Amazing Love - Mixed Media layout/ Scrapbook layout- Full Tutorial.

Hello all you wonderful people,

This is Mukta here and today I have for you my first DT project for Itsy Bitsy.......Wohoooo!!...I am surely excited  to be a part of the Itsy Bitsy team and work alongside very talented ladies there. I hope to show you many crafty projects all with different techniques. There are going to be mixed media projects, scrapbooking, altered art and loads more from here onwards.....so stay tuned to the ItsyBitsy blog.
Here is a glimpse of my project

To know more about this layout, supplies, picture and a video tutorial please hop onto the ITSYBITSY blog by clicking HERE.

I am putting this layout up at the following challenges:

1. CraftAddiction Design Team and Challenge blog - Challenge #07/08 - Summer holiday in mixed media style
2. Creative Artiste Challenge Blog- Challenge #29- Anything mixed media Goes
3. Scrapping 4 fun challenge#96- Lace/ Ribbons
4. Mixed Media & Art - July Challenge - The moodboard has inspired me to incorporate neutral shades and textures along with some butterflies.
5. Butterfly challenge#84 - Butterfly + Y is You choose and/or W is Wedgewood Blue 
6. DLART August Linky challenge - Anything Goes

I hope you all liked this. Thank you for visiting me.

Mudra GDT post - Handmade Interactive Cards

Hello guys

I am honored to be doing a GDT post for Mudra Stamps today and I want to thank you Varshistha for this opportunity...... I have made 3 interactive cards and here are the sneak peeks....for complete blog post...please visit me HERE and leave me some love.

2 of the 3 cards I made are my first time and I really hope you will be lenient with me. I also have 3 small video clips shows you all the interactive elements in action....so know the list of supplies, more pictures, videos and how I made these cards please stop by the link above.

 1. Mermaid slider card.

So this is a really fun card and to be honest...its my first ever slider card I made and it took me one day to make this card but I am sure you guys will do it faster than me. To make this card, I have used Mudra Mermaid stamp set...such a fun set with so many cute fishies.....

2. Simply Floral Explosion Box card

The second card I made is again a first attempt by me....I have never made an explosion box card and so I took a day to make this one.....but thats just me. A lot of heat embossing and watercoloring went into making this card and I got this beautiful bouquet at the end....

3. Winter Shaker Card.

My third card is a fairly simple card and was super fun to make. I have made a triple time stamped card with a shaker window in the center and this card is based on the thought of "Christmas in July" For this card, I have used Christmas Decor stamp set and sequins from different packs from Mudra.

I am putting this card up at the following challenges

1. Simon Says stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything Goes
2. The Ribbon Girl July 2017 challenge - Anything Goes
3. Addicted to Stamps and more Challenge #248 - Holiday ( Winter Shaker Card.)
4. Inky Chicks Challenge #85 - Christmas ( Winter Shaker Card.)
5. CWS Challege #16 - Celebrate (Simply Floral Explosion Box card)
6. HLS July 2017 watercolor challenge - Optional twist - Blue (Mermaid slider card.)
7. CAS(E) this sketch #228 (Mermaid slider card.)
8. Scrapping4fun challenge #93 - Summer (Simply Floral Explosion Box card)
9. Mod squad July 2017 challenge - Special Fold (Simply Floral Explosion Box card)
10. Paru's Card making challenge July 2017 - Birthday (Simply Floral Explosion Box card)

Leave a Little Sparkle wherever you go...... Slider card

Hello everyone
I am back today again with yet another handmade card and this time I have an interactive card. I have never made these kind of cards and this is my very first one...so please be a little lenient with me....

So....here I have made a slider card and it has been super fun...dunno why I never tried to make these before....
I am putting my card up at the following challenges:-

1. Simon Says stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything Goes
2. Cute Card Thursday Challenge #484 - Anything Goes
3. Scrap and craft Challenge #5 - Summertime with butterflies
4. Scrapping4fun challenge #93 - Summer
5. The Ribbon Girl July 2017 challenge - Anything Goes
6. Word Art Wednesday Week #288-289-  Anything Goes

Let me tell you how I made this card...I started by heat embossing this pretty butterfly from Geometric Nature stamp set from Mudra stamps with Ranger White superfine heat embossing powder on a watercolor cardstock. I watercolored this butterfly with Distress inks - Cracked Psitacio, Mermaid Lagoon and Crushed Olive....  I love the way these colors blended together...so bright and fresh. Once it dried completely, I fussy cut it out.

Then, I took a brown cardstock which was 4" by 51/4" in size and cut a slit in the center with a craft knife in a curvy fashion (Thats where I will add a button as the slider element). I mounted this panel with a button below the slit on a gold glitter cardstock 41/4" by 51/2" using foam dimension tape. I carefully lined the slit from the back with foam tape so the button wouldn't star away from the slit.

I mounted this entire panel on a standard A2 size cardbase from a black cardstock (270gsm). On this button, I added my butterfly using foam tape cut to a small square. I finished my card with the sentiment from the same stamp set heat embossed on a piece of Off white cardstock using Ranger Tinsel Gold heat embossing powder and few sequins from Mudra. Finally, for more sparkle, I added a few dots on the cardfront using a gold gel pen and Clear wink of stella on the butterfly.

I have a small video clip for you to see how fun this card is. I hope you will like it.

Supplies used:-

1. Geometric Nature - Mudra stamps
2. Harvest Mix sequins - Mudra stamps
3. Gold sequins - Mudra stamps
4. Distress inks - Cracked Psitacio, Mermaid Lagoon and Crushed Olive
5. Ranger heat embossing powder - Superfine White and Tinsel Gold
6. Black cardstock (270gsm)
7. Watercolor cardstock
8. Off White cardstcok (220gsm)
9. Brown Cardstcok (220gsm)
10. Versamark watermark inkpad
11. Wow Heat gun
12. Gold glitter cardstock
13. Button
14. Foam dimension tape
15. Ranger multi medium matte

Tissue Paper Flowers

Hello everyone
I did a few projects last month and blogged about a few. Some my of my projects needed me to make few paper flowers. I have a tutorial for making these flowers. You can surely make more but variety but today I will show you how to make peonies.

Supplies:

1. Crepe/ Duplex/ Tissue paper (Itsybitsy)
2. String pollens/ wire pollens
3. Green tape
4. Floral wire
5. Silicon glue (Itsybitsy) or any other strong glue
6. Newspaper 
7. Scissors
8. Wire cutters (Itsybitsy)
9. Liquid adhesive
10. Glitter (Itsybitsy)

Procedure:      Peonies

1. To make these flowers, we need a strong and secured center, coz these flowers are heavy and if you dunt use something sturdy to hold the flowers in the center, it will just fall apart, So to begin what I did was make a newspaper tube. You can take a small piece of newspaper and roll it until you dunt get a nice firm tube. 
   
2. Through this tube, pass your floral wire and make a u hook at one end close to the tube. This will make for the center of the flower where our pollens will be held.
   
3. Once you do this, take all the pollens you desire in the quantity you like and hold them together. I have used pale yellow and white wire pollens ( 1 bunch each) and 1 bunch of white string/wire pollen. Together I have arranged them in varying height and then keeping the u hook in center, folded these pollens over it. Then, I just added some silicon glue to it to make it stay bunches. Once it all got a bit dry, I then rolled my green tape over it to make a nice center for our flowers.
   
4. Now to make the petals, I have used a combination of duplex, crepe and tissue paper. For a simple one, take white crepe paper sheets like you get in markets. Then divide it into 3 parts. hold them together and start folding them in a fan style. Cut the cents of the fan to give it a nice shape. You can cut in U, V or heart shape. I did a U.
   
5. Then you can fold the fan and mark the center, turn the fan such that the edges face you and tie it up using some wire from the center of the flower we made to hold the pollens. Wrap it tightly and then open op your fan and start peeling the layers upwards. This is more like how we make pom pom balls, but here we do not peel the layers downwards.
   
6. Once all the layers are peeled on both  the sides, the flower will be done. Turn the flower and add silicon glue to seal any gaps. Cut the extra wire if you want or let it be. If you want it to be left, then you cover it with green tape and add some leaves to it.
   
7. I added some glitter to the flowers by dabbing some fevicol on the petals and then dipping it in gold glitter.
   

Our Peonies are ready. Use them to decorate your events and parties like baby showers, birthday parties, festival parties and more......simple and very effective. If you want a video tutorial for the same...please let me know and I will do one shortly.
Thank you for reading this post and I hope you found this useful. Have a great day guys.

Love forever - Mixed media layout

Hey everyone
How are you all doing? I was on a break this month and I just started with my work 2 days back. This is my first project and I want to show you all my first attempt at mixed media layout.

I have made this project for a close person who is going to have twins and the color scheme and the concept is inspired by this fact. I have used lots of pinks and blues and yellows....did lot of textures usind stencils and modelling paste. I have used Color splash by Itsybitsy in ocean mist and tangerine...the colours are really pigmented and beautiful. They are really bright and you can mute them if you want with just water...which is really cool.

The pattern paper used from the entire background is from Papericious and well as few embellishments like the button and the laces. Their collection for papers is really awesome and I like the new sets of embellishments they have.

I started with the pattern paper from Its a girl pack from Papericious and brushed a thin coat of gesso on it and distressed its edges. Then I made my own pattern paper to creat some interest for the picture. After this was the fun part of adding textures and stencils and layers of colors.

I am putting this project up for Itsybitsy challenge and Papericious challenge of this month.

I am adding the video link for youtube to see my project. I hope you will enjoy this video.

Thank you all for visiting me and I hope you all like my project. Have a good day.

Wedding Card with a Box

Hello everyone
I am terribly sorry for not writing any sooner. Was working on this big order and it had occupied most of my time and the rest I was indulging myself with Diwali celebrations. I am still in hurry and so this will be a short a sweet post. My new project is wedding cards with an easel opening box attached to the card itself.

The dimensions for this box is 7.5" by 5.5" and 1" thickness. There are 2 leaflets or this card and they are 5.75" by 3.75".
These are multiple layers of cardstock which was used to create layering effect as well as to add to the sturdiness of the card. The first leaflet is adhered tot he face of the box and the second is hidden in the pocket behind the first card. I have added an eyelet as well as some red organza ribbon and gold pearl string as a makeshift tassel.

I have incorporated white gold pearl cardstock which are 270 gsm and Red cardstock 250 gsm to build the entire card. I have created my own background using WOW gold embossing powder, WOW embossing gun and Versamark inkpad. I did some repetitive stamping using a single stamp to create the background effect. I have used the flourish from the Vintologic stamp set from hampton art for this purpose.

To create the easel box, I have used chipboard and White iris cardstock. I center box is 6.5" by 4.5" in size and 0.75" in height. I have used gold net fabric to cover the entire box and then added a white gold pearl paper as the base inside the box. The bottom of the box is chipboard which is covered with pearl paper and then layered with red cardstock. For the opening of the box, I have used some white iris cardstock to create the hinges.

The card is completed with a simple red organza ribbon, Mft die cut florishes with are glitter gold embossed and a gold bead.

This box is held by magnets.

That's all the information about this project.

I am putting up this project at Mod Squad Challenge Blog and Ranganjali.

Supplies:

White Gold Pearl paper 250gsm - Paramount, A. R street, Mumbai

Red cardstock 250 gsm - Jasmine Siddhiqui (Kraftily Konnect)

White iris cardstock 270gsm -Neha Gala (A1 craft)

Red organza ribbon -Pooja (Borivali)

Gold Beads- nupam stores (Borivali)

MFT Flourish diecuts - Dies and bishot curtesy Neha Gala (A1 Craft)

Eyelets -Itsybitsy

Gold Net fabric - Pooja (Borivali)

Wow Rich Metallic gold embossing powder - Itsybitsy

Wow Heat embossing gun - Itsybitsy

Ranger Gold Tinsel - Anupam (Borivali)

Stampset - Crafter corner

Versamark - Neha Gala (A1 craft)

Red tacky tape - Itsybitsy, Jasmine siddhiqui, Neha Gala

E- 6000 - Anupam (Borivali)

Aleene Tacky Glue - Crafter corner

Magnets - Anupam (Borivali)

Thank you for visiting me. I hope you liked this project.

Peacock diyas

Hey everyone
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

Hello all
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.