Anniversary RAK's!!

This 20th of November, I celebrated my 3rd Wedding Anniversary!! phew!! 3 yrs and we've still not killed each other...just kidding!! Since we were busy house hunting..and I almost had a heat stroke...we didn't celebrate much...just a quite dinner and a dang of a chocolate mousse cake... called VERTIGO!! scrumptious!! Here's what the patisserie looked like!!

Picture Courtesy- Burrp!

Other than teasing you with the pictures of the patisserie, I also wanted to share the fabulous cards that made its way to my hands. And for that, a million thanks from both of us to all of you!!!

This is a crazily beautiful card from Snehal...and the matching envelope! I love how she co-ordinates the card and the envelope!! And this is not all...I don't know if you remember, but Snehal had showcased one of her journals...yup!! I have it!! thank you so much Snehal..I love you for being so so kind and generous with your talents. You made me feel truly truly special that day!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart...
Here is that gorgeous journal and here are some of my favorite pages from her book!!

These are just some of the pages she's decorated for me...rest are empty for journalling..but I love the binding!! Beautiful...you gotta teach me that girlie!!

This gorgeous card with a butterfly comes from Rachna...Thank you for never forgetting my anniversary!!!

And this one layer wonder comes from Shalini ...Thank you girls!!!

And just before I sign out and say thanks again....can you figure out what the hell was I upto?

Aren't those rainbow colors fabulous????
Have a good day everyone!!

Secret Friendship Day Swap

I have immensely enjoyed putting this Swap together...and I'm so glad to hear most of you have already got it...Flaunting it is good!! Will make sure more people join next time...This time around we had 20 peeps join in....I'm still awaiting confirmations from a few people, and once you all post it, I'll make a consolidated post with all the wonderful cards....Thanks for making this round a big success for me and Asha!! 

I'm only sad that my swap didn't reach Asha (it came back to me) and she is off for the rest of the month on holiday..(missing my partner in crime!!) And I can only wait till she returns to send her the swap!!

Even though I wasn't Asha's official partner, she sent this beautiful cards my way...I love how she used the negatives of the dies to add the sentiments...smart girl!!

This gorgeous trio comes to me from Priya Venkat....Love those beautiful set of cards, the pink vellum card is my fav!! Thanks so much!! And the tag!! Its beyond awesome...

This super trio comes to me from Piali...oh what awesome cards...I'm going to treasure them....

And the tag is just superb!! simply love the colors, the twine and the charm..super sweet!! Thanks so so much!!

This funky trio is from Spardha...love the little ducks!! ( I hope they're ducks), the super Silhoutee cuts!!

Cute book mark...already in my latest book!! :)

 This awesome RAK came my way from Jyotsana, thanks so much for the beautiful braclet and the super awesome tag...The heart is made of felt and I simply love it!!! 

And this gorgeousness comes from Khusboo, love the beautiful coloring...love the tedha brads and the super super sweet message inside!! 

Thank you everyone for their wonderful cards and RAK's. Loved getting them all...they make me feel really really special!! Big hugs to everyone!!!

Dec ATC Swap

Just a short post to show off the gorgeous ATC's I just received. The theme for the month of Dec was "Stamping". I loved ones I received. First off, I'll show you the ones that I made.

I used the only PTI set that I own, to create these. The set is "Little lady" and used memento inks, Bahama blue, Rose bud, Lady bug, Pear Tart and Tuxedo black to create this piece.

Pic from ATC blog(by Asha)

 This beautiful ATC comes from Asha. I love the stamps she used. 

Pic from ATC blog.(by Mansi)

 This gorgeous piece comes from Mansi. Love the distress inks she's used. The ATC's all 3-d. Beautiful. 

Pic from Ujjwal's blog.

And this surprise came from Ujjwal. Thanks soo so much for this gorgeous card, the texture of this CS is beautiful. Thanks for making my day!

I have a small request to all those who participate in the ATC Swap. I want to request all of you to post the ATC's you make as well as the ones you receive. Seeing pics of my ATC's on your blog and knowing that you appreciated my efforts, makes me want to create more. Also I like to know who received my ATC's. Of the 4 swaps that I took part in, I've seen only one ATC being displayed. I have no idea where the rest of my 7 (2 ATC's per swap x 4 swaps ) ATC's ended. That makes me really sad.

So its my humble request, For the sake of everyone who puts so much effort into creating these precious ATC's, appreciate them, share them and shower them with love.

New year cards

I've been MIA for almost a week, what can I say...my DH has way too many holidays in the last 3 months of the year...diwali vacation, then the winter break, thankfully now no more vacations for him till May..which means I can stay at home and not travel around...
I got back from our winter break just yesterday night and what a wonderful sight to see 3 beautiful cards waiting for me on my door-step...Thanks girls you made my day..well night, technically!

 This beauty came all the way from Anita in Kolkatta...love the layers and so effortless, it would take me 3-4 hours to do so many layers!! Thanks so much for this card girl..

This gorgeous one is from Juhi..you don't even need to think twice before you can know her style..love the felt, {DH kept running his fingers over the felt and asked, did she use cloth on a card? she used a stitching machine on a card...what will you use next? (he keeps hearing that I want the cuttlebug, and now that I want the stitching machine, he's lost it) } You gotta take classes and teach me how to stitch...

And this gem made it all the way from Srilanka, from Michelle...its just sooo pretty...love the snowflakes and the tiny  dots of sparkles!! Thank you so much Michelle!!

Thank you all for making my start to the new year a wonderful one!! Big hugs to all of you!!

Hey

Long time no see..two weeks of vacation for hubby means no time for me to play with my cards and stamps! Phew that vacation is coming to an end, so hopefully I'll get some time in the next week to create..
Hope everyone had a rocking holiday season...

I'll just leave you with a beautiful card that arrived on my doorstep as I came home from my vacations..

Pic from Ujjwal's blog.

This beautiful card came to me from Ujjwal. Love the simplicity of it..truly stunning! Thanks so much girl!

A million thank you's...

are not enough...for everyone's wishes on my birthday...and the cards and surprises that poured in..

I had a fabulous day! Thanks so much everyone...

This little magic box just surprised me..so awesome Spardha..Thanks girlie..

And when you open this little box, out popped butterflies...this girl surely is having fun with the Silhouette.

 And this gorgeous mini-card..super super girl..

 Everyone seems to catch my love of butterflies..thanks so much...look at this gorgeous quilled butterfly by Manasa..must have taken her weeks to do this..{{{{hugs to you girl}}}

Love the background stamping, the little dots of glitter glue..

And this beauty came to my house from Shalini...Love the loopy border and that canvas (yup, the image is on canvas) those super hat pins..Thanks girl..you made my day!

Thanks to everyone from the bottom of my heart...

Birthday goodies have started!!

I celebrate my birthday tomorrow and share with at least 5 people in my own family, including my mother in law!
Just got a fabulous start to this weekend's party with a superb cute card from Michelle!! She too is an October baby!! (24th)

And look what arrived at my doorstep, this fabulous card from her!

The pics are from her blog, I was too excited to wait to take a pic! :D

 Isn't this gorgeous...it is much much more gorgeous in real life, the textures, the popped up flowers, the little butterflies! I'm in heaven! totally!

Look at that gorgeous awning! Its a lot of detailed work and Michelle, thank you from the bottom of my heart for this piece of art!
 She also sent me Tim holtz fragments, Maya road chipboards and gorgeous flowers! Thanks hun!! Totally made my day!

RAK's and a request!

I just received some fabulous mail yesterday..my first student i.e. my lil couz sister sent me a gorgeous card. Last time I had gone back home, I taught her the basics of parchment craft and she is such a natural. This time hopefully I'll get time to teach her coloring!

 

That is one gorgeous doily..just love it. Thanks girl.

 

I have to say I'm sorry for not posting this next card for so long..I received it so long back, but it got lost with the papers I'd kept aside. Yesterday when I opened the stack to take those papers out, I found this..Thanks so much Priya for this super card and for those rocking papers!!

 

 Love this quote! Thanks so much Priya. 

On another note, 4 of us..Shalini, Smita, me and Spardha are in a contest at Paperworks and Co. Blog. Our cards are going to be submitted from 15-18th. Each one will attempt one challenge. And then the voting will begin on 22nd -28th Aug. You will be able to vote for top 3 cards in each of the four challenges. And we will need your votes to win! 

I will be posting details on when and how to vote, but please stand by us as we attempt something like this with the least amount of supplies. 

Good luck all Indie Stampers!!

OLW#14

I almost missed doing this challenge. Not that I didn't have time, not that I didn't have ideas, not that I was busy. It was just that the rain Gods were so happy, that sun didn't show its face for 4 whole days..and it rained like crazy..plummeting the temperatures...who was I to complain!! I just snuggled under the blanket and dreamt of making cards...whereas my butt didn't go anywhere!!!

So thanks to Daisy's arrival in Susan's life(that might not entirely be the reason, but Daisy is a cute reason enough) that this weeks OLW got delayed and I finally moved my butt from under the blanket!

Before you get bored with my chit-chat (I'm in a very talkative mood today), tomorrow's post is a mini-tutorial on using the Glue and gloss. I've got many queries as to how to use it and etc, so figured might as well show you how. Stay tuned..!!

This week was to be a square outline card, this is where I fumbled. Not really grasping the meaning of outline image ( I could have just asked Susan, but for that I had to move my butt of out the blanket) so I just took a chance that what I made is what Susan asked us to make. Hopefully..

OLW 14

I uncovered a clear set of butterflies I owned, and didn't use cos they were too tiny. Too tiny to be used as main images, only as accents. So here I needed accents. And this card is trial no3. The other two are waiting for salvation...
This is a tiny 4x4 card. Notice how I left the butterfly in the PP behind! Yeah, I'm trying to show off!! :)

The next card was an afterthought, I'd won a set from Lizzy Anne designs, but this set did not motivate me. We just didn't belong together, until now. When I sat to make this card, I didn't want to color it. Its only highlighted!

Plus I made a muck out of the nest, I wanted a tree of sorts on which the nest would rest, but whatever I did I just looked like mud, so I made it into mud. There is only so much I could do to salvage this card. I just didn't want the nest to float in mid-air. Many don't care about such things, but for me it would be a weird world where the nest was floating in mid air, even on a card!!!

I have to say , I love  Lizzy Anne designs stamps, the rubber is beautiful. It stamps insanely gorgeous, and if money would grow on trees I would have all their stamps, maybe not all, but most of it. I love red rubber, any-day compared to clear acrylic, but that is a whole another post!

All I colored was the mucky ground, the bird's underbelly, and gray shadow under the bird. And highlighted its eyes..it looked blind before I did that!! So that's it from me.

And you thought I quit blabbering! Not yet, at least not before I show you one stunning RAK I received in the mail. Little miss Spardha (can't help but call her that, she's not even out of high school) sent me this gorgeous piece of work, it was hard to photograph since it was an acetate card, but I've been just staring at it since yesterday!! (Doing the happy dance!)

And if you want to see a ghost, peer closely at the acetate, you'll see my shadow!!

A beautiful RAK

Got this beautiful card a couple of days back, and had to show it to you all...it is so gorgesous. Love the little bling on it, and the beautiful sentiment. I'd sent an indian version of Coluzzle to Shalini and she sent this back with loads of love!! I can see the template is well used!!

Love the little bling on the envelope as well! Thanks so much girl..

Will be back later to post the surprises that went out on Friday.... Happy Friendship Day to all of you!!

Annabelle stamps

I won a stamp set from Annabelle stamps two weeks back and was itching to play with it..It had a beautiful tree image that had my brains whizzing..superb quality of stamps..almost as good as PTI ( I do own one set of PTI stamps, got them in a swap)

So without much chatter (like I always do), here's the card.

That tree had me thinking of tyres hung on trees and used as swing by children, so changed the original stamp a bit to put in a tyre cut with my circle cutter..works like magic..

Brown ink , green ink from hobby ideas,  and birdie stamp from Spardha  (I bought them from her)  and the sentiment is from Stampin Up. Kept it pretty simple . The tyre is covered with glue and gloss(hobby ideas) for that gloss that I love now.

And the birdie has been paper pieced, but its too tiny to tell..

 

And on to another card, this one I got from Spardha as a BRAK (back Random act of kindness) for sending her the envelope tag mini album. I love this card Spardha, thanks a ton for making my day so happy! {{{hugs}}} to you

And just so to mess with you, putting a sneak peak of my next two cards. I'll post them tomm..

    

Ok, so both are butterflies! Whats new? Nothing! Just loving them a whole lot right now!