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

More than words - A Keepsake Pregnancy Journal

Hey there fellas!
I know it has been a crazy long time since I wrote a post! Let me try to be more regular from here on :)

One of the most satisfying things for me is to craft and give away the result to friend or colleague. Just to see the happiness and feel work appreciated is an awesome feeling.

My two best friends are entering the world of motherhood and this gave me an opportunity to make something special for them.
Here is what I made for one of my friends Vyshali.

This one is a tab bit more special as I had the help of her husband who is a really good friend of mine by getting the pictures selected and printing them out and sending them over so that I could use them right away.

Here are the pics for you!

The stamps are mostly from Craftyscrappers, they have an amazing collection in the Pregnancy and Baby theme. The others are from Jane's doodles, Peekaboo, and some various other manufacturers.
I will try to update with links to products in this post sometime later :)
Hope you enjoyed the album! Let me know what you think of it in the comments :)

Linking it to the below challenges:
Create and Inspire #64: Anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore Blog:
A bit more time to craft

Till next time then :)

Handmade Pregnancy Keepsake Album

Hi all,
I am here after a really long time bring you a pretty pregnancy album that I made for my friend.
Here are the pics.
But before that the stamps are all from the awesome awesome CraftyScrappers collections and a couple from other Indian manufacturerss like Peekaboo designs.
Let me know hwat you feel about these fellas!
The album measures 6.5 X 6.5 and has 4 pages with each page having flaps and two photograph flaps.

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Decorative Box - Stamping on wood

Hi all,
I am here with a new technique that I have been meaning to try out for quite some time now. I had some plain MDF boxes and trinkets lying around and I am just getting my hand on trying decoupage and other techniques on them.  Here is a quite white vintage feel trinket box that is suitable for gifts to the masculine gender too!.

I applied a base coat of gesso and then a couple of layers of white chalk paint from Itsy bitsy. For the lid I have used Back chalk paint.
This project was done for a friend of mine who wanted it ina  black and white combination. I did not want to add flowers or embellishments lest it too too feminine. I wanted to keep it simple for him yet attract attention.

So i used a couple of script fonts that I had with me from Kaisercraft and Itsy bitsy and some mixed media element stamp like the hexagon print. I distressed the edges using Ranger archival ink.

To preserve the piece I appied generous coats of Asian Paints Aquadur varnish.

let me know how you feel about this fellas!

Cereal Box Upcycle - Paper Holder

Hey guys, Hope you enjoyed my decoupage Organizer caddy post here. Today I am sharing a quick DIY that you can do with all those cereal boxes that you go through (maybe) every month and convert them into a multi functional organizer.

I cut up two cereal boxes into shapes of magazine holders so that they stack up nicely and covered them in pattern papers. Boxes fit the 6 X 6 pattern pads nicely and some other precut cardstock that I have goes in as well.

Now that is one pile of paper clutter sorted out!

Let me know what you think of it guys .

Decoupage Organiser Caddy

Hey fellas!!!
I am posting after a really long time. I have been too held up with work and home stuff that I couldn't get some me crafting time. But hope to rectify this soon enough!

Today I have a decoupage organizer for you. Here are the pics first.

Th caddy is from Craftslane and they have some wonderful products. I painted the base with gesso and applied some beautiful tissue napkins on it. I have distressed the edges and napkin by going over with matching colors and painting the insides with acrylics.

Finally, I have given a couple fo coats of varnish to protect it from water.

Let me know how you like it in the commets!

Mudra First Birthday Blog Hop


Hello and welcome to our “First Birthday Blog Hop”! 

Yes, Mudra is one year old this month and what an amazing journey it has been so far. And this month, we want to celebrate our big milestone with you because it wouldn’t have been possible without your support. We have so many fun things lined up throughout the month with lots of chances for you to participate and win some cool prizes.

We wanted to start the celebration today by bringing together our amazing creative team and few of our friends to share some of their beautiful creations with Mudra products.

We have an amazing line-up of projects that you sure are going to love!

I have personally loved Mudra from the inception of Varnas's creation banner and it has been a amazing journey for the Mudra team.

     

RULES:  z

- Follow Mudra Blog

- Like Mudra Facebook Page

- Follow us on Instagram 

- Subscribe to your Youtube

- Visit all the designer's blog hop post and leave them some love.

- After finishing the blog hop, add your name in the inlinkz in Mudra Blog Hop Post.

PRIZES:

To celebrate, Mudra is giving away a beautiful pack of crafting supplies from Mudra to 1 WINNER, selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop.  You have until Wednesday, March 15th at 11:59 PM IST to enter, and the winners will be announced here on Monday, March 20th.

One Additional Goodie Bag to a random participant sponsored by The Craft Shop, Chennai. 

And to sweeten the deal, some of our designers in the hop also have giveaways, so make sure to leave comments on all the blogs for a chance to win!

    If you have come from Ruchi Crafeteria,  you are on the right track. You can check out the complete list of participating blogs on the Mudra Blog. 

     So let us get onto some fun cards using Mudra products, shall we!!

I have three cards to share for you all today!, all the celebrate something!

Here are they first :)

 First card: Starry nights :)

        For this card, I wanted a distressed night sky background and created this effect with various Distress inks and some archival inks. For the stars, i splattered on gesso. 

The lotuses were stamped and colored using Lotus Blooms set and akashiya watercolor brush pens. 

The sentiment is from the peacock set and encourages you to celebrate the beauty in you and personify it. 

Second card: Celebrating Love

This is a simple water wash background in soft pastely shades and some focal point background using some darker shades. I stamped the LOVE word using the super cool alpha set from Mudra and adhered the panel to some black card base and made some fun border pattern.

Third card:  Celebrate

This card is very generic and can be very quickly customized to create specific occasions. 

I stamped the Celebrate sentiment from the brushed sentiments set and the floral border using the On the special Dat' stamp set with some basic coloring. Here too i wanted a fun colorful background look and did a water wash effect. 

Here are the stamps that i have used from Mudra :)

Hope you enjoyed the post for the day.

Your next stop in the hop is the wonderful Rajni Chawla 

Have a fun hop fellow friends :)

Lots of love 

Uma