Author: Sathya

Mudra’s 1st Birthday & Special Bloghop

~ Sathya ~ 126 Comments

Hello and welcome to our “First Birthday Blog Hop”! 

Yes, Mudra is one year old this month and what an amazing journey it has been so far. 
And this month, we want to celebrate our big milestone with you, because it wouldn’t have been possible without your support. 
We have so many fun things lined up throughout the month with lots of chances for you to participate and win some cool prizes.

We wanted to start the celebration today by bringing together our amazing creative team and few of our friends to share some of their beautiful creations with Mudra products.

We have an amazing line-up of projects that you sure are going to love!


RULES: 

– Follow Mudra Blog
– Like Mudra Facebook Page
– Follow us on Instagram 
– Subscribe to our Youtube channel.
– Visit all the designers’ blog hop post and leave them some love.
– After finishing the blog hop, add your name in the inlinkz in Mudra Blog Hop Post.

PRIZES:

To celebrate, Mudra is giving away a beautiful pack of crafting supplies from Mudra to 1 WINNER, selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop.  You have until Wednesday, March 15th at 11:59 PM IST to enter, and the winners will be announced here on Monday, March 20th.

One Additional Goodie Bag to a random participant sponsored by The Craft Shop, Chennai. 
And to sweeten the deal, some of our designers in the hop also have giveaways, so make sure to leave comments on all the blogs for a chance to win!
    If you have come from Mudra, you are on the right track. You can check out the complete list of participating blogs on the Mudra. 

Now, about my project for this Bloghop!

  • Onto a watercolor cardstock, repeatedly stamped the sentiment happy from Brushed sentiment set and white heat embossed it.
  • Then smoothed Distress inks -Picked raspberry, mustard seed, peacock feathers on to acrylic sheet, misted with water and smoothed that to watercolor paper for interesting bg. Heat set it.
  • Onto watercolor paper, stamped balloons using Stazon inks from Balloons set and clear heat embossed it after fussy cutting.
  • Those are mounted to a vellum sentiment tag.
  • All these mounted onto a kraft cardstock die cutting the panel.
  • Few matching sequins are added to finish off the card.
Would love to send this card to 1 random lucky hopper, who hopped along with us and commented here 🙂

And!!!
A small surprise package too!!!

All you have to do is…

Do follow this blog Paperie Expressions,
FB page – Paperie Expressions
Instagram – @Sathyakala.23

—-***Giveaway Closed—-

Your next stop in the hop is 

The very talented, Deepti Stephens 



Enjoy the lovely blog hop by hopping over to every creation of our awesome DTs and Guest hoppers!!

Happy Hopping Guys!!!!

Smile Mixed Media Canvas

~ Sathya ~ 11 Comments

Hi Friends,

Today my dear little one, is turning 8 🙂

Happy Birthday Adithya 🙂

I made a mixed media canvas to preserve a captured memory..which we took recently. This pic is so special to me as its a timely click and his Awesome smiles.

  • Took 5×7 canvas and white gessoed it.
  • Applied blue shades of Gelatos over the surface and watered down heavily and with tissues took off few to give textured appearance.
  • Applied Lightpaste using TCW tile stencil.
  • Few torn pieces of Papericious pps are layered with burlap and doily for the focal image.
  • Then clustered flowers and leaves with green embossed mdf florishes are added.
  • White and black gesso splatters.
  • Kaisercraft butterflies are stamped on vellum and fussy cut and added to it.
  • Prima Smile resin icon is added to the canvas.
  • TH chitchat stickers are matted with kraft cs and added to the canvas.
  • Heart wood veneers for the final touches.
Hope you like the canvas.

Layered Love card

~ Sathya ~ 12 Comments

Hi Friends!

Today have come with a Layered Love card, made this having few ongoing challenges in mind.

This card made especially using Papericious brand products from India.

I absolutely love My Golden Garden PP stack and was waiting to lay my hands on it. Very Recently my parents sent loads of craft supplies from India, sourcing from various craft stores in India, it was my birthday gifts reached me just few weeks back 🙂

  • Layered the pps from the My golden garden set.
  • Distressed the edges using scissors and stacked on to the 6″ top fold square card.
  • Paper pieced the florals from the same set -Embeliishment kit, matted surrounding a heart diecut, which was made using Brusho – Carmine color, then clear embossed it to make it a pretty focal piece.
  • Few colored, clear heat embossed heart wood veneers, Textured sequins from Papericious, few clear droplets are added for extra touch.
  • The focal sentiment element is a from Papericious Collage sheet.
  • All put together made this beautiful card.

Hope you like it!
Linking to following challenges

Papericious – Expression of love

Paru’s cardmaking challenges

Watercolored Floral card

~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

Hi Friends!!!

Am here today with another floral creation, a card this time. Watercoloring is my recent crush and added to it my calligraphic attempts 🙂 Am enjoying both equally 🙂

Today’s card is especially for the ongoing Altenew Challenge. The current inspiration challenge pic is such lovely and the beautiful colors made me to create this card.

My November Altenew win recently reached me…I have bought few stamps using the GC…One of which is this Oh-So-Beautiful….”Remember this” stamp set.

  • Gold heat embossed the florals and buds onto a watercolor paper and colored using my ever favorite Zig clean color brush pens and watercolored it.
  • Onto a pattern paper, stamped the smaller florals and colored with Faber castle polychromos with a lighter touch, so as to keep the beauty of the pp.
  • The pp is distressed at the edges using the scissors.
  • This pp has a beautiful printed script which faded on the middle and had florals on the corner.
  • The sentiment is such uplifting and i love to continue the same mood with the muted bg and 
  •  a focal using bright florals at a corner.
  • Fussy cut the watercolored florals and added using foam adhesives and few directly on the pp to create a dimension.
  • Stamped the sentiment from the same set and splattered black soot distress ink.
  • Added few clear droplets and matted this onto a A2 sized black top fold cardstock.

Hope you all like this card. Love to hear from you all!

Layered Love Card

~ Sathya ~ 1 Comment


Dear Friends!
“Very Happy Valentine’s Day to all”
Am back today with a  Layered Love card. Was inspired by soft delicate shades and the gold colors and so incorporated it into the card. 
Its a pretty mix of pattern papers with Gold polka dots and bold polka prints. Diecut a front panel and layered over a peach shade pp. 
The focal cluster is mounted on a resin frame with few diecut flourishes, diecut leaves and pretty mix of florals. 
Big bold red resin floral heart added as a pretty addition.
Crocheted lace with a floral cabochon and a white embossed vellum butterfly  are added with a word embellies.
A small wooden tag is distressed and the sentiment is added from Inspired by stamping.
Few clear droplets, peach pearls are added as final touches.
Linking this to the following challenge:
Paru’s card making challenges: Love

Love Mixed Media Canvas

~ Sathya ~ 36 Comments

Hi crafters!!

“Very Happy Anniversary to Us” 

Today is our 9th wedding anniversary and i made this Mixed media canvas and gifted him today. As always…His smile says it all 🙂

Let’s see the procedure:

  • Took 9×6.25″ flat panel canvas and gessoed it, after adding layers of tissues. 
  • Added Plumeria and Key Lime acrylic glazes a wash on the background.

  • Stamped and white heat embossed Sosuzy couple stamp on vellum and mounted onto a corrugated paper strip which was dry brushed with gesso.
  • Stenciling done using Prima light paste with Tile TCW stencil.
  • Few random stamping here there.
  • Timholtz chitchat stickers matted with brown cs and mounted on canvas using foam adhesives. 
  • Floral clusters , crocheted leaves sponged with green stazon, which was primarily a lace, white tulle, pearl strings were added.
  • Prima resin icon, ampersand were added.
  • Few wood veneer hearts and wyacinanka chipboard, Kaisercraft butterflies are stamped on to vellum for all those light airy final touches.

Hope you like this Simple Canvas…I absolutely love making it!

Recently i attended a Brush calligraphy workshop in Dubai, last November…Added those few calligraphic touches too!!

You see…i just can’t miss stamping, coloring, fussy cutting and of course Heat embossing 😀
(P.S: Ignore the apostrophe…i did made changes 😀 )

I just kept all on top of my IKEA chest of drawers, which is a recent addition to my craft space 🙂

That is all from me today 🙂

Linking to the following challenges:

More than words challenge: (Use both “Together” + “&”)

Mixed media warriors : Love

HLS Mixed media challenge: (The brown corrugated backing used, is ripped and used from an old packaging material)

Vintage Journey : Words that are special

Creative Artiste Challenge #23 Mixed media

Craft Stamper Magazine: Anything goes + Stamping

Mixed Media Mojo : Love is in the air (optional element : Wings)

Mixed Media Feb challenge : Stamplorations Stencil sunday

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Spread your wings!!

~ Sathya ~ 5 Comments

Hi Friends,
Made this card for Mudra as part of my DT projects.

  • On to a watercolor cardstock, Gold Heat embossed Butterfly from Beautiful Butterflies as focal element.
  • Sprinkled Brushos of 3 colors (Light brown, Cobalt blue, Emerald green) and sprinkled water using mini mister, around the butterfly.
  • I intended for tricolors but it left me with Rainbow colors!!
  • Heat set the pattern as and when at intervals.
  • Then colored the butterfly using Zig clean color brush pens.
  • Sentiment from Humming birds is stamped just below the butterfly.
  • Mounted this panel onto a black A2 sized card base to finish off the card.
Linking this card to