Pop up and 3-D card for a Special Occasion

Hi Friends

             As i told earlier, that i will try my luck in pop up and 3-D cards and hence i got the chance to make it. It was my uncle and aunty's silver wedding anniversary on 24th may and we got to know only 3 days prior. i was in dilemma as to what sort of card should i make. Then i thought..why not...i tried for pop up card. I knew the simple pop up but dint know the floral one which is easy and yet not so easy but once you get the hand of it..it goes quiet easy in making.

It is multilayer(four layers) pop up and 3-D card...few of the ideas i took from internet. now i got the hang of this thing i guess i can make my own ideas come alive.


The card and designs are made from hand made paper of various colors and some stock papers of various designs..and offcourse how can i forget 3-D outliners..  :)

so here are some shots of the card...as layer and surface wise..

And this is the customized envelop i made for the card..

I was so excited that card came along very well but unfortunately i forgot to take pics of the complete card as an entity.

But here is one bonus...i made this paper bag for gift by my own...this was my not so good water color painting which was lying just in the depths of my stuff..so i took it out and then it clicked..yes..i can make a paper bag out of it..and it really came out looking good as bag..dont you think??? 

Next time i am going to post some really refreshing ideas... till then....

Have a blast you all!!!!!

Paintings and murals

Today's post is all about paintings and murals i made..these are the old ones and some of them have been used for office and hospital furnishings.

I usually am a fan of water colors and poster colors but also like acrylic and oil paints though i am not that of a patient person so oil painting is not much of my forte.

These below are some water color paintings taken from the concept on known water color artist Milind mulak. I love his concepts which are usually set in small villages and their streets and have some traditional bearings.

The following are the mixes media paintings including poster colors and acrylic colors.

These are mixed media paintings which have been used for office furnishing.

These down are the warli art based paintings. A lot of patience for these was required, especially the poster sized ones. Warli art revolves mainly around the celebration of crop harvesting.Here the harvesting diety is worshiped by the community. Usually the figures are drawn on the dark base and the color used for drawing the figures is usually white and some times shades of yellow and orange.

This was my second mural ..well it went ok..not that good or something..but its really messy work. so i have not made more murals yet. But thinking of some different concept for these.

 Will post some more soon......till then.....

Greeting Cards for Various Occasions

These cards are the little bit old creations of mine. I still have to make new ones..I generally use hand made paper which is usually acid free (because i use it for my water color paintings). i get them from stationary which supply art and craft materials in abundant. I still am to order anything from net  :)

The hand made paper come in large poster sheets or small ones in A size paper..in various colors offcorse and also some i get some material from the people having wholesale material for the wedding cards. Usually they have more variety than the traditional stationary shops.

 

 





















This card is based on hanging decoration theme and the base if made up of card board and covered with thick blue colored poster paper.The orange pouch is made from hand made embossed paper to hold stacks of various messages and greetings. Rest is few decoration with aluminum thin leaves and 3-D out liners.
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The base of this card is handmade of black tough handmade paper. i cut the opening sides in "v" pattern to give a more decorative look.This was quite a tough paper so after cutting it from sheet i had to compress it for few hrs to keep it straight. The white paper patch is also a hand made paper more of having twigs n leaves than actual paper. Then i used dried up rose petals for patterns and some fresh Rajnigandha flowers. rest i used 3-D outliner for more effects.
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This card is made up of A size pattern paper with glazes handmade paper as second coat. The flower design in center is made from potpourri leaves and the side white corner flowers are plastic artificial flowers. And offcourse as usual i love the 3-D outliners.
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This one is having glazed colored handmade paper as the base and pattern paper as second coat and again glazed handmade paper as third coat. The flower patter is of quilled design and also used 3-D outliner for some more effects. On the card edges the flower pattern is the punched out pattern which i took out from other paper using paper punch.

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The base is handmade paper again with second and third coat of pattern paper and hand made glazed paper respectively. Then used some stones in various colors to give it a traditional look.
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This card has its history of its own. i was making this for the flower shop person for his sister's wedding anniversary. I forgot to take the pictures for the completed card :( but it was a real good card with 3 layers. This layer is small painting sized handmade paper on which i pasted a cut out of my bro's extra wedding card as a pouch to have photos and surrounded with a little painted pattern and 3-D outliner . The second layer of the card i used for paper quilled pattern and the third layer i put on some painting design and message and some more decoration.



Hope you all enjoyed these ones....  :)

Currently i am working on pop up and folding cards. I will update them soon....till then keep a watch.... 

Beautiful Paper Jewellery

Hi friends

Many of you might be knowing about the art of paper quelling and designs made from quelled paper. I Have created some basic designs from paper quelling in the form of paper jewellery. These are just the starter ones, as i will go along will try to make complicated and more colorful and vibrant designs. 

These above ones were quite simple to make and dint take much time to create but these down below took some time and patience.....

These few are just the random  ones wich clicked my mind and went on developing....

Hope you all liked these ones...as i will get time i will make more of these and will share them with you soon

(P.S.- I am also working on picture frames decorated with quelling strips and sea shells...will share with you people soon...) 

Handmade Earrings

These designs were not that difficult to create. I had lots of material and as i went on creating, the designs started evolving.

These are few designs which i created using various materials, like wooden beads, acrylic beads and glass beads. i have also used some small seashells for hanging earrings and also some fiber and metal hangings.

Hope you all will like these. More of the stuff is on the way... :)