Warm hugs card

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I am happy to share another card today, using a very beautiful stamp set from iCraft. I love the floral spray and beautiful flowers in the bunch. I am not great in water colouring but just gave it a shot. I stamped the image using versamark ink as it has to be waterproof. For colouring I used beyond inks watercolours. I fished the card with a sentiment. 

Challenges entered:

https://theflowerchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-flower-challenge-99-feature-colour.html

https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2025/02/anything-goes-weeks-687-688.html

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-3-wk-2-anything-goes-card.html

https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025crafts-galore-encore.html

https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-286-anything-goes-with.html

Thank you for stopping by and hope you all enjoyed the card.

Stay happy and keep crafting.

Watercolour card

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I am here with another card and this time I am using watercolours for colouring the image. This stamp set is from Craftyscrappers and it was designed by me when I was working as their DT. The stamp set is called Wonderful and its a pretty set where it goes with almost all the themes. I used pink shade for the flowers and green with a tad of brown for the leaves. Its a rectangle top fold card and to finish the card, I added some embellishments and splattered some black ink and added the sentiment. 

Challenges entered:

http://theflowerchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-flower-challenge-80-pretty-pastels.html

https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2023/05/hls-may-watercolour-challenge.html

https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-with-a-blog-named-hero-may-2023-challenge

http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/05/crafty-calendar-may-challenge-anything.html

http://cardz4galz.blogspot.com/2023/05/198-mothers-day-us-or-flowers-for-friend.html

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Stay happy and keep crafting.

No-line watercolouring peonies

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Instagram reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZ4jKGNpyY3/?utm_medium=copy_link

I love Peony bouquet stamp set. First, I saw Kristina Werner make no-line watercolouring card in her video. She was amazing and my card is nothing compared to hers. But I did try my best here to make a card using Beyond inks. I love their watercolours, they are so vibrant and easy to use. 

To stamp the outline flower, I used matching colour inks and used the same watercolours to colour. It took me a while to colour and here is the card. Aren't peonies such beautiful flowers.... I did a ton of masking here to stamp so I could colour them. I used 400 gsm watercolour paper and used bright colours here for the card. After I finished colouring, I trimmed down the sheet and kept it aside. I took another cardstock and added some strips using black pen to add to the card. To finish, I added gemstones and a sentiment. 

Challenges entered:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2022/02/202202-february-anything-goes-woptional.html

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/ltccb-65-winner-top-picks-ltccb-66.html

https://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/ltscb-152-winner-top-picks-ltscb-153.html

http://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2022/02/challenge-180-ag-from-heart.html

http://bestieschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/02/february-challenge.html

https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2022/02/morgans-artworld-challenge-2.html

https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/02/classic-design-challenge-for-february-2.html

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-perfect-time-to-craft-challenge-for.html

http://cuteasabuttonchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/02/welcome-to-challenge-77.html

http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/2022/02/challenge-2-february-2022-anything-goes.html

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2022/02/february-2022-crafts-galore-encore.html

http://alessandrasangels.blogspot.com/2022/02/challenge-55-and-winner-of-challenge-54.html

https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/2022/02/120-february-anything-goes-always.html

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2022/02/anything-goes-weeks-529-530.html

https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/search/label/Watercolour%20Challenge

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Stay happy and keep crafting.

Wings of nature

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 “Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.” — Robert A. Heinlein. What a beautiful quote for Butterflies. For my card for today, I have a CAS watercoloured card where I have used butterfly stencil and for the background, I used butterfly die cut from Your next stamp. 

I have used my favorite water colour, Beyond inks. It's an Indian brand and brilliant selection of colors. At the end of the post I have a video for the same. The card is very simple and focus stays on the butterfly. 

Challenges entered:
https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2021/11/hls-november-anything-goes-with-dies.html
https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2021/11/hls-november-stencil-challenge.html
https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2021/11/hls-november-watercolour-challenge.html
https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2021/11/november-2021-challenge-11-anything.html
https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/11/ltccb-64-november-anything-goes.html
https://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/11/ltscb-151-anything-goes.html
http://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2021/11/challenge-177-ag-entwined-use-twine.html
http://yourscrapbookplace.blogspot.com/2021/10/november-challenge-with-fabrika-fantasy.html
http://corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com/2021/11/challenge-11-november-2021-anything.html
http://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/2021/11/qkr-stampedechallenge-431.html
https://jansdigistampschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/11/november-2021-challenge.html
https://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/11/card-making-craft-challenge-anything.html
https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/10/challenge-218.html
http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2021/11/c-169.html
http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/11/challenge-158-anything-goes.html

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Stay happy and keep crafting.

Waterolour florals

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My addiction to watercolouring has increased and I am in love with them. For my card here I used Oakberry lane antics stamps from Heartfelt creations and colours from Beyond inks. I had stamped and kept it aside for a long time and now decided to try my hands on watercolouring. My favourite watercolours are from Beyond inks and here I used Scarlet red, Mustard yellow, Jalapeno green, Sunny lime and Rose pink. The card is kept simple with focus on the image and added it to a top fold note card and finished with adding a sentiment and gemstones. 

Challenges entered:
https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-2021-challenge-11-anything-goes.html
http://angiesdigitalstamps.blogspot.com/2021/10/ch-57-agno-twist-winners-of-ch-56.html
https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/10/ltccb-63-october-anything-goes.html
http://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2021/10/challenge-176-ag-things-with-wings.html
https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/search/label/Watercolour%20Challenge
https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2021/10/morgans-artworld-challenge-10.html
https://classicdesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/10/classic-design-challenge-october-10.html
https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-perfect-time-to-craft-challenge-for.html
http://cuteasabuttonchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/10/welcome-to-challenge-73.html
http://bestieschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-challenge.html
http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-2021-challenge-92-crafts-galore.html
http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-challenge-426-anything-goes.html
https://crafterscastle.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-challenge-46.html

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Stay happy and keep crafting.

Florals - birthday cards (2 cards)

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Today I have 2 cards using floral elements to make birthday cards. I used stencils and stamps to make the cards. Off late I love doing no-line watercolouring and its absolute fun to make such cards. I turned both into birthday cards and for my second card, I used Garden treasure from Altenew. For the sentiment, I used Trignometry from Altenew. 

CARD 1

For this card, I used stencil from iCraft - Mini stencil 8920 and Turquoise watercolour from Beyond inks. 

I stenciled using aqua blue ink from Altenew which is a very light blue ink and then I started watercolouring.

I love stencil highlight technique and have done a few cards earlier as well. 

To turn it into a card, I cut out the stenciled image and kept it aside. 

First, I got the card base ready by adding a light blue paper and die cut a frame from rectangle die. 

I angled the die cut piece and added the flower accordingly. 

To finish the card, I added a sentiment and sequins. 

CARD 2

For my second card, I stamped the floral and leaves and fuzzy cut them out. 

For the flowers, I coloured them in pink and did very mild shading. 

For the card base, I took a white note card and added two strips of black cardstock on one edge

Added a white card, stamped image from the stamp set and added some black spots using black ink.

I added the leaves and layered the flowers and finished the card with a sentiment and sequins. 

Challenges entered:

https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2021/09/hls-september-stencil-challenge.html
https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2021/09/hls-september-watercolour-challenge.html
http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2021/09/challenge-414-any-occasion.html

https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-with-hero-challenge-27

https://blog.altenew.com/september-2021-inspiration-challenge/

http://theflowerchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-flower-challenge-60-colour-turquoise.html

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Stay happy and keep crafting.

'Magnolias' - Water colouring

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I am back with a floral card using Altenew - Magnolias for her, Happy die and Layered plaid cover die. I did water colouring for the flowers here using Fuchsia pink, Turquoise blue and Vivid violet colours. For the flowers, I coloured with pink and for the leaves I used turquoise. After I die cut the word Happy, I coloured with violet colour and added a little gradient as well. To finish the card, I added the die cut plaid pattern and layered the flowers and leaves and added the sentiment where I also added anniversary right on the happy die.  Finally, I added a couple of gemstones and my card is done. 

Challenges entered:

http://theflowerchallenge.blogspot.com/p/challenge-rules_19.html

https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/search/label/Anything%20Goes%20with%20Dies

https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/search/label/Watercolour%20Challenge

https://unikostudio.blogspot.com/2021/07/uniko-challenge-66-flowers-optional.html

http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2021/08/cardz-tv-anything-goes-challenge-147.html

https://blog.altenew.com/august-2021-inspiration-challenge-making-it-easy/

https://blog.altenew.com/ready-to-win-some-prizes-creativity-inspired-pair-a-flower-photography-contest-2021/?goal=0_bf143a9c61-d128f4cb00-285071985&mc_cid=d128f4cb00&mc_eid=3e994f3c5f

  

https://blog.altenew.com/ultimate-challenge-blog-hop-with-12-challenge-blogs-giveaway/

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Stay happy and keep crafting.

Butterfly CAS card

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I am back with another CAS card using DC134 - Butterflies stamp and die from Hero arts. This is the first stamp I bought from Hero arts and I hardly used it. I was in search of a die set and I stumbled upon this set and I felt I should use it atleast now. I decided to go with no-line colouring and give a rainbow colour palette. For the card base, I used a pale purple ink and gave a subtle background. I wanted the focus to stay on the butterfly. I added a sentiment and couple of gemstones to finish the card. 

Challenges entered:

http://cleanandsimpleonsunday.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-211-favorite-stamp.html
https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-with-hero-challenge-26

https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/search/label/Watercolour%20Challenge

http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-411-make-your-mark.html

https://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/281-anything-goes-sentiment.html

http://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-84-cas-clean-simple.html

https://ikesworldchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/ikesworld-challenges-147-anything.html

https://blog.altenew.com/ultimate-challenge-blog-hop-with-12-challenge-blogs-giveaway/

Thank you for stopping by and hope you all enjoyed the card.

Stay happy and keep crafting.

Elsa - No line colouring

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Recently, I started trying my hands on no-line water colouring and it is definitely fun. For today's post I am using Little darling winter from Your next stamp. For  colouring I used water colours from Beyond inks and I will definitely recommend them and I love the quality of the inks and water colour paper that comes along with the inks. 

To stamp the image, I used Antique linen distress ink and paint brush sizes 0 & 2 to do my colouring. Colours used here:

1. Coffee Brown - for skin
2. Forest green & Rose pink  - for dress
3. Mustard yellow & Sunflower yellow - for hair
4. Aqua blue - for the background

I am not great at watercolouring but I gave my best here and will be making more cards with the same technique. To finish the card, I assembled all of it and finished with sentiment and some gem stones. 

Challenges entered:
http://cleanandsimpleonsunday.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-211-favorite-stamp.html
https://aaacards.blogspot.com/2021/08/game-196-two-quarters-optional-twist.html
https://digidoodlestudioschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-41-favourite-season-time-of.html
http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-411-make-your-mark.html
https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2021/08/hls-august-watercolour-challenge.html
https://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2021/08/hls-august-christmas-challenge.html
https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-691-anything-goes.html
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/07/week-6356-anything-goes-with-option-of.html
https://www.welovechocolatebaroque.uk/2021/08/august-favourite-stamps.html
https://sugarpeablog.com/fresh-inspiration-mix-it-up-challenge-82/

 (I used the sketch)

https://blog.altenew.com/ultimate-challenge-blog-hop-with-12-challenge-blogs-giveaway/

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Stay happy and keep crafting.

Russian birthday card

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I am not great at watercolouring but I did try my best with this card. I made this card for Waffle flower weekly challenge using From Russia with love. I chose two images from the set, the largest Matryoshka doll and a circus bear. 

First I heat embossed the images using platinum embossing powder from WOW. I had the filmstrip die cut in my stash which I had kept it for another card but never used it. So I ended up using it here. I repeat stamped the sentiment vertically and embossed with gold embossing powder. For water colouring I used Craftyscrappers ink pads which are water reactive dye inks. 

I water coloured the images and fuzzy cut the out. I used two shades to water colour the background. To finish the card, I added some sequins matching the background colour and added a border using black pen. 

Challenges entered:

https://waffleflower.com/blogs/challenges/link-party-may-2021-week-2

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Tribute to King T'Challa

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Being a MCU fan, superheroes end up being a part of us. Recently, there was a sad news for all the MCU fans where we lost Chadwick Boseman aka black panther. His entry into the MCU in 2016, changed everything. He bought T'Challa to life and introduced us to world of Wakanda. One of my favourite superheroes... Wakanda forever.....

I wanted to actually draw something which is related to black panther (but I did get lazy) so I ended up making a simple journal page. I used Chroma burst from expressions craft and stencils from Craftreat.

First, I added some newspaper to the base randomly using mod podge. Then, I added a coat of clear gesso and heat set it. Once the gesso is completely dry, I stenciled using mixed media paste and heat set it. I used white texture paste to even out the base.

Now the paste is completely dry, I used chroma burst to add colour to the base. I sparyed tons of water and moved the book and also used heat tool to heat set them. Then using similar colour, i did mild stenciling. I stamped the french script randomly to the base using black ink.

I used mod podge to add the printed out images. I used white texture to even out the edges of the image. Then using water based inks, I added colours to the edges of the picture and blended it to the background.

To finish the journal page, I stamped alphabets randomly and using a black pen added stitched dashes to the border and black border to the words too.

Challenges entered:

https://pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/08/pip-challenge-2035.html

https://digichoosday.blogspot.com/2020/09/wk-35-anything-goes-craft-challenge-at.html

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/2020/08/week-35-anything-goes-craft-card-making.html

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2020/09/anything-goes-challenge-week-beginning.html

https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/08/challenge-194-anything-goes-with.html

http://welove2create.blogspot.com/2020/08/challenge-9-anything-goes-mixed-media.html

https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2020/08/challenge-649-inky.html

http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/2020/09/anything-goes-challenge.html

http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/2020/08/365-anything-goes-dis-digi-stamps.html

http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/08/challenge-127-anything-goes.html

http://abitmoretimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-bit-more-time-to-craft-challenge-123.html

http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2020/08/c-140.html

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/challenge-191.html

http://moremixedmediachallenge.blogspot.com/2020/08/more-mixed-media-challenge-anything.html

https://abitmoretimetocraftextra.blogspot.com/2020/09/abmttc-extra-challenge-september.html

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Stay happy and keep crafting.

Colouring using inks on different texture bases

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Welcome back....

My post for today is all about Tubby Craft inks. Tubby craft inks are water based dye inks and can be used for stamping, stenciling, water colouring and inking backgrounds. I always wanted to try using inks on other textured bases as well and fortunately today my post is all all about inking on different textures. Since they are water based, inking turned out to be very easy and fun to make.

I am using 3 bases here, the first one is paper clay mould, the second one is burlap/jute and the last one is felt. Adding water to the inks make them move and blend freely. 

Materials used:
1. Stamps
    a. Adorable runner
    b. Darling four  
2. Inks
    a. Jet black 
    b. Turquoise
    c. Lemon yellow
    d. Magenta
    e. Imperial red
    f. Liliac purple
    g. Lavender violet
    h. Emerald green
    i. Mustard yellow
    j. Tangy Orange
3. White card stock
4. Gem stones
5. Acrylic block
6. Brush
7. Colour pencils

Lets start......

Inking on paper clay mould

Inks used colouring: Turquoise, Emerald green, Lemon yellow

1. I made a peacock using mould and paper clay. I let the clay dry completely for a day before I started adding colours.  
2. Once the mould is dry, I started adding colours by watercolouring.
3. I dabbed some ink onto my work surface and sparyed some water. Using a brush, I started adding colours and these inks work perfectly for blending colours. 
4. Once the colours are dry (only air dry not to use heat tool), I added it to a card base. 
5. To finish the card,I added the sentiment and some gem stone. 

Inking on burlap/jute

Inks used colouring: Lemon yellow, Tangy orange, Imperial Red

1. I took a white jute (heavy base jute) and trimmed it down.

2. I started dabbing the inks directly onto the jute base.

3. Before the inks dried out, I immediately sprayed water and used my brush to blend the colours out. 

4. The jute stated to curl up when drying because of the water, hence I placed a heavy object on top of it. 

5. I used strong adhesive to add the jute/burlap to my card base. 

6. I stamped two images and coloured them with pencils.

7. I kept the rest of the card simple and added the image to burlap base and finished by adding sentiment and gem stones. 

Inking on felt

Inks used colouring: Liliac violet, Lavender violet, magenta

1. Here too, I used white felt and trimmed it down...

2. I did not dab the ink directly to the felt but used my work surface to do watercolouring.

3. Blending the colours on felt was very easy than I expected. But it does take a while to dry completely. 

4. Felt must be adhered to the card base only when its completely dry to stick well. 

5. I used a pattern paper for the base and then added a black card stock and felt on top of it. 

6. I added a cake image and sentiment along with gem stones to finish the card. 

I hope you all liked my post and do give it try and have fun. If you did remember to follow my blog and other social media accounts too. 

Tubby Craft products are available at following online retailers -

HNDMD
Crafters Emporio
Crafters Corner
Nagashri Arts
Nirmal Stationers
The Craft Shop
CraftsNeed
Letz Craft

Until my next post..

Happy Crafting