Sentimental Sundays: You’ve Been Framed! + FREEBIE!!

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Hello everyone! I am back with a  new challenge over at Sentimental Sundays and this time I have brought you a freebie too! It’s been ages since I have added a digi freebie sentiment for you guys, I was asked to make this one and I thought I’d share here too! Scroll to the bottom of the post for both JPEG and PNG versions.

So!

This week's challenge is:

You've been FRAMED 

(plus a sentiment)

 

I don’t usually get to share my commission work here on the blog but if you want to take a lookey here is my FB page Glitter & Swirls (a page widget is also present on the right bar), so I thought I’d share this for a change. This is a card box I made for a very floral and dimensional card. I always give my cards out in coordinating (separate) gift bags but sometimes for a special someone or a special occasion, clients ask for boxes.

 

 

This colour combination and this card design in particular is a favourite! All flowers are handmade except for the daisies (I used a punch for those and of course the tiny retro flower on the box), the pearls are actually absolutely tiny buttons! They look so cute in person!

 

 

I added a ribbon the side as its not a regular card – wanted to give it a booklet feeling (it is 6x6 inches btw).

 

 

When you untie the ribbon on the left you have a big photo mat cum pocket. I had to blur the personal messages on the right side to maintain privacy of my client.

 

 

When you lift open the right flap it reveals another place to write on and the back of the right flap has the same photo mat cum pocket.

 

 

These are the BIG tags/flaps that go in the pocket. The card opens up to 6 x 18 inches!!!

I have so much work on my page, if you don’t have an FB account no worries.. I will keep posting my commissioned projects here more often than I do.

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Till next time!

xoxo

~Erum

 

  

Challenges: Catered Crop, Creative Corner, Fairytale challenge, Inspire me Fridays, Sister act card challenge, crafty ribbons, Happy Campers, Seize the birthday,C is for challenge, OSAAT,

Soft Hues…

 

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Hello hello! Yes I have another card to show today! I have been creating for four consecutive days and this is really surprising as I am a real lazy ass. Anyhoo, the inspiration for today’s card comes from the picture at Papercraft Star.

I would have never used these colours on my own. I don’t think out of the box when it comes to colours. This card turned out great.

The flower is handmade, do you recognize the studded leaves? I had a light bulb moment last time I was working with these little things and this is what I came up with. Looks great right? I added a bit of silver net behind the flower.

The frame, butterfly and little flowers are from my Silhouette stash. The purple lace and orange ribbon is also from my stash.

I did a bit of hand stitching around the card to add that something extra.

The glitter balls in silver, gold and copper are from PIE LANE, I have used them as fillers here. The self adhesive holographic rhinestones in the middle of the butterfly is also from PIE LANE. Here’s a close up.

The background paper is a digi-freebie and has been in my stash for quite some time. Here is another view of the card. You can see the shaded purple lace more clearly in this shot.

Hope you like it! Don’t forget to visit my earlier posts, I have been creating and posting cards regularly since a couple of days.

XoXo

E

Challenges: Papercraft Star, Stamp Something, A spoon full of sugar, Stampin Sisters in Christ, Try it on Tuesday, card and scrap, Penny Black All Sorts, Cute Card Thursday, OSAAT, Digital Tuesday, The crafty pad, I Did It Creations, Scrappy Frogs, Deep Ocean CB, Unstampabelles challenges, Charisma Cards, Creative Bellie, Divas by Design, Creative craft challenges, Stamps and fun=creativity, Simon says stamp and show

Linky Party: Inspire Me Fridays

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Soft and Dreamy – Now in BLUE!

 

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Hello everyone! I changed up the colours and made another “almost similar” card.…

This card too is based on the sketch at Skipping Stones.

 

The flower is handmade, the flower centre is a button. I have used Skipping Stones Pumpkin Seed to make the card’s background. I wanted a grungy and worn off effect for the stamp, so I applied ink generously on some parts of the stamp. Also smudged some of the ink around the edges of the kraft cardstock. Added a bit of silver string. I tried to give this card a shabby chic look, Forgot to place the pearls inside the leaves, like I did in the last pink card.

The stem is made with glitter balls from PIE LANE. The embellishments used to make “leaves” are from my stash.

Hope you guys like it. I am pretty sure now I will be MIA for a bit as its getting hotter here day by day and then to top it off we have load shedding and other electricity problems.

xoxo

E

Challenges: SSD #82, Less is More,

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Doodling it is!

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Hey you!

I have a doodlicious card for you today! It is based on the sketch at Skipping Stones and both the challenges Ujjwal is guest designing at (Yvonne’s and Crafty JC).

Here is my card:

My card is inspired by THIS card of Latisha Yoast.

The lines and the apple both are hand drawn. The sentiment is handwritten. The cute self adhesive rhinestone hearts at top right are from PIE LANE, you can visit their Facebook page HERE.

I have never used this embossing folder, it is way too small. The folder’s pattern ends way before the embossing folder ends. There was a mix up and I used this numbers folder instead of the one intended for this card. Both the Kraft layers are distressed with Color Queue lava black ink (almost drying out!). Hope you like my doodling!

Challenges: Skipping Stones #80, Crafty JC #7, Do More With Less, Stamping scrapping challenge,Ladybug Crafts Ink, Little miss Muffet, RRRR

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Flashback Friday 11.0 - *First Wedding Card*

 

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WOW! Cant believe I used to make so many flowers from scratch. I had some stamina back then! LOL

I am posting my first wedding card for the Flashback Friday Challenge. I was blog hoping and saw their challenge, still have 21 hours to enter.

ETA (after the first comment) I drew the flowers and the swirl freehand and cut em up. So all this is done from scratch.

All flowers are handmade and so are the flower centres. I had no punches, no embossing folders back then.

I remember this card being a total HIT, my aunt asked me to make one like this so she could frame it up! Hope you guys like it!

xOxO

E

P.S: I am entering this in Inspire me Fridays, I hope some of you (who don't have punches or tools) will be inspired by this.

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Gingerloft Challenge – Plant a Tree

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Hey all! It’s time again for another challenge at Gingerloft! This week the theme is “Plant a Tree”. You can use part or a tree in whole on your projects and show off your entry at Gingerloft. The top three cards get to be the GDT for the next challenge and a random winner is also picked from the lot to receive a gift certificate for Gingerloft Store.

This card is really pretty and OMG so clean! LOL  I have always, always wanted to make a white card and it always gets dirty. This time I succeeded (somewhat). Too bad couldn't take a good picture and again friends my camera is giving me trouble. It has started to show horizontal lines. And to make things worse my cellphone’s touch screen is playing games too! Sometimes it works and most of the times it doesn't.

xoxo

E

Challenges: 2 Sisters Challenge Blog, craft your days away, Crafty creations Challenges, Divas by design, Stamp something, Pixie dust studio, Rainbow lady, card cupids, Creative inspirations, OSAAT, Scrappy frogs,

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Interesting Birthday

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Hello hello!

Thank you very much for the birthday wishes everyone! I had an interesting birthday yesterday. Started off with this big BIG eagle coming out of nowhere and bumping right into me. BUMPED, literally! My friend says it was a Kite and I am like, whatever it was but the bugger was HUGE! The winds have been really rough since a couple of days and yesterday they were ridiculously strong so I am guessing that must be the reason behind the bird’s fall. And then this BIG piece of hard plastic scrap came flying out of the sky and landed a feet from where I was standing! Broke a couple of flower pots with the force it hit. This is not it, there is a lizard in this story too! lol A nasty lizard fell off (god knows from where) right in front of my feet! I heard the sound of it hitting the tiled floor…. phichaaak hahahaha… After this I just looked up at the sky and asked God; Freaky much? I hope you don’t have anymore surprises up your sleeve lol

I have a very simple and quick card for you today. I wanted to enter this for the “Less is More” thanks/congratulations challenge but I don’t think it qualifies as ‘less is more’.

Nothing much to say about this card. The teal layer was a scrap piece lying around so I picked it up, embossed it and then inked it up. Looked good to me so thought I’d just make a simple card that will show off the design I love the texture on this and the grungy look.

Thank you again for the emails and comments.

Challenges: Stamping sisters in Christ, Sugar Creek Hollow, Top Tip Tuesday, Pollycraft Challenge, 4 Crafty Chicks, Papertake Weekly, OSAAT

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Rustic Rose

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Hey everyone!

I made another card based on the colour story at Play Date Cafe. I had something else in my mind but I still am not well enough to sit for longer periods and this was all I could make.

The flourish is a Silhouette cut (available at the Silhouette store) and so are the butterflies (freebie). The rose is handmade. I added a few metallic rhinestones as fillers and included a border of faux stitching to balance the look.

Hope you like it. Like I said earlier, I will visit your blogs and comment very soon.

hugs

E

Challenges: PDCC 77, Paper Sundaes, Totally Gorjuss, Daring cardmakers, Secret Crafter saturday challenge, card making mamas, Digis with attitude, Paper romance 46,  Ladybug crafts ink

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Dear Mum…

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Hello bloggers!

Why is it every time I make a beautiful card it never comes out good in photos and when I make a mediocre card, it comes out just the way it looks IRL?!! 

I made this card yesterday based on the colour story at Playdate Cafe. My laziness went right out of the window when I saw their colour palette! I had to make something beautiful. I want that CUP! lol 

Talking about the cup, CONGRATULATIONS to all Indians for winning the World Cup! I cant truly explain how delighted I was to see Suchin Tedulkar holding the cup finally! I adore the guy!

The pattern paper is computer generated. The flower is handmade. The doily and butterflies are Silhouette cut. The silver borders look grey in the picture but that is silver border lining on the pattern paper, white card base and the outer edge of the doily. I added hand stitching along the PP border as well.

There are lots of pearls on this one eh? It doesn't show in the photos but the doily, butterflies and some petals of the flower are quite shimmery as I painted these with white pearl paint. Added a bit of silver net and light blue pearly “filaments” behind the flower to fill in the space and balance the card.

This card is BEAUTIFUL in person. One of my favs! This one is for my mother. She is a super mom! Apparently my mother liked this card too, she and my dad are the critics and they tell me whats lacking in my cards. But this one, she LOVED.

Check out the list of challenges I will be entering this card to. I hope I win at least one! LOL

Hugs,

Erum

CHALLENGES: PDCC75, All sorts, Catch the bug challenge, Sparkles forum challenges, Secret Crafter, Our creative corner, Creative Inspirations 57, Card making mamas, Digis with attitude, Fabulous friday, Prairie fairy fridays, Fairy knoll, If the shoe fits…scrap it, Stamp something, Wags and whiskers, Charisma Cards, Crafty Sentiments, Little miss muffet, Delightful challenges, Paper romance, Pixie dust studio, Paper play challenges, Paper crafting journey,

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Diecuts and/or Punches – GL14

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RAK CARD WINNERS: Yup I decided to give out two cards! The winners are jimlynn & Tejal. Congrats girls! Email me your snail mail addy.

Hi everyone! I am back with ZERO mojo and a card. The challenge over at Gingerloft is Punches and Diecuts. The sentiment is a freebie from Gingerloft called “Butterfly Flight”. I used the colour palette at Playdate cafe.

I can’t seem to get any good photos lately…

The swirl borders and butterfly are diecuts and lil flowers are punched. This is a small sized card, 5.25x4.75 inches.

 

This is a cute card, it doesn't really show well in pictures but it has a lot of dimension too. Why is my camera turning against me?! I have no clue!

Challenges: PDCC73, Sentimental Sundays

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I made this on request for a very sweet and caring person, Tejal, who loves butterflies like I do and surprisingly is also the RAK card winner!

Visit her blog and check out her creations!

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Another butterfly card

ETA:  I have added one more photograph, I took it just right now (5:16 PM). I think it looks better.

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Alright, hopefully this will be last entry for the Butterfly Blog Linky Party! This party has stir up my mojo! 

This card looks A LOT better in person and the butterflies are GORGEOUS!

 

It’s not showing here but the butterflies are shaded… from the centre to the outline of the wings it goes from Teal to royal blue to dark purplish blue. The butterfly is a download.

I am giving this card away to one person, because I really want you to see how beautiful the butterfly looks IRL. Just put “I want it” in the comments and I’ll draw a winner on March 20th (my brother’s birthday) in my scheduled Gingerloft DT post. Don't forget to write “I WANT IT” or something that clearly tells me that you want this. I had a bit of problem in last time’s RAK card and the card has not been claimed yet! :/

ETA: Took one more pic, it’s evening now so the picture has come out a bit better. At least in this picture you can see the colour gradient. But like I said, the butterflies are gorgeous IRL.

Challenges: Samuel Taylors

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