How To - Family - Shadow box Tutorial

Hello ! Ola ! Namaste !

Welcome to another post from me, Pooja!

I am very pleased to present to you my mixed media shadow box for

 Challenge#27 Lulupu 2nd Birthday Special

Yooo hooo ! We are celebrating Lulupu's 2nd birthday !

And there are some amazing prizes to be won !

Check out the original post here for the full details of the challenge

Also look at the line up of prizes here

There are 3 categories to play for ! so just remember to link them at the right place !

Well for me i decided to go for 

Category -3 ~ Everything else ! 

Here is my mixed media shadow box  
 

Tutorial: Altered Journal

Hello bloggers !Its Pooja here today.

Happy new year to all the readers of lulupu from me :)

Hope u all are liking our new design team filled with so many talented ladies !

This fortnight we decided to go for Challenge #23 - Create a calendar.

So i decided to alter a journal cover and today i have tutorial on how i did the background. 

So lets start ! 

I started off with this simple mini journal which has a plain hard cover on it. 

I do like the pink so i am going to keep some of it showing.

 My next step was to add a pattern paper to the cover. 

Over which I then used some texture paste with a stencil. 

TIP - Notice the puckering ? (well dont worry, it wont show), 

But I made the mistake of adding the tacky tape only to the sides of the PP , while i should have added it to the whole paper, or just used some thick white glue.  

 I then quickly added some glitter on top of the texture paste while it was wet.

Once dry you can dust off the glitter to reveal the pattern ! 

Thats pretty much how i got my background .

Then I placed the rest of my embellishments and my cover was done ! 

 Here is a closer look at the flowers . 

They are all handmade.

 The tiny calender you see here is also handwritten. 

The image is a Magnolia stamp , and i really enjoyed coloring it ! 

Hope you liked my project for Challenge #23 - Create a calendar.

and are inspired to join us in the fun ! 

Waiting to hear your thoughts !

Hugs 

Poo 

Supplies

Martha Stewart Glitter Vintage Leaf 12pk	Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi-Medium	Self Healing A3 Size Cutting Mat	Miss Caroline Dolled Up Paper Pad 6"X6"
Crate paper- 14 paper pad	Magnolia stamps	EK Paper Shapers® Punch Flower	Fiskars Easy Stamp Press
SureCut Deluxe Paper Trimmer 12"	Round Pearl Dots - Medium Size 100/Pkg	Inkessentials ink blending tool	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad from Ranger - Broken Chin
Walnut Stain Distress Ink Pad	Pumice Stone Distress Ink	Tweezer	Terrifically Tacky Tape .5"X5 Yds
Quilling Fine Tip Scissors	3-D Foam Tabs	Sizzix Big shot Teal

InLinkz.com

It's COOKING time again! ;) Blog Hop 3!

Hello everyone,

Pratiksha here today! This is my first ever blog hop and i am so so so excited!! 

Now time for some details on the Blog Hop ! 

 How to join the blog hop?

1.     Be a Lulupu blog Follower

2.     Like our Facebook Page

3.     Add the Blog hop Badge on right/left side top of your blog and link it back to this post. 

4.     Blog about you joining the blog hop either as a separate post or in your participating post.

5.     Please make sure you leave a comment on each designer’s blog and we ask that you leave a comment here as well to be in the running for the prize. The last stop on the hop will be back here at the Lulupu blog. Please leave your last comment here on this post as well, letting us know your thoughts on the fabulous projects presented by our talented designers. 

            6. We will be hopping from today-  

December  1st  from 9:30 am IST to  December 20th until  12:00 am IST.

            7. There is a major twist to this blog hop -  the participating blogs will post their BLOG HOP post any time between 1st and 20th December. So you will need to keep an eye on the following list through out !

Here are the participating blogs

Pooja 

Varshitha

Pratiksha

Hussena

Sonia

Erum

Nikita

Hop on over to my blog to continue your blog hope journey! 

Love

pratiksha :)

Word Play Note Cards!!

Hello Crafters!!

It's been a while since I posted here, but I haven't been slacking off. I have been giving my hand some rest. But, I couldn't resist playing along with the Word Play Challenge and I was super excited about it since the time I suggested this theme. So there was no way I wanted to miss this! :) Also, as we have to make CAS cards for this challenge, it only made things easier for me..

And as usual, I got carried away and made FIVE cute little note cards. ;)

When I think of Word Play, I think of Lawn Fawn Stamps. Every Stamp Set has co-ordinating sentiments and images and for this challenge, I used the Love 'n Breakfast Set (I got three cards out of this set), Vintage Rides by The Craft's Meow as well because it had some really cool stamps and another card from the Raccoon2Love Stamp Set by The Stamps of Life.

I won't be typing much because right now, it's a little difficult.. So I'll just show you the cards. As usual, the list of products used for these cards is at the end of the post! :)

Loaded with Gardenias!! + A Tutorial..

Hello!!!

This is Varshitha here.. Hope you all had a great weekend.. Mine was fantastic! I am super excited about the current Lulupu Challenge - #17, Load it Up!!! I love to load up my cards with lots of layers and flowers and still make them CAS cards too.. :P

When coming to floral projects I love handmade flowers and my love for handmade flowers was by seeing Rajni ji's and Erum's work. I am always stunned seeing their work. :) Seeing this inspiring world of crafting I decided to make these awesome Gardenis.I am so very excited to show them here... Being a lazy crafter its one of the easy way to make flowers, instead of pinching and molding each petal, these beauties can be done very easily.. Yes I'm showing you a small tutorial on how to make these Gardenias...

Now about my card ..... I have made a typical floral card. A Floral card is what I always prefer for loved ones, making my own flowers and gifting it as a card gives soo much happiness to me.

Here it is..

Pink Posies!

A big warm hello to alll your wonder crafters out there :) Been quite a while since I crafted last, and when the new challenge came up this month I jumped with joy!! With all the shopping I've been doing at Lulupu, I finally got to use my new supplies :)

Sooo... LOAD IT UP! Wow, soooo much to do with it :) Countless layers and possibilities! I came up with a tag for this one :)

Lulupu Challenge #18 - Load it Up & Some News!

Heylo People!

Welcome to a brand new challenge at the Lulupu Blog! It's already the last quarter of the year, time really flies!

This fortnight we have a very interesting challenge for you :) But before that we have some updates.

Our dear DT Member Ruthie Lopez is bidding us goodbye, and we are so gonna miss her. Ruthie is a wonderful person and has been amazing during the last few months here with us. We enjoyed her beautiful creations for our monthly/fortnightly challenges all along and we hope you did too. I take this opportunity to wish her well on behalf of the entire team. But just because she won't be posting with us anymore doesn't mean it's a complete bye-bye. You can still see her wonderful work at her blog - My Hobby = My Art.

And with some Goodbyes we have some Hellos too! A big hoot hoot for our new DT Member Pooja Khupse who most of you know through her blog - Lightbox Creative Ideas and her Challenge blog - Beyond Grey Challenges. Let's get to know her a bit more what say?

Over to Pooja... :)

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Hola  friends!! 

This is Pooja , most of you may already know me as PJ from "Beyond Grey" 
and those who don't well "Hi"! 

I am from Maharashtra , India, but I'm currently living in London. I am married to an amazing man , who is the support system of my life. I was a teacher before I moved to UK, but here I am now, a full time crafter. 

Lulupu Challenge #17 - Fancy Me!

A super good morning to all you wonderful crafters! Hope you had an awesome crafty weekend like i did! :) ( of course, allll the new goodies at LULUPU make you want to just shop and not craft!)

I'm here to announce our 2nd challenge for this month! Isn't that cool! and yes we looooved all your gorgeous entries for Lulupu challenge #16 and the winners will be announced real soon.. :)

So this month's challenge is 

CHALLENGE #17 - FANCY ME!

Challenge #17 - Qualification Guidelines 

{General Guidelines - here}

1. Create ANY project that showcases a style/technique you fancy - CAS, Vintage, Shabby Chic, CAS, Distressing, Paper Piecing and so on

2. Mention what your style is and which technique you fancy the most and why.

3. Please note that the Inlinkz for this challenge will close on September 30, 2013 at 11:55 PM IST.

and here is what the Winner gets along with a chance to be our next Guest DT! 

Magic Happens Collectables Cardstock Die-Cuts 50/Pkg

Meow! Meow!! :P

Hello Crafters!!

This is Nikita here with my inspiration (albeit a day late :P) for this fortnight's challenge - Stamp & Colour + Emboss. For my card, I decided to stamp and colour these gorgeous colours from the Stamp Set called Wildflowers by The Craft's Meow. It is an amazing stamp with a great image that is perfect for colouring in. :D While colouring, I got so carried away that I coloured the flowers in three different colour combinations. Yes, you read that right - THREE; and I am going to show all three to you. :) I stamped the flowers in Versamark and used Ranger's Black Superfine Detail embossing powder (Stamping & Embossing, check :D) and coloured the stamps using Faber Castell watercolour pencils (Colouring, check!) I then smoothened the colour pencil lines using my Koi Waterbrush and then I added some Stickles here and there :P

Make the most of your Double-sided PP

Hi people! As you know for the second part of this month, the design team is focusing on "Maximizing pattern papers". So for my inspiration for today is : Making most of your double sided patterned papers and make your own embellishments with PP.

But before that, I want to let you all know that the winner for the 200 Follower Giveaway will be announced tomorrow. So good luck to all those to played along. :)

Now back to today's post. I made this cute little favor bag with a 6x6 MME Blink of an Eye paper pad. When I was thinking for ideas for making the most of patterned papers, I thought in the reverse order. Which are the products where I would want to have the design show on the inside as well. So I came up with the idea of a favor box. I guess these are one of the best uses of double sided PP, as you not only want the bag to look pretty on the outside, but also want it to have some color and design on the inner side.

How to: Make Flowers without Punches or Dies

Hello there,

It's Isha here. I hope you all are having a great time and loads of fun with us since the Birthday celebrations are in full swing here at Lulupu. Before moving ahead, I want to let you all know which contests are still running so you still have a chance to win awesome prizes and goodies.

- March 2013 Challenge  (Till March 31st)
- Birthday Bash (Till March 31st)
- Crafty Quiz Contest (Ends tonight!!!!!)
- And lastly Photo Contest on our Facebook Page (Till March 30th)

                                  Go ahead and don't miss a single chance to grab the goodies ..

Now coming over to my post. Who says you always need dies or punches to make gorgeous flowers ? So here you have my take on making flowers without them. Have a look at how they turned out. :)

What do you think??

So today I will be be doing a pictorial for you that will feature how to make these lovely flowers without using any dies /punches . Lets get started -

Basic Supplies required:
1. Card stock (any)
2. Glue
3. Scissors
4. Water & Sprayer for misting
5. Inks (preferably Distress Inks)

STEP - 1 

Take few pieces of cardstock of your choice (any colour.)

                         

STEP - 2

As shown above cut them into circles, remember to cut them in little wavy shapes on the edges. You don't need a perfectly round shape.

STEP - 3

Now make some small V- shape cuts on the edges as shown above. Remember the more imperfect they are, the better it is.

STEP - 4 

 Now distress the edges and center with any color of your choice and Spritz some water over it. 

STEP - 5

Now bring the petals up from the center and give them a good scrunching!! 

Spritzing water is optional at this step since I did not spritz water on the opposite side in the previous step.

STEP - 6 

 Open them up and allow them to dry. If you have a heat tool go head save your time and if you don't have a heat tool put your head phones on and listen to your favorite songs till nature does its thing ... :P

STEP - 7

Put them all together with a dab of glue in the centers starting with the largest circle at the bottom and layering smaller ones over it till you're done with the smallest piece and your flowers are ready.

Ooops I forgot to mention, for the center you can use pretty gems, stones, pearls or pollen of your choice.

            Voila! The flowers are ready!!!!  And its time to use these super gorgeous blooms on my card

For this card I have used the pink flower. I have further distressed the edges with Picked raspberry distress ink. Coming over to the card, I have used the gorgeous pattern paper from  Prima zypher collection, doilies which I soaked in picked raspberry distress ink and added pearls and Pink Fabric Lace. Sentiment is from Hero arts .

And for the second card I have distressed the back ground and soaked doilies using Peeled paint and Mustard seed distress inks and have used brown fabric lace. Sentiment is from Hero arts. For the flowers I have used pollen in the center .

Hope you had fun making these flowers with me!!

And Happy Holi from the Lulupu Team to everyone in advance! Have a colourful, fun filled Holi and be safe.. :)

Love,

Isha

Supplies Used -

Flower embellishment made with circle punch

      

Hi everyone its Snehal here!

We enjoyed your Mini albums last month.You were all so enthusiastic and creative.

Also it was great to learn some fabulous tips and techniques on making mini albums from our DT at Lulupu.

This month we have a special challenge for you! The whole month the Lulupu DT will show you some easy peasy ways to make handmade embellishments for your crafty needs  Not only is making your own embellishments cheaper; but also creatively satisfying. Embellishments are of many kinds and I guarantee you that you will love what our team has to offer this entire month.The list is extensive and exhaustive!

To begin with we will make a simple flower which is not only easy but also quick and can be used on any of your favorite projects! I have a pictorial tutorial to clearly explain the method of making it. So hear we go!

You need a circle punch, glue and pattern paper

take 6 circles

Fold each circle like this

Repeat the process for all five circles.the sixth one is the base for the flower

Apply glue on the base circle

stick the folded circles on the base

Continue sticking until complete

Your flower is done

This is the rear side of the flower.pick whichever side you like.

Just to show you how you can use the flower to embellish a scrapbook page...I am showing you this one.Look at the big and small blooms...aren't they gorgeous?

Hope you find it inspiring and easy enough to try it out.

The challenge this month is of course - you guessed it -

Create your own embellishment.

It could be any size or shape..just about anything that catches your fancy.You could use scraps,
clay, brads, paints, punches, fabrics, ribbons..absolutely anything...you are only limited by your imagination.

Whats more?! The winner gets a gift voucher worth Rs.300 to shop at www.lulupu.com!!! :D How cool is that?!

You have until the end of this month to link up your project.
* It is not necessary to use items purchased from Lulupu.com (though we would love it if you do).
* Please link back to this challenge page with inklinz and drop a message in the comment box to alert our
   DT.
* You can link up your creation to a maximum of 5 challenges including this one to qualify.
* The challenge is open to only Indian nationals.
* No Back linking please. We would love to see what you make post this challenge is announced.
* Maximum 2 entries per person will be allowed

Edited-WINNER GETS TO DO A GUEST POST.THIS TIME POOJA WILL DO A GUEST POST ON 15TH AUG.