“500 – likes” Candy

Hi Peeps,

After a successful exhibition, now Crafty Village had a good news for you all. Crafty Village’s “Paper Kraze” is coming up with a give away. We are giving away “Quilling Kit for beginners” from Shilpi worth INR 449/-.

All you have to do is follow these simple steps:

1. “like” our facebook page: http://facebook.com/craftyvillage

2. Enter your blog link or page link  in the “inlinkz” tool.

Once you have done both of these you are eligible for this candy

We will run this candy till our FB page hits 500 “Likes”  or 31st January, 2013 whichever comes first. Then Cub will pick up a random winner. We will announce the winner on 3rd February, 2013.

Start “Liking” Peeps

Ciao,

~Sakhi

P.S. this candy can be shipped to Indian Postal addresses only.

Quilled Fridge Magnet

Hey guys… See what I did this weekend. I had a blog friend over for quilling workshop. She made quilled earrings, Cub was busy quilling fir her favourite uncle and I made this cool fridge magnet. Have a look…

Though I had thought that I would gift this to someone special, Cub gifted it to herself… Hee… Hee…  :D

Hope you like it.

Ciao…

~Sakhi

Wreck This Journal: My Version

I saw this super cool journal online: “Wreck This Journal” by Keri Smith. I liked it so much that I wanted it but did not want to buy it, instead I went ahead and made one for myself and a friend. Have a look…

I started with this ordinary notebook from Classmate with plain pages

I decoupaged the front and the back cover pages with the pieces of newspaper (arrow is to show decoupage)

I painted even the inner cover pages (back and front) with acrylic colours (arrow to show the painted page)

These are just the sample pages of the journal. I have used some of the ideas from the original journal but I din’t like a lot of them too. So came up with my own version. It was tough to do that but was fun too

This is the back cover page, decoupaged And even though this journal was suppose to be for me and a friend, I couldn’t help but put my trademark there. Looks so professional, hun??

It took me almost a week to complete both these journals. I posted one to my friend today morning. Hope she likes it. I will have to make one for myself again since Cub liked mine so much that she flicked it away…

Hope both the girls enjoy journalling and let themselves free with imagination.

Ciao…

~Sakhi

Shoe box or Treasure chest???

Before

After

After

From Inside

Decoupage coasters!

No Tutorial this time guys… Just wanted to share what I did on this weekend.

These are coasters made of wood and I decoupaged them. They are made waterproof for daily use.

These I gifted to my hubby!

Hope you have a great week ahead!

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!!   

Free Hand!

Both of these are done by my daughter without any help from me!

A Sunny Day

Block Print on Paper Using Poster Colours

Mehendi (henna)

Applied Mehendi (Henna) on my daughter’s hands for the Diwali festival.

Silhoute

Took my daughter’s sketch book and tried my hand at pencil sketch.. It was a long time since i drew something!