Tissue box

I had made this tissue box looooong time back and the technique I had used was “decoupage”. I kept in my car for so many years and the sunlight faded the red colour of hearts. Heart turned from red to pink to cream to white in colour. It was time to revamp my tissue box.  Since it’s made up of MDF, I could use it again. See what I came up with

This is what happened to my tissue box due to long exposure to sunlight

 

Looking at the results, now I don’t want to keep this in my car (will be heart broken it this gets discoloured )

Hope you like it.

Ciao,

~ Sakhi

 

Aarti Thaal

A friend wanted to make something special for her cousin’s wedding. We came up with the aarti thaal… Completely DIY. See for yourself…

A close-up

Hope friend’s cousin likes this.

Now back to work for exhibition

Ciao,

~ Sakhi

Egyptian Mummy

Cub had vacation project to make egyptian mummy and of course mom has to take up the challenge

We both made the mummy from her old doll an wrapped it with white cloth strips. It turned out well (or so I think ).

Then I thought it should have a coffin to go with it too. So made one out of thick textured card stock. Cub made some confetti in lieu of sand (sand would have increased weight and paper could not have held it).

See how it turned out…

Cub liked it a lot… And I am happy too…

Now back to exhi work

Ciao

~ Sakhi

Handmade paper – tutorial

Today I and cub had some time and also had my neice over, so we thought to make some handmade paper sheets from newspapers. Let’s see how we made it.

Materials used:

1. Old news papers
2. Half bucket full of water (to soak paper shreds)
3. Paper masher or mixer grinder (to make paper pulp)
4. Deckel
5. Roller (to flatten the sheets)
6. Old bed sheet or towel (to dry sheets on)
7. Some extra newspapers (to keep the sheets in between to flatten them)

Method:

We started with shredding the newspapers into small pieces and then soaking them in water for three hours. Once the paper pieces were soft, we mashed them to pulp in the paper masher. You can use mixer grinder for the same purpose (I use paper masher as it doesn’t require electricity and hence, children can use them on their own without adult supervision).

After we pulped the paper, we made thin layer of this pulp on the deckle net and let the extra water drip out. We also decorated these sheets with flowers and leaves before pressing the sheets.

Once done, we put the sheets under the roller to squeez out excess water. Then these sheets were placed on old bath towel to dry them further. Once they were dry enough, we placed them between other newspaper sheets and put heavy books on top of it to flatten the sheets out.

What say guys, you like the end product?

These sheets can be used as greeting card or as keepsake or memorablia Hope you enjoyed this tutorial

Love,

Sakhi

Paper Bag

I am in a habit of gifting things in eco-friendly paper bags, even to the kids. The bags I have look quite a drab. So I thought of perking them up. See for yourself what a little stroke of brush and a few papers here and there can do to a drab looking paper bags!

What do you say guys?  Would Kids love to receive gifts in these kind of bags or not?  

Book Mark

Made this book mark for a friend. Hope I send it across on time

Made this one frcard paper using iclay, acrylic colour, celophane and embelishments 

Bookmark with a book

My copy right!

Bookmark Flip side

Bookmark front side

Embelishment

Happy Reading friends!

Run, Run… FIRE!!!

Shoe box or Treasure chest???

Before

After

After

From Inside

Silk Painting – Tutorial

I tried painting on silk Scarf this time and thought of sharing the technique with you guys.

Material Used:

1. Silk Scarf / cloth

2. Silk Colours along with outliner

3. Ring to Stretch the Cloth

4. Pencil for drawing the design on the cloth ( you can get it traced professionally too!)

5. Painting brush

6. A rag and water dispenser

Method:

1. The desired cloth has to stretched on the ring so that the working becomes easier.

2. Draw the design you want to paint.

3. Apply the outliner on the design so that the colours won’t bleed or merge with each other. (You can work without the outliner when you want the merged effect.) Wait for the outliner to dry completely. This might take one and half to two hours.

4. Once the outliner has dried, start filing up the design with your desired colours. There’s no need to dilute the colour or add any medium. You can work directly from the container. Remember to start filling the colour from the center so that the colour will not bleed out side the liner. If you want to shade the particular part, do it when the colour is still wet.

5. If you want to give texture to the colour as its seen in the solid area, you can put salt grains (bigger ones) on the still wet colours. Beautiful star shaped texture will be visible. Again, it is mandatory to do it when the colour is still wet and remove the grains once the colour dries.

6. Let the colours dry for 24 hours and then iron the cloth on the back side. Take care to keep the temperature of iron on “Silk” mode.

7. Now you can wash you cloth.

P. S. These colours can be used on cotton material also. These colours are easier to work on cotton fabric as they bleed less and the effect is better than that of conventional fabric colours.

Bubble Printing – Tutorial

I love this project and so does my daughter… Its fun and the results are very good too! Lets see how do you guys like it!!

You will need!

Requirements:

Flat Vessels or glasses

Water

Few Papers ( Here, I have used, A4 size computer print papers)

Drinking Straws

Liquid bathing soap or liquid vessel washing soap

Powder colours or Tempera colours or Water colours or Poster colours

Tempera Colours

Method:

1. Take a Glass and fill it up till 1/3, add a few drops of liquid soap (of your choice) and mix well but without working up the bubbles.
2. Add the desired colour to this liquid and again mix well. You will need more quantity for the lighter shades and less for the darker shades. Decide the quantity of the colour as per your requirement. Usually one tea spoon of colour is required.

Flat vessel for large paper sheets but amount of colour required is more!

3. Now work up the bubbles by blowing up through the straw as shown in the picture here. It is better to have a plastic or covering sheet beneath the glass or a flat vessel as the bubbles will come out or the glass and once kids are into this project they will make sure that bubbles COME out!!

It can really get messy, but kids love it!

Bubbles worked up in a glass!

4. Put the paper to be printed over the bubbles and take off immediately. You will see the prints over the paper. If you keep the paper for a longer time, it will get soggy as well as the bubble-print will not form properly.

Bubbles taken on the paper

5. Keep repeating this till the entire paper sheet is covered or till you are satisfied. You can use different colours on the same paper for the mixed effect too.

Another Colour!

6. Use these papers for any purpose you want viz. wrapping paper, to prepare cards, to prepare photo frames or anything that comes to your mind.

Different colour sheets!

That’s all guys… Happy Bubbling!!