Uncovering Blog Co-ordinator Jul'17

Bonjour Crafters,

Today we are so much thrilled to announce our Blog Coordinator for the Rainbow Craftykari Blog, Allow me to introduce the most talented and brilliant crafter in the Indian Craft Industry, Aditi Mahajan!! She is going to be face of Rainbow Craftykari. Let's Welcome her,

Hello Everyone

My mother- Sunila Mahajan and me- Aditi Mahajan, started Dots to Lines and our forte is home decor, mixed media and altered art. I have pursued MSc. in Clinical Psychology and Dip. in Special Education; and too to arts and crafts since school days and also practised art therapy when working with children with special needs. I have completed an art course from School of Visual Arts, New York.

Crafting has been a part of daily activities mostly in the form of various altered projects or making gifts. We run a home decor business by the name of Dots to Lines and we handcraft products using techniques of mixed media and decoupage. We are into paper-crafting, layouts, journaling, album making and scrapbooking. Our style of art and craft is a fusion of techniques and use of vibrant colours.

Under the name of Dots to Lines, I have been officially creating and crafting for two years now. Apart from selling products and blogging, I am a part of various Design Teams.

Today, I am glad to be a part of a team as a Blog Coordinator. This is a prestigious position and I hope to do justice to it. Rainbow Craftykari is a great store and has till date provided a great education programme for fellow crafters. I hope to add to its growth and success.

My Latest Projects:

Warm Regards
Aditi Mahajan
Dots 2 Lines

Altered Glass and Altered Photo Frame Tutorial By GD Vinita Jain

Hello Everyone,

This is Vinita here, I am delighted to be guest designing this month with Rainbow Craftykari Store. Today, I'll be teaching two projects Mixed Media Altered Projects.

Let's Begin

In this project, I have added a gift with the Photo Frame, so this is a bonus project for all of you. I altered a glass container which has a lid into this beautiful decor piece!!!

Now let me show the steps how I created this MM altered art!


Step 1.

Take any plastic container, clean it properly from any stains or dust particles and dry it. Now apply spray paint on it. But for precaution keep the container in any box/carton and cover the glass with the spray paint. You can wear gloves too. Now let it dry for half an hour or little more.

Step 2:

I used different types of embellishments in this creation. In a picture frame, silicon mold using clear glue sticks and heat glue gun filled this mold.

Let it dry, hardly took 15 minutes. If you don't have glue gun and sticks you can also use dry clay which can be easily molded into any shape you wanted. Here I used it for a 3D baby mold, cover the space tightly as shown in the picture. Let it dry in the air, took one hour to dry properly.

Step3:

Now take out these embellishments from the mold carefully. Time to color them I used some alcohol inks, Fevicryl Pearl colors, some Inka gold from Viva in different colors.

Step 4.

The Inka Gold colors are so versatile you can apply them on any embellishment, it can even be diluted in water too. Here as shown in the pic, I first applied Gesso on all these embellishments using sponge, then the impact of color will be more bright and if you use black Gesso, it will create different textures. On the metal embellishments, I used a spray, Inka Gold, alcohol inks and burnished them with gold color for detailing work after drying. Even I applied Gesso to my trims to make them little thicker and applied different inks.

I applied Gesso on bamboo sticks and one of the pencil too.

Step 5:

On the glass container to create textures, I give it a coat of gesso and using a comb created a wood panel look. Now burnished the different mediums to highlight the details as shown in the pic.

Step 6:

Now start embellishing it. Using my glue gun I attached all the embellishments easily.

I added lots of different paper flowers, blings, jewel stones, fillers and added a sentiment too which I covered it with Inka Gold mediums. Now using tacky glue gel I spread crystal clear sparkle too.

This is the top, I covered it with a lace, pearl string, a beautiful trim butterfly and other embellishments.

Here is the Final pic!

Here is the Video I have made of MM Altered Art





Next Project is Altered Photo Frame, giving it a uniqueness and make great gifts!

I love Mixed Media art....Throwing on the layers, textures and just having fun! Blue is my favorite color and I added some gold with lots of blue hues! You will see some of the metal embellishments, chippies, handmade flowers, doilies and stencilling peeking through!

The first thing I covered the chipboard frame with a coat of white gesso. After drying, I applied cheese cloth all over using Mod Podge.

Here what it looks like before adding gesso and sprays. I roughly set up all the things on this frame and took a photo. Now added texture paste using some stencils for textures, Arranged all the embellishments, charms, different flowers, MDF flourishes and many more things according to my need and again applied a layer of gesso.

Now applied lots of layer of different inks, spray, Viva gold, glitters etc. At the bottom layer, I pasted a sequins lace too. For more textures and interest, I added microbeads in two varieties randomly, added a cute tiny heart, jewelled stone at the lamp post. Added a string of pearls inside the edges of photo panel.


Some close ups:

I hope you all enjoyed this beautiful photo frame creation!

Thank for attention. Enjoy your creativity! Hugs!

Supply List:

Chipboard for base, Shiny Black CS

Stencils- Art is from The crafters workshop; 655350-2010-09 from Prima Marketing

Prima doily die-crochet doily

Abro Spray Paint: Shifting blue

Inka Gold- old gold and Turquoise

Bo Bunny- silver glitter paste

Mod Podge Matte

Studio 490 Embossing paste

Bond-Tite-Amrow UPVC Weider

Sakura Acrylic Gesso

Glossy accents, craft glue

Black soot Distress ink

Purple and gold Alcohol ink from Tim Holtz

Fabrica Acrylic colors ultra - White and blue

Chipboard shape embellishment - Lamp post

Monucles( microbeads) - gold

MDF embellishments, metal charms, metal brads and white pearl lace, Clock, key, metal handle, Love, YOU & ME sentiment, flourishes, metal flowers

Other supplies- crochet flowers, metal brads and charms- Butterflies, heart, metal flowers, Prima flowers, handmade flowers, White small pearls, cheesecloth, plastic flower, tiny jewelled stones, tiny enamel heart, Bottle lid are from my stash.

 

Above mentioned supplies are available at Rainbow Craftykari Store Or you can pre-order them by sending email at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com

 

Thanks
Vinita Jain

 

Rainbow Craftykari - Blog Coordinator Call 2017

2017 Blog Coordinator Call!! We are very excited to announce the Blog Cordinator Call for next six months. Rainbow Craftykari Store is looking for a Talented Blog Coordinator, who will be the face of the Rainbow Craftykari Blog!! This post open only for Indian Crafters/Designers

What we are looking for in a Blog Coordinator?

1. An Individual/Crafter who has good knowledge of HTML and CSS. Also has worked in HTML and CSS for atleast 6 months at any blog, someone who can handle the blog effortlessly.

2. Needs to have excellent writing skills in English Language and must be good with English language

3. Needs to be an active blogger as well as active on social media platforms.

4. Needs to promote the Rainbow Craftykari Store whenever possible at Social Media and Groups.

5. The blog coordinator needs to work as a team with Rainbow Craftykari Team and Other Team Members of the blog.

6. Needs to be able to create a project every month as that opportunity will also be provided to the coordinator

What would you get?

Handsome Discounts at Rainbow Craftykari Store

Every month you will receive an Goodie Bag from us

You will get Rainbow Craftykari Badge and watermark to flaunt at your blog and to use at your projects.

Your Projects will get Promoted at Our Social Media Platforms such as at Facebook, Instagram and Groups

How to Apply
 

If you think this call is for you, apply by sending us an email at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com Include the following in your mail:

1. Subject- Blog Coordinator Call 2017- your name

2. All links to your social media sites- Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, etc

3. A brief introduction about yourself with a picture.

4. Let us know why you'd like to work with us.

5. Send us three links to your latest works (include at least one written tutorial).

6. Let us know if you have been or are on any other design teams and especially if you have had experience working for another team as a blog coordinator.

7. Lastly let us know your forte/area of interest/expertise - card making, scrapbooking, mixed media, altered art, etc.

Looking forward to hear from you.The Blog Coordinator Call is open till – 23rd June 2017!!

Book Card & Stamped Envelope Tutorial by DT Pavitra Chanchal

Hello My Dear Friends

I am back and as usual very excited to be here on this platform. Today I have two lovely projects to share with you guys. After a real long time I wanna to play with cardstock and pattern paper so I created a cute little book card and cash envelope which is an excellent way of gifting small things with personalized touch. They make an excellent way of presenting return gifts for children’s birthday party and can be resized easily depending upon the requirement so let’s get started. But first have a look at the project.

From the outside it looks like a tiny book and inside it has space for gift.

Below you will find the instructions : Cut black cardstock 6 x 10 inch.

Score at 5 inch – 1 inch – 5 inch as shown in above image using scoring board and fold.

Cut two pieces of black cardstock measuring 6 x 4 and 5 x 4 inches.

Score at every 1 inch and fold in a zigzag way mimicking alphabet M OR W. Overlap them together forming a frame (as shown in below pic) and paste the edges with glue.

Center it inside the book cover and paste with tacky glue or tape.

Cover with pattern paper and attached a ribbon for closure. For the outside I placed a filigree die cut out, a resin lady embellishment in the center and finish off with a flower and a sentiment cutout.

Stamped Envelope Tutorial

Secondly I have a stamped envelope made from scratch for you to go with the Book Card, have a look!!!

Let's Start, Firstly Cut red cardstock 11 x 9-1/2 and score at 4 , 8 fold (on longer side i.e 11 inches).

Score 1 inch on both the sides (from smaller side i.e. 9-1/2) and fold.

Trim the 1 inch portions form both the flaps leaving the center portion as shown in below pic.

Fold the flaps inward, round the upper edges as shown and paste with glue as shown in below pics.

Cut iris sheet 270 GSM 7-1/4 x 3-3/4 inches

Dab distress ink aged mahogany, spiced marmalade, fired brick, abandoned coral on nonstick mat, spritz with water and place iris sheet on top of it.

To make it splotchier, I tried spritzing archival ink red carnation with liquid sanitizer, since it contains alcohol it helps the archival ink to move and believe me I really loved the outcome.

Next I stamps big maple leave from just right stamp set, using spiced marmalade, vintage photo and aged mahogany distress inks.

I first applied spiced marmalade on the entire leave, than aged mahogany on the outer sides and vintage photo on the extreme edges.

Using the smaller leaves from same set I fill up the empty space and stamp the leaves using aged mahogany and vintage photo distress inks.

Lastly I stamp a tiny postage stamp with vintage photo distress ink and finish off my background.

Paste it on top of cardstock envelope base with tacky glue.

I die cut iris paper with spellbinder die set using the smallest dies, colored them with distress ink – spiced marmalade and layered them on top of each other with 3D tape.

On the top most layer I applied a layer of clear glitter with glossy accent and finally placed it in the center of the envelope

I hope you like this tutorial and will try to make one for yourself.

Material List:

For Book Card - Black Cardstock

Pattern paper

Ribbon

Resin embellishment

Mulberry flower

Tacky glue

Tacky tape

Butterfly cutout


For Envelope -

Red cardstock 200GSM

Iris paper 270GSM

Distress ink – spiced marmalade, vintage photo, aged mahogany

Archival ink – red carnation

Just right stamp – shabby chic , autumn leaves

Spellbinder die

Tacky glue

3D tape

Hand sanitizer

Clear glitter

Glossy accent


Warm Regards
Pavitra Chanchal.
Paper Grace