bookmarks for a bookworm…

The words on back

I LOVE books. Don’t we all? Have no idea how I would have survived  without books to fall back upon. They are your company, your solace on lonely nights and rainy weekends, your guide when life is a bit rough…

So well, I had to make bookmarks. These are for a very dear friend, as a birthday gift.

Flowers on front

 

 

 

I made these flowers in CorelDraw. Printed on normal paper. Tied with ribbons and fabric.

boxes

 I had created sth tiny out of clay for a friend. But then, there was absolutely nothing in which I could pack it and gift wrap. So I took a thick sheet of handmade paper and cut out a box out of it. Then all I had to do was print out a pattern on sticky sheet and paste it on top to add more color to it. Finished up with a blue ribbon.

Magnets on the door

Pottering about…

I bought this plain white food tray from a local flea market, at very cheap rates. The moment I had seen them, I knew I had to buy one and try my hand at painting it. And I was in such a hurry (as usual) that I didn’t use any stencil, or any rough pencil sketch, but started painting right away with a brush…

See! But it was not-so-easy as the height of the rim of the tray (I guess you cal it rim, right?) was too much to make the painting easy; or I should have been left-handed! So I just painted it upside-down lolz

Here’s a close-up of the painting, and only in that you get to see how much ou-of-practise I have been

The adventures of the happy pillowcase

Once upon a time, there was a nice, happy canary yellow pillowcase. It nestled in it’s own bed and had fun bringing light n sunshine in an otherwise dull room. in this way, it passed its life happily. But then, one day,  the sunshine was overcome by huge, dark clouds. A lit matchstick fell on it and burned a hole in it. The poor pillowcase was saddened by it and started losing all its color.Then, a fairy took pity on it. She couldn’t mend the hole, she said, but she could give the pillowcase a  new life, a new look. And then she waved her magic wand....
  

And presto! The happy pillowcase turned into a beautiful skirt!!

So I have been away…

It’s been a really long time since I last posted. Let’s just say that I was affected by the mortality and eventual futilty of everything and was trying to understand if crafting is neccessary…

I still can’t say if it is important or neccessary; but I do know it feels great to make something nice/beautiful/useful from my own hands; that it makes my life more fulfilling. So after depriving myself for so long from this world, I have come back.

And what better way, than to post sth I made?

Here’s  a lovely brooch made out of golden tissue and a vintage button(which belonged to my mother). I made this after looking at tutorials on this at net. unfortunately, this was long back, so I don’t have the links for it right now.

But if someone wants it, I can post up a tutorial of how I made this. The pics aren’t really great (!!) as they are taken from a mobile. :( Sorry for that…and I promise, I will be posting back again real soon.

Have a beautiful crafty day, everyone!

Pincushions

I made a few pincushions after reading this and this…

These are photos of the first experiments…and they didn’t come out well but thankfully, the later ones did (I dunno why but my stitching projects are always jinxed - they never come out nicely the first time).

 Will put up photos - as soon as I take them - which will be like, a light year or so 

Illustration wedenesday

Royal Bee

Delicious!

I made this li’l cherry tomato as a gift for a special friend…

It’s made of clay and stands hardly an inch ….am just learning all this though. My hand isn’t as set yet; there are areas that need improving.