You are fabulous!

This is the second card that uses most ingredients from my TE April KI kit! :) Here is the first one :)

Materials:
TE April Kit card stock
TE April Kit patterned paper
TE April Kit ribbon
Butterfly dimensional sticker
Pink twine
"You are fabulous" stamp and pink dye

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!!! In my northwest corner the sun is shining bright and the sky is clear.. hope you enjoy some great weather in your part of the world too :)

Butterfly

I went to a stamp festival in Portland in April and bought a whole variety of stamps. This butterfly stamp is one my favorite picks from that trip! I made 3 such butterflies on different colored backgrounds and then experimented with several patterned papers to see which combo appealed to me the most! Do you like this combo as well?

Materials:
Far East Background cardstock
Far East patterned paper (flowers)
TE April Kit paper flowers
TE April Kit Ribbon and matching cardstock
Butterfly stamp and black ink
Patterned butterfly background

This design is based on SCS Sketch Challenge 382

Flower circles

I started subscribing to the Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Kit from April 2012. Most of the ingredients for this card are from my April Kit! I loved the cute paper flowers in the kit that go so well with the patterned paper! And needless to mention I love pink!!! 

Materials:
TE April Kit Pattered paper
TE April Kit Pink & Green Cardstock
TE April Kit Paper flower
TE April Kit Label
TE April Kit ribbons
Pink twine
"you are Loved" stamp

This card is based on Taylored Expressions Sketch 157.
Thanks for stopping by and let me know your thoughts on this card!

Wedding bells

I don't think I was done with the patterned paper I mentioned in my previous blog. I had to make another card with this paper and the wedding theme continued as well.. 

Materials:
Plain background cardstock
Patterned cardstock
Label from TE Expressions April Kit paper pad
Wedding bells sticker
Ribbons
Pearls

The layout is inspired from the TE sketch challenge 155 though I ended up tweaking it a bit to add the ribbons at the bottom.

Wedding cake

Its been a while since I blogged.. I havent taken a break from making cards I just wasn't able to keep up with updating my blog as well!! I hope I am able to make it up to you with the cards that I wanna share with you... thanks for stopping by!

Few days ago my eyes fell on the elegant patterned card stock that I had used a couple of years back to make my wedding invitation cards. I had made 40 invitation cards then and have some pieces of that beautiful card stock in my stash! Keeping up with the wedding theme I used the same card stock to make a card for a newly wed couple! I combined elegant pattern with the wrinkled Indian handmade paper.

Materials:
Plain background cardstock
Indian handmade paper
Patterned cardstock
Glossy brown paper
Ribbon
Wedding cake dimensional sticker

This design is based on
SCS Sketch Challenge 377

Circles sketch

I saw this sketch on SCS Sketch Challenge 380 on Wednesday morning and since then my mind was occupied thinking of what papers I could use for this layout! When I started making this card it was more challenging than I thought it would be since all the layers and colors had to match well. I must admit that I spent a lot of time trying to gather and match all the patterned papers I wanted to use. I also discarded 2 of those after I cut the circles since the patterns didn't gel well. Here is what I finally put together -

Materials:
Old World card stock for background
Colorbok card stock for largest circle
K&Company papers for smaller circles & background band
K&Company dimensional  flower &  butterfly

I used my new EkSuccess circle scissors for the first time today! Cutting circles is a piece of cake now :) I placed the paper on a glass mat and then placed this tool on top. What I like the most about this tool that you can cut a circle from any section of the paper and you can check before cutting if the circle is going to cut the expected area on the paper.

Let me know if you like this design! Thanks for visiting my blog!

Gift envelopes

This weekend Chaitali, Prema and I set up a booth at Asha's Geetanjali event to sell our handmade paper goods. Chaitali and I started going to this event since last year and this year Prema joined us as well. All the money we earn from selling our cards and paper products goes to Asha for a good cause.

Last year we had a collection of about 50 cards for the booth. This year we decided to expand the variety of goods beyond cards. I made some envelopes and mini/pocket scrapbooks. I will write another post for the scrapbooks. Here are all the envelopes I decorated!

Are you wondering why I chose envelopes of this size? These envelopes can be used for packaging gift cards or gift cash. There are many places where gifts are given in the form of cash to let the receiver buy a gift item of their choice. It is the same as giving a gift card except that you actually pack a bunch of bills in the envelope :) 

All these envelopes are made of handmade paper from India. I usually make the envelopes too from scratch.  I made about 100 envelopes from scratch with handmade paper and decorated the envelopes - some of those were used for giving gifts to the guests at my wedding. The envelopes in the pics are however pre-made and I decorated each one with a variety of embellishments.  The elephant headed figure in a couple of cards is that of Ganpati - who is widely worshipped in India and is honored at the beginning of rituals and ceremonies. 

Hope you like these designs and thanks for stopping by my blog!!!