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{tiffany doodles blog hop time…}

by on January 12, 2012
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Thank you for join­ing Tiffany Doo­dles’ first blog hop of 2012! I am so glad you’re here! It’s ALSO the sec­ond anniver­sary of Tiffany Doodles!

You’re going to find lots of inspi­ra­tion along the way, from sev­eral tal­ented ladies. Be sure to leave each of them a com­ment by Sun­day the 15th for your chance to win some­thing of your choice! That’s 19 chances to win! All win­ners will be announced on the Tiffany Doo­dles blog Wednes­day Jan­u­ary 18th.
If you’ve arrived from Mary John­son you’re in the right place! If this is your first stop, please go back to Jessica’s blog so you don’t miss anything!

And here is my card for the hop…

And this is the Tiffany Doo­dles image I used for this card…



My card is prob­a­bly the most sim­ple one you will see in this blog hop :) . But this is me, and nowa­days sim­ple clean lines, with no fuss is what I am all about. My house seems to be in an eter­nal mess, with plas­tic toys every­where ( I have two girls under the age of 3 years…), so my craft projects tend to be more sim­plis­tic. This card started with a dif­fer­ent idea in my head, but I LOVE what I made with it in the end!!!

I do not own a Copic marker. No madam I do not. I eye them every­time I am out at the art sup­ply store, but I have restrained myself. I really have too many scrap­book­ing sup­plies at home that I don’t use enough, so I am try­ing to use what I have more and more. But with no mark­ers, I had still planned to make this card with color pen­cils and glossy accents, but this clean kinda debossed effect of the flow­ers worked felt better.

For this card I used the color inspi­ra­tion from the colourQ chal­lenge #119…

And here is a look­sie at how I made this in Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5,

(click on the image to see enlarged version)

That flow­er­ing branch doo­dle is so pretty, it really didn’t need any more adorn­ment. I just drew a rec­tan­gle  pink box beneath it and a grey box (slightly larger in size) beneath it. The pink rec­tan­gle has a orange stroke around it.  To high­light my sen­ti­ment, I col­ored one flower dark bright pink by using a mask.

Print onto a 8.5 by 11 inch card­stock, trim and form the card. And I was done. As easy as that. This would be great pro­ce­dure for mak­ing cards in bulk. Imag­ine using one of the heart doo­dles to make your kids valen­tines next month!

I often make hybrid cards, so if you have any ques­tions, ask them in the com­ment sec­tion below and I will answer them there…

I hope you’re feel­ing inspired! Before you hop over to Ruby McGuire remem­ber to leave a com­ment for your chance to win! I get to choose one win­ner and that win­ner will receive the flow­er­ing branch image I used above!!

Tiffany is also giv­ing away the entire Jan­u­ary release and all you have to do is cre­ate a card or project using ANY Tiffany Doo­dles image, blog about it, and add your name to in linkz tool which can be found on Tiffany’s blog. On Jan­u­ary 18th the DT will pick one per­son to win the entire Jan­u­ary release!

If you are new to my blog go ahead and like me on my face­book page here or feel free to grab my RSS feed here… I love hear­ing from new peo­ple so come back sometime!

Thanks for hop­ping along with us, we look for­ward to see­ing your creations!
Sup­plies used:
Soft­ware: Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5
Fonts: Amer­i­can Type­writer, CK ali hand
Dig­i­tal image/ stamp: Tiffany Doodles
Card­stock: Wassau
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Posted by Smitha on January 12, 2012

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{1…}

by on January 4, 2012
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I made a card for this weeks Tues­day Trigger,

and this was the trig­ger at the Moxie Fab World,

From the trig­ger I was inspired to quilt on my card and use num­bers. I think the “1” turned out just about how I had envi­sioned it :)

I have been think­ing a lot of our sec­ond baby turn­ing one year old lately. And today’ card just rein­forces that thought. She is only 5 months old, but I can­not fig­ure out where and how those 5 months have gone by?! It is like I blinked and time got fast for­warded! Any­way, I have been think­ing about her turn­ing one, and start­ing to walk (she doesn’t even crawl yet! but a moth­ers mind works fast I guess…) and am already plan­ning her first birth­day party in my head. I blame it all on Pin­ter­est. For now, her sis­ter and I agree that there has to be lots and lots of bal­loons involved :)

Sup­plies used:
Paper: Amer­i­can crafts, My minds eye
Sen­ti­ment: Cre­at­ing Keepsakes
Cloud punch, bor­der punch: fiskars

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Posted by Smitha on January 4, 2012

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{today’s cards…}

by on October 26, 2011
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The past cou­ple of days have been so hec­tic and busy, I have had no free time. We have been hav­ing so much fun; the pump­kin patch, rak­ing leaves, the apple orchard, the zoo…

So, I stayed up late last night, just so that I could have a lit­tle time to be cre­ative… My time.

Two cards to share today,

The first one is titled “Beau­ti­ful Autumn”, which is some­thing I am so thank­ful for right now! Fall has to be the best sea­son ever, it so col­or­ful and offers such  bril­liant oppor­tu­ni­ties for pho­tog­ra­phy! (you can see some of mine here)

This card was inspired by this Tues­day Trig­ger from the Moxie Fab World,

 

The sec­ond card, is all about nature and flow­ers and bright col­ors. And this is my first card with no sen­ti­ment. I need to try and make more of these! How con­ve­nient to have them on hand…

I was totally inspired by the new Color Challenge@ Embell­ish, what an awe­some color combo!

I also made this card with the new Cas-ual Fri­days chal­lenge in mind. Just add color. It was so much fun to pull out my color pen­cils and color in the stamped image. I added lots of glossy accents here on the flowers…

Now I gotta go and see what my girls are upto. Maybe give them an extra tight hug for being quiet for 15 min­utes so that I could blog this :)

But it seems toooooo quiet…

I can smell ‘mis­chief” in the air.

oh oh.

…

 

 

 

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Posted by Smitha on October 26, 2011

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{sunday card…}

by on October 9, 2011
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This whole week­end was busy, but I got a lit­tle time to clean and orga­nize my scrap table (again!). The Gem­ini in me is never happy, and I am con­stantly mov­ing stuff around (I even rearranged the liv­ing room fur­ni­ture this week…). I now have  2 sets of tiny draw­ers to hold all my most used scrap sup­plies. It makes such a dif­fer­ence to have every­thing near and acces­si­ble. Now that every­thing was neat and orga­nized, I had to go and make a card, you know, to kinda test drive the space :)

I loved the col­ors of this Tues­day Trig­ger, and had to play along.  This card was made mainly using punches, and its a super quick one to make, once you fig­ure out what papers and col­ors to use…

Sup­plies used:
Card­stock: Bazzil Basics, Wausau
Pat­terned paper: Octo­ber Afternoon
Sen­ti­ment, bor­der punch, pear punch: Fiskars
 
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Posted by Smitha on October 9, 2011

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{its a halloween party…}

by on October 3, 2011
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The new issue of Scrap­street mag­a­zine is out, it’s the Fall 2011 one! You can check it out here.

They intro­duce all the new writ­ers in this issue, and there is a cute card of mine fea­tured in that col­umn :)

I also have my first arti­cle in it (writ­ten under the help and guid­ance of their amaz­ing team…) titled “Event Sequence”. But more impor­tantly for you all, I have a call for projects for the upcom­ing Jan­u­ary issue! My col­umn is going to be titled “Inspi­ra­tion way” and you can sub­mit your projects to this call and they might get published!!

Here are the details:

Inspi­ra­tion way: All things retro!:Draw your inspi­ra­tion from the attached image below and let your cre­ativ­ity flow! Think out of the box and make a lay­out of any size or a card or an altered item, any project goes! Please include a line in your sub­mis­sion telling us how this image inspired you.
(image cour­tesy of French knot)

Dead­line is mid­night Octo­ber 30th for all calls.

Please send your work to smikatti@gmail.com

Please send a sep­a­rate email for each sub­mis­sion you would like to be con­sid­ered for pub­li­ca­tion. Please keep the image size around 600 x 600 pix­els. Thank you!

 

I also have this brand new post up on the Scrap­street blog today. Its all about the upcom­ing hal­loween party I plan to plan (hope to plan…)

Plan­ning a hal­loween party soon? Here is what you can make for it! Actu­ally these cards could be made for any party, and the best part is, they are sim­ple enough to mass produce…

These are all hybrid prod­ucts made with the new and AMAZING col­lec­tion by Carina Gard­ner called “The Raven”

I first designed the cards, tag and box dig­i­tally, and printed them onto 8.5 by 11 inch white card­stock sheets. I then trimmed them to size.
Now some pho­tos of each of them sep­a­rately,
The invite card was sim­ple to make. It was inspired by this card from the CASE study challenge#59. To make the card, sim­ply fold the card­stock to form the card. Add a rib­bon and make a bow. Add the jew­els beneath the sen­ti­ment. Isn’t that raven stunning?

Next the candy box, once I cut out the box form (I made my own tem­plate for it here), I scored the fold lines and made the box shape. Added a satin rib­bon and bow on top. I then popped up the “creepy candy” using foam adhesive.

A quick tag: here I just inked the image, made a bow and added a line of jewels.

For after the party, I made a thank you card along the same lines. This is a sin­gle layer card,  I used a pre­ci­sion knife to make small slits so that I could weave the rib­bon through, and tied it up with a small bow.

Sup­plies used:
Soft­ware: Adobe pho­to­shop CS5
Dig­i­tal kit: Carina Gard­ner “The RAven”
Card­stock: Wausau
Rib­bon: Stamp­ing up
Jew­els: Stu­dio g
Fonts: Amer­i­can typewriter

 

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