How To: Home Organisation with Chalkboard Washi Tape | Photo Tutorial

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. I received the Chalkboard Washi Tape and chalks from Lulupu - The Craft Lounge to review the product and to demonstrate creative ways to use it.

Hello, crafty folks! How have you all been?

For today's post, I have a fun tutorial for you. It's not 100% original, but I've revamped an existing idea. Allow me to elaborate. 

We all love Washi Tapes, right? They're so colourful, versatile and inexpensive that you can use them on any project and you can never have too many of them. Months ago, Karuna (Founder of Lulupu) sent me Chalkboard Washi Tape and some chalks to experiment with. It was only yesterday that I found the time to do this, so here goes.

2-0-1-6 Recipe Challenge | Lulupu Design Team

Good morning!

If you're not here from the Lulupu Blog, let me give you some background information. I am sharing my Design Team project for January's Challenge and here's what the theme is.

Challenge #57

2-0-1-6 Recipe Challenge

Read all challenge rules here

Specific Rules for Challenge #57 are:

1. Create any project - Card, LO, Mixed Media, Alterered Art, 3D Project, etc.

2. Use the ingrdients given below and apply 2-0-1-6 to the Recipe

• Stamps (any kind - clear, wood mounted, digital, etc.)
• Washi Tape
• Patterned Papers, and
• Diecuts and/or flowers (only die cuts, only flowers or a mix of both)

For example: 2 Diecuts, 0 Washi Tape, 1 Stamp (or stamp set) and 6 Patterned Papers.

State the recipe in your post clearly as I will do for my project, below.

3. You may use other items on your project, but please ensure that the above mentioned items are the focus of the project and are easily visible.

4. Last Day for submission of entries: 31 January, 2016 11:55 PM IST

So for my project I have made a Photo Wallet and here's the recipe I have used:

2 - Patterned Papers

0 - Stamps

1 - Washi Tape

6 - Die Cuts

My photo wallet is nothing but a 4" x 4" Accordion Card with a flap and with photos inside. Here's the front.

Blog Hop | Lulupu - Sparkle with Prima - Day 7

Hello Everyone!!!

Most of you must have reached my blog either from Jaya's blog or the Lulupu blog. Others, wow! I'm surprised you're here because I haven't posted since... let's see...August! Wow that has been looong. I am here today because of a reason.. Lulupu's Sparkle with Prima Blog Hop and today is Day 7. 

If you haven't reached here from Jaya's blog, click HERE to go to the beginning of the hop and then find your way back!

Shilpa Nagaonkar

Priya Sondhi

Pallavi Iyer

Deepti Stephens

Riti Poddar

Jaya Raghuvanshi

Nikita  <--- YOU ARE HERE

Next Stop: Hussena Calcuttawala

Throwback Thursday #2 | Flutter by, Butterfly

Hellloooo folks!!

I am back with another Throwback Thursday post! Yes, I have new stuff to share, but I am working on a larger project not related to crafting and that's the reason I am letting the new ones hibernate for now. :)

So let me go back to an old one. I made this in 2012 for Lulupu's Shabby Chic Shaped Cards Challenge and when I made this, I had never ever tried shabby chic before. So it was a challenge.

I made a card in the shape of a butterfly.. Let's start with the peeks! :)

Guest Designing | Lulupu Challenge #35 - Go 3D

Hello Folks!!!

I am Guest Designing for Lulupu - The Craft Lounge today. :D :D

Their current challenge is Go 3D and this is my first try at any 3D stuff. Still, if you want to check it out, click here to see the full post. And here's a sneak peek to get you a little curious! ;)

Plus, I may or may not have a tutorial for you. :P

See you at the Lulupu Blog! :D

Have a great week!

Love,
Nikita.. :)

Scrapbook - Page #2: I love yellow! | Lulupu Challenge #22 & Blog Hop

This post is the SECOND POST in a series. To read all posts in this series, click here.

See first page here...

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You must have landed here from the Lulupu Blog and I am so excited to be a part of my first Blog-Hop!!! So welcome, and for those who have landed up here, directly, let me give you a little background on what's going on. 

We're having a Recipe Challenge and a Blog-Hop at the Lulupu Blog this month. Here's how you can join the fun! :D

1. Follow the Lulupu Blog.
2. Like our Facebook Page.
3. Add the Blog-Hop Badge on the left/right sidebar on your blog and link it to the challenge post.

4. Blog about joining the Hop on your blog either in a separate post or in your participating post.

5. Make sure you leave a comment on each designer's blog and we ask that you leave a comment on the challenge post as well to be in the running for the prize. The last stop on the hop will be back at the Lulupu Blog so please leave your last comment there, lettings us know your thoughts on the fabulous projects presented by our talented designers.

Lulupu Challenge #19 - Word Play

Hello Folks!!

This is just to let you know that today, I am posting over at the Lulupu Blog!! We have a super cute challenge running this fortnight - Word Play. For this challenge, we have to make CAS (Clean & Simple) cards with a Word Play between the image and the sentiment..

I have made not one, but FIVE cute little note cards for this challenge.. Here's a sneak peek :)

You can see the posts (and of course, all the cards...) here..

See you later,

Love,

Nikita.. :)

Lulupu Challenge #16 - Stamp & Colour + Emboss!!

Good morning!!

I am posting on the Lulupu Blog today with my inspiration for the current challenge - Stamp & Colour + Emboss. Check my post out.. I'm sharing not just one, but THREE cards today!! :D :D

See the complete post here! But, but! Before you go, I'll leave you with a sneak peek of all three cards!! :D

So what are you waiting for?? Hop on over to the Lulupu Blog!!! Be inspired and play along!!! You have till September 15, 2013 11:55 PM IST.

Cheers!

Nikita!

Lulupu Challenge #15 - Weather or Not!

Hola!!

I know I said somewhere that I won't post this often, but there's a huge backlog that needs to be cleared. So for a few days, there will be frequent posts; please bear with me.

Anyway, I already shared a sneak peek of this card two weeks ago, and even though this has appeared on the Lulupu Blog, I want to share this here as well. So I am copying everything I wrote, but I'll make a few changes as necessary. :)

As I said earlier, I made this card for Lulupu's Challenge #15 which required us to... {I am just pasting the rules here...}

1. Create a card, layout, altered project, tag, 3D project... absolutely anything, that depicts the weather. 

It may be the weather you are currently experiencing or you could choose to show Summer, Spring, Winter, Autumn, or the Rains, on your project. You could also create a view of some place like the beach or the mountainside with a sparkling river and boats on them or a clear starry summer sky. {Enough ideas from me. I need to shut up!)

2. However, the project must show a scene and not just one element of the weather. 

For example, one snowflake on your project, will not equal a winter scene. Similarly, one umbrella, will not equal a rainy scene. Paint a picture for us (so to speak).. think of your project as a canvas and go crazy.

Now, ever since I made this card for BGC's The Sky is the Limit Challenge and I outlined the clouds with Stickles, I wanted to make a 'Every Cloud has a Silver Lining' type of a card. And with the rains pouring down here in Mumbai for the past few weeks, bam, I could mix both and make a card for this challenge.

I think this is the first sad card I have made and I hope I don't have to use it ever, but I think it's cute enough to actually cheer someone up if they are feeling low. :)

I made a sky background on my card using a cloud stencil that I made out of card stock and instead of making the clouds bright, I made them dark using Pumice Stone Distress Ink instead of Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I then cut out some clouds using the cute Puffy Clouds Memory Box Die and outlined EVERY SINGLE CLOUD with Stickles. How else could I justify the sentiment??? :P

Just the clouds with the silver lining would look empty and not a 'scene.' So I added a few more things in the mix.. Quilled Raindrops, to start with.. :)

Lulupu Challenge #15 - Sneak Peek :)

Yellow!!!

Another Lulupu Challenge goes live about the same time this post does. :D :D

Hop on to the Lulupu Blog to check what this challenge is all about and what you can do to play along and win!!! Here's the link to the Challenge Post.. Although I cannot reveal much here, I can give you a sneak peak of what's coming up... And here it is..

See you at the Lulupu Blog!!

Cheers!!

Nikita..

Lulupu Challenge #12

Good morning folks!!

Today I am going to show you a card that I made for Lulupu's Challenge #12 - My First Love, My Dad. According to the challenge, we had to creating Masculine cards for any occasion for our Dads and here's my take on it. :)

Lulupu Birthday Celebrations - Guess 'N Win Contest

Wow!! I just checked the date of the last post on this blog and it was almost a year ago. I'll admit, I have been lazy and you can be rest assured that there will be many more posts in the future that'll come with this apology. If there was a way around it, it would have been great. Sadly, there is no cure for laziness. Sigh.

I have been pretty busy and 2012 and the beginning of 2013 have been pretty awesomely hectic what with getting married and all. That's a pretty good excuse to not post on the blog, eh? But I don't have that excuse anymore; especially now that I'll be crafting again - soon and regularly.

Anyway, I'll get straight to the point. Lulupu - The Craft Lounge is celebrating its first birthday this entire month. In my laziness I have missed spreading the word about the Blog Hop that we did and this month's challenge, but I am letting you know about it here. It's never too late to get on board with awesomeness, right?

What's new today, is that Lulupu has announced the first contest that is a part of their birthday celebrations, and it is fun contest with a cool prize at the end of it. So hop on over to the blog by clicking here (it will take you straight to the post) and win this thing!! :D :D

Another Sneak Peak

Hello folks!! I know, I know... It's as if I have almost stopped posting here, but it's not because I don't remember that this blog exists (wait, I sometimes do forget!) It's more so, because I haven't really been crafting unless I'm due to post on the Lulupu Blog! Yeah, I know that's cheating, but let me be honest, I've been having fun.

So as you may have guessed, I have another post coming up - a card with it's video tutorial!! It seems to me like I've only been doing video tutorials the past few days, and let me tell you, it's exhausting especially when you have to work with a tripod between you and your project!!

But since the outcome is so awesome, I really don't mind.

So the post and the video are coming up on the Lulpu Blog in about ten minutes after this post goes live. But I don't mind giving you guys a sneak peak of the card. ;)

It has coffee and my favourite colours - Antique Lenin, Vintage Photo and Rich Cocoa!!! :D

You can find the post and the video HERE. Just on the off chance that you've landed here before 10.00 AM IST on 23rd March, 2012; I would suggest you wait till it's 10 and then click on the link!! 

And I will try to make the next post about an independent project. My poor blog has been neglected for too long now! ;)

See you next time,

Love,

Nikita.

My First Design Team Project!

Hello everyone!!

As most of you know, Lulupu has bestowed upon me the pleasure of being one of their Design Team members and I’m sharing my first project over at the Lulupu blog today.

For those who are new here, Lulupu is just a better version of the store you already knew as Crafting Queen store. Yup, you guessed it right; it has been thought of and brought to life by Karuna. She has been helping all of us get all the crafty things we desire for quite some time and this is just an easier version of our shopping experience.

About the project that I’m about to share, here’s a sneak peak at the card I made.

To see the project and a VIDEO TUTORIAL of the card, hop on over to the Lulupu blog.

You can find my post here!!!

You can also find Lulupu on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube!!

Enjoy!!

Love,

Nikita...