Blog hop - Jane's doodles

Hello friends,

 How are you all doing? We all are going through some really tough time. We have total lock-down for 3 weeks. We are half way there. While I try to create and keep myself occupied, that feeling of uncertainty is always there at the back of mind. I simply can't concentrate in this new norm. Let's hope we get back to our routine pretty soon.  

Let's try to cheer ourselves up. We @jane's doodles have a blog hop for you. There are 2 new stamp sets Tulips & Spring Icons, released recently. I love the idea of Tulips set. The flowers, stem and leaves are separate stamps which gives you flexibility to make your own bouquet bu masking and stamping. 

  

     

I have used Tulip set for today's card. I stamped multiple of each images on water color card stock with light ink as I was going for no line water coloring. I used Mission Gold water colors and faber castell pencils for adding details. It took me a while to build those layers but the result is worth the efforts. I fussy cut all the images and arranged them on a ink blended panel.  

Sentiment is from Doodle Butterflies. I finished it off by adding few clear dew drops. 

I hope my card could cheer you up! 

Please check out all the blogs and leave comment on each one for you chance to win a stamp set of your choice. The winner will be announced on Friday! All the stamps are 30% off till Friday.

Blog Hop Order

Milka  

Marion  

Neha (You are here)

Galina  

Kaja  

Linda  

Jane's Doodles  

Happy hopping...:) Keep crafting to beat the blues!Hugs.

Chase your dreams

Hi friends,

I am sharing a floral card today! I got this stamp set Fleur 2 by Pinkfresh quite some time ago but this crazy summer and unexpected social events are keeping me away from crafting. This is a large set consisting of many images of flowers and branches. I love it's delicate, whimsical feel. I made this card for my student, a sweet girl who went to Australia for further studies in Architect. She is a girl with million dreams who is very close to me. I wish all her dreams come true!

The sentiment is from Word series - Believe stamp set. This is a very versatile stamp set which gives you many options for one of a kind sentiments. I colored the florals using Tomboy dual pens. The images are very delicate so brush tip of tombow pen gives me better control than water colors. 

I have few more ideas using this set. Hoping to make and post soon. 

Thank you for stopping by! 

Dragonfly wishes

I am sharing two cards which I made using the stamp sets by Crafter's Companion called Flying Dragonflies and Wishes set by Pink & Main . Both are Mini hence pocket friendly & I have showcased how easily you can create different looking cards with the same stamps. Flying dragon flies is a single red rubber stamp. I trimmed it and separated both dragonflies for the ease of stamping. Do not afraid to cut your stamps, just be careful while doing so.

For the first card, I stamped the sentiment on Tim Holtz Water color card stock  using Black archival ink and Dragonflies with coffee archival ink. I used archival inks as they are water proof. Colored each dragonfly with different shades of distress inks. I mounted the water color card panel on 4.25x5.5inches top folded card.

For the second card, I embossed the large dragon fly on Let'z craft vellum using versamark & Ranger white embossing powder. I fussy cut the fly and used green copic on the back of the wings to give little bit of color.

I used  moss green card stock for the base on which I splattered some papericious white chalk paint . I love to use chalk paints for splatters on cs as they are quite thick and opaque. I also use a small, wonky panel of gaza grey cs. Initially i stamped large wishes stamp from pink & main set in grey on this panel but after a while the stamping became invisible as i had used very light ink so I stamped it using black archival ink across the panel. I also embossed small birthday from the same set on a stripe of white cs.

So it is easy to create two totally different looking cards using the same stamps if you think and plan. While shopping for supplies, always look for the versatility of stamps, how many ways you can use it, how it goes with your existing supply etc. That way you can get the maximum worth of your money! Be smart, save some & create more...:)

Happy Crafting, gals! See you soon!