Set Of 8 Thank You's!

Hello,

Posting in a jiffy :-/

It was time I posted my June ICRSwop.... Both received as well as made to be posted to the receiving partner....

And June Swop was all about Creating a Set of Eight Thank You Cards; All designed same but in eight different colors, with coordinating envelopes for the same...

So to begin with here is what I made.... My Set of Thank You's!



And I was inspired by

Sunday Stamps with Colors....
Stamplorations June Challenge with the Theme & Sketch....



The card above was the first I made, thru which I made derivations for further deviations....

 

Few parts in pieces awaiting to be put together.....

 

 Set of card stocks scored & creased for the card base....

I cut the layering panels in all different colors possibly I cud find in my available stash .... And for the one color I cud not find, I decided on making it myself....

• I burnished the ink pad on the layering panel CS a few number of times to get the color I wanted... 
• After which like on all the other colors, I ran it through the cuttlebug with the leaves embossing folder from Itsy Bitsy hat I had picked up long back.... Finally its used!
• Before embossing I cut the panels in the shape I wanted & saved the plain pieces aside

So here are all the parts set & kept aside.... to be consolidated with the colors & designs, respectively...


 {yeah... :P The new dining table is my crafting table for now until my craft room is all set for me to work in.... Family can eat elsewhere, but i cant work elsewhere... ;)} 

I now had to put them together in the combinations that seemed appealing to my eyes then... which means I love few of the combos whereas few more just seem fine....



This card above is the color CS I made & I combined it with dark chocolate.... which is just fine!



This is my favorite combo of all.... So pleasingly cute!
Stamped with a different sentiment... Ready to wish a birthday for someone sooner.... :)

Now I had to make the coordinating envelopes for the same.... I did not have my envelope stash here with me & had to run to landmark to get some.... But my bad! There were none... However I picked up these lengthy policy envelopes for my perusal..... 

I down sized them to fit my cards in.... Further cut down the parts of the flaps & ran it through the cuttle bug through the same embossing folder as I had to match them with the cards going inside.... The best I cud figure out was embossing the flaps & leaving them with a feel of blend.... 



And here is what they looked like when I put them together to get my final envelopes for the cards....



Below are the other combos for a glance...



 

And here is the beautiful set of cards I received from my swopping partner..... Karthika!

Love the neat & crisp look & feel to the cards.... Thanks a bunch for your dedicated work....

There ends my lengthy well illustrated blog post for this swop project...

UNTIL NEXT, KEEP THE FAITH!!!

Letter Press To Emboss for ICRCSUM02!

Hello,

Finally made a move from where I meandered to to where I meant to dwell.... In Bangalore setting up a new home from scratch.... Its all hectic with so much to b done & sought though not owned; It is defntly my own until am here in this place... So I ought to make it mine till m here....

Exhausted with just no time for anything else.... Shopping setting managing yet seeing things remaining to be looked into sooner....

However with the little I can settle for I managed to find some time to do the second set of DT Insight for ICRCSUM02.... Which was Post Cards inspired by the Poem + Sentiment of your OWN!

So here is my second post card I made for ICR.... I liked it better than what I had made before.... :P

 

Other than being inspired by ICRCSUM02.... 

I worked on the sketch by Freshly Made Sketches....
& Colors by CAS Colors & Sketches.....

 

CS I worked on was from Itsy Bitsy...
& after so many years I finally got to work with the cuttle bug which I had so loved once upon a time in Bangalore..... :* Feels so gud! Thanks to hubby who gave in to my wish of coming back to where I belong without him..... {Love You!}
So tht was an embossing folder from Itsy Bitsy which I had picked up when they had initially started... Which I finally got to use after this long.... It turned out beautiful & am simply loving the possibilities it opened my mind to....
I used my memento bamboo leaves ink pad to smudge d ink on the folder & run it through my cuttle bug thus giving it a faux letter press feel...
Ran another CS in coral thru d same folder but with no ink smudging & cut the round shape with the spellbinders circles die...
Covered the edge with the piece of vellum & doodled on it along with the handwritten sentiment of my OWN!!!!!!!!!! {I love it when I get a chance to play with words..... ;)}



Above is the back of the card for the ICR Post Card ride..... 

Hope u like it & wud b inspired enuff to hop in & play along with us....

UNTIL NEXT, KEEP THE FAITH!!!

Love A Language - ICR Post Card

Hello Everyone,

Its June of the new year 2016... Whoa!
And at ICR its time for another new CoasteRide.... ICRCSUM02.... Again a fun challenge getting you to do what you have not been doing.... :D

Here is the Story Board....

 Getting one to try their one time favorite POST CARDS... with their own hands & mind.... (y)

So here is what I made....

Was inspired by the Sketch from FUSION Something Blue.... 

And to go with that I played with the colors from MFT Color Challenge 46... 

CS for the Post Card from Itsy Bitsy...
Round & Round stamp set from Paper Trey Ink for the back ground... with camlin brush pen in aqua blue....
The eiffel tower in a frame stamp from TPC Studio, Travel World....heat embossed.... with pink embossing powder from Ranger....
And all the whites have been doodled with white gel pen.... on both the sides....
The flower on the side to be addressed is from Round & Round Paper Trey Ink stamp set.... which has been heat embossed white embossing powder....



So that my first post card I ever made till date.... Sooner would make another better one for the second round of DT Projects.... Amen!

So do join in the ICR Post Card Making Fun for this month's CoasteRide.... ICRCSUM02!

UNTIL NEXT, KEEP THE FAITH!!!