Ganesha Diwali Home Decor Piece Tutorial by GDT Vinita Jain

Hello Everyone!

Happy October!

This is a month of the festive season and Diwali is my most favorite festival, so there is no question about what I love to create with the Mixed Media projects!

You can surprise your guests and visitor this Diwali with your own handmade creation, no need to buy from the market now!

Today I want to show you my new MM project on coming festive occasion And to inspire for this month challenge "Lights & Celebrations".

And here it goes.............!!!!!!

I converted a piece of plywood into a magical wall decor art. I coated it with Plaster of Paris with the textured look.

Give a new life to Lord Ganesha by using any kind of pearl colors.

Happy with the results using Fevicryl Pearl colors, Terracotta and Old gold Inka Gold!

Now time to create a background scene for Lord Ganesha.

Using air dry clay and a mould I made some embellishments to decorate and let it dry them for a full day.

Now given a coat of gesso to all of them. Don't worry about some cracks because they are very delicate, it will hide with some embellishments:) Fixed metal holders to hang the decor piece.

Applied fevicol and sealant to paste them all.

Die cut lots of different flowers and leaves out of Iris paper, perfect for flower making using Iris sheet.

Soak the flowers and leaves in the water bowl for a minute and inked them using distress inks.

Shaped them using golf groove tool and embossing pad as shown in the pic, perfect for textures and details.

Now time to create the background. Misted the piece with different color splashes. Firstly I started with turquoise color mist bottle at all 4 corners with the height of 4 or 4.5" gap. Then misted with midnight blue, not on the middle part because I wanted the Ganesha to highlighted in sunbursts color effect! Then misted with dirty pink near the pillars. After that misted with chalk ultramarine and golden canary. You will easily achieve the same results as shown in the pic.

Now rubbed all the white part using old gold and turquoise Inka gold to highlight the detailing work as shown in the pic. And applied a little bit at the surface and chippies too!

Here are some close-ups for the detailing work:

Rub some Inka gold on the metal charm OM word. Paste it on the tea holder and embellished it with some gemstones.

Now embellished the whole piece with my own handmade flowers and few rhinestones, gems. See the details in close-ups clearly!

And covered the backside with the corrugated sheet attached a heart-shaped border at the bottom.

Here is the finished project and ready to hang on the wall. I am really happy that this time I will decorate my Pooja place with my own wall decor piece!!! 😊

Isn't it gorgeous at all!!!

Hope you all enjoyed this project and try to make for yours one too to decorate your home this Diwali! Love to see what you come up with our new challenge here.


Supply list:

Plywood piece

Iris paper

Dies: Flower 2 from Joy crafts; Sunflower from Cheery Lynn; Small tattered florals from Sizzix Thinlits;

Chipboard: Papericious- patterns

Distress inks: fossilized amber, carved pumpkin, fired brick, candied apple, mermaid lagoon, twisted citron, mowed lawn, lucky clover,

Air clay dry from Sculpt Dry

Moulds: Baroque 6- Vintage art mould from IOD Prima

Gesso: Camel

Inka Gold: Turquoise, old gold

13 arts Ayeeda Mist: pastel turquoise, chalk dirty pink, chalk ultramarine

Gold alcohol splash: midnight blue, golden canary

Moda color- terracotta

Fevicryl pearl colors: pearl lemon, sparkling pearl golden green

Groove golf tool

Aleen's tacky glue

Other materials: Fevicol, Silicon glue, Different sizes and shaped rhinestones, Golden heart bead lace, A candle stand, OM metal charm, Glass pollens, colorful pollens, some mulberry flowers

All the above-used materials you can pre-order at the Rainbowcraftykari store and some are already available there!


Happy crafting!

Vinita Jain

RCS Challenge #6 - Lights & Celebration

Hello Everyone,

 

A very happy October to you all! With the dawn of a new month we are back with another fun challenge for you all!

 

This time we have a theme with an additional twist.

(Image Credits Vecteezy and Partially Designed by Maninder Kaur)

The theme is CELEBRATION and the twist is LIGHTS. By Celebration we mean any form of celebration- Birthday, Anniversary, Festivals and anything you can think of! With the twist of Lights we want to see any form of light either the word, the interpretation, the subject or the object in your project. Let us know how you interpreted the challenge and also make sure to use the challenge banner in your post. 

One winner will receive a 12" x 12" Papericious Paper Pack as well as the winners badge to flaunt on the blog. Top three entries will get to flaunt a badge on their blogs.

Feel free to create any crafty project be it a card, a layout, altered piece, tag, home decor art, album and anything art/craft related. Last date to submit entries is 30th Oct'17

 

Please go through General Guidelines and Rules HERE. Any entry which doesn't follow the guidelines will be disqualified and will be removed from the participation entries.

 

Here's an inspiration by our Blog Coordinator Aditi for the challenge

 

For more information on how to make these click here

Link your entries below to participate in the challenge.

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Favour Boxes tutorial by Kriti Mishra

Hello Crafters, 

I am back on the blog with another tutorial. Why purchase gift boxes when you can make your own? Making gift boxes is fun. It’s super easy to learn how to make a cute gift boxes out of scrapbook paper.

To honour the small gifts in life, here is a really cool tutorial on how to wrap up your awesome heart-felt gift with something handmade, your own DIY gift box from scrapbook paper.This is turned into one of my favourite little projects to do because not only is it quick, but it’s personalized, hand-crafted, a beautiful work of art that will be remembered way beyond the day that you give the gift. Extra bonus...making your own gift box will cost you much less than a roll of wrapping paper at the store! Unique and cheap...who could ask for anything more?

Tutorial for Fold over Paper bag

• Take a piece of scrapbook paper ( 10" x 12") and score at 5- 3/4"  and 11-1/2" on the long side.

 

• Paste as shown in the picture with glue. Allow it to dry for some time.

• Score both sides at 1" and fold it. The thickness of the fold will determine the space inside the bag and this will become the width of the bag, so accordingly score the paper from both sides.

• Open the folds and along the creases made  fold inwards on both the sides as shown.

• Fold the bottom of the bag for a length of around 1-1/2". This will depend on the size of the bag you are making.

• Unfold the last fold made. Along the side crease, fold inwards to form a triangular shaped edge.Fold the flap inwards and flatten it as shown below. Paste the two flaps together using glue and press so that the base is firm.

• Now moving on to the top, fold the top of the bag for a length of around 2", open it and pinch inside from both the sides and fold it over again. I had put brown colour cardstock over it for colour co-ordination.

• Your fold over bag is ready, embellish it accordingly.

Tutorial for Milk Carton Paper bag

• Take a piece of scrapbook paper (10-1/2" x 7"), score at 2-1/2", 5", 7- 1/2" and 10" on the long side.

• Turn the paper 90 degrees and score at 2- 1/2", 5", 6- 1/2".

• Fold and crease all the score lies.

• Cut along the score lines from the base of your paper upto the 2-1/2" mark to make the flaps which will form the bottom of your box.

• Next cut away the narrow side tab as shown in the picture.

• Fold the paper and glue the side tab down.

• After that it will look like this

• Apply glue to the top of 3 of the bottom flaps. Fold each one on top of each other to form the base. The one without any glue should be the last flap to fold down.

• Now gently pinch in the sides from the top, and close it using mini peg, wooden peg, washi tape or ribbon.

• Milk carton paper bag is ready.

So I made two favour bags/boxes, hope you get inspired

Tip:- To get the right thickness, use can use high gsm plain cardstock also and later you can adhere scrapbook paper over it. It makes your box sturdy.

Personalize the labels with your own message.Even though it’s a plain design, you can dress it up with more embellishments to make it look more sparkly & special.

Material Used:-

• Pattern Paper from Papericious

• Cardstock(Brown, Yellow and Ivory)

• Sizzix Dies( Circle, Scallop circle, Scallop Oval)

• Glue

• WRMK Crop-a-dile

• WRMK Trim and score board

• Twine

• Archival Ink

• Sentiment stamps

• Acrylic stamp block

• Martha Stewart Lace Punch

All the above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari or you can pre- order them.

Kriti Mishra

Sun catcher Wall hanging by Blog Coordinator Aditi Mahajan

Hello Everyone,

Time surely flies! It's October and I'm back with an inspiration for you for our October Challenge! 

Today I decided to make some DIY gifts for the festive season. These project ideas are so simple, that parents/teachers can teach kids to make them and they can proudly flaunt their hand-made creations. 

First up is a Sun Catcher Wall Hanging- Included the twist of lights in the form of the Sun and the celebration here are the festivals!

For this hanging, I altered an MDF piece, however, you could simply take an image of the sun from the internet and trace it onto chipboard (those good at drawing can draw it also). Next, cover the surface with gesso if your base is dark. Play with colors. Here I spread colors on the gell press plate and lifted them on my surface. First yellow, next orange and then some magenta. Do this on both the front and back, since it's a hanging both sides will be visible. Next, pick a stencil and place it on the base, dab some gold paint with a piece of sponge. This enhances the look and adds some interest. Cut out pieces of chipboard for the eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrow and paint them. Stick them with glue. Punch two holes- one on the top and one at the bottom. String a few beads and a bell and tie it to the hole at the bottom. Similarly, string some beads with a hook and add it to the top. That's it, you have a fantastic wall hanging.

Here are some close ups:

Next, is a tea light holder.

For this, I used an MDF Coaster base, and brushed white gesso. I stuck some pieces of newspaper and then covered it with gesso again. I then used some modelling paste through a stencil for added texture. Next, I applied some sand texture. I then spritzed some colours. Next, On the sand texture, I used Inka gold to highlight it. Finally, I mixed some metallic paint to modelling paste and applied it with another stencil. 

Supply list:

• MDF/Chipboard Base

• Acrylic paints- Standard and Metallic Finish

• Gell Press

• Assorted Stencils

• Beads

• String

• Bell

• Plastic loop for the hanging

• Inka Gold

• Sand Texture

• Modelling Paste

• White Gesso

• Newspaper pieces

Hope you're inspired and do participate in the challenge!Happy Crafting!Aditi