Every Picture Tells A Story

Hello my dear lovely crafty friends. Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good afternoon to you all. Hope everyone is good and staying safe. 

Welcome back to Scrapping4fun Monthly Challenge and this month our theme for the Challenge is 

Anything Goes but add Lace. 

I have created an mixed media scrapbook layout after a year using the picture of mine with my elder sister, actually it's an old picture. 

Here I have used Little Birdie Crafts papers and Papericious laces.

Hope you all liked it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Materials used -

■ CTC013 Chiplets - CrafTreat.
■ Rainbow Shade Jewel Crystal Stones - Crafters Emporio.
■ Poppies & Rose's Pattern Paper - Little Birdie Crafts.
■ Poppies & Rose's Die Cuts Pack - Little Birdie Crafts.
■ Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Adhesive.
■ Script Stamp Set - CrafTangles.
■ Lace - Papericious.
■ Imperial Red Dye Ink - Tubby Crafts.
■ Sentiment Flimsy Sheet - iCraft. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Created by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

Snowflakes

Hello my lovely  dear crafty friends. Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is good and staying safe. 

Welcome back to My Time To Craft Christmas Challenge and this fortnight our theme is SNOWFLAKES. 

I have created an simple art journal using some snowflakes die cuts. Created the background using Distress Oxides Sprays and did stencilling using Brown Dye Ink and blending foam. 

I used some white scrap paper pieces to to create the snowflakes. 

Hope you like it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe. 

Created by 

Meenaa Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

Gnomes

Hello my dear lovely crafty friends. Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. Here in India its winter season but where I live the weather is like hot, it feels like I'm in mid of summer season. From past few days I was away from social media due to my hand pain, still I'm suffering from that but some how I managed to this journal page for the challenge.

Welcome back to My Time To Craft Christmas Challenge and this fortnight our theme is Gnomes or Elves. I have created an art journal page as my design team inspiration post. 

I have created this journal page only in 15 minutes. 

Hope you like it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more.

 Materials used

● Journal Book - CrafTangles
● Vintage Rosette 3 Element Sheet - CrafTangles
● Shades of Green 1 Journal Sticker - CrafTangles
● Old Script 1 Journal Sticker - CrafTangles
● Aqua Blue Dye Ink Pad - Tubby Crafts
● Tim Holtz Distress Blending Brush
● iCraft Dot Mini Stencil
● Script Stamp Set - CrafTangles
● Artsy Arabia Sticker Sheets - Art by Marlene
● Violet Archival Mini Ink Pad - Wendy Vecchi Ranger

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Created by 

Meenaa Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

My Time To Craft Christmas Challenge

 Hello my dear lovely crafty friends. Welcome back to blog. 

A very warm good evening to you all. Hope everyone is doing well. 

Today I'm back with another challenge at MTTC Christmas blog. This fortnight our theme for the challenge is Poinsettia (Christmas Flowers).

I have created an double page art journal again for this challenge. 

First I coloured my background using dye inks and blended it using distress brush. Next gave texture using stencil and blending brush. To add more texture I stamped here and there using archival ink. Now took few fussy cut images from Mintay Christmas collection and adhered it on the pages. Added sentence on one of the frame to finish it off. 

Hope you like it. Please do leave feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Materials used 

●Sweetest Christmas Journal Cards - Mintay Papers.
●Artists Journal Book - Crafters Emporio.
●Hot Pink Dye Ink Pad - Tubby Crafts.
●Blending Brush - Tim Holtz Ranger.
●Border Stencil - iCraft.
●Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Adhesive. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Handmade by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

Scrapping4fun Challenge #184

Hello my dear lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning in this cold cold weather. Hope everyone is safe at home and doing good. Here the weather is so cold but we don't get any snow here at our place. 

Welcome back to Scrapping4fun Challenge Blog with this fortnight Challenge and this time our theme is

And our lovely sponsor for this challenge is

I have created an double page art journal this time again. These I have been playing with lot of mediums and learning techniques so art journal is the best for that kind of thing and I'm loving it very much. 

● To create this journal pages, I have used brayer for the first time.

● I took 3 colours of  my favourite chalk paint, I started building the layers using light to dark tone and next to more highlight, I came in reverse, from dark to light shades. I was happy how the background turnout.

● To add texture, I used stencil and ink, blended it using blending tool.

● Next using dye ink and script stamp, I stamped on both page and with same dye ink, I did distressing the edges of the pages.

● Now I glued the decoupage cutout and adhered it with liquid glue.

● I took a 4" by 4" stencil to add the sentence and I used dye ink and blending foam.

● Finally I finished the pages by adding few enmal dots.

I hope you like it. Please do leave me a feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

● Materials Used ●

●Little Birdie Crafts Home Decor Collection Matt Chalk Paints - Muted Teal, Teal Tango, Tuscan Teal.
●Ranger Brayer 3 -5/16 Medium.
●Dylusion Small Art Journal Book.
●Little Birdie Crafts - Decomagic Matt Decoupage Glue.
●Honeycomb Stencil - CrafTangles.
●Create Your Stencil - iCraft.
●Chocolate Brown Dye Ink Pad - Tubby Craft.
●Sapphire Blue Dye Ink Pad - Tubby Craft.
●54 Metallic & Enamel Dots - My Minds Eye.
●Pigma Micron 03 Archival Ink.
●Art Clear Designer Dries Clear Adhesive.

Linking to - **Art*Journal*Journey* - Favourite  Things. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe. 

Created by 

● Meena Gauthami Herale ●

A Bedridden Artist 

Scrapping4fun Challenge #177

 Hello my dear lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog.

A very warm good morning to you all. How are you all doing?? Hope everyone is staying safe.

Its friday means new challenge time at Scrapping4fun Challenge blog and this fortnight our theme is

And our lovely sponsor for this challenge is 

Here is my take on the theme using digi by our sponsor,

Again this time I have created an art journal using the digi. First I took 2 shades of blue inks from Tubby Crafts and started to colour my background using Tim Holtz blending brushes. Next gave a black curved border using Distress black ink and finger dabur. Added texture using same inks and iCraft stencil, next did few stamping using Distress oxide Vintage and dot stamp. Now I took my digi print on watercolour paper and coloured it using Altenew watercolour halfpan set and fussy cut it. Next I adhered it on my journal book and added words using alpha stickers.

Hope you all like it and please do leave feedback so that I can improve myself.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe

Handcrafted by

Meena Herale

Bedridden Crafter.

My Time To Craft Challenge

Hello my lovely crafty friend, Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good evening to you all. How are you all doing??

Today I'm sharing a Money envelope which I created after taking an online course. This fortnight our theme for the challenge is Love Me Do.

Here is the money envelope which can be gifted to new married couples, engaged couples.

Here I have used everything from Die Cuts And More. They have awesome critter sheets, dies and we can create a envelope in a minute by there envelope dies. 

In hurry I forgot to add sentiment to it 😁 

Hope you like it and please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself. 

Happy Crafting. 

Scrapping4Fun Design Team Challenge

Hello my lovely crafty friend, welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all, hope you all enjoy your day. 

At Scrapping4fun challenge blog we have a special challenge going on, it's a challenge only for Design Team members and guests Design team members who wish to join this challenge. We got a sketch for the challenge and we have to create any with that sketch so I created an art journal using ink blending technique using 3 types of stencil and 3D floral dies from Altenew. 

I have only 4 colours of inks for blending and for flowers. I have used Crafters Emporio Distressing paper for this, it's like butter on bread doing ink blending on it.

And here is the sketch which we all got for challenge

Please visit our Scrapping4funchallenges blog and please do vote my work, your precious vote can me the winner of this challenge so please vote me dear friends.

Hope you like it and please do leave me your feedback so that I can improve myself 

Happy Crafting 

Happy Little Stampers - ATC Challenge - February 2019

Hello my lovely crafty friends,

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope you all doing fine.

Welcome to the last challenge of this month at Happy Little Stampers Blog. This our ATC challenge theme is 

And here is my ATCs for the challenge,

I have created my background using 2 steps stencils and I have use Happy Mail stamp set. Coloured the stamped images using Altenew watercolour 36 pan set.

Hope you like it and please do leave your comments so that I can improve myself. 

Thank you very much for visiting my blog. 

Happy Crafting.

Addicted To Stamps And More - Challenge #325

Hello my lovely crafty friends,

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is enjoying the new year month still.

Today I'm sharing a card which I made for my DT inspiration for Addicted To Stamps And More Weekly challenge. This week our theme is PHOTO INSPIRATION.

I got inspired by the LOVE word and few colours and here is my card,

First I took a A2 side fold card base and fold it half in the centre. Next stamped Heart balloons in 3 different inks and fussy cut it. Adhere a heart pattern paper on my card base. Took a white card stock and adhere pattern paper on it. Next adhere some lace under the white panel and adhere heart balloons on it using foam tape. Nest adhere this panel on the card base and stamped my sentiment. 

Materials used -

Ruby red cardstock, white cardstock - CrafTangles

All For Love pattern paper - CrafTangles

Love Stamp - Mudra

Tubby Craft Inks

I hope you like it. Do leave your comments so that I can improve myself more.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog.

Happy Crafting.

Addicted To Stamps And More - Challenge #323

Hello my lovely crafty friends,

A very warm good morning to you all. How are you all doing??

Today I'm back with the first challenge of this year at Addicted To Stamps And More Challenge Blog.

This week our challenge theme is

And here is my card for the challenge,

I took a beilo card stock, placed my stencil and started to add colour using blending tool. Stamped Poinsettia on beilo card stock and fussy cut  it. Adhered these Poinsettia on stencilled cardstock. Next took A2 card base and adhere  this panel on it  and finished it with sentiment and blings.

I hope you like it. Do leave your comments so that I can improve myself more.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog.

Happy Crafting.

My Time To Craft Challenge #385

Hello my lovely crafty friends,

Good afternoon to you all. How are you all?? How is the weather at your place??

Its last day of this month and we are at year end. Today I am sharing a CAS card which I created for My Time To Craft blog. This month our theme is CAS card with one layer.

And here is my card for the challenge,

2 steps stencil card

I took a A2 size card and did ink blending using 2 steps stencilling and added my sentiment in the centre. Here I have used Craftreat stencil and Mudra stamp. Added gems in the centre of the flowers. I used blending brushes and Tubby Craft ink for blending.

Hope you like it and please do leave your comments so that I can improve myself. 

Thank you very much for visiting my blog. 

Happy Crafting.

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes With Dies - November 2018

Hello my lovely crafty friends,

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is doing fine.

Today I am sharing my Happy Little Stampers DT post. This is our 5th challenge of the month and it is,

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop. Check the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

I have created few embellishments this time,

Coffee Embellishment

Creating embellishment is the best way to use your paper scraps. I have used Lawn Fawn paper bits. Die cut the every pieces and adhere it using glue and foam tape.

I added flowers, word beads, bee and lady bug to embellish it.

Hope you like it and please do leave your comments so that I can improve myself. 

Thank you very much for visiting my blog. 

Happy Crafting.

Addicted To Stamps And More - Challenge #299

Hello my lovely crafty friends,

A warm good morning to you all. How are you all doing??

Today I am sharing few which I made as my DT creation for Addicted To Stamps And More Challenge blog.

This week our theme for the challenge is

Here are my cute monster cards,

Monster Cards

•  First I stamped the monsters on watercolour paper and coloured it with zig brush pens and fussy cut it.
•  I took 3 pieces of Bielo cardstock and did centre blending using stencils and inks. Here I have used Tim Holtz blending brushes to blend the colours. Its an awesome tool for blending and I am in love with it.
•  Next I die cut these cardstock using stitched rectangle dies. Next I adhere my cute monsters in the centre using foam tape.
•  I stamped the sentiment using versafine black ink.
•  I adhere this bielo cardstock on black cardstock and next adhere these on card base. 

Material list -

Bielo cardstock from The Craft Shop,

Black, Ruby Red and Seafoam cardstock from CrafTangles,

Tangy Orange and Lemon Yellow inks from Tubby Craft,

Worn Lipstick, Fired Brick, Broken China and Cracked Piatachio Distress Oxides from Tim Holtz,

Blending Brushes from Tim Holtz,

Crazy Monsters stamp set from Mudra,

Ornamental Lace, Round Lace and Braid pattern Stencil from CrafTangles,

Black and New York Yellow envelopes from Letz Craft,

Zig Color Clean Real brush - Set of 48.

Hope you like it and please do leave your comments so that I can improve myself. 

Thank you very much for visiting my blog. 

Happy Crafting.

Addicted To Stamps And More - Challenge #298

Hello my dear crafty friends,

A very good morning to you all. How are you all doing??

Today I am sharing 2 cards which I made for Addicted To Stamps And More DT post. This week our theme is

And here is my cards,

Card - 1

•  I took a A2 Neenah solar cardstock and secure it using blue tape and place my stencil over it using again blue tape.
•  I started to add colours using dauber and tubby ink and memento ink.
•  Once I was happy with the apply then I trim it little smaller then cardbase.
•  For cardbase I used CrafTangles cardstock Ruby red and I adhere the stencil paper on it.
•  For sentiment I have used Santa and Friends stamp set. Finished it off by adding enamel dots. 

Card - 2

•  I took neenah solar white cardstock and secured it with blue tape and placed my stencil on it using blue tape.
•  I started to add colours using dauber and tubby inks. After colouring I fussy cut it.
•  Took a A2 cardbase and adhere the fussy cut paper on it and stamped my sentiment in the middle.
•  Finished it off by adding enamel dots.

Materials list -

Neenah Classic Crest - Solar White CS 80lb from Letz Craft,

Lace Reloaded stencil from CrafTangles,

Memento Cottage Ivy ink,

Imperial Red, Light Pink & Hot Pink inks from Tubby Craft,

Ruby Red cardstock from CrafTangles,

Enamel dots from Letz Craft,

Santa and Friends stamp from Mudra.

I hope you like it. Do leave your comments so that I can improve myself more.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog.

Happy Crafting.

My Time To Craft Challenge #372

Hello my lovely crafty friends,

Good evening to you all. How are you all doing??

Welcome back to new challenge at My Time To Craft blog and this time our theme is Holidays.

I have created few Christmas cards using stencil. I have created 4 cards using one stencil in different techniques.

4 cards one stencil

Its a bit long post so grab your coffee and enjoy the post.

Card - 1

Ink Blending

1.  First I took Neenah Classic Crest- Solar white paper and adhere it on my work sufrace using blue tape.
2.  Next placed my Snowflakes stencil on it and secured it with blue tape.
3.  Using dauber and Sapphire Blue ink I stated to add colour on it.
4.  Next  I took Paris Pink A2 size card base and folded it into half.
5.  Next I added sentiment on vellum using Versafine ink and Black embossing powder.
6.  I adhere the blended paper on pattern paper. Next I added this vellum strip on top of it and secured it behind the pattern paper. 
7.  Next I adhere this on card base and finished it off by adding sequins.

Card - 2

Gold Embossing Paste

1.  I took Ruby Red cardstock and secured it blue tape, next secured the same stencil using blue tape.
2.  Next I applied the gold embossing paste and let it to dry. Tip- clean the stencil immediately under running water.
3.  Again I took Paris Pink A2 cardstock and folded it into half. I took pattern paper from JN Nov-Dec collection and cut it little smaller then the cardbase.
4.  Next I trimmed the ruby red CS little smaller the pattern paper and adhere it on JN pattern paper little cross.
5.  Next I added sentiment on vellum using Versafine ink and Gold embossing powder.
6.  Next I added this vellum strip on top of it and secured it behind the pattern paper.
7.  Next I adhere this on cardbase and finished it off by adding sequins.

Card - 3

Loose Water Colouring

1.  Took Brustro watercolour paper and secured it with blue tape and next did same with stencil.
2.  Added texture paste on it and let it dry. 
3.  Next I spray the watter on it and started to added colours using Metallic accents.
4.  Next I took pattern paper from JN Nov-Dec and trimmed it little smaller then the card base and trim the watercolour paper little smaller then then the PP.
5.  I took Oxford Orange A2 cardstock and folded it into half.
6.  Next I added sentiment on vellum using Versafine ink and liquid platinum embossing powder.
7.  Next I adhere this on cardbase and finished it off by adding sequins.

Card - 4

Glitter Paste

1.  First I took Neenah Classic Crest- Solar white paper and adhere it on my work surface using blue tape, next secured the stencil with blue tape.
2.  For this card I have used glitter paste from BoBunny and let it to dry.
3.  I took Gaza Grey A2 cardstock and folded it into half. 
4.  I trimmed pattern paper little smaller then the cardbase and glittered paper little smaller then the pattern paper.
5.  I added sentiment on vellum using Versafine ink and Silver embossing powder.
6.  Next I adhere this on cardbase and finished it off by adding sequins.

Materials used-

Paris Pink, Oxford Orange, Gaza Grey cardstock from Letz Craft,

Snowflakes stencil from Craftangles,

Sapphire Blue ink from Tubby Craft,

Knit Picky paper pack from Lawn Fawn,

Neenah Classic Crest- Solar white 80lb,

Vellum 180gsm from Papericious,

Black embossing powder from Hero Arts,

Versafine ink,

Sequins from Madras Bazzar, Papericious, Craftanngles,

Dreamweaver Gold Embossing Paste,

Gold embossing powder, Liquid Platinum, Silver powder from Ranger,

JN Nov-Dec pattern paper from Prima,

Metallic Accents watercolour from Prima,

Brustro Watercolour paper 200gsm,

Blueberry glitter paste from BoBunny.

I hope you like it. Do leave your comments so that I can improve myself more.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog.

Happy Crafting.