Windows With Faux Stained Glass

Today I am going to share an altered project with you crafty people! Its actually a window I created on the lid of a box...I was totally inspired by Kirsty's take on the Lessology challenge.

C R E A T E

First of all, I would like to wish all my blogland friends Shuvo Noboborsho(Happy New Year). Because today is Poila Baishakh(or the first day of the year) for us Bengalis.
To celebrate the another year of crafting and creating, I've attempted quillography for the second time, a wall art. My first was this quilled monogram. This time, I enjoyed the process so much! Here it is, without further ado.

This is dedicated to all of US, all of us wonderful ladies who create regularly, stretch their own limits and support each other so dedicatedly. When I first started blogging, I never did realise that there was such a world of like minded individuals ever ready to share feedback and all their lovely creations. So, I think, we deserve a huge round of APPLAUSE, all of US!!!

With Love...

With my brother currently staying with us(he stays in Bangalore) I am finding that I spend all my time hanging out with him! There is no time for crafting... but yesterday I made up my mind to make a card, and so here it is today.
For this card I tried to make paper roses. Now I have made origami roses before, and fairly complicated ones, but the most realistic ones can be made only with cutting or punching. So I searched for tutorials... but drew a blank : either they were too difficult, too ugly(!) or made use of punches. Finally came across a Pin(origin forgotten :p) and adapted it to make my first paper rose...

Quilled Monogram

Ok, I'am back after a long, long time. So, hello friends, its good to be back! I've got one weeks respite now between my exams... so I guess I can finally share what I've been up to the previous month(apart from loads of studying).
Quillography, or quilled typography daunts me a LOT. But finally I took a leap of faith and finished with this...

Altered Box

This is going to be a picture heavy post...
I had finished this project almost a week before but the stupid camera wasn't working till yesterday(Grrrrhhh!!!). This is my first altered project on this blog and I am proud to say I did some recycling and upcycling...

So, without further ado, here are the BEFORE pics...

 Its a box which contained a watch...

Before I show the transformation, here's the finished thing...(top view)

Almost From Scratch

The daughter of a friend of my mother's had had an accident recently. So my mother thought it would be nice if I could make a card for her to give when she visited the hospital. Now, I had never met the Didi in my life. So I had to opt for pretty much a generic card. But the problem came when it came to supplies. Again, NOTHING except for quilling paper. Not even white cardstock for the base. So what to do? The local stationary shop does not stock cardstock(India. More importantly, this is Kolkata :-\). So I glued together two sheets of thick art paper as neatly as I could. A girl's gotta make do with what she's got, unfortunately. Then my gaze fell on a box that was lying around. It was the container of a cosmetic gift set. It had quite a lovely picture of a heart. So I quickly dismantled the box and cut out the picture.
Imagine my surprise when I found the inside of the box was a nice lavender colour! I cut out the maximum part that could be reclaimed, and voila, I had lavender cardstock!
So, without further blabbering, here's the finished card...

You & I

A guy friend of mine recently got a girlfriend...don't ask me how, haha. He badgered and badgered me to make a card for his new love, even agreed to pay! How could I resist? But there was one problem... I was(and still am) dangerously short of supplies except for quilling paper. So I knew I HAD to make a quilled card(even though my slotted tool broke few days ago :( and I take ages with a needle). So here's what I came up with...

YET More Quilled Earrings

I have just finished the piece I was working on. Yay! This one is made for a friend of my mothers. She saw my copper and bronze earrings and liked it very much. She wanted a pair, too! This one is copper and gold, and its very ethnic.

More Quilled Earrings...

I have been making quilled earrings ever since I discovered quilling, a few months back. I love them as they are ligthweight, colourful, pretty... and quite tough once they are mod pogded. In this post I am going to share the cream of all the jewellery I have created since then. :-)

Behold my very first project on quilled jewelry....

Quilled Earrings

First post of this year...

This one will be a quickie... I made a pair of quilled earrings in my study breaks... surprisingly it took very little time! It took me a day as I could work for only 5 minutes at a go...! Quite pleased with these...

My First Post

As the title suggests, this is the very inception of me as a blogger.

The time is inappropriate in the extreme... I have my class 12 exams right at the doorstep. But I think blogging would relax my exam-racked nerves a bit when I take study breaks.

This blog is mostly going to be about crafting(or so I have planned till now). For obvious reasons, I will not be able to post on fresh projects. For the next few months or so, I am going to post about my works so far. After March, when the ISC's are hopefully going to be over, I will post new things:)

There is a huge number of astounding craft blogs zealously maintained by extremely talented crafters. The number of Indian craft blogs are also increasing each day. I am totally a newbie crafter, and my efforts will be nothing compared to others. But the focal point of this blog is going to be learning. I am going to learn stuff, and put it up here so that other beginners like me will learn from my mistakes. 

I am constantly on the hunt for cheap crafting materials as I do not have access to a lot of money, being just a student. Neither do I have a working printer. So as much as I drool over the crafting products on online sites (DCWV stacks... oh my!), owning them is another thing altogether. 

Enough of introduction. Today's post is going to be about some cards I made recently. Actually, my school days are going to end next week, so I've made some cards to give to my friends.