Happy Holidays Poinsettia Card

I am enjoying card making so much. I did this Holiday Greetings Poinsettia card for two challenges.

1. Clean and Simple Cards Challenge - Sketch #298

2. Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 493 - Poppies and/or the colour red

I did not find a poppies stamp in collection readily. So I went with the color red instead. I used this Poinsettias from PTI's "Year of Flowers: Poinsettias" Stamp set. I stamped them on a text printed paper and then colored over it with Copics. I love how elegant this CAS card looks.

The sentiment is also from the same stamp set. Overall, this card turned out great and I would reuse this sketch to create a few bulk holiday cards. The scalloped border adds very good detail.

Thanks for Stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Year of Flowers: Poinsettia
Paper: Coredinations Prefolded Kraft Cardstock, PTI Printed Cardstock, PTI Pure Poppy Card Stock
Ink: Memento Black, Copics
Other: Hobby Lobby Red Gemstone, SU Scallop Border Punch

Retro Sketches #111

Thursday Mojo was strong. I had very little time, but I got two cards done for Retro sketches. I was on a roll and very happy.  Even though the sketch looked like a square card, I opted to do regular size for ease of use.

Here are my two cards for Retro Sketches #111,

I created a tag using PTI tag die and then just added it to the card base. I just love this idea. When I have time I can create a bunch of tags that can be added to a gift bag, gift or even a card :))

For this 2nd card, I used this cute dog image from Inky Antics and then added a PTI Sentiment and also some buttons and cute dog pattern paper.

Hope you liked the cards...:)) Here is the retro Sketch #111,

Thanks for Stopping by,

Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Every day sentiments, PTI Handwritten Sentiments, Inky Antics Dog Stamp

Paper - PTI White, black, rustic white card stock. Paper wishes and Queen and Co pattern paper

Ink - Memento black, copics, PTI Ink

Other - PTI Dies, button

Smile - It's a Celebration

Hi Friends, Happy Friday, hope you had a wonderful week and are ready for the weekend. I am :)) I wanted to share this card that I did for Retro Sketches #102. I have not played along with Retro Sketches in a while and I do love their sketches.

Here is my card. I did the Camera and Smile from the computer using PSE. The sentiment is from PTI - Birthday Bash Sentiments Stamp set.

I used this patterned paper from an old Studio Calico Kit. Rounded off the corners to add some effect. Stamped the sentiment directly on the patterned paper. Some gemstones finished off the card.

Here is the retro sketches sketch,

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Supplies
Stamp - PTI Birthday Bash Sentiments
Paper - Studio Calico Patterned Paper, PTI White and Pure Poppy Card Stock
Ink - Memento Black
Other - Prima Gemstones, Corner Rounder

Birthday Cake

Hi Friends, Happy Tuesday. Hoping that week is going well so far. I have been very enthused lately to create some Birthday cards and wanted to share this card.

I used a bunch of birthday themed papers from Hobby Lobby and the image is from Bugaboo stamps. I just love their stamps. I kept it simple with the birthday wishes from PTI Faux Ribbon stamp set.

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Supplies:
Stamp - Bugaboo Digital Stamp, PTI Faux Ribbon
Paper - Birthday papers from Hobby Lobby, PTI White and Blue Card stock
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - Circle Punch

Christmas Owl

Hi Friends, How are you doing? I have been a bit late with my Project Life Posts. Life has happened LOL..I will be back tomorrow with a couple of spreads of PL.

Meanwhile, I did a few Christmas cards over the weekend. It is never too early to get started on your Christmas cards.

I did this card for,

A) July Christmas Cards Challenge on SplitCoastStampers - To create a card with Red, Blue and White Color Scheme and to use something sparkly on the card.
B) Challenge #27 on A Blog Named Hero - To create a card or project using your fav Hero Arts Stamp. I used this Holiday Owl set from Hero Arts.
C)Merry Monday Merry Monday Month Long - Anything Goes Christmas Card challenge.

I kept the card simple with red card base and some old Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Paper. I stamped and colored the hat of the Owl with Blue Copic Marker and then add the sentiment to a white punched out paper. Overall, just a simple card, but loved how it turned out. I also added some red gem embellishment on the corner of the card to add something sparkly.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies
Stamp - Hero Arts Holiday Owl
Paper - PTI Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening and White CS, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Collection Patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Black and Blue
Other - EK Success Border Punch, Circle Punches, PTI Pure Poppy Saddle Stitched ribbon.

ICR Holi Blog Hop

Welcome to Pichkari Holi Blog Hop by ICR Team. You can start at ICR Forum and get all the deets on the Blog Hop.

Here is some info about Holi On Wikipedia. Holi is also called the Spring Festival - as it marks the arrival of spring the season of hope and joy. The gloom of the winter goes as Holi promises of bright summer days. Nature too, it seems rejoices at the arrival of Holi and wears its best clothes. Fields get filled with crops promising a good harvest to the farmers and flowers bloom colouring the surroundings and filling fragrance in the air.

I always have associated Holi with bright colors and awesome get together with Family and Friends (and of course yummy food and sweets).

So to document the awesome Holi Party that we had at our friend's place just this last weekend, I created this scrapbook Layout using the March Sketch from ICR. Fun Sketch isn't it? There is plenty of time left to play along if you are interested.

I drew inspiration from our clothing colors and used some Blues and pinks on the layout and of course I had to use the bright Alphabet Stickers to celebrate Holi.

And I for sure wanted to create a card as well and again I did a card for this month's ICR Challenge #27 - One Layered card with Repeated Stamping.

Again, there is still time for you to play along, we would love to see your card creations. I did my own template in Word for this card and placed the text (using text box) and then printed it out and then stamped the PTI Mehendi Medallion Stamps over the card base. I would redo this card again and probably add some sequins or gem stones to add some more glitter.

I hope you enjoyed the projects and would love to hear from you and also see your creations in ICR.

If you are here from Sheetal's Blog then you are on the right path. If not, you can go to the ICR Forum and start from there.

Once you are done commenting on all the participating DT blogs, you can go back to ICR forum and add your name to the inLinkz tool to get the tokens. You can collect tokens for various ICR Activities through out the year and the one with most tokens will be eligible for a surprise prize package at the end of the year. Sounds like fun????

Here is the list of bloggers,

ICR Forum {Start here}
Asha
Nupur
Bhavana
Smita
Sheetal
-->(You are Here) Banu
ICR Forum {End here to add your name to the inLinkz List}

Thanks for Stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Mehendi Medallion
Paper  - PTI White Card stock, Pebbles card stock and crate paper patterned paper
Ink - Memento Ink Pads

ICRC27 - One Layer Card with Repeated Stamping

Hi Friends, It is time again for the ICR challenge. I am sorry I am late posting this on my blog.  ICRC27 Challenge is to create a One Layer Card with Repeated Stamping.

I used a Masking Technique on my card. and you can find a tutorial about it on ICR. I loved how this card turned out. I also outlined the heart shape with Copic Micron pen for additional interest.

Just a simple, CAS One layer card. In love with these and might make a few more.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you stop by at ICR and play along with our challenge.

Supplies:
Stamp: PTI Around and About Sentiments, PTI Text Style Background
Paper - PTI White Cardstock
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa, Memento Lady Bug
Other - Copic Pen

Seize the Birthday challenge #2

I loved the idea of Seize The Birthday Challenge blog to use the same sketch to create a feminine card one week and Masculine the other week. I missed playing along with the first challenge, but here is a quick card that I made for the 2nd Challenge.

I used the Bugaboo Digi stamp for my card today. Printed it out on some PTI Cardstock and colored it with Copics. I love this series of stamps from Bugaboo. Instead of including a sentiment on the outside, I decorated the inside of the card with a strip of the same patterned paper that I used on the front of the card and added a sentiment from PTI Birthday Basics Stamp set.

Here is the sketch from STB Blog,

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Supplies:
Stamp - Bugaboo Digital Stamp
Paper - Pattern Paper from Stash, Kraft and Vintage Cream PTI Cardstock
Ink - Memento Black, Copics

Merry Monday #42

Another Fabulous sketch for Merry Monday #42 and I had to play with it. I kept my card kind of Red in Color. The pattern papers are all left over scraps. Another great reason to love this sketch - you can use the scraps.

The pattern papers are a mix of Basic Grey and EP This and That. The Sentiment is from PTI Holiday Wishes. I used a green brad from my stash.

Love love this sketch and for sure will be using it again.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Holiday Wishes
Paper - PTI White and Pure Poppy CS, Basic Grey and Echo Park This and that patterned papers
Ink - Memento Black
Other - Studio G Brad, 1" Circle Punch

Hey You Rock

Hope you all had a good Sunday. I wanted to share this very simple card that I did yesterday.

I used PTI Shapes by Design Stamp set and created the border on the side and colored in a few squares with Copic Markers. I stamped the sentiment from PTI Say it With Style and then colored it with copics as well. Kept it simple. I love the border images that are part of PTI's Shapes By Design stamp set.

I am entering this card for the following Challenges,
1) CAS-ual Friday's Challenge - CFC77 - To make a masculine card.
2) A Passion for Papertrey Challenge - Inky Love Required - To ink up a stamp in your stash that you have not used in some time. For me that stamp was Shapes by Design.
3) Last but not the least - Hope to Cling To Challenge on SCS - HYCCT1228 - Clean and Simple card with Sentiment as your focal point.

Thanks for Stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Say it With Style, PTI Shapes by Design
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa, Memento Black, Copics
Paper - PTI Kraft and Vintage Cream Card stock
Other - PTI Mat Stack Die

So Glad we are Friends

Happy Sunday Friends, Hope you are having a good weekend so far.

I am back with another card that I did for a couple of Challenges. I love this stamp set from PTI called Friends Till End. I die cut the flower and leaves from the corresponding die and then stamped and colored the image. I also used the PTI Quaterfoil die for the background to create a lattice like effect. I love this sentiment.

I am entering this card for,

1) HYCCT1206 3 dies/punches and a sentiment on SCS as part of the October Month long Hope You can cling to challenges.
I die cut the flower, leaves and of course the quarterfoil background.

2) A passion for Paper trey challenge - to make a card for a friend.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Friends 'Till End
Paper - PTI White, True Black and Simply Chartreuse cardstock
Ink - Memento black, PTI Pure Poppy and Copics
Other - PTI Friends 'Till End Die set, PTI Quarter Foil Die

Appreciate you

Hello Friends, Happy Friday :) We have a cold front here in Texas :) But it is nice and toasty in my craft studio..so all is well.

This is a card that I made for
1) CASE Study Challenge #114

I just love the design/Layout of Julia's card - you can see her original card on the CASE Study challenge blog - and kept the same and instead of the felt plants she had in her card, I used butterflies for my card.

2) I am also entering this card for the Indian craft room Challenge - ICRC22 : MONOCHROMATIC + LETTER FAMILY!!!

So, the challenge was to create a card with Monochromatic Colors and use embellishments from the same letter.

So, I went with B - Blue, Blue Patterned Papers, Butterfly, Bling, Brad (the big butterfly has a blue brad in the center).

Loved how this card turned out. I used PTI Butterfly dreams stamp set for this card and the sentiment is from PTI YOF - Lily of the Valley stamp set. I then punched out some extra butterflies using MS punches and then added some brad and bling. The blue flower felt ribbon was from stash.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Butterfly Dreams, PTI Year of Flowers - Lily of the Valley
Paper - PTI White and Hawaiian shores CS, PTI Patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - Felt Flower Ribbon from Stash, MS Butterfly Punch, PTI Butterfly Die

October 2012 PTI Blog Hop

The Challenge this time for PTI Blog hop is to create Holiday project with non traditional holiday colors. I am on a roll with my Christmas cards so this was perfect and it is always fun to experiment with Non Traditional colors. So be warned of this photo heavy post as I created three cards for today's blog hop.

1) First up is this Aqua Mist and Raspberry Fizz Combination,

I stamped the wreath image from PTI Wreath for all seasons in Raspberry Fizz and added the berries in Blue (I do not have PTI Hawaiian shores ink - so used a memento ink here). The sentiment from Signature Christmas was also stamped in blue. Here is the combo from Nichole Heady's Blog,

2) Second is the card I did with Pine Feather, Ocean Tides and Pure Poppy. I just loved how this card turned out,

I used Rustic Snowflakes and Dearest Jane Patterned Papers along with Ocean Tides, pine Feather, Vintage Cream card stock. Sentiment is from PTI Fillable Frames #8. I added a few snow flakes brads as well. Here is the combo from Nichole Heady's blog,

3) Last but not the least, I used Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet and Harvest gold combination. I also used Retro Sketches #34 for this card.

I used the PTI 2008 Holiday tags stamp set for this card and this was a truly unusual color combination for me to use for a holiday card. It was nice to work out of my comfort zone. I also used the doily details dies from PTI.
Here are the retro sketch and combo from Nichole Heady's blog,

You can stop by at Nichole Heady's blog to see more details and to see all the participants of the blog hop.

Thanks for Stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Fillable Frame #8, PTI 2008 Holiday Tag Collection, PTI Wreath for All Seasons, PTI Signature Christmas
Ink - Memento Black, PTI Ocean Tides, PTI Pure Poppy, Memento Blue
Paper - PTI Vintage Cream, Rustic Cream, Ocean Tides, Pine Feather, Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Harvest Gold, Hawaiian shores, Raspberry Fizz and White CS., PTI Rustic Snow flakes, dearest Jane Patterned Paper
Other - PTI Spiral Notebook page die, PTI Scallop Border Die, PTI Doily Details Die, PTI Ric Rac Border Die

Framed Christmas Card

2nd Post for the day. Please scroll down or click here to see the Cas-ual Friday Challenge Post.

I loved PTI's Fabulous frames dies and I had so many ideas with it, but some how I never created anything with them until now. As soon as I saw the Paper Players Challenge #118 - CAS Framed Challenge, I wanted to create a Christmas card with the fabulous frames Die.

I cut the Polaroid frame from Basic Grey Blitzen paper collection. I punched out the Christmas tree using the EK Success punch and then layered the frame over it with some foam dots so it looked like the tree was visible through the window. The Snowflakes patterned paper is from Cosmo Cricket collection. I like how this card turned out and will probably do a few more.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Peaceful Poinsettia
Ink - PTI New Leaf
Paper - PTI White, Fine Linen and Ripe Avocado Cardstock, BG Blitzen and Cosmo Cricket Patterned paper
Other - PTI Fabulous Frames Die, EK Success Christmas Tree Punch, Gem Embellishments

Merry Monday Challenge

Through blog surfing, I happened to come across the Merry Monday Challenge. I just loved this blog and the sketch #35 this time and had to play along. The wide panel was calling out for this snow men image from Torico...

I printed the image and colored it with copics. I then added some holiday pattern papers from my stash. A glittery snowflake and brad completed the card. Sentiment is from PTI Holiday Wishes stamp Set.

Here is the merry monday sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - Digital Snowmen Family from Torico
Ink - Memento Black and Copics
Paper - PTI White and GKD Green Cardstock, Basic Grey Pattern Papers, AC POW Glitter Paper
Other - MS Snowflake punch, Paper Source Snow flake brad

Mojo Monday on a Saturday

Happy World Card Making Day Friends. In honor of this awesome day, I will be having a few blog posts throughout the day!!!!!

I love Mojo Monday Sketches, but as usual I am always late. This time I managed to create a card and more than that photograph it and blog about it for the Mojo Monday Sketch #261

I used the new PTI Autumn abundance die (released recently) and cut out the image. I then stamped the image from Autumn Abundance stamp set and colored it with copics. I just love this stamp set from PTI.

I also used a doily die cut and some offray ribbon for the card. Here is the mojo monday sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Autumn Abundance
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Paper - PTI White, Dark Chocolate and GKD Green Card stock, PTI Patterned Paper
Other - Doily Die Cut, Scallop Circle Punch, Offray Ribbon

ICRC21 - Christmas Card

Here is a Christmas card that I did for the Indian Craft Room Challenge - ICRC21 : SKETCH + METAL - 'URGE' Y!!!.

I used Sketch #2 for this card. The sentiment is from PTI Christmas Friends. For the metal part I used the Holly and Mistletoe brad and some red brads as well.

Here is the challenge pad.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Christmas Friends
Ink - SU Old Olive
Paper - PTI Turning a New Leaf Patterned Paper, PTI Simply Charteruse CS
Other - Making Memories Holly and Mistletoe brad, Paper Studio Red Brad, Nestabilities, Paper Studio gemstone embellishment

CFC67 - Penguin Birthday

I wanted to share this quick simple (one layer..not much LOL) card that I made for the Casual Friday's Challenge #67 - Banners and Flags.

I used this stamp set from PTI - Winter Penguin for the penguins and the banner they are holding that says Happy is from PTI Tag-its #10 stamp set. I also used some Queen and Co Washi tape on the card. Loved how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies
Stamp - PTI Winter Penguin and Tag-Its #10
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Paper - PTI White Cardstock, PTI Raspberry Fizz Patterned paper
Other - PTI Winter Penguin Die, Queen and Co Washi Tape

July SFYTT - Hello Sweet Friend

Cutting it close yet again :) Here is my card for the July SFYTT hosted by Jen Del Muro. :) I used an uninked stamp set from PTI and I am not 100% happy with this card, but it is okay. There is something about the color combination that is not just great!!! Oh Well...

Here is the sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Heart to Heart #4 stamp set
Ink - PTI Winter Wisteria, Memento Black
Paper - PTI Kraft, Rustic White and Berry Sorbet Cardstock, PTI Melon Berry patterned paper
Other - Circle Punch, Washi Tape, PTI Heart to Heart Die

Distress Ink Farm Scene

Yay!!! I finally got to ink my On the Farm stamp set from PTI. I was browsing through some blogs and saw this distress ink scene tutorial from Isha and the challenge on Do More with Less blog about getting inspired from a packaging.

I was totally inspired by the Yogurt that I buy for our home all the time. Here is my inspiration image.

See how there is a barn and all the sloping green grassy hills and of course the cow...:)) So, here is my card based on this packaging and using the distress ink scene technique from Isha.
 

 I created the grass scene first with a few masks and then stamped the Sun image from the On the farm set. Added a bit more of distress inks, stamped the barn image. I die cut the cow from PTI On the farm die and then added a few black markings using Copic Black marker and a sentiment completed the card.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI On The Farm
Ink - Memento Black, Ranger Distress Inks, Copic Black Marker
Paper - PTI White, Rustic White and Pure Poppy Cardstock
Other - PTI On the Farm Die