Bottle Garden

Hello Friends, Today I have a colorful project to share giving a fresh nature feeling! 
It's a bottle box in garden theme made with an empty water bottle. These plastic bottles are lying at everybody's house and I just thought of using it in some way. Had no idea what I'll do on this but then start working with chalk acrylic paints. This is my first time I am using chalk paints and I was excited to use them on a plastic bottle! 

Here I have used matt chalk paint "sailing sky" shade from Itsy Bitsy store. Firstly I prepared the bottle with a coat of gesso then gave it a coat of chalk paint followed by some strokes of black acrylic paint. Then added some script design using stencil and texture paste. 

Next step was to embellish it with all flora & fauna.....I used heat embossed chipboards, flowers, leaves, pollen, beads, metal dragon fly. For the lid I thought of using natural twine and I think it really matched well with other embellishments. And did you noticed my tiny rabbit (chipboard) sitting near the bushes and enjoying greenery! I have used color splash in lime green shade to add that green touch. Some more color splash on my flowers...

Birdie chipboard was perfect on the top! 

Back side of my bottle....

So here is my bottle with what I started...I have separated the upper portion and my lid is made of chipboard and twine.

I hope you all liked my bottle garden. Do share with me, I love to read what you say :)

Thank you so much for visiting!

Have a great day!

Linking my project to following challenges:

Try it on Tuesday  (Botanical)

Rhedds Creative Spirit (Altered Art/ Mixed Media)

Altered Eclectics (Altered Art/ Mixed Media)

More Mixed Media Challenge (Anything Goes + Optional Yellow)

Double D Challenges (Neons Brights)

My popping neon flowers! Bright green and blue too!

Stamplorations- Mixed Media Anything Goes Challenge (Use stencil, no cards)

Photo frame with 3D Decoupage Flower

Hello Friends :)

Today I have a special creation to share with you all, it is inspired by one of my very sweet blogger friend and she is a great inspiration for me! Most of us knew her, she is Dr. Sonia, an ENT surgeon and an amazing crafter! Currently she is celebrating 5 Million page views of her blog and organizing huge giveaways!!

I made a photo frame and have tried to incorporate few elements from her inspirations. Here is my project,

Base is made from a waste cardboard box. I covered it with pattern paper. At the corner you could see the beautiful 3D decoupage flower made using stamping and heat embossing.I followed Dr. Sonia's 3D Decoupage Tutorial
For the leaves too I followed her tutorial How to Jazz up your leaves She loves using foam sheets and so I have used it in my project and actually I too love using this :) Purple border and tiny butterfly made of glitter foam.

Added few mulberry flowers, pollens and pearls.

I hope you enjoyed this and I too enjoyed making this one :)
Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!!

Linking to
Cards and School Projects

Grungy Altered Box

Hello Everyone!
I am back with a mixed media vintage project! I want to give it some grungy masculine look hence avoided all pinky colours & no flowers!
Enjoy the pics..

I covered the lid (was detachable) with embossed handmade paper and adhered some cheesecloth to it. Then added tiny cubes of foam at the corners. Next gave it strokes of acrylic colours brown, antique copper & gold with hint of pearl green here & there.

Sentiment is a rub-on sticker, which made me remember my childhood days when we used to apply these rub-ons to our hands. I rubbed it over a handmade paper, then inked it with gathered twigs DI & distressed the edges.

Added some tiny embellishments, a button & ship steering wheel painted in gold & pearl blue shades, with mini hearts & a compass stamp. Shiny black arrow is made using a toothpick & cardstock. I love it!
For the bottom part added some scraps of papers, painted them & rubbed some DI.

Now let's move inside, there is a surprise!

You can see now lid is attached to the bottom part, I have joined them using handmade paper (thick enough to hold well). There is a quote & a mini notebook.

Handwritten using DI and paint brush.

Base of the box is covered with papers from an old novel sponged with DI and stamped with tiny stars. Added tiny tags 'secrets', 'memories' & 'fun' (on the other side).

My notebook is hand sewn. Cover is again made with embossed handmade paper. Here it opens!

I hope you like my project! Do tell me, I love to read what you say & Thank you for stopping by!
Have a wonderful day!

Linking my box to
Anything But Cute Challenge (Grungy Love)

Lulupu Challenge (Hearts & Arrows)

Rhedd's Creative Spirit Challenge (Mixed media, altered art)

A Bit More Time To Craft (AG)

It's a Blue!

Hello Friends,
Wishing you all a happy & creative year ahead! 
Today I have a mixed media project to share with you all. I experimented with lots of things while making this project. I choose blue  colour as the main theme & started to incorporate all blue elements in it. 
Enjoy the pics

It's me in the pic! Yes it is my childhood pic & there is a small tale behind it. I was very fond of wearing my father's goggles & I used to lift up my face so as to prevent the goggles from dropping down because they were too big for my face! :)

My first experiment was with the blue flowers. I love my handmade blooms, aren't these looking pretty?
The base is an old wooden frame recycled to create this. For the background I used some papers from an old novel & stamped it with my new Bo Bunny "It is written" stamp, and adhered a fabric piece of a blue old denim jeans with some stitching on it.
For the frame I used my homemade spray paints & mists in pearl & metallic shades, to get a shinny look.

I hope you like it! Do tell me, I love to read your comments:) 
Create & have fun!
Thanks for stopping by!

Linking to
More Mixed Media Challenge (Blue)

Peek-a-boo Designs (colours saffron, white, green & blue & stamp)
Rhedd's Creative Spirit (Altered art, mixed media)
Anything but cute challenge (Ring out the old, bring in the new)
A bit more time to craft (AG)
Craft your passion challenge (AG)
Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge blog (Something new)
Simon says stamp Monday challenge (Something new)
Double "D" Challenge (Inspiration Tile)

Stamps and stencils (Blue)

Mixed Media Altered Bottle

Hello Friends!!
A new project to share today, An altered bottle!
I have never done it before, so I was so excited to give it a go!
Have a look

Altered bottle

Altered bottle

How I started?
I picked an empty soap bottle for this and used mod podge to stick a layer of cheese cloth to the entire bottle. Then coated the bottle with gesso.
I mixed some acrylic paint & texture paste and applied it on a white sheet using stencil. Then fussy cut it in random shapes & again glued these patterns on the bottle using mod podge. Next added some gold acrylic colour to the texture paste & applied it on the bottle here & there. Sprinkled some copper dust on the wet paste.

 

Left the bottle to dry completely, then painted it with acrylic paints.

Frame & dragonfly was handmade using clay & silicon mold. I added lots of blooms around the frame. Added pieces of washi tape near the frame. These were added to a thin paper & then glued to the bottle to increase it's visibility. The neck of my bottle is covered with purple foam sheet & tied with a twine. Added some charms & pearls.

I hope you like it! Do share, I love to read your comments :)

Thanks for stopping by! 

Have a great day!

Linking to

Lulupu challenge (Deck up your home)

All sorts challenge (Anything but Christmas)

A bit more time to craft (AG)

Stamplorations Challenge Blog (mixed media)

Pocket Memories!!

Hello Friends :)

I have a mini album to share today. I really enjoyed making this album. This is my first time doing such a miniature project & that too an album. It is made up with an empty tablets carton & a soap carton, yes both combined to add more leafs to my album!!
But love this recycling! I was inspired by Rupa's albums (Rupastofa) to make it & add some vintage look!

Have a look at my mini,

Mini Album

Mini Album

Mini Album

It has a small insert tag to close & bind this album.

I have used a handmade orange paper for front & back cover, inked the design using stencils. Small tiles at the corner are small foam pieces painted with acrylics & crackle medium to add some texture. I want the cracks to be visible but my camera ignored it!

Spine is made up of coloured burlap & pierced an eyelet to hang these pretty charms, few beads & a little dolphin painted in green, golden & copper shades, it was from an old key chain.

The inside of my album:

Mini Album

Some tiny tags here, the pocket holding the tags is covered with hand stitched vellum & added vintage border above the vellum. My album has both sided pages to add extra memories

Mini Album

These smaller flaps are made from soap carton, glued to the tablet carton & then covered with pattern papers.

Mini Album

A tiny chipboard butterfly & ticket label is from my vintage paper collection. A small twine crossed on two buttons to open the flap. Here it opens..

Mini Album

Mini Album

This small stamp on the tag is again from my vintage paper collection.

Mini Album

Mini Album

Mini Album

Hope you enjoyed this album. Do tell me!! I love to read your comments :)

Thanks for stopping by!!

Have a wonderful day :)

Linking it to

Lulupu (mini album)

Rhedd's Creative Spirit (mixed media, altered projects)