Yay- Cross stitch card

 Hello everyone,

We got one more card with cross stitching. Check the earlier one here.

We have been enjoying doing cross stitching. You will see more of them in the coming weeks. 

Supplies used:

Cross stitch die by Waffle Flower Crafts

Party Bear stamp set by Craftyscrappers

Sentiment by Your Next Stamp

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Simon says stamp- Stitch it

2. Krafty chicks challenge -all-occasions

3. Craftangles-monthly-challenge-sep-2021

4. Cardztv -challenge

5. Crafty catz-challenge

6. Uniko-challenge-67-anything-goes

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Holi- art journal

Hello everyone,

We are back with one more mini art journal page. This time, the theme is Holi- an Indian festival. 

Holi- Commonly known as FESTIVAL OF COLOURS, celebrated on full moon day of last month of Hindu lunar calendar.

Commonly celebrated by burning Kaam/Manmatha to ashes, and people play with colours in joy. 

Kaam is symbolic representation of our desires and the tale around this festival says that God of destruction and God of mind Shiva burns Kaam (our desires) to ashes by meditation. Once all desires are destroyed, a new life begins which marks Chaita Yugadi, which is aligned with positive climate changes in India, end of winter and start of Spring with new leaves. So, the festival of Holi is to burn old desires and welcome new year with playing with colours. 

Also, in earlier days colours made with natural pigments like turmeric, beetroot, leaves etc, the reason to nourish the skin and to prepare it for upcoming hot summer and keep away skin allergies. 

Food is another vast topic related to Indian festivals, but I am sure there is some scientific reason for each preparation related to each festival.

Supplies:

Craftyscrappers Holi stamp set

CrafTangles Color mist- Soulmate and Limelight

Script stamp that was gifted

White gelly roll

Entering the art journal page into the following challenges:

1. TTCRD

Thanks for stopping by.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Diwali Slimline Card

 Hello friends

Sharing our first Diwali card for this year!! 

For those who don't know about Diwali, it is an Indian festival of lights to celebrate the return of Lord Rama after 14 years of exile by lighting earthen lamps outside their home. People celebrate by wearing new clothes, distributing sweets, visiting friends and family and bursting crackers 💥 

We have tried to depict the typical Diwali night with the sky filled with fireworks  and lanterns outside house. 

Though we don't burst crackers anymore, we couldn't resist adding this lil boy enjoy his Diwali with crackers onto our card. Combining all these elements would definitely call for a Slimline Card size! So, here we are....

We did ink blending for the background using Craftyscappers dye ink pads. The boy image was stamped, watercolored and fussy cut. The Ranganjali Lantern Die was cut out from Gold mirror cardstock. To give the effect of glowing light from lanterns, we did some ink blending on vellum using Yellow ink and pasted it behind the die cut. The sentiment was heat embossed on vellum using Black embossing powder. 

We are happy with the outcome! 

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Lets create challenge challenge-164-ag/paper-strips

2. Uniko-challenge-61-anything-goesl

3. Creative fingers challenge

4. Stamplorations Belated-birthday

5. October-show-share

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Mini Art journal Series- 1

Hello friends
We are sharing a new series called Mini Art journal Series. We are excited to share the first post of the series.

Those of you who know us or have seen our older posts know that we love to recycle and reuse stuffs. So, this art journal is also one such project. We have used an old mini diary as the base for the art journal. This was used to note the expenditures during our hostel days. We are so happy to put it into good use.

Let's dive into today's post.
We have a tutorial for you.

Materials required:
Mini diary/ Art journal
White gesso ( we used DIY gesso)
Paints - any type (Spray paints, watercolor)
Glue/ fevicol
Any stamp or image 
Black cardstock
Black marker
White gelly Roll pen
Stencil
Dye ink pads ( you can use any coloring medium)
Blending foam
Scissors



Tutorial
1. Start by sticking together 3 papers. This will give some thickness and the paper will be able to handle the paints.
2. Repeat the first step with entire diary. Let it dry.
3. Apply gesso over the page and let it dry.
4. Apply watercolors or spray paints over the base. Choose 2-3 colors of choice.
5. Using a stencil, apply dye inks over the base.
6. Color your stamped image. We used dye ink pads to color the feathers.
7. Using black marker, doodle any design on the feathers. Fussy cut the image.
8. Write a inspirational quote with white gelly Roll on black cardstock. Cut them into strips.
9. Now comes the final and fun part, that is assembling. Place the image and quote over the base and see to your liking. Now paste them using glue.
Ta da, your mini art journal is ready.

Hope you enjoyed our tutorial and will give it a try.

Supplies
Stamp- Paper smooches
Stencil- Craft junction
Dye ink pad- Craftyscrappers



Entering it into the following challenges:
1. Paper smooches- ATG - feathers are by Paper Smooches
 
2. 613 Avenue Create
3. Crafter's Castle August Challenge #32
4. Dare 2B Artzy Challenge
5.  Crafty Calendar Challenge
6. CARDZ TV ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE #121
7. Wordart wednesday
8. Crafting happiness challenge
9. TIMEOUT challenge-168- Inspired by the colors- blue, pink 

10. Scrapping4 fun challenge
11. Aud sentiments Challenge 258-Anything-goes-Sentiment
12. Little Red Wagon Challenge 563 - Use a Stencil!
13. LPOCF #140

Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by
Chandhini and Subhashini

Ombre balloons

Hello friends

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon..... well, we got you three balloons to cheer you up further!!

We did scene building after a long time, and are pleased with the outcome. Again used Craftyscrappers Party bears  stamp set, Create a Scene stencil, Tubby craft ink pads and Dress my craft balloon die.
We can't get enough of these cute bear stamps, do you have any such favorite stamp that you seem to reach for time and again?? Tell us we are not alone.

Can you see the ombre effect on the balloons?

Entering into the following challenges:
1. LPOCF
2. MFT Sketch 501

3. Crafty calendar challenge
4. Catch the bug ATG
5. MFT Summer-school-2020-day-4

6. YNS challenge-145-celebration
7. TTCRD
8. Crafty creations challenge
9. Paper funday challenge
10. MFT summer-school-2020-day-1- Balloons are placed to form a triangle

11. Lets create challenge
12. Avenue613
13. SS- Happy birthday
14. Leanns-world-101-challenge-29
15. Timeout challenge

16. Simon-says-use-your-favorite-tool- Stencils
17. Creative fingers challenge
18. August-meant-to-be-sent


Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by
Chandhini and Subhashini

Birthday with twin bears

Hello friends

Sharing a birthday card. We were inspired by the colors at the current MFT color challenge. It is the first time we are participating in a color challenge, we usually find it challenging. The polka stencil is by Craft Junction. The bear image and sentiment are from Party bears stamp set by Craftyscrappers. 

Entering into the following challenges:
1. LPOCF
2. MFT summer-school-2020-day-3

3. Crafty calendar challenge
4. Catch the bug ATG
5. MFT Colour Challenge 146

6. MFT summer-school-2020-day-5

7. Pennys challenge
8. Crafty creations challenge
9. Paper funday challenge
10. MFT summer-school-2020-day-1- Sequins are placed to form a triangle

11. Lets create challenge
12. Avenue613
13. SS- Happy birthday
14. Leanns-world-101-challenge-29
15. Timeout challenge

16. Simon-says-use-your-favorite-tool- Stencils
17. TTCRD

Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by
Chandhini and Subhashini

Rainbow

Hello friends

We have made this card inspired by the current sketch at MFT. We used rainbow stripes pattern paper for the background. The bear image is from Party Bears stamp set by Craftyscrappers.

Entering into the following challenges:
1. LPOCF
2. MFT Sketch challenge 500

3. Creatalicious challenge
4. Simon-says-anything-goes
5. Crafty hazelnuts patterned paper
6. Crafty calendar challenge
7. Catch the bug ATG
8. Crafting happiness challenge
9. AAA birthday- Bright, washi, patterned paper
 
10. MFT summer-school-2020-day-1- Sequins are placed to form a triangle


11. MFT summer-school-2020-day-2

12. Avenue613
13. SS- Happy birthday
14. Leanns-world-101-challenge-29
15. Timeout challenge


Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by
Chandhini and Subhashini

Floral Bunch

Hello friends

Sharing a floral card.
We have made this card inspired by the current sketch at MFT. The background is stencilled by masking the panel using washi tape and ink blending with Craftyscrappers dye ink pad- Artic and Peacock. We used vellum to mute the background.

Floral bunch stamp set is by Mudra, which we colored last year during Kathy Rac's coloring challenge. Finally, we made it into a card. The sentiment is from a stamp set by Altenew. The golden strip is a snippet. Finished off with sequins by Mudra.

Entering into the following challenges:
1. Pixies-snippets-playground-challenge
2. MFT Sketch challenge 500

3. Creatalicious challenge
4. Simon-says-anything-goes
5. Uniko-challenge-60

6. Timeout challenge

7. Avenue613
8. Your next stamp Challenge

Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by
Chandhini and Subhashini

Be Mine- Popup box card

Hello friends
Today we will be sharing a popup box card with you.

We love making interactive cards, so making one after a long time. We have used pattern papers by Craftastique. The sentiments are from You and me stamp set by Craftyscrappers. We just let be the font of these sentiments. The hedgehogs are illustrated by our dear friend and card maker Raga from Perky hobby.

The glittery hearts are cut from DIY glitter cardstock. We made them by applying shimmer paste on white cardstock. After drying, we cut it through heart dies by Craftangles.

Entering into the following challenges:
1. Crafty catz
2. Crafty hazelnuts patterned paper
3. Krafty chicks challenge
4. Crafty animals
5. Craftangles-monthly-craft-challenge-july

6. Leanns-world-101-challenge
7. Mix it up challenge
8. TTCRD
9.  Classic design challenge
10. Pennys challenge
11. The paper shelter- anything-goes
12. The house that stamps built
13. Wordart wednesday
14. LTCCB
15. Inkspirational challenge- Inspired by the dots

16. Avenue613

Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Chandhini and Subhashini