Quilled name plate

Hey everyone!!

Today I am here to share a quilled name plate I made for December DT post for Indian Quilling Challenge group. This month the theme is to work with your favorite technique.

I have a few favorite quilling techniques. I have tried to use some of my favorite techniques. Quillography being my most favorite technique I tried to use this technique hence I have made a nameplate for my house. I have used 3mm quilling strips to make this nameplate, lavender being my favorite color too I used same in my project. The font used for name is Alexandra script. The other favorites are flowers. These are my favorite quilling flowers.

I hope you all will like my project and it will give you some inspiration to participate in our ongoing challenge.

To participate in our ongoing quilling challenge please visit  IQCG Blog

Thank you for stopping by

Shivani

photo bouquet

Hey guys!!!
How are you doing?? We are having a great festive time here in India!!! it is the wedding season as well. I completely love the festive season. I enjoy decorating my home for the festive season. With Diwali around the corner I am loving all the festive things we get in the market. How are you guys gearing up for the upcoming festival!!! I will post a few pictures of my Diwali decor later, today I am here to share a photo bouquet I made on order. Photo bouquets are in trend these days,  the personal touch of photos add a oomph to the gift. The recipient also love getting personalized gifts. So this bouquet was made on order from groom's sister for the couple. We added a few of their pics and chocolates. Combination given was red and golden and I hope I did justice to client's expectation.

So people how's it? please give your inputs..
love,
Shivani

Birthday Card

Hello guys!!

Today I am here to share a shabby chic birthday card I made against a order. This card was made for a would be sister in law from her sister in law. And I was given a day to make this card. I was completely lost about how to make as the sample shown to me was a very cute shabby chic card and I was not sure if i would be able to do justice with the client's hope. So dearies I have done my best to make this one and I am glad that the client and recipient both loved the final result.

 Now I will leave it in your court to judge!!!

I am sorry for bad pic as I had to deliver it at 7pm and I completed this card by 7.15pm. so I clicked pics form my phone and also in low light.
Supplies used:
pattern paper- papericious
die- spellbinders
butterfly- itsy bitsy
sentiment- printed
the lace flower is handmade, laces are from my stash.

Linking this card in following challenges:

https://decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.in/2016/09/decorate-to-celebrate-anything-goes_28.html


http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.in/p/challenge-info.html

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/
http://inspirationdestinationchallengeblog.blogspot.in/2016/09/ag-no-105.html

http://thecraftyaddicts.blogspot.in/2016/09/challenge-25.html

Love,
Shivani

IQCG-DT post

Hey guys..
I am over the Indian Quilling challenge blog to share my DT post for this month's theme.. under the sea.. here's my take on it..

Do not forget to check my post over there and do participate also.. 

Love,

Shivani

Show and tell- different seasons!!

Hey everyone!!!

Long time, no see!!! I know, sorry for being MIA. anyways, now I am here, let me tell you I really had a tough time with my daughter's holidays homework this summer. kids these days get so many projects that its us the parents who are on our toes. So I thought I should share my experiences of doing projects for my daughter with my lovely readers. hence, I am starting with a series about the kids projects on my blog. Every now and then I will share the projects I am doing for kids. First in the series is show and tell competition. Every parent has to make props for show and tell competition at school. Usually School gives you topic and the child has to speak about the given topic using some props. 

It was my daughter's show and tell competition at school yesterday. 

Topic given was: I am thankful....  

Class: KG/Prep

Age group: 2-4 years

We chose the topic: I am thankful to God for different seasons. As my daughter knows about different seasons. we chose summer, winters and rain. I do not know how she performed but the teacher liked the props and kept at school. I don't expect her to speak a lot but even if she stands confidently in front of mike I am happy with that too. So, Sharing with you all the pictures of the props we made:

 for summers we have shown butterfly, icecream, fruits, juice, flowers. we have used the puffy stickers from market, icecream is made with paper and pom poms.

for winters we have shown snow man, hot soup, jacket, muffler, cap and orange. used stickers, print outs and for snow man used cotton. 

for rain we have shown rainbow, clouds, umbrella, frog etc. 

Little Vrinda helped me pasting all the stuff and this way she could remember some of her lines.
update:  Vrinda got best presentation for this competition. 

So thats it for today!!!

I hope you liked the post.

Regards,

Shivani

IQCG DT post

Hello guys
So time again for a new challenge at Indian quilling challenge group. Theme for this month is back to childhood.

 When I got to know this month's theme I knew that I will make 3d cartoon character. So i have made a 3d quilled doraemon. I hope you all will like it and participate in our new challenge this month.

So guys participate in our ongoing challenge and have fun.
http://indianquillingchallenge.blogspot.com/2016/05/iqcg27-childhood.html
Love,
Shivani

Mix media mural

Hello everyone!!
Okay so a second post in a day. Lately I am trying my hands on new arts and crafts. For so long I wanted to try mix media murals. I love how they stand out and you can achieve many looks with some basic supplies. So I had carpenter at my home for some work and I rescued one abandoned piece of plywood and got the base board done from carpenter. I used cermaic powder to give various textures to the base. The Ganesha on leaf is also handmade with white m-seal. I hope you all will like my first attempt on making mix media mural.

The coloring is done using fevicryl fabric colors. I hope to make many more and improve.
Love
Shivani 

Engagement explosion box

Hey everyone!!

I hope all of you are well hydrated and keeping well as temperature is rising and making it very hot. Unfortunately the hot weather took a toll on me and my daughter. Hence I didn't get much time to craft. I have recently made an engagement theme explosion box on order. It was gift from a friend who is couple's best friend. We discussed and finalized the color combination gold and white. And I am in total love with this. 

I have made the faux rings with paper strips and coloured them with viva dcor inka gold. The gold and white card stock I precured locally. The faux paper cake is total stunner I love how red flowers sit beautifully on white n gold cake. The hearts are made to pop in air using acetate sheet. The congratulations quotes are printed on white card stock and then cut using spellbinders die. the lower panel of the box is having pics of the couple. 

I hope you like this box as much as I do.

Love,

Shivani 

IDCG- May Challenge

Hello everyone!!

Happy labor day!! thanks to all those who makes our life easier. So a  new month brings a new challenge at Indian Quilling Challenge group. Theme for this month is Summers. You can make anything which signifies summer be it colours, textures anything that you can think of. I love summers for many things long days to craft, yummy fruits, summery flowers and cool ice creams. My daughter loves fruits be it melons, litchies, mangoes. Her favorite is watermelon. I am planning to make a few quilled fridge magnets with her favorite fruits. To begin with I have made a quilled watermelon fridge magnet. I hope to come up with more fruits' fridge magnets during this month as our theme this month suits perfectly for this. 

I hope you will like my interpretation of the theme. Visit my fellow DT's blogs for more inspiration and do not forget to participate in the current challenge at IQCG. 

keep quilling,
Love,
Shivani

Altered pen stand- tutorial

Hey everyone!!

How are you all doing?? recently my cousin got me a pack of zig brush pens from US. A pack of 60!!! As I eagerly waited for them to arrive, I wanted to have a nice pen stand to keep them organized too. So I started my search for a appropriate pen stand or organizer for storing them. I found a rotating pen stand with my local stationary guy and he was generous enough to give me that for free. :)

This is how it looked:

This is the final outcome:

I completely love the final outcome!! all my 60 zig brush pens fit into this, it has good capacity. It can surely hold a few more things. I am planning to store my water brushes too in it.

A few more pictures:

Now comes the tutorial part. Its my first attempt for a tutorial please be kind.

material required:

Box to alter

Pattern papers ( I have used Bob n betty's paper, its an Indian brand)

glue

embellishments

coordinating acrylic color

Step 1:

first of all Clean your box thouroughly to remove all the labels and glue. I have kept this box in soapy water and then scrubbed all the paper and glue with steel wool.

Step 2:

Now measure the dimensions of your box and cut the pattern paper accordingly. My box measured 5.5"*3". I have cut 4 papers of the required size.

Step 3:

Adhere these papers to all the four sides of the box.

Step 4:

paint the box from inside. I have used fevicryl acrylic color in contrasting hot pink pearl color. I love how it goes with the pink flowers of the pattern paper.

Step 5:

Embellish it as you like.

I wanted to give it a look of a girl in flower garden. I have colored tilda from magnolia stamps using camelin brush pens.

I adhered a lace on the edges and on the front side half paper doily to give a background where I can place my beautiful colored and fussy cut tilda.

I used a few flowers from I am roses and the butterfly is die cut using cheery lyn die. I have colored the die cut teal and applied glitter. Oh! I am completely in love with the butterfly.

I have also given some texture on all the other sides using TCW butterly stencil and viva decor Inka gold in old gold.

I hope you will like my project!!

entering it in the following challenges:

http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.in/2016/04/53-butterflies-t-is-for-texture-andor.html

(i have used all three- butterflies, teal and texture)
http://decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.in/2016/04/decorate-to-celebrate-anything-goes_27.html

(anything goes)

Thanks for stopping by,

Love,

Shivani

Baby Boy Scrapbook

Hey friends,
Today I am sharing a baby boy scrapbook I have recently made for my nephew. My cousin has come from USA and I went market to search for some gift options for her little one who is just 7 months old. After searching a lot the idea of making handmade gift clicked. And to tell you all this is my first baby boy album as till now I have only made baby girls albums. This is the project which I did in shortest possible time, it took almost 10 hours to finish this one. Generally I take at least a week's time to make scrapbooks. Here are the pictures, Phone pics again.. :(
It looked very cute in person, and was a total hit :)
I just realized that I do not have the cover pic of this album :( will update it asap!!

This is this first page when we open the album.

  first page to welcome the baby!!!

 Mom and Dad!!!

 This page opens up and has birth stats journalling page.

This is the waterfall page to add all the first pictures of baby like smile, first step, first tooth etc.

 Page to have all the namkaran details..

 This page is an accordion fold one, the pages are there to store pics of the baby growing up.

 

 one more page to hold the baby's favorites.

 

 on the back cover inside I gave one pocket to hold the wish tags, which the parents can get filled from their guests on baby's first birthday.

supplies used:
All the papers used are DCVW baby boy stack and Papericious baby boy stack. I love how both these stacks gel up to make a beautiful product.
The baby sentiments are printable I got from internet.
The puffy stickers i got from local stationary shop.

I hope you liked the album.
Thanks for stopping by,
Shivani

Tag- color trio

Hello everyone!!

I hope you all are doing good. Temperature is rising in my part of world. It has already started boiling over here. But I really enjoy the season of cool drinks and mangoes, litchis, melons!! Oh.. my mouth is watering just hearing the names of the delicious fruits. You guys also keep yourself hydrated with the water rich fruits and drinks and stay cool.

I am late this month in posting the IQCG DT post. I am so sorry for that. Shylaa was sweet enough to forgive me for that. Thanks Shylaa. 

So, our challenge of this month at Indian Quilling Challenge group is color trio. We have to use only three colors in our quilling embellishments.

 I made a tag for a friend who is very close to my heart. we hardly meet or talk but still there is a special place for her in my heart. This month its her bday, and I am planning to send her this tag with her gift. 

I hope you all will like this tag.

I have made the background with the distress inks, and stamped with script stamp from Kaisercraft with versamark dazzle ink. The quote is also Kaiser-craft stamp and stamped with hero arts black ink.

The quilling strips used are 3mm in size, I have used three colors dark yellow for flowers, brown for center and green for leaves. sigh!! my camera is still not working..

Guys participate in our this month's challenge  IQCG-trio of colors

thanks for stopping by,

Shivani

Birthday card

Hello everyone,
I am here with a new card I made on order. It was from a friend to another on her birthday. I was going mad with a lot of ideas in my mind. Its really difficult to choose and stick to one idea when client leaves everything on you, but then I stuck to the easel card. I quite liked the easel card I made earlier. Hence this is similar to earlier easel card I shared but a bit more elaborate with the die cuts and all.

I have mounted the die cuts on craft foam to give them a 3d effect.

entering this in following challenges:
http://decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.in/2016/03/decorate-to-celebrate-anything-goes_30.html 

I hope you like my effort.
love
Shivani

Altered Clock

Hey folks,
Today I am here to share an upcycled project. We have a new challenge at IQCG and theme for this month is to recycle or altered art.

In my project i have recycled a cake base. I have used cake base as the base of my clock. I pasted cardstock over it and then using stencil made the background.
After adding clock dial and a lot of quilling flowers the cake base is completely transformed into a beautiful wall clock. I am in love with the outcome. I am sorry for bad pics though as my camera broke and these are mobile pics taken inside.

I hope you will like my project!!!

I hope you all like my attempt for the challenge and are inspired enough to participate in our ongoing challenge. Be sure to visit my fellow DT blogs' for more inspiration.
 Enter here:
http://indianquillingchallenge.blogspot.in/
 
Thanks for stopping by,
Shivani

Cupcakes

hey everyone!!
Just a few days back I got this cute cupcake stamp set from a dear fellow crafter on destash and my hands were itching to use these cute cupcakes.
I am not much of a Clean and Simple card maker, so I wanted to try CAS card.
I stamped the cupcakes on the neenah watercolor cardstock and watercolored them using nirmal watercolors which my dear friend Tejal sent me.
The background is also colored using same colors.

entering this in following challenges:

The card concept #49  
 (CAS)

 

addicted to stamps  (Watercolors)

keep crafting!!

Love,

Shivani

A Pink card!!!

Hey everyone!!!
Today, I am here to announce a BIG news!!!

And the News is that I am a part of Design Team at Indian Quilling Challenge blog. Well, I am very excited because it will be my first DT Experience and I am looking forward to meet new people and to learn more new techniques and having said that it will also give me an opportunity to be more regular with blogging.

I know I know!!! I am so excited that I am blabbering a lot!!
This month the theme at IQCG is "anything goes with pink"

So here is my take for this challenge:

  I have made a top folding birthday card.
Here are the details of my card:
the beautiful paper is from Papercious.
I have used three shades of pink that make the flowers.
Added a die cut and inked it with worn lipstick Distress Ink.

I hope you all like my attempt for the challenge and are inspired enough to participate in our ongoing challenge. Be sure to visit my fellow DT blogs' for more inspiration.
 Enter here:
http://indianquillingchallenge.blogspot.in/

That's all for now!!!
keep crafting!!!
Love,
Shivani