Happy Birthday -Fun Being One!!

I had a lot of fun creating this layout! I really wanted to make a banner! We had so many banners and all the decorations were red,yellow,blue and green at Anurag's first bday party. So I stuck with those basic colors and created everything with that! I found an article on how to make banners on about.com! I love that site! Pretty simple and straightforward ! This is again one of Allison's Sketches. Although I changed the embellishments and added extra journaling and added the lines to the border of the page. That really gave the whole layout a pop!I used a pic of Anurag's cake as a embellisment too! Although he didn't get to cut that one! Shilpa made a special vegan cake for him!
All the paper is from DCWV Brights Cardstock stack!I used stamp sets from Inkadinkado and CTMH!

Now That's What I call a PARTY!!!!!

Love these photos of anurag. We had so much fun clicking these. He was so HAPPY!!! He got up the next day and found these balloons on the floor and started chasing them! Sid was trying to get his attention and make him crawl behind him! I was clicking! I just had to scrap these! He enjoyed this much more than the party!

The balloons were quite some work! I have stamped each of them to give them some more dimension. They are all from DCWV Brights Cardstock.I have add the twine for the thread on the balloons. I need to get fabri tac or something.

I have used DCWV brights card stock stack, CTMH stamps, Clear Dollar Stamps, Inkadinkado Stamps,Threading Water Border Punch,Thickers and the stripes is from a paper company stack.

This is based on Sketch 11 from Sketch support! The balloons are inspired from one of Allison's old layout. Thanks for the wonderful sketches Allison!

A Walk to Remember........

I love these photos. Thank you Sid for clicking these. These are so special....I wanted to scrap these photos and then I saw this sketch challenge on DCWV Diary. I knew it would be perfect for my photos. I looked for some pattern paper. But nothing was working with the pics and the look I wanted. Then I remembered this amazing fiskars stamp set I have and beautiful pastel card stock papers by DCWV. I knew that was a good start. I love that the card stock is textured. Gives that vintage and distressed look when you stamp on it! It is perfect! It is true about distress inks...once you start distressing..you can't stop!!! I distressed everything! I am in love with the DCWV Cardstock! It works great for distressing! The gorgeous circle (I had to make the circle 4 times!!I stamped something on it which I didn't like later,Distressed it too dark, Spelling mistake and then the fourth time the marker was too dark..fifth time was a charm;)), the journaling strips, the butterflies, background,stamped pattern paper..even the lace!! Ofcourse now my beautiful white chair has some ink spots and I still have inky hands! I washed my hands half a dozen times:D I loved loved this whole process!! I have never done such a layout before. This is my first!! Hope you like it :)
The journaling reads....it is not very clear in the photo...
" You love to hold my hand and walk. Your hands are so soft!!You pull my hand to take me where you want to go. You love to pick up the leaves. I love you so much ..(hearts)"

Challenge Entry For DCWV Sketch Challenge.
Tools and Paper Used:
DCWV Pastel Textured Card Stock, Fiskars Henna Stamp Set, Fiskars Butterfly Squeeze Punch, Fiskars Scalloped Daisy Border Punch, Fiskars Twist and Flip Corner Punch, Tim Holtz Distress Inks and Tool, CTMH Alpha Stamps, American Crafter's Black Marker.

Priceless Moments!!

This is my third double page layout for the zoo trip! I finished scrapping the zoo photos. I already have the photos ready for my next layout!!!
I enjoyed scrapping this a lot! I love all these photos! I had more!! I wanted to use all of them...but then all the paper would have been covered!! LOL :D

Paper and Stamps : DCWV Animal Cracker stack, CTMH Stamps!

Hope you like it!

Zoo Much Fun!!!!

A double page layout again for Wednesday and Thursday!! I love how it came out!! I am totally loving the DCWV Animal Crackers Stack!! It is so much fun! This is one of Allison's sketch! It is so easy to do them with her sketches! I am enjoying scrapping so much more now! I used one of my favorite border punches by fiskars! The Upper Crest Border Punch!

A layout a Day Challenge!

I have started a self imposed challenge on fiskateers! I have 451 photos to scrap! Yes that is after looking through some 20000 photos and deciding which ones to scrap!! Well, joining me in this challenge are fiskateers Donna, Lizzie and Groovy Deb. I am going to upload my layouts on fiskateers and here as well!! So here are my first two layouts! I am pretty happy about it! I wanted to use the upper crest border punch! But forgot! This is based on a Allison Davis Sketch!Loving it! The papers I used are from the Animal Cracker line of DCWV!!! Sooooo Cute!!

I hope you like it. I would love to hear what you think!

My Crafty Abode!

Well i have been busy trying to organize my scrap space. I got one expedit system with the table and the Sauder Project Organizer(from Sears), a chair and some Glis containers,bygel rod,bygel containers and some Lexmar boxes from Ikea. I need to get a table lamp from Ikea. I am so totally excited to start creating now! I need to sort out my loose ribbons. I have just stuffed them in a box for now. I want to make my own paper cards and store them on that. I thought of having them outside like visible. But I am sure they will get dirty because of the dust. I prefer putting them in glis containers and rubbermaids. The table still has things which need sorting. Need to get started with ordering photos now. Tell me how it looks! Any ideas on organization are welcome!

Thanks to my dear husband, Sid who put it together and helped me organize my stuff. Love You!

Stamping on Canvas!

I was lucky to get some goodies for a stamping challenge on fiskateers from Tami, one of the lead fiskateers! Thanks Tami and Fiskars!!! I chose to do a canvas card for the challenge! I totally love the Henna Petals Stamp Set. It is so versatile!!



Canvas has a heavy bumpy grain( i read this somewhere..and now I second it!), which makes it tough to get a good image like you do on a cardstock. If you like the distressed faded look, you will like canvas! I had the fortune of using a gorgeous stamp set, the Henna Petals.

Step 1. Cut 4 strips of canvas in 1.5″ X 3.5 ” size.



Step 2. Stamp the image on 3 of the strips and fray the edges for the cool look. Pull along until you get the amount of fray that you want — you can’t fray beyond the thread sewn around, so just keep pulling until you like the look.



Step 3.Take a piece of kraft cardstock, adhere it on the card and adhere these canvas strips with even distance on the cardstock.



Step 4.Take the 4th strip of canvas, stamp the image you like and color it with markers and fray the edges. Adhere it on a brown cardstock.



Step 5.Adhere the 4th strip of canvas on the card and cut a small strip of canvas, stamp your sentiment and fray the edges and adhere it on the cardstock. Adhere the sentiment to the card as well. Add a bow for dimension!



I had tons of fun making this card! I hope you all like it! I love fiskars!

Thanks to the Online Crop at Fiskateers, I got my mojo back!

I finally got my mojo back and I finished tons of challenges. With most of my stuff still in boxes, it was difficult. I had fun though making these cards after a long time with whatever I had outside. I even made my first ATC ever!! And I totally loved it! They are addicting for sure! I altered a bottle. I am totally enjoying dry embossing on big shot! It is so COOL! I think I am addicted! I am loving the 3 cuttlebug embossing folder I bought. There are a few more which are really pretty and on my list! I am so looking forward to setting up my room and getting started on the layouts! I have so much catching up to do! Well have a good weekend everyone! Will post more later!

WOW!Its been so long! I haven't scrapped forever due to some personal reasons. I have been travelling so much. I was in India for 6 months. I was travelling there too! But now after coming back home, I am getting ready to scrap again. I can't wait for my room to be ready. I just got some storage. Setting it up this weekend. I bought a Big Shot finally! YAY!! I got some cuttlebug embossing folders. I love the dots, the traffic etc. Now need to put everything to use!! Can't wait to get started!