Mister and Missis - Mini album and a Box featuring Papericious Flora season pattern paper.

Hello everyone
It certainly has been a busy month for me with work and festivals.....I try very hard to blog about the products I make but sometimes...few of them get missed. I am particularly very fond of this one and I made sure I write a post about this one....Presenting a new mini album featuring The flora season pattern paper from Papericious....isn't it gorgeous. This album is wedding gift but I didnt want it to be restricted to only wedding photos and so I added the Label Mister and Missis...so its perfect for any photo as a couple.

I do not have much time to write a tutorial for this mini-albums but I will certainly add pictures and list of supplies used. I have followed the page layout by Ginger Ropp from My sister scrappers. I love the way this album turned out and I hope my client is happy with it. This is the second album I have made using The flora season- pattern paper and I just love this paper pack....beautiful pastel shades and very pretty.

This album and the box was a custom designed for a wedding and was a rush order.....but I have tried my best to capture few pics before it left my door.  This album is decorated using resin frames, Mdf embellishments, mulberry flowers, rhinestones, laces, pearls, metal chrarms and other little things which add little details tot his projects. I have used doilies in this project which I think looks perfect as a picture mat and peeks from behind the photos.....super cute.

 

Supplies:-
White cardstock (220gsm) - A1 craft
Chipboard ( 1500 gsm) - Anupam stores
Green, violet and maroon cardstock ( Itsybitsy)
The flora season- Pattern paper ( Papericious)
Red tacky tape - Itsybitsy and Jasmine Siddiqui
Aleene's tacky glue and Fevicol
MS score board
Tonic trimmer and guillotine cutters
Embellishments are from Itsybitsy
Mulberry  flowers used are from Itsybitsy, A1 craft, Jasmine siddiqui and crafters corner.
Rhinesstones and pearls- Itsybitsy
Trims and ribbons- Itsybitsy
laces from my own stash
eno greeting ephemeras
vellum- Itsybitsy
Silicon glue - Itsybitsy
Metal charms- A1 craft
Chipboard elements -Itsybitsy

I am adding a video here which is uploaded on my youtube channel which will walk you through this entire album.

I am adding my project at Papericious challenge for October which insists on the use of laces. I wanted to use the newly launches Papericious laces but I just couln't get my hands on them. They have some beautiful product release last month.

I am also putting up this album for Itsy bitsy challenge#1 which want us to use Little birdie chipboard elements. I have used the Chipboard ornate frame on the Box cover as well as inside the Album on one of the pages.

ITSY BITSY CHALLENGE#1-2016

Theme - Anything Goes using the Itsy Bitsy LITTLE BIRDIE CHIPBOARD SHAPES

I hope you all liked this album and please leave me some love when you visit me. I would like to hear everything you want to say about this album. Thank you for reading my post and visiting me. I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead.

Diwali Diyas

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Diyas are getting painted and decorated at a very rapid pace....which is very unusual for me...as I am a very competant person and dunt like anything to be messed up. Everything has to be perfect mostly beacause these diyas are made specially for family and friends to be gifted for Diwali.

Yet again, I bought these diyas from a local potter and then painted them using pearl acrylic colors and decorated with some rhinestones. Don't they look pretty and cute.....I have made around 100-150 of these and I am putting pictures of them. They are just repeated patterns and so I am putting up one from each type I made.

Thank you for reading my post and I hope you all like it.

Peacock diyas

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Its all festivals in India....and i am gearing up for diwali. Diwali or Deepavali is the festival of lights and its not complete without lighting up oil diyas or lamps or panti. Every year I paint and decorate 100 or more for frenz and family as a Diwali favor with sweets and other gifts.

so, painting diyas on my end is going on in full force at my home and I thought to share a few pictures of one particular diya I have painted.

This is a Peacock diya and I have painted it with pearl acrylic colors and added some shimmer for the pretty shine. I added a few rhinestones to them to make them look a little blingy. Took me around 1 hours to paint 2 diyas and decorate them.
I hope you all like it. Thank you for reading my post.

Happy 1st birthday

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Its been long since i have blogged about something. Though I have been adding pics and products on facebook....I haven't really posted anything here. Its new month and new challenges are announced and it makes me all excited to make something new...its fun to work within the given guidelines...kinda tests my limits and makes me think a little different.

So here is a new card which I have made to participate at the monthly challenge at Peek-a-boo designs. They have completed one year and the challenge is to make a card using red, gold and number 1 with a additional twist using stenciling or 3d Layered projects or dash of glitter or your own stamped background.

My take on this Recepie challenge is the above card. I have incorporated glitter in the form of glitter pens and chunky glittered number, gold sequins and gold microbeads, red stenciling and red cardstock and I have made my own background on the shaker window using hearts from peek-a-boo stamp set.

I am also linking this card to Paruscardmakingchallenges for this month which says a hint of gold, creative with stamps Sentiment challenge for october and A blog named hero october challege - Geometric.

Also, I am putting my card up at Lulupu october challenge - bling a ding with a stamping twist. which says we need to more than a sentiment and since i have stamped some hearts on the card....I thought to put it up for this challenge.

I started with stenciling using Itsybitsy stencil and Memento Lady bug dye ink. Then I made a shaker window using some acetate sheet and a cardstock frame. I made my own background on the frame using heart stamp from Peek a boo Place Photo stamp. I used the little heart from this stamp set as I wanted to add hearts and I thought to use this stamp set and put it to a different use than what we usually use it for.

I scribbled inside these hearts using gold pen and then added Itsybitsy gold sequins and Itsybitsy microbeads inside the shaker window. For the sentiment on the card, I tore some vellum and then stamped the sentiment using Black Archival ink pad. The sentiment set is from JustRite Grand handwritten sentiments, The number one is made using Black chipboard which I cut and added some chunky glitter again from Itsybitsy. I finished the card front using some gold and black sequins

For the inside, I didnt do much except stamp the sentiment on white cardstock using Itsybitsy Black Pigment ink pad.the sentiment is from Peek a boo Happy birthday to you stamp set. It got a bit smudged and I had to go over it with a microtip black pen.

Well that's my card. I hope you all like it. Thank you for reading my post.

Diwali Cards

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I am posting today some handmade Diwali cards which are very clean and simple with minimum embellishments. I have made this for Cards for a Cause-India where Neha Gala who owns A1 Craft shop in Andheri East, Mumbai is doing a drive for collecting cards for our soldiers on the borders. I really like her store and she had most of the things you need for crafting.

 What she is is doing is collecting cards from willing people and send it to Leh, Hall of Fame and I feel she is doing an amazing job. I feel we should all support this cause and add as many cards as we can to this.Its a wonderful gesture and I wanted to participate in this. So made a few encouragement cards and Diwali cards myself.

Since, using embellishments was required to be minimum and glitter or sequins was not advised, I used buttons in my cards with some paper twine in my cards. I started with standard A2 size card and used pattern paper which has gold motifs on them. Layered this pattern paper on some gold cardstock and mounted them on my card base. To add some decoration, I wound some paper twine and finished with a button and a bow.

On the inside, the cards is pretty simple. I added a strip of pattern paper on the side to bring in some color. For dark cardbases, I have added white cardstocks on the inside to enable the use of any inks available with our jawans.

The envelopes are simple ones made with the same color as the card base and and matching pattern paper. The happy diwali stamp is actually a combined stamp. Diwali is from Peek-a-boo stamp and Happy is from Fiskars petals from Scratch stamp set. The stamping is done using Black Archival ink so its permanent and waterproof.

That's all from me.....and I hope all of you can add some cards from your side. Those of you who do not have a stamp or inks.....don't hold back. Use waterproof pens to write messages and sentiments....use anything you have to make cards. We should appreciate our soldiers who are fighting for us on the border...and these little encouragement notes and cards will mean a lot to them.
Thank you all for reading my post and have a great day.

Supplies:

Cardstock- ItsyBitsy

Buttons- Itsy bitsy and A1 craft

Paper twine - Anupam Super store

Pattern Paper - Anupam super store

Stamps - Peek--boo and Fiskars

Ink- Archival Black ink

Silicon Glue - Itsybitsy

I am adding this card to this month's challenge at Ranganjali.