A Handfull of Art

A brand new month and a brand new release!! I'm totally loving the new PABD April #2016 release! The stamps are versatile and cover a whole wide range from baby stamps to flowers and nice quotations!! Checkout the new release on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/peek.a.boo.designs.india/ There's a new challenge and what the challenge is all about can be read here !!! http://peek-a-boodesigns.blogspot.in/2016/04/challenge-5-use-atleast-one-same-stamp.html Here's what I made !  So in love with the stamp set!!! Hop over to the PABD design blog to see the amazing creations by the DT members!

Holi; the festivals of colors is just around the corner and it sure is fun to make some handmade gretting cards to be given to friends and family!!! I have made a few cards!! check them out! Hope you like them!!I sure love them and will soon make a few more of these little cuties!!! Happy Crafting! Manu

Hello Everyone and wishing you all a very Happy New year!!! It's almost 8 days since we ushered into the new year and one of my promises to myself this year is keeping this blog of mine alive and kicking! 2015 had been a rock and roll journey and with a little toddler my blog land was neglected often. But with the new year, I'm promising myself a blogpost atleast every week! and more participation in the challenges! I'm beginning this new year with a card that I made with my DT supplies of the Peek-a-Boo Designs! The Company is new and holds lots of promises with their nice stamps! The Doodled heart card is all stamped and then coloured using the Faber Castell watercolor pencils and the cupid card is a shaker card! I love love love making the shaker cards! I'm playing along Paru's Card Making Challenges . The stamps in both the cards are new stamps! Thank you for stopping by, I'll be seen more often here this year and wit...

I'm showing up new technique at the Imaginations blog today!! Glitter is in trend these days and I was not far behind to use, I pretty much had decided that somehow I'll do incorporate this element into my next task. Check out this closer look of the shaker with all that yummy glitter inside, doesn't that looks pretty?? Head over to the IMAGINATIONS BLOG  ( http://blog.imaginationsonline.com/2014/07/shaker-card-with-dies.html)  to check this super cool technique!! Do leave me some love! Manu

I tried making a book card which has been on my list of to do's for a long time and since we were on break for about 4 months, things kept on adding to my wishlist (both, the one's to be made and the one's to be bought). And seriously both are a type of addiction to a craft lover like me, I know, almost everyone of you know very well what I mean! Here's my version of the book card, which can also be used as a gift box !! isn't that nice :) Did you check the little glitter on the flowers...and ohh yes, these flowers are handmade and m soo very proud of them :) Entering for the following challenges 1) http://lulupu.blogspot.in/2014/03/challenge-27-lulupu-2nd-birthday-special.html Alphabets used are L: Layers, Leaves, Lace P: Pattern Paper, Pearls, punches C : Cardstock(for making flowers) T: Tags PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would be the bestest thing that will happened...

Hello Crafty folks, I have been making a couple cards recently, but didnt not had time to post them up on the blog.. So it's kind of a backlog for them.. but here's a quick post for 2 of my cards that I did recently.. Do tell me how they look !!! :) This is how it looks when it opens up Here's another one !! Now this one has a lovely splash of colors !!! I loved seeing soo many colors, all at the same time and it very well compliments Lulupu's current theme of a color splash.. the colors here would be Yellow, Orange, Green, Purple, Blue and white... Also the Blue rose flower is created using the heart shaped punch and from Pritesh's turorial abou creating a rose flower from a heart shaped punch...  I quite liked the way this one turned out to be!! I'm entering my second card here for the Lulupu's current challenge. 1)  http://lulupu.blogspot.in/2013/02/lulupu-challenge-9-splash-of-colors.html 2)  http://catch...

Hello People, I have been crazy about the special fold cards and I loved the idea of a Napkin fold card. It just drives one with as awesome feeling to having unfold it.... and it looks sooper cool too when it opens up to be a 12*12 from a 6*6 one :) Here's what I made with my Napkin Fold card :) I loved the way the holder for it came out to be. I saw this on Indira's blog about how to hold the card together !!! Another shot of the card.. This is how it opens up to be.. I have made 4 small pockets for 4 circular shaped inserts and have stamped messages on them.. I hope you liked my take on this one.... PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would be the bestest thing that will happened to you, and I'll be flattered. But, kindly do respect the hard work and thoughts that goes into these works and please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks!!! Love! Manu

Hello People... Def Love is all around, I had happened to see a accordation style card sometime back but then it was made with a die. and I dont have dies, The idea of the card appealed soo much to me that I somehow and anyhow wanted to make it. This gorgeous die is designed by Karen Burniston who is an acclaimed designer for Sizzex and this die can be purchased from here http://www.sizzix.com/product/658035/sizzix-bigz-die-album-accordion-flip-3-d I thank Karen for making such a fab die which looks awesome !!! Here's what I made :) This is how the card looks like when opened.. and well.. who would want to keep it closed and locked.. :) This is my bestest till date.. and I love it! Close up of one of the flaps... Close up of the other end.... Another complete angle of the whole card... This is the front of the card.. Sorry for the blurred pic .. but this was the best one out of the whole lot of the front pictures.. I hope you all liked my crea...

Hello People, I saw a cascading card on the website and did a lot of googling to find out the procedure to make it and found it on Dr. Sonia's site.. :) Here's what I made with my cascading card.. I decided to go floral with this card and have used a lot of flower embellishments in this one :) The netted structure in the pink is hand-woven and yes... it took a lot of time to weave this one :D I added a cute rosette at the back of the card .. There's a ' be mine' tag that I made along with this card. Basically anytthing can be written onto the card :) I hope you all liked it and a big thanks to Sonia for the tutorial :) Linking it to the following challenges. 1)  http://kalalayaa.blogspot.in/2013/01/challenge11-fancy-folds-with-love-theme.html PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would be the bestest thing that will happened to you, and I'll be flattered. But, kindly do respect the hard work a...

Hi People, My second post of the year and I'm pretty happy and glad to have used my first stamp in the card I made this time. yayy... I bought a stamp set and have user 'forever' sentiments along with the hand-written word Thankful to express gratitude to all my Crafty friends who have helped me in everyway through this crafty journey of mine.. :) So this Card is for all of you.. expressing my love and thanks :) Another angle of the card. I have used a new stamp here and which probably makes me eligible for the CASology challenge of something new :) and the sentiment 'thankful' is handwritten :) I'm loving my own calligraphy ... Entering for the following challenges. 1)  http://casology.blogspot.in/2013/01/week-25-new.html 2)  http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.de/2013/01/cfc84.html 3)  http://ablognamedhero.blogspot.in/2013/01/challenge-17-new-year-new-you.html PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would...

Hi People, I'm always fond of creating new things..I saw a tent card tutorial on the internet somewhere and thought of adding some fun elements in it. Here's what I made :) I loved the small quilled miniature flower pot there :) There's a pocket at the back for storing in your wishes!!! I hope you all liked it!! PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would be the bestest thing that will happened to you, and I'll be flattered. But, kindly do respect the hard work and thoughts that goes into these works and please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks!!! Love! Manu

Hi Friends... Presenting my first CAS(E) card made exclusively for CAS(E) this Sketch  , I never though I would go for a CASE challenge but then, it was too tempting to resist :) Here's what I made for the challenge Here's another view of the sentiment... I went ahead with thanking everyone who has helped me at every point on my life :) Here's the sketch of the CAS(E) Linking it to : 1)  http://casethissketch.blogspot.in/2012/12/case-this-sketch-challenge-8.html PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would be the bestest thing that will happened to you, and I'll be flattered. But, kindly do respect the hard work and thoughts that goes into these works and please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks!!! Happy Arting and Crafting ! Love! Manu

Hellos People.... I'm back with another card I made for Less is more   one layer week challenge.. I'm getting hooked on to the challenges on the net and find them very intimidating and challenging... for they bring out the best of the creative best in you :) Here's what I made for the challenge :) I got playing with my camera a li'l bit and did an black and white image and loved it... see the pearls are shining here !!! A close up of the birthday greetings :) Linking it upto http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.ca/2012/12/one-layer-week-97.html http://creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.in/2012/12/ci-paints-inspired-by-cas.html http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.in/ http://craftyfriendschallenges.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/?p=412 http://everydayisanoccasion.com/?p=1131 PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would be the bestest thing that will happened to you, and I'll be flattered. But, kindly do respect ...

Hey Friends.... I made another card for the Lulupu's this months theme of 'Shabby and Chic Card' I had seen a cute card of a flower basket shape on internet sometime back and thought of applying something similar for this challenge.. after all it was nything apart from the regular rectangle or square shaped cards... Here's what I came up with :) Notice the spiral roses flower, I decided to add some spice there and spiraled up two paper together and came up with the red and blue combination in one and pink and yellow in the other one... Here's the side view of the card... I'm actually loving the shaped cards too... I'm loving to experiment also... :) Hope to keep doing this in future :) Entering it for the Lulupu's challenge 1)  http://lulupu.blogspot.in/2012/11/challenge-6-shabby-chic-shaped-cards.html PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would be the bestest thing that will happened to you, an...

Hi Friendzzzz... Ever since I had seen a tri folded card, I was tempted to try one for myself, I did it this time and somehow I finalised on the blue theme, with some hues of reds.. and it came out to be good.... considering it to my first attempt at this type of the card... Here's the final outcome :) This is how the card looks like when viewed from the front :) A full view of the card :) A complete look ..., I have used some ribbons to add some extra effects along with glitters and sparkles for the red roses :) This is how the card looks when folded :) I liked the fan shaped ruffle flowers :) they look sooper cute :) I hope you all liked the card... Entering it for the following challenges :) 1)  http://crafterscornerindia.blogspot.in/2012/10/crafters-corner-2-die-cuts-punches-with.html 2)  http://creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.in/2012/11/ci-paints-inspired-by-anything-goes.html 3)  http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.in/2012/11/cha...

Hey friends, I'm back with another card I made for the Itsy Bitsy challenge, I'm loving playing all these challenges :) They are fun to play and helps my trying out varied techniques and lots of tips to follow :) I'm still a newbie hence trying out a lot of prospects into card making ... Here's what I made.. a simple best wishes card which can also be customized for any occassion :) Hope u all loved the card... for I loved making it :) Entering for the Itsy Bitsy challenge 1)  http://itsybitsyindia.blogspot.in/2012/11/the-itsybitsy-k-i-s-s-challenge.html 2)  http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/ 3)  http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.in/ See you until something exciting comes up soon :) PS: If these posts inspire you to bring out the creative best in you, that would be the bestest thing that will happened to you, and I'll be flattered. But, kindly do respect the hard work and thoughts that goes into these works and please giv...