I'm back!

Hello!

      My sincere apologies to most of my lovely friends here for not visiting you’ll. It’s been a while since I last posted too. January didn't start off very well for me. First I had problems with the internet connection for almost 10 days. No sooner that was sorted out, my 'C' drive crashed due to which, I lost a lot stuff including family pics and some favorite links I'd bookmarked. Next, I was down with "The Flu", which really drained me out L. I finally recovered over the weekend and I'm back with a love card J.

The base of the card is pearlised cardstock which I manually embossed with improvised tools (a heart shaped paper clip & the back of a pen :D) It’s my first attempt at embossing and I’m quite pleased with the  result. The two hearts cut out from gold cardstock, were layered. One with canvas used for cross stitch and the other with handmade choir paper with a little glitter sprinkled over it. The hearts were then overlapped and tied with gold cord along with a handmade charm (bubble stick-on over ‘50’ printed on gold card) Used a heart border punch to make the lacy border below. The sentiment was printed and I designed and embossed my little tag with the heart shaped paper clip.

      I’ve no clue when I’ll be back here with another card as the next two weeks will be busy with my BIL here from Canada. Besides, my computer has also been working with fits and starts. I’ve been told that the ‘C’drive has some bad sectors and needs to be replaced. I will have it done hopefully soon and then try my best to visit a few of you each day. Until then take care and happy crafting. 

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:

Southern Girls Challenge – Dry Embossing

Craft Your Days Away Challenges - Love

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Love

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog - Monochromatic

KB Challenges - Hearts 

Crafty Hos' Challenge Blog - No Designer Paper

Prairie Fairy Fridays - For a Sweetheart

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Love is in the Air

Fresh Brewed Blog - Anniversary

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Love is in the Air

Creative Cowgirls Challenge Blog - Love

Creative Craft World - The Challenge Blog! - Love

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog – Hearts

PaperCrafting Journey – Love is in the Air

Stamping Vacation - Heart/ Border punch/Black sentiment

CCEE Stampers – Punches 

It’s a New Year!!

Hello!

    Here's a new card to welcome a new baby girl and a warm welcome to all my new blogging friends.

    I enjoy making shaped cards. When I first began blogging, I’d seen a simple ‘U’ shaped bib card on some blog and  felt like making one my own way, when my cousin had her baby, 'Jane'. 

To make this, I drew a ‘U’ shape, and then drew scallops around it using the template of different sized circles as a guide.  Drawing the inner shape was no easy task at all. I have no clue as to how many paper drafts I made and discarded until I was satisfied. Yes, I’m a very determined crafter. If I have pictured a certain way of doing something, I have to do it, no matter what. Well, having done my paper drafts, I cut the outer shape on a piece of folded card stock and the inner shape on a chequered paper recently sent from India, using my only and favorite tool “scissors”. New rub-on transfers sent from Canada were used to embellish it. I had to slightly cut the center scallop in order to make the card stand.  

For the inside, I used paper of a lighter shade to print the verse, made and cut the shape  in the same way and lightly highlighted the scalloped edge with a color pencil.

Many thanks for all your wonderful comments which will certainly impel me to create more. I’d like to add, that soon I’ll be launching another blog to share all kinds of crafts. So, be sure to visit again.  

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Quirky Crafts - New beginnings

Crafty Hos' - Babies

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Something New

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts - Anything Goes
Woodware USA - Something New 

Try It On Tues. - New Beginnings

The Crazy Challenge - All Things New

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - New Beginnings
Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - New Beginnings
Ai Factory - New Beginnings
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
Rainbow Ladies - Something New
Dutch Dare - New Beginnings
Paper Play - Clean & Simple
Praire Fairy - New Beginnings
Delicious Doodles - Something New
Send a Smile 4 Kids - Anything Goes

The Creative Cottage - Something New

Iris Fold Star

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

Punched Christmas Trees

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

Quilled Flower

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