Design By shilpi: Punch

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

3rd BIRTHDAY Shaker Card

For my darling nephew....

...inspired by challenge at Lulupu

The Idea for a 3rd birthday card,especially for my little cutie-pie nephew has been bouncing in my head for quite some time....but what with my kids exams and all, this month just flew by.....and before I knew it ,it's already end of the month.

Seeing Lulupu's this months challenge, galvanized me to do it......so here it is....

In this card I have incorporated lot's of small small techniques which has appealed to me in last couple of months.

1. Making clouds for your background

Since I saw this technique on "Pinterest", I have been wanting to Incorporate this in one of my projects.....And I guess I went over-board....lol....instead of just cutting a simple paper cloud I ended up making my own stencil with 210 gsm OHP sheet. And added not only clouds but Sun too....

For making my stencil ,I roughly drew some clouds and sun on a piece of paper, and then traced it on OHP sheet. Cut the whole thing with my trusty paper cutting knife , and I was good to go......

After roughly placing my balloons , got the idea where all I needed to add clouds so the background doesn't looks blank.....Used Tumbled glass distress ink pads and my stencil to achieve this....

2. Making shaker box

I have this beautiful " Martha Stewart's HAPPY BIRTHDAY Punch....It was ideal for making my Birthday shaker box....

After punching I left little extra paper on all three sides and added a thin strip on top as well as I wanted to make a box and give it a look of "Treasure chest".

With thin red strong double sided tape I added little ohp sheet....

Then I added thick foam tape so it makes a bracket for my sequins.....

And my Birthday tag was ready to be fixed on my card along with colorful glittery sequins....

Lastly drew belt straps,buckle and stitching lines all around to give it a look of "Treasure chest". Filled with all the happy colors.....

3. Balloons from scraps of gift wrapper

Yes ! that's right I had strip of gift paper left,after packing a gift for my little one's friend. The balloons were so colorful and shiney that I didn't wanted to threw that.

So I'm finally making a good use of that...lol...
I decoupage the balloons on thick card paper, once they were dry ,I cut just three of them out,as its all about 3rd birthday day.

One thing though, Mod-podge has kinda dulled the shine of the balloons....and I can't make up my mind whether I liked that effect or not.

I guess I like it ....as it is making my sequins shines that much more....

lastly assembled everything together.... and my card was ready.....

Hope you all like my work.....

Please do leave me your valuable suggestions....

I really do appreciate them......

Thanks.....

P.S. ---- so very much wanted to enter it for lulupu blog challenge....

added the link and in between the linkup closed....missed it by couple of minutes....sob! sob!....

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

"Happy Anniversary" Mix Media Card

"It's all about LOVE"

Well I'm one of those lucky few who's anniversary coincides with Valentine week's celebrations.

Not the date though ( well we really tried hard to get married on the valentine day, but couldn't make it....too many weddings on the same date, so no Pandit ji or even venue was available.) but still it's the time for me to play around with lots of glitter,glam, roses and heart.....lol

It's another of mine mix-media card, tried for little " shabby chic concept" but couldn't bring my self to go all the way. Didn't had the heart or you can say confidence enough to distress all the things and make them look shabby, that I had worked really hard to make.

Maybe I can make the same card again ,and this time do the distressing,....well if I do that, then I'll definitely link that to this post....lets see...

So I started my card by distressing the base which is " Script Cream from Recollections", I used walnut stain distress ink for distressing all the four sides. Further on I blotched it with Teal water color, just dropped it from a distance with a aqua brush, to give the look of ink-stains. Was little apprehensive of doing this,"what if I spoiled the whole thing?" as it was the last bit of script cream scrapbook paper that I had. All went well though, and I really loved the splattered look of the teal.

Added a dainty darling satin lace vertically on left side of my card.

Then comes the "Heart"....I took a felt dollie, cut it into heart shape, painted it with two layers of gesso because it was in grey color and I wanted it in off-white, so after gesso dried I stained it with tea dye distress ink and applied 3D glitter. That done I layered it on previously stained corrugated heart. Adorned it with pearl and natural hemp cord rings.(also known as jute cord or twine) You can find them at kraft outlet

N now its time for my "Roses and Butterflies"......

On watercolor paper I had painted 4 small to big flower petals for small rose and 5 small to big flower petals for big rose .....and same for the leaves....with transparent watercolors....

Cut them separately, shaped them and stuck them together to to make a nice rose and did the same with the leaves too.....

For butterflies I went experimenting and fooling around with my distress ink pads.....

just applied the pads directly on watercolor paper, sprinkled it with water,so the colors started merging into each other. Once dried punched it with " Martha Stewart's Monarch butterfly" punch and my butterflies were ready to fly off, so I took 2 butterflies of the similar color and tied them together with jute twine, shaped them a bit, and they too were ready to adorn my card......

So put them all together on my card......

My roses in one corner along with some white pollen and my contrasting color butterflies on the opposite direction.... once I was happy with the composition, just glued them all.

And finished my card by adding "Happy Anniversary" mdf sentiment tag.....

That's it.... My "one of it's own kind" card is ready

Especially for my Hubby......lol

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