Eid Mubarak!!!

Hi!
   I'm back soon as I said yesterday, especially to wish ET (Erum) from Vibgyor Krafts a Happy Eid besides all those celebrating the festival. This Eid is the festival of sacrifice to commemorate Abraham's sacrifice of the ram in place of his son Issac. So here's my card for ET.

The background of this is handmade embossed paper and rose petal papers from India. The edges of the rose petal paper were distressed. The quilling shape is the basic eye shape. Loose coils were uses for flourish and  a sequence for the flower center . It was finished off with glitter around the plain white edges of the card. 

I hope you like it ET.  Do visit ET's blog to view her splendid creations.  

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

http://papercraftstar.blogspot.com/ - Flourish 

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/ - Blushing Peach Craze

http://craftypurplefrogchallenges.blogspot.com/ - Sparkle

http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/ - Rectangle

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/ - Anything but a Square

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes

Repostiong my first card with a banner

Hello my friends!

   I'm here pretty soon right? Well today it's just to link up to Flashback Friday Challenge.  I love Flashback Friday because all I have to do is just repost an old creation and whenever I have a card for the challenge, I never fail to link up so as to keep my blog alive. This time the challenge is to repost the first card you blogged about that featured a banner. So, here's my card with a banner. Please excuse the blurred image. 

The embossed panel here, was just one of the 15 different ones sent to me by ET from Vibgror Crafts as RAK. The banner was drawn and manually cut, used alphadotz for 'girl' and joined the four with silver thread. The thread was looped at both ends and hung on pins with pearly white heads. Strips of craft paper from Itsy Bitsy were used as a trim for the embossed panel. The sentiment is a rub-on sticker and finally, I added some faux stitching around. Hope to be back here soon. Have a beautiful Sunday.   

In Sympathy

Hi friends!
   I hope those of you celebrating Halloween had a fabulous time. I have been busy making sympathy cards lately. Besides a family friend who lost her husband, Susan  from Imagine, Create, Express lost her father a fortnight ago. I know I should have been here earlier to inform those of you who know her. Anyway, I'm here today with a simple card I made for the family friend.

The background paper is from RAK sent by Nina & the flowers are part of the giveaway I won at Lori's blog. The sentiment is K&Company's monogram transfer I won at Amy Jo's blog. Thanks to you my friends for the crafting supplies you so generously offer. Certainly, I wouldn't have reached this far with no supplies available here. 

God Bless you all!!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/ - Use Blue
http://craftyannschallengeblog.blogspot.com - Clean & Simple
http://www.stampingwithbrenda.com/ - CAS with Flowers
http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes
http://paperminutes.blogspot.com/ - Blue/White
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ - Anything Goes + Bling

Clean and Simple

Hi!

   Hope all of you are doing fine. Today, I’m here with a card partly made by my son Aaron when he was 10. Aaron is 12 yrs old now; he enjoys art and craft and often gives me his opinion when asked. Just thought I’d post his card here, lest he doesn’t feel offended that I posted his sisters work (previous post) and not his. 

The Golden Poppy image was stamped by me using stamps from ‘Stamp It’- Flowers and colored by Aaron with Crayola color pencils. The sentiment was printed.

Here’s another card with a Daffodil also colored by him.

I haven’t added a sentiment on this one yet because, I want to save it for a time when I have to instantly send a card. Depending on what occasion I need it for; I add a sentiment & send it. I always have a few such CAS cards ready for use when required. 

Have a great day!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

http://craftyjc-challenge.blogspot.com -  Simplicity

http://sweetstampsblog.blogspot.com/ -  Clean & Simple

http://cachallenge.blogspot.com/ - One layer card

http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com – Card for all occasions

http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/ - Single layer card

Thanks So Much!!

Hello my friends!
   OMG! It's almost 3 months since my last post. How time flies! I thought I would be back here in Sept. but, just could not as one thing after another popped up. A big thanks to you all for your support by sticking out here although I was MIA for so long. In fact, each time I viewed my blog, I found I had visitors and even some new friends which made me feel good. Besides, during my absence here, I was featured for THIS card on Flashback Friday and also received two blog awards. 
Thank you Lori from Loris Artsy Obsession for honoring me with this Butterfly Award.

To accept this award all you have to do is these 3 things...
1. Link back to the person who you received the award from. 
2. Answer the following 10 questions (You'll find the questions in Lori's post HERE)    
3. Pass the award on to 10 of your crafty blogging buddies.
Sorry, I'm not going through the task of answering questions but I would like to pass this award to all of you my friends for all your blogs are cool in their own special way. Now, don't be shy, please feel free to grab it from here.  
Thank you Sue from Sue's Craft Haven for the Tag - You're It Award!

To accept this award you have to share 10 things about yourself and pass the tag on to five other Blogging Buddies. Sorry, once again I'm not going through this or else my post will not be up today. However, if you'd like to know more about me, I've shared over 15 things about myself in a post HERE. And this time I will pass it on to my buddies who also post awards on their blog.

They are:

Dawn from Dawn's Crafting

Susan from Imagine, Create, Express

Helen from Let's Create

Shen from My Curious Crafts

Kevin from McCrafty's Cards

Finally, here's my card to say ' Thanks So Much' to YOU.

The stamped image of the Arum Lilly is from 'Stamp It' -Flowers. (An Indian Educational toy! I bought in India several years ago) It was colored by my DD using soft pastels. I layered it on gold cardstock, used a SRM sticker sentiment & lightly highlighted the edges with Tim Holtz (Mustard Seed) distress Ink. The latter two items were sent to me by my crafting buddies. Thanks Nina from Crafting in Croatia and Ann from Stargroves. Today, I'm able to craft with some actual crafting supplies (not even heard of here) because of you. God Bless You!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafty JC Challenge - Simplicity

Little Red Wagon - Thanks

Stamping with Brenda - Anything Clean & Simple

Make It Monday - Anything Goes