Mother's Day Pocket Card with Tilda

I was really excited about Mother's Day and was really looking forward to making cards for the occasion; especially since I had been able to lay my hands on two of the Magnolia Stamps on the Lulupu Store. It was almost as if I was looking for an opportunity to use them; itching to use them, actually. So when my friend Kamya said that she wanted me to make a card for her mother, I immediately stamped Tilda Loves Flowers & Tilda with Daisy on paper and showed them both to her while we were chatting on Skype.

She loved them both, but she liked Tilda Loves Flowers more. So I decided to go with that. Excited that I was, I started to colour her up immediately, just to get an idea of what the final coloured image would look like. Here are the two options I tried. But ultimately, I picked some colours from the first combination and some, from the second. And it turned out to be beautiful.

First Accordion Card

It all started when I received a call from someone who wanted to gift something special to her fiance on their engagement that was about to take place in a few days. I asked her if she already had something in her mind that she wanted me to do on the card. When she said no, I asked her if she liked something that I had already made. It was then that she told me that she wanted me to do something different and that she wanted to add a few pictures on the card too.

After giving it a bit of a thought, I realised that a simple card wouldn't be able to accommodate messages as well as multiple pictures. So I suggested an Accordion Card.

I had never made one before, so this was a challenge for me as well. But I had seen one or two Accordion cards before and I kind of knew how it should turn out, so at least I knew how to start.

I decided to make a standard size card (4.25"x5.5") The accordion flaps on the inside measured 3"x4".

Once I had those ready, it was just a matter of printing the content and the pictures out and embellishing.

Printing is always difficult and the most time consuming thing when you're making a card for the first time as you have to create a template with the right size, the right margins and of course, test it on plain paper before you can print it directly on cardstock. This obviously saves time when you decide to make a similar card again, but as I said earlier, the first time is always hard. Although the Accordion flaps were 3"x4", I made the text and photo panels 2"x3" so that there would be space left to show the Patterned paper in the background, as well as add a few embellishments.

As soon as I was done making the templates and writing all the measurements down (in inches & centimeters) for future reference, I decided to print the message out.

Lulupu Challenge #12

Good morning folks!!

Today I am going to show you a card that I made for Lulupu's Challenge #12 - My First Love, My Dad. According to the challenge, we had to creating Masculine cards for any occasion for our Dads and here's my take on it. :)

Lulupu Birthday Celebrations - Guess 'N Win Contest

Wow!! I just checked the date of the last post on this blog and it was almost a year ago. I'll admit, I have been lazy and you can be rest assured that there will be many more posts in the future that'll come with this apology. If there was a way around it, it would have been great. Sadly, there is no cure for laziness. Sigh.

I have been pretty busy and 2012 and the beginning of 2013 have been pretty awesomely hectic what with getting married and all. That's a pretty good excuse to not post on the blog, eh? But I don't have that excuse anymore; especially now that I'll be crafting again - soon and regularly.

Anyway, I'll get straight to the point. Lulupu - The Craft Lounge is celebrating its first birthday this entire month. In my laziness I have missed spreading the word about the Blog Hop that we did and this month's challenge, but I am letting you know about it here. It's never too late to get on board with awesomeness, right?

What's new today, is that Lulupu has announced the first contest that is a part of their birthday celebrations, and it is fun contest with a cool prize at the end of it. So hop on over to the blog by clicking here (it will take you straight to the post) and win this thing!! :D :D

Another Sneak Peak

Hello folks!! I know, I know... It's as if I have almost stopped posting here, but it's not because I don't remember that this blog exists (wait, I sometimes do forget!) It's more so, because I haven't really been crafting unless I'm due to post on the Lulupu Blog! Yeah, I know that's cheating, but let me be honest, I've been having fun.

So as you may have guessed, I have another post coming up - a card with it's video tutorial!! It seems to me like I've only been doing video tutorials the past few days, and let me tell you, it's exhausting especially when you have to work with a tripod between you and your project!!

But since the outcome is so awesome, I really don't mind.

So the post and the video are coming up on the Lulpu Blog in about ten minutes after this post goes live. But I don't mind giving you guys a sneak peak of the card. ;)

It has coffee and my favourite colours - Antique Lenin, Vintage Photo and Rich Cocoa!!! :D

You can find the post and the video HERE. Just on the off chance that you've landed here before 10.00 AM IST on 23rd March, 2012; I would suggest you wait till it's 10 and then click on the link!! 

And I will try to make the next post about an independent project. My poor blog has been neglected for too long now! ;)

See you next time,

Love,

Nikita.