Hello Friends!

Hello Friends!

Hope you are all doing well. I am getting better.

I am all excited. 

I am back with new energy, new thoughts and with more enthusiasm. So many of my friends are missing me. But now I am back and will try be in touch with you more frequently.

Are you all ready??? 

Be ready. Be ready.

Keep an eye on my blog...


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Another Black and White Card

Hi folks. Hope you are all doing well.

I guess you are all preparing for Christmas and New Year. WE are just in the middle of the Karthika month- a month where we pray, fast, take dips in rivers or other water bodies and visit temples. It is winter time here. The temperatures are going down steadily. This is also a time for picnics and travelling.

Well I am busy with getting my house and my garden to some state of order. With all the neglect for nearly over an year everything is in chaos. I am better but not yet completely. I have to attend therapy sessions.

Today, I will share with you one of my cards-very simple black and white colours.

I have had these big butterfly stickers with me for some time and I wanted to use them.

I have folded an A4 size white card stock, punched three sides with border punch. Then I added the stickers and the half pearls. 

Basically I wanted it to be a simple uncluttered card in black and white. But in the last moment I added a bit of colour in the sentiment.

Hope you like it.

Smile Card

Materials Used:

• A4 size white card stock
• Border Punch
• Butterfly sticker
• Smile puffy sticker
• Black half pearls (self adhesive)

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Black and White Card

Hi friends!

I am back after a long time. Had to stay away from computer as per doctors orders. Today, I am just testing how far I can sit and type. 

I am busy with my daily routine and my students. I can only manage that much between my frequent visits to the doctor. I also am unable to do anything much as I cannot sit for long nor can do anything intricate like embroidery or painting or writing for long. But then I am recovering and it will take a lot of time. I have to face this winter season. Thank God! our winters are milder here with lots of sun shine. But still I am affected by the cold climate.

Hope you have had a very joyous Diwali. We had fun celebrating along with our family and friends. 

Here is one of my cards which I made sometime back.

Celebrate card

This was an easy card to make. I just punched the border on white card stock and layered it along with black card stock onto the base. Then added the tape and sentiment. 

I just wanted to restrict the colour scheme to black and white. Then just added a touch of pink in the the sentiment.

Materials Used:

• A4 size ivory card stock
• Black coloured handmade card stock
• Black tape with white polka dots
• Puffy sticker "Celebrate"
• Border Punch
• Glue

Hope you like it. 

That is all for now. I can only sit for this long. Hope I can post some more in my next posts. Actually I have so many half finished cards which need just a little bit of finishing touches. But I somehow am not able to to that. Especially when it comes to stamping, I keep on putting it off. It is messy all right? Specially searching for the right stamp, matching ink and then cleaning after it.

Bye for now. All those preparing for the Christmas and New Year have lots of fun and enjoy.

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Birthday Card -For Kids

Hi Guys! Hope you are doing well.  

It is a bit cloudy and cool here today. I am back after a long time. After completion of festivities in the month of Sravana and also bidding audieu to our Ganesha, I am a bit free.

But with SA-I of my students just at the end of the month, I am busy with them. With lots of festivals and holidays in between their studies have suffered a lot. None of the schools have completed their portion for the exam. They too are in holiday mood. It is so difficult to get their attention back on studies. 

I am feeling mighty tired after the festivities. Moreover, every alternate day, I have to spend more than half a day for my therapy. At the end of the day, though I am getting better little by little, I feel so exhausted. 

In between all these we are either having heavy rains or summer like temperatures. This not only drains our energies, but throws our routines into chaos. Amidst all this, I am preparing notes for my students and also spending a little time on my crafts.

But I am unable to post much. There are lots I want to share with you. 

Ok enough of my ranting. Time to share something with you.

Here it is:

One more birthday card for kids. I used some of those stickers lying with me for a long time. I need to clear them off to make way for other crafty stuff. My storage space is already overflowing. 

I folded the card stock into half and first glued the blue coloured tape. Then added the stickers. Some of them are dimensional. 

Then, I punched out a circle each from dark blue and light blue card stock. I cut dark blue circle into half.

I stamped the sentiment using black ink and then glued the circles as shown above.

Simple and easy to make ready within ten minutes.

I have many other cards to post. But can't sit for long or type for long. But will try to post more often if possible.

Materials Used:

Baby pink coloured textured card stock A4 size

Self adhesive Stickers

Blue coloured Tape

Circle punch

Scraps of dark and light blue card stock

Sentiment Stamp

Black Ink

Glue

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Birthday Card-For Kids

Hello Friends! 

Here is one more card for kids. A birthday card. 

As I told you earlier, I had loads of these stickers with me. So I used one for this card. This is very simple and easy to make. I punched out a circle from white card stock, stamped the sentiment and coloured the edges with Blushing Rose Artistry Ink and stuck it with a dimensional foam dot.

Materials Used:

• Baby pink coloured textured card stock A4 size
• 3D sticker of kittens
• Purple coloured glitter tape
• Circle punched out of white card stock
• Blushing Rose Artistry Ink
• Sentiment Stamp
• Black Ink
• Dimensional foam dot

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Card - With Love

Hi Friends!

It has been raining here again for the past 2-3 days. Today it  is raining heavily. Damp and wet and can't go out. 

Here is a card I am sharing with you today. 

I have used punches for butterflies as well as the border for the sentiment. I have used the punched butterflies as well the negative space after punching out the butterflies for this card.

You can see that I have adhered flat back pearls to the butterflies. I dabbed the edges of the scrap (on which I printed the sentiment), with Artistry Ink-Blushing Rose to match the card. 

I have punched the borders of the inner insert ( baby pink color) to match the card. Hope you like it.

Materials used:

• Textured card stock light pink A4 size
• Baby pink card stock
• 6x6 craft papers-capsule collection from JAGS
• Butterfly punch 
• Flat back self adhesive pearls
• Border punch
• Sentiment stamp
• Black pigment ink
• Artistry Ink-Blushing Rose 
• Dimensional foam dots and glue

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Birthday Cards For Kids

Hello there!. Hope you are all doing well.

It has been raining here almost continuously for the past one week.  Most of the time, it is heavy rain. So can't go out much. 

Here is the card I am posting which I did way back when my craft supplies were not much.

This card I remember I made in a hurry as I had not much time and had to do with those craft supplies which I could lay my hands upon in such a short time. 

Materials Used:

• Blue colored Textured Card Stock A4 size
• 3D Stickers
• Yellow Paper Tape
• Birthday Wishes Stamp
• Brown Pigment Ink
• Yellow and Brown Card Stock scraps
• Sizzix Framelits Die Set - Circles, Scallop #657552
• Adhesive Dimensional Foam Dots

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Summer Blooms

Hi Friends.

We had a few showers and some rainfall during last month. For the past two-three weeks, it is quite hot and sultry. Though we have some clouds blocking the Sun frequently, it is still very hot and no rainfall.

At the onset of the Monsoons, I decided to start overhauling my garden. In fact I had bought some new plants too. 

My first priority was to remove all broken and damaged planters and repot all those plants and and also those plants which have outgrown their containers.

Last week I just started on it as it was very cloudy and cool. I could do repot a dozen or so plants. But after that the Sun is out and temperatures are like that in summer.

Well here is a small glimpse of the blooms during past few days in my garden.

This is the single petaled Jasmine still flowering as the temperatures are hot and apt for it. Their fragrance is unforgettable.

This the double Jasmine flowers. Still in bloom.

This is the mini Hibiscus. The flowers are small but blooms profusely through out the year if proper care is taken of the plant. My plant is still very small and needs nurturing. 

I will post further updates in the coming posts. That is all for now...

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Book Marks - Punch Craft

Hi Friends. 

It is hot and sultry. No rains. So it is like summer again. 

There was a time, when Punch Craft was much in fashion. So I used to buy what all punches I could get my hands on. At that time, online craft shops were not there. So I used to rely on local craft shops. We have very few here and only very few used to sell the punches or other craft materials.

Any way here is one Book Mark I made using Punches. 

These are the Punches I used

Materials Used:

• White Card stock pieces 2
• Yellow Card Stock piece
• Red Card Stock piece
• Punches
• Corner Rounder
• Flat backed pearls in two sizes
• Red and Yellow matching satin ribbons
• Red and Gold Ghungroo 2 each
• Single hole puncher
• Glue

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