Pink and blue..

Hi!! Made the above cards for digidoodleshopsbest pink and blue challenge.The first card is made mostly from stuff I received  from Asha and Rachana and Sasya..In Ash's candy I won these AMAZING papers..soooo pretty and lots of them..the beautiful embossed paper is from that candy..The AWESOME pink ribbon is from Rachana who sent me loads of wonderful stuff..just love the ribbon!And the butterfly is from Sasya's RAK..that I covered with sequins.The following card is from Spardha..such a wonderful card..love it!She sent me some really cute stuff including crocheted flowers and silhouette cutouts..thanks so much sweetie for taking time out of your busy schedule and putting together such sweet stuff for me!!

Have a great day you all!!

I'm back!!

Hi !!I'm back in India and it feels great to be back home!!Hope you all have been great. 

I finally got my bigshot which was lying in hubbie's office in the U.S I was absolutely thrilled to use it considering how long I was pining for it!I sat down to make this card for a few challenges.Making a card after a long time was a bit difficult..ideas weren't flowing that easily :-)

I used my fav stamps Hero Arts designer woodgrain and friend definition..and did resist embossing for the very first time using distress inks.I have made the card for the following challenges:

1)cardpatterns-sketch 114

          2).claudiaandcompany-butterflies

3)jac-inks-heat embossing

    4)sweetstampsblog-butterflie

5)lexiscreations- friendship

Hope to be making cards more often now..thought the heat here is bad and  my body clock has gone haywire..I sleep mostly during the day and am awake all night!!Hope this improves soon!!

Have a great day!!

Hello from Sunny Florida!!

Hi dearies!
It's been so long since I have blogged..and I'm sorry for being a lousy blogger..and thankyou for still following me ...really..thankyou so much!Just to let you know where I am and what I'm upto..
I'm in the lovely city of Fort Lauderdale in Florida with hubby who had some business meetings to attend..it's a beautiful place and is known as the Venice of America with its lovely canals and waterways..
Well I do walk around a bit during the day but rest of the time I'm in my hotel room and mostly checking out your blogs..so do keep posting because I love checking out your creations since I can't do much of crafting myself  :-( and you have no idea how much I miss it!

Well I ordered some stuff from Simonsaysstamp and I am sooo impressed...I absolutely love them!!I ordered on thursday 21st and my stuff was here on monday the 25th!!! I finally have my Hero artts-friends definition stamp and cute Peny black critters yay!!!leaving you with some pics.Have a great day!!

An Art-card

Heya!!
I'm back after a week and this time I've again been inspired by Cardpatterns sketch 107! I am very happy today because I loved making this card , every bit of it because I got to combine my two big passions..card-making and art!!I love painting with soft pastels..I love how you can blend them with your fingers and how the picture looks almost like an oil painting without the effort of an oil painting!I made the painting of a bunch of tulips (copied from a book on pastel paintings) on pastel paper and made the frame with icecream sticks.I used papers and black twine sent to me by dearest Asha..did a bit of distressing with white paint around the edges..and used a brad to hang the painting!Hope you like the card ....have a great day!

Card Patterns sketch 106

Hi dearies!!
Hope you are all doing well..

Here's a card I made yesterday for card patterns sketch 106. I started out with something in mind and ended up with something quite different!It may be because I've been so out of touch for some time now :-(My  mojo is slowly returning  and I seriously hope to make more cards regularly..Here are the pics of the awesome candy I won from Asha..I squealed in delight when the huge box was delivered to me!Thanks so much Asha!

SS-52

Hi dearies!
I sat down after a looong time to make this card inspired by the sketch at sasya-sketches sketch 52 , toptiptuesday challenge (use your fav embellie and /or a technique-mine being handmade flowers ) and digitaltuesdaychallenge (they have a celabratory blog hop going on as well so do hop over to their blog!)
The flower is handmade from duplex paper and I have my fav butterflies on it!The DP is a digital paper that I had downloaded ages ago.

Secret sweetheart swap

Hi guys!
This is a picture of the wonderful package I received from Rachana a few days back as a part of the secret sweetheart swap organised by Indianstampers blog.She sent me a really sweet hand-written note too..I was thrilled to receive her lovley package!!Thanks soo much Rachana you are really very very sweeet!So the secret sweetheart swap was so much fun and quite a success too!Kudos Indianstampers blog for this wonderful event!

Show some love...

Hi dearies! Hope you're having a nice day!It's so bright and sunny here in Hyderabad..doesn't seem like January at all..I dread to think how summer is going to be if this is how hot it's getting already!Please do check my previous post for two blog awards I have passed ..

I made this card today for the following challenges..

wee memories challenge 41 and simonsaysstampandshow-some- love 

Have a great day!

Passing on some awards..

Hi lovelies!!! My dear friend Mansi has passed this award to me and the idea is to award unknown blogs
In accepting the award I have had to agree to the following conditions;
1) You have been tagged, do you want to accept? YES! then create a post on your blog and post the love blog photo.
2) Link back to the person who gave you the award and say if you accept.
3) Choose 3-5 of your favourite blogs to tag, link these in your post too and tell the lucky people they have been tagged.
As the aim of this award is to bring unknown good blogs to light, please don't tag somebody with 3000 followers
I pass this award on to:
Asha
Spardha
Anita
Kavitha
Sudha
Tejal



I received this award from Kavitha and I have to pass it on to 8 others also telling you 8 things about myself:
1)I love to learn new languages but am pathetic at it ..and give up easily
2)I love to travel and visit new places.
3)I have learnt singing hindustani classical in my childhood.
4)I love all forms of crafts and try to learn new things..
5)I read books occassionally my favourites are gone with the wind and a suitable boy.
6)Pink is my fav color of all time
7)I hate routine :-(
8)I like to bake once in a while.

Asha
Spardha
Mansi
Anita
Sudha
Tejal
Kishley
Sudha

Asha Ki Kiran (A ray of hope)

Hi All!
Hope you remember me!! This is such an apt title for this post  and it is dedicated to my dear friend  Asha ..well I dunno how to start but let me try..it's been almost a month since I've been back from my break...my brothers wedding went really well..all the ceremonies were beautiful..and totally enjoyed myself.Well after getting back ..I just couldn't get back to card-making..my mojo just decided to take an extended vacation..so I kept waiting and waiting.(.plus I have been waiting for my big-shot too) but mojo never returned.I had given up all hopes of it returning...until I got a call from dear Asha who was constantly messaging and asking me what was up and why I wasn't making cards.We spoke for the first time and almost for an hour..about soo many things ..And voila! after we spoke  my mojo just appeared out of nowhere and I sat down at midnight and was up making his card till 2 a.m..so you see though my mojo hasn't returned completely I see a ray of hope..I'm assured it isn't gone for good..thankyou Asha..and I dedicate this card to you..I mean I made it for you..sorry to ruin the surprise..I made the card totally inspired by my lovely buddy Sasya's card infact it is very similar..I am such a huge fan of hers I just can't help imitating her style (please don't be annoyed Sasya).It is based in the card patternds  sketch 99 but  I didn't enter it in the challenge because I don't think it would be fair.Have a nice day you all!!!

Wish you all a very happy 2011 and winner of my candy...

Wish all you lovely people a very happy 2011...thankyou so much for taking part in my candy..I visited as many of your blogs  as I could and had a lot of fun!!I will surely return to your blogs as soon as I find a little more time..my brother's wedding went really well..and so did my anniversary..thankyou so much for your wishes...so lemme quickly declare the winner of my candy..(I did it the old fashioned way...writing names on little chits of paper and my hubby picked one folded chit ). and that's Bhavana...congrats and  do mail me with your adress dear.