My Handmade cards

New Year post for New Home

2012-01-07T01:23:00.000-08:00

Wish you all A very happy new year! May this new year brings lotta joy in your life!:)

Today I am sharing a project which I have made for craftjc challenge blog as an inspiration. I had fun making this upcycle box card project. was having this wallet box for long and when Indira gave the theme 'something new' I knew I will use this box. When I think of home so many things were running in my mind and I finally decided to make a miniature home in the box. Everything here is hand-cut except for the pie-lane border stickers and some itsy-bitsy flowers. Yes, now I am a proud owner of pie-lane products. I picked them up from Anupam in Mumbai. Thanks Tejal for guiding me there. It was like a dream come true when I was in middle of pie-lane products!

My 6 year old was having fun time watching me making this one and helped me by lending his small car to keep inside:) and also that yellow pot is the cover of his water-gun:))

And now I am eager to give this to someone.....somebody pls buy a house;)

Entering this for:
Squiggles and Giggles - Recycle, Upcycle
Craft Your Days Away - New Beginnings
Di's Digis Designs - Something New

Cheers,
Avni.

craftjc winner and a card!

2011-12-16T02:21:00.000-08:00

Hiya gals, I am so happy to share with you, I am a winner of CraftJC Challenge #11 - Pick your palette for THIS card. This is my first win ever in the blogland.

And now I have a card to share with you. Initially I started to make a christmas card for my son's teacher and ended up with this! Love the denim effect appeared after stamping 'dots for sure' with acrylic paint. It is also giving a frozen/snow effect. I am now making another one for his teacher and hope I won't get diverted again;)

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and A Happy new year!
Cheers!

flower pop-up card!

2011-12-02T01:18:00.000-08:00

Hello all....It's a festival season everywhere and I am also in festive mood as we have annual day celebration in my neighborhood. I am teaching few dance to group of kids and ladies. It's so much fun! That keeps me so busy these days...i wonder what i m going to do once the program will be over:( Yes, I'll craft more:)

For my friend PInky....:) I made 7 (pink) flower pop-up card following this video. It turned out nice and want to make more of them.

This one I made for my aunt. B'coz of no reason the photo had not turned out good. It looks more elegant in real. I took almost 50 pic of this card with 3 diff cameras and this one is the best! I think b'coz of colors on the card?!!! Do u have any idea?

Have a Happy Holidays!

Cheers.

Multi scroll quilling

2011-11-13T23:01:00.000-08:00

Hey people, Hope you are doing great. I had a great time in Diwali. These post is dadicated to Neli. She is a wonderful quiller. I am so inspired by her these days, I have her blog as my homepage;) You'll really have a excellent time visiting her blog. so, here is the card I made using multi scroll and till you don't make one you can't realize the difficulty level. It's not that easy as I thought. But, finally finished it!:)

I am submitting this one for CraftJC Challenge #11 - Pick your palette. I have chosen palette#3.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers:)

Birthday Album

2011-10-07T03:08:00.000-07:00

This is my first album ever! and I am super excited!!! oh, and that also means that this is a photo heavy post! I made it for my darling hubby. and when I gave this to him....he was like flipping it over and over for 10-15 mins:) I felt heaven watching him. And then he came and said I can't imagine someone will make a Birthday album for me!

So, this image is downloaded and then coloured with Prismacolor pencils (I love Prismacolor) And I tried to stamp the 'dots for sure' in circle but, it din't came out so neat. I badly need nice stamp pads. anyways...the sentiment is print out.

I love how this page has come out. just perfect, isn' it?

Love those 3D foam stickers I was hoarding it for looong time...finally opened it:)

And this tiny envelope has photo from our ring ceremony!

I love this page too!

And this...:P

So, what do you think? Not bad for a first timer, isn't it?:)

Cheers!

New printer!

2011-09-28T03:06:00.000-07:00

Yes, finally we bought a printer after months of research! You know how IT guys buy things, right?! I have not explore it much but it's great! And my this card is dedicated to it:)

I have used coffee stained paper which I made a long ago and find this image online. I also added a jute string and it's looking like this after that!

I love how the photo came out with candle stand in the background:D

Submitting to Bunny Zoe's monthly challenge & Mel Jen's Designs challenge

Cheers & Joy!

Tags!

2011-09-23T02:53:00.000-07:00

Hiya everyone! I have some tags to share with you after a little absence. I promised myself after getting new stamps that I will update my blog atleast once a week. but, damn! I totally forgot that I have 3 kids to look after:) (two son, 1 DH)

anyways...I found the tag making quite exciting b'coz I can finish it quickly, though you have to think hard what to put in such a small place! I had many wedding invites ( I still have) so, finally I cut them into tags and some envelopes. I think this could be the best Diwali gift to anyone! What do u say?

My fav are lot no.3s and the one in red in lot1.

The envelopes are my mom's idea. So, I am going to make some more and send her for Diwali!

Cheers!

New stamps:)

2011-09-12T04:49:00.001-07:00

I got new stamps...YAY!!!! I am dancing:) and can't wait to share u what I have got. Here you go...

Thanks Ujjwal for getting me these. I love love love the 'dots for sure'. Stamps makes life so easy:) Now I have figured out that I need to buy the ink pads:( Does anybody know where to buy the ink pads from?

This goes for

Make it Monday - Anything goes

I did it creations

Crafting when we can

One stitch at a time

Stay tune for more!

Cheers!

White & blue

2011-09-08T06:11:00.000-07:00

This is my first try with white. I really had fun time playing with it and love the outcome. have added almost all elements I had in white:) tried my best to make the ruffled ribbon flower. Hope u like it too:)

This goes for ribbon flower challenge at Do more with less

Card Patterns sketch 131

Stampwithsarahkay challenge 151 Perls & laces

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers!

Dedication!

2011-09-05T02:50:00.000-07:00

It's a teacher's Day today! I remember when I was in school we used to become a teacher for a day and take classes on Teacher's day. What fun! That's how we celebrated it. but, now kids give flowers, cards and gifts to teachers. Well, generation changes:) I made this card for my son's teacher. I tried to make a black board and gave a little rubbed effect!

I am entering this one for Moxie Fab World chellenge , Crafting when we can- anything goes , Rose-y at Order of opus Gluei , ecpchallenges - yellow

Quilled animation

2011-08-29T10:24:00.000-07:00

It's time for another quilled card. Do you know I join the ICR a week back and i was like.....Gosh! Where was I? All Indian crafters on one single page! It's great effort put together by the team of ICR. And to celebrate it I have made this card as part of their challenge...

No digi/rubber stamps- the twist doesn't really matter to me as I don't use/have stamps much on my cards. And the first thing I could think is quilling.

I love how it came out. I was inspired by the joker we had. My elder one loved the animation created! I am thinking to frame it for his room!

See, how happy is he?!

CPS #127

2011-08-12T02:43:00.000-07:00

A quick post for CPS sketch#127. I just finished in time:) got pebblesinc papers. They are awesome. The flowers are from them! I tried faux stitching for 1st time. u can see the improvement if u look going in anti-clock direction:))

Rakhi cards!

2011-08-04T00:27:00.000-07:00

It's a festival season as we enter 'Sharavan' month of the year! And can you believe it's August already....very soon this year is going to end! Oh man, pls someone hold the time! 2011 has been a quite happening year for me(obviously not in craft:P). Recently we have relocated to new apt. This one is like a resort. An old brick structured buildings with green lush everywhere. It's a totally different experience of life here!:) I will upload pics soon.

Meanwhile I have made Rakhi cards, I am always late in sending Rakhis. and this year is no different. I don't know if this card will reach before Rakhi:( but, anyways I am sure whenever they'll get it they will be happy!

I have made Rakhi as part of my card and sticked it with double tape, so they can remove it and tie.

Have a Happy festival season everybody!

The wedding card and much more

2011-06-29T02:31:00.001-07:00

Hello Everyone! I have to tell you what a week I had at my native place for my brother's wedding! Lots of shopping, music, dance and delicious food.....yummmm. One really have to enjoy an Indian wedding at least once in lifetime! it does have lots of customs, but each and every custom has some meaning and fun part attached to it. Being a sister of the groom, I really enjoy them b'coz it's all gain 'wink wink';) Aaaaaaah......Why happy days get over so fast:(:(

I want to share you some photos from the wedding. First is the card I made for my bro. The card base is recycled wedding invitation card.

The flower is twisted ribbon flower from tutorial i saw on Youtube:)

The inside

Here is the basket we decorated which we used for putting clothes and jwellery which has to be given to bride.

This is the backside. I also hang some charms around which were enhancing the whole look!

These are the wall paintings which was done by my sisters.

Hope you enjoyed the yummy goodies from wedding:)

Cheers!

2 cards

2011-05-20T22:33:00.000-07:00

Hello ladies.....after long absence I am back with couple of cards. Last couple of months were quite happening. We went to few places for vacation in and around Bangalore. Soon, the schools will re-open and I am hoping to get some real good productive time!

Here is a card I made for our anniversary. It was just in an hour. So, couldn't make any better than this:) Although hubby liked it but I am not so much satisfied with outcome:(.

And, this one is for friend of mine. I want to enter this card for Inspiration challenge at Kalalayaa's art studio. I was inspired by Kavitha's this card.
I first time used multiple loop method and it was fun!

Thanks.

Summer summer

2011-03-09T19:27:00.000-08:00

Hey friends, Hope you are staying cool and hap as the summer days have arrived! I get very typical feeling in this time of a year....there is always a little anxiety running as I feel it's exam time! as generally March is a final exam time, thank God there are no more study days! When I was young i was thinking...how lucky my mom is, she doesn't have any exam, just doing work and roam around! and finally now I am doing that and so relived that there are no more tests!!! But, the only thing I miss is hanging around with my pals and the real fun we have after exams are over:( Do you have a typical feeling for particular time of the year?

Today I want to share a card I made for Scrappy scrap challenge! I have used glass painting colors on acetate sheet. The challenge was organized by Shalini. She sent us the scrap from which I have created my card! If you like the card, you can vote over her blog! Everybody has done such a wonderful job! Thanks Shalini for this opportunity!

Before I sign out, I can't resist myself to show you the invites I made for my lil one's b'day party tomorrow! I downloaded jungle background and that board. And those cute animals u see are from Lovely lady Rachna. Thanks a lot girl, without you this card wouldn't have come out so nice!

Thanks for visiting!
Love!
Avni.

Some help needed!

2011-02-20T22:48:00.000-08:00

Happy Monday to all! Hope you had a lovely weekend! Mine was super busy one:) No, not busy in crafting. usually I don't craft in weekend. when everybody's at home, I can't get enough peace and privacy;) ya, sounds weired, but I need some privacy for expressing myself as I am little shy in expressing in presence of people:)

Next month we are celebrating my younger one's 1st birthday. I wanted to start on invites for theme 'animals', was looking for some nice jungle background online, do you know any site from which you can download such background and animals?

Ever since I saw the frame card made by Ujjawal, and the video how to make it, I wanted to make one, though I think the frame became very big for me, hence the card. but, anyway it was a first attempt! Thanks Ujjawal for inspiration!

I drew, color and cut that butterfly, isn't it lovely?!

This card goes for following challenges!
Wee Memories challenge #44 source of inspiration
Simon says stamp make your own embellishment
Card makin mamas challenge#15 happy birthday card

Have a nice day!

recycled paper card!

2011-02-16T21:11:00.000-08:00

My Mom send me lots of wedding invitations. They come with nice thick papers, sometime with beautiful print on it and nice handmade paper. Here is something I made yesterday for my friend's birthday! The embellishments and that crochet ribbon were brought from Ahmedabad.

Happy Valentine's Day!

2011-02-14T20:51:00.000-08:00

All my lovely ladies out there....I wish you a very happy valentine's day!
I was having so many ideas and started working on one, but then the day had arrived and i thought i don't have enough time to finish it. Then I ended up making this one. It was made in all jiffy. Infact I was still making this one when he returned home from office! but, love the way it has turned out....and he loved it!!!:)

Everything is handcut...the flowers are the ones my sis got me and that tree branch paper was cut from a t-shirt tag!

and inside i made this cute message envelope!

kidos and ma

2011-01-28T22:56:00.000-08:00

Since my little one N's birth, I can see he is faster in everything! Younger ones always have advantage to learn things fast as they continuously watch the older sibling doing things. At age of 10 months he knows to click the mouse, he imitates everyone and knows which shelf have packets of biscuits in nearby store! I am really surprised and worried at the same time that will I be able to cope up with him? Kids these days are smarter than what we were at their age. I feel my 5 year old already knows half of the things i know...and in couple of years I won't have anything to teach him:(
SO, I need to buck up...I have started reading newspaper thoroughly(seriously I am concerned!!) and reading the history books once again to brush up! I hope this will act as add-on till they think...mamma u don't know anything!!!:)

I want to share a photo of my sweethearts...

And a card I made for my aunt who was alone with dehydration and was hospitalized for couple of days...I really wanted to boost her up:)

I used blow pens and the stamped to make background! It is my attemp to http://yyam.blogspot.com/2011/01/get-more-from-your-patterned-paper-with.html

Cheers!

dedication!

2011-01-20T20:54:00.000-08:00

OK...almost after 2 months...That was loooong! So much happened in between this time. but, I want to share the highlight....My lovely sister got me the craft stuff from Hobby Ideas in Mumbai. I was so excited to use it. And here you go....

So, this one is for you my sis...Thank you and love you very much!:)
I used toothpick and my son's play-doh to make those cute hearties.

This card goes for 2 challenges
CP sketch 98 http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/
Glenda's 100th challenge celebration http://papersscissorsrocks.blogspot.com/

Thanks for visiting!

Baby Girl

2010-11-24T22:28:00.000-08:00

Hurray! It's my first baby card:) I so love it with pink. Ever since my friend was expecting, I was very excited and was hoping that it should be a girl as I wanted to make a pink card. aah, so mean me!

Right now I have adrenaline rush! feeling so happy and excited.....next couple of weeks are going to be quite happening. Some guests are visiting, have to attend frds wedding, for which I am choreographing a song!!! and then I am going to my native Ahmedabad:))) I am really waiting for all these things to happen!
Cheers!

Being a mother...

2010-10-29T01:19:00.001-07:00

Motherhood is a challenging profession which immediately comes after baby's birth. You don't need to have any degree or certificate for it, it just comes from within you. It requires lots of patience and hard work and needless to say lots of emotions are attached to that. I feel a girl starts appreciating her mother after she becomes one. Especially me, I always remember her when there is so much to be done for kids, home and family and the inside me always wants to pull out my own "Me Time". and that makes me wonder how much she has sacrificed her "Me Time". But, she never regrets. In fact she is happy that her kids have not wasted her sacrifice! Well, that's a Motherhood...

Can you believe, this is my first card to my mom!:O Somehow it never happened. So, this year I had decided to send her one. and here it goes.

Friend of mine wanted to learn quilling from me to make Diwali card. I love the embossed paper which was a wedding card.

I hope everybody is busy in Diwali preparation.
Have a Happy Diwali and a Prosperous new year to all my friends!

Cheers.

Japanese card!

2010-10-05T21:45:00.000-07:00

It's been so long since I've made a card! Gosh....I am just too busy with kids! I mean I am not that busy, but not free enough to create something. I don't like having break when there is a flow of creativity running in my mind. but, can't help it...I have to adjust with breaks otherwise I will be out of the blog society!:)

For long I wanted to use this handmade paper I got it from Pondicherry last year. but never thought it will be used to give result like this!:)

Blog award!

2010-09-16T22:23:00.000-07:00

I am so happy to receive this 'One lovely blog award' from my blog friend/ inspiration Juhi. This is a first one for me so I am really very happy! Thank you so much juhi.

It's 25th Birthday!!!

2010-09-04T02:20:00.000-07:00

Oh, not mine! It's my sis:) I wish I can turn the clock back and again turn silver. But, I should confess that being in 30's is also quite exciting, where you have finished your family, an enormous confidence and energy runs throughout your body and soul. I am enjoying my 30's. And I read somewhere.....you look your best in your early 30's(blush*)! lol

Here, I want to share a card I made for my sister. I wanted to make a banner card for so long, finally I made it. Got a fun photo of hers and added some stickers to finish the card. These days we receive lots of annual reports from company's whose shares we hold. They come with nice front cover. The party cap I made from one of those. Husband is happy that I am using reports in some ways b'coz he never reads them;) I'll be making a card using it as PP soon!

Hope you have fun filled weekend!

Being in Bengaluru

2010-08-25T03:03:00.001-07:00

Lately the need to learn Kannada (local language in Bangalore) was really getting strong. We as north Indian always feel that oh, it's very hard. and morever, ppl speak hindi unlike Tamilnadu & Kerala. But, many times in Govt office, RTO or dealing with working class people it is always good to speak in Kannada. And meanwhile I read about Mr. Nagabhushan who gives free Kannada classes. He is doing wonderful job at the age of 73. The classes were held at his house in Indiranagar thrice a week for a month. And at the end of the month he makes sure that every student is speaking Kannada if not fluent then broken:)
I was absolutely blank about Kannada, but after the class I atleast manage to understand quite well and can speak few sentences. So, it's now my turn to give back something to him. and what else it could be than a card!

I made mini book with almost 10 pages and wrote alphabets, and the sentiments says "Dhanyavad" in Kannada.

It's a rainy day!

2010-07-28T05:06:00.000-07:00

The weather outside is so chill. I feel like slipping in a comforter for hours and do nothing. Instead I chose to make a pending card in a corner of my house! Not a bad idea huh?!

here is my card...

I know the pic is dark b'coz of bad light. The scene ouside is something like this.

And it has started pouring already! Though it won't last much. It's a Bangaluru rain!

Cheers!

It's Your day!

2010-07-15T02:14:00.000-07:00

I really enjoyed making this card. Love the color combo and that small stamp! Enjoy!

Indian touch

2010-07-02T05:30:00.000-07:00

I bought some handmade paper last week and wanted to use it. However I started with some different thought but it ended up like this, am not very happy with it:(. Thanks to my 4 month old son. Today he decided to have nap no longer than 30 mins!!!
It's based on Card Patterns sketch 70.

Salad deco

2010-06-30T21:46:00.000-07:00

Lately I am visiting the blogs so much.....I can see all the stamps and patterned paper in my dreams. so I thought before it gets worst let's have a break. I always thought to give a try to this, and yeah.....for first timer it's not so bad;)

Top view
I have used tomato peel, raddish, carrot and cucumber peel.

My very first effort to Card Patterns: sketch 68

2010-06-18T00:30:00.000-07:00

Aah! I am so excited....making a card after 4 long months and also a first card after gave birth to my lovely son. Hope you like it! Here is the close look.

Birthday card

2010-02-18T04:15:00.000-08:00

another quilled card with balloons and gifts!!! I think i am obsessed with quilling;-)

Valentine's card:x

2010-02-15T01:01:00.000-08:00

aaahhh....looong time.....was so eager to make this card. Loved the way the letters have come out, i didn't plan anything before, just followed the flow! so, really enjoyed making it.

Celebrations at home!

2009-10-18T23:41:00.000-07:00

Last week it was my son's 4th birthday. We had a small party at home, the theme was airplane. I didn't had much time for preparation as we couldn't decide what to do. Finally I made Invitation cards by myself with plane and clouds cuttings. and the decoration was also made accordingly!

Birthday Chart for my classroom

2009-10-08T09:33:00.000-07:00

I made this b'day chart for my class. The best month is March! and the letters have also come out very well! What do u say?

Birthday card for my sister

2009-10-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

Miss you cards

2009-10-07T05:48:00.000-07:00

Since last couple of months few of my friends moved out of Bangalore. These cards were made for them. Gosh! I really miss them:(

My first quilled card

2009-10-07T05:29:00.000-07:00

I wanted to do quilling for so long. Finally I made a quilled card for my hubby's birthday last week. Hope you'll like it.

I cut the strips by myself as I don't have any good craft store around. It was very exciting and fun to make this one except the sticking part;).