Winter Mixed media Card by GDT Vinita Jain

Hello everyone!

It's December already now and time to say goodbye to the Year 2017 and welcome the coming year!

This time I am presenting a simple but an elegant card as an inspirational post!


Presenting a true beauty of the Season with all joy and festivity! It is in Traditional colors with a lot of theme challenge elements like stars, glitter, snow! Check out the challenge here.

I started by choosing the wooden papers from Papericious, distressed the edges. Applied vintage photo DI on all 4 sides and lay them on a Kraft CS. For the focal panel, At the bottom added a crochet lace and tied a golden string with a pipe cleaner.
Die cut some pine boughs leaves out of green glittered sheet, added some pom-poms, star buttons, rose mulberry flower along with glittered leaves.

Now at the top, I added a big jute flower along with 2 more small jute flowers and decorated them with adding different leaves, pom poms, string.

Now die cut star shape from glitter and burlap sheet and added the star-shaped chipboard on it and created all the layers. Love the intricate design of star showing all the layers!

To finish it up added some snow paste a and crystal clear powder.
Love the snowy and frosty look! Don't you!!!

Some more pics with close-ups!

Supplies used:

Cardstocks: Textured Kraft CS, Textured snow effect sheet in cream color
Glittered green foam sheet, Burlap sheet
Pattern paper: Wooden Collections from Papericious
Crystal clear Powder: Papericious
Aleene's True Snow paste
Glittered Star-shaped chipboard
Artists Gesso

Dies: Pierced Stars from Spellbinders, Pine boughs from Poppystamps

Other supplies:  White pom poms, red mulberry tiny roses, jute flowers in 2 styles, crochet lace, golden string, green felt leaves, red pollens, red color pipe cleaner and star-shaped wooden buttons

All supplies are available at the store or you can pre-order.

Hope you all enjoyed my this term as a GDT at Rainbow Craftykari with loads of inspirations!

Have a wonderful day!Vinita Jain

Altered Jars by Blog Coordinator Aditi Mahajan

Hello everyone,

Hope you've kickstarted your December with enthusiasm! After the Diwali month, December is my personal favourite because of the cheer you get to see around the world! 

Keeping up with this festive spirit, today I am back with an Inspiration post for you. I have also incorporated the December Challenge in my creation. I used the colours Red and Green, Snowflake and Glitter.

I have altered two glass jars which make great gifts for Christmas. I personally have been flaunting them at home. To alter them this time, I decided to use techniques of paper crafting rather than mixed media. 

Here's a look at the Jars:

To make these begin by choosing three to four pattern papers. Cut one to go around the circumference of the jars. Distress the edges and stick it. Next, cut two narrow strips for a different pattern to layer on top. Die cut a circle for the lid. Use glitter cardstock, and die-cut a snowflake element to decorate the lid. Embellish it with flowers and other die cut elements. You could go on with layering and embellish as per your imagination and liking. Fill them with cookies, chocolates, brownie and more for Christmas Gifts. Like you see, they are quick and easy to make so you can create multiple of these at once. 

Here are some more pictures:

Supplies used:

• Glass Jars
• DCWV Paper Stacks- Cranberry Christmas 12x12", The Heirloom Christmas 12x12", Glitter Cardstock 6x6"
• Heartfelt Creations Die- Snow Kissed Flake
• Nested Circles Die
• Cherylynn Die- Flourish #8
• Distress Ink- Black Soot
• Liquid Glue

Hope you're inspired to create yours! Do participate in our ongoing challenge. 

Happy Crafting!
Aditi

RCS Challenge #8 X-Mas Joy

Hello Everyone,

 

A very happy December to you all! Another new month and another new challenge! 

 

This time we have another unique challenge for you all!

Here's a look at our challenge

(Pic credit Google and Vecteezy)

The theme of course is X-MAS JOY and it comes with a few elements to be used on your project. Use at least three of the mentioned elements- Red, Green, Star, Snowflakes or Glitters. Let us know how you interpreted the challenge and also make sure to use the challenge banner in your post. 

 

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 28th December'17

 

One winner will receive a Gift Voucher Coupon worth Rs 450/- as well as the winners badge to flaunt on the blog. Top three entries will get to flaunt a badge on their blogs.

Any entry which doesn't follow the guidelines will be disqualified and will be removed from the participation entries

 

Please go through General Guidelines and Rules HERE.

 

Here's what our Blog Coordinator Aditi made for the challenge (red, green, snowflake and glitter)

Here's what our GDT Vinita has made: (red, green, star, glitter)

Look out for amazing inspirations during the month!

Link your entries below to participate in the challenge.

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Revamp your bag by DT Khushboo

Good morning all you lovely crafters out there!

I'm Khushboo and I'm here with a new Inspiration Post today.

 

Often times, we love certain possessions of ours, and when they start showing signs of wear and tear, we are left with no option but to throw them out! That really breaks my heart. Recently, I was again faced with the same dilemma - when my favourite bag (which I haven't even used all that much :(!) started to lose its resin material from the sides. If I wasn't a crafter, with a very heavy heart I would have had to throw the bag away. But now that that's not the case, I know exactly how to give my bag a new life :D - all thanks to the Decoupage technique! Yep, today, I'll share with you how you can use decoupage on your bag and make it look as good as new!

 

Let's take a look at the pictures of my finished project first and I'll then explain how I managed to do that!

(My bag originally look like this. And all the brown piping and stitched boundaries that you see started to rip away.)

 

Pic credit: Pinterest

These are some of the pictures of my transformed bag. Notice how I decoupaged with designer paper napkins on the boundaries.

Materials used:

1. Designed tissue paper
2. Mod-Podge (or any other decoupage glue)
3. Gesso
4. White paint
5. Paint brushes
6. Tweezers
7. Clean rag
8. Water

Brief steps for transforming your old bag into new:

• Wipe your bag with a clean cloth to get rid of the dust, dirt and grease.

• Pluck out the ripped and lose hanging resin pieces on your bag (this is to enable that the part where you will stick the tissue is even and flat, no uneven texture).

• Apply two coats of gesso and let it dry after every coat.

• Paint the surface with white paint once the gesso is dry.

• Rip small pieces of decoupage tissue according to the size of the surface you want to cover.

• Start laying it down on the surface with the help of your paintbrush and decoupage glue.

• Apply two coats of decoupage glue and let every coat dry thoroughly.

• Finish it off with a nice clear varnish or spray.

Signing out,

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

 

Above mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari Store OR you can pre-order the products by sending an email at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.comThat's it from me, folks!

Khushboo R. Gandhi