Quilled Ganesh and Lotus Tealight holder by DT Ishani

Hello Dear Crafters,

 

I hope you had lovely Diwali celebrations. What a moment of pride we had when we didn't hear any crackers in our society, a moment of joy today and for our future. We must leave our earth for our kids at least liveable and breathable, just as our parents gave it to us. Lets carry on the cheer and celebrations in this post as well for the festive season of Diwali and let me show you how I made a 3-D Quilled Ganesh Fridge Magnet and a Quilled  Lotus Tea light holder.

3 D Ganesh Fridge Magnet

For this you will need:

Quilling strips (5mm, 3mm)

Quilling slotted tool

Glue

Card board base

Pretty pattern paper

Magnetic sheet

Scissors

1.  I took skin coloured 5mm quilling strips and stuck four of them together and started coiling it and shaping it in the form of Ganesh’s head and trunk. After achieving the desired shape, stick the strip and also apply a coat of glue inside the hollow, so that the shape holds.

2.    With the similar colors I shaped the ears, arms, hands and feet. I used a red color strips for the chest and stomach and orange to make the dhoti laden legs. I used 3mm strips only for His ears, hands and feet. I arranged them to see if they would fit in togeteher. Make sure to apply glue inside or behind the shapes to hold them in place or else while arranging the pieces the coils may slip off.

 

3.    For the base I took an old tag and covered it with a paper (you could use patterned paper) on which I stamped swastika (I earlier did one on crème paper then decided to use orange). Behind the tag I put a piece of 3mm wide magnetic sheet. Check the side which has magnetic effect and stick the opposite side to the tag.

4.    For the features I used 3mm strip of dark brown strip of paper for His eyes, eyebrows, white for tusks and red for the tilak.

 

 

5.   Now that my all elements were ready, I arranged the shapes and stuck them together. 

 

Quilled Lotus Tealight/diya holder

For this you will need:

Quilling strips (5mm)

Quilling slotted tool

Glue

Card board base

Acrylic paint

Brush

Tea light

Washi tape

Scissors

1.  Choose the 5mm strips of the colour of your choice. In my project I use five colours of Orange and red family. I planned to make it a lotus shape and so all the shapes are tear drop shape. 

2. I personally prefer to tear the paper even at the ends before sticking them together. They give a neat look when rolled into any shape.

3. With a slotted needle I roll out the shapes, four strips stuck together, rolled, shaped into a tear- drop shape and stuck with glue after tearing off the end.

 

4. The number of tear drops that you will require will depend upon the base you decide to have. I have a 9cm diameter circle cut off a waste card board, for which my outer most layer had 20 tear drops. I give it a paint coat in similar color of my strips of paper and at the outer edge stick my quilled tear drops with glue (the tweezer and slotted tool are supporting them till they dry).

5.  I put some pretty washi tape  around the tealight, to make it look festive too.  And then, after some sweet labour of rolling and shaping, arranged and stuck the different colored tear drops in two more concentric circles.

 

      

6.  All put together, the quilled lotus tealight holder looks like this.

I hope you liked these and would attempt something similar. Don't forget to join us  in our monthly challenge, hardly any days left!

All the material listed above are available at Rainbow craftykari store or you could also Pre-order by mailing us at rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com.

Sending you - 'Craft till you drop' wishes.

Ishani

Quillish

Diwali Decor Ideas Tutorial by DT Mounika

Hi Everyone,

 

I am here on the blog with some Diwali decoration projects inspired by our ongoing challenge Celebrations and Lights.

 

Diwali is all about lights, sweets and celebrations. So I have a tutorial of slab Diya holders, a flower lantern and a hexagon tray. Yep, you guessed it right it's a long post ;)!

 

Here's a look at the final projects together:

 

Let's begin with the Slab Diya holders

• For this, I have used white cement.

• Take a plastic cup for mixing white cement with water and desired acrylic paint

• Pour this mixture in a ziplock bag- I took ziplock bags of size 4*6" and 5*6"

• Place a Diya at centre with some weight on it.

• Allow it to dry overnight.

 

 

Next, Flower lantern

• Cut cardstock in different sizes of petals to use as templates

• Trace down each petal 6 times on White Papericous Sigma Cardstock

• Cut all the petals

• Take 2 bowls of water- add orange and red Indian Inks. Dip the 2 smallest size petals in orange ink and the remaining petals in red ink and let it soak for some time. You can also use distress inks to colour the petals.

• Let all petals dry

• For base take disposable small cup, cut down the base make holes and use a binding wire with some pearls for the handle

• Using glue gun start attaching petals smallest to biggest

• Take a thick cardstock and attach it at the bottom

• Finish it off by adjusting petals and place tea light led candle

 

 

Lastly, Hexagonal tray

• For this, using a thick cardstock make a hexagonal template. Using the template cut chipboard in hexagonal shape for the base.

• Cut 4 pieces of 6.5" x 2" and  2 pieces of 6" x 2" each on cardstock and chipboard. Cut 12 pieces of 2 x 2" on cardstock.

• Use the longer cardstock pieces as hinges to stick the chipboard pieces to the hexagonal chipboard base and the 2" x 2" pieces to connect all sides to form a tray with depth.

• Finish the tray with pattern papers and decorate. I have used quilling decoration in this one. 

 
 

Here are some close ups:

   

 

Materials used Slab Diya holders

• White cement

• Ziplock covers

• Plastic cup

• Acrylic colours

• Tea light candles

• Ice-cream sticks

 

Flower lantern

• Papericous sigma cardstock

• scissors

• Indian inks scarlet and magenta

• Glue gun

• Binding wire

• Disposable cup

• Small pieces of heavy cardstock

 

Hexagonal tray

• Chipboard

• Cardstock

• Pattern papers

• Quilling strips

• Flowers

• Flower bead chain

• Pearls

• Glue gun

All the above-mentioned products are available at Rainbow Craftykari store or you can preorder them by sending an e-mail to rainbowcraftykari@gmail.com

Hope you're inspired by my projects!
Don't forget to link your projects to our current challenge.

Happy Crafting!

Mounika

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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