All things grow with Love ♥

       Good evening friends!!

       Here I am, sharing a simple card today. Though it is a simple design, I drew a freestyle mandala drawing & I really enjoyed it ♥. 

     I decided to incorporate both the IndianCraftRoom & MHKDesigns theme into my card!!

ICR ~ Tic Tac Toe with a twist of Mandala!!

     Initially I wanted to go with the first row - Sparkle/ Bling, Ribbon & Stencil.
     But ended up using several of those!!

• Sparkle/ Bling, Ribbon, Stencil.
• Sparkle/ Bling, Love sentiment, Stitching.
• Ribbon, Love sentiment, Heat embossing.
• Stencil, Button/Flower, Stitching. 

     I just went crazy with the theme!!

MHKDesigns:

       Coming to my card, I drew a mandala on white card stock, used 3D glitter liners to outline the design & fussy cut my mandala ♥. 

       Then I sponged several colors of Distress ink on to the front of my card using a stencil (MHKDesign Color palette). Cut a banner out of white card stock, drew a stitched border using the same 3D liners. Then heat embossed my Love sentiment.
       Added a ribbon bow & button.

       Assembled the banner & mandala on the front to finish my card ♥♥

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

Thank you so much for your visits & comments, they mean a lot to me ♥

Linked to:

1. ICRCWIN01 – Tic Tac Toe Challenge with a “Mandala” Twist

2. MHKDesign February/March Challenge

3. Craft Your Passion Challenge #300

Mini Album ~ Memories ♥

       Good evening ♥
       It has been hectic for past few days but somehow I managed to put together a Mini Album for my friend's birthday!! Yep, you heard it right, my first ever Mini Album & I'm so much in love with it. I am definitely gonna make more in the future ♥

       I had always wanted to make one & recently my friend Riswana made one herself & I loved it a lot. So I tried my hand at it too & I enjoyed making this one.

       I'm not gonna go into details on how I made this because there are so many tutorials available online; many of which helped me to create this Album.

       It is an album with 12 pockets inside holding 12 tags, one for each month of the year. I wanted it like that, so that it can be filled with the best memory of each month.

       So let me just explain how I made the outer decor. Initially, I gave a layer of gesso coating to make the surface a bit rough. 

       Used Ranger texture paste with Mini cubist stencil to create some texture & Tim Holtz stencil to write the words RISWANA & MEMORIES. 

       Pasted 6 plastic flowers & added some tiny glitter beads to give more texture. Colored the cover with shades various of blue acrylic paint (Color is much more darker & richer in reality with the various shades visible~ couldn't capture any of that in photos). Added Inka Gold in gold to give some highlights.

       These are the White embossed sentiments on the 12 pockets inside & the tags for each month ♥

       I really enjoyed making this & much more than that, her happiness on receiving this Album ♥♥♥

       The video of the album ♥

       Few more photos ♥

       Sorry about the long post guys!! I really couldn't control myself from taking lots of photos :)

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

Thank you so much for your visits & comments, they mean a lot to me ♥

Linked to : 

1. Rhedd's Creative Spirit ~ February challenge

2. Altered Eclectics Challenge

3. Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #21 - Glitter

4. Stamplorations {Stencil Sunday #32} + February Mixed Media Challenge

5. Country View Challenge

6. Creative Artiste Challenge 11

7. HLS February Mixed Media Challenge

8. Stamps and Stencils ~ Splatter, Spritz and Smoosh 

♥Live~Laugh~Love♥

       Good morning friends!!

       Today I'm sharing a canvas painting after a long long time. Not just one but two canvases ♥♥
I didn't take much photos since it is a simple painting. So let me just explain in short about what I did.
       Took two stretched canvas boards, gave a layer of gesso coating. Then used acrylic colors in red, orange & yellow for the background. 

       Images hand-drawn on the canvas & painted in black. Cut a heart shape out of a scrap paper & using it as a mask added a large heart around the couple using Kaiserkraft triangles stamp set in black Archival ink. 
       Added the tiny hearts, the words Live~Laugh~Love & the flourishes using stamps from ItsyBitsy.

       Handmade frame with black card stock completes the couple ♥♥

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

Thank you so much for your visits & comments, they mean a lot to me ♥

From ItsyBitsy:
Acrylic colors.
Live~Laugh~Love stamp set.
Flourishes stamp set.
Black card stock.

Linked to : 

1. Hobby Mela Valentine's Day Contest

2. Itsy Bitsy Valentine's Day Craft Contest

Happy Birthday ♥♥

       Good evening ♥

       The project I'm sharing today is special to me in a way!! My first time working with patterned papers!! Can you believe that, yep; I do buy patterned papers but I always end up hoarding them because they are so cute. But somehow Lulupu challenge made me to dive into my collection!!

       Coming to the project, it's not a difficult one, I made it so that it can be kept as a card or added to books as a memory♥. I'm mailing it to my friend but I want it to be a surprise & so you can see me blurring the photo in the middle.

       I took a black card stock & cut out a square. Then pasted one of my precious pattern paper on the front leaving a little margin. Then cut two triangles from the card stock & completed the basic layout & pasted pattern paper to those triangles too.

       Then it's pretty simple, pasted few hearts punched out from pink pearlized card stock & added crackle accents to them (I love that crackling ♥♥♥ ).

       Stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment on the same pink card stock, embossed using pink metallic embossing powder, fussy cut it & added to the layout.

       Used 6 different stamps(3 types of stars, 1 flourishes, 2 sentiments) to complete the picture.
       Also used two flower embellishments & added a bakers twine to make them seem suspended from the top.

       Finally added a photo of my friend in the middle.

       Well, I did end up adding few rhinestones near those hearts on one of my friend's advice. And I love how it turned out!!

       And that completes the layout ♥

Update:
       Happy Birthday Riswana :) :) 

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

Thank you so much for your visits & comments, they mean a lot to me ♥

Linked to : 

1. ICRSS01 ~ Scrapbook challenge series

2. CraftyScrappers Challenge #6 ~ Pretty in Pink

3. Lulupu Challenge #57 ~ 2-0-1-6 Recipe Challenge

       2 Flowers

       0 Washi tape

       1 Patterned paper

       6 Stamps (3 types of stars, 1 flourishes, 2 sentiments~birthday & celebrate)

Frosty winter scene ♥♥

       Good day friends!!

       Today I am sharing here the first ATC of this year 2016 ♥

       I took a 3x4 inch Iris SG white card stock & colored using blue & turquoise acrylic paint.

       Then I stamped some snow flakes using VersaMark ink & used both white and clear embossing powder to add some interest to the background.

       Then I used Signo white pen to create the snow line. 

       Then applied Ranger texture paste to add the snow to the scene. Used Wow blue & Platinum sparkle embossing powder to add some highlights to the snow.

       Used 3D glitters to add some pine trees. Then added the snow on the trees using a white correction pen!!

       Once the main panel was ready, I went on with creating my frosty window pane. 

       Used a small knife to cut out 4 small windows out of an Iris SG white card stock. Pasted a vellum sheet on the back using double sided tape. Used Vellum for the window instead of acetate to give a frosty look. 

       Then colored the front frame using brown acrylic paint & added black highlights to give a wooden texture.

       Some more shots for you guys ♥♥

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

Thank you so much for your visits & comments, they mean a lot to me ♥

Linked to : 

1. Peek-A-Boo ~ Challenge 2 : Any thing goes

       Used the colors blue, white & green.

2. Mixed Media Mojo January 2016

3. That Craft Place ~ Anything goes challenge