Spotlight Designer: Shilpa Nagaonkar

Good morning, everyone!

It's Nikita here to introduce you to our fabulous Spotlight Designer for this month - Shilpa Nagaonkar :) Most of you may know her already as she has been a part of Lulupu's Design Team until recently. Today, Shilpa has for us a project that she created using Distress Crayons and a detailed review of this amazing product.

Here's a little bit about her:

1. Tell us a little bit about you and your family.

Hello Everyone, Shilpa here, great to be back on Lulupu blog as Guest Designer. I am a mixed media artist from Bangalore.

Mini Albums made easy!

Hello My Crafty Friends! :) 

I am Suchi here with you all! Today I am excited to share my very first Mini Album! I got these wonderful Julie Nutting Paper Dolls pattern papers and paper doll Ephemera die cuts in my DT kit, I had to try them out! :)

Here is my mini album! Hope you all are participating in this month's challenge! I know that making a mini album sounds like too much of work but once you begin, there is no going back. 

Today, I have made some easy peasy , not-so-time-consuming tricks for you to make an album! Hope this helps and inspires you all! :)

Mixed Media Canvas using Inka gold - Pictorial

                               

Hello friends... Irma here , I'am so glad to meet you again. This month our team is very Happy because this is our special month ! LULUPU turns 4 & we have so many surprises for you.... xoxoxo:)

To celebrate our Birhtday we have so many many prizes for you !! 

First  : a super Bumper Raffle  worth Rs 15000 worth from Prima Marketing to be won...so what you have to do..., you will join in raffle  here

Second : Lulupu Bithday Crossword Puzzle !! one Lucky winner will receive a gorgeous package of goodies!  How to Play ?? lets see here

Third : Lulupu Bithday Insta Contest !! one Lucky winner will receive a gorgeous package of goodies!  How to Play ?? lets see here

but wait.... we still have another game to celebrating our birthday with a Grid Birthday Challenge

lets see what our team make a create wonderful Birthday Grid for all of you to play along with us!

so this is our month Challenge !

Birthday Grid #59

Rules of this month Challenge is  to create a card or Layout  on a Birthday Theme , and 2 (two ) prizes for the winner in each category .For complete information please visit here

So guys....what I created for this special time is a mixed media canvas....

I made a home decor with a double canvas and have shared a complete pictorial step by step so i hope it will help you to create something similar or even better . : )

here it is!

Step by Step Pictorial

 I prepared 2 (two) canvases size 20 cm x 30cm and 15cm x15cm

draw a line where you want to add the small canvass on top

Paint around with black gesso. Do the same with a small canvas on back  

Create a bricks texture with modelling paste and a stencil

do the same as the previous one for the smaller canvas

Now stick the smaller canvas on the top of the bigger canvas with

 a hot glue gun and spray with ink .

I used a mica powder at the edge and sprayed with a little water  

inside the small canvas I covered with Texture paste

 and added a cheese cloth as embellishment

I printed my sentiment and coloured it with distress ink  ( evergreen bough )

after that I distressed my journaling with distress tool and fussy cut word by word

with a black sharpie pen I then went around the edges 

I colored  my title with inka gold in Copper Color

I colored  the chippie bird cage with inka gold Gold Color

and I colored my resin with perfect pearls

also a charm and the door I coloured with Inka Gold in Ice Blue color

after I finished coloring all embellishment I decorated them on my canvas 

after I fixed all things in the right composition I repainted again with inka gold

I thought I missed something ...yes a texture paste ! so I added a few at the corner and some place to give more texture 

After I added some texture paste I colored with inka gold in Turquiz Gold

here is some closer

That's all from me, I hope  I've inspired you to try out make something different

All the product I used , you will find at Lulupu Craft Store

There is still time to submit your wonderful project and we can't wait to see your work!

Have a great days, Happy crafting !

Hugs,

Irma Tirza

Altered Spool / Picture Tutorial

Hello Everyone,

Its Roshni here and today for the February Challenge  Hearts & Arrows I have made a 3D project. I received this Needle & Thread Kaisercraft Paper Pad in my DT kit and inspired by this awesome paper pack I made a spool. It was an ideal valentine gift for my mom as she loves stitching. I used this pretty pattern paper to cover the spool and fussy cut a lot of elements from the paper pack to decorate it..... since the theme for the February Challenge was hearts I also used another paper from My Golden Garden Paper Pad  that was also a part of my DT kit.. sharing the tutorial followed by a few pictures of my project.

Challenge #58: Hearts And Arrows + Tutorial

Hello and Welcome, folks ! :)

This is Jasleen, back with a brand new challenge for the month of February. But before that, let me thank all of you who participated in the 2-0-1-6 recipe challenge last month. We’ll be announcing the winners very soon. Stay tuned.

Challenge # 58

Hearts & Arrows

Read the general guidelines for the challenges here

Specific rules for this challenge are:

1. Create a card, layout or a 3D project.

2. Use hearts AND arrows(both) in your project, in ADDITION TO any other embellishments you wish to use. The hearts and arrows could either be from a patterned paper, stamped, die-cuts, stickers, hand drawn, wood veneer or sew on your project- just anything. But make sure hearts and arrows are visible.

3. Try and use colours OTHER THAN RED & PINK. Though RED & PINK ARE ALLOWED, we'd like to see how you get creative with the colours.

4. Last date for the submission of the entries is 29^th of February, 2016, 11:55 P.M. IST

Here’s what I've come up with, for this month’s challenge . Since this is the month of Love, I dedicate this to my love for crafting.



I got these fabulous patterned papers from Kaisercraft- Needle and thread in my DT kit . So, I made this double flip-box using these papers. All the floral cut-outs, those spool images, labels are from this collection itself.

I think the Kaisercraft- needle and thread collection of patterned papers are just perfect for making these kind of keepsake boxes for storing those little crafty trinkets, sewing stuff like spools, yarn,etc . Ofcourse  the store-bought plastic containers also do this job pretty well, but then we are crafty people, if something's not done creatively, it's a job half done, isn't it?  ;) 

Paper Quilling Online Video Class | By Lulupu & Infinite Emotions

Hello, Dear Crafters!

We have some amazing news! We are excited to present to you our first Online Video Class - A Beginner Course in Quilling. A very delicate art of creating unique shapes by rolling and pinching paper strips, not only is Quilling fun & easy to learn, it is also one of the least expensive hobbies. Quilling is also known as Paper Quilling or Paper Filigree.

To bring these tutorials to you, we have collaborated with Infinite Emotions - The Card Shop, a venture by Nikita Azad - one of the members of our First Design team here at Lulupu. Nikita has been Quilling since July 2010. You can see her work here, here and quite a lot of it is even on this blog. :)

She learnt the basics from the pamphlet that came along with a beginner Quilling kit she purchased at the mall, reading books and watching videos online. However, over the years, she developed quite a few DOs and DON'Ts of her won through trial and error. It was then that she realised that there wasn't a comprehensive Quilling Course that taught not only the HOW-TOs and WHATs of Quilling, but also the WHAT-NOT-TO-DOs and the WHYs of it. So she decided that she'd make one and that's what we have for you here.

But what's in these videos that you won't find in dozens of other videos available online for FREE? Well, other than being able to watch it anywhere, anytime, at your convenience, here's what...

Cardstock - Mini Album Tutorial

Dear Friends, 

I am back after a short break with a quick and simple Mini Album Tutorial. Hope you all are checking out Lulupu for the amazing inspirational posts shared by our DT's.  I had never tried my hands at making a mini album from scratch, but here I am with a tutorial, after I realized how easy it is to create album with some cardstock and pattern papers. 

The steps are detailed below: [ PS:  Inspiration from Loretta - https://youtu.be/4ZtPBpzc-Bw ]

The use of pattern paper and decoration is left upto imagination. You can go all out with it. But just to remember, the more embellishments, you use, the more fatter your album gets. Hence, I tried using flat embellies, like die cuts and vellum!

Here's a quick look on how it looks finally :)

Hope you guys like the project and try out creating your own keepsakes - mini albums. 

Dont forget to link up you creation in the below link:

Challenge #55 - Make a Mini

Cheers, Till the next week!

Love

 Dolly

Supplies from Lulupu:

Big shot

The Archivist Paper Pad

Challenge#48 - Water Colors

Hello Friends!

Thank you all for participating in the Lulupu Birthday Bash & Challenge#47, this is Tanvi with a new challenge for this month. The theme is the current favorite trend with all card makers - Water Colors

Lulupu Challenge #48

Water Colors

(Click here to read the general guidelines)

Challenge#48 Rules

1. Get creative with water color techniques. You can use distress inks, water color pencils, paints, ink pads, color cakes  etc.

2. This challenge we will accept CARDS only.

3. You have time until 30th April 2015, 11:55 PM IST to submit your projects.

Here's what the winner will take home

The links to the products in the store has been given below

http://www.lulupu.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2578

http://www.lulupu.com/buy-bee-happy-acrylic-stamps-2x3-sheet-hot-off-the-press-online-india

http://www.lulupu.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1571

Here is my card for the current theme. I have combined the camouflaging die cuts technique with the water color burst effect. 

I also have a pictorial for making this card. 

The supplies needed - 

Water color paper/Heavy weight Card stock

Distress ink pads

Masking tape

Non stick mat

Acrylic block

Dies

Stamps

Archival Ink pad

Brushes (flat & round tip)

1. Adhere the paper to the non stick mat using masking tape. 

2. Dab the distress ink colors of choice on the mat/block. 

3. Use the flat brush & wet the paper with clean water first. Be as random as you can. This will be the trail the colors follow.

4. Wet the round brush & pick up the first color, apply on one end.

5. Continue with all the colors one by one, allowing them to blend.

6. Let dry & then die cut directly in the water color burst. 

7.To add dimension, I die-cut "teacher" four times from white cardstock. Then I glued all pieces together with the colored one on top.  

8.To finish it off, I inlaid the stacked die cut to the card base.

 9. I stamped the sentiment "thank you" in black. 

 It is a simple water color technique & I think the inlaid die cut adds dimension to this otherwise simple card.

Would love what to hear your thoughts on this & inviting you all to participate this month too in our challenge. 

Hugs,

Tanvi. 

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