Warm Happy Thoughts

Hello hello hello!!!

I got my hands on the brand new stamps from Paperie Ink Stamps (Oh they are so cute!!) And I played with the cute elephant from Tons Of Thoughts; here is my card...

I colored this cutie with copics and added some dots for some interest. The background is created using distress ink. This is me first time playing with the blending tool and it was a disaster. I wanted to give a very soft and subtle blue background hinting as sky behind the elephant but the tool left so many harsh lines; is it because its a new foam.. I don't know what it was.. I did not like how it turned out so I hid the most yucky area with the elephant. ;) 
I used some sequins for embellishment and stamped the sentiment with black Memento ink, the design paper is from Lawn Fawn.

Here is a close up:

Hope you like him too as much as I do, you can check the shop here.
Thanks for stopping by !!

Challenges:
613 Avenue Create
Penny Black and More
Crafty Girls Creations

Hugs,

Chitra

Laughing All The Way

Hello friends, I am over at Perfect Paper Crafting blog again sharing a fun Christmas card... Here is a sneak peek..

See you there friends..

Hugs,
Chitra

Joy Frame for CardMaker

Hello everyone.. I have a fun Christmas project over at CardMaker blog...

hope to see you there..
Have a great day!!

Hugs,

Chitra

Merry Christmouse

Hello friends, I have a super cute Christmas card share over at Perfect Paper Crafting blog.
I'll see you there.

Hugs,
Chitra

Our Daily Bread Design Blog Hop

Hello friends, welcome to Our Daily Bread Designs and CardMaker blog hop.

I made a simple a CAS card for today‘s hop using some amazing new products from Our Daily Bread Designs.

To create this card I used Metallic's design paper and die cut ornaments using Delightful Decorations dies and for the inner part I used red glitter cardstock and the solid ornament die; this die set comes in three one solid and two designed ornaments. The glittered ornament is adhered directly to the card base and the designed ornament is adhered using foam squares. I also tied bakers twine to the ornament. The sentiment is from Christmas Tunes set and is stamped using memento love letter ink.

Here is a close up... 

That’s all from me today!!

Here is the blog hop list:

CardMaker

Chitra Nair

Julie Warner 

Mendi Yoshikawa

Cathy McCauley 

Stacy Morgan

Lori Ulrich 

Gini Williams Cagle

Dawn Lusk 

Jennie Harper

Our Daily Bread Designs

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great day!!

Hugs,

Chitra

I'm Stuck on You

Hello friends, I have a card over at A Blog Named Hero, we are celebrating Hero Arts love fest this month and also there is a chance to win some gift certificates...

Hope you will check it on the blog..
Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Chitra

Technique of the Week for CardMaker Blog

Hello friends, I am over at CardMaker blog sharing a fun technique..
I will share a little peek of my card for you...

You can check all the details here on the CardMaker blog.
Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Chitra

Hero Arts Holiday Blog Hop

Hello friends, we are thrilled to join Hero Arts team for a Holiday blog hop..

I made a simple one layer card for today. I used Hero Arts Holiday Petals and Leaves and Memento Luxe Inks (Love Letter, Pear Tart, Dandelion) and the sentiement is stamped using Delicata Golden Glitz ink. I also added a little pearl to the center  of the ribbon.
Here is a close up:

Hope you like my card.

Lets talk about giveaway - Hero Arts has stashed away THREE of the November 2015 My Monthly Hero kits to giveaway to readers of this hop. The winners will be randomly chosen from all of the blog hop comments, across all blogs, received by 11:59pm PST on Sunday, November 22nd. Check the Hero Arts blog for the announcement of the winner on Tuesday, November 24th.

Here is the complete hop list just in case if you are lost...

Hero Arts
Linda Trace 
Libby Hickson 
Lisa Stein 
Niki Garcia 
Amy Tsuruta 
Jessica Frost-Ballas 
Mateja Povse 
Suzanne Dahlberg 
Michelle Lupton 
Bhavana Kesarkar 
Mariana Grigsby 
                               Chitra Menon <-- YOU'RE HERE
Gayatri Murali 
Isabel Rivera Ruiz 
Clare Prezzia 

If you happen to find a link that doesn't work, you can hop back to the Hero Arts Blog for a list of direct links to all the blogs in today's hop.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,

Chitra

InLinkz.com

Sunny Studio Stamps & CardMaker Blog Hop

Hello friends, today we are having an extra special blog hop; Our very own Mendi Yoshikawa has started a stamp company called Sunny Studio and designers from both CardMaker and Sunny Studio Stamps are joining together for a fun hop...
Here is my card for you today...



I got to play with this super cute set called Snow Kissed, love the adorable penguins in the set.
To create my card: First I took a blue cardstock and die-cut an oval from the center; then stamped the snow using all the tiny stamps in the set, I used watermark pigment ink to stamp the snows and embossed it using white embossing powder. I adhered a piece of acetate to the back of the blue cardstock and then die cut same size oval out of foam sheet and adhere that as well to the back of blue panel; I added some clear sequins and silver glitter powder in the window and adhere it to a white A2 card base, before adhering the card base I added a subtle blue background using distress inks and also added some snow using white liquid pearl.
Here is a close up..

The penguin and ice-glacier is stamped on Crafters Companion white cardstock and colored using Copics; fuzzy cut it out and adhered using foam squares. As a last touch I added glossy accents to penguins beak and some glitter to hat, scarf and glacier. The sentiment is stamped on the blue panel using watermark ink and embossed using silver embossing powder before adhering it to the card base.

Now the fun part.. The amazing Mendi is offering a discount to all you amazing readers out there... You can use the coupon code “CARDMAKER” when ordering to receive 20% off your order through Saturday, 11/14/15, noon PST.

 

Ohhh and did I mention Prizes.!!! Mendi will be giving away a stamp set of the winner’s choosing to two different winners. For details on entering for a chance to win, please link to the Sunny Studio blog.

 

Here is the complete hop list..

 

CardMaker

Melissa Bowden

                                      Chitra Nair <-- YOU ARE HERE

Audrey Tokach

Mendi Yoshikawa

Heidi Criswell

Stacy Morgan

Elise Constable

Gini Williams Cagle

Marion Vagg

Jennie Harper

Sunny Studio Blog

Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Chitra

My Craft Space

Hello friends, I am sharing my super tiny craft area over at the CardMaker blog.
Hope you will have a look at it!!!
Thanks,
Chitra

Heartfelt Creations and CardMaker Blog Hop

Hello friends, today we designers from CardMaker blog are doing a blog hop showcasing products from Heartfelt Creations.
Here is my card for today...

To create my card; I used Decorative Oval die on a white card base and embossed it using cuttlebug machine; I used the same die to die cut it out of a scrap piece of printing paper, then I used the negative piece and masked around the embossed area and did some sponging using distress inks and Delicata golden glitz ink. The stamp is from Fuchsia Clusters Cling Stamp Set; I stamped the flower on Crafters Companion white cardstock and colored it using Copics; then adhered it using foam squares. The sentiment is stamped using watermark pigment ink and embossed using white embossing powder, I also added few enamel dots.

Here is a close up:

Hope you liked my card.
Here is a complete hop list:

CardMaker

Stacy Morgan

Jennie Harper

Gini Williams Cagle

                                          Chitra Nair <--- YOU ARE HER

                    Mendi Yoshikawa <--- NEXT

Heartfelt Creations

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Hugs,

Chitra

Hello my friend

Hello friends, I have a card to share with you all today!!

To create this card I started with stamping the image onto Crafters Companion ultra smooth white cardstock and colored all these cuties using Copics and added glitter to the girlies dress and cap. For the background I cut strips of solid pink and pink glittered cardstock and adhered it using foam squares onto an A2 white card base.  For the sentiment Hello is stamped using watermark ink and embossed it using gold embossing powder and cut around it. Lastly I also added lots of hearts which is die-cut using Simon Says Stamp "Holiday Shapes".
Here is a close up:

Hope you liked my card, I really enjoyed creating this one.
Thanks for stopping by!!

Challenges:

Avery Elle Challenge


Crimbo Crackers: Challenge 92 Pink
7 Kids Challenge blog :Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps Challenge : Make Your Mark

Hugs,

Chitra

Merry Christmas

Hello friends, we are having a new challenge over at A Blog Named Hero and the theme this time is

And as we are collaborating with Lawn Fawn this month; I used Ready Set Snow for my card today and here is my card..

I took a white panel and stamped the images from the set and colored using copics; then masked the colored imaged and stamped the trees; masked the trees and did distress ink blending for the background. Then I used Dove Art Snow writer to create the snow. The sentiment is stamped on a colored cardstock using watermark pigment ink and embossed using silver embossing powder and cut around it; the main panel is also layered on the same colored cardstock. The card itself is a white card base and I used design paper from Lawn Fawn Let's Bokeh.
Here is a close up:

Hope you liked my card. Check out the blog for all the fun cards our team is sharing!!
Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Chitra

trick or treat

Hello friends,
I colored up another two cute monsters from the Simon Says Stamp "Monster Hugs" set (You can check the first card here).

First I stamped (2nd generation stamping with black ink) both the monsters onto Crafters Companion ultra smooth white cardstock; then I hand drew the pumpkin basket, bunny ears and eye lashes using pencils; colored the monsters using Copics. Then took recollections 100lb white panel and colored the panel using distress ink and foam blender. Then die-cut all the elements from recollections 80lb black cardstock; dies are from Lawn Fawn, Clearly Besotted, and Top Dog Dies; adhered everything directly to the colored panel and used foam squares to adhere the monsters. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp "Trick or Treat" set. I added glossy accents to the monster's eyes and glitter to the basket, heart, stars and bats.
Here is a close up..

Hope you like my card. Thanks for stopping by!!

Challenges:
MarkerPOP Challenge-79 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge


Virginias View Challenge-19

Hugs,

Chitra

Love & Laughter

Hello friends, I have a card over at A Blog Named Hero. We are collaborating with Lawn Fawn this month, here is a peek...

 

You can find all the details about this card here on the blog.

Thanks for stopping by!!

 

Hugs,

Chitra

BOOYAH

Hello friends, I am playing along with The Daily Marker 30 Day challenge on Instagram and today I did some no-line coloring on these cute monsters from Simon Says Stamp "Monster Hugs"

I took a white panel and die-cut it using an oval die and then worked on the oval die-cut; first I did some ink sponging on the background for a spooky sky (don't ask me what colors I used, I don't remember :D ). Then I used grass die from Lawn Fawn, and the stars and moon dies are from Top Dog Dies. The grass and stars are directly adhered the oval die. The monsters and moon is added using foam squares.
I adhered the negative panel to a white card base using foam dots and then inlaid the oval die in place, which is adhered using a less dimensional foam tape.
The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn which is stamped using watermark ink and embossed using white embossing powder, and adhered using foam squares.
Finally I added glossy accents to the monsters eyes and lots of glitter. Here is a close up:

Hope you liked my card. I really had fun coloring the monsters and creating this card.
Thanks for stopping by!!

Challenges:
Virginias View Challenge-19


Addicted to Stamps & More - Photo Inspiration

 

AAA Cards

Hugs,

Chitra

It's Your Birthday!

Hello friends, I have a very exciting news for you; I am on Perfect Paper Crafting design team!!! YAYYYYY!!!
I have my first post on the blog today... Here is a peek of my card..

All the details is on the Perfect Paper Crafting blog...
Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Chitra

Merry Christmas

If You Are Here For Lil' Inker Designs & CardMaker Blog Hop Please Click Here or Scroll Down, Thanks...

Hello friends, I have card over at A Blog Named Hero..
We are having a fun collaboration with the amazing  Lawn Fawn; here is a look at my card.

You can get all the details about this card over at the blog..
Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Chitra

Lil' Inker Designs & CardMaker Blog Hop

Hello friends, we are having a blog hop with the super amazing Lil' Inker Designs. I am super excited to have a chance to play with their products!!!
We were asked to create any occasion card using fall colors showcasing their amazing products.

I made two cards for the hop today, here is my 1st card:

 

I used distress inks and water colored some fall colors (olive green, fired brick, ripe persimmon, scattered straw) and colored few strips of Tim Holtz water color paper.
The images are from Perfect Pair stamp set which is stamped on Crafters Companion ultra smooth white cardstock and colored them using copics.
I glued all the water colored strips directly on a white card base , I also glued some strips of gold foil cardstock from DCWV; the colored images are adhered using foam squares. I die cut the alphabets from a red cardstock using Mixed and Stitched Alphabet Die Set and adhered that also using foam squares.

I added some glitter to all the images, here is a close up:

And here is my 2nd card:

First I took Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock and stamped the coffee cups from Coffee Talk Stamp set using MFT black licorice waterproof ink, I masked the coffee cup in the front to stamp the cups in the back; I used Hero Arts watercolor wheel to color the whole image. Once everything was dry I did some layered die cutting; using Mixed and Stitched Alphabet Die Set first I die cut the words from the water colored panel then die cut the word from four separate scraps of white cardstock. This created four exact cuts which I then adhered together to create a thick, chipboard-like embellishment for dimension
Here is a close up:

I added lots of glitter to the image and added sequins for embellishment.

Hope you liked my card.

Lil' Inker Designs Stamps is offering a $35 gift certificate to one lucky winner. To enter for your chance to win, all you need to do is comment on each blog in the hop!!

The blog hop list is below.

 

CardMaker

Karen Baker 

                                  Chitra Nair <---- You Are Here

NEXT---->Amy Kolling 

Sarah Jay 
Gini Williams Cagle

Heather Hoffman 
Maureen Merritt 

Jennie Harper

Chrissy Larson 

Lisa Henke 

Mendi Yoshikawa

Laura Williams 

Stacy Morgan

Laura Pryor

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

 

Hugs,

Chitra

 
 

Happy Haunting

Hello friends, I have a last card for Top Dog Dies, to share with you. 

I got to play with the new Haunted House Die Set and this is my favorite card of all really had fun making this card.

I started with sponging a white piece of cardstock using some distress inks (spiced marmalade, fired brick, seedless preserve and faded jeans); for the moon I masked the area with a circle die-cut piece of paper before adding any colors. Then I die-cut all the pieces out of black cardstock, and the piece behind the house is die-cut out of yellow cardstock (all the cardstocks are from recollections). I glued the hill, fence and bats directly to the panel and the haunted house and tombs are adhered using foam squares.
The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. Here is a close up:

Thank You so much for the opportunity!!! I really really enjoyed playing with the new Fall/Halloween dies, it was such a pleasure guest designing!! :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Hugs,

Chitra