Different take on love

 I have always loved Iris folding and the last card i made using this technique was ages ago. Recently i got a book from library, which features lovely and absolutely amazing Iris folding cards, which inspired me to make 5 Iris folds in a single day! Yup! And three of those were made for this card!
Rest are in Pink & blue for my little one's scrapbook.. I have got so crazy over preparing scrapbook for him or her and since i chose to not know the sex of my baby, I am making elements in both the colors! How crazy i am!! I know! :) :)

Ok, so here's my take on a non traditional love card. Made in the shades of browns & oranges! Also, this one's my first tall-card! Incidentally I realised it is so difficult to take a snap for a tall one, I had troubles in just keeping it upright for a click!

Some pretty close-ups of the eyelets, ILU and the Iris folds -

On another note, weather in London has been, well, unpredictable.. I never knew It could snow for the first time in Feb in a particular season.. Feb is supposed to be a time when winters start going away!! :)
Here's a pic i took from my window on sunday -

 For the record I have still not seen snow-in-action yet. It snowed in the night! :( I have seen a lot of snow before, Indian hill stations are full of them in winters.. I was looking forward to experience snow-fall here in London.. Well, either i'll have to see if it snow again this week or if i need to wait till next winters! :)

And would you believe, I took this pic from the same place exactly 9 days before it snowed? ignore the tilt in the pic, I think i was focusing on the tree n not on the houses in background! Weather here is really unpredictable!

Entering this Challenge for Crafty-Jc's Feb challenge - Love card with non traditional colours! and The Stamp Man - Embellish it Challenge!



Supplies -
Cardstock from a locally bought scrapbook.
Glitter hearts from itsybitsy
Eyelets from
Boeken Voordeel, Belgium
small crystal heart from A1 craft supplies
Papers in Iris fold are from saved gift wraps! :)

Love is...

Well, I have been away since a while now.. I'm having constant Backaches :( Courtesy my little baby!! Recently went to the mid pregnancy ultrasound scan and i could see my hyper-active baby, kicking n waving to me :D Its such an awesome experience! I'm waiting to feel the baby kick from inside my tummy.. :D

Anyways, so in the whole last three weeks, I have been making & completing this card  for Craftyjc challenge #10 - Simplicity.

It was hard to not go overboard with embellishments & PPs for this one..  For the first time ever I have doodled an image & hand-wrote something on front side of the card! I dont really like to see my handwriting. But it was getting difficult to get the mesg printed here, plus none of the alphas i have were matching with the theme! :D
The image is colored with watercolor pencils! 

True Love

My first card after along while! & my first one from London n my new craft room too!  :) This one's for Piali's Challenge on Yvonne's blog.. Challenge was to do block stamping using an acrylic block! 

Here's my entry - 

I ended up inking too much i guess, cos now when i look back at Piali's work & other entries, my work seems a little blotchy! :D But i anyways love this card.. 

Luckily,all the new purchases i did in last month from India did not went into the Cargo! (My lucky mistake is what i call it!), so i had this big Acrylic block & 3 new distress inks. And the only stamps i have are background stamps from Ujjwal & a labels stamp set from Karuna! :D The label & flower vines comes from the label set! 

And I learned about colouring white ribbon using stamp pads from Priya's blog recently. The link for the tutorial is here.

yOu ShAkE mY hEaRt

Probably my last card from Belgium! :) Going back home this week.. It was a good trip!! Eager to go home now.. yay!!!

Pink Love

I am posting too soon i guess. never ever before have i posted so frequently!
These are two cards in pink i recently made..

I have used some more pages from the 3-D booklet for this sweetheart card.. And i am seriously short of embellies for my cards now.. I ve realised, itsybitsy has a far more variety & economical value than i have found across all the major craft supplies store here!! 

I Love you

 I Had this Red Heart doily since a long long time. I think i have hoarded this for close to 3 years now :D And here's how i used it -

The blooms are handmade by layering a few flower punch cut outs. The thread is a lovely find from McLeodGanj market. The stamp is a wooden block, bought several years ago from a local shop. Red ink is from Idee and sentiment is printed.

 And another good news. I'll be on DT for CraftyJC challenge #4 as a random participant for challenge#2. :D Super excited for that!  

Another Love card.

Hey guys, I've been so so busy lately. Thankfully my grandPa's Surgery went well, we got him home yesterday. Considering he is 82, recovery is not going to be too fast i guess. The doc has suggested about 3 months.
Also, I'm not really getting time to read blogs or update them, i'll be back n active as soon as i can.

Today's card also was made before i went for my vacations, simple n cute :)

Sentiment is printed and then coloured with faber-castle colour pencils.I used a pink sticker on top of foam heart.

Supplies - 

Cardstock & heart stickers - local stationer
Ribbon - cheap Jack
Foam heart - ItsyBitsy
Patterned paper - Archies

Iris Love

I wanted to try this Iris fold since i saw it in a book. This resembles Iris of a camera. The pic is not too good, clicked it in lesser light and later tweaked the pic using software.
I am not a challanges person, but did this for Yvonne Yam's atleast 3 Patterned Paper challenge. I dont think i would have tried this without being inspired by her challenge :)
I thought it'll be simple, but is not. I got this fold right on second try, and my husband was kept awake till late night while i made this. :D

Supplies - 

Carstock - local stationer

Patterned papers - Archies

Alpha-beads - itsybitsy

Crepe ribbon - Idee

With Love

Here's a quick card i made recently.

Stuff used -
Patterned paper & card stock from local stationer.
Ribbon, Hearts, Tree die-cuts, and printed sentiment - Itsy Bitsy
Purple flowers made from leaves set from itsy bitsy & silver-stickers from local stationer. 
Heart Stamp - Hobby ideas
Purple ink - Idee

I Love

I love to travel. And not just to watch the important points in a place, but to feel that place. To roam around, to look around, to understand what makes a place so special. I love to know the history of the place i'm visiting. I love to observe how people behave in this another part of the world. I love to interact with locals and hear their views.

I love to read. Anything which is written crisply, not the kinds that go in circles explaining things. I love short stories as well as voluminous novels, biographies as well as scientific theories, craft books as well as coffee table books.

I love photographs. I am not too good as a photographer but i do like to try whenever out :D My husband thinks i'm good in noticing interesting & clickable things, but the outcome is never what i would want it to be. but since i anyways donot spend too much time in learning the finer nuances of photography, i'll have to be content with whatever beauty i can capture through my lens & my eyes :D Other than art-photography, i really like to have memories through them. Even a cousin commented on the VOLUME of photographs we have from our honeymoon.. :) she never even clicked a quarter of them..

I love to craft. Oh, I just love my artsy craftsy gene. I am mostly into paper crafts, but have pursued other forms in past (when i had more time with me ) . With so little time on my hands with my taxing job,  ATC blog has been a saver. It requires little time since amount of detailing needed is not too much. and i can easily manage that on weekends. I have a HUGE collection of embellishments and papers, I buy them at twice the speed at which i consume them. I am already running out of space :D And i have decently big collection of paper-craft books. When i am not creating, I love to go through them. There was a time when i was not creating at all, in those times, I used to carry one book from my collection to my office and go through them during traveling (Which BTW is about 3 hrs daily ).

 I love jewelery. I love jewelery BIG time!!! And every piece i own should have something unique in them. I love all stone-studded ones, i dont like much of plain old gold . My favorite possession being my mum's wedding necklace & earring set, which i got as a gift on my wedding :). They might look old fashioned to some, but i so love to wear them. I once was thinking of revamping them into something modern, but then on an occasion i got such lovely compliments for them that i decided to wear them as it is. I wont ever get something like them again, gold jewelery is simply not made that ways now.

I love to shop. I usually like to shop in malls or some air-conditioned environment when i am looking for clothes. I generally never buy clothes without trying them on, and never from road-side stalls. Road-side stalls for me exists only to buy junk jewelery, craft accessories, hand-made products and such things.
I love yoga. Its been a little while since i started going for Power yoga and oh girl! I am in love with it. It has made me a little more flexible and a little more active. And a lot more connected with myself. Thats difficult to explain i guess.

Ring ceremony

My goodness!! Ring ceremony is such a hotch potch affair.. cartoon se tayyar ho jao, khoob saara makeup laga ke.. then walk dead slow from gate to the altar.. walk FAST and people around pull u back.. If u still dont walk slow, there's the damn photographer.. He'll keep on muttering, "Walk slow", "Look to the right", "look a little down".. eeewks!! And not to mention everyone looking at you.. Even the known ones look at me like they are seeing me for the first time in their life..
And when i reached the altar, I thought all i'll have to do is sit comfortably and smile.. But people were so eager to come on stage give their blessings and leave jaldi se.. total dum ghontu experience..
Dance was good.. We did salsa together :) I enjoyed a lot while dancing, which i always do, but that photographer was pissed off cos my make-up would get spoiled. But anyways he couldnt stop me :) Best part was the number of compliments we got later for pretty good dancing..
Then there was photosession.. We posed in all those poses, our parents stood in their wedding.. I laughed so much.. generally photographer has to say that please smile a little, our photographer said please laugh a little less.. :)
Then we had dinner and the eve got over.. I pretty much liked it :)