Diva Gwendoline

Had to play with this new release digi from digistamps4Joy called Gwendoline

I have long wanted to do a step card but never tried it before so I decided to play with silhouette sd and design one. Of course I will load the the silhouette file for step card template in my blog. You can find it under the tab from main tab menu under silhouette files.

Here is the card using diva Gwen and colored using copics

The card is cut using silhouette SD. The pattern paper is a digi pattern from silhouette store and the butterfly and sentiments and the flowers and swirls and banners are all from silhouette store. You will recognize the small snowflake from yesterday's project. Had to use it again.
I will be entering this in a couple of challenges.
1) http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2012/12/ttcrd-47-december-4th-10th.html
2) http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-pink-elephant-challenge-tpe177.html

Digistamps4Joy - Challenge #56 - Baby It is Cold Outside

Hello
This is my first design team project for Digistamps4Joy
It's a Recipe Challenge

THEME : 'BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE'

The Recipe is - use 1 image, 2 patterned papers, and three snowflakes.

Challenge runs from 5-18 December 2012

and

As usual there are some goodies up for grabs 

The randomly drawn winner will win THREE images of your choice from the store, and 2 runners up 1 image each.  

Of course, if you use a Digistamps4Joy image, you could win the big prize of $10 of images, and could be chosen as our Guest Designer!

so try your hand and link up your project at Digistamps4Joy

So here is my card for the challenge

and the inside of the card

Ingredients:

Paper : Cardstock from Hobby lobby - Paper studio ; Pattern paper - DCWV - dots, stripes and plaids and 2nd pattern paper is from cosmo cricket - digi paper - circa.
Digi stamp - Digistamps4Joy - cold cutie
Copics for coloring
Acrylic stamps - Pink stamper - winter punnies
Dies used - Spellbinder Oval, Spellbinder oval scallop, Spellbinder Spin from the cut fold and tuck line (center snowflake medallion); Spellbinder label; Memory box swirly tree; Cheery Lynn designs pine leaf
Misc: 2 small snowflakes created using kaleidoscope kreator software - filigree and cut using Silhouette Sd; Ribbon and twine; Rhinestones; ink; Flock and glitter for snow



I colored the cute digi  from Digistamps4Joy using copics and then cut her out leaving a little white around edge and leaving the part near her foot uncut. After cutting the nesting ovals I  laid the image onto the inner oval and cut the bottom in same shape to fit the curved oval. Then I added flock and glitter to create the snow effect. The center medallion snowflake is spellbinder cut fold and tuck die. Love it. The other 2 snowflakes were created using kaleidoscope kreator - filigree. The sentiments are using my pink stamper stamps. the backgroung white swirly tree is cut using memory box die and also glittered.


Do visit http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com/ and take part in the fun challenge using the recipe - 1 image; 2 pattern paper and 3 snowflakes!


I am entering this in some challenges
1) http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/
2) http://nomatterwhichchallenges.blogspot.com/
3) http://dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/
4) http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/



Thank you for visiting and reading.

Design Team Digistamps4Joy

I am so glad that I was chosen to be on the design team of http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com/.
I can't wait to begin. As you know I love coloring and digi images and am so looking forward to  meet the rest of my design team members and start playing with these lovely digi images.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

Had to make some cards. The images are from Sassy Cheryl. Love these 2 cute images. My son wanted a boy card but couldn't resist the other cute girl image.
The pattern papers are all digi papers from cosmo cricket - from jessica sprague which I got way back. I think they are from circa pack and everlasting pack.

1st card

2nd Card

Christmas tag swap

Sheila from http://shesasassylady.blogspot.com/ and myself ie from http://www.thebugbytes.com/ decided to hold a tag swap for Christmas for both our designers ( in US only this time). 15 took part including Sheila and myself.
The requirement of the tag was that it had to be approx -  6 1/4"x 3 1/8 and not too bulky while layering so that 15 of them should fit inside a small usps flat rate box. Theme was Holidays

Here is a list of all the lovely designers who took part in this awesome tag swap

1) Sheila - http://shesasassylady.blogspot.com/

2) Lori - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

3) Cricut couple - http://cricutcouple.blogspot.com/

4) Elizabeth –   http://217creations.blogspot.com/

5)   Melissa - http://melissamade2.blogspot.com/

6)   Michelle -  http://ladyofleisureink.blogspot.com/      
7)   Jeannie - http://nonnasscraps.blogspot.com/      
8)   Beth -  http://thunderbirdlindybydesign.blogspot.com/

9)   Lisa -  http://momtooneson.blogspot.com/
10)  Denine - http://www.pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/    
11)  Carolyn - http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com/      
12)  Charlotte - http://alittlebitofdetail.blogspot.com/      
13) Jennie - http://javajencreations.blogspot.com/      
14)  Cheryl - www.cherylswindow.com
15) Pam - http://www.thebugbytes.com & http://papillondigitaldesigns.com/

Now to the eye candy part - Here are the tags which came to me. Since Sheila has been a little busy she did the communicating role and I did the shipping part of it. So I should say I saw all the tags first :) :). Yeah! You should have seen me shouting with joy as each box came home. Yep I did dance a jig when each one came. Couldn't wait for the last ones to come home to mama. I did not send emails back to the last few I got as I sneaked to post office posted them and dint mention I did so as to surprise them all ooh was it worth it! when I got the first excited email!!! What fun!! 
Ok enough of me blabbering! Here we go in the blog listed order

1) Sheila did this wonderful tag. The penguin wobbles as you can see from the blurring action. She also sent a tiny circle tag. That girl always goes the xtra mile doesn't she? Once again her blog - http://shesasassylady.blogspot.com/

  
2) Lori sent this cutie. Love the rich colors. Love that pretty blinged newsprint star  and how she cut the 25. Her blog - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/ . Do read her blog post about the tags to see the details in the making of this tag - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/2012/11/tag-swap-beauties.html

3) Cricut couple sent this wonderful tag. Love the colors chosen. That pink snowflaked paper is so so pretty. Their blog -  http://cricutcouple.blogspot.com/

4) Elizabeth aka makeupgirl217 from http://217creations.blogspot.com/ sent this tim holtzy tag. The background is canvas. Love the texture on this one and the way she weaved the wreath/garland around the reindeer's neck. And the jingle bell. Love it!

5) Melissa from http://melissamade2.blogspot.com/ sent this lovely colored tag. It is a flapped tag so that we can add a message inside. Love that reindeer with that big nose. Cute!. I also got a cute colored card in the box she sent me. How sweet! 

6) Michelle -  http://ladyofleisureink.blogspot.com/ sent this wonderful tag. Love that blue colors and the candy dots on the tree as ornaments and the snow texture. Awesome. She also sent me a very pretty card. I will share the card on another post along with Melissa's lovely card. I tell you I have seen our designer's work on the blog but they do not come close to seeing, holding and touching their wonderful creations in person!!
Michelle's tag came in the lovely sealable plastic cover with her blog and detail on the label used as closure. Isn't that a wonderful idea. I so loved it that I copied the idea . I ordered some bags for my tags too and printed on a avery label. So easy to design on their software and then print it out! And she has a blog post about all the lovely tags - http://ladyofleisureink.blogspot.com/2012/11/tags-galore-part-1.html

7) Here is Jeannie 's - http://nonnasscraps.blogspot.com/  Beautiful tag. Love the shape of the tag. Her layering style is awesome.I still enjoy looking at the card she once sent me. The layering in that was beautiful too. She is such a sweetie.

8) Beth aka thunderbirdlindy from  http://thunderbirdlindybydesign.blogspot.com/ sent this gorgeous tag. Love the blue color and the way she has attached the fence. That faux rosette is so cute (which I think is from the close to my heart artiste collection if I am not wrong) Awesome!

9) Love this action tag - another wobbler tag - this one an adorable elf from Lisa - http://momtooneson.blogspot.com/ .I love the texture she added o the string the elf holds. Awesome job Lisa

10)  Denine - http://www.pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/ sent this little beauty. Don't  you love tree with those different pattern papers . I Love how she has used so many pattern paper but still they look unified!

11) Carolyn from http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com/  sent this lovely tags. So richly embellisshed. Head on to her blog to read her blog post about the tags if you want to see the items she used to make this awesome tag. So many stamps and dies for both the front and the back. Love it. http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com/2012/11/2012-christmas-tag-swap.html

12) Charlotte from http://alittlebitofdetail.blogspot.com/ sent this cute vintage tag. Love the colors. That blue is awesome against the beige/sand color and the reindeer die cut on that cute label with the bling is so perfect! 

13) And this gorgeous purple colored tag is from Jennie aka Javajen - http://javajencreations.blogspot.com/. Love that shade of violet/purple. The ribbon she has used is so cute!

14)  Cheryl from www.cherylswindow.com sent this gorgeous card. Ooh the texture on this one!. She is so good with multimedia ! This one is so rich in texture like Elizabeth's tag. Cheryl also has a lovely blog post up - http://cherylswindow.com/christmas-tag-swap-using-sizzix-eclips-and-stamp2cut/

And lastly my tag

The base is kraft recollection paper. The red pattern paper is a digi paper .  The bow and holly and the tag are all cut with silhouette.

Here are the elements in a composite file. While cutting I used different files for economically using the paper/cardstock

The image is from dover's. I stickled the snowy regions and the ornaments 

The ribbon (bordering the tags) is from an Indian roll I had. We generally sew this on to our dress - churidhar or saree blouses. The corner die cut is from spellbinder parisan accents. I added the tag and a jingle charm to the white ribbon which is actually eggshell seam binding. I used some pearl spray behind the bow for added embellishment. On the back of the tag I stamped a swirl, some lines from a tag stamp and a bit of sentiment - as a note area. All these were stamped using the tim holtz markers. I went over the edges and also some areas inside the stamped area with memento dew drop - platinum.

Well that took care of the tags. I also made a card to send along inside 

I cut the red paper using the zutter . When cutting bulk this comes in so handy. Then using my big shot pro and sizzix texturz plate from kit 13 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GP34SS/ref=ox_ya_os_product I embossed the red cardstock. The snowflake border - isn't that so cute? I love it is from memorybox dies which I got from dutchpapercrafts. ooh the pretty tree is also from dutchpapercrafts and is a cheerylynn doily tree die  I think. Inside of the card I just punched 2 circles with a circle punch and used paper trey ink ticket collection stamp (with the coordinated die) . The Happy holiday part was from another stamp set also from paper trey ink I think. I punched a small heart in green CS using a heart punch and used the left over snowflakes from the border (sift through the die cut confetti before throwing them out lol). Most of the pearls on the tree and flakes were added using the viva decor  liquid pearl.

Now these tags deserved to be wrapped up with due respect before sending them off to their wonderful homes didn't they? So I used these lovely muslin bags from http://statelinebag.com/muslin-bags/premium/  . I stamped using versacraft black ink which can be used on fabric and wood - They are ssortment of stamps mostly  from paper trey ink and a few from CTMH I think. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00161Q1MI/ref=wms_ohs_product
Then I colored using copic markers and added some diamond stickles.

After dividing all the tags and I should say a special thank you for each designer as they thoughtfully sent me 15 sets Instead of just sending me 14 ie keeping their tag for themselves . This made the dividing and sorting so so easier!. Well to continue I put the tags in the bag and the bag inside another ziplock bag so that all the precious tags don't get waterlogged in case of inclement weather and put them in priority box and off they were sent to their loving homes. And here I sit atleast looking at all of them once a day and enjoying them :)

Happy Deepavalli

Wish you all a very Happy Deepavali Today is the festival of lights. "Deepa" means light and "Bali" means an array or row . It signifies the good conquering evil! People wake up early have an oil head bath and wear new clothes and take the blessings of elders and gods. Lots of savories - both salty and sweet. And of course firecrackers! ! What fun! Then we go out and exchange sweets with relatives and of course show off our pretty new dresses! In the evening rows of mud lamps - deepas are lit.A beautiful sight to behold. WISHING YOU ALL AVERY HAPPY DEEPAVALI ONCE MORE

Yeah! what a great weekend!

Had a wonderful weekend at the  Copic certification class. Our instructor was Colleen Schaan.  What a sweet sweet person. Loved her instructions. Her joy in the art came through. And got her autograph on my copy of her books :)
What a great and interesting bunch of colleagues ! We had a fun time! Hopefully a lot of us will keep in touch.