No Stamping – Varada Sharma

Thank you card using Spellbinders Small Die of the Month for May 2020

May 4th, 2020Varada0 Comments

Hi friends, new month = new dies from Spellbinders, right? And as always this month’s dies are so pretty. Today I will share a card using the Small Die of the Month club for May 2020. This set contains 5 border dies that fit the longer edge of an A2 sized cards and one slightly smaller die that cuts out ‘thank you’. I also combined it with a couple older Spellbinders products. Key Ingredients: Spellbinders Small Die of the Month club dies for May 2020 Spellbinders – Happy Collection – Shapeabilities Dies – Etched Dies – Celebrate with Cake (For …

3 more watercolored cards using Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together card kit

February 25th, 2020Varada0 Comments

Namaste! Watercoloring is going strong in my neck of the woods. And lucky for me, the current Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together card kit has 3 pre-printed watercolor cards by the amazingly talented Suzy Plantamura. I used those to create these 3 cards. For all these, I used the watercolor pencils that came with the kit. Let’s look at each of them, shall we? Card 1: I used the gray, two yellows and two greens to color these daisies. Then I fussy cut them out using my Tim Holtz mini snips and Fiskars Fingertip Precision Knife. For the background, I …

Hot foiled hearts Valentine card – January’20 Glimmer Kit Add On – “Snarky Hearts”

January 13th, 2020Varada0 Comments

Hi friends, the Sun has decided to bless us with his presence today and I am celebrating by creating a bright & cheery card full of foiled hearts :) This month’s Glimmer Foil kit is just perfect for Valentine’s day – it has gorgeous corner borders and matching dies for making envelopes + several hearts with words on them. The kit itself comes with three hearts – ‘Love you’, ‘XOXO’ and ‘Wink Wink’. These hearts do have a matching die for cutting them out and there is also one additional die that cuts out the word ‘love’ in a cute …

5 easy cards with no stamping – Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month – Jan 2020

January 12th, 2020Varada2 Comments

Hi friends, today I have 5 cards to share with you – all easy, nothing elaborate, but just some ideas to use the patterned papers and ephemera pieces. I am showcasing goodies from Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month – Jan 2020 but the same ideas can be applied to papers / die cuts from your stash too. It’s a good idea to use goodies from card kits for this because the colors, sizes and patterns are already coordinated for you. No need of any guesswork from your side, you can directly get to work. Also, the main sketch / …

3-D Flower bouquet using Spellbinders Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – Jan 2020

January 6th, 2020Varada4 Comments

Hi friends, I have a 3-d project to share with you today. I have said this several times before Becca Feeken from Amazing Paper Grace is a genius of die making. I love her dies and these vignettes just take things to next level. Let me be honest here, I was intimidated at first. For one reason or another, I have always ended up using the vignette dies in a 2d project – mainly cards. But one of my goals for 2020 is to stretch myself, overcome my intimidations and be fearless in crafting. That is why you will see …

A masculine-ish card for Valentine’s Day using Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month – Jan 2020

January 3rd, 2020Varada0 Comments

Hi friends, I love convertibles – I think they are cool (may be not always so-practical), but cool for sure. My older one loves them too, so this month’s die from Spellbinders card kit was oh so fun for us :) I also tried to make this card a bit masculine, but Valentine-themed: no bling, no pink-purple colors, but has hearts and balloons :D What do you think? For the background, I used Spellbinders “I Heart” embossing folder. I assembled the car and balloons just like I did the scooter / bike & balloons in this card: Finally, I …

2-for-1 cards using Spellbinders Small Die Of the Month Jan 2020

January 1st, 2020Varada0 Comments

Hello my dear crafty friends! A warm welcome and very best wishes for an awesome year ahead. I am hoping 2020 becomes your best creative year till date. May all your crafty dreams come true!! In today’s post I want to share some beautiful love themed cards – both made using one die set and similar supplies. The focus of this will be Jan 2020 Small Die of the Month kit from Spellbinders. For both these cards, I actually did all the die cutting at once. Using a patterned paper from my stash (I will look and link …

Last Minute Christmas Cards

December 22nd, 2019Varada0 Comments

Hi friends, are you looking for some last minute cards for Christmas? Then it’s time to pull out those stickers / ephemera pieces / pretty papers you have been collecting (like I do) :D For both cards today, I did something really simple dry embossed the card front foam mounted the focal point stickers embellished with sequins See? Easy-peasy :) Here are the cards for today and below are the supplies I used. Enjoy!! Card 1: Card 2: SUPPLIES LIST For your convenience, I am sharing links to the supplies I’ve used or the ones you can use for making …

Combining die cuts and ephemera

December 10th, 2019Varada4 Comments

Hi friends, if you are like me, you love ephemera pieces, right? I know I do and I do love to make cards with them. Today I decided to combine die cut pieces with ephemera pieces to create a quick but beautiful card. I used Spellbinders Large Die of the month for Dec 2019 as well as the coordinating Kaleidoscope Petals add-on for it (sold separately). Also all the ephemera pieces, the card base as well as the cardstock used for the die cuts used here are from this month’s card kit. I love this month’s Large Die of the …

Card idea using Dec 2019 Large die of the Month from Spellbinders

December 9th, 2019Varada0 Comments

Hi friends, happy Monday! Over the weekend I played with the Large Die of the month kit for this month from Spellbinders. It’s amazing, with so many possibilities. I managed to make a couple cards out of which one I will share today. But do keep an eye on this space, because there’s definitely more where that came from ;-) So, here’s my today’s card. I am again gravitating towards blue-gold-white: I am sure you have seen several examples where the border (outermost gold border in my case here) is layered on top of the petal-row-design (my blue border). But …

1 trick 5 cards – Spellbinders Card Kit of the month – Nov 2019

November 1st, 2019Varada2 Comments

Hi friends, 1st of the month – time for playing with Spellbinders Card kit and several other kits of the month! Today I have 5 cards to share using the card kit (and a video!). All of these use a really simple technique and are great for mass production – especially you are a subscriber to any card kit that has access to ephemera sets or you have a bunch of coordinated ephemera pieces. The one trick ? Use embossing folder to dry emboss and add ‘instant dimension’ on the card front. Here are 5 cards that use this trick. …

31 days of Spooktacular Video Hop – Halloween Decor

October 21st, 2019Varada0 Comments

Hi friends, I am so excited to share with you today’s post. Several reasons for my excitement – it’s a video hop, and yes there are several goodies to be won and it’s a home decor project made using card making supplies! Also, Spellbinders had a huge past kits sale recently so may be several of you purchased the couple older kits I am going to use today (both were on sale) and today’s post might be just the shot of inspiration to show you that you can make more than cards with these supplies. :) Here’s what I made …

Spellbinders – Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – October 2019

October 13th, 2019Varada0 Comments

She did it again, friends! The uber talented Becca Feeken created this month’s Spellbinders Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – October 2019 and these dies are just so pretty. I am seriously swooning over these. I used the delicious sparkly, creamy glittery cardstock that came in the Merry Everything card kit and beautiful 6×8 paper from Vicki Boutin Color Kaleidoscope paper pad to create this 5×7 card. I have been wanting to create a blue-white-and-green holiday card for quite some time now, instead of the traditional red-white-and-green. This die set gave me the perfect excuse for it. I did …

Spellbinders | Amazing Paper Grace kit August 2019

August 13th, 2019Varada0 Comments

So something swoon-worthy today. You ready for it, friends? I have a card to share using the gorgeous Amazing Paper Grace die of the Month for August 2019. This is a wrap – around card – the golden die cut wraps the front and the back of this card: For this one, I layered my gold mirrored cardstock with double sided adhesive from Silhouette America and then die cut these by layering the three dies from this month APG kit. I did run through my die cut machine multiple times to get good cuts and that automatically gave the gold …

Spellbinders | Inspiration Blog Hop featuring Vintage Treasures | Giveaway

July 9th, 2019Varada39 Comments

Hello hello my crafty friends ! I am so thrilled to be part of another inspiration blog hop today featuring Vintage Treasures collection by the uber talented Becca Feeken of Amazing Paper Grace. I am the last stop on this hop and you should have arrived from Mindy Eggen’s blog. She is such a talented artist!! Alright, now that we have established where we are with the blog hop, let’s look at the cards for today, shall we? Yes, both are shaped cards. You can check out two different ways to create shaped cards here. Card 1: For this one, …

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31