Handmade Gaddi Box/ Cash Gifting Box/ Cash Envelope for Weddings

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Happy Diwali to you all. I am sharing my new project today...a gaddi box for cash gifting. Though the original purpose of this was to accommodate money bundles.....I however feel it will be an apt gift box or chocolate box. You can click here to go to the previous post where I have few more colors in this design.

I made my own pattern paper this time and it was so much fun to do that. I used Sprays and shakers from Lindy's Stamp Gang along with gold stencilling and splatters. To make these boxes, I have used 300 gsm white cardstock .The the ribbons, chipboard embellishments and most of the flowers are from Itsybitsy as well. I have gold heat embossed the chipboard embellishments using Ranger Gold embossing powder. I have also added diecut leaves using Curvy Leaves Die from Elizabeth craft designs. I did use gold foiled papers and iridescent glitter to add a lot of sparkle and shine. 

This box is big enough to hold 100 notes of INR 2000....thts a lot of money to gift someone. That is it from me today....I hope you all liked it. Thank you for visiting me and have a great week ahead.

Red Gaddi Box | Gift Box | Chocolate Box | Cash Gift Box

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Today I have a new colors of gaddi box for you. I made 25 of these as a custom order for a wedding ceremony. Though the original purpose of this was to accommodate money bundles.....I however feel it will be an apt gift box or chocolate box. Previously I had 3 colors available in this and I am so glad to include the 4th color this time. You can click here to go to the previous post.

To make these boxes, I have used 300 gsm white cardstock. The beautiful printed papers are from ItsyBitsy from L'Amour collection.The the ribbons, chipboard embellishments and most of the flowers are from Itsybitsy as well. I have gold heat embossed the chipboard embellishments using Ranger Gold embossing powder.I have also added diecut leaves using Curvy Leaves Die from Elizabeth craft designs.

This box is big enough to hold !00 notes of INR 2000....thts a lot of money to gift someone. That is it from me today....I hope you all liked it. Thank you for visiting me and have a great week ahead.

Event Decor Ideas - Baby Arrival

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I am here to share a few ideas to decorate your home to welcome your new baby or you can do that for someone else. I enjoyed decorating a clients house...and it hardly took time. I made a bunch of rosettes and butterflies and decorated the entire place...so much fun when its for a baby girl. i get too involved when I get to play with pinks and glitter.

This is the Desset station....and the wall has a big onesie banner along with rosettes and butterflies....so cute isnt it.

I also went nuts decorating the cradle with a glitter crown and more butterflies and hanmade rosettes...loved the pinks at play here.

And here are the doors of the nursery and parents room....simple yet cute....so in love with all this. I hope you all get inspired and make something to brighten up someones baby welcome ceremony.
Thank you for stopping by..have a fun week ahead.

DIY Desk Calender using watercolor Floral Ballet paper pack.

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Today I have a project which I made for Itsybitsy blog as a DT inspiration using their new Watercolor floral ballet papers..... I have a Desk Calendar for you all which is very floral and girly. To know more about this project and to read a tutorial please click the link HERE.
Here I have a few sneak peeks of this project....Hope you like it.

Simple and Easy DIY Christmas Tree Ornaments

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Today I have a tutorial to make these fun shaker ornaments for your Christmas tree on ItsyBitsy Blog. I hope you enjoy this. To read the full tutorial and see more pictures, please click HERE.

I am putting my project up at the following challenge blogs

1. Cards and more Challenge Blog - Snow/snowmen/men - I have created a snow globe shaker element.
2. Polkadoodles Challenge -50 -Anything Goes
3. Scrap and Craft challenge- 10 - Anything Christmas
4. The sisterhood of Crafters- All about Christmas
5. Scrapping4fun Challenge 105- Anything Goes
6. Try it on Tuesday - Twinkle twinkle - I have used glitter papers and sparkles in my ornaments
7. Cute card Thursday- Challenge 508- Festive Colors
8. Addicted to stamps and more Challenge 272 - Make your Mark- I have added paint splatters on the ornametnts background.
9. HLS December Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes with Dies - I have used Circle dies.

That's all from me today. I hope you all have a fun weekend.

Christmas Wreath

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I made this wreath today and am really excited to share this with you. I used the supplies I had with me and made this in an hour....super easy and fun to make.

I made 3 rosettes using glitter cardstock and kept them ready to be embellished. I started with a 12" chipboard ring and covered it with kraft cardstock. I then wrapped the ring with laces and burlap trims. Thats all to it...I embellished it with the rosettes and 2 chipboard gold embossed leaves. I finished it off with some pollens snuck below the rosettes.
Super easy and fun...I hope you did like it.
I am putting this up at the following blog challenges:-

1. Scrapping4fun Challenge #105 - Anything Goes
2. Double D challenge - Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas - Red and White with green
3. HLS December Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes
4. Word Art Wednesday Week 312-313 - Anything Goes
5. Try it on Tuesday - Twinkle twinkle - I have used glitter papers in my wreath
6. The sisterhood of Crafters- All about Christmas
7. Scrap and Craft Challenge #10 - Anything Christmas
8. Cute card Thursday- Challenge 508- Festive Colors

List of supplies:-

1. Chipboard
2. Kraft cardstock
3. Glitter medley - glitter cardstock (ItsyBitsy)
4. Chipboard embellishment (ItsyBitsy)
5. Stick pollens
6. Burlac lace (ItsyBitsy)
7. White lace 
8. Get matt medium

Baby Announement/ Baby shower money envelopes

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Today I am going to share one of my recent custom orders with you. I have made 100 of these envelopes for a dear client for her baby announcement function.....since the gender was not known, I made pink and blue envelopes. these were super fun to make but a little time consuming as well.

These envelopes are 7"by 3.5"in size and can fit a Rs 2000 not comfortably inside the pocket and the pocket is 1.5" in breadth.

So I have used Fabriano Elle Erre cardstock in Celeste and Rosa as the base of my envelopes. For the front panel and inside pocket of the envelope, I have used white cardstock
(250gsm from ItsyBitsy) which I have dry embossed with ItsyBitsy embossing folder and then highlighted it with Distress inks in Spun Sugar and Tumbled Glass also from the store.

To decorate the front of the envelope, I have added a strip of Fabriano cardstock in Fucsia and Azzurro and and layers of diecuts ( Spellbinder and sizzix) and finished it with wooden baby embellishments. I finished it with some butterfly diecuts from Memory Box and MFT flourishes.
I have given ribbon closure for the envelope (satin ribbons in solid and polka dotted).
That's all from me today....Thank you for stopping by. Hope you have a great week ahead.

Gaddi Boxes/ Money Boxes/ Gift Boxes

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Today I have few boxes for you. I made 60 of these as a custom order for a wedding ceremony. Though the original purpose of this was to accommodate money bundles.....I however feel it will be an apt gift box or chocolate box. Here are the 3 designs I made...I took the pictures at the very end when only few boxed were left to be packed.

To make these boxes, I have used 300 gsm white cardstock. The beautiful printed papers are from ItsyBitsy from L'Amour collection.

The the ribbons, chipboard embellishments and few flowers are from Itsybitsy as well. I have gold heat embossed the chipboard embellishments using Ranger Gold embossing powder. The big roses and poppies, rose buds and micro roses are from Crafters Corner.I have also added diecut leaves using Curvy Leaves Die from Elizabeth craft designs.

The box has ribbon as well as magnetic closures at the sides...because it was a money box...I added extra closure.

That is it from me today....I hope you all liked it. Thank you for visiting me and have a great week ahead.

Halloween Party decorations (Spooky and gory)

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Welcome back to my blog. Its October and time to gear up for Halloween. When you think Halloween....the first thing that comes to my mind is Orange, Purple, Spiders, Pumpkins and Blood....I do not know but these are the first things. So here, I have party decorations that I did for my sister-in-law for the coming up Halloween party.
I made Trick or Treat backdrops on cobwebs, candy treat bags, A Beware plaque for the main door, 3 more plaques for food settings, a few eyes for cupcake toppers and some more banners to hang off the wall.
MAIN DOOR PLAQUE:-

She asked me to do my best and I did give it all...to be a little honest I just got carried away. in India, we have Diwali during the same time...but in recent times Halloween theme parties are all in rage. So, here is my first attempt at making Halloween decorations.
FOOD SETTING DECORATIONS:-

 To make all the plaques, I started with sturdy black chipboards and some modelling paste. I used my hands and fingers to do all the goop and blood on the plaques using modelling paste. I even traced beware with my fingers and so you see a lot of finger marks on the plaques....It adds to the goriness. I let it dry completely and then I colored it using thick acrylic paints. I added a little white adhesive to the paints to give it a glossy finish...so it looks like its still wet and goopy......I have used 3 shades from each color to give it a variation and add depth to my project...so I used Crimson, Vermillion and Red for the Blood effect on the VAMPIRE's DRINK plaque.

 For the FRANKEINSTEIN's FOOD I have used Light Green, Dark Green and Sap Green. I mixed white adhesive to the paints to give it a more wet and glossy look....Looks like real goop in real.

For Eyes for the Witches, I used Lavender, Lilac and Violet and Orange, Chrome Yellow and little Vermillion. Again mised white adhesive to give a more real look. I went with this color to complete the traditional Halloween color scheme. Super fun to make these plaques...

I just used some White gel pen to write all the names on the plaques.

CORNER AND BACKDROP DECORATIONS:-

I just used some woollen yarn to make the cobwebs. It took me 30mins to make each and then I added a thin coat of diluted white adhesive to make it a little stiff. The banners in the center are made using some black chipboard, orange cardstock and chipboard alphabets. I painted the alphabets with black acrylic colors. Then I added some black satin ribbon so it could be easily hung from anywhere.
BANNERS:-

It was so much fun making these banners. I started with black chipboard and layered some orange cardstock on it and then added some Black painted chipboard alphabets....finished with black satin ribbon to make it easy to hang. Super fun to make...

BROOM:-

We all know that....Every Witch needs her broom. So I made this as a prop and everyone in th party could take a pic sitting or holding this. I used newspapers to make the stick and added some tissue paper fringes to make the front part. I then colored the stick with brown and black arylic colors to give a worn out look...I wish I had a better pic.

GOOGLY EYES:-

Aren't these cute....I made these as cupcake toppers. I just matted white circle with colorful cardstock and added a foam center. I added dye ink and then glossy accent on it. It gave it that cracked look as the ink was separating from the foam. I then just distressed the edges to give it a worn out look.

CANDY TREAT BAGS:-

What's Halloween without candy...huh? Made these super cute candy bags using orange, black and violet cardstock. I then covered the lower part with doilies....looks super adorable. Then, I added the Happy Halloween tags in the center. I wrote the sentiment instead of stamping it...just for fun.

I am putting my project up at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - A Walk on the Dark Side.

I hope you guys liked it as much as I did.....Thank you for reading this picture heavy post. Have a wonderful week ahead.