DIY Popsicle Sticks Pen stand

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We all worry about our clumsy work spaces.. right? It is true that if we organize our work space, we can easily save time, avoid unwanted stress and of course, find out what we look for very easily.. So today I give you a pen stand to keep all your pens,pencils, paint brushes,etc., safely..

As I have mentioned in almost all my posts(Sorry..I know😒), I love flowers.. Whatever i think to create, the flowers keep appearing on my mind unconsciously..

I saw a kid enjoying his Popsicle ice cream on my way home. As usual, the flowers appeared on my mind and  I got an idea..A fence with climbers..Wow.. It was a wonderful glowing bulb moment for me(Yay..🙌)

 

On that thought,Let's see how my popsicle pen stand looks..
Ta da...

Now we can see how was it done..

I have pasted 3 Popsicle sticks together with a half sized crossed stick.. this forms one side of the pen stand.. Make 3 more to get 4 set of fence like structures.. Stick them at each others end to form a box.. This is our pen stand..

Here comes the interesting part.. I have made some flower patterns using this stamp on some color papers..(dark and light green, yellow, dark and light pink)

I pasted those flowers on each side of the pen stand to create the look of climbers on a fence..

If we look in this picture, we can see the inside of the pen stand and the back of the flowers..

Now our popsicle sticks pen stand is ready for show.. .. Thank you for visiting my blog.. Feel free to share your ideas or corrections in the comments section..

Have a nice day.. Keep on crafting..🎨

Stocking cloth butterfly

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I love flowers and butterflies very much.. They have their unique way of expressing our thoughts and feelings.. So today I have posted a handmade butterfly made by using stocking cloth.. When I did this butterfly, I didn't even know what a blog means.. 

Now , I thought that this is butterfly is worth posting as it is my favorite(and also, I found its hiding place only yesterday😆).. I made it as a birthday greeting card for my husband some 5 years back..

The butterfly is made by stretching the  stocking cloth over the golden rod.. The center body is made of paper and the whole butterfly is decorated using golden outliner, beads and some sequins..

Take a look at it and share your comments below.. 

 Hope you liked my greeting card and the butterfly.. Have a nice day..

Thank you for visiting my blog.. Keep on crafting..

Acrylic Painting-Lotus

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 Today I've drawn a lotus flower with acrylic paint..

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Acrylic painting-Red rose

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In this post, I have posted a red rose that I have drawn using acrylic paints.. For this painting, I have used the same rose that I have traced from my kid's coloring book..

You can click this link to view that red rose post.( old one) 

The technique used to draw this rose is simple, different, less time consuming but looks wonderful.. (by the way, I learnt it in youtube😊😊)..

1. First I have drawn this rose by seeing the picture.. 
2. Give a dark background color as you wish..
3. Then I gave the shading using black color acrylic paint and water.. (for the whole picture)
4. Now, I mixed the red acrylic paint with a medium to make it thinner and applied it on the petals and left it to dry
5. Then , repeat  step 3 with green color for leaves and stem.
6.  Now, Give another red coating to our rose( Its optional.. It brings out the color nicely and makes our rose stand out) 

The end result looked like this..

 
 Thank you for your time.. Hope you liked this .. 

Have a nice day.. Keep on painting..

Acrylic Painting - Mountains

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The Art community in google+ have some very wonderful and inspiring artworks.. Its nice to see many youtube tutorials which gives us detailed explanations of a painting..

So I have tried a painting on my drawing book.. Hope you like it..

This painting is of some mountains on a sunny day.... This is only my fresh and first attempt..Please pardon my mistakes.. 

First I have drawn the outline for the mountains and then given the background color for the sky and added some clouds..

Then I have drawn the back ground color for the mountains.. and detailing were drawn on the mountains to give it a reflecting effect.. (Believe me.. Its not as easy as it looks..) Then I have drawn the grass on the left corner..

Feel free to comment.. Thank you for visiting my blog.. 

Have a nice day.. Keep on painting..

Garland using oasis flowerbed

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We all might know or heard about the dark green colored flowerbed which is mainly used in  natural flower decorations in stages, cutouts, pathways, etc., to keep those flowers fresh.. Today I have a made a garland using that oasis flowerbed.. This garland is very small and can be used for small deities.. 

We offer pooja and prayers to our deities daily.. But on many auspicious occasions, we would like to decorate our deities..and we would also be ready to spend more for that tiny things which looks beautiful but costs dear(especially during the festive days).. So this comes both as an interesting and useful craft.. We can make something by ourselves which looks more beautiful than we buy in the shops..

To make this garland, 

We will need..

1. An oasis flower bed
2. Some precut flowers of our choice..
3. Beads 
4. Needle and Thread
5. Fabric glue 

 Step 1:

Cut the oasis flower bed into small squares of about an inch side..

Apply fabric glue on all four sides and paste the flowers onto it..

Now make many such floral beds and let it dry for atleast an hour.. 

After they have dried, Take some beads and sequins to make our garland..

Arrange the flowers and beads in any order of our choice and insert it through the needle and thread to make this garland..

Hope you liked my craft.. Thank you for visiting my blog..

Have a nice day.. Keep on crafting..

Poster painted Flower Cards-Anemone,Lily

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Flowers are my favorite..They have inspired me in all my crafts right from my childhood days.. These cards were drawn in my school days by seeing a calendar... 

I have used poster color to color these flowers..It took about an hour to draw each of them.. 

The first one is of an anemone flower.. Honestly, I didn't know the name of this flower while I was drawing..Now Lets see how my painting looks..

 The next flower looks like a Lily..But I really don't know the name of this flower.. 

 Hope you liked these paintings.. Thank you for visiting my blog.. Have a nice day..Keep on crafting..
 

Birthday card for Dad

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I love to make greeting cards.. Today I have posted a handmade greeting card done for husband's birthday.. This card has a personal touch as my elder daughter has drawn a family photo inside this card..

I have used a blue card stock as a base for this card..Fold the card vertically along the center to make this a book like opening greeting card..

A blue colored glittering foam sheet is used to cut out petals of a flower.. Now We can paste the petals in the form of a flower..

Upon that and in the corners, I have pasted some pre-cut foam flowers and butterflies which can be bought in any craft shop.. We can paste any stones or crystals to further decorate it.. A tape of stones is pasted along the opening side...

When we open this card, it looks like this..

 

My daughter has drawn this family photo and I have attached it with glittering tape.. A small cartoon with googly eyes and a wish written using glitter completes this greeting card.. 

Hope you liked this card..Thank you for visiting.. Please don't forget to follow my blog for instant updates.. Have a nice day.. keep on crafting..

Birthday Gift - Cake Box

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Today is my daughter's birthday.. the most exciting day for my 6 year old.. So to make things still more fun, I have transformed a plastic box into a cake shaped goodies box and gifted it to her.. She was so happy with her gift..

There are many wonderful gifts and gift shops are available everywhere and we can buy any of them .But when we gift something that was hand made by us..(even though it is simple..), the joy we see on our kid's face is definitely worth it... They realize the time and effort we have put onto creating something exclusively for them.. and thus our bond becomes stronger..

Actually,I love the cute gifts from shops..So I combined both the gifts by placing a shop bought gift inside my handmade gift.. I highly recommend you to try this..for it will bring joy and fun for sure..

Here is what the cake box looked like..

 How to:

Make the lid: 

1. Place a sponge on the lid and tape it
2. Stretch a stocking cloth and tape it in the bottom of the lid
3. This forms the cake top 
4. We can decorate it with crystals,Pearls,glitersand any other decor items. 

Here is how the side of the box will look like..

Make the side of the cake box:

1. Place a sponge along the side covering the whole box
2. Paste a net cloth on the sponge
3. Decorate it with stickers or other such things..

 Now comes the fun and surprising moment..Open the box to see all the personalized goodies and gifts..

 

 

We can place any gift according to our kid's favorites..I have placed a small teddy bear fridge magnet, a small hand made greeting card, some Dora stickers(Her favorite..) and some chocolates..

Hope you liked my post...Thank you for visiting my blog.. Please leave your valuable opinion..

Have a nice day..Keep on crafting..

Pencil Drawings -Girls Face

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I love drawing with pencil... Today I have drawn three pencil drawings of faces of girls depicting their different thoughts..

It is said that our face shows our every feeling.. The first girl is smiling and has a satisfied look in her face.. The curly hair frames the round face..

 

The second girl takes life seriously and has a no nonsense attitude.. She likes to take responsibility for her actions and is honest..

This third girl loves to see beauty in everything..She is romantic and is able to understand others feelings by gazing through them..

Feel free to comment..Hope you liked my drawings.. Thank you for visiting my blog.. Have a nice day..Keep on crafting..

Sequins Art - Flowers on a Card

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Here is another sequins art to decorate any surface.. I have pasted the sequins on a birthday card.. Actually the decoration using sequins is only limited to our imagination.. I have pasted the sequins in the shape of flowers and leaves... Take a look..

 I have used pink and sly blue colored eye shaped sequins to make this design..The flower center is made with a golden 3D outliner..The card page looks like this..

Hope you enjoyed my craft.. See you next year...(I meant the New Year of course..😉)
Thank you for visiting my blog... Keep on crafting..

Have  a very HAPPY NEW YEAR..2017

Sequins Art - Golden plant

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The beads and sequins are an integral part of decoration.. on fabric, jewellery, gifts and also used in religious practices too.....Beads are widely used even before thousands of years..There are historical evidences that they were used in many Egyptian, Indian, and African culture.. Today there are so many variety of sequins and beads are available to help us give life to our creativity..

Golden tree is made as a craft for some time now mainly since it is believed to bring wealth and prosperity according to vaasthu.. So by taking a leaf out the golden tree (not literally of course..😃I meant the idea), I have made a small golden plant with sequins leaves and thermocol ball fruits..

 I have placed the golden plant inside a small earthen pot and placed mseal around it.. I have sprinkled some sand on the mseal immediately so that it sticks and looks real..

Hope you liked my post..Please leave your comments below.. Thank you for visiting my blog..Have a nice day.. keep on crafting..

 

A4 Sized Tile Zentangle Pattern Contd

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Today I have continued writing my last post and have explained the inspirations behind my Zentangle patterns.. To view my last post, Please Click Here..

The full A4 sized pattern is..

Lets see about this four patterns..

The first tile depicts the change of a problem.. In the center, there is a thorn which grows bigger and bigger and finally becomes straight parallel lines..in the upper right corner. All our problems will straight out themelves if we are ready to give it some time and patience..

The second tile depicts stages in our life circle.. We start out as tiny cells as in the centre..Grow organs, become an fetus, born ,learn to walk,run and live life.. We marry and have kids... We love and nurture them.. and return the life given to us and reach the tiny forms of ash at last....

The third tile looks like a a arranged book shelf.. This asserts the importance to read books and acquiring knowledge with curiosity....What we have learnt is as a size of our palm and the things to be learnt is as the size of an ocean..

The fourth tile makes us see black in white and white in black .. We should always be aware that there are two sides to everybody.. We can look at their black side and hate them or we can their white side and love them..

The second tile looks like this..

The first tile is drawn like a closely placed flower petals..this represents the idea that union is strength and beauty..

The next tile is inspired by a honeycomb and obviously it is to explain the idea of hard work.. When we work hard, we will surely reap its benefits..

The third tile looks like a fan and it is a tribute the role played by air in our life... As it available to us 24*7, We take it for granted.. Please take a minute to listen to our inhaling and exhaling ..we will realize the importance of air and be grateful..

The fourth tile has a flower placed on  a random designed background.. We should to be indifferent to our joy and sorrow...When we understand there is a slight good in every bad thing, we will remain happy and stop worrying..

Well, these are all just my thoughts.. You too can share your thoughts in the comments section below.. Thank you for reading this post.. Have a nice day.. Keep on crafting..

A4 Size Zentangle Tiles

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Today I have posted an A4 Sized tiled Zentangle patterns.. Being a Mehendhi artist, I love drawing intricate designs.. So the idea of drawing zentangle art and its inspired drawings gave me a wonderful feeling.. Now I am always thinking each and every moment about designs and patterns..(even my family noticed..😏)

This pattern took a weekend to complete.. But I feel so nice on seeing the completed tile..I have tried a new thing too. I have drawn the patterns inspired by some of my favorite principles in life.. Take a look..

In this first part,

The first tile is inspired by the hair braid design..When we braid our hair it is easy to maintain and the knots will become almost none.. So good arrangement of items will make the place look neat and there will be no tension of searching anything at the time of need..

The second tile has many criss cross lines with tiny lines over them.. This drawing depicts us over-complicating things.. When we concentrate on the cross lines(i.e., our problems) alone, we will miss seeing the tiny stars (i.e., beauty around us)among them and at the background of the tile..

The third tile has several shapes with same inner designs.. No matter what how we look outside, our inner systems are all the same to all of us people.. This tile is to say that however we may look like, We all are beautiful..

The fourth tile has a flower design is with both sharp and curved edges..We have to be tough to avoid people who uses us almost and we have to be yielding towards people who loves us most..

The second part looks like this..

In this part, the first tile depicts the patience that we need to achieve our goal, step by step.. We have to plan our progress, prepare for failure and proceed steadily..

The second tile represents the difference between living a single life and  a family life.. The former is like a flower with full fragrance and the latter creates a collage of petals..There is a great looking road of transition between them too😥..

The third tile depicts road safety.. We have to careful and clever enough to follow rules on road..Walkers should cross on zebra crossing..

The fourth tile says the importance of looking back our trails.. Each triangle has its own shaded trail at their back..The events in our life gives us many happy memories and also some tough lessons of life.. We have to be sure to look in our past to live good in our future and enjoy our present..

Explainations on other tiles are on the way in my following posts..Follow my blog for updates.. Thanks for reading..

Have a nice day.. Keep on crafting..

Handmade Kids Greeting Card for Dad's Birthday

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The most exciting and interesting day for anyone is their birthday..So when my kids wanted to make a greeting card to wish their dad on his birthday, I was excited too.. This card represents the wonderful combination of birthday and crafting along with my kids love..

The card (though a little time consuming) came together so nice.. There are no words to explain the joy and pride on the face of my daughters when they finished and placed the card inside an envelope.. 

So here is how the card was made.. the rectangle card stock is self designed and it is folded along the center..The opening page has a hand written title and bordered with some red paper which was cut with a tulip shaped paper cutter stamp.

There is also a cute hand drawn crayon cartoon of my two daughters(drawn by my elder daughter) at the bottom right corner..

I have made the center page of my greeting card inspired by a classic technique of palm tracing
i.e.,

1. Place ur child's palm on the cardboard
2. Trace it and cut the cardboard in that shape
3. Place it on another cardboard and draw them..
4. Repeat Step 3 by keeping the palm card on many angles..

I have used blue color for my younger daughter's palm and red for my elder one.. with the "happy birthday dear daddy" message placed among them..

Now, this is another card made with a foam sheet in my kid's palm shape representing  close your eyes symbol.. There was a pen sticked inside the card which was the surprise gift..

Thank you for visiting my blog.. Hope you like my kids cards.. Feel free to comment below..
Have a nice day..Keep on crafting..

Embroidered Mat

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Embroidery is a wonderful artwork practiced worldwide.. There are evidences of embroidery done even from 3rd Century with many common stitches such as back stitch, buttonhole stitch, stem stitch,blanket stitch,etc.,.. The artwork has adapted into every place of the world according to the creativeness of the native people and also the materials available..

Today I have posted an embroidered mat with basic stitches..I have learned many new stitches from www.embroidery.rocksea.org You can refer it for any doubts on embroidery.. You can buy online at www.embroiderymaterial.com

 

You can see the stitches clearly if we take a closer look..

 

In the center design, I have used Blanket stitch, Chain Stitch and  Satin Stitch.. I have pasted some crystal embellishments on it..ans stiched some golden sequins using back stitch..

For the border stitch, I have used beaded fly stitch and mirror work.. I have stitched a lace along the border to complete the mat..

Hope you like this artwork.. Feel free to comment below.. Have a nice day.. Keep on crafting..

Recoloring Karthigai Deepam

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Last year, I have colored these diyas for Karthigai.. But when I took it out of the box, I felt sad on seeing their condition and I knew I can't use it... So I thought of repainting it as an act of reusing.. I realized that I can change it into a new one.. That idea felt awesome...

So here are my old diyas which I painted last year.. Believe me.. It looked beautiful last year..

As the first step, I painted a base of brown acrylic color.. When they were half dried, I repainted another coat on it... After that I applied the gold,silver and bronze metallic dust on them with my fingers..

When we apply metallic dust, the intricate patterns on the deepam wiil be clearly visible.  Here is how they look now..

Hope you enjoyed this post... Thank you for visiting my blog.. Have a nice day..Happy Karthigai Deepam.. Keep on crafting..

Decorated Karthigai Deepam

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Today is the auspicious day of Karthigai Deepam.. Karthigai is the 8th month of the Tamil calendar.. "Periya karthigai" or "Karthigai Thirunal" is the birth date of Lord Karthikeya, also known as Lord Murugan, a prominent deity of Tamil Nadu..

About Karthigai Deepam: 

On this special day, Fasting is done in the name of "Karthigai Viratham".. without eating breakfast and lunch but Fruits, Mavu Urundai(Flour Laddu) and Milk can be taken.. the fasting is ended with a grand feast(consists of rice,sambar and 7 or more vegetable poriyal and finished with sweet kheer or payasam) in the evening 6 pm after lighting the deepam and offering prayers to the Lord Murugan..



 Today, the famous "Maha Deepam" is also lit on the hilltop of the Shivan temple, "Sri Arunachaleswarar temple" at Thiruvannamalai,Tamil Nadu

 

As a deepam is the main feature of this celebration, today, I have decorated some clay diyas.. Lets get into it..

Painting:

The simple way of making a clay deepam colorful and beautiful is to paint it..I have painted this diya using lemon yellow and crimson acrylic colors.. (If acrylic colors are not available, Poster colors can also be used... but a coat of varnish is needed to avoid color fading..)

Metallic Dust:

We can obtain an antique effect on the deepam by applying metallic dust...Metallic dust comes as Gold,Silver and bronze... They add a wonderful effect to the plain deepam.. At first, when I brushed on some dust, more dust was wasted.. but accidently, i applied the dust which spilled on my fingers on the deepam, it was very effective and easy to do too..So on this deepam, i have applied gold and silver dust with my fingers...

Beads:

We can paste any decor items such as sequins, beads,bead strings or stones to decorte a deepam.. Please note to leave the place where it is lit.. to avoid melting of the decor items..

I have pasted a lotus shaped old pendant at one its end..

My favourite:

This deepam looks so beautiful that I could not think of any way to enhance it... Such was the talent  of the designer and craftsman of this clay deepam.. So, as a respect to the designer, I have decided to use this deepam as a clay one itself..

A VERY HAPPY KARTHIGAI DEEPAM TO ALL OF YOU"

Hope you liked my diyas.. You can try it too and post your creations at the comment section below..
Have a nice day..Keep on crafting..