Tiaras

Hello everyone
How are you all doing? Its another rainy day with some strong showers in Mumbai today...very cloudy and very dull. Well everything can be fixed with a little craft and so I decided to do a post on tiaras. this was however pending since many days and had to done soon.
So for all of you who sent me meaasges about tiaras....this one is for you.

Flower tiaras are incredibly easy to make and look pretty when adored by almost anyone. You can never go wrong with flowers and a little ribbon. To make tiaras, we dunt need much supplies, however I will give you a little gist of what you might need.

Supplies:

Floral wire
Green tape
Mulberry flowers and buds
Pollens
Mulberry leaves
Satin ribbon or organza ribbon and any other ribbon
Wire cutters and wire pliers

I have listed basic supplies but yet again you can add pearls and little charms and anything else you like. You need not worry if you cant find mulberry paper flowers....use anything you can get your hands on.

We start by first making a circle with the wire and make is so big that it will crown your head. Cut the wire an inch shorter and make little loops at ends. You can even double your wire if you think your wire is too thin. I always double mine or just buy thicker wires. That way, they dunt fold under the weight from the flowers.
Once you do that, start coiling your wire with green tape and simultaneously adding flowers and leaves to the tiaras. I add my pollens to the tiaras by adding them to the wire and covering it with green tape. I add this to the tiaras while I am adding flowers.
Once you do that, you can arrange your flowers as they are wired and are more pliable now. You can add ribons at the ends so the one who adorns it can tie a neat bow at the end.

Incredibly easy to make and very cute when worn. If you need a video tutorial for this, please let me know and I will shoot one for you.Thank you for reading my post and have a great day.

Bridal Shower- Photo Booth/ Picture Frame

Hey eveyone
I am back with another Bridal shower product. I have been working on decorations for a Bridal shower and try to upload few of the things I have done. So here is a new one, its a Photo booth where you just hold this frame in your hands and take pictures. Isn't it cool?

This frame is 2 feet by 1.9 feet in size so approximately 24" x 21" in size. It was very overwhelming at the beginning when I started to make it, but once I was sure about the size and what I wanted to do, it was not so much difficult.

Supplies:

• Chipboard ( Full size or as big as you can get)/ Sunboard/ mountboards/cardboards
• Pink Handmade Paper ( Itsybitsy)
• Pink and chevron Pink washi tapes. ( Crafters Corner)
• Pearls ( self adhesive or flat back)
• Velvet leaves ( 1"in size)
• Mulberry roses ( 1"in size)( Itsybitsy)
• Curling ribbons  in shaes of pinks and whites (Itsybitsy)
• Satin ribbon ( Itsybitsy)
  Metallic paper (Itsybitsy)
• Glitter confetti (Itsybitsy)
• White dulplex papers/ crepe papers/ tissue papers
• White wire pollens
• White, offwhite and pale yellow thread pollens
• Think floral wire
• Walnut Stain distress ink pad and blending tool
• Silicon glue/ hot glue gun (Itsybitsy)
• White adhesive
• Scissors

There are a lot of things that have brought this frame come to life. I have used chipboard 1200 gsm for the frame. To make it very sturdy, I have doubled it. Then, I went ahead and wrapped it up using pink handmade paper. I added some washi tapes using adhesive so that they do not peel off at all. This gave me the layout for the photo booth. For further embellishing, I added some velvet leaves and mulberry roses to the corners using some silicon glue. Silicon glue really did hold all the things in place.

Using a leaf template, I cut 4 leaves from the gold metallic paper and then distressed it using Walnut stain distress ink. I added some rose gold glitter confetti on the leaves using some white adhesive. I simply outlined the leaves with white adhesive and then poured the glitter on it. Let it sit for few mins and then shake it off.

I made few white flowers using white and pale cream Duplex paper. I have used duplex paper because it has different colors on its faces. You can also used tissue paper, crepe paper. I created the center for the flowers using a bunch of wire pollens and a bunch of white, off white and pale yellow wire pollens, I have done 2 roses and 2 peonies using two different techniques. Once the flowers were done, I added some glitter on the flowers using the same technique used for leaves. I did not add chunks of glitter, just some here and there. I shall do a tutorial for making these flowers in my upcoming post and so I have not including the tutorial here.

I arranged the gold leaves and big white flowers on the frame and adhered them using silicon glue. To fill the remaining places, I added some curling ribbons and satin ribbons. Finished the frame with some self adhesive pearls.
I am putting this project up at Allsorts challenge blog.

That completes the frame/ photo booth. I hope you all liked it and thank you for reading this post.

Bride - To - Be Banner

Hey everyone
I hope you all are having a good day. With lot of things going around me and I am still trying to catch up with most of it, but I try to blog whenever I can and try to share new work that I do. So today, I am sharing a beautiful banner which is meant for a Bridal shower. The theme happened to be Peach and Pink and the banner I made is according to the theme guidelines.

 

I have made this banner using Black chipboard, White cardstock, pattern papers, doilies, chipboard alphabets, satin ribbons, glitter confetti and few embellishments.

I started with 11 black chipboard pieces which were cut to 4" by 5.5" in size. You can change size according to your preference. Then I cut a banner edge to them making centers. I layered out some white cardstcok over them which were cut about 1/4" smaller in size wrt to the chipboard. 

Over this white cardstock, I adhered Papericious Pattern Paper Baby Girl using red tacky tape. Once all was done, I went ahead and added 3.5"round doilies over the banner pieces.

I added some white adhesive over the chipboard alphabets from ItsyBitsy and covered them with confetti glitter in rose gold also from Itsybitsy. Once it dried, I added more glue and added more glitter. Tis gave the alphabets some dimension. Once thoroughly dried, I glued them to the banner pieces, I decorated the banner with few butterfly diecuts from ItsyBitsy, Pearls, and little sequin flowers in bridal tinsel bought from a local stationary store.

The spacer hearts between the words were fussy cut by me and covered with glitter as the alphabets were.Once everything was completely dried, I punched holes in the banner pieces and joined them together using Satin ribbon from ItsyBitsy. I knotten them todether and added a little bows . at the banner ends, I used 1/2" pink satin ribbons and added few more pieces of satin ribbons to them to make a little tassle.

It took me about 3 - 4 hours to get it ready completely because I was figuring put what to do while working. It should take 2 hours once you completely figure out what you what to do.

So that's all for today guys, I hope you all liked it. I am putting this banner up to the Papericious challenge for this month. - Anything Goes.

Thank you for reading my post and I hope you all have a fantastic day ahead.