Watercolor showers

Hey hey..

How are you all? Missed me? :P Well I missed the blogger world, ALOT. Sometimes I lay on my bed and decide what I want to write on my blog in the morning. And then that morning never came :/ That's how life is, right? You plan, and then you see them changing on their own.
Anyhoo, thanks to Artful Crafting and their continuous challenges. They keep people like me grounded and normal :D
This time round, the challenge is Watercolor. Which is tough medium. I have seen thousands of videos before start working on my entry. But even thouh when I grabbed the paint brush, i was confused to death. I was scared.
Shuker though that I found a veryyy easy tutorial on YT. I forgot the name, but I'll link the vdo once I find the vdo again.
So this is what I have put together. The technique involves rubber stamps and wet on wet technique. Which was a tornado to pass. lol. But i managed somehow, and ended up with these two cards.

Below is the close up of sparkly flowers, thanks to my new wink of stella. I have used that EVERYWHERE now.

 The second card is slightly simple. Well simple is hard to manage. i wanted to give a soft watercolor wash in the background with monochromatic tilda as a highlight. I have added wink of stella on the hearts here. This tilda is the most adorable stamp in my stash. May God give me enough cash to collect all the tildas :D But for now this tilda with hearts, ladies & gents.

Pleaseeee let me know if you like it, or not. I'll be more than happy to get encouragement and healthy criticism.
Jazakillah for visiting.
D.

With love.. From me to you!!

Hello hello.

I'm back with my entry for another challenge over at Artful Crafting. This time, their theme is ANYTHING GOES but that anything should be WITHOUT flowers. Tricky, no?!
We, no matter what, always tend to add one small flower in almost every project. But hats off to the design team of artful crafting, they have created master pieces. You should have a look at the entries, here.
Inspired much, I have made a card using the only Tilda stamp I own :p

Background is inked and heat embossed. I used the partial embossing technique here, where you ink your stamp using Versamark and then wipe some parts of the inked area of your stamp using a baby wipe. And then stamp. That way, you only get some areas of your stamp.

Tilda is colored using Distress inks. I used walnut stain, vintage photo, barn door, black soot and spun sugar. I'm not so good with the shading though. But I have tried my best to keep it simple.

After coloring the Tilda, I fussy cut the image and mount that on my base. Oh and to raise it a little, I added thick chipboard pieces behind the image. I do not use foam tape now, it wont stick for long.
Sentiment is heat embossed on black cardstock using white embossing powder.
I finished this card by layering the base on red and then paste it on black folded card. Inside is slightly embellished, and have a birthday related sentiment.
Do leave a comment, and subscribe if you like.

Much love,
Khadija.

Products used:
Distress Watercolor Cardstock
Ink blending tool
distress ink
Embossing powder
Hero Arts stamp set
Tilda with hearts (bought from Flair paper creations)

Challenge entry "Stenciling"

Assalam-o-Alaikum everyone!!

I'm back with a post, after almost a year. It has been a roller coaster type of year. I was not well, and then my daughter happened :D *yayy* She's mashallah 4 months old now. So i'm getting some time for myself as well. Well, Sorta! haha. Although she's very sweet. Won't cry much. And sometimes she lets me play some android games while she plays with her fists. :)

Anyhoo, today's post is all about Artful Crafting's 1st Challenge. Which is about Stenciling. Now who doesn't love stenciling, Right?! So do I. I went ahead and create a mixed media wall hanging for this challenge.

I have used around 80% things bought from Artful Crafting.

Below are the photos of some of the material I have used in my project.

I forgot to mention the Sizzix flower die and fanciful flourish die I have used in the project, also bought from Artful Crafting.

After spending almost 4 hours, I ended up with this 12"x12" canvas.

 You can see the stencils used in the background. I went a lil crazy with them, hehe. After applying textured paste through these stencils, I colored my canvas with Deep Teal bloom spray, Gold Foil spray and some distress inks(Black soot, vintage photo, salty ocean, walnut stain and Spiced  bought from Artful crafting. I randomly stamped my backgrounds with different background stamps. Tried heat embossing (the messy one :P) in the background too; both clear and black embossing.

 I used two chipboard pieces in my project. A chipboard frame and chipboard word "dream". I heat embossed the frame, and colored my word "Dream" with Gold foil spray. And then applied Glossy accents to that.

The flourish die you are seeing is my all time favorite. And I use this die in almost everything I create. Thanks to Shereen apa for making these things available for us. Seriously, She's a crafter fairy for all us crafters.

That's it for now. Hope you would like what I have created so far. Please leave your comment, and let me know how you like it. And dont forget to subscribeeeeee!!! :D :D :D

Have a great day.
Allah Hafiz.

Khadija.

Experimenting today!!

Heyyyy people!!

I'm here to share a card with you. I played along with Unity's Friends with Flair, and create a card using Unity's itty bitty stamp.

I heat embossed script background stamp on my background panel, and then spritz lots of water on the paper, I then used my good ol' watercolor kit and threw three colors on there; Black, beige and blue. Because of water, my colors react with each other and overlapped at several points. After heat-setting the background, I punched an oval from above and adhered a piece of patterned paper from back. Oh and before adhering the paper, i spread some gesso through tim holtz dot fade stencil using a spatula. I love love love doing this. Before adding this panel to my second layer, I ran a piece of jute string twice and made a pretty bow out of it.

After that, I stamped my itty bitty stamp on a piece of canvas, frayed the edges using my nails and adhered the stamped piece of canvas on a book paper that was pre-distressed using vintage photo distress ink.
Thats it for now.
I hope you guys will like it. Please let me know, Ok! :)
Have a nice day, ya'll.

{be inspired}

Hello everyone!!
I'm here today to share a card with you all. The inspiration goes to Unity stamps, offcourse. Every time I purchase a new itty bitty, i just want to play with it over and over again.
I have NEVER participated in Unity's {be inspired} Challenge, so i thought to give it a try this time. They had a very fun challenge like always. You either chose a sketch OR inspiration photo, OR combine them both and create a card or a layout. I chose to create a card, LO is too big for me to handle. hehe.
This is the inspiration photo.

and this is what I have created using the sketch.

I used pink paislee papers (dont remember the collection. sorry!) for the chevrons, I used Echo park's bundle of joy boy paper line. I still have another 12x12 sheet left, thank goodness. Anyhoo, I distressed the edges of the centre panel in the background, using my tim holtz distresser. And then I layered few die cuts on top of each other to give my card some interest.

The sentiment is an itty bitty. And i stamped it using versa mark on a circle, that is hand-cut. Heat embossed it using black embossing powder by Rangers. And then colored it using faded jeans and black soot distressed inks by Rangers again. Love love tim holtz products.
And then i punched few small flowers using my retro flower punch, gave them a lil shape and adhere them on the bottom of my distressed circular piece.
tied a bow on top of the paper before adhering it to the main card, and ta-da! My card is done.
Let me know what do you think about it. I am realy pleased with the end results, so glad I did not make any mistake this time. lol.
Leave your comments, and I'll pay you a visit back.
Have a great day. Much Love.
Deeja.

Heat embossing & Dry embossing

Hello!
I hope you all are having a good day. I came here to share a card with you. It was a tricky one. I wanted to incorporate both heat embossing and dry embossing on this card. Being a newbie, i could not manage meeting my expectations, but i tried my best.
I, once again, followed Fusion card sketch this week.

This time Fusion inspiration colors were really soft and dreamy, i had to work REALLY HARD to work on that. And to be honest, I'm not so happy with what I come up with.

I combined both sketch and inspiration colors on this card. I used Stationery noted paper in the background, and then stitched a heat embossed vellum piece on top of the paper. The paper I chose has a ledger print, so worked great for the details I was planning to add. My vellum panel has white embossing, and to give it a lil boost I colored it using mustard seed and picked raspberry distress inks. Spritz some water on that, and let it air dry. Yes, I screwed the stitching part on top left. But I did not want to throw this card away.

If you can see the colored vellum here. And the real stitched lines.
I did not have time to make flowers for this card, so I used store bought flowers this time. I dont remember everyone, but the big flower in the center is by Prima. And its BEAUTIFUL. :)
Let me know what you think of this card. And please don't be so hard on me, pretty please! :D

Challenges: Sentimental Sunday, Fusion Card Challenge.

Fusion # 7 entry

Hello again.

I'm here to share another card with you guys. Today I followed another sketch (yep, tough job again). But i guess i managed it well. The colors were not my type, though. But I had heaps of fun creating this card.
This was my favorite Fusion Card Challenge.What's fun about this challenge is, you either use the inspiration colors OR inspiration sketch. You can combine both of them and use them on one project, thats DOUBLE fun, right? :D

And this is what I came up using the sketch AND color inspiration.

First off, i lightly inked my base card using black soot distress ink. I used two different collections in this card. For the second layer, i used Prima lyric collection paper. And for my two rectangle panels, i used one mustard color cardstock to follow the inspiration picture. For second rectangle panel, I used Pink Paislee Portfolio collection. The mini doily is also from Portfolio collection, I die cut the doily out of that. Ohh and not forgetting the stamped muslin I ran behind the main elements. The stamp is by Unity Stamps. And i love love love their stamps, i only have few of the itty bittys. But I'm planning to invest in more. INSHALLAH really soon.
These two flowers are mulberry flowers. I die cut these leaves. And for some more dimension, added wooden label and tied a bow using baker's twine.
To finish it off I added some pearls on the opposite corners of the card.
So far, I'm really liking the results.
Let me know what you guys think of it??

I hope ya'll have a great day. Much love. Deeja!