Card with a paper woven border

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   I’ve no idea what’s gotten into me but here’s the third card in red and white in succession. This time I’ve especially designed this card for a challenge at Moxie Fab. The challenge is beautiful borders. A lot of ideas came to my mind but I finally decided to make a card with a paper woven border.

To make this, a margin was drawn on a rectangular piece of red card stock on all four sides. Then strips of equal width were cut within the margin and along its length and woven with white strips of equal width to form this pattern. Very simple!! The sentiment is printed on my PC. Making this, brought back memories of my childhood when I used to weave simple paper mats & use them as a table mats for myself. LOL

 I’m also entering this card into the following linky parties:
Make It Monday
Inspire Me Fridays

Reposting my first non-traditional shaped card

   Today I happened to visit the Flashbach Friday Challenge Blog and found that the guest designer for the current challenge is my friend Julie, a last minute crafter like me. The challenge she’s chosen is to post the first non-traditional shaped card.  I like making shaped cards and here’s my first since I started blogging.

Here's a close up as I did not get a clear picture of my roses

This is my first attempt at an easel card and quilled spiral roses. The scalloped circle was drawn free hand and cut using scissors. 

For more details go back in time to view the original post HERE.

Accordion folded flowers

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  Today I’m here to share a card I made for a challenge at create. The challenge is to make accordion folded flowers. I kept to the same technique and also made accordion folded leaves and a butterfly. I wish I could add a tutorial here, but there has been no connectivity all day and now that it’s finally here, I’m posting in a hurry hoping that I’ll be just on time to link up to create after all the effort I put in to make this card.

   The papers used are a gift wrap paper for the flower and colored A4 papers for the flower center, leaves and butterfly. The basic requirement to make all three is a rectangular piece of paper, scored to form the accordion fold. In addition, to make the flower, I glued a thin strip of yellow paper along one edge before folding and after joining to form a circle, cut it to reveal petals and added a bead in the centre to cover the space. For the leaves after the accordion fold was made, it was folded in half (like a fan), the edges that met were glued then cut into leaves. To make the butterfly, I drew a symmetrical design in red, folded, tied it in the centre with brown cord for the antennae and body, cut into shape, then lightly colored the edges of the wings. The background paper is white card stock dabbed with distress ink and layered over red card stock. The sentiment is stamped, the frame around it is a rub on and the ribbon is from my stash. I hope you’ll like my new creation.

I’m also entering this card into the following challenges:

 Color Throwdown – Color challenge #149

Digi Design House - Handmade Flowers

Creative Craft Challenges  -Pretty Blossoms 
CREATIVE BELLI BLOG - Handmade Embellishments

Young Crafters Unite Blog Hop

Hello  Friends!

    Welcome to Young Crafters Unite blog hop. Britta and Marie have teamed up to bring together all the young crafters in blogosphere. It’s a fabulous idea and I’m really excited about it as it’s my first  time. Thanks to the young crafters Britta and Marie for organizing it.

To start at the beginning of the blog hop and know the details, go directly to Young Crafter’s Unite. If you are arriving from Aditya's blog you are in the right place.

    You must be wondering what makes me a young crafter. Well, crafting relieves stress and keeps me happy that’s what makes me feel young.

Here’s my project using one of my favorite crafting techniques – Quilling.

The background paper used for this simple card is handmade embroidered beehive shape for the bud, a fringed flower for the centre and a digital sentiment. paper, in off white & silver. Sorry, I could not get a clearer picture as the holographic ribbon gave me trouble. It gives a different glow in every angle and this was the best I could do. I used the basic quilling shapes for this card. The teardrop shape for the petals, the eye shape for the leaves, the

You will find tutorials for quilling HERE.

 I’d also like to share an old favorite quilled project.

The flowers are quilled folded roses and fringed daisies. The basket woven with thin paper strips and the leaves punched.

 Here’s the bottom and side view of the 3D basket…

And  a close up of the basket of flowers.

 You can comment on the hop links from 12:00 hrs July 1^st until 23:59 hrs July 4^th  CST(Chicago, USA) and don’t forget there are prizes for randomly selected comments. The more blogs you visit, the greater your chances of winning!!

The next blog to hop to is Ruby

 Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by. 

I’ve finally stamped!

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   Today I’m very excited as I finally made a stamped card. Yes, I stamped for the first time. That’s because I received the first stamp set I won in a giveaway at Ladybug Crafts. Thanks Samantha I think stamping is fun and I love the way this card turned out. 

    The image is from Humphreys Corner collection by Crafters Companion. I stamped it without any block as I don’t have one yet and I was impatient to try it out.  My daughter coloured Humphrietta (as she named her) for me using Faber Castell colour pencils and outlined it with a black pointer, and I punched around the oval shape. To keep to Nina Brackett’s current sketch at Card Patterns, I used the polka dotted paper from India, part of a doily, diagonally striped ribbon and added the sentiment. It was stamped using the same stamp set, outlined it with a red pointer (my DD did that too) and I added a gift shape confetti. The sentiment looked much better below the image, but as I’d already twisted the sketch I was unsure if I could change the placement of the sentiment. Please do let me know in your comments if I could have done it or not. I’m new at sketch challenges.

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:

CardPatterns – Sketch 121

Craft your passion challenges – Seeing Red

Simply Sunday Challenge at K Andrew – Use a pen

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog – Simply Red

Creative stamp Friends – Dots

Crafty Cardmakers – Spots & Stripes

Stamps R Us – Little Girl