Author: Sathya

Floral Heart & Banners : Graciellie Designs

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Hi Friends,

Made a CAS card today using Graciellie Designs Floral Heart & banners digital set. It’s a love at first sight.

  • Printed this gorgeous digi with sentiment onto a watercolor cardstock.
  • Watercolored using Zig clean color brush markers.
  • Shadows and highlights using Prima colored pencils.
  • To create further interest added white gel pen wherever needed.
  • Used gray brown zig marker to add a shadow around the floral heart to make that heart pop against the whole white space.
  • Love the white space much here and so just added few enamel dots as accents near the sentiment.
  • Trimmed and bordered the cs with black cs matting and mounted onto A2 white card base.
Hope you like this!
Visit Graciellie Designs new shop for many new releases. Jan releases Bloghop is underway. Do check here and here for complete infos and do hop along to stand for a chance to win $15 GC.
Happy Crafting!!
Linking this card to

The Card concept  (Bright pinks, black accents, gold metal against a white backdrop inspired my Clean and Layered card)

Love & Friends + Graciellie Designs Blog hop

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Hi Friends!

Welcome to Graciellie Designs blog hop!

Today i have used this digital image set and the designer paper from the releases.







  • Loved this digital stamp set and the new paper pack. Its packed with yummy colors.
  • Colored the image using prisma colored pencils, fussy cut and used over the one of the designer paper from the pack.
  • Added the sentiment in the mid of the image. 
  • This panel is matted on a black cs and matted over the white card base.
  • Added few dark pink enamel dots to finish off the card.
Hop along with us, leave some love at each stop. The winner will get 15$ gift card to our new shop: gracielliedesign.shop


Do visit the new shop and am sure you will love the new additions!




Enjoy Hopping!
Thanks for stopping by!

Live a Little : Floral card

~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

Hi Craftypeeps,

Wishing you a very Happy New year 2019!!

Love what you do and do what you love!!
May you find peace and boundless joy in whatever you set your mind on!

I made a floral card as my first project for 2019. Am a sucker for floral stamps and digital floral images are no exception.

Digital images gives a whole new area for exploring…as they can be resized, flipped, and what not. It gives umpteen options for working on card designs.

  • Printed the Hellebore flower in varying sizes from Powerpoppy’s Heart Abloom digital set.
  • Colored using Prisma colored pencils.
  • Fussy cut and kept aside.
  • Took a smooth blending card and smooshed the Distress oxide: Fossilized amber on a plastic sheet, misted with water and then applied to the card.
  • Randomly stamped the newspaper print stampers using Altenew’s limestone ink. It gives a subtle texture over the inked surface.
  • Splattered distress ink: black soot over the card panel for little more interest.
  • Arranged the fussy cut florals in different dimensions for visual interest and added sentiment from Powerpoppy’s Dynamic duo’s clear stampset on to round wood veneer.
  • Matted this panel to a black cs and then mounted onto a white A2 top fold card base.
  • As a finishing touch, added few grey enamel dots.
Hope you like this!
Thanks for stopping by!

Linking to the following challenge:

MFT card challenges #108

The Twisted challenges: Something old: Bg by ink smooshing technique, Something new: Heart Abloom digital stampset is a new purchase, Something gifted: Fossilized amber Distress oxide is a gift to me by a friend, Something blue: My pencil colored florals are blue 🙂

Favorite Projects of 2018 : Coloring, Mixedmedia , Brush Calligraphy

~ Sathya ~ 2 Comments

Hi Craftypeeps,

Heading towards 2019 and i take up this moment to thank all the souls who took out time to like, comment on my projects over my blog here and in my other social media links.

Your words means a lot to me and that is the driving force into my crafty passion.

Sharing here few of my projects in three different interests as favorite 9s in collages.

First collage showcasing my Coloring interest 🙂

Next is my Favorite 9 projects in MixedMedia / Altered art. This includes Tag, Canvases, MDF, Layouts, Stryofoam, Grapevine wreath and Embroidery hoop

Final 9 projects showcase my Brush calligraphy and Tamil Lettering.

Hope you enjoy as much as i love doing these.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers,
Sathya

Happy Birthday Card: Pencil colored Dahlia

~ Sathya ~ 9 Comments

Hi Friends!

Wishing a very Happiest Birthday to the ones, who share this date with me 🙂

A special birthday wishes to Jasnoor Kaur, my dear crafty friend Jasleen’s little princess and also to my sub-junior friend! Am so lucky to know these souls and its always absolute joy in wishing them “Happy Birthday” on my birthday 🙂 I especially make cards to fill my blog space with birthday note!

And for today,

Made a card using PowerPoppy Dahlia digital stamp. As always, am one big fan of Marcella’s artistic illustrations. Her digis + pencil coloring is my fave go to!

  • Pencil colored this power poppy digi by printing it onto a white cs.
  • After coloring, fussy cut and colored its white edges using Black soot distress marker.
  • The bg is made using Yupo translucent sheet + 3 shades of Alcohol inks – Mermaid, Citrus, Lemonade.
  • The sentiment is directly printed onto vellum and diecut using stitched rectangle dies.
  • Yupo paper is also diecut using same stitched rectangle dies.
  • Its then matted onto white A2 top fold card.
  • The vellum focal panel is topped over the yupo paper in such a way that the organic design of alcohol inks were showing up around the focal image.
  • Few clear dew droplets added as finishing touches.
Hope you like it!
Happy Crafting!
Am linking this to following challenges:
Made this organic look by using alcohol inks on yupo paper.

Diwali cards: Mudra DT Project

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Hi Friends,

Am on Mudra for monthly projects. Made some Diwali cards for today’s post using their newer launches of Diwali dieset, Diya dieset and Diwali stampset.  Paired with earlier Diwali releases too.

Check them out at their blog. Hope you like it!

Play along our current challenge as well as Diwali card making contest too to win awesome Mudra goodies!!

Happy Crafting!

Harvest Blessings Card : Graciellie Designs

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Hi Friends!

Made a mixedmedia Tag today using the digital stamps: Harvest Blessings from Graciellie Designs.

I so loved the free style illustrations and the accompanying beautiful quotes. It screams Autumn!

  • Used a XL chipboard tag for the base.
  • Used geometric stencil and embossing paste for the bg texture.
  • Added White crackle paste randomly for added textures.
  • Misted with blue, brow gray LSG sprays for the base colors.
  • Printed the floral digis in varying sizes, colored them using Prisma colored pencils and fussy cut.
  • The base of the floral clusters made using tinted cheesecloth, black sisal fibers., lace bits.
  • The floral images are mounted around the focal point as the sentiment, which is printed and matted onto black cs and distressed n edges using brown moments ink.
  • For further interests, sequins, art stones, dew droplets, enamel dots were added.
Hope you like it!
Supplies used:

It’s Giveaway Time!!

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***GIVEAWAY CLOSED! GC CLAIMED***

Hi Craftypeeps!

Yay!! Its a giveaway time. Yup! You heard it right. Recently my blog turned 7 yrs and this is my Birthday month…This is one best moment to put a giveaway to the wonderful people out there, who are constantly supporting by their loving likes and comments in my blog and social media networks as well.

Follow the prompts to avail the Giveaway*:

  • Follow my blog.
  • Like my FB page: Paperie Expressions
  • Follow my Instagram : @sathyakala.23
  • Tag your friends whom you think would be interested. (1 tag per comment)
  • Repost (optional) for extra entries in FB/IG with a hashtag (#Paperie_expressionsgiveaway) 
  • Like and Follow my fave brands: LSG, Kit and Clowder, Mudra  (optional)

 4 Winners will be randomly chosen totally on 3.11.2018 and shared via blogpost and Instagram feed.

* Not a sponsored giveaway. Open Internationally.

To my non-crafty friends:

  • A Mixedmedia canvas will be sent along your way 🙂 
 You can jazz up your living room with this as Wall Art/ Home Decor. Comment below and its considered as your entry 🙂  

To my Crafty friends:

  • 25US$ Gift Card from Lindy’s Stamp gang.

  • 1000 INR Gift Card from Mudra, India

  • 15 AUD Gift card from Kit and Clowder

Coloring Challenge:

 This is especially to those who play by linking your card here. Card should focus your coloring skill and to be made freshly for this challenge. If you have not much into coloring, try this as a chance and take out your favorite coloring supplies : Alcohol markers, Watercolor markers, colored pencils and color your heart away.

1 winner will be chosen randomly. You can choose a class of your choice with your GC. Isn’t that awesome…What are you waiting for…Linkz closes by 31st Oct at 12am MET
Create and Link it up here 🙂
Good Luck Guys!

Sending Good Thoughts : CAS card

~ Sathya ~ 4 Comments

Hi Friends!
Happy WCMD! 
Colored this image 2 days before and squeezed some time today to make a base for this florals.
  • Beautiful camellias are Digital images from Powerpoppy and the sentiment is from their clear stamp Rosie’s your way. 
  • Colored the images using prisma colored pencils. Fussy cut and kept aside. Then the focal panel is distressed using Broken china and Fossilized amber Distress oxides and water splashed onto surface for those molting effects. 
  • Sentiment is then stamped using Black archival ink.
  • Colored image then mounted onto focal panel using foam adhesives, matted with a black cs  and then to a white A2 card base. 
  • Few clear droplets used as accents to add interests to the background.

Hope you like it!
Happy Crafting!
Cheers,
Sathya
Linking this to Power poppy Creative confetti challenge: Background check