Altenew Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

March 1, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 69 Comments

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew’s Build-A-Flower: Semi- Double Chrysanthemum Release Bloghop!

Am a sucker for flowers and Absolutely love Altenew’s varied range of products right from their brand launch. I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from talented, Rachael Shedeed’s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have created a card today using Altenew Semi Double Chrysanthemum set.

Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum Product Description:

Love and flowers don’t need to be perfect, but these gorgeous florals come very close to perfection!

This layering stamp set features a beautiful 4-layer chrysanthemum and three 3-layer leaves to add to your handmade cards, scrapbook layouts, bullet journal pages, and other DIY paper crafting projects.

The Build-A-Flower: Semi-Double Chrysanthemum special edition stamp and die set is only sold as a bundle. It includes one 6″ x 8″ clear photopolymer stamp set (16 individual stamp images) and one coordinating die set (4 dies).

To create my card, I first stamped solid image of flowers followed by using second and third images, which are detailed layers. I used the Summer Afternoon mini ink cube set for the flowers. And then they were die cut using co-ordinating dies.

I did two such flowers and diecut using their co-ordinating dies and kept aside.

The green leaves are also from Semi-Double Chrysanthemum set, which were stamped onto white cardstock using Green Fields mini dye ink cube collections. They were also die cut using co-ordinating dies.

The sentiment ‘Love’ is gold heat embossed on black cardstock and fussy cut it to give a defined look. The second part of sentiment is gold heat embossed onto a black cardstock strip.

Finally for the background, took Altenew Classy strips stencil and embossing paste and created a partial stencilling to give a subtle texture to the card.

Then added Brusho – Lime green color pigment onto a watercolor cardstock, to create the organic styled background on the stenciled areas. Left to air dry and trimmed the focal panel.

Matted this focal panel onto A2 sized black Top fold cardbase using foam adhesives.. Then arranged the flowers and leaves to get a desired look. Popped the fussy cut sentiment and sentiment strip as shown above using foam adhesives.

Finally added some black enamel dots to finish off the card.

And now for the most exciting part : Giveaway!

Giveaway Prizes

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 03/07/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 03/09/2021.

Blog Hop List

The next hop in this blog hop is the Talented, Seeka

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Seeka

Terri Koszler

Verity Biddlecombe

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you were inspired by my work and will try out Semi Double Chrysanthemum set.

Have a great week everyone!

Happy Birthday Card : Stamplorations

February 26, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

Hiya Crafters,

Made a floral birthday card for today. Used a brand new Brustro Colored pencils, from Creative Hands. These are proudly Made in India Wax based pencils.

I started my coloring with Bi colored pencils from Faber castell, then upgraded to 24 pencils of Polychromos. I felt so fortunate when my DH gifted me Polychromos 120 set + Prisma colored pencils 132 set for my 2017 Birthday. And then there is no looking back 🙂 My experiments with it are still continuing.

With regard to this new in town Brustro Colored pencils, it convinced me so much with it’s wide range of colors especially with Greens. The soft core wax based pencils gives rich color tones and work wonderfully for shading and blending. If you are yet to own Poly or Prisma, this 75 pencils set can be a great investment in testing Wax based pencils and can grow your coloring interest with this.

And…Over to my card for today 🙂

Stamped Stamplorations Blossoms Sprays#3 from Dee’s Artsy Impressions using Antique Linen onto a white cardstock.
Colored using New Brustro Colored pencils from Creative Hands .
Sentiment from IBS (a retired stamp )company using Mudra Jet black ink.
Trimmed and mounted this focal panel onto a Cairo Cream Top Fold A2 cardbase.
Few clear dew droplets are added as accents.

Hope you like it!

Happy Stamping!

Linking this to following challenges:

Time out challenge “Happy Birthday TO Team”

Forever in Love – Altenew – Floral card

February 17, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 3 Comments

Hi Friends,

Am here with a floral card and tried Negative Painting for the first time. Yesterday, Emily Midgett ‘s Altenew blogpost inspired me a lot. She generously shared her knowledge and immensely inspired me to give it a go today, as I was too intimidated to try this technique.

She focused on Negative painting and a contrast paler/muted/ floral spray. But I tried this with current Altenew challenge colors .

Over to my card,

Stamped roses from Altenew Forever in Love stampset onto watercolor paper using Antique Linen.
Watercolored the whole painting using Bright palette of Jane Davenport Watercolors.
Splashed generously white acrylic paint.
Stamped the sentiment from Altenew Beautiful day stampset.
Trimmed and matted over a A2 sized top fold Black cardbase.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking this to

Altenew Feb challenge

Uniko Challenge:

Uniko’s Birthday Challenge:

Hugs & Kisses : Uniko Floral card

February 11, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 6 Comments

Hiya Friends!

Am loaded with Guest Designing projects for next month and so squeezed in a bit of time for my personal project to play along few challenges in Blogland.

Over to my project,

Absolutely love pencil coloring as much as I love watercoloring. I love to experiment with different mediums and this peony bud was one of my favorite from Uniko stamps. I was using the large peony floral many a times and neglecting this small peony and today was the perfect time to do Pencil coloring with Prisma colored pencils.

Stamped on a fine grain watercolor cardstock using Antique Linen to do a online coloring using prisma colored pencils.
Colored using various shades of pinks and greens of Prisma colored pencils.
Splattered white acrylics over the floral liberally.
Stamped the sentiment from same stampset using Mudra Mai Jet black ink pad.
Matted over a black cardstock and then to a kraft A2 cardbase.
Few clear dew droplets and paper pieced butterflies to finish off the card.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Linking this to

Uniko Birthday challenge

Uniko Challenge: #63

Bloom in Love : Guest Designer : The Flower Challenge

February 4, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 24 Comments

Hi Crafty peeps,

Am excited to be Guest Designer today at The Flower Challenge.

Thanks SO much Viv and TFC Team for giving me this lovely opportunity.

The theme for this month is “Use your latest Stamps or Dies” with Flowers as Focus.

Over to my card for today!

Got my first ever MFT stamps during last year end sale. Used here is the MFT Fresh cut florals cling rubber stamp.

Stamped using DI Antique Linen onto Canson Montval 300gsm watercolor paper.
Colored using Daniel smith Watercolor dot cards.
Fussy cut and generously splashed white acrylic paint.
Mounted this fussy cut floral on the diecut panel.
Matted this over Grey A2 sized cardbase.
Stamped the sentiment.
Added few grey enamel dots for the added interest.

Hope you are inspired enough to play along the challenge. Check the TFC blog for the Designers’ inspirations.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Linking this to following challenge:

HLS Feb Watercolor challenge

Uniko Challenge : Anything goes

Enjoy Little Things : Power Poppy

February 1, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 3 Comments

Hi Friends!

Made a card today using a digital stamp , Trumpet Vine Visitor from Power Poppy.

This Trumpet vine digital took me back to my cherished childhood memories. We have a huge Honeysuckle Vine trellis in my garden. It’s bright inflorescence is such a sight to watch in our Indian Summer for its beauty of vivid reddish orange flowers filled with Bees and butterflies.

I framed the beautiful sentiment with florals in a delightful way. It’s one of my favorite quote from the Wildflower Mini digital stampset .

Over to my card,

Printed the vine onto a watercolor cardstock with grayscale to attempt No line watercoloring using Karin Brushmarkers Pro.
Topped the watercoloring with Prisma colored pencils for the shadows.
Matted the panel onto a black cardstock and topped over a card, bit larger than A2 sized cardbase.
Few clear dew droplets are added as accents.

Hope you like it!

Happy Crafting!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking this to following challenges:

HLS Feb Watercolor challenge

Uniko Challenge : Anything goes

Always Believe – Uniko -Floral Peony

January 23, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

Hi Friends,

Made a card using my favorite Peony from Uniko Studio.

Watercolored using my new Karin brushmarkers Pro.

Over to my card,

This time tried some loose watercoloring style. The organic styled bg is made using acrylic block and watered down inks.
Stamped Uniko Peony using Antique Linen DI onto Canson Montval Watercolor paper.
WaterColored using my new KarinMarkers Pro.
Splattered white acrylic liberally over the finished piece.
Trimmed the edges to fit A2 sized cardbase.
Stamped the sentiment from Uniko Spring Botanical Daffodil stampset.
Matted onto A2 sized top fold Kraft cardbase.
Added few clear dew droplets as accents to finish off the card.

Hope you like it!

Happy Crafting!

Linking this to

Uniko Challenge : Anything goes

Time out Challenge : You (Coloring is Art Therapy for me)

Stamplorations CAS Challenge: Anything CAS goes

Kindness : Floral card

January 22, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 7 Comments

Hiya Crafty peeps,

Back here again with a floral card. Current challenges in blogland inspired me to do today’s card.

Made use of a new Sizzix Embossing folder : Botanicals, a birthday gift from my dearest crafty pal, Jasleen.

Tried watercoloring over it, as I absolutely love the way the colors bleed and blend on Watercolor cardstocks.

Karin markers are my birthday gift from my DH and this card demanded using it. It’s so magical to see the way it works beautifully on Canson Montval watercolor paper.

It’s my first time watercoloring over Embossing folder.

Over to my card,

Dry embossed the watercolor cardstock using Sizzix Botanicals Embossing Folder.
Watercolored it using my new crafty stash addition : Karin markers. Love using it!!
Added white paint splatters over the panel.
Trimmed to fit A2 sized top fold cardbase.
Added the Hero Arts Kindness sentiment vellum strip over the embossed panel.
Mounted onto black A2 sized cardbase.
Few clear dew droplets added as accents.

Hope you like it!

Linking these to following challenge:

Time Out Challenges: You : My Love for Flowers, Watercolors, Spreading Joy through my Art defines me much.

Aud Sentiments Challenge: Anything goes + Sentiment

Color Crazy challenge : Anything goes ( Colored with Karin markers)

The flower challenge: Embossing Dry /Wet (Dry Embossed using Embossing folder)

Happy Crafting!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope : Jane’s Doodles

January 7, 2021 ~ Sathya ~ 8 Comments

Hiya Crafters,

Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2021.

Am sharing my first post for this year. As always, Love watercoloring and Love floral stamps.

Recently Jane’s doodles had drew a digital stamp to raise money for the Earthquake struck areas of Croatia. Kindly check their website and extend your generous help towards the noble cause.

I did my part of buying this digital stamp called Hope and gonna spread the word as maximum as I could by my card making and watercoloring.

Over to my card,

Printed the digi on Canson montval watercolor paper.
Colored using Daniel smith watercolors.
Fussy cut and kept aside.
Took a Grey A2 sized cardbase.
Topped with a white panel which was stenciled with Wendy Vechi Embossing paste using a TH stencil flourishes.
Splattered the left over paints over stenciled paste once dried.
Added the fussy cut florals using Foam adhesives and adhesive tapes for dimension.
Splattered generously with white acrylic paint.
Added few clear dew droplets as accents.
Took TH small talk and added to white strip and mounted on the card panel using foam adhesive.
This panel then added to the cardbase to finish off the card.

Hope you like it!!

Happy Crafting!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking this card to the following challenges:

HLS January Stencil Challenge

(Used here TH flourishes stencil)

HLS Watercolor challenge

Stamplorations Jan Stencil challenge: (Used TH flourishes stencil)

Favorite projects of 2020

December 30, 2020 ~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hi Craftypeeps,

Heading towards 2021 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 different interests as favorite 9s in collages.

First collage showcases my WaterColoring interest 🙂