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Hello Everyone!!!! I know I have been absconding from my space...... Which is totally not right.... :( Phew!!!!

At ICR we are back with another colorful & inspiring challenge..... You must see to believe it!!!! It is very truly named as the DHIN CHAK CHALLENGE!!!!! LOL!

Dhin Chak is an Indian slang for something FLAMBOYANT!!!! Something that is rich & showy in terms of colors & dazzle...... Something RAAPCHIK!!!!! Eww!!! I find is word very loud!

Well going ahead with it, here is the challenge pad for you......

Is it not a Chakkas one!!! I'm sure it would tempt anyone to at'tempt' a creation based on the inspiration it oozes..... Just get inspired with anything at all in the photograph, with an additional combo to be taken care of..... You ought to add at least one handmade embellishment on your project..... Simple? Yeah?

Oh no! I had a tough time deciding what exactly I wanted with so much of inspiration in that photograph...... Too much is really too bad, sometimes..... Gets difficult to determine on one thing that you wanna focus on.... Takes a long long time..... & it did..... Took me half a day to finally decide on what I wanted to put down, on my creation..... ;)

Narrowing it down finally, here is my creation......




And I thank,

Sketch Saturday for their Sketch.....
Delightful Sketches for Masking....
Papertakeweekly for Blooms....
StampTV for Focus on flowers....


Prep :

Chocolate CS for the card base....
Green CS for the layers...
Lemon yellow DP in stripes from Itsy Bitsy.....
Golden embossed handmade paper in red from Timeout....
DP with scalloped border print from a scrapbooking kit.....
Ribbons from Itsy Bitsy....
Punched out flowers put together with a brad to make a handmade embellishment.....
Flourish is a big shot die cut....
Roses are from Itsy Bitsy....
Punched out leaf & flower petal.....
Scalloped Octagon cut with Spellbinders & held together with a brad from American Crafts....
It has a message underneath & the brad acts as the hinge keeping both the flaps together.....
Sentiment inside is from PTI.... (Best Wishes)
The Images are stamps from PTI's Round & Round Collection.....




IMP NOTE : We would be posting a video of a project from start to finish for all the following challenges including the current challenge..... Do check it out to be inspired.....

I betcha!!! You should check out all the inspirations from the team & our Guest DT..... Do make your way to their works & check them all out.....

Tejal @ Creative Expressions.....
Sudha @ Crazy Crafter....
Anita our GDT @ Crafting Forever....

Be sure to be inspired..... :)

And do check out the creations that were submitted & which made it to the top, for ICRC2......

That is it for now.....

UNTIL NEXT, KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

ADDITIONALS TO SHARE!!!!

Heelo Peeps!!!! Have not worked on anything in particular as of now..... Have been loitering around a lot..... But had few things that I wanted to share.... So here I am.....

First is a ribbon swap at TLL.... I received my swap just yesterday.. So here they are.... All so yum & appealing..... :)




Are they not tempting.....???? Just looking forward to use them a.s.a.p........



And this is a glimpse of the album I made for one of our fellow crafters...... Had started on it, 4 months back...... There was a lengthy break in between & then sat back to complete it..... Had been almost a month since it was completed, but took a long time to capture it....

Album is themed "Scraps & Swirls".... All the elements I have used on it are scraps from my stash, which had piled up to a great fall..... Waiting for them to be used appropriately..... Hence managed to consume just a small portion of it..... ;)

Started with no idea of scrap books, but now have fallen in love with it..... But yes I'm quite apprehensive of sending it across to her...... Keeping fingers crossed!!!!! Sincerely hope she likes it...... :D

That is it for now.... Will be back soon with some projects..... Lots of love to ALL!!!!

UNTIL NEXT, KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

MARCH ATC SWAPS!!!

Back again..... With the ATCs for March...... The theme for March was again awesome with the celebration of womanhood..... And for me it was really really special as it is my anniversary celebrations.... We completed 9 years of togetherness in a nuptial knot..... & loving it..... :)

So here goes the ATCS for March..... :)




Aah! As u can see, I did a lot of stamping & heat embossing on the card...... Added a scrap from an HDFC communication that was lying around... The woman on their cover... I had received my 'woman's sh! card' from them..... Sentiment on the inside is hand written...... It reads "Why do ya wanna fit in, when u were born to stand out" .....

Mostly I love all the yellow that commands attention..... Yellow is my favorite color... There is something to that color, that does not lemme get enough of it..... The more I see & use, the more I want it in my life..... :D



I like this too, a lot...... 'cuz of all the stamping & embossing again..... I love that gorgeous PTI floral stamp.... And all the colors I could think of stamping it in..... YUMMY!!!! I enjoyed the look thoroughly..... And the sentiment was a RAK from B..... which reads "Ah.... Life grows lovely where u are - Mathilde Blind"





Aah! I forgot to tell u...... All that stamping & embossing on the front, was done over a parchment paper or vellum..... whatever it is called..... & I simply loved what I did as it turned out well on it..... On the first one I just left the overlay open to reveal the inside when opened.... But on the other I adhered it on to the card..... I liked the two experiments which got me to be more confident with using that material on my creations..... :)


ATCs RECEIVED:



This is the Gorgeous ATC I received from Ashmita Das.... Truly feminine!!!! Loved the colors too... looks very mysterious..... Apt interpretation of a woman..... What Say????



And this beautiful creation is from Priya Venkat..... I love it loaded with layers all different from one another.... still confined to another blessing for a woman... her blah blah blahs!!!!! Be it to whoever she confides in, it gets her strong & stress free..... :D



And this was an extra card I received from Rachana for that one card from the Feb Swap, that missed its destination... And this card is from Shubhra... Very girlie with all the colors & flutter.... Thank u so so much sweeties.... :)

That clears all the backlogs as of now..... Will be back soon with some other infos.....

UNTIL NEXT, KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

MY FEB ATC SWAPS!!!!

Hello! Have not been creating much..... Hence thought of clearing the ATC pile up...... SO this post goes with my Feb ATC swaps...

These were the ATCs I made for the February Swaps....... themed Valentine's Day!!!! Which was my favorite too as I was celebrating my 17 years of togetherness with Kuku..... And of the two ATCs I made for the month, my favorite was this.....





As I sat to work on this, thoughts just kept the flow, constant & I was happy the way it was turning out..... This ATC was not just one element but several on the card....

I added some blings & on the BG are all scraps...... Elements in the fore front are all digis..... I managed to create a scene by putting them all together, I picked over the net...... & was determined to use them somewhere when the time demanded its usage...... So they were..... :)

Live Love Laugh ticket is from Sentiments 4 you....
True Love scroll is a part of the digi from Birds Cards....
Gal Boy kiss from Fairy doodler....
Love Village from kreative-art-malwelt....
Wall from Greeting Cards by hand......

I could not thank the digi artists enough for those images & thank my coloring too which enhanced that creation of mine to be one of my favorites.....



This was a simple one as compared to the one above..... Just blings & scraps..... The hearts u can is the center part of an aluminum foil cup from the dominoes, I scooped out for my first mini album..... (will post that soon too)


ATC's I RECEIVED :

Unfortunately the postal dept. lost one of the ATCs that I had to receive in transit..... Waited another month for it to reach me, but still no trace of it..... Guess, I had to get a taste of their treatment too..... :(

But here is the only one I received.... It was from Rachana Patel....... :)




I loved the mini laundry clip with that heart attached..... Was so cool..... Thank u so much..... :)

Will be back soon with my March ATCs too..... :)

UNTIL THEN, KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

TO MOM ON HER DAY!!!!

Hello Everyone!!!! Hope all is well around...... Ya! It had been days together since I posted...... Kuku was away & so was my inspiration..... Now that he is back, I am back to life!!!

It seems like it was just yesterday, when I announced the first ICR Challenge.... But days flew by & it was time for our next bi-weekly challenge..... First challenge went well with quite a lot of contributions playing to the top..... And we had creations racing up to the top... WOW!!!! It was a feast to check them all out..... And I'm sure we would have many more crafters contributing this time, since it is our favorite celebrations..... Celebrating MOM on MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!

And we maintain to have a combo always..... ;) So for the second ICR Challenge it is the usage of DIGIS with the theme Mother's Day!!!! I know it is challenging..... And it was set by our very own Tejal Shah from Creative Expressions!!!! And we have a very well known sponsor amongst us The Stamping Boutique!!!! Tracey from TSB was kind enough to offer the winner 2 digi images from her store, which is so full of yummy designs..... You must use those tempting images on your creations, which gives an extra edge to your creativity..... :) Hope to catch you all at The Indian Craft Room (ICR), contributing those amazing projects you make for your first sweetheart of your life..... Your MOM!!!!!

Well, I made one initially for the Challenge as an inspiration, which to be true, I quite did not like..... {Simply because I Sc***ed the skin tone on the image..... }



That was the reason for me to delay my posting here, as I wanted to create something else to compensate that ROYAL Sc*** Up..... { Forgive my words, but, that was the extent I was frustrated }

So here I am with my new project for MOM & the ICR challenge, which I have fallen in love with.... I love spring colors..... My favorite!!!!




And I Thank.....





ICR Challenge for their Combo Theme.....
Verve at SplitcoastStampers for their Sketch.....
Mix It Up Monday at StampTV for their Spring Colors..... (Photo Inspiration)
Make It Monday at PTI for their impression plat tricks.....
April Diva Dare at Verve Stamps for April Sowers bring May Flowers!




The Prep.....

Brown CS for the base from Fabriano....
Orange CS for the mat & a yellow CS from Fabriano to work on.....
DP is B's RAK from SU!
The Digi image is from OWH Stars and Stamps.....
Colored the digi with my bic markers & paper pieced them to give the image a dimension.....
The Flourish accent is a RAK from B..... I love them.... Very cute!
Sentiment is a PTI stamp from their Round & Round collection.... [ Do not be annoyed, that is the only PTI set I own, hence would see me using the same often ]

***The most important is the work on the card front! Meaning the top layer...... At PTI, we were challenged to use the impression plate/Dies to give the creation an amazing dimension....
I used the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder with my Nestabilities - label Four, last sized die..... And I loved the outcome..... Would do a lot of them on future projects.... :D ***





Well, we have come to the end I guess..... Nothing more as of now..... Do come & play with us at ICR Challenges & Celebrate a very happy Mother's Day with your Mamma!!!! I miss mine! Hoping to see her as soon as possible...... I'm thankful to her for all that she has done for me, to make me the person I am today..... Love You & Miss You!!!!

UNTIL NEXT, KEEP THE FAITH!!!!