Monochrome mini art journal

 Hello everyone,

Sharing one more mini art journal page.

If you know us, you know that we love making art journal pages. 

We have never made an art journal page with monochrome scheme. But, we were inspired by the current mood board at Academy Scrapart Challenge. 

It was so much fun making the background. We love butterflies, so thought why not incorporate them.

Supplies used:

Stencil @tubbycrafts

Mist spray @hndmd

Alphabet die @mftstamps

Emerald green ink pad @tubbycrafts

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Academy scrapart-challenge-april-2021

2. Stamplorations things-with-wings

3. Stamplorations april-stencil-challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Hidden sentiment technique Ft. Varada Sharma

 Hello everyone,

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis

Sharing one more card using April release by Varada Sharma. You can check out the release here. 

Find the hidden sentiment 🤔

Were you able to find it? 

We used @varadasharma floral stamp for Hidden sentiment technique along with dot coloring. I swear you can see it in person, capturing in photograph is a little tough.

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Crafty calendar challenge -spring or-easter

2. Krafty chicks Challenge

3. Crafty-catz

4. Jans digi stamps challenge

5. PIP-challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Floral birthday card

 Hello everyone,

Sharing a card after a hiatus... Did you miss us?

Last week was hard on us, but glad things are better now. And we could find some me- time 🖍️🎨

Made a floral birthday card using April release by Varada Sharma. You can check out the release here. 

Supplies used 

@varadasharma Stamp

@mudracraftstamps Stencil

@craftyscrappers Daffodil Ink pad

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Simon says stamp Bright cheerful colors

2. Aud-sentiments-11th-birthday

3. Patties creations challenge

4. Allsorts challenge any-three-colours-of-rainbow Red, yellow and green

5. Three room studio- Saturday-challenge-33-anything-goes

6. Catch the bug anything-goes

7. The house that stamps built

8. Crafty calendar challenge -spring or-easter

9. Hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-22

10. Stamplorations april-challenge inspired by theme of stamp and curves

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Popup box card (Old Habits Die card)

Hello everyone,

This card was made as a part of Old Habits Die Card Instagram Hop!  If you are on Instagram, we encourage you to check out the hop here.

To celebrate the one year anniversary of @claires_card_on joining Instagram she put out a challenge to us all: look back at a project we made at least one year ago and update it! Think of all the knowledge you gain in one year, new techniques you've tried, supplies you've purchased... The goal was to take a project that makes you cringe and make it into something you're proud to show off.

Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent!! -Unknown

 We made pop-up box card 2 years ago, back then we were pretty new to cardmaking,so didn't have pattern papers or dies. So, we stamped and did some ink blending over the edges. The balloon was stamped earlier.

Do you want to see our earlier card, check it here.

Though we like the older card, but the coloring makes us cringe. We like the newer version better.

But, now, we used our pattern papers and balloon die for pop- up element.

Our coloring has improved over the years, still a long way to go. Earlier, we used pencil colors. We used brush pens to watercolor now.

Entering the popup box card into the following challenges:

1. Stamplorations Challenge inspired by theme- balloons have curves and we used bear and cupcake stamps

2. Hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-22

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Yugadi

Hello everyone,

We are back sharing a card for Yugadi. 

It's the first day of new year as per hindu lunar calendar.Yugadi - yuga + aadi: first day of this creation cycle.

Starting of spring season in India. 

Many Indians celebrate Ugadi/ Gudi Padwa/ Tamil New Year as per their region. Yellow flowers and mango leaves are generally used to decorate the door. Some people even draw rangoli at the doorstep and decorate it with flowers or color powders. Hence, we have used yellow flowers and green leaves to signify the same.

Celebrating the change in the nature,  new season.This is mango season in India, cuckoos  season as we hear a lot of cuckoo bird voice in this season. New fresh leaves and flowers bloom in trees.

Rituals include:

Get up early,

Take oil bath,

God pooja, cow pooja, 

Eat bevu-bella, festival food with raw mango dishes, 

Food should consist of all 6 tastes.

Panchanga shravan (hearing coming year predictions)

Few people remember their ancestors and do pitru pooja also on this day.

Yugala - dual: welcome the new year with accepting both good and bad with a positive thought. Psychologically very important  aspect to welcome a new year, makes up mind to face both good and bad in coming year.

Neem and jaggery eating together represents the same. (Both are Ayurveda medicinal , good for health to keep body cool)

Eating all 6 tastes in food (in a proportional way) is to balance 3 doshas (vata, pitta, kapha) in the body as per ayurveda. This how Indian food culture helped in keeping the health of people.

Panchanga: it is not just a "calendar", where just the year, month, days and holidays are specified.  Panchanga will not only have lunar based, solar based months, days, festivals,  mentioned, it mentions even smaller time units in a day called as muhurta, yoga, karana etc., which are used in many indian rituals. Panchanga gives details of upcoming eclipse details accurately!!

Also, star position based rain prediction - which was helpful for farmers to plan their  field activities. 

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Wordart wednesday

2. Jans digi april-challenge

3. Pammies inky pinkies challenge

4. Time out Challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Birthday card Ft. Sending Smiles release

Hello everyone,

 Have you ever experienced "Love at first sight"?💖 We have experienced it..... not with a person 🤭, but with this stamp from April release by @varadasharma 

Although felt intimidated coloring this image, we are happy with the outcome! Made square shaped card for a change. 

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Simon-says-happy-birthday-9

2. Jans digi april-challenge

3. Pammies inky pinkies challenge

4. Time out Challenge

5. Stamplorations april-stencil-challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Growing in Unity- Winner announcement

Hello everyone,

Last week was so much so fun. We thoroughly enjoyed creating using Unity Stamps. We enjoyed reading each one if your comments.

Thank you for showing love on our creations.

Without further ado, let's announce the winners here:

KT Fit Kitty

Priya

Winners please email kelli@unitystampco.com to claim your gift credit within 2 weeks".  In the subject line have them put "winner from Chandhini's GIU week".

For those who missed our Growing in Unity week, check out the creations below:

Day-1

Day-2

Day-3

Day-4

Day-5

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Growing in Unity-Day 5

Hello everyone!

Sharing our card for Day 5 as Growing in Unity gal. We thoroughly enjoyed creating using Unity Stamps.

Have you ever CASEd your own card? For those who don't know what CASE is, it is- Copy And Selectively Edit. For this card, we CASEd our previous card design, swapped the image and color combo! You can check our earlier card here. 

We love how this die beautifully pairs with @unitystampco Planner Gals, so went ahead with Love them stamp for this card. Yellow and red is evergreen color combo, hence without doubt, chose to cut the floral frame from yellow cardstock and paired with red rhinestones. 

Finished it off with sentiment!!

Tada, our card is ready!!

Supplies used- @unitystampco Love them 

@pinkfreshstudio Floral Frame with Swan

@yv_craft_supplies Red Glitter cardstock

Sentiment and red rhinestones from our stash

Don't forget to leave a comment on all the posts. At the end of this week, we will be picking two winners, who will be getting $20 store credit to Unity Stamps. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Growing in Unity- Day 4

Hello friends,

Sharing another card for our inspiration post as Growing in Unity gal.

Love how the look of stamps change when we just use a part of it rather than whole image. I'm sure we all do that, isn't it. 

Used some bold colors here for the Stenciled background and left it without sentiment so as to personalise it as occasion demands. 

Do you ever leave your cards without a sentiment, let us know in the comments below 👇

Polaroid has been on our wish list for quite sometime now, so thought of making it with existing supplies till we get one. We used square die and trimmer to make one.

Don't forget to leave a comment on all the posts. At the end of this week, we will be picking two winners, who will be getting $20 store credit to Unity Stamps. 

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Simonsays Layer it

2. Stamplorations april-stencil-challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Growing in Unity-Day 3

Hello everyone,

 Sharing mini art journal page for today's inspiration at GIU- Growing In Unity. Who said stamps are only for card making, of course, not, right!! 

We have earlier used Unity Stamps Planner gal in art journal here. Check it out.

We used Bowl full of comfort stamp set for making this mini art journal page.

The sentiment says: "You only live once, lick 😋 the bowl". Don't get us wrong 😅!

The essence of this sentiment is: Enjoy your life to the fullest without worrying😃.

Also, we have used the stencil monoprint of the first card that we shared this week. You can check the card here.It's always good to get more out of your supplies 😀

We have shared a tutorial for making mini art journal. Check it here.

Don't forget to leave a comment on all the posts. At the end of this week, we will be picking two winners, who will be getting $20 store credit to Unity Stamps. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Growing in Unity- Day 2

Hello everyone,

Sharing our creation for Day 2 as Growing in Unity girl.

 Life is like a mirror. Smile 😊 at it and it smiles back at you

- Bryant H. McGill

You already know our love for rainbow 🌈, so used a rainbow pattern paper for the background. We cut out the word smile and used the negative die cut for the background. I love the pop of colors 🎨 here which pairs beautifully with this stamped image!!

Supplies used-

Unity stamp- Planner gal- Love them

Pinkfresh studio - Smile die

Yv_craft_supplies Rainbow 🌈 pattern paper

Don't forget to leave a comment on all the posts. At the end of this week, we will be picking two winners, who will be getting $20 store credit to Unity Stamps. 

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. TTCRD

2. Avenue613

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Growing in Unity- Day 1

 Hello everyone,

We are so excited to be GIU (Growing in Unity) girl this week. Sharing our first creation here.

You deserve the best!! 

Nothing like an encouragement card to uplift your loved ones, right!!  Used rectangle die to cut the panel a bit smaller than the card base. Then started Stencilling with Daffodil ink pad. Rotated the stencil and stenciled again to achieve a halo effect around the lady. 

We were looking for the perfect sentiment in our stash and found this one, went well with our card theme, so heat embossed it on black cardstock and adhered it to finish the card!!

Supplies used-

Unity Stamps Planner gal- One happy life

Unity Stamps- Sentiment from Deserving stamp

Create a smile Focal point stencil

Craftyscrappers Ink pads

Don't forget to leave a comment on all the posts. At the end of this week, we will be picking two winners, who will be getting $20 store credit to Unity Stamps. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting!

Chandhini and Subhashini