34 days until Christmas...

Hi !
I'm back with another Christmas card. Slowly but surely making them.

I've made several Iris folded cards in the past. Pity I never pictured them. 

The star here is made using gold paper of 3 textures.

The background paper is foil printed handmade paper and the Nativity picture is from an old card.

Sorry once again the picture quality is poor.

This card will be linked to the following challenges:

Paper Play Challenges - Let it Snow

Meljen's Design's - Sparkle & shine

Totally Papercrafts -  Snowflakes

Ellephantastic Challenges – Christmas
Our Daily Bread - Holiday Card

Daring Cardmakers – 3 of something

ABC X'mas Challenge - X- X'mas

Stamping for the Weekend – Winter

Fairy Tale Challenge – White

Crafty Calendar – Snowflakes
Scrappy Frogs - Christmas
2 Sisters Challenge - Snowflakes

42 days until Christmas...

Hi ! 
This is my first X'mas card. Wanted to wait until Advent, but on second thought, I  decided to begin  before I get too busy.

 I'm not too pleased with my photography or should I blame the holographic paper ?

So, here's another picture from an angle. 

Still not clear ? Sorry, I tried my best. 

I'm certainly happy with my little X'mas trees and reindeer's especially Rudolph. He has a shiny nose and if you could clearly see it, you would surely say it glows 

First, I drew one tree on a bit of green card stock and cut it out, then used it as a template to draw and cut out the rest. Each tree was made using three cut outs. Next the tip of each branch was adorned with berries (red glitter), then glued to one another at the center fold. The star was cut from gold foil paper, using a holographic star sticker as a template. The last bit of this ribbon was from my stash. As I felt the holographic paper was too glittery I tried to lessen it to some extent with a few silver punched snowflakes and added the punched reindeer's entering the galaxy. Santa is way behind !! The sentiment was handwritten.     

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

2 Sister's Challenge - Christmas 

I did it Creations - Traditional X'mas colours
Craft your days away - X'mas trees
Ellephantastic Challenges - Christmas
ABC Challenge - H- Holidays
Totally Gorjuss - Traditional X'mas colors
Pollycraft Challenge - Glittery X'mas
Crafty Calendar - Snoflakes
Sweet Stamping Challenge - Snowflakes 
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Christmas
ABC X'mas Challenge - X- X'mas
Flourishes - Christmas

Clean & Simple! - That's my Style

First of all, I'd like to thank all who visited and left a comment here. Your comments are indeed encouraging and make me craft more.

The background of this card is, handmade embroidered paper from India. I embellished it with a quilled floral design ( my third attempt at quilling ) and ribbon with a wavy bow.

I'm linking this card in the following challenges:

Incy Wincy Designs - #66 Anything Goes

My Time to Craft - # 113 Quick & Cute

A Spoonful of Sugar - # 128 Relish to Embellish

Little Red Wagon - #53 Use the Color Red

Ai Factory - Garden Party (Flowers)

Lexi's Creations - Anything Goes

Creatalicious Challenges - #15 All White

Dutch Dare Challenge - # 90 Clean & Simple

2 Sisters Challenge - #12 Birthday
Fairy Tale Challenge - Anything Goes

Mum, I made Roses.

My mum teaches flower making and has taught scores of ladies over the past six decades. Recently, one of my sisters has learnt from her and helps her teach as she cannot manage much at 82. In the past, mum was always saddened by the fact that none of her four daughters bothered to learn from her. Fact is, mum was there to make them and we were interested in other crafts. Hence, the post title is addressed to her. 

This is my first attempt at an easel card and roses. No templates were used to cut the card shape. Instead, I drew the scallops around a circle and cut it out. Rose colours convey different messages. Deep Pink (the best I could find) simply means "Thank You".  Hence I chose this colour. The card is especially made to show our gratitude to someone. The spiral roses were made a few weeks ago. But, I delayed the project as I could not find a proper green paper for leaves. So, I painted the leaves in the end. The rose leaves are made as my mum does, with a serrated edge using scissors. Craft Punches were used for the ferns and daisies. As the first image was not very clear, I added another to proudly show off my roses. :D

 I also entered this project in the following Challenges:
Flowers – ABC Challenge
Flowers – Do More With Less
Give Thanks – Simon Says Stamp
Count Your Blessings - No Time to Stamp
Easel Card – Crazy for Challenges
Anything Goes – Meljen’s Designs
Anything Goes – Craftilicious Challenges
Glitter it Up - Southern Girls Challenge

Embellish It – One Stitch at a Time & 

Embellishments – Our Creative Corner 

Handmade Embellishment

Hi! 
I'm here again. The blog now beckons me to create even if there's no upcoming family occasion. So, here’s what I made yesterday while my kids were at school.

The papers used here are: a part of a gift wrap paper to make the accordion fold medallion and a strip of handmade block printed paper.  The flowers used to complete the embellishment are punch cut outs topped with a gold sequin to coordinate with the colours on the handmade paper. I also folded the gold paper below the strip in a similar manner and slightly stretched it. As shown below.

The card has been entered in the following challenge blogs:

Embellish It - One Stitch at a Time 

Anything Goes - Craftalicious Challenges

Autumn Birthdays - Crafty Calendar Challenges 

Happy Birthday - Lexi’s Creations 

Sweet & Simple - Do More With Less 
Anything Goes - Meljen's Designs &
Celebrate Good Times - Wee Memories

Happy Birthday Dad!

Hi there!

    I’m back. Been busy with my kids and attending functions and so soon a fortnight has flown by.

    I just finished making a card for my dad who will be “95” on 18th. We thank the Lord for he’s still mobile, although only within the house; and we hope he continues to be so until the end.

For the background of this card, I used striped paper. The spike edged circles and the 95 were cut out from cardstock, using my favorite tool “scissors”. While the sentiments, including the one on the ribbon were printed.   

For the first time ever I decided to join a challenge.

I've entered this card in :

Autumn Birthdays - Crafty Calender Challenge 
More than one Fold - Charisma Cardz Challenges 
Birthdays - Lexi's Creations 
Anything Goes - Craftilicious Challenges 
Happy Birthday - Cards for Men Challenges &
Black, White & 1 other colour - Paper Pretties

The paisley shape was cut out from a gift wrap paper with tiny bronze coloured paisleys on a pale pink background. I drew the scallops around it and filled it in with dark pink glitter. I lightly shaded the tiny paisleys too which gave it a better effect; not clearly visible here.

I made this quick card to wish my friends celebrating Eid. I partly covered the card with embossed handmade paper and used a glittery foam embellishment I just received from a friend to decorate it. The sentiment was handwritten.

The paisley design was cut out in a diamond shape from a screen printed paper and mounted on pearlised gold cardstock. I pierced it all around, lightly embossed the outer edge and adhered it with foam tape.

The plaid background here is a remnant of fabric. I pulled out the yarn on all sides for a tassel like effect. The flowers are ready cut outs, while the leaves & the flowers centre were manually cut from foam. A sticker was used for the sentiment.

Pearlised cardstock was used for this 50th birthday card. The square is a piece of gold coir (coconut husk) handmade paper. The ‘50' was cut out from pearlised gold cardstock and fixed with foam tape. Gold flower sequins were used to decorate the rest of it.

This gift bag was decorated with gift wrapping paper which had a border of daisies. I attached craft punch daisy cut outs over those daisies to indicate a double row of petals. Silver beads were used for the flowers centre and the clasp.

The front of this card was covered with embroidered handmade paper. Over the metallic silver ribbon, the hearts cut out from foil paper were entwined and fixed with foam tape. Do excuse the poor picture quality.

The vehicle here was cut out from an old card, corrugated paper from some packing was used for the road & completed with a Happy Birthday sticker.

The paisly here was cut out from 'Archies' gift wrap paper, the scallops around it were drawn and filled in with gold glitter glue, some of which was also used to add shimmer to the design within.

Yesterday I was determined to try quilling & this is my quilled card at my first attempt. I decided to use fluorescent papers to make it colourful, but as they are coloured only on one side I glued two together. Craft punch daisies were used to decorate the rest of it. It's not symmetrical & has a few other flaws, due to two sheets adhered together. I felt like tearing it apart, so my daughter took it away before I did so.

Here's another paisley which didn't permit me to do much to it other than add the two red rhinestones. It was cut out from a block printed paper.

This bag is cut in one piece from cardstock. On the inside, an additional pouch is attached for a cash gift & a piece of foam tape is used to close it. The bag is decorated with part of a doily and a knotted cord for the clasp.

This wreath was made with craft punch cut outs, glitter glue was used for the flower centres and all around the card.

Do excuse the poor picture quality here. A two tone synthetic ribbon adorned the centre of this card. On it individually cut and interlocked foam hearts and the sentiment were mounted with foam.

Paisley, a very ancient yet popular design is my favorite. The design on black handmade screen printed paper was cut into an oval and mounted on gold cardstock. I punched the card all around the border for this effect.

Craft decorative paper flower cut outs were used to create this card. Each flower petal was cupped using flower-making tools, assembled in alternate light and dark shades with a yellow rhinestone for the centre. The card was completed by partly covering it with handmade animal skin textured paper and gluing the flower with stems and leaves along its edge.

Making cards for the opposite gender has always been a problem. I recently made this card for my nephew by recycling three greeting cards to design the tag then mounted it on blue handmade animal skin textured paper with foam tape.

This card was made for the Golden Jubilee of the sisters at the Monastery of Angels. The ‘50’ was cut form pearlised gold cardstock, mounted on a piece of textured white card and the corners were embellished with gold confetti cherubs. The piece was then mounted with foam tape onto handmade foil printed paper that covered the front of the card.

I made this Memorial card for my sister’s death anniversary. Craft punches were used to cut the felt paper flowers and leaves while the cross was cut from the foil seal on powder milk tins and embossed. This was my largest project ever of over 100 cards. Cutting the crosses made my fingers sore.