ATSM #391 Anything Goes

Hello friends.. Swapna here.. Its time for new challenge at Addicted to stamps and more. And the theme is everyone's favourite "Anything goes". Click here for more details and inspiration from other dt members..

ATSM - Photo inspiration challenge #375

Hi.. Swapna here , its time for Photo inspiration challenge at Addicted to stamps and more.
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You Matter To Me

Hi.. Hope you are doing well.
Today I over at ColourThrowdown challenge. I am so happy to be featured on their blog this week.
This weeks colour scheme is (i.e. navy, aqua, lime and kraft)

Now coming to my card.

• I prepared the front panel using distress inks, sprayed few drops of water and lifted it with dry cloth.
• Clear heat embossed flowers and leaves (SSS stamp) and coloured with zig markers, die cut them out.
• Die cut YOU (SSS die) twice, glued them and applied black wink-of-stella for shimmer. Heat embossed coordinating sentiment on black strip.
• Glued another black strip along the edge of card base, glued the inked panel, arranged flowers and leaves. 
• Then glued sentiment.

Its hard to catch shimmer on die cut and flowers.
Thank you for joining with me.

I am entering this card to

Addicted to stamps and more #246

CAS colours & Sketches #227

Inspired by all the little things #60

Muse challenge #220

Water colouring - Zig markers - Altenew stamp

Hi..

Here i am with another card with water colouring.
I stamped image partially by masking part of it with light distress ink as i was planning to do water colouring. 

Used zig markers to colour image. Splattered few black soot ink n stamped sentiment with black ink.

Die cut the panel with SSS stitched rectangle die.
I die cut another lavender panel with mama elephant die. 

Assembled the card with foam tape.

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Supplies

Mama elephant - Sew fancy

SSS - Stitched rectangle

Altenew - Best mom

Versafine black onyx

Zig markers - 080, 043, 052

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I am entering this card to 

Altenew December challenge

My inspiration is May 2016 photo

Mod squad challenge 

SSS wednesday challenge

Thank you for visiting...

Utilising scraps - 2 cards

Hi...

Friends...

Here I am with two card made recently for a challenge ( Challenge to myself also). I used the scraps which I collected over the time. Layout is same for both cards. I adhered the die cut sentiments on vellum to make the stand out from background.

I am entering these cards to Freshly made sketches #221

And to SSS wednesday challenge - Anything goes

Thank you for stopping by

Swapna Patil

Organisation

Hi friends...

Firstly I want to apologise for such a long post. 

Today i have post on boring but very important topic. Every person need some sort of organisation. I was always concerned about organising as i cant work in messy place. 

I agree as we start working the area get messy. In my view ORGANISING means, easy to put back the things in their place and finding them easily when you need. If you have to search or break your head to remember were you kept then I am sure you wont use it again and forget about it.

Here is my small effort to share my ideas on organising things, hope you like it.

Organising is not an easy task to accomplish and maintain unless and untill you know what you have and how much place you have. First and formost i categorised what I have? What are my different hobbies so that I can keep the respective items together. 

My first concern was my embroidery books, clothe( Matti cloth for Kasuti-Karnataka Kasuti which is the traditional embroidery of Karnataka). 

Then came the paper crafting items, items to be organised are more so i categorised them on type like papers, stamps, dies, inks, embellishments. 

In this i kept all my embellishments like sequins, enamel dots in one box. 

All papers in their repective covers and i have plain 12x12 papers from Reena Gupta and for card base and other purpose I buy in local market (get them cut in printing press, score and fold them which saves lot of time and space).

Then came stamps and dies

Selection of pockets - Here the first thing i did was searching for poskets to store them.

I was not at all convinced by the typical stamp storage pockets which many use. They are costly because they are imported. go for imported if you wont get in local market.

I bought 1kg of plastic covers in local market in which i got nearly 150 covers. I sat and made flaps (sounds crazy but not as crazy as spending lots of money on imported stamp pockets) for them as they wont come with ready flaps. These are 9" long covers so you can adjust the height of the cover ;). For most of the dies i used CD covers.

Then came labelling 

Selection of label - I first thought of printing all label on A4 sheet cut them and stick with tixo tape. It didnt work for me. Then i thought of buying label maker but the cost of that and refill made me drop the idea. Then i saw a label sheet on ebay and bought the pack of 100 sheets for 350/- which is lot cheaper(in money wise) than labelling machine and refill. The label is Novajet self adhesive label .

In that i used 84L label. It has instructions inside to type and print labels. I printed labels for dies,stamps, embossing folders.

Ink pads

For ink pads i felt these are perfect labels. If you want you can trim a little bit but they worked fine for me. After attaching labels to ink pads I realised that I forgot to stamp on them with respective colour. So when you want to do this please stamp and them attach. I have not organised them in any particular order. All die, pigments are together exceptions being black n white inkpads.

I have distress mini so i store them in transparent box. along with 4 memento dew drops and few color box chalk inks..

Stamp storage

I was bit worried about storing stamps. Because IF I WONT SEE I WONT USE. So i took this idea from Jennifer McGuiere. I soon realised that the pockets can fit two stamp sets in them. So i placed two sets in one pocket which will help me in future(I already saved lots of space for upcoming stamp sets).  For few stamp sets i trimmed the plastic backing they come with so that they can fit in the cover. The few larger stamps i placed one in one pocket. These pockets are right for big sets like Altenew rose/flower sets too.

For sets which had matching dies i made a red dot on the label itself so that i can make out which set has matching die.

I kept smaller stamps like these in cd cover.

For background stamps i didnt do any packing. I just attached the label on their backing sheet.

Die storage

It was bit difficult to store dies for me. First i used to store them with magnetic sheets. As the collection increased it became difficult for me to look at them because of the weight. Then i switched to CD covers. But there were few sets which needed magnetic sheets for them i am using magnetic sheets.

These are the above stamp covers but i trimmed them to the size of  5x6" so that they can fit exactly to the set.

This is the original size of the cover without any further trimming. For dies like these i use magnetic sheets. But i have only two sets like this.

Embossing folders

For embossing folders i didnt do much as they are strong enough to hold themselves. I put the label and thats it.

That is it. This is my organisation. to sum up every thing. Dies and background stamps in one container.

Stamps and embossing folders in another. 

Hope you liked it. If you liked please comment bellow.

Thank you for being with me till the end.

Swapna

Ink blending – Teacher’s card

Hi friends...

I made these 3 quick cards for teacher’s day. I had to rush a little bit as i was late to make and post them. 

These are 5x7 top folding cards. I selected 3 stencils and applied distress inks by overlapping the colours for smooth transition of colours. With the help of liquid adhesive attached the TEACHER die cut (attached two die cuts to give dimension) on upper portion of card. To make the stencilled work pop added thin strip of black card stock.

Thank you for stopping by

Swapna Patil

Simple almost ONE LAYER CARD

Hi...

Friends...

I made this simple card. Its almost a one layer card.

I used white 4.5x7" top folding card. 

I die cut from a grey card stock and used SSS die for that. With the same die i die cut another heart from red card stock. 

Then i pasted this die cut on the card front with liquid adhesive. Its bit tricky to adhere this delicate die cut so, i used the negative to position the die cut properly and accurately ( hope its straight). Then i pasted the red heart and stamped the message with archival black ink. 

The sentiment was two line but i wanted it to be spaced more. So i first masked the first line with masking tape, inked the sentiment, removed the tape and then stamped. In same way stamped the above line, i also had few small die cut tiny dots and adhered them on bot sides of the sentiment.

And the card is ready.

I am entering this card for Freshly Made Sketch 200 celebration .

Hope you ppl liked it.

thank you for stopping by

Swapna Patil

Diecut inlay

Hi Friends...

Here I am with another card. First of all i want to apologise because its an old card. I was ready with the post and thought have scheduled it for the date but i had not so I am posting now.

I personally love this card just because it is not filled with lots of colour. Its simplicity made me fall for it, even today.

I used heart parade die from SSS for the card. I die cut 5 times to get multiple pieces n saved them. Used one outer frame n one big heart die cut to heat emboss with Ranger gold embossing powder. Then on 2.5*6.5" card base I first adhered the outer frame then stuck all pieces along with the heat embossed heart to give 3d effect. 

Then adhered this panel on a 3*7" top folding card base. 

To give little interest to the card I heat embossed the edges.

Kept the front of card simple n without sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by

Swapna Kulkarni

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