Origami Shadow Box by DT Ishani

Hello Dear friends,

Today I am here with an Inspiration post for you, an easy DIY shadow box + Origami, you could gift to your friend who just had a baby. I am using an age old paper art - Origami for my shadow box, but you could use it for anything you want to display.

I always felt the dimensions of a project like quilling and origami gives the handmade creations a different look. But I always struggled to find a frame for the same, even if I found, it was a little expensive for me. So why not give dimension to a common photo frame?

You can choose any dimension of photo frame for this, depending on your project. Remove the pins and the backing of the frame. Now you will have the glass, the side frame and the backing of the frame.

 

Take a heavy gsm paper, 220 gsm or more and trace the glass size on it. Now with the ruler, trace 2 cms around the glass measurements.

 

Let the lines dissect when meeting at the corner. These lines will give depth to the edges of the frame. Then, cut along the outer line to get a rectangle.

 

Next, with a scoring tool score the innermost line, to get raised edges. Cut the two opposite corners.

 

Fold the four side with the help of a scoring tool, giving it a neat crease on the inner most line.

 

Now that you have raised sides stick the corners together with a cello tape. Try to place it in the frame and see if it fits well. 

 

Now that the frame is almost ready, once you put all the elements together place the backing of the frame over the cardstock and stick it up with a strong cello tape. 

 

Now, our shadow box frame is ready to be used for framing. I planned to do origami and made a onesie (with a bib) and a diaper with origami paper.

 

When I thought about how to incorporate it, I thought they'll look nice if I put them on clothesline with wooden clothespin, as if they are hanging after a wash.

Here are some close ups of the final project:

Supplies used:

• Photo frame

• Cardstock of 220 gsm 

• Cello Tape

• Double sided tape

• Scissors or Paper cutter

• Ruler 

• Pencil

• Origami Paper (10 x 10 cms for the onesie and 7x7 cms for the diaper)

• Safety pin 

• Pattered paper (for bib)

• A piece of cord

• Wooden clothespin

• Washi tape

Hope this project inspires you try something similar too. You can find all these supplies at the Rainbow Craftykari store or you can Pre-order by sending an email at info@rainbowcraftykari.in

Don't forget to link in your projects for our this month's challenge.
Love,
Ishani

Altered Color Mixing Palette by DT Priya

Hello Crafty Friends

Good Morning. 

Priya here today with my Inspiration post for the month of September. This is a mixed media altered project again...Ya, I love them.

I have seen many altered palettes... but all of them are wooden or MDF, so I thought why not to alter a real palette...that I use or no longer use. 

So, here's how it looked after all the hard work... 

For this I sanded the palette a bit then added 2 coats of heavy gesso. I layered gauze cloth on one side and corrugated sheet on the other side of this. Then I added some stones, Chipboards, sea shells, Metal and resin embellishments to create layers. Then I started coloring. I used metallic paints here in shades of purple, pink and blue.

Finally after it dried completely, I adhered two paint brushes on one side of it.

Here are some more close up shots

Supplies used:

Any Color Palette ( Here I used Round one)

Art Basic Heavy Gesso White

Corrugated sheet

Gauze

Papericious Chip Boards 

Art Stones

Buttons

Metal Charms

Sea Shells

Painy Brushes

Metallic Paints

You can find all the above mentioned products at http://shop.rainbowcraftykari.in/ or preorder by email to rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com

Hope you like my project. 

Do not forget to participate in our ongoing challenge Here

Hugs,

Priya

Quad Easel Card by DT Priyanka

Hello Everyone

Today I am at the Blog again with an inspiration post this time.

This time I really wanted to try my hands at something new & different and something which I had never created before, thus I picked "QUAD-EASEL CARD" for my inspiration. I remember, when I saw this style of card for the very first time sometime back I got all itchy to try it but just couldn't work on it & with this inspiration post I knew I had to had to try my hands at this quad easel style.

This style gives you a lot of flexibility to experiment with themes, combinations etc. I chose to go ahead with the love theme...!

For the base, I began with taking a black cardstock in size 11"*11"{ref: Picture(a)} & than cut out 4 strips in size 5"*10" and then folded them into half (scored at 5")  {ref: Picture (b)} I further scored one side of the folded cards diagonally {ref: Picture(c)}. Then I cut out 4 squares in the size 5"*5" {ref: Picture(d)}. I then took patterned papers from Papericious & cut them accordingly to attach to the base of my easel card. For the base I cut the patterned paper into 10.5"*10.5" & the remaining 4 patterned papers in 4.8"*4.8".

I adhered the patterned papers onto the black cardstocks' of the respective sizes & then adhered the 4 cards onto the base {ref: Picture(e)} Our base is now ready to be embellished.

Picture (a) 

picture (b)

Picture (c) 

picture (d)

I embellished it flap by flap in a way that each flap coorinates with the other. (tip: it is important to think through how you are going to embellish the flaps because devaiting from the theme can kill the entire look of the card, thus it is very important that all flaps should compliment each other & be in sync)

I embellished my flaps using Spellbinders Nestabilities Fleur De Lis Square die, resins, die cuts, flowers, heat embossed sentiment from Fiskars stamp set, pearls, rhinestones. I didn't want to go overboard with my embellishments thus I kept them simple & light.

Using a double sided foam tape I adhered the small sentiments on the inside of the cards to make an easel panel (with support of these our cards will stand to make an easel structure)

Our Quad Easel Card is ready!

Check out some close up pictures:

Top view with the closed flaps 

Aerial view of the quad easel cards

 

Some Close Ups:

 

Sentiment using heat embossing technique

Embellished with resin frame & flowers

Heat Embossed Sentiment using Fiskars stamp

Couple die cut using silhouette cameo

Material used:
- Black Cardstock
- Papericious: Its peach time patterened paper
- fiskars stamp
- resin frame, resin flowers
- mulberry flowers
- Spellbinders Nestabilities Fleur De Lis Square Die
- Die cuts (boy& girl) on silhouette
- Rhinestones
- Black Distress inks
- We r Memory keepers cut & score board
- Ranger embossing powder (copper)
- versamark embossing ink
- Heat tool

Almost all these materials are available in the store with us at Rainbow Craftykari

Hope you liked my project & enjoyed it!Dont forget to leave your feedback & suggestions & also tag us whenever you try it out. Would love to see your take on this.

Hugs

Priyanka Thukral

Blossom Mixed Media Tag by DT Kriti Mishra

Namaste Friends!!

I am Kriti...back again with an inspiration post for the current challenge
Here is the moodboard of the challenge ( Use minimum of any 3 elements from the board)

Here's what I made

I have selected three colours from the mood board....Yellow, green and brown.
Yellow colour signifies joy, happiness, intellect and energy.
Green colour signifies growth, harmony, freshness and fertility.
Brown colour signifies stability, structure and support.
So, that's why I have selected these colours from the vibrant mood board.

For this tag I have cut three tags from the cardstock.
Yellow- 3.75" x 6.25"
Brown- 3.50" x 6"
Green- 3.25" x 5.75"

Adhered them together one onto the other, after that I mixed the yellow acrylic paint with the texture paste and tapped with the palette knife after that I mixed green acrylic paint with the texture paste and again tapped with the palette knife to give some interesting textures to the surface.
 Put some embellishments like brick chipboard( coloured with brown acrylic paint), gauge, flowers and buds.

Now to add more interest to this, I have added few art stones mixed with gel medium, after drying applied some gesso and then coloured it with brown colour.

In the last I had splattered all the three colours with the help of brush and stamped the sentiment.

Here are few close- ups of the tag

Material used:-

• Cardstock( Yellow, Green, Brown)

• Acrylic paints ( Yellow, green and brown)

• Handmade flowers

• Buds

• Sentiment stamps

• Art stones

• Gel medium

• Gesso

• Gauge

• Brick chipboard

• Palette knife

• Hot glue gun

• Heat gun

• Paint brush

• Black Archival ink

• Stamp block

Above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Cratykari store or you can pre- order by sending an email at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com.Hope my project inspired you. Do participate in the challenge.
RegardsKriti Mishra

Home Layout by DT Anila

Hello Friends!

I am back today with an inspiration post for the current challenge. 

Here is the mood board of the challenge (Use minimum of any 3 elements from the board)

My project for the challenge

I wanted to include most of the colours from the mood board. I have tried to incorporate the woody texture with my base paper.

Here's a brief about my process:

I took an 8" x 8" pattern paper. This gives the look of a corrugated sheet but also resembles the woody structure from the mood board. I adhered this on a brown CS. Next, I adhered a Doily in the centre of this paper and mounted my sentiment with a lot of coloured paper matting under it.

Next came in the arrangement of the flowers, leaves and other elements. Once it was decided I adhered them in position. Then, I stuck a House sticker in one corner.

Lastly I added few sequins to add some element to the LO.

Here are some close-up snaps:

The materials used are

• Pattern paper
• Coloured CS
• Flowers, Leaves etc.
• Coloured sequins
• Doily

All the above-mentioned materials are available with Rainbow Craftykari and/or can be pre-ordered for you.

Hope I could inspire you enough to participate in the ongoing challenge here.

Looking forward to your participation.

Keep Crafting!!

Anila Dikay