Pocket Memories!!

Hello Friends :)

I have a mini album to share today. I really enjoyed making this album. This is my first time doing such a miniature project & that too an album. It is made up with an empty tablets carton & a soap carton, yes both combined to add more leafs to my album!!
But love this recycling! I was inspired by Rupa's albums (Rupastofa) to make it & add some vintage look!

Have a look at my mini,

Mini Album

Mini Album

Mini Album

It has a small insert tag to close & bind this album.

I have used a handmade orange paper for front & back cover, inked the design using stencils. Small tiles at the corner are small foam pieces painted with acrylics & crackle medium to add some texture. I want the cracks to be visible but my camera ignored it!

Spine is made up of coloured burlap & pierced an eyelet to hang these pretty charms, few beads & a little dolphin painted in green, golden & copper shades, it was from an old key chain.

The inside of my album:

Mini Album

Some tiny tags here, the pocket holding the tags is covered with hand stitched vellum & added vintage border above the vellum. My album has both sided pages to add extra memories

Mini Album

These smaller flaps are made from soap carton, glued to the tablet carton & then covered with pattern papers.

Mini Album

A tiny chipboard butterfly & ticket label is from my vintage paper collection. A small twine crossed on two buttons to open the flap. Here it opens..

Mini Album

Mini Album

This small stamp on the tag is again from my vintage paper collection.

Mini Album

Mini Album

Mini Album

Hope you enjoyed this album. Do tell me!! I love to read your comments :)

Thanks for stopping by!!

Have a wonderful day :)

Linking it to

Lulupu (mini album)

Rhedd's Creative Spirit (mixed media, altered projects)

Christmas Card

Hello friends :)

Sharing a Christmas Card today!! I have lots of beautiful Christmas memories since I studied in a convent school were we used to see beautiful Christmas decorations, pretty Christmas tree, Santa Claus and there used to be Christmas plays & poems! And we used to enjoy a lot, singing & dancing & 25 December used to be the last day of our school then we had winter holidays.
So coming out of my memories & back to my card, here it is

Christmas Card

Christmas Card

Isn't it looking pretty? I just love the pattern made with glittery pink foam strips. Also there is a small bell at the corner made with yellow-golden foam sheet. White lace on the top of foam strips has been added for some snowy look. Then added few rhinestones, pearls, mulberry flowers, a small bow & a feather to complete the look. 

Christmas Card

Hope you like it! Do tell me, I love to read your comments :)

Thanks for visiting!

Have a wonderful day!!

Linking my card to following challenges:

Craftin Desert Divas (Make it Sparkle)

Ooh la la Creations (Pearls & Laces)

Crafty Sentiments (Anything goes)

Quirky Crafts (Feathers)

Winter Wonderland (image, papers, embellishments)

Cup Cake Card

Hello friends :)

Here is my another post for the day, a pretty cup cake card!!

Isn't it looking yummy? :)

The creamy portion is made up of thick card stock with circular embossing design, for the pinky shade I used oil pastels. This card stock was matted over a pink card stock which was again matted over the card base using double sided tape to give some uplift.

Sentiment is written using stickers.

Cup cake liner is made up of corrugated sheet & decorated with silver glitter.

A quick & easy card!

Hope you like it :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!!

Linking to:

Craftin Desert Divas (Make it sparkle)

Dream Valley Challenges (shaped cards)

Mini drawer box

Hello friends!! :)

Hope you all are well. I am back after long days. I really missed this blog land but I was away due to some personal reasons, but now I am back with lots of projects to share!! 
Here is my first creation, an altered box. Have a look:

Box is embellished with my handmade flowers, leaves & laces. Butterfly was cut from glitter foam using punch.

Lined the outer side of the drawer with pattern paper & added a jute string to make a pull out knob.

Base has been created using acrylics & texture paste. I gessoed the entire box first then using stencil applied the texture paste & then painted everything using acrylic colours. At the edges did some sponging using distress inks.

This was a chocolate box :)

Hope you like my project!

Let me know :) Thanks for stopping by!

Have a beautiful day!!

Linking it to following challenges:

All Sorts (Anything but card)

Ooh la la Creations (Pearls & Lace)
Craft Rocket (Anything goes)
Crafty Sentiments (Anything goes)
Unstampabelles (Anything goes- use flowers)

Diwali Table Lantern

Hello Friends!!

As we all know that Diwali is round the corner & it is a festival of lights, lamps, decoration & lots of fun, so here is what I made to add more light to this festival :)

A Lantern!! But what new?? Oh yes, It’s a table lantern with Mandana design at the base. Mandana is prepared on floor by drawing beautiful designs & here I have incorporated a small Mandana with my lantern.

Have a look!

Table lantern

Table lantern

At the sides of the lantern are two mini hand painted pots which are actually candle holder.

Table lantern

The green colour PP is a handmade paper, crushed & distressed to get this look. I also rubbed some gold dust for little shine.

For the center position of all the four sides I have used an old saree fabric for a beautiful translucent effect on lightening it up. Further decorated it with some punched flowers & festive fabric booti.

Table lantern

On top I put some sequins & at the center is a festive decoration made up of bamboo, on which I glued some embellishments from old rakhis.

For the Mandana design, wrapped a brown PP on a cardboard cut in a semicircular shape.

Pattern is made using a white 3-D Outliner. Finally added some stones & glitter to it.

Also my lantern has legs at the base made up of my mother’s old bangles.

Table lantern

                 

I recycled an old box to make this lantern, original box looked like this…

Hope you liked it!!

Waiting to read your comments :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful day & Happy Diwali in advance :)

Linking to following challenges:
Hobby Mela
Beyond Grey Challenge

Pink Frame Card

Hello Friends

I have a pink card to share today, since this month there were many challenges where the theme is "pink" so keeping in mind the colour pink, I came up with with card.

I found this sentiment on internet & got it printed.

Flowers and leaves are all made using punches.
A quick and easy card.Hope you like it. Do tell me :)
Thanks for visiting

Have a wonderful day!!

Linking to following challenges:
ooh-la-la-creations challenges (pretty pink)

crafty sentiments (pink)

crafty boots challenges (pink)

cutie pie challenge (pretty in pink)

all sorts challenge (all sentimental)

"Welcome" Wall Hanging

Hello Friends!!

Here is my another post with full of colours. This time I want to make something with flowers, leaves, butterfly, birds & all that which connects to nature! & finally came up with this wall hanging.

Welcome Wall Hanging

Welcome Wall Hanging

I used thick cardboard & corrugated planks from a cardboard carton and glued them together to get a stronger base. Before gluing, punched the cardboard to tie fiber rope with beads to hang it. Covered the entire surface with gesso. Next did some decoupaging with maple leaves decoupage napkins.

Then sprinkled some tiny dots of acrylic colours yellow, orange & crimson.

After preparing the background stuck a bamboo mat border with two woody stems at the top & bottom. These woody stems were collected from my garden & then painted. Added a small bird at the bottom woody stem.

Then started embellishing it with my handmade flowers, punched leaves, some twigs with tiny sparkling thermocol balls. Added small pretty orange berries. The butterfly was hand cut from an old rhyme book, kept safely since my childhood due to its beautiful bright colours J

Making the small maple leaves was another interesting part for which I coloured a white sheet with different colour inks, sprayed some water to let the inks spread & then punched out the leaves.

Lastly went about inking the edges with distress ink gathered twigs.

So this was all, I hope you like it. Eagerly waiting to read your comments, do tell me J

Thanks for visiting!!

Have a wonderful day!!

Linking to

All Sorts (Nature)

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.in/2015/10/week-331-nature.html

Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge (Autumn colours)

http://fussyandfancychallenge.blogspot.in/2015/10/fussy-and-fancy-challenge-149-autumn.html

Rhedd's Creative Spirit 
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/october-challenge.html

Beyond Grey Challenges
http://beyondgrey.blogspot.in/2015/10/bgc72-anything-goes.html

Pink Card

Hello to my lovely friends!! Welcome to my blog :)

Today I have a pink card to share with you all. One of my friend asked me to make a card with some feminine look in pink colour. So I thought of using ribbons, laces & flowers along with the pink & came up with this pretty pink card. Look at it..

The card has a slightly curve shape & it was looking pretty with that too!! :)

I glued two layers above the white base one in golden & the other in pink colour. Along with that broad black lace added this bright red satin ribbon & that cute red bow is handmade with silver stones in between adding an extra glow!

The little window is also handmade without using any dies! I just hand cut the window base on thick black sheet & stuck black-brown texture strips above it to give it some dimensional look.

Finally added two foam roses with a pink feather to complete the look. Sentiment tag is blank! Yes my friend wanted the tag to be left blank so that she can decide it later on, when to use it :)

Hope you like it, do tell me :)

Have a great day!!

Entering this card in

http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.in/2015/09/challenge-189.html

Napkin Fold Card with Iris & Tea Bag folding Technique

Hello Friends!!
Firstly I want to thank all my blogger friends for your lovely comments which encourages me a lot!! I love to read  & reply each & every comment & it really brightens my day :)

This time I came up with Napkin fold card and Iris & Tea bag folding techniques. This is my first attempt at both but I really enjoyed making my card with something new!
Here is my card

Napkin Fold Card

Napkin Fold Card

This card is made using a 12*12 inches sheet of paper. A paper band is made to hold the card together. The flower on the paper band is made using tea bag folding technique (open centre star). At the center glued an embellishment which was used from an old rakhi.

This card is made for my loving brother & hence the sentiment is for him :)

At the back side of the card I glued another sheet of same size as the card with Iris folding pattern on it.

You can create interesting patterns using iris folding & it's easy to make. I'll try with more patterns & will soon add a tutorial on it. Since I am entering for this month's Hobby Mela challenge & the theme is on Rakhi festival hence this page is based on this theme. The Rakhi tag at the center is made using kaiser craft alphabet stamps & outlined with golden glitter.

Hope you liked it!!

Let me know :)

Thanks for visiting. Happy Crafting!!

Linking to

www.hobbymela.com/hobbymela_contest/rakhi-the-thread-of-love/

Shine & Sparkle!!

Hello Everyone J

I altered a wooden tray this time which was lying in my house since many years, so I thought of giving it a new look. A shimmery look!!

Shimmer Tray

Shimmer Tray

Firstly I gave a good coat of wood primer all over the tray & then painted it using acrylic colours golden yellow, shimmer orange, pearl metallic gold & chrome yellow. Then rubbed some gold dust here & there while the paint was still wet. On drying applied some 3D outliner glitter rangoli using my fingers, stuck some sequins & stones at the inner sides of the tray. For the outer sides glued some purple stones & encircled them with ranger liquid pearls flamingo. Finally brushed the entire tray with gloss finish.

Shimmer Tray

There are two other altered elements in this project an ice cream cup & pistachio shells which were combined to make this

For the cup glued few layers of tissue paper & then painted it with acrylics, while the pistachio shells were used to make the flower on the top. Then using glue gun stuck all the shells onto the cup & also applied some glue dots between the shells using the same glue gun.

At the center of the pistachio flower is my handmade walnut shell mini candle which I made last year for Diwali festival.

My handmade roses are made up of crepe papers, which are very simple to make. Just twist & turn the crepe paper strip & glue the ends. For a shimmery look I used 3D outliner silver glitter on my roses.

Shimmer Tray

Added some shiny thermocol balls to the wire twig & glued a silver flower to it which was purchased from a local craft store.

Hope you liked it J

Do tell me how it is!! 

Thanks for visiting my blog!! :)

Have a great day!!

Linking this to following challenges:

Lulupu (Sparkle & shine)

 http://www.lulupu.blogspot.in/2015/09/challenge-53-sparkle-and-shine.html

Rhedd's Creative Spirit (Altered project)

http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.in/2015/09/septembers-challenge.html

Altered Eclectics (Altered project)

http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.in/2015/08/september-challenge.html

Sisters of craft (Anything goes)

http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.in/2015/09/sisters-of-craft-sept-anything-goes.html

Fab 'n' Funky (Recycle/ upcycle)
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.in/2015/09/challenge-273-recycleupcycle.html

Allsorts (Sparkle)
http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.in/2015/09/week-329-sparkle.html

Shaving Foam Technique

Hello Everyone!! :)

Today I have a new technique to share with you all, Shaving Foam Technique, which brings a beautiful effect of acrylic colours on paper.

I made two cards, first one is for my very sweet mother for her birthday.

It gave a soft, shiny & beautiful blend of colours. I used shimmer acrylic colours to get the shiny look. And shaving foam itself left few sparkles on the paper!! It is not clearly visible in the pics but believe me it is there. 

This technique was inspired by Pooja. Thanks a lot to her & the tutorial on her blog which helped me to bring out this. For complete details on this technique visit her blog

reusingwithquilling.blogspot.in/2014/02/twril-pop-up-card.html

Linking this card to:
http://www.lulupu.blogspot.in/2015/09/challenge-53-sparkle-and-shine.html



And here is my second card,

Hope you liked these cards :) Do tell me!! :)

Thanks for visiting!!

Have a great day!!