Magic Explosion Box - Cake

Hi everyone! I am back with a brand new post today and some happy news!

This is an explosion box that I made few days back. It's a pretty pink box with a cute cake inside. What's interesting about the cake is that the base is a platic scoop that comes with milk/protein powder boxes. I just cut off the handle and covered it neatly with fabric lace, plastic lace and embellished it with fabric roses and pearls/crystals. Easy peasy, isn't it? :)

Challenges entered

Itsy Bitsy – 4 P’s: Pearls, Pattern Paper, Posy, Pink

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - #241 Pearls and Lace

Card Mania - Pastel Colors

Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything Goes with Handmade Bow

Lexi's Creations - Pink

Now onto the good news part. Most of you must have seen it on my fb page, but I thought I should share it here too. I won at two blogs for my 'Upcycled Gift Box' and I am also featured at another blog for the same project. Details are as below:

1. Winner at Crafters Corner Blog 

2. Winner at Lulupu Blog

 

3. Featured at DCAM Challenges 

Crafters Corner Blog first anniversary!

Hi Friends, Crafters Corner blog is celebrating their first anniversary through some yummy weekly giveaways and a candy. Do join them in their celebrations.

I wish Shalini and everyone at Crafters corner a hearty Congratulations. Keep up the good work and thanks for bringing such fabulous products to us.
 

Upcycled Liquor Box into Gift Box

It's been a long time I made an upcycled project, and something like this had been on my mind since a long time. So I got my hands on a liquor bottle cover.. and converted it into a pretty keepsake/gift box. You can view my other recycled projects here and my recycled project tutorials here.

I have used pattern paper from Papermania pack, MS Swirling Lace Punch, pearls, punched flowers, leaves, roses from Nupur's store and the big bloom is made by me out of handmade paper. The sentiment is stamped and embossed using zing embossing powder from Crafters Corner that I won as winner of a challenge.

I have lined the upper edge of the lid with brown paper to give it a finished look. It closes sits snugly on the lower lid and to keep it in place I have used velcro dots beneath the straps [see pic2].

I filled it with some {yes, some.... i have loads of it ;)} of my junk jewellery..... that necklace peeking out was a RAK from Ekta Maker.

A view from the rear side... 

The floral arrangement sitting pretty on my shabby chic box..

The big bloom is made out of a handmade paper carry bag of a hospital. I loved the texture of this paper bag and I tore it apart to make these pretty flowers :)

Side view of the box...

Behind the scene pics...

Recycled stuff used here is:

Liquor box for base

Net from old couier envelope

Flower made of paper bag handmade paper

Old broken jewellery piece as a charm, next to brad

Challenges entered

1. Lulupu #17 - Fancy me [Fav technique – Recycling and Shabby chic]

2. Itsy Bitsy – 4 P’s: Pearls, Pattern Paper, Posy, Pink

3. Crafters Corner #12 - 3 embellishments (Flower, Pearls, Brad), 2 Pattern papers, 1 sentiment

4. Color Conceptions #4 - Spread your wings with distress inks (Worn Lipstick for Big bloom, Forest Moss for Leaves, Tattered Rose for Flourish die cut, Wild honey for Daisy centers, Vintage photo and Worn Lipstick for distressing PP edges)

5. DCAM #2 - Shabby is Chic!

DIY Flower Basket

Hey guys. I am very happy to share this project with you that I made on order last week. 

All the flowers and leaves are handmade by me. My client wanted to gift this to her husband on his birthday, and the feedback in her own words was.... " Your card and basket made my day"!!  So does mine :) .... the appreciation we get for our hardwork is the true fruit of our labour.

As you can see, there is an assortment of flowers... daisies, carnations in two sizes and some fillers. I didn't have big leaves to match the flowers, so I decided to make them on my own. I handcut white CS in mixed shapes and sizes and colored them using distress inks. I loved the natural shaded effect with distress inks.

Here is an overhead view of the basket.. 

Edited: The basket is upcycled. It was a chocolate bouquet as you can see in the picture below. I removed all the laces and raised the handle of the basket which was orgininally glued down here. I have also used the long sticks on which the chocolates were mounted, to stem the flowers. For the small blue daisies, I used my old semi-dried nail polish to color them.

 

Challenges entered

LESSology Challenge #29 - Birthday Party
Color Conceptions #4 - Spread your wings with distress inks [Leaves have been colored with Shabby shutters and Forest Moss]
Stampavie and More - #195 Flowers
Crafter's Cafe - #30 Diecuts/Punches
Crafty Sentiments - Anything But A Card
Stamp with Fun - Decoration

DIY Flower with Handmade paper

Hi everyone. I received many messages to share the tutorials of the flowers that I made recently. I will try to make more tutorials, but as of now I a sharing one simple flower tute. The best thing about this is that you can make it with basic tools and vary the size as per requirement.

I had used a similar flower in one of my cards here.

I have detailed out everything in the pictorial below. In case you have any questions, please leave a comment below.

Hope you like the tute. Do let me know if you try it.

Black and White Card with Yellow Flowers

I love trying new color combinations. And I was bored with the usual reds, pinks, etc. so I started out with a black card base. That set the ball rolling.... Then I used Black and White PPs to create the bg. I wanted to have a sentiment as the focus for my card. This sentiment is from the stamp set TPC Playful expressions.

I made the flowers using this rose flower template from the net. I traced and cut out these flowers on white handmade paper. Then I colored them using Wild Honey Distress Inks. The light and dark grey leaves are cut out from an ad pamphlet. I colored the seam binding ribbon with the same ink to match the flowers.

Here's a look at my card....

 I love the contrast of B/W with yellow and also the way these cute flowers look!!

Challenges entered

For the love of crafting - #18 Expressions

 Eclectic Ellapu - It's Sentimental

Allsorts - #222 Sentiment

Crazy 4 Challenges - 4C201 Use buttons or bows
Delicious Doodles - No. 51 Anything Floral
Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - #273 Black, white and one other color

Mixed Media Project

Hey Friends!! You all have tempted me enough to try out a mixed media project. So here it is!! My first try at MM. Though I had very limited supplies as compared to what I have seen my crafter friends use in their projects, I still wanted to give this project a try. I tried out the layout with whatever stuff I had at hand, just to see how I fare in mixed media.

I am not going to say on how this turned out to be. I need your honest comments and feedback. Do let me know so that I can improve further on this.

I was inspired by Riti Poddar's video tutorial for Crafter's Corner blog and I had wanted to try it out ever since. I must say she is a pro at it and she made it look so interesting that I couldn't help trying it out myself.

I have used various mix of things for my project. The base is a 8x8 mdf that came as a cake base. The flowers are handmade and distressed using Wild Honey and Evergreen Bough distress inks. I used white lace and colored it with distress inks. The wooden button, heart charm, Love alphabet stickers are from my stash. I have also used some mdf penants and birdies which again I have colored to match my project. I had purchased some inks from a local shop and they came handy to color the mdf frame, and other stuff like penants, sequins, etc. As inspired by Riti's tutorial I built up the bg using some mixed PP scraps, washi tapes and stamping. I used mod podge generously to stick the papers for bg. Then I applied a coat of silver acrylic paint to add a sheen to my project.

I will be waiting for your feedback, friends!! Do let me know what you feel about this. I will be more than happy to incorporate your suggestions.

Happy Janmashtami!!

Challenges entered
Color Conceptions Challenges # 3 - Nail it Down with Textures
Crafters Corner - #11 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Shopping online at Jabong.com

Ask me how happy I was to shop for free at the convenience of my home, for anything I wanted!! Yeah, isn't it a dream come true for us girls.

Let me give you a brief about what happened. Few days back, I received an email from Jabong.com and they offered me a free gift voucher. I was entralled and jumped at the offer. I had so many choices to pick up from. Though they stock everything from apparel, footwear, accessories to furniture, my favorite section was the home section. There was so much to choose from. I was literally confused as to what I should go for. Rakhi was around the corner and they had some very special packages for rakhi as well.

I decided to go for some cushion covers for my set of five 12x12" cushions.  And there again, I admit, I was totally amazed at the options available, at very reasonable prices, and I seemed to like [read: Love] them all. But then I settled for these lovely designer peacock ones: Dancing Peacock Cushion Covers (Set Of 5). I would strongly recommend all my friends to check it out for themselves.

I received the parcel within 2 days and I was kept well informed about the dispatch information through smses.  The parcel was very well packaged and I got the product in very good condition.

What I liked most about Jabong is:
1.  Prompt service 
2. Range of products
3. Exciting offers/deals

I have never seen so many options in a single category at any mall/store. A big thumbs up to Jabong!! Happy Shopping.

Posting some pics of my living room; with the new cushion covers adding some extra charm to my room.

 

Joy Fold Birthday Card

Hi Friends! Today I have a Birthday card to share which I made for my brother. It is a joy fold card and I am thinking why didn't I try out this amazing fold earlier. It has so much room to decorate and play with. I really enjoyed making this card.

I decorated the card keeping in mind some of the challenges. I twisted a paper clip to form a tiny heart embellishment. The transparent glittered butterflies are made out of acetate. I used acetate from packaging material to make these butterflies. There's also a small one I used to hold the front flap of the card.  For the top, I made a paper pinwheel and used toothpick (wooden) to form its pole.

Challenges entered

Catchy Challenges - BINGO [Acetate, Paper clips, Wood]
For the love of crafting  - #18 Expressions
Crafters Corner - #11 Anything Goes

Thank You Monochromatic Card

Hi everyone!! It feels good to post after one full month. I was MIA due to some issues on the home front. I still won't be very regular with my posts, but I couldn't resist making one card this month.

I wanted to play along the lovely challenges running this month but managed to join only a few. I picked up Deepti's Card to play along her challenge.  She is a lovely crafter who has attained great feats in a short span of time and managed to make a mark in the blog world. Kudos to you girl!!

I have cut strips of pattern paper and adhered for the bg. Added a flourish, layered some prima flowers and a paper rose flower. The sentiment stamp is from Micia.

Challenges Entered

Deepti's Challenge - CASE my Card