"This is my Dream" by DT Kriti Mishra

Namaste Friends!!

I am Kriti and I am back with a new project and this is an inspiration post. A layout with some bright colours titled "This is my dream". A dream leads to hope, this is a dream of a wish to come true and all we have is hope.

The lines which I have used are from a song....these lines focus on the motivation and hope we get while dreaming.

Here's the project:

 Some close-ups:

Here's a brief about this project:
To start with, I have taken a wooden plank (Size is 10" x 8") and affixed a few chipboard rectangular pieces on the right-hand side to make a wall and gauge on the left-hand side. Then covered the entire surface with gesso.

Next, I have used a bubble stencil to make the background more interesting using modelling paste and covered the entire surface with gesso again. Next, I have added this beautiful Dreamcatcher chipboard and few beads and again covered the surface with gesso.

After that, I used spray colours i.e., yellow, orange and red(Spray some water too to let them run). I then used gold, copper and black colour to highlight the textures. I then used few stamps, text, brick and music notations to make it more interesting.

Lastly, I embellished it with some coloured gauge, flowers, and a beautiful song lyrics.

Supply List

• A wooden plank

• Rectangular chipboard pieces(small)

• Gauge

• Dram catcher Chipboard (Papericious)

• Beads

• Gesso (Papericious)

• Bubble Stencil

• Text, bricks and music notation stamps

• Black Archival ink

• Heating tool

• Spray/Acrylic colours (Red, Yellow, Orange, gold, copper, black)

• Water mister

• Handmade mulberry flowers

• Paper smooches Leaf die

• Big shot

Above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari Store or you can pre-order the products by sending e-mail at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com

Thank you for stopping by!!
Hope you got inspired by my work!

Kriti Mishra

Elegantly Chic Shadow Box by DT Khushboo

Bonjour Crafters!

This is Khushboo here, back with an Inspiration Post this time. I often do colorful projects and work with color schemes. But for my latest project, I chose a different route. I've created a gorgeous 'Elegantly Chic Shadow Box' in a purely Black-and-Red relationship.

Setting up a shadow box, and further yet, creatively embellishing it is a lot of fun! It brings out the kid in me if nothing else. To arrange every single box/space is very cool! You can spin a different story in every space and yet make it all very cohesive on the whole.

My inspiration for this Shadow Box was Papericious' beautiful paper pack called 'Mi Estilio' - very stylish and extremely elegant. So once I knew what my central theme for the shadow box would be, I started collecting all my related embellishments and creative ideas. The result is as follows:

A Brief for creating this 'Elegantly Chic Shadow Box':

Shadow boxes come in different shapes and sizes, and with randomly sized inside spaces too. Select the one that appeals to you and get started.Cover the entire shadow box with 2 coats of black gesso (since I'm going with a black-and-red theme). Let it dry thoroughly between and after every coat.

 

Now color the whole box with black acrylic paint and let it dry completely.
Measure the inside box length and width and cut up your pattern paper accordingly.
Ink up the edges of the pattern paper with black and/or red distress inks and start gluing them down however you find them the most complementing.
Don't forget the sides of the shadow box. I've cut strips of pattern paper with random lengths and stuck them. They look dreamy!

Since my theme is 'Elegant and chic', I've embellished my shadow box with all royal-looking stuff like a chair, chandelier, photo frames, etc.
Papericious paper pack also has some beautiful shapes and motifs related to the theme like nail paint bottles, quotes, compact, lipstick, mascara, etc. I've used some of them here - on the front panel.

Finally, I've added glitter stickers like hearts and arrows on the floor of every space so as to not make it gaudy and yet maintain the elan. 

Materials used:

• Shadow Box 

• Black gesso 

• Black acrylic paint

• Papericious Paper Pack

• Black cardstock

• Metal embellishments

• Resin embellishments

• Papericious clock embellishments

• Glitter stickers

• Metal chain

• Paper flowers

• Flower pot

• Fillers

Hope you guys enjoyed my creations and the tutorial. Can't wait to see how you add your own twist to this!

Don't forget to participate in our ongoing challenge Rainbow Friendship. Link your projects here.

Above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari Store OR you can pre-order the products by sending email at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com

That's it from me, folks!

Khushboo R. Gandhi

Altered Wall Art Tutorial By DT Priya Mishra

Hello Crafty Friends,

Priya here today with a detailed pictorial tutorial for a Mixed media Wall art. Mixed media is always fun and I enjoy a lot creating different textures and I'm showing how to get different textures on your project here today with simple little things from your stash.

Take a look at the final outcome:

Let's start the tutorial:

Step:1 I altered a square shaped MDF board, which actually was a cake base. You can take any size of a board. Here's the base:

Step 2: I gave a thick coat of white heavy gesso on the base. Once it was dry I gave another coat.

Step 3: Next, I created some texture.Here you can see, on the lower part of the board, I glued some crumpled tissue paper and also attached lace.

Step 4: At this point, I created some texture with the help of a stencil on the left side. As you can see my son also helped me in this.

For quick drying, I used the heat tool.

Step 5: Then, on the right side of the lace on upper part, I applied some texture paste and tried some random texture using my quilling comb.

A dotted tool for some more texture here and there.

Step 6: After drying, I started adding embellishments randomly. I added flowers, chipboards, resin and metal embellishments and glued them all with a glue gun.

Step 7: Then I added a few Big and small pearls, Art stones and sprinkled seed beads.

Step 8: Then I started adding colours. Here I used acrylic colours. I mixed Pink and yellow colours to get this colour and at the lower side I added black pearl acrylic colour.

This is how it looked when finished. This photo was taken at night after I finished, so the picture isn't very clear.

Here are a few close ups of the project.

Supplies Used:

• MDF Board/ Chipboard

• Art Basic Heavy gesso

• Rangers Texture Paste

• Tim Holtz Stencil

• Rangers Heat Tool

• Hot Glue gun

• White glue

• Tissue Paper

• Lace

• Papericious Chipboard

• Chipboards

• Resin frame

• Metal Charm

• Flowers

• Pearls

• Seed Beads

• Acrylic Paints

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial. All the above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari Store or you can preorder them by sending an email to rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com.

Don't forget to participate in our ongoing challenge Rainbow Friendship. Link your projects here.

Hugs,

Priya