with Copics. I used some My Minds Eye Patterned paper and some flowers.

In keeping with my New year resolution of wanting to use all of my stamps at least once, I found this BnW stamp that I had bought a while ago and had never inked it. So, I searched and found the BnW challenge blog and here is my card. I am quite excited

This is not one of my best Copic coloring, so I might try this image again with another card :)

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Supplies:
Stamp - BnW - Cupcake Stamp
Paper - PTI White and Harvest Gold CS, MME Patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - Petalloo Flowers, Nestabilities

Scattered Showers - Thinking Of You

The Challenge this time is,

"This month's blog hop challenge involves you challenging yourself to use a Papertrey stamp set that has yet to see ink or even one that might be collecting a little dust!  Go through your stash and see what little used treasure it might hold"

I used one of my favorite older sets called "Scattered Showers" for this card. I had not used this stamp set in a while although it used to be one of my to go sets :) So, in honor of this blog hop, this set got inked up :)

I stamped the umbrella in Ranger DI - Spiced Marmalade, cut it out and popped it up with some foam dots. I cut out the flower using PTI Dies and added some button to it. I love the font in this stamp set.

The card is much better IRL, I forgot to take pictures of the 3D Effect. The white panel is raised as well as the umbrella :). I have inked the edges of the White panel as well as the Green Bitty Box Basics Patterned paper using PTI Chai Inking Cube, but for some reason does not show up well in the picture. I made this card for the Regular card spot in the PTI Card swap that we are having over at SCS. If you are interested in joining the next round of PTI Swap - Jennifer is hosting it - here is the link.

Please stop by at Nichole's blog to see the complete list of participants and to get inspired to use some of your older sets.

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Stamp - PTI Scattered Showers
Paper - PTI Pure Poppy and White CS, PTI Bitty Dot Basics and Bitty Box Basics Patterned Paper
Ink - Ranger DI - Spiced Marmalade, Crushed Olive and PTI Pure Poppy
Other - PTI Flower Die, SU Scalloped Border Punch, PTI Vintage Buttons

Hello, I love you

Hello Friends, It's Monday and time for {ippity} Hop. Please stop by at the {ippity} blog to see the complete list of participants.

Here is my card using Because Of You. I seem to be using this stamp for all my projects lately :)

I used the CPS Sketch #202 for this card. I cut out the flowers from the set and matted them with some Red CS and the sentiment completed the card. I thought of adding some stickles to the flowers, but they were looking quite good as they were, so did not add the stickles. Although my cutting could use some more practice :)

If you have some good cutting tips so as to not leave jagged edges, please do leave me a comment.

Here is the Sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - {ippity} Because Of You
Paper - PTI Kraft, Dark chocolate, White and Pure Poppy CS, SU patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Ladybug, Memento Black, Copics
Other - SU Circle Punches

Flower Power

A Quick card that I did for the
Squigglefly challenge #81
Basic Grey Challenge #36  and
Wee Memories Challenge #40.

I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch #101 for this card. I rotated the sketch and used it lengthwise.

I used Basic Grey Lemonade collection Patterned Papers and the image is from Squigglefly. I used some paper flowers from Petaloo as well in the card.

Here is the sketch,

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Stamp - Flower Vase Digi from Squigglefly
Paper - BG Lemonade collection, PTI Green and Kraft CS
Ink - Copics, PTI Inking Cube
Other - PTI New Leaf Ribbon, Petaloo Paper Flowers, Nestabilities

Just Because - Favor Box

2nd Post for the day. Please click here or scroll down to see my Penny Black Challenge Post. I had made this 2-4-6-8 Favor box for the Justrite Challenge and forgot to link it up earlier.

I used a PTI Patterned paper cut to 5.5 x 8.5. You can find this 2-4-6-8 favor box recipe either at Splitcoaststampers or at Scorpal website. I love these favor boxes and this is for my friend. I filled them with some Hershey's Nuggets. I made a small tag using Justrite Just a Note 1 5/8" stamp set and added some twine to it.

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Stamp - Justrite Just a Note Borders & Centers
Paper - PTI Patterned Paper, PTI White CS
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - Bakers Twine, PTI Ribbon

Jumping with Frog..err Joy

I did this for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Week 134 - a card buffet. I chose patterned paper, twine, 3 buttons and gem stones.

I also used the CPS Sketch #201 for this card.

Here is the sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - Penny Black Frog with Flower
Paper - MS and 7 Gypsies Patterned Paper, PTI Yellow and White CS
Ink - Memento Black and Copics
Other - PTI Twine, PTI Vintage Buttons and Gem stone Embellishment, PTI Scallop Border Die

Butterfly Dream

2nd Post for the day. Please click here or scroll down to see the Project Life 2011 - Week 1 and 2 Post.

I used the PTI Signature Series: Butterfly for this card,

This was done for The Play Date Cafe Challenge #64. I used PTI Fine Linen, SU Grey and PTI Soft Stone CS for this Card.

I also used the Get Sketchy #70 sketch for this card. Here is the sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Signature Series: Butterfly
Paper- PTI White, Fine Linen and Soft Stone CS, SU Grey CS, PTI Patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Black, Memento London Fog, PTI chai inking cube
Other - Nestabilities, PTI Signature Series Butterfly Die

Project Life 2011 - Week 1and 2

Hello and Welcome to Week 1 and 2 of my Project Life. Even though I started my PL album on time this year, I did not post last week as I had not yet gotten my pictures printed. I am printing my pictures every two weeks :)

So here are the pictures of the Cover page and the layouts of the two weeks. I started my first day from Saturday - January 1st.

Cover Page - I have not embellished or done anything with the cover page except to assemble it per the example given in the PL kit.

 Week 1 - Page 1

 Week 1 - Page 2

 Week 2 - Page 1

 Week 2 - Page 2

You can see a journaling block is missing from this page. Still working on that. :) Got the photo just yesterday evening and could not complete it yet.

I am also participating in Ali Edwards One Little Word for 2011 class on Big Picture and will probably include those pages in this album as well. I also plan to add additional pages and journaling (I did the same for 2010), so I might end up buying another spare binder and split this year into two albums.

I want to thank my friend Chris for getting me hooked onto Project Life last year. It was lots of fun and enjoyed it thoroughly. Please see her post here on her tips on doing PL.

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{ippity} blog hop

Hello Friends, It's Monday and time for {ippity} Hop. Please stop by at the {ippity} blog to see the complete list of participants.

Here is my card using Because Of You.

I stamped the Background image (love love this background image) from this set and cut it out. I then stamped the birds image, cut it out with nestabilities. The punched out heart and pearl embellishments completed the card.

I used the Card Patterns Sketch #98 for this card,

Thanks for stopping by. Please click here if you wanted to buy some {ippity} stamps.

Supplies:
Stamp - {ippity} Because Of You
Paper - PTI White, Dark chocolate and Raspberry Fizz CS
Ink - PTI Raspberry Fizz
Other - PTI Hibiscus Burst Saddle stitch Ribbon, Nestabilities, Heart Punch, Pearl Embellishment

Enjoy the Moment with Riley

I wanted to share this cute cute Riley card that I did for the sketch challenge over at the Riley blog.

It felt good to be following on some of my new year resolutions - to use some of my stamps at least once and use up some of my Secret Sister Swap kits.
Here is the sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - Coffee Riley stamp, Mixed Messages from PTI
Paper - PTI White and Green CS, Patterned paper from the card kit + Stash
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - Nestabilities, PTI Chai Inking Cube

City Sights - NYC

It makes me happy that it is Tuesday..one more day closer to the weekend :) I wanted to share this layout that I did for the Scrapfriendzy Sketch-a-thon - Sketch #1.

These are some pictures that we took in NYC near Central Park/Plaza Hotel area during our trip there with my Mother-in-law. I love NYC :)

Sketch-a-thon gives me a good excuse to get back into scrapbooking and to use up some of those photos that I have printed :) Give it a try - check it out here.

Here is the Sketch that I used for this LO,

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Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper- Bazzill Kraft CS, Coredinations Green CS, My Minds Eye Patterned paper
Ink - None
Other - Travel Stickers and AC Journaling Sticker, Doily from Stash

Ippity Blog Hop

Hello Friends, It is really fun to be participating in the {ippity} blog hop after a while....
Please stop by at the {ippity} blog to see the complete list of participants.

Here is a simple card that I made for the Hop using {ippity} Delightful Little Things.

In retrospect, I should have used a darker card base so that the patterned paper would show up better and also used some glitter on those small flowers in the sentiment. Next time :)

I used Sweet Sunday Sketch #99 for this card. Here is the sketch,

Thanks for stopping by. Please check out my {ippity} page to buy the {ippity} stamps.

Supplies:
Stamp - {ippity} Delightful Little things
Paper - PTI Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Yellow and Vintage Cream CS, SU and 7 Gypsies Patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Black
Other - Offray Ribbon, PTI Vintage Buttons, PTI Scallop Border Die, Pearl Embellishment, Nestabilities

Birthday Boy

I needed a Birthday Card for my friend's son and I happen to see the ColourQ Challenge #66 and loved their color combination.

I used Inspired Crafters Monthly Sketch for Jan 2011 for my card as well.

Here is my card,

I did not have the exact colors mentioned in the challenge, but I think these are pretty close. The car was die cut and I stamped the image from PTI's Enjoy the Ride stamp set in blue.

Here is the ColourQ Challenge and the sketch,

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Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Enjoy the Ride
Paper - OA Thrift Shop Patterned Paper, PTI CS
Ink - SU Brocade Blue, memento black
Other - Ribbon from stash

Bless This Nest

I wanted to share a quick card that I did today morning for the Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - this week it was a sketch :) I kept it very simple and this is the first time I have not used ribbon or some other form of embellishment on my card :)

I used this stamp called Everyday Miracles. Loved this set. I colored the image with Copics and added the sentiment. In retrospect, I could have added some pearls or something near the sentiment :)
But I liked how the the main image looks.

Here is the sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - Paper Pretties Everyday Miracles Stamp set
Paper - PTI Kraft, Brown, Harvest Gold and White CS, 7 Gypsies Patterned paper
Ink - Memento Black, PTI Inking Cube -Chai
Other - Nestabilities

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all my friends. Thanks for stopping by my blog and taking the time to comment.

New year -  New Beginnings. I wanted to share a few things that are part of  my crafting resolution,


1. Start a paper recycling container in the craft room and toss all the small scraps in the said container. No point in hoarding scraps that I never end up using.
2. Strive for quality than quantity.
3. Use up some of the card kits that I got from card kit and SS swaps
4. Use all of my stamps - at least once
5. Use up existing crafting supplies, before ordering the same.
6. Work on a heritage album for my Grand father
7. Get a head start on hand made Christmas gifts for my friends - to avoid scrambling at last minute
8. Try and Clean up the craft table each night, so as to get a clean start next day.
9. Just because it is in dollar bin or clearance bin, I DO NOT need that crafting item
10. Keep up with my Project Life 2011 album.

Thanks for stopping by and hoping that your new year is off to a good start.

Cheers
Banu