Letter cum Key holder

Hello & welcome here again!

I love collecting boxes & items that I can use for decoupage. The newest addition is a letterbox cum key holder.

I had an adorable decoupage tissue in my stash from my trip to Bangkok this summer & this mail box was perfect for that. 

Alteration of this MDF started with a generous coat of gesso followed by blue chalk paint & white acrylic. Note sure if you can see but I have tried not to have a solid color but create a distress look. 

I carefully tore the tissue & decoupaged it in the bottom corner. Brought out the colors once again & blended the background with the tissue.

Once I was happy with the outcome I added some crackle texture, stencilling, stamping & other details.

 Here is the final outcome - 

Sharing this at - 

Mod Squad Challenge - 11.10

Shopping our Stash#272 - 11.10 - TOP 3

Everybody-art-challenge#383 - 11.10

The Color Sisters#36 - 12.10 - WINNER

Rhedds Creative Spirit - 31.10

Altered Eclectics Challenge.html - 31.10

Inspiration Destination#106 - 11.10

Craft Your Passion#332 - 9.10

Love To Create Challenge#20 - 

Pearly Sparkles Challenge#9 - 28.10

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Craft Your Passion#268

Good morning & welcome to another short post from me!

We have Craft Your Passion#268 live, you can find all the details here. 

Sharing the card I made using the image sponsored by 

http://adayfordaisies.com/stamps/

Colored the image with Faber Castell color pencils, fussy cut it & mounted on Simon Says Stamp stitched circle die cut. This was the placed on a stencilled (Prima wood grain & Deco Art sand texture paste) kraft panel.

This card plays along at the following challenges - 

Simply Papercraft#7 - 2.7

Crafts Galore Encore - 30.6

Paper Creators Crafts#39 - 30.6

Pennys Paper Craft#233 - 30.6

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Pretty Pink Posh Blog Hop

Hi & welcome to my second post today :-)!

This is my entry for the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop. 

Today's card is similar to the Watercolor Thank you card I made earlier. I have also put together a small tutorial for this technique here. The humming bird is a CLD.

Also sharing this at - 

Corrosive Challenges#226 - 20.6 (pile a number of diecuts)

Simply Papercrafts for all occassions#6 - 18.6

Brown Sugar#149 - 10.6

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Craft Your Passion#241

Hi everyone!  I'm back with my weekly DT project for Craft Your Passion.  

This challenge theme is "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

For my card I have used this beautiful winter landscape digi by the sponsors "Delicious Doodles" used Faber Castell color pencils to subtly highlight the Christmas trees, the robin & the houses. The snowy scene suddenly came to life, perfect just as I wanted!!!

My card base is red over which I have overlaid vellum which had a green Christmas print. I like the red popping in the green background. Matted the digi over the same red card stock & popped it with foam tape on the vellum base. A red shimmery bow added to the festive feel!

Also added shimmer to all the trees with my favorite Wink of Stella & some distress stickles to the baubles to finish my card. The star

Playing this at the following challenges -

Crafty calendar (5/12)

We do doobadoo#19

Less is more#199

Doodle pantry#52 (24/11)

Crafty hazelnut spatterned paper 

Bearlymine challenges

Picture and scrap#86

Animal friends challenge

Brown sugar challeng#121

Crafty catz weekly challenge#256

Simply create too#75

The east wind#19

Christmas card challenge#52 

Sir stamp a lot challenge

 Bunny zoes crafts

Addicted to stamps#92

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Creative Colors Challenge #23

Hello & welcome to a new Creative Colors Challenge. This time around we have some warm colors to choose from the picture below with more than two layers in your cards.

Sami Stamps are sponsoring this challenge & here is my card with the digi of my choice - birdie with hearts.

For more inspiration visit the challenge blog & hope you play along with us.

Playing this card at the following  challenges - 

TTRCD (17/11)
Pinspirational challenge#128 (24/11) 
Sweetstamps challenge#195 (16/11)
Creative fingers challengeblog#55 (13/11)
Craftycardmakers  (the heart is charm) (22/11)
2 cute ink challenge#119 (22/11)
Whoopsi daisy  (15/11)
Samistamps  (1/12)

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Altered Spoon

Hello friends, welcome back, hope you all had a happy & joyous diwali. Best wishes! 

Another altered project today! Didn't I tell you I was on a roll altering items!

Any guesses what has been transformed here? 

Played around with gesso, acrylic paint & LSG spray to transform a soup spoon into a beautiful piece of decor for the kitchen!

The gorgeous blooms are handmade (Joy Craft die cut flowers)  & so is the nest beneath the metal nest charm.

Some dangling charms a tea pot & spoon..................perfect for the altered spoon!

Sharing this at - 
Delightful sketches#3s-not-crowd (29/10) - WINNER
Altered eclectics#Oct (31/10)
Decorate to celebrate#86 (28/10)
Imagination-crafts#Oct challenge (31/10)
Rhedds Creative Spirit# Oct  (31/10)
Inspiration Emporium (31/10)
SSS - (color of the twine is kraft) (29/10)
Pinspirational Challenge#126 (27/10) - TOP 3
Divas by design (28/10)

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Scrapbook Layout

A very good Sunday morning to all.

As promised I am sharing a scrapbook layout, made once again for the swap group in our city. You can view the swap card I posted yesterday here. Thank you so much for your encouraging comments on this. And yes indeed I am lucky to have crafty friends to meet!

In this round of swap hosted by Sharada we had to make LO in bright colors. So here I go.........

Lots of stenciling, distress inks, pattern paper scraps used here.

The birdie MDF colored with markers & a dash of wink of stella.

And here are the pictures of the meet - 

L to R - first row - Rupa, Anuja, Me, Prisha (Dr.Sonia's little one)

second row - Sharada, Dr.Sonia, Shilpa, Juhi

This time we had Dr.Sonia & Juhi joining us & Mary Antonia a regular at our meets could not make it this time. We missed you dear.

The awesome layouts made by this talented group.

You will find this in the following challenges - 

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.ca/2014/08/challenge-42-realfaux-stitching-with.html

http://squigglefly.blogspot.in/2014/08/new-challengeuse-red-brown-yellow-and.html

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=1837

http://www.craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.in/2014/08/august-challenge-at-crafty-bloggers.html (flowers & bright colors)

http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.in/2014/08/august-challenge-summer-colours.html

http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/all-crafts-challenge-augustseptember.html

http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.in/2014/08/fan-tastic-tuesday-challenge-49.html

http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.in/2014/08/through-craftroom-door-challenge-aug19.html

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A GIFT BOX

Good Evening & a happy weekend to you all! 

Very pleased to share a upcycled project today, made keeping in mind a few challenges. Take a look at this gorgeous gift box...........

I find myself creating only in monochromes these days (hope I get over it soon!). Any guesses what is recycled here? Well I leave you with the snapshots first & will reveal it only later, am sure you can guess by then. I love stick pins & in this one I have a cute birdie perched atop the pin.

The crochet flower is handmade by my mom, she made many while she was here. 

The sides are chipboard pieces distressed with stormy sky ink & layered with die cuts. Glued  embellished wooden clothes pins on both the sides. This one holds a mini Bo Bunny envelope from the Noteworthy collection. Isn't it perfect to hold a cute little message for the recipient?

Making the closure for this was the toughest part! I think now that it is open you all know what this is!

Yes it was a pringles can, inspired by a pin on pinterest. This is how I went about with the upcycling

Linking this to -

LESSology#34- WINNER 

Shabby Tea Room#209

Lulupu#27 (lace, layers, chipboard, pringles can, pearls, pattern paper, clothes pin, corrugated paper in the sticker)

Altered Eclectics

Inky Chicks#24

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CAS(E)#36

Good Morning Friends!!

Started working on this card using the beautiful sketch at CAS(E)#36.

I find it most difficult to make CAS cards, so always try & play along CAS(E) every week. This is my card based on the above sketch. 

Once again I have used my fav Itsy Bitsy embossing folder on the card stock.

Also linking this to CFC 109.

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Shabby Chic Card

Another post from me today & am so glad I made it in time for the Lets Get Trendy Now!3 - Day 4 - Stitching. Never done stitching in my cards/LO earlier so I definitely wanted to attempt this. This is also my last card for the series & I genuinely thank - Julie, Amy, Yvonne for their efforts in compiling this series to inspire us all! Had it not been for this I would never have made a card with neons & stitching.

Coming to my card................its a shabby chic style. The base is a kraft CS & DP used is from DCWV - distressed in vintage photo ink & also a distressing tool. The cage is heat embossed in gold. I have stamped the sentiment FLY HIGH on distressed burlap..........perfect for the LO of the card.

The bird is also distressed & then heat embossed in clear EP (well its not a diecut, but I have stamped the image on the wrong side of the DP & then fussy cut!!!).
Now coming to the stitching, its the black line you see along the small birds of the DP so that it appears like a branch (does it???)

Also linking this to -
Docerela Stamps Challenge
Ruby's Rainbow #57
Charisma Cardz #25 (3-small sequins blue flowers, 2-roses, 1-cage)
For the Love of Crafting

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