Saturday, January 25, 2014

Altered Box

This is going to be a picture heavy post...
I had finished this project almost a week before but the stupid camera wasn't working till yesterday(Grrrrhhh!!!). This is my first altered project on this blog and I am proud to say I did some recycling and upcycling...

So, without further ado, here are the BEFORE pics...






 Its a box which contained a watch...

Before I show the transformation, here's the finished thing...(top view)


Friday, January 24, 2014

Contrast Card

I've been blogging for only about 2 months...and already I am hooked to all the craft challenges in blogland! My favourite challenge is CASology. First of all, I love the CAS style. Second, the cue words and the DT inspiration in CASology is as good as it gets. I love the fact that the cue words are so simple yet so thought-provoking. Kudos to the CASology team for coming up with brilliant ones every week!
So this week, the cue word is is CONTRAST.
At first I thought of making something based on yin and yang, but unfortunately I do not own a circle cutter and hand cutting circles do not quite work out for me! So, I kept it black & white, symmetric and came up with this...


Okay, so here's the specs : half of the butterfly was hand drawn and hand cut from black art paper. The "negatives" ie. the small bits and the rectangular piece of black paper were also pasted. Created the border using a hole punch and stuck those negatives too on the other side.

For the sentiment, I cut out a piece of white CS, pasted black paper on half of it. The BG is random dots punched out with hole punch. Sentiment is hand written(copied from font : Special Elite) on some sort of translucent paper I found lying about in the house and pasted on the BG.
While coming up with the sentiment, I could not help not thinking about Joker's dialogue to Batman in TDK... lol

Close up of butterfly...

Making this was as frugal as it gets! I did not waste a thing, just pasted everything together! ;-)

Update : Came across a wonderful challenge blog : Muse. My card is not exactly an anniversary card, but its un-mushily romantic and anyway I just wanted to play along as I loved their blog. So adding this card @Muse!

Thanks for reading, and happy crafting!

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

My Dotty Creation

I fell in love with the CASology cue word of this week : Dot. Hop over to check out the fantastic DT inspiration here.
When I heard of dot, I was instantly reminded of this video game I used to play a LOT as a kid : Pacman. You have to advance each level by eating all the dots in the maze and killing the monsters. Well, I left out the monster part(we don't want to be scared now, do we?) and took up the theme of dot and eating. What I came up with was a type of an invitation card for dinner(weird, right? But that's me, I'm afraid).
So...



Monday, January 13, 2014

Almost From Scratch

The daughter of a friend of my mother's had had an accident recently. So my mother thought it would be nice if I could make a card for her to give when she visited the hospital. Now, I had never met the Didi in my life. So I had to opt for pretty much a generic card. But the problem came when it came to supplies. Again, NOTHING except for quilling paper. Not even white cardstock for the base. So what to do? The local stationary shop does not stock cardstock(India. More importantly, this is Kolkata :-\). So I glued together two sheets of thick art paper as neatly as I could. A girl's gotta make do with what she's got, unfortunately. Then my gaze fell on a box that was lying around. It was the container of a cosmetic gift set. It had quite a lovely picture of a heart. So I quickly dismantled the box and cut out the picture.
Imagine my surprise when I found the inside of the box was a nice lavender colour! I cut out the maximum part that could be reclaimed, and voila, I had lavender cardstock!
So, without further blabbering, here's the finished card...


Saturday, January 11, 2014

You & I

A guy friend of mine recently got a girlfriend...don't ask me how, haha. He badgered and badgered me to make a card for his new love, even agreed to pay! How could I resist? But there was one problem... I was(and still am) dangerously short of supplies except for quilling paper. So I knew I HAD to make a quilled card(even though my slotted tool broke few days ago :( and I take ages with a needle). So here's what I came up with...





Tuesday, January 07, 2014

YET More Quilled Earrings

I have just finished the piece I was working on. Yay! This one is made for a friend of my mothers. She saw my copper and bronze earrings and liked it very much. She wanted a pair, too! This one is copper and gold, and its very ethnic.




Monday, January 06, 2014

More Quilled Earrings...

I have been making quilled earrings ever since I discovered quilling, a few months back. I love them as they are ligthweight, colourful, pretty... and quite tough once they are mod pogded. In this post I am going to share the cream of all the jewellery I have created since then. :-)

Behold my very first project on quilled jewelry....




Saturday, January 04, 2014

Quilled Earrings

First post of this year...

This one will be a quickie... I made a pair of quilled earrings in my study breaks... surprisingly it took very little time! It took me a day as I could work for only 5 minutes at a go...! Quite pleased with these...