Stencilled jewelry -A First Take

Hello there fellas!!!

Hope you are doing good. I am slowing getting back to crafting for some time everyday and taking time out to calm my nerves by crafting a bit. 

The festival seasons are upon us at India and this is the right time to start making some jewellery!!!! 

I got out all of my bead boxes and wanted to try something different. 

I had these stancils out on my desk left from some paper crafts and scrapbooking and I felt why not use those designs to get some pendants done..

So here are a couple of examples on how you can use stencils and create really beautiful jewellery out of it.

The first one is a damask kind of pattern that is stencilled and converted to a pendant and linked to some very earthy tone stone beads.

The next one is one of my favourites. It has a simple small repeating pattern that I stencilled in and added some lovely violety beads along with shell pearls.

Do let me know what you feel about this guy's and leave me your comments on the same.

Linking this to the

• Path of Positivity Challenge #51: I am surrounding myself with beautiful objects by creating things from unexpected sources.
• 613 Avenue Create: Anything goes
• Crafting By Designs
• making Memories Crafting Challenge Blog
• A Perfect Time To Craft
• Love To Craft challenge blog

Happy Teachers Day - A Day Late...

Hello there fellas,
I promised I would come back with a set of Teachers' day cards for you.
So here they are!

The supplies are from different Manufacturers, but mostly from two dear Indian manufacturers Craftyscrappers and Mudra. Konica and Varshita and two wonderful souls and I wish them all success at their entrepreneur life.

Let me know what you think of this fellas!
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The card concept: withered florals. I have incorporated flowers with distressed and withered feel to it.

Linking this to the Path of Positivity Challenge #51: Teachers deserve a lot of love and this is an attempt to surround them with art and love!!!

Decoupage Alters - Peacock in a starry night

Hello friends!
Hope you are having a great day! It is Teacher's day today and I wish all the teachers out there a very happy teachers' day.

I still wish I can go back to school or college and life the simple life with only studies to worry about! Sigh! Gone are those days!!

Coming back here!, today I ought to be sharing some cards for my teachers (which I will post soon) but I am sharing a decoupage upcycle project that I recently did.

I had this amazing papers from Bob and Betty and the designs were just exquisite that I refused using them up for a long time. But then the perfect opportunity came along and I found the perfect object to alter. It was a glass bottle with a  flip stopper cap. Here is how it looks altered from a plain glass bottle version...

Steps to achieve this effect:

• Sand your bottle down with fine grit sand paper so that the Gesso/primer adheres better.
• Apply several coats of white acrylic paint/spray paint/gesso to give a base coat. I had good coverage with Gesso. 
• Next, apply the design you want with a Decoupage Glue. Here I have used ModPodge to adhere the peacock design onto the bottle. 
• Once adhered, make sure there are no air bubbles between the paper and object and give a couple of coats of ModPodge on top of the paper. 
• Paint the rest of the bottle with desired colors. I have gone for a night sky effect with blues and black hues with a starry effect. 
• For added interest, you can add some stamping as well. I have used kaiser-craft script stamp to give a slightly vintage effect.

Let me know what you feel fellas!

Linking this to the

• Path of Positivity Challenge #51: I am surrounding myself with beautiful objects and transforming them to be even more beautiful with art!!!
• 613 Avenue Create: Anything goes
• Crafting By Designs
• making Memories Crafting Challenge Blog
• A Perfect Time To Craft
• Love To Craft challenge blog