Tanika Iswandari: May 2015

Hello friends,

It seems that everywhere I take trip to the blog land, the theme is about flowers. So I created greeting card using flower image as below.

Firstly, I color the background strip using Distress Ink Tattered Rose and a strip stencil that I created myself from plastic cotton pack. Since I don't have flower stamps yet so I'm using flower image from a wrapping paper. I glued the image on a paper and cut it with scissor. I manually cut the flowers into two, one I use double tape to attach it on the card and another, I use foam tape. Thus, would give a paper tole effect. I also add coloring to the image with Prisma Pencil to make it more alive and less stiff.

For the finishing touch I add some sequins and a happy birthday die cut sentiment which I got from -mbak Nova- two years ago from her die cut pack of challenge gift back in 2013 :)

I enter the card on the following challenges:

A Gem of A Challenge - Challenge #145 Flowers

Artistic Inspirations - Challenge #132 Anything Goes with a twist of die cuts

Melon Headz Friends - Flower Everywhere Challenge

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Challenge #229 Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #108

Thank you for visiting my blog and hope you'll have a lovely Sunday with your loved ones!

See you soon!

Materials I used:

Cardstock - local paper white color and cream pattern

Strip background coloring - Distress Ink Tattered Rose

Strip stencil - DIY from plastic cotton pack

Image - Flower from wrapping paper

Word - from a friend

Sequins - non branded collection

Hello friends,

Today, I created a very simple card using only sentiment that I made myself. When I heard a word story, so many things came up in my mind.. fairytale, success story, career story etc., but one thing that is really linger is of course.. a love story :) However, since I don't have a stamp that can represent my idea, so I decided to create one and used it as an image for the focal point.

To make it a bit romantic, I add a butterfly stamp from a stamp maker company (I got this years ago and this is the first time I've ever used it) and colored it with Prisma Coloring Pencil. I hand drawn the dots on the card to frame the sentiment with Staedler brown color pen.

I created the sentiments using Stampendous (Happy Messages) for the word "You" and Kaiser Crafts (Christmas Sentiment) for the word "Love" and the "line" image (which I used to give impression of stack of papers). As for other alphabet, I'm using non branded Alphabet Stamp from local book store. I add sequins to give the card a bit of light :)

I enter this card for the following challenge:

CASology Challenge - Story

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and hope have a lovely weekend! :)

Materials I used:

Card Stock - Local papers

Coloring image - Prisma Color Pencil

Coloring frame - Staedler Pen

Butterfly image - free sample from a stamp maker company

Word "you" - Stampendous happy messages

Word "love" - Kaiser Crafts Christmas Sentiment

Hello friends!

I hope that you all have a great week. Myself, this week I have been more productive than I was on weeks before or maybe compare to last years too hehe...

This week, I'm using Tilda and as this is my first ever time to use her so I really hope that the result is good :) I got Tilda from my talented and lovely friend -Melissa from Melz Handmade- and the die cut sentiment is from my talented and lovely friend -Ayu from Mimipipi Crafts-. The die cut sentiment is originally a polaroid die cut and mostly used as frame. But I decided to cut the frame and use only the sentiment.

I colored the image using Prisma Pencil and created the background using >> DIY Stencil from snack pack << that I made last week. I colored the background using Brilliance Galaxy Gold Ink and for finishing touch I add some sequins.

I enter this card to the following challenges:

Indonesia Magnolia Lovers Challenge - Tantangan #16 Clean and Simple

Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #108

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Challenge #229 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for your visit and have a lovely day! :)

Materials I use:

Card stock - local kraft paper

Coloring image - Prisma Coloring Pencil

Image - Tilda in bee costume from my friend

Sentiment - smile die cut from my friend

Background coloring - Brilliance Galaxy Gold Ink

Hi friends,

I made another cards to join in two great challenges.

My card theme is get well soon with simple and clean design.

I used white and black card stock from drawing paper. I created the simple and easy-to-make roses from paper, just cut them in circle and roll it starting from the edge then stick it to the base with white glue. I created the background using black drawing paper, colored it with Simbalion pastel color and attached it to a white card stock. I wrote the sentiment on computer and then printed it on vellum, glue it on a tiny paper and attached it on the card. For finishing touch, I added some sequins just to make it more alive :)

I join this card on the following challenges:

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog - Challenge #117 Get Well Soon

Check out their blog to see fabulous creations from the DT and participants

AND

The Card Concept - #35 Frilly & Fabulous

The theme is focusing on simple and clean design. I was inspired by Kerin Sylvester with her clean & layered style. I love her paper roses and the background wood she created! Check out their web to see amazing creations from other DT.

Thank you for reading my post and have a lovely day! :)

Materials I use:
Black Card Stock - Canson drawing paper
White Card Stock - Non branded local paper
Vellum - Non branded local paper
Paper Flowers - Non branded local paper
Pastel Color - Simballion Sketch Pastel
Sequins - Non branded personal collection

Hello friends!

Hope you had wonderful weekend holiday with your family and get more energy to start your weekday activities tomorrow! :)

I managed to make some cards this weekend and here's one of them:

It's very clean and simple card. I used white card stock and put a wedding ring sticker which I got from my lovely cousin and then stamped it using Brilliant Dew Drop Ink Galaxy Gold with sentiment on it from KaiserKraft "Being together is the best gift of all". Well, even though the stamp is from Christmas theme collection, I use it coz the meaning of the words is quite universal to me.

I made this card to join the following challenge:

CASology - Week #147 Wedding

Thank you for reading my post!

See you soon :)

Hello friends,

I'd like to share my newest greeting card.. for you.. yes, you my friend!... coz you've come here and spend your valuable time to visit and read my post.. so thank you and you're the best!! :)

On this card, I'm using my >> DIY Stencil from plastic snack pack << which is also another way for me to recycle the plastic. I have to tell you that the stencil really does work!! Well, I'm sure it stays long until I can afford the proper one :)

So for details, I created and printed out the sentiment on vellum paper and then stick it on a masking paper tape. I made flower from cork sheet and cut it manually, I created the background using the plastic stencil tool and color it with dew drop ink (olive color), give small pearls on the flowers, leather twine and added some sequins for the finishing touch :)