Lilypad

Welcome to the Ink it! Stamp it! Blog Hop. This month we will be sharing projects inspired by the launch of the new catalogue. The full line up below will guide through all the projects and we'd love to hear from you on what your favourite products are in the new catalogue? 

The product that i have chosen to showcase from new catalogue is the Lilypad stamp set, its also available as a bundle with matching thinlit dies. Here I made a very simple window frame card, using one of the images from the stamp set. The lilypad image on its own is very little but when stamped multiple times, it can really have a big impact.

Material you will need for this project are the following:
Cardstock (very vanilla, powder pink, whisper white)
Vellum
White embossing powder, embossing buddy, heat gun, versamark inkpad
stampin blends (alcohol markers)
Embalishment of your choice (here I've used artisan pearls, and whisper white polka dot ribbon)

I first cut out the window frame, measuring with a ruler and cutting out using a craft knife for precision cutting. Once i had he frame, i cut the vellum paper same size as the frame. I then embossed the lilypad images multiple times on the velum with white embossing powder. Once embossed, I simply coloured in the image from embossed side of the image. This step helps to create a stain glass effect, which is quite lovely i think.

Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you'll join us again next month to see our Technic themed projects. I'm Irene Rahman and to keep hopping around see the list below to see who is up next.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, hope you have enjoyed browsing through my projects and found some inspirations. If you like what you see, please leave a comment or two below, or simply click on one of the reaction buttons to let me know what your thoughts are about my creations. I value your opinion and I am always looking to improve my craft through constructive feedback from my guests/readers. I am also looking to expand my audience base, so please feel free to share my creations within your social network circle.

Ink it! Stamp it! Blog Hop: HOLIDAY CATTY

Welcome to the Ink it! Stamp it! Blog Hop. This month we will be sharing projects inspired by our Holiday Catty, which is filled with awesome new product. The full line up below will guide through all the projects and we'd love to hear from you on what your favourite Holiday Catalogue products are and would love to see some of the projects you have created for Christmas this year.

I have decided to use the Hearts of Home stamp set and the Hometown Greetings edgelits dies for my project today. It is what I call an epic card, in the sense that it took me almost two hours to complete just one card. what should have been a simple card with layers of dies stuck on top of each other. But it certainly did not seem that way to me. 

There are a number of reason why this was an epic card:

• I coloured in the houses, trees and the snow man
• I decided to add lights in the windows which meant that i had to make a template of each houses and cut out a second house in yellow card stock and stick it in the back of each house 
• Of course i had to add some snow, using the embossing paste, I added chunks of snow on the ground, on rooftops and on the trees,

Despite how long it took me to make this card, I quite like how it turned out. It was so worth the time and effort put into this project. I hope you also like what I have created.

Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you'll join us again next month to see our (next theme) projects. I'm (your name) and to keep hopping around see the list below to see who is up next.

Eid-ul-Adha 2017

Eid-ul-Adha is the second celebration in the Islamic calendar, approximately about two months and ten days after Ramadan Eid, which is known as Eid-ul-Fitr. Eid-ul-Adha is known to be the greater of the two, it is also known as the feast of Sacrifice.

My family and I along with the Muslim communities in Australia, celebrated Eid-ul-Adha last weekend. In preparation for the day, I started to make my Eid cards couple of weeks ago. Some of you may recall my post about Eid cards I made for Ramadan Eid with the Eastern Beauty suite of products. This time I have used the 'Night In Bethlehem' bundle  together with 'Eastern Palace Designer Series Paper'. Night In Bethlehem bundle is from the new Holiday catalogue

I am mindful that this backdrop of Bethlehem was probably never intended to be used as a scene for Eid celebrations. But given that both religion shares the same origin, I think this works well for Eid cards as well as Christmas cards. For example, if i had used the images of the Shepherd and the Crib and the large Star on the same design, it would more like a Christmas card. But without those images, its just a Middle-Eastern town, which is perfect for a Eid Card. I have used the Night Sky from 'Card Front Builder Thinlit Dies' to create the silhouette of a night sky in the Mediterranean.  

I attended a craft class by my good friend Carolina Evans, where we did fun fold cards, and ever since then, I have been playing around with various fun fold techniques. I have done an 'Z' fold card before but not one that cascades down like this own. I just love how it turned out, especially considering I had no idea what I was doing. I just kept building it up as I went , until it became so thick that I could hardly close it. Then I said to myself 'maybe I should stop'.

In the inside, I carried on with the same backdrop, and more of the same night sky.

For the second and the third Eid cards, I used the 'Bridge Fold' technique. There are plenty of recipes on this technique on Pinterest, if you're interested to know how to make one. Its a 3D card, allowing to create a background and a foreground. Here I have used the sames images as the background and foreground,  increasing the density of the buildings. But they work just as well when they are different.

I have used paper from the Eastern Palace suite of products, giving it more of a middle-eastern vibe. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today, hope you have enjoyed browsing through my projects and found some inspirations. If you like what you see, please leave a comment or two below, or simply click on one of the reaction buttons to let me know what your thoughts are about my creations. I value your opinion and I am always looking to improve my craft through constructive feedback from my guests/readers. I am also looking to expand my audience base, so please feel free to share my creations within your social circle.