City Crafter Challenge Blog 5th Birthday Celebration Week #4

Hello everyone,

5th Birthday celebration continues at City Crafter Challenge Blog and this week our Stella is the host :)

We are CASEing her gorgeous card this time:

and this is what I made based on her card:

As soon as I saw Stella's card I thought NAUTICAL...so I made the card with lots of sea themed elements...

As you can see, there is lots of distressing, gesso, and seaside themed embellishments...

One more look at the finished card...

This week's Guest Designer is Lin Please stop by her fabulous blog to check out her work and also check out on City Crafter Challenge what my teammies have made :)

Stella is sponsoring this week's challenge and winner will get this fabulous goodies package

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

New Mixed Media Challenge Blog Announcement!

Hello everyone!!!

I am thrilled and honored to announce that I have been invited to be part of the Design Team of a brand new amazing Mixed Media Challenge Blog called "Anything But Cute" owned by super talented Pamellia Johnson of My Little Craft Things.

I am truly honored to be part of this amazing challenge Design Team and shall be sharing some of my favorite creations at Anything But Cute Challenge Blog.
Please stop by at Anything But Cute to check out my work and find out more about me :) also while you are there, please don't forget to click that pretty "Follow" button, it would make us all happy. :)



Now here is the info about the challenge:

Anything But Cute is a brand new mixed media challenge blog with a new challenge starting on the 5th day of every month at 7:00 am EST.

We welcome all types of crafts. Cards, journal pages, scrapbook pages, 3D crafts, canvas art, altered items and any other handmade paper or mixed media arts. We encourage crafters of all skill levels and styles - shabby chic, grunge, vintage, elegant, stylish, retro, you name it. As our name indicates, the only style we are not showcasing - are all things cute and adorable. There must be at least one mixed media product on your project somewhere, be that paint, ink, stain, spray, paste, clay, crackle glaze...whatever tickles your fancy!

At Anything But Cute, we would love to see all you seasoned and expert mixed media artists, but we also want to encourage those of you who are just getting your feet wet. Our design team will always be on the lookout for these exceptional projects and artists. You just never know when we might be giving out something special to a talented mixed media newcomer. We all have to start somewhere, right! Be sure to mention in your post that you are a newcomer to the mixed media arts.

Our first challenge starts on May 5th, so let's get messy and have some fun!

The next Design Team Member will be revealed on April 30th! Please make sure to check it out!

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Vintage Mother's Day Card with Lace

Hello everyone,

First of all, I would like to welcome my newest followers and thank my old ones for continued support. I truly appreciate you all!

Now, on to my latest creation:

I went with simple vintage elegance with this card...

I used damask stencils on my layers, distressed edges and slightly inked them with Antique Linen Distress Ink...

I added a layer of tulle and then lace underneath the sentiment and added a vintage flower pendant...

One more look at the card...

I am entering this card into following challenges:

Frilly and Funkie "Stencil Mania"

613 Avenue Create "Anything Goes with optional twist of diamonds"

and

Scrapping 4 Fun Challenges "Anything Goes with option of Lace of Ribbon"

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

City Crafter Challenge Blog 5th Birthday Celebration Week #3

Hello everyone,

it is time for a new challenge over at City Crafter Challenge Blog

This week's host is Ros and here is her fabulous creation that we can all CASE:

Here is my shabby chic CASE of it:

I used this opportunity to create a birthday card for a friend...

I made a shaker card filled with decorative diamonds :)

For the front panel I used Prima cardstock from Epiphany collection. I did not have to decorate at all, since this 6" x 6" piece already had perfect design for it!

One more peak at the card and a keepsake box...

Guest Designer this week is Tammy

Ros is also sponsoring this week's prize:

I hope you'll be able to join in on fun!
Please stop by my teammies blogs to check out their fabulous makes:

Kirsty

Ros

and

Stella

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

12 Tags of 2015 April

Hello everyone,

just a quick post of my take on Tim Holtz's April Tag:

I followed all the instructions except stitching the tag, since I don't have sewing machine... Instructions for April tag can be found here

Here are couple more closeups...

I did not have the flower stamp so I used a dragonfly stamp I got when I won one of a card competitions...

I used my Cricut machine to cut out happy family sentiment...Don't have Vagabond machine...Sorry Tim Holtz...

Well, this was one quick post, huh?
I hope you enjoyed it though...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Vintage Mother's Day Card

Hello everyone,

First of all I would like to welcome my new followers and to thank my old ones for continued support! I truly appreciate you all!!!

Here is my newest creation:

I used a piece of craft cardstock to create my background. I applied texture paste through Prima Damask stencil and after that layer was dry I covered everything with gesso to give it that aged rustic look. I distressed the edges to reveal some of that craft cardstock color...

The shabby bow is crinkled seam binding ribbon embellished with a vintage flower medallion.

The handmade flowers are decorated with pearls made with Spellbinders Flower diecut...

The sentiment was framed into this gorgeous Spellbinders Opulent Ovals diecut...

One more look at the card...

I am entering this card into following challenges:

Country View Challenges "Use Kraft Card" My background was created on a piece of kraft card

Frilly and Funkie "Springtime Die Cuts"

Scrap and Craft Inspiration Challenge "Tie It Up"

Vintage Stamping Challenges "Handmade Flowers"

Scrapping 4 Fun Challenges "Anything Goes Lace or Ribbon"

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Make Your Own Background"

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

05/01/2015 UPDATE

I am thrilled to announce that my card was one of the Featured at Scrapping $ Fun Challenges!!!

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall....

Hello everyone,

Just a quick post of my newest card inspired by the dark side of the Snow White fairy tale...I made it for a dear friend of mine Doreena that loves Halloween as much as I do and then some :)

I used mostly Tim Holtz products to create this card, from bricked stencil to distress and crackle paints and inks. I used different inking techniques to achieve that worn and antique look of the brick wall background...

I used bricked stencil to ink the corners of the inside panel of this card...

I added a piece of red died cheesecloth, and the banner that was created by burning the edges to give it that antique look. The banner was inked with Vintage Photo, Barn Door and Black Soot distress inks.

The mirror was created from several layers of heavy cardstock glued together, embellished with liquid pearls, then painted with Black Soot Crackle Paint, Brushed Pewter Distress Paint and metal sheet distressed with Black Soot and Weathered Wood Distress Paint. I created illusion of cracked mirror with hot glue...

One more look at the finished card...

I am entering this card into following challenges:

A Vintage Journey "Through the Looking Glass"

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "In the Middle" ( my mirror is in the middle of the card )

and

A Sprinkle of Imagination "Anything Goes April Challenge"

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...
Samra

City Crafter Challenge Blog 5th Birthday Celebration Week 2

Hello everybody,

City Crafter Challenge Blog continuea it's 5th birthday celebration with challenge to case Kirsty's card.

Here is my CASE:

I created an elegant Anniversary card :)

I used a piece of vellum to print the sentiment on, that is my favorite material for sentiments :)

One more look at the finished card...

Tammy is our Guest Designer this week. I hope you stop by her blog and check out her fabulous work...

Also check out what my teammies have made for this challenge.

Kirsty

Ros

and

Stella

The prize for this week's challenge winner is graciously sponsored by Kirsty.

I hope you can join in on fun!!

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...
Samra

Tall & Skinny Vintage Birthday Card

Hello everyone,

Here is my newest creation:

I decided to go with simple and elegant vintage look...

I used papers from Pion Design and Avalon to create the background. I used a metal filigree corner to embellish the strip of cardstock.

The sentiment was created on my PC and printed on white cardstock, framed into 6 layer cardstock frame covered with gesso and embellished with pearls. The flowers were handmade by me, and shabby bow was also hand died with Milled Lavender Distress Ink.

I am entering this card into following challenges:

Scrap & Craft Inspiration Challenge #6 "Frame It"

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "A is for..." April Blooms

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Spring Flowers"

Vintage Utfordring #99 Beads/Pearls

Mojo Monday #392

and

Seize The Birthday "Tall & Skinny"

I hope you enjoyed this post..
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Samra

City Crafter Challenge Blog 5th Birthday Celebration

Hello everyone,

I am thrilled to announce that City Crafter Challenge Blog is celebrating it's 5th birthday and that I have the honor of hosting the first challenge this birthday month!
This month each team member that is hosting their week's challenge is to create a card that the rest of the team and participants of the challenge would case...
Here is my creation that will be used as an inspiration point for this week's challenge:

You can pick colors, design or any element of this card to CASE and make it your own...let's have some fun!!!

I created a cluster with handmade flowers all treated with gesso and Seedless Preserves Distress Ink and added shabby bow, butterfly and a rose medallion.

I used Spellbinders fancy tag dies cuts for the base of my banner sentiment which was printed on a piece of vellum...

You can see the distressed layers of the base cardstock in purple and beige and tulle peeking behind the beige layer...

One more view at the finished card...

Now to add a cherry on top of this celebration month, each host will be sponsoring the challenge with little prize package!!
Here is what the winner of this week's challenge will get:

This is a good starter for fun spring and summer cards with cardstock in fun colors and patters, set of ribbons and different embellishments.

This week we are thrilled to have Lula as our Guest Designer. Please stop by her fantastic blog to check out her breathtaking work...

And of course stop by my teammies' blogs to check out their fantastic creations

Kirsty

Ros

and

Stella

I hope you enjoyed this post...
Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by...

Samra