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 

Reach for the Stars ♥

       Good morning ♥

       Here I am, back with a bright & cheerful card!! Well, this is a card that I made without much planning. There was this ItsyBitsy stencil lying around & I started playing with it and this was the result.

       Though the card was unintentional, the colors were decided based on the fact that lots of challenges were based on the Tricolor theme.

       So here it is, I water-colored a Neenah solar white card stock using Distress Inks, various shades of blue with dark blue droplets splattered around.

       Then used an ItsyBitsy stencil & created the floral and butterflies using homemade texture paste. ( I was so involved that I forgot to take photos from this point. Oops!!) 

       Then colored everything using acrylic colors & added the antennae of butterflies using a black pen!! Sentiment is from Penny black Eloquence stamp set; embossed using Ranger white embossing powder.

       Added to a white card base to match the sentiments :)

♥♥ Dream, Create, Inspire ♥♥

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

Linked to : 

1. Create something catchy ~ Let's get Pinspired #2

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

3. ICR ~ Indian Flag Colors + Twist ( Textures) ~ Blog Hop Jan 2016

4. HLS January Mixed Media Challenge

5. The Mixed Media Card Challenge #19 {Beginnings}

6. #46 Butterflies + I is for Inks