Hi, I started off by looking at few google images of crafts related to cardboard rolls. The easiest and the best were the butterflies. They would make very colorful additions to my balcony plants. Requirements – Any cardboard rolls, cardpapers, tissues, available stickers, glue, scissors, foam sheets if available, satin ribbon, Regular punch, googly eyes, …
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Dear Friends, My daugher loves “fishy” and she enjoyed making this one. I read this in a book given to me by my nephew Mihir. Preparations: Cardpaper, Cardpaper / shiny paper strips, foam, regular punch for round dots, stickers for eyes / googly eyes, scissors, glue and some green strips for foliage or any printed picyure …
Hi all,On Makar Sankranti, it is a custom to fly kites. We made some simple kites and used them to add a “high” to our tilgool packets for Aruja’s friends.We used available printed paper, scissors, cello tape, any small pieces of glitter paper ( chocolate wrap ), pieces of satin ribbon, plastic bows available on …
Hi, Christmas is round the corner and ideas are rolling in my head. How many of them I will finally achieve is yet to be seen : ) Here’s a simple idea for which I spent about 10 mins and it worked very well. The candle light on my dining table looked great. See the …
Hi, This post comes right after the “Gems” Rangoli post (artificial gems, mind you :o) as again I have used the remaining gems this time on paper. See the effect on different surfaces. I loved these. 1. Two greeting cards on simple printed paper. 2. Flowers on any handmade envelope 3. Tree …
Hi All,This Diwali, me and my neighbour decided to make homemade rangoli. We made Rangoli with gems (artificial gems, mind you :o) on acryllic sheets. Here is what we could achieve. This was all we could achieve during diwali. One weekend after Diwali, I tried my hand with the remaining gems. I used the different …
Hi, The same “ingredients” are needed as specified in my last post. Heart shaped punches used here. I generally love bright colors like the ones in the previous post. So, here, I tried my hand with pastel shades. The blue card has not come out exactly like I hoped for but nevertheless I think “not …
Hi, In my search for owl images, I came upon these very cute owls made by someone else. I picked up that idea and tried it myself. Here is the result. The owls are made from “pillow” box. In addition, we only needed some colored paper and white stickers for eyes.The pillow box was available …
Check out the spiders, snails, tortoise and the various shapes. This was at the start. Now that clay and me, we have got introduced, planning for more Clay fun. For a later post ; )
Hi, I started out with just the idea of making an owl. I love the 3D stickers we get nowadays so I cut out the shapes and pasted them on using double sided tape to get the 3D sticker effect. So quickly checked out the images on google n started. Once I made my simple …