Exploding Box - Birthday

Hi All. Here is an Exploding Box that I made on order. This is the second one that I made. The first one is not shared yet as I need to complete few things in it. In the meanwhile I made this for a friends Birthday.

Please excuse me if you see an overdose of the MS Doily punch in my projects as this is my first MS punch :) I have done the border of the lid with it. The yellow flowers are made using BIG daisy punch.

I have created two different types of flowers: one in full bloom and one closed. The leaves and tendrils are handcut.

I used black glitter balls for the flower center.

A peek at the inside. This cake is totally inspired by Karuna's Magic Explosion Box. I totally loved her creation and it inspired me to try it out too.

I pasted the photos of the birthday girl on the corner flaps of the box. They fold in when the box is closed.

The cake with all the punched flowers and butterflies over it.

I added Happy Birthday sentiment on two side of the box and left two sides black for the person who had ordererd it to write their own wordings. As you can see here, the corners of the photos are also done with MS Doily punch.

Hope you like my work :) Have a good day!

Challenges entered

ICRC19 - Fancy Folds + Anything but Easel Cards

Mishelflo's Challenge - Blooming birthday wishes

Crafty Cardmakers - Create your own Flowers

Mini Album - Just for you

Hi All. Ever since I made the CD Mini Album for the swap for Swap Central India, I am glued to making mini albums. This is the second one I made after that. Have a look :)

This is the cover of the Mini Album. It is approx. 4x4".

the first and second pages..

 Tags for the second page..

Tags

 Next pages

 Last pages

 Back cover

 All the tags included in the album...

Challenges entered

Lulupu's July Monthy Challenge - Mini Albums

Quilled Earrings

Here are some more quilled earrings that I made for ICR CASE Sequel. These ones I made in single colors. Please see some more earrings, made in multiple colors in my previous post.

Final packaging...

Quilled Earrings for ICR CASE Sequel

Hi! Below are some of the Quilled earrings I made for ICR CASE Sequel. It was so much fun to make them. I made some in multiple colors also.

See more earrings made in single color in another post here.

Mega Celebration Event no 5 - Treasure Hunt

Hello all! I am back with a bang! Hope you've been participating in my mega celebrations. If not, check out all the happenings on the main post here.....
And now, let's move on to event no. 5 -Treasure Hunt.

How to play
Below are hints to some of my projects/posts made over the last few years. All you need to do is find them in my blog and send me the corresponding post name. Easy, isn't it? Especially if you have been following my blog, this shouldn't take much time!! In case you have any queries, write to me, or comment on this post.

1. My only slider card till now
2. Card set, old price tag from John Players
3. Border, made of fabric
4. Green Design code G001
5. Colored Fringed flowers, wreath
6. Tirath and Shruti, Wedding
7. Umbrella, Quilling
8. Heart Stencil, Cake
9. Mom, Dad: Lettering
10. Monochrome, Pie Lane Stencil
11. Certificate, Christmas
12. Levis tag, Punched flowers
13. Quilled key, Brown, old calendar
14. Green CS, Roses
15. Heart digi, 4 times

Please note:

1. Send in your answers to indira.bhullar@gmail.com.

2. The last date to send entries for this event is Friday, 29th June midnight.

 The first correct entry will win a wonderful goody bag from me!!

Mega Celebration Event no 4 - Things to do with a circle punch

Hi all! I am back with another fun post. I actually wanted to call it 7 things to do with the circle punch but I guess I will certainly discover more things in the time to come and keep adding to this post.

But for now I will stick to 7 simple things to do with the circle punch. I will try and illustrate with some of my stuff where I have used these. I will also pick-up stuff around the net and link to it wherever I find good use of the circle punch.

1. Bunting – Punch out assorted pattern papers or colored papers and cut them into half and use as bunting.

Used here in a mini book..

Used here in a mini album...

2. Borders – Punch out colored / pattern papers and stick them to form a scalloped border. To add more fun to this design, you can also punch each of the pieces.

Used here as top border, overlapping...

Used here as side border, not overlapping......

All around border for circular easel card...

3. Flowers – There are many types of flowers that you can make using round punch.

Flower made using 7 circles.

1 punch manys ways :) [click to enlarge]

Step 1: Fold the paper and punch from the folded side.

Step 2: The petals should look like these.

Step 3: Combine 3 petals to form a tulip.

Step 4: Add 2 more petals on each side to form a lotus.

Step 5: Turn the lotus upside down and add another petal to form a 3D flower.

4. Background – Punch out assorted pattern or colored papers and randomly stick on the base to form a background. You can also punch out circles in different sizes.

[Source: Brenda's Crafty Corner]

5. Stamping – Use a small stamp to stamp a design on paper and punch it out with your circle punch. Or you can use a big stamp to stamp different parts of the design on 3-4 punched out circles to create a different look. Use these circles to decorate your card.

A small butterfly stamp...

A bigger stamp inked from different areas...

6. Frame corners – Cut the punched circle into four and stick on the corners of paper to create a frame type look.

Used here on 2 corners...

7. Tabs: You can either use the full circle for creating tabs or cut it into half. I have marked months on the tabs and attached on pages of the booklet.

 

Interesting references from the net:

1. Five Things to Make with a Circle Punch

2. Various uses of circle punch

3. Circle Punch Parachute

4. Circle punch card scraps

5. Shadowbox hearts

6. Circle punch cherries