Black!

One layer card?!?!! Oh wow! Actually, I wanted a quick card. All the things were made earlier for a card that was never made :0(

My same ol' hand made flowers, hand made swirls, embellishment and little doodling.

I hope the glare in the image is not disturbing you, so lazy of me not to retake the pic.

I have coloured the horizontal borders with sea-green and bright pink colours and outlined it with a green gel pen.

Really wanted to use ribbons of all the colours in the flowers.

I like this X kinda way the ribbon looks. At first I thought of using all three ribbons parallel in three vertical stripes. But it did not appeal to me that much, well after trying other possibilities I ended up doing this which I think looks far better than what I was planning to do.

Circular Design...

Mel of Mel Stampz keeps me going strong with her wonderful and motivating comments. She made me realize that I do well even with my limited supplies. Whenever I read her comments I end up drawing more. This time I drew so many different circular designs, like the one HERE. And lots of butterflies too.

I am only showing you one of those circular designs, and hopefully you will get to see more in the future.

I have dyed the brown paper and the red one is just a plain card stock. Again, I can not live without playing it rough with the edges (I have no clue as to why "being raggy" attracts me so much! LOL). Oh by the way, thanks to my dad, I got a nasty cut on my finger! To make the edges look like this I use a steel ruler (and always have). But this time as I was in the process of making this card, my dad came to check up on how much I was done. While looking at me fighting with the edges with my ruler he mentioned the word "Cutting Blade".... oh well, after that everything went real bad! LOL!

Now, that is it for the "blabbering" part.

I used gold pen on brown for faux stitching and brown on red. I used my new Faber Castell colours on the circle! (Yay!). Drew the circle on plain white printer paper, I cut it in a way so that I could have some white space. The white space, just outside the petals is really enhancing the flower otherwise it would have just blended in with the red card stock. After colouring and everything I pasted it on a red circle which was slightly bigger than the flower and then again on a brown circle, which was again slightly bigger than the red, and then on the card. All this just to pop it up a bit.

This is how the inside looks. In order to give this card a final ragged look I intentionally kept the length of both papers different so that it would really look as if pieces were stitched on.

This is MY version of the half window card LOL. This was not intentional, but my card was not "listening" to me so after I folded the front, I glued it! Just because it kept popping back up! :P

I am lovin the colours this time :0)

From Bev With Love...

Do you know Bev of "All the things I Love". She is a super talented person, and when she found out that poor I use colouring pages website to print my images from and use them in cards! Being "oh so generous" and "caring" SHE, the lovely Bev sent these to me! Yeah! These cutie stamped images!!! (oh God I am using so many exclamation marks! I AM happy!)

I have not used them as yet, treasuring them because I didn't want to waste any! hahaha

No, Ill be using them in future!

Lots of love and thanks to BEV! (Check out her work!!! Super amazing!!!)

Three in One!

Three challenges in one!

1. Sketches by Tammara (sketch)

2. Cupcake Craft Challenges (use flowers)

3. Whatchadoin Wednesday (use glitter)

Now I am sure that I can not live without these flowers! I don't know I just had to add these particular ones! :-p

Everytime I stop myself but I end putting the same design! Half my blog is filled with these! LOL

And yeah...the swirls too! :-p

Alright, so the details of this card are as follows..

I recently bought Faber Castell colour pencils. They are pretty dark and I got the 48 set :-D

Anyway, I coloured the entire border/edge of the card with two shades of blue and sea-green to match with the multiple colours used in the flowers.

I just love the colour of the flowers. The pink looks great, pops up the flower and enhances it's look!

This is how it looks when opened. I tried to make it look like the sketch I used, but open it differently. So when closed, it looks like the sketch.I tampered with the edges to give it a rough look and faux stitched it. I used a purple marker to enhance the tampered border of the turquoise center paper. Nothing else to tell! :-p

Oh yeah one more thing! I don't know where I got this idea! I wanted to use two ribbons on this space. In my previous card I had already used "on- top of the other" method so I wanted to do something different. End result does not suck! LOL

Sugary Sarah

I just love Sarah Kay images, I wonder why I have not used them. Maybe because I was treasuring them! hehehe

Anyway, this card is for the sketch challenge at A Spoon Full of Sugar. I have got a couple of challenges lined up, I AAAMMM working on them! :o)

About the card... as I chose the colour combo for this card, I did not even remember to check if I have the matching glitters or paper. All I use are wrapping papers instead of designer papers (I don't think that we have those beeeauutiful papers you guys use). Anyway, here is where I tell you about the pathetically drawn and painted background behind the Sarah Kay image! LOL Yeah that is done by me. I doodled for a while to get something out of it, so I could use two colours, both plum and olive. Used colour pencils, paints markers and what not to get the effect I wanted, hence the dirty look. Hahahha

I coloured the vertical borders of the card with an olive coloured pencil and then outlined it with a gold pen. The bordering helped a lot in framing the card and giving it a better look. I added faux stitch without piercing just for the heck of it! :-p

Because the plum card sheet was not textured and I don't have cuttlebug or any embossing folder I doodled a bit. Just enough to fill the weird empty space. Good thing I had a gold pen, otherwise this card was looking so plain.

The flower was added in the end.. I made this quite a few weeks back and did not where to use it. Good thing I chose these colours!