Christmas Wreath - Rustic

Hello guys
Here I am sharing yet another wreath with you all today. I made this rustic wreath for my friend using burlap and twigs and some handmade ribbon.....so much fun making this. This wreath is 16" in diameter and is quite big and heavy.....its a perfect door embellishment.

To make this wreath, I have used burlap and white lace from ItsyBitsy. The big ribbon bow is made from scratch by me...I painted red and green stripes on white cloth and then glued it on white cardstock to add a little stiffness to it. Once dry, I then made my festive bow. I further embellished it with gold bead chain. I made my own ribbon because I didnt have any I my stash.

I built the center using twigs and wired green berries and finished it all with my bow and a blingy center. Its made using such simple supplies but it looks like a lot of effort has gone into making it. Here are a few more close ups of my festive wreath....hope you all will like this.

I am putting us this wreath at the following blog challenges:-

1. Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #180 - Anything Christmas Goes
2. More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything goes optional White
3. Scrapping4fun Challenge #130 - Christmas
4. Mix It Up challenge #20 - Anything Goes optional twist no stamping.

Getting ready for Christmas with a Holiday Wreath.

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Welcome to my blog. I have a Holiday wreath to share with you all today. Christmas is all about gifts and I made this wreath for my friend....I have been wanting to make and send something handmade for his all this time and finally found this perfect opportunity....right after I taught making Rustic Home Decor Wreath at the ItsyBisty Creativity Carnival at Bangalore on 9th Dec, 2018. This wreath is really big and measures 16" in diameter.... so its appropriate for your doors or any other space you wish to decorate.

Now that I am back....here is what I made from my friend....I hope you guys like it too. All the supplies used are from the ItsyBitsy craft store.....and you can buy it all from their physical or online store. I have used a lot of flowers, glitter, wicker balls, paper rope, metal wreath frame, pom pom trim, paper ribbon and sugar pollens to build my wreath, My choice of adhesive is silicon glue which is really cool and adheres well. I had so much fun building this one.

Here are a few more close ups of the floral arrangement....these flowers are such good quality and look so elegant. I hope you all can see the sparkle gold star at the back...which I felt is kinda icing on the cake....my project would have felt incomplete without it.

I am entering this wreath at the following blog challenges

1. Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #180 - Anything Christmas Goes
2. More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything goes optional White
3. Scrapping4fun Challenge #130 - Christmas

Thank You for stopping by..have a fun day ahead.

Sending you Joy - Handmade card

Hello everyone
I am back with another Christmas card for you all...following the Christmas in July theme. So this one is a pretty simple card but took me some time as I did a little watercoloring.....

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:

1. Addicted to Stamps and more Challenge #248 - Holiday
2. Cute Card Thursday Challenge -#284 - Anything Goes
3. DLART June Linky Challenge - Anything goes
4. Inky Chicks Challenge #85 - Christmas 
5. Word Art Wednesday  Challenge #288-289 - Anything Goes
6. Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

I started with a Off white cardstock cut to 41/4"by 5 1/2". On this I did some ink blending using crushed olive distress ink. I dried it with my heat gun and then I did some stamping with Cottage Ivy memento dye ink using leaf like stamp. This stamp is actually from Mudra Christmas decor stamp set and I used the deer stamp and the horn part of it which looks like mistletoe to stamp. 

Then, I turned the cardstock over and did some stamping using music notes stamp from Sheena Douglas Festive stamps -A Little Bit Festive A6 Stamp Set - Christmas Elements Stamp set using Memento Rick Cocoa dye ink. I stamped it repetitively until my entire front was covered. Then I snipped the edge and made it took like it was torn. I trimmed the cardstock  by 1/4" on the vertical side and mounted this on a gold glitter cardstock strip which was just 1"wide and 51/2"long. I then added this panel to a grey A2 size cardbase. I just wrote JOY sentiment using some watercolor pencils. 

Now, was the fun part where I heat embossed and then watercolored the poinsettia like flower which is from Mudra Simply Floral stamp set. I have watercolored using Abandoned Coral and Candied Apple distress ink. I fussy cut it and added it to the card front. Finished my card with beautiful shiny gold sequins from Mudra Stamps and a little Clear Wink of Stella on my flower.

I hope you like my card.

Supplies used :-

1. Grey 220gsm cardstock
2. Christmas decor - Mudra Stamps
3. Sequins- Gold - Mudra stamps
4. Sheena Douglas Festive stamps -A Little Bit Festive A6 Stamp Set - Christmas Elements Stamp
5. Off White Cardstock 220gsm
6. Gold glitter paper- Itsybitsy
7. Versamark - ItsyBitsy
8. Ranger Multi medium matte- The craft shop
9. Wow Heat gun- ItsyBitsy
10.  Ranger Superfine White Embossing powder - The craft shop
11. Simply Floral - Mudra Stamps
12. Distress inks - Abandoned Coral ,Candied Apple and Crushed Olive
13. Cottage Ivy Memento Dye Ink
14. Watercolor brush
15. Black Watercolor Pencil