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Birthday Cards

May 13, 2016

Hiya Everyone

Time flies sOooOOOoo quickly… its ArtfulCrafting challenge time!!! This month we have a real fun theme going on… its all about layers. All the DT projects are inspired by this mood board.

Oh Yum 😛

Here are the cards I created 🙂

I used the awesome Simple Stories papers from my Artful Crafting kit… they are birthday themed and so much fun. I cut out the ‘Surprise’ and ‘Happy Birthday’ cards from the 12 by 12 sheet and used them as the focal point of my cards. Once that was sorted, I layered by card base using the 6 by 6 sheets of the same collection, the chipboard polaroids, the die-cuts (the cute little boy) and the stickers (some banners, stars). Here is a closer look at the cards.

A peak of my kit 🙂

Thanks for stopping by. We would love to see your projects for this super fun challenge.

Love,
Amina

Making Tags is fun

March 18, 2016

Hello Hello 🙂

Hope you all are doing well… Have you checked out this month’s challenge…. It is all about flowers… Do check it out 🙂 Its my turn for the technique post over at Artful Crafting…and I made some quick tags. Here they are 🙂
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A Page with Maja Design

March 11, 2016

Hi There

Its time for another Artful Crafting Challenge … yayyyy and the theme this month is flowers… So basically you can create any project but it should definitely have flowers on it 🙂 Those would be stamped and fussy cut, water coloured, or even Mulberry and Prima Flowers… the possibilities are endless.

I made a layout page with a photo of my kiddos from 2013 and you can see it has lotsssss of flowers 😛
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Love is…

February 12, 2016

Hello you all 🙂

Hope you are doing well. Its time for another Artful Crafting Challenge and the theme is ‘LOVE’.

So I started out with how I would define Love. For me ‘Love’ is the fabric that knits our day to day lives. Its all about family, friends, things we like, the food that we enjoy, the books we love, the jokes we share with friends and loved ones, the midnight snack while watching a movie and other simple things that fill my live with joy. These moments are great Blessings and I am thankful for them.
So when I started planning for my DT project I wanted to make something different. Something that captures the daily routine. And Shereen magically sent me the perfect DT package 🙂 Thanks Shereen!! 🙂 I had this Love Notes instagram album kit by We R Memory Keepers lying around, unused for ages and when I saw the ‘Love Notes’ 6 x 6 paper pack in my kit… I squealed with joy! This is what inspired me to document the simple and sweet memories with my kiddos, their smiles, the cheekiness, and happy moments. They are the sunshine of my life and growing up waaaaaayyyy too fast!!!

And finally, this album which I had been meaning to use for ages, became a reality 🙂

So this album by We R Memory Keepers, comes with clear photo sleeves and has a D-ring binding. Don’t you think such albums are just perfect for recording your everyday memories… you can make them really quickly or spend ages on them decorating and journalling 🙂 What I really love about them is… that they are really interactive… they tell a story… perfectly capture the beautiful imperfections of life… and most of all ‘ANYONE’, really anyone can make such an album (no rocket science involved :-P). All you need is a similar sort of album or even a note book/journal, a few photos, a pen, and some embellishments (for example, patterned papers, stickers, sequins, glitter, washi tape, or anything you can think of, the sky is the limit 🙂 ) The important thing is ‘DOCUMENTING” it all!! and having something to look back to. Read More »

And the challenge is… Altering

December 11, 2015

Hello Hello

Its time for another Artful Crafting Challenge and the theme this month is ‘ALTERING‘.
I used Prima Royal Menagerie collection and Finnabair products to alter a woodware wooden house…. The embellishments are also from Prima.
Here is the finished project.

Here is the process Video of all the steps 🙂 Hope you like it Read More »

Mixed Media watercoloured tags with twinkling H2Os and Prima.

November 13, 2015

Hi there 🙂

Its time again for another Artful Crafting Challenge and the theme is to use watercolours for creating background or colouring in images. First of all a big congrats to the winners of the previous challenge…. All the entries were superb!!
Shereen from Artful Crafting sent me the most wonderful kit this month..I got the Twinkling H2O summer kit and I made 3 watercoloured tags. Had a lot of fun creating for this challenge. Here is what the tags look like 🙂

So basically twinkling H2Os are water based paint cakes… although the pots are small but a tiny bit goes a long way.The shimmery twinkling pigment gets activated once water is added and it takes about 5 minutes or so.Read More »

In love with Foil…

October 9, 2015

Hi Ya’all 😀

Its that wonderful time of the month again!!! yayyyy! another Artful Crafting challenge.
This time the theme is all about embossing techniques. So today I bring to you a card made with heat embossing and foil…. confused??? well wait till you hear about it!

Foil is all the rage in the card making community now a days… as foiling effects look super awesome!! `foil adds that ‘WOW’ effect!!! There are many ways card makers and crafters add foil to their projects… like using Heidi Swapp Minc machine, a laminator and also heat embossing.

And today my project also focuses on using foil. Here is a look at my card..

Love the gorgeous metallic effects!!!… the magic ingredient for this project was Ranger sticky embossing powder… It is actually powder glue which melts when you use a heat gun over it. Then the possibilities are endless… you can use it with foil, flock, glitter etc.Read More »

A trip to alcohol ink land

September 15, 2015

Hello all 🙂

Hope all is well at your end… feels like it has been ages since I blogged… it was a busy summer holiday period for me this time around with me visiting my parents… now kids are back to school and I am back to my craft room 😎
So, the theme for Artful Crafting challenge this month is alcohol inks. Shereen sent me the most gorgeous colours of Tim Holtz alcohol inks in my kit. I must admit I have never tried them before and was not really sure if If they are my cup of tea!
I played with them and seriously they are awesome… can’t believe I was not already using them! the colours are rich and vibrant… you can get so much out of even one colour. The alcohol blending solution is just wonderful. So after having some fun with them I decided to create mixed media tags for my project. This is what I came up with…

Bright Colours

August 7, 2015

Hello Everyone

Hope you are doing well. I am visiting my parents and having a wonderful time 😎
And yet again its time for another Artful Crafting Challenge…. Congrats to the winners…. there were some really gorgeous entries for celebration theme (last month)

The theme for this month is Bright colours…. and here is my project.

I used water colour paper to create my background with Distress Markers. I used ‘picked raspberry’, ‘mustard seed’, ‘crushed olive’, and peeled paint. Once I had coloured the background, I splattered it with water droplets to get a wonderful effect because distress inks react with water. Read More »

Playing with distress paints, texture paste and stencils.

July 17, 2015

Hi there

Eid Greetings 🙂 Hope this special day is filled with love and happiness for all!

Well its my turn for the Artful Crafting technique post. For my ‘Celebration’ themed project I had created a pretty floral pattern using Distress paint and texture paste on my Eid photo book cover and today I wanted to share this simple technique with you all.

Okay I shall show you the end result first 😛