Wish Big ♥ Explosion card!!

     Good day friends!! 

     Today I'm sharing a card I made for my friend's birthday. I was inspired by "Stampin' Up! Owl Punch Explosion Card!" by Darlene DeVries. 

     I used colored card stock, blue for the outer panel & yellow for the exploding panel!! As usual I forgot to take snaps along the way, so I'm attaching Darlene DeVries's YouTube video at the end of this post.

     Used Wow platinum glitter & Ranger gold embossing powder. 
     Platinum Sparkle & Golden Shine ♥♥

     Used sentiments from various stamp sets & DI to decorate the card.

     Stamped & coloured the back panel using DI.

     Happy Birthday!! ~ hand drawn on the envelope ♥

     It was a simple card to make but I loved how it came out!! ♥♥♥

Inspired by ♥♥

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

 Linked to: 

1. Lulupu Challenge #53 ~ Sparkle and Shine

Platinum Sparkle & Golden Shine ♥♥

Double Slider Birthday Card!!

       Hi friends, Happy day!!

       Today I am gonna share a card, a Double Slider Card to be exact that I made for my mom's 50th Birthday. As it was the 50th year, I made it all gold & glittery.

       I had to arrange everything for the party myself & I only had 30 min to make the card. And I forgot to take any photos while making the card.

       So linking the video by Darlene DeVries whose cute birthday card was the inspiration behind my card.

       I took three 5x3.5 inch white card stock, coloured the front panel using Mustard Seed DI & used a leaf stamp set from ItsyBitsy to create a border. Used Ranger gold embossing powder to add Sparkle & Shine to it. The sentiment is from BoBunny Sentiment stamp set.

       Then I coloured the two slider tabs using the same DI & added the sentiments from Hampton Art stamp set. Put them all together using double sided foam adhesive & voila ~ my card is ready ♥♥

Here is the video of my card in action ♥♥♥

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

 Linked to: 

1. Lulupu Challenge #53 ~ Sparkle and Shine

       A Golden Sparkle card for 50 years of shining through her life ♥


2. BGC #71 CAS cards or Layouts

♥ Ink Smooching ♥

      Happy day friends!!

      I am back again today with a card I made for my cousin's birthday. I was so engrossed in making the card that I forgot to take step by step photos!!

Well, here is what I did, 

      ♥I took a Iris Sg white card stock & cut it to desired dimensions. 

      ♥Used Memento Lilac Posies with a sponge to color the background. 

      ♥Then went ahead & used the Ink smooching technique using Memento Lilac Posies & Tangelo ink to get a patterned background.

      ♥Darkened the edges of the card using Lilac Posies ink again.

      ♥Then used a banner stamp from We R Memory Keepers set to ink up the banner & added sentiments using Hot of The Press stamps

      I totally love it ♥♥

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

 Linked to: 

CSC ~ August Challenges - Week #4 - Pallavi Iyer

Wedding Bells ♥♥

        Hi friends, today I am here with a handmade Wedding gift for my friend. It's an Indian style wedding picture & it was so much fun creating it & coloring the background. 

        I used a A4 size watercolor sheet from ItsyBitsy & made grid lines to pencil the image with ease. 

        And once done I was thinking whether to do a No-line coloring or to portray it with lines?!

        I finally decided to go with lines as it defines the image well.

        And I erased the grid lines, and I guess I am happy with how it turned out.

         I used Camlin water colors for coloring the image, used bright colors as I wanted them to be a bright & happy couple!!

        Once done I used green water color to saturate the background taking care to stay clear of the areas I had already painted. Then I used liberal amounts of table salt & kosher salt and sprinkled them all over the background. Then I let it dry overnight.

        Scraped of the excess salt, reinforced the black lines with my Pilot black pen & my friend's wedding gift is ready ♥♥♥

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

 Linked to: 

CSC ~ August Challenges - Week #4 - Pallavi Iyer

♥ Some more flowers ♥♥♥

       Hi everyone, it's me back again with yet another flower, this one made with M-Seal used to decorate a Clay pot!!

       I am going to keep it simple as it was just a 15 minutes project. I used M-Seal to design the flower & the leaves, stuck them to the clay pot & let it dry.

       Once dried I painted them using diluted acrylic paint & it's done. Your personalized pottery is ready to adorn your desk ♥♥

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

 Linked to: 

CSC ~ August Challenges - Week #2 - Dr. Sonia