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

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