Altered Bird house

Hello,

Today's project is another Craftslane MDF product that I altered for a friend. Tonnes of embellishments and colour on this one too. I seem to be moving away from pastels and embracing brighter colour this summer.:-)

Look at the bird house. It is so adorable and a nice size. I guess you can use it as an actual bird house. I might try that next. It's available here if you are interested.

 

This is how it looks after I was done with it.

 

 

I used the DCWV coral couture stack. I love the colours in this stack. The lovely teals, oranges and reds. Added some fussy cut elements from the paper and some handmade and store bought flowers and it was done. Easy peasy.:-)

 

I used some dangle trim for the sides and here's what they look like.

 

 

And another view since I took a million pictures of this.:-)

 

 

Okay, that's it for today's project. I have just finished a mixed media project and created a mini tutorial of sorts, but I am nervous.Would you be interested in mixed media?

 

Let me know.

 

Cheers

Pallavi

 

 

 Submitting to :

 

BGC #49 Grown with Love : I have used flowers,butterflies and birds and some colours from the mood board.

Color Conceptions Challenge #9 : Anything but cards

 

Heart-art

Hello!

Top of the morning to all of you. Monday blues started yet? I start whining about Monday from Sunday afternoon itself, much to the annoyance of darling husband.:-)

Anyway, on to today's project. I altered a heart though I have to admit that I cheated on today's project. It is a larger version of a magnet that I had done some time back. You can check it out here. I just changed what I did on the background a little bit, but most of it remains the same as the magnet. Don't blame me, my client wanted it this way.:-)

I told you it was glittery! I hand cut some hearts with chipboard. The backgrounds on both of them are done with gelatos, some stencilling and stamping. On the bottom heart I also used a waterproof pen to outline the stencilled flowers.

Much of what I have done is not visible, since I glittered the heck out of it with Dimensional magic. I wanted it to have a laminated and tile like finish.Wish I had taken a picture before I did that though. Maybe you can see some of it here.

 

 

 

And that's it for today's post .Hope you liked the project. I will see you tomorrow. Have a wonderful week!

Cheers
Pallavi
 

Happiness Project -Part 2 :-)

Hola!

As promised, here is the second hoop wall hanging that I made. I used some fussy cut flowers and a few die cuts. There is nothing much to explain here, since it's a fairly simple project.

I say simple, but it still took me ages to finish it. I am so slow in deciding what to use and have to try out a million things before I stick anything down. Does that happen with you too, or are you guys super efficient at designing and finishing your projects?

That's it for now. Will see you soon with my next project. Hint hint , its super glittery!

Cheers
Pallavi

The 'Happiness' project

Hello,

Happy April to you. The months are just whizzing by, aren't they? It's awfully hot in my neck of the woods and I am going crazy bit by bit.

I know I have been missing again, but we will pretend that did not happen and continue as usual.:-)

To tell you the truth, I have been battling with low mojo, bad health and general garden- variety existential conundrums and have not been doing much, crafts-wise. Thankfully I had some orders, so I was forced to get some things done.

Now that I have made some legitimate excuses, we shall move on to my project. The brief from my client was that she wanted embroidery hoops, lots of flowers and happy things and I created two projects.

Today I am showcasing the first one which is a bright, sun-shiny yellow.

I used a lot of chipboard letters and sentiments on it. The small chipboard letters are lasercut mini alphabet letters from Craftslane. and I love them (I already have two packs of these hoarded away)!These are not chipboard, but good quality MDF and take a lot of media without buckling or peeling  or breaking off . Here, I have primed them with gesso and then coloured them with Faber Castell Gelatos..

The snowflake is another laser cut piece from Craftslane.I sponged it with Wild honey and mustard seed distress paints.

If you haven't visited Craftslane yet, please do so. Their MDF products are extremely good quality and a dream to work with. If you are not interested in altering stuff , they also carry scrapbooking supplies and constantly add new stuff to the store.

Okay, so now can you please tell me if you would call it a happy project?I will share the other hoop in my next post.

Psst... I am thinking of making my blog a bit more structured and hopefully a little bit interesting . I am also thinking of doing some tutorials or sharing interesting links whenever I can. Would you like that? Do let me know. I will be ever so grateful :-)


Till then,
Cheers
Pallavi

Submitting for the following challenges
Color Conceptions Challenge #9 : Anything but cards
Simon Says Monday Challenge - Anything goes
Altered Eclectics :April Challenge
Crafter's Corner challenge #15.Go 3D



 

First project of the year!

Hello !

First of all thank you to everybody that commented on my last post. Loved seeing that you are still there.:-)

Today's project was one which had been lying half done for almost 6 months. Its a mini chest of drawers that I had lying around for some time. Once I covered it with beautiful papers, I just lost interest in it and that is a shame since somebody had actually custom ordered it.lol.

Anyway, I am finally done and I quite like it. The client wanted pink and loads of flowers and I think I have delivered. Let's just hope that she likes it.

I used some Prima papers (Fairy Rhymes) , some stencilling, flowers and chipboard embellishments.

The stencilling is very subtle and hardly visible, but it's there, trust me!

Hope you like the project. If you have any questions, please feel free to write.

Cheers and see you soon (fingers crossed)

Pallavi

Submitting to

The Shabby Tea room week #200 - So romantic challenge
Challenge #188 :Make it New (Alter Something)

Happy new year and random talk.

I am alive! I know I am a little late in wishing you, but the year is still new, isn't it? So I wish everybody a very happy and productive new year.Hope all your dreams come true this year.

I have been ignoring this blog for so long, that there is a high possibility that I am talking to myself right now. If you have still not given up on me in disgust and 'un-followed', please stay. Pretty please!I am going to be super duper and extra efficient this year. I promise!

Okay, so now that I have jinxed it by making a proclamation, I do need some of you to stick around. That will probably make me feel ashamed enough to be a bit regular here.:-)

Have you guys made your resolutions yet? I love making plans and resolutions. None of them get accomplished or even half way done, but who cares about those little details,eh?

This year, I plan to be more active and participate in some challenges.I hardly ever do and it's time to change! I am also thinking what my key action word for this year would be.

Once I had decided that I wanted to be an organized, efficient proactive goddess, I came to the conclusion that I need 'tools' to help me on my way and promptly wasted two days surfing the net looking for planner templates, goal charts et al.

All of it was not in vain though, since I stumbled upon a fabulous e-book/workbook by Leonie Dawson.It's called '2014 Create your amazing year'.I loved the format and promptly bought the life workbook version.Yes, being a goddess requires monetary investment.I am happy to say that I do not regret my purchase.The planner is so pretty and inspiring.You should totally check it out .You can find it here.

Now, can anybody guess if I have filled even one page of this book? You guessed right! The answer is a resounding NO.:-)

I think you  would agree that 'CONSISTENT' is a word that I should probably embrace for this year.:-).

I am going to get down to it and finish my workbook and nothing and I mean NOTHING can stop me from 'SEIZING MY DAYS' and 'MAKING THE MOST' of my time.Wish me luck and if you are still around, share some of your plans. Do you have a sacred word for this year?

Okay, that's all I have for today. I know I am rambling but I had to start again and write a darned post just to prove to myself that I can do it.;-)

See you soon

Pallavi

 

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