Monday 18 December 2017

Layered Card Inspiration by DT Khushboo


Good morning guys! 

This is Khushboo Gandhi here, with an inspiration post this week. For my project this time, I chose to show you guys how you can achieve layering when you're making cards. Sometimes layering looks complicated, but it's not that difficult. There's a simple technique to it - and it all comes down to balancing out your elements on the card.

So let's take a look first at what I've created.





















Materials used:

  • White cardstock
  • Aqua blue cardstock 
  • Chipboard
  • Washi tape
  • Designer corner punch
  • Glue
  • Designer paper/tags
  • Sentiment
  • Pearl brads
  • Wooden embellishment
  • Lindy's brown spray paint
  • Paint brush
  • Brown distress ink
  • Printer paper


Brief steps for creating a card with layers:

  • Take an A4 sized white cardstock and score in the middle of it - to fold it into two and serve as a base (and the first) layer of the card.
  • For the second layer - take an aqua blue cardstock and cut it 1/8th inch less than that of your white card. Punch the corners with a designer corner punch.
  • Add chipboard underneath it (to give it a 3d effect) and stick it onto the base.
  • For the third layer - take your pattern paper and cut it in the shape of tags. If you want, you can stick it onto a black cardstock before sticking it on the chipboard, and then onto the aqua blue cardstock.
  • Take your brown distress ink and distress the edges of the cardstocks.
  • Curl or distress the edges of your tags to give it more depth and character.
  • For the base line, below the tags, take a thin strip of printer paper and cover it with a washi tape of your choice. Stick it underneath the tags to make the card more cohesive.
  • Stick a sentiment of your choice, with pearl brads at its ends.
  • Finally, splash some brown spray around the card.

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 email at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.comThat's it from me, folks!


Signing out,

Khushboo R. Gandhi

Friday 15 December 2017

Winter Wonderland Tutorial By DT Priya

Hello Crafty Friends,

We've reached the last month of the year and what a beautiful theme we have for the christmas season here at Rainbow Craftykari blog.

 

I'm Priya with you today with a picture tutorial of my project "Winter Wonderland" 
This is what I've made:

 

 

So let's start the tutorial...

 

Step 1:
I started with making the base for this. I have a lot of thermocol pieces in various shapes and sizes so I decided to make the base with them. Here are the two pieces with which I made the base. 

 

 


Step 2:

I cut the circular piece into half and glued it to the rectangle base like this.




Step 3:

Now I cut a piece of gauze and dipped it in white gesso and adhered on the top part of the half circle. My idea here is to make some effect of melting ice dripping from the roof. After this you can choose to paint the whole with white chalk paint. I did not do it as I'm going to cover the whole surface.




Step 4:

Now I'm going to make the christmas trees. For this I used bottle cleaning brush and cut them into half, colored them and added gesso to give the look of ice on them. For two of them I adhered wooden slices on the base with the help of glue gun and rest two I fixed in the front. You can see the difference in the texture of the trees. It is because I used two brushes one is new one is used and old one. I'll recommend to use new one to get better result. Pictures of all these steps are below.











Step 5:
I fixed two trees at different heights in front. For this I used a small piece of thermocol as the base for the tree attached below. I attached two foam silver stars on the top of both the trees here. Picture follows...





Step 6:

Now I had these pine cones which I collected from our trip to Shimla. These are excellent pieces to use in any craft project. I picked one and brushed white gesso on it and attached to my base beside the Christmas tree.






Step 7:

Now I covered the base with green moss. For this I used Tacky glue and it looked really nice and green. And attached two bells on to one side of the roof.




So, it looked like this after this step is done. Then I went on to add some snow for which I used this... Polyester that is used to stuff the stuffed toys.




Now it's time to decorate this wonderland and add some color. I opted to do some quilling pieces for this.




Step 8:

As you can see in the picture, I used 3mm and 5mm white strips, 5mm Red strips and Black 3mm strips, quilling tool and white glue.

I made a few white and red berries first and here are the dimensions. As you can see I have already made little domes out of the quilled circles. I made them with 3mm strips only and used 2 strips for each big dome and 1 strip for each small dome. Here I have shown the picture of flower wire which is going to be the pedicel for the buds here.



Now I cut the wire and made the bunch of berries as shown in the picture below.






After placing the wire into one dome, I sealed it adhering the other half of the dome.








After making it into a bunch, I attached few leaves from my plant to make it look more attractive and also brushed some white gesso here.




Step 9:

Now I decided to make a snowman and ended up making two. The dimensions are same for both, difference is the strips used; one is made with 3 mm and the other with 5mm.









Their scarf was made out of 5 mm strips just one wrap around the neck and glued in front and back.


Step 10: Now onto our favorite Santa Claus. He looks like this once finished.


The dimensions



For his hair and beard, I used 3mm strips cut into small pieces and curled them. Then I attached them onto it's head like this...




Step 11:

Now I arranged all the pieces on the base and sprinkled some glitter here and there. My Wonderland is ready. Some more pictures...





This is how it looks from the backside


Tried some light in Dark







Supplies Used:
Thermocol Sheet and some shaped pieces
White gesso
Tacky Glue
White Glue

Quilling Tool
Plyer Cutter
Gauze

Quilling Strips ( 3mm, 5mm)
Dried Moss
Polyester
Bottle
Brushes

Wooden Slices
Pine cone
Bells

Foam Stars

Hope you liked the tutorial. You can get above mentioned supplies from Rainbow Craftykari Store.

And do not forget to enter our challenge here and get inspired by our amazing DT Members.


Hugs,
Priya Mishra

Wednesday 13 December 2017

Family Layout by DT Anila Dikay

Hello Crafters!


Anila here with an Inspiration Post for you all. 
Today, I am showcasing a "Family Layout". Making layouts is always fun. Every artist has a different technique or style and today I am going to show you how all of us can make an LO with minimal supplies and no fancy techniques. All one needs is an eye for composition. 

Here it is!



Steps Followed:
  • I took an 8x8 sized pattern paper. 
  • Layered it with another 6x6 family script pattern paper. 
  • Mounted the photo using foam adhesive and two pieces of coloured CS at the corners.
  • I adhered a lace at the bottom of the photograph. 
  • Adhered paper strips and washi tapes on one side. 
  • Next, I added the sentiment and the quote stickers. 
  • Lastly, covered the corners with flowers. 

Materials used are:

  • Pattern papers
  • Sentiment stickers
  • Washi tapes
  • Lace
  • Flowers


Few more close-ups of the Layout follows



    









All the above-mentioned materials are available at Rainbow Craftykari or can be pre-ordered by sending an e-mail to rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com or to info@rainbowcraftykari.in

 

Thank you for stopping by!
Anila