Celebrate...Blazing Poppy Collection

Celebrate...Blazing Poppy Collection

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Good morning all 

A warm welcome to my blog again. I am back again with another inspiration with Heartfelt Creations for you all. This time I have created a card with their Blazing Poppy Collection. Oh... I love the gorgeous brilliant red poppies... a bright and happy flower it is!!

I don't know how they do it, but Heartfelt Creations every month brings out a new collection and each is more gorgeous than the other! Although Blazing Poppies is an old collection of theirs but it's one of my favorites. 

Just when I was eagerly waiting to get my hands on the complete Sunrise Lily Collection, guess what... they have gone ahead and released another spectacular range: the new Winking Frog Collection. Each of their new releases just keeps tempting me. Gorgeous pattern papers, mind blowing subjects and unique-designs, every month tease me and make me want to spend more... but mind it worth each penny!!

Let me open my heart a little today. I so love their collections that I want to have my hands on them first. I just don't want to wait for days to get them in my hands. And this... is one of the biggest reason why I want to join their Design Team :-) I just want to see myself moving and growing along with their design team. I am crazily in love with their each collection. 

On to the card now...

For the focal image I have mixed and matched both the images from Blazing Poppy Stem Cling Stamp Set. The image is first stamped with black Archival, painted with Steadtler water color pencils and them fussy-cut. The main flower is stamped, painted and layered with an extra layer and adhered with glue dots. 

For the background I have used two shades of greens from my Shimmerz spray collection. Sprayed quite a few times and kept building layers by drying it in between the layers. Then applied a texture paste through the stencil and sprinkled clear glitter when wet. I preferred it to dry naturally as texture paste bubbles and creates extra textures on heating. 

For the frame I nested outer three dies from Spellbinder's Large Classic Ovals. The paper collection that I used is Sunrise Lily Collection and Birds and Blooms Collection. The painted and fussy cut images are layered using glue dots. 

A cl;ose-up showing different layers of poppies. 

I added a double knot bow at the base of the arrangement to enhance the beauty of the card little more. 

That's all for today's card. 

If you are new and hunting for various craft supplies at best prices in India,you can contact Meetu Aggarwal  or check her website Here  and Priya Sivaraj or check her website Here 

Hope I m able to inspire you with my creations. If you like my work and want me to see reach my goals as a Dt with Heartfelt Creations, do leave some love n vote for me. Your votes are important for me. You can check all my three creations that I submitted for semifinals in the photograph below:

For more detailed pictures of Desk Calendar cum Mini Album....Click HERE

For more detailed pictures of Flip Fold photo Booklet .....Click HERE

For more detailed pictures of card Let Love Blooms.....Click HERE

And, to vote click HERE 

Thanks for dropping by. 

Happy Crafting !!

Peacock Paisley Card With Heartfelt Creations

Peacock Paisley Card With Heartfelt Creations

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all...

Thanks for popping by my blog again. 

Crafting is something I really love to do....even when I m unwell. Last week was really a bad week for me. According to my doctor, I need complete rest for few days and should not sit for long with my legs hanging down. No problem, I can manage to craft on the bed as well. :D 

I am happy and live only if I am able to craft. 

I might not be active on FB or any other social media but will surely keep all of you inspired by few of my new creations that I made few days back. I have already scheduled posts here on my blog and that will be copy pasted by my daughter on my other profiles. 

Getting selected as one of the semi-finalists for Heartfelt Creations Dt Team really made me super happy  and I thought I will keep you all more inspired with my few more creations with the same brand. Heartfelt Creation stamps are one of my favorite stamps ....Very versatile in not only making the backgrounds and flowers for the projects but also for making fancy embellishments. Sometimes when I create a card or a tag I give more stress on the embellishments. The card that I am sharing today is the example. The main stress is on the focal image which is Peacock. Though I have worked on the background also but that Is complimenting the embellishment and the whole card and is not disturbing the beauty of embellishment I made. 

Heartfelt Creation supplies used: 

Peacock Paisley Die HCD1-771

Feathery Peacock Cling Stamp Set- HCPC 3661

Peacock Swirls Cling Stamp Set- HCPC 3660

Peacock Paisley Cling Stamp Set HCPC 3659

Peacock Paisley Paper Collection

Other supplies used: 

Distress inks: Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean

Staedtler Pencil Colours 

Koi Brush 

Clear rock candy glitter 

Lime Green Stickles from Ranger 

Spellbinder's Victorian Arch 

Spellbinders classic oval die template

Glossy accent 

Die cutting machine 

Here is the full view of the card...

A close-up showing the background. 

The background is created by simply squeezing both the shades of distress inks on the card stock and then misting it with water and heat set. Stamp the image with Cobalt Blue Archival ink and lift the colour using koi water-colour brush. Colour lifting technique which I also call water wash technique is one of my favourite technique of making backgrounds. I accidently stumbled down this technique while teaching one of my student in Hyderabad 2 years back. She was the one who was always scared of picking the colors while painting but was very keen of using bright colours. The softness of colours you get after lifting it with water gives tints and tones of the same colour. 

All the daisies are fussy-cut, painted roughly with salty ocean and peacock feathers and embossed using Heartfelt Creations Delux Flower Shaping Tool Kit and then decorated by adding a small drop of lime green stickles. 

 I have layered the body of peacock and tried to give 3dimensional effects by cutting separate layers and adding glue dots. 

Have you ever read..."The sparrows are sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail." 

Aww....sparrows should not !!

That's not the burden thats the beauty of peacock which is making him unique from all other creations of God. I added few extra feathers and made it look more beautiful. 

The sentiment tag is from designer paper HFC Peacock Paisley Collection. 

If you are new and hunting for various craft supplies at best prices in India,you can contact Meetu Aggarwal  or check her website Here  and Priya Sivaraj or check her website Here 

Hope I m able to inspire you with my creations. If you like my work and want me to see reach my goals as a Dt with Heartfelt Creations, do leave some love n vote for me. Your votes are important for me. You can check all my three creations in the photographs below:

For more detailed pictures of Desk Calander cum Mini Album....Click HERE

For more detailed pictures of Flip Fold photo Booklet .....Click HERE

For more detailed pictures of card Let Love Blooms.....Click HERE

And, to vote click HERE 

Thanks for dropping by..

Happy Crafting !!

Product Review of STAMPOHOLIC

Product Review of STAMPOHOLIC

Posted by Rajni Chawla

PRODUCT REVIEW...!!

This one's for all fellow crafters out there.

Today, I am going to give a review of an amazing crafting tool that I've been using for quite a while now. But before you read on, here 's something you need to know.

DISCLAIMER : I do not endorse this product in any way whatsoever and I'm not associated with it's manufacturer as well. Also, I am writing this review after using the product regularly for close to two weeks now.

So, let's get started...

My general view about crafting is that it's not the tools or its brand but how u use them that creates the difference. I mean, Buying a crazily expensive tool or machine doesn't mean that automatically my creations will be beautiful. It happens only when you know how to use the tool effectively and creatively. And that can happen with Rs. 5000 product as well as a Rs. 500. Which is why, personally, I like to go for brand that suits my pocket. But then again, it doesn't mean that I tend to make compromises and go in for low quality products. All I tend to look for is to get something that has a little value for money. Just like this new STAMPOHOLIC from DIECUTS N MORE.

Not many of you may know but DIECUTS N MORE is our very own homegrown INDIAN brand. And this makes me really happy to know that it's competing head to head in terms of quality and usability with foreign brands.

STAMPOHOLIC....as the name says it all. If you are addicted to stamping and want NO MORE GUESSING, TRIALS N ERRORS AND MISTAKES, this 8x10 inches magic box is the perfect solution for all. U will wonder how you ever stamped without it. It's a great stamp positioner manufactured in INDIA.

SUPERB QUALITY, PERFECT MEASUREMENTS, EASY PLACEMENTS, CRISP BACKGROUNDS, EASY MASKING, OMBRE EFFECTS, SPEEDY MASS PRODUCTION AND STAMPS EXACTLY THE SAME PLACE EVERY TIME YOU STAMP.

LAYERED STAMPING AND ALIGNMENT OF STAMP WITH ITS COORDINATING DIE-CUT IS LIKE A CHILD'S PLAY WITH THIS TOOL.

This beautiful smal box tool is very sturdy with glass clear LASER ETCHED top plate. So now its time to BREAK FREE without the worry of the fading of the grid lines. Hinges are perfectly attached with NO SCREECH noise and also You get 2 Neodymium magnets FREE with the tool to hold the paper. The best part is its POCKET FRIENDLY. Die cuts n more has offered an introductory price of Rs 2500 only.

Its a complete package of MONEY VALUE when compared with its functionality.

Hope this review of mine can serve my fellow crafters with little knowledge to save small amount from their hard earned money. I will be soon back with my projects that I tried using this tool. Also, DIE CUTS N MORE has posted few viideos on their channel for ur guidance. And lots more are in pipeline.

Introduction to Stampoholic 

Background  stamping made easy with Stampoholic

Stampoholic Tutorial #2 For Background stamping 

HERE IS HOW IT LOOK LIKE 

AND HEREI IS MY CREATION WITH STAMPOHOLIC 

Postcard with flowers

Postcard with flowers

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all...

Today I' m here to share my guest dt project for Joy crafts.  It was really great fun using Joy craft stamps and loved the quality of the image...very crisp and very clear. 

I have used joy crafts clear stamp 6410/0044, stencil 6002/0172 , floral flourish 6002/0158 to create this card. The image is first stamped and then colored with Worn Lipstick and Aged Mohaghany distress inks using Koi brush. The flower is then fussy cut and little embossed from its back using embossing tools. Tapped down the flower with Versamark Stamped Pad and heat set with UTEE. The flourishes are also colored with distress inks and heat
set with UTEE.

Entering..

Craftin Desert Diva's (tags)....Monday 9th Dec.

Lulupu "cook it up challenge ".... This is my second entry for their challenge #22 and I have cooked my recipe with stamps, die cuts, PP embellishments)
Ladies...don't forget to participate in blog hop at Lulupu...so many chances to win...so many categories to choose)

Bleach Stamping

Bleach Stamping

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hi all..

Hope you are all doing well.

Today, I am here with a card that I designed for Justrite Friday Challenge #110. This time the fun is to do bleach stamping. Again something that I never tried before.

You may wonder why I made Valentine card for this Challenge while there is still quite a lot of time for Valentine. Several reasons for that. 1. Justrite just released their November Stamps and I got inspired so much that I ordered my Lace Heart dies and  Sweet Heart Clear Stamps the same day of their release and just got them few days back in my hands.  I also matched and ordered Antique Valentine Tag One.  All the three I used in this card were totally new to my collection. I felt like trying my hands on these. 

2. Bleach stamping was totally new to me. Since I am still a fresher and have just started working with justrite stamps only few moths back....I still have a limited collection. I tried doing bleach stamping on various card stocks but was not satisfied with the results. To my experience I must say bleach immediately gets soaked in paper but take little time and gives a little blur image. I was not able to get the perfect detailing of my stamp. That's why I preferred using some bold stamp. Because of so many  tries lots of card stocks were set aside.

Here is my final satisfactory try ...

I have used Black Magic Core'dination paper. These are twin color papers and give a real grungy look when distressed. I used the back side of the paper and gave a little more color to the card stock using Aged Mohaghany Distress Ink. Then stamped the image randomly on card stock with bleach. Once again stamped the same image overlapping a bit with Archival deep maroon ink and I was done with the background. I used same paper again...but with top side up(BLACK) and cut an oval in the center. Distressed the edges and gave little dimensions with the foam tape and layered them together. Added another layer with golden paper. 

I die-cut and embossed two hearts form Lace heart die set...one from Black magic paper and other from white card stock. The one with black magic paper is then sanded and layered with golden paper and then fussy cut. The other in white is colored using distress ink and stamped with Sweet Heart Clear stamp. The sentiment and the banner is from Antique Vintage Tag One. 

I stamped the image once with versamark and heat set it using black embossing powder and again with black archival ink . Fussy cut both and again heat set with UTEE using versamark to add extra sheen and bounce to highlight the main subject of the card. Placed them using foam tapes.  

Banner...again stamped with black archival ink ....fussy cut and then heat set with UTEE. 

Added little more romance with handmade flower which I made with joycraft flower die. Few more layering s with Sunflower doily and pattern paper,ribbon bow and pearls and I was done with my card.

And here is the result of all my tries...

Once again thanks for stopping by!!
Hugs.



ENTERING
Justrite Friday Challenge #110