Boy kissing a girl wall hanger!!

Wall hangers with a beautiful romancing couple will always 

find a place in everyone's home. Last year,

with shilpakar clay I worked on a picture of a boy holding a rose and kissing a girl

 on a bright sunny day!!

It came out well with the match sticks around the art and wanted to gift it to someone special...

And yes I gifted it to my dearest sister as her birthday present :)!!

She was surprised to see the gift and happily hung on the wall of her home :) !!

Thank you Vandhana!!

Quilled Fruity Clock !!

How interesting would it be to recycle the CD and match sticks?

Yeah I enjoyed recycling them into a wonderful craft!!

More fun was to quill the fruits and putting them altogether and making a clock!!

Yes, the quilled fruity clock!! How beautiful isn't it?

For our kitchen, on the refrigerator!!

The quilled grapes...

The quilled orange slice....

The quilled cherries...

The quilled bananas...

The quilled strawberry..

The quilled raspberry...

The closeup view of the dial embellished with stones...

I love the seconds hand with those white stones :)

Miniature craft!!

A great gifting idea to the kids/pet lovers !!

Match sticks are used to create the base.

Artificial leaves and the lovebird make the craft lively!!

I gifted this to a kid long back for her birthday.

Kids Summer Projects :: Pista Shell Photoframe!

Hey kids! Are you ready to do another photoframe?

Here it is.. Collect a few pista shells, funny pictures, varnish sheets, a cardboard,

a passport size photograph, paint (color choice is yours) and glue.

Fix the pista shells as a border of the frame and in the middle paste the funny pictures.

Leave a little space for the photograph.

 Just enjoy doing this kids! :)



Kids summer projects:: Underworld Joy Photoframe!

Photographs give us lasting memories..

It would be fun to create a handamade photoframe for an everlasting photograph!

I helped my niece doing this Underworld Joy Photoframe and she enjoyed a lot doing this !!

All you need are cardboard, white sheet, sea shells (cleaned and dried), glue, satin ribbon

( to hang on the wall), color pens, some pictures of underworld creatures and a passport size of your photograph.

Also you can collect pictures of other themes like jungle animals, sanctuary birds, fruits, etc., and

change the shape of the frame like rectangle, hexagon, etc.

Enjoy doing this handmade photoframe kids! :)

Kids summer projects :: Fun in the sun wall hanger!

Hello friends, my awaiting time has turned fruitful and we have won first prize for the poster http://creationsathome.blogspot.in/2012/03/safety-first-is-safety-always.html !!!

Thanks for all your wishes :)

With this joyful moment, I come up with some kids summer projects!!!

Here goes the fun in the sun wall hanger :)

Such a cool wall hanger... isn't it? :)

All you need are a cardboard, varnish sheets, sketches, color pencils and some paper cuttings..

Just enjoy this summer kids!!! 

Valentine's day special craft work!

Beautiful way to express your beloved "I love you" :)

Just with a few fresh roses, leaves, a kulfi pot, fabric colors and stones,

I created this miniature flower pot...

I just enjoyed doing this craft work !



Stone work on Silk Skirt

The flower design for neck...

Jamikki and stonework in hands..

The top as a whole...

The entire set of silk skirt with putta on it...

Dazzling flower pot !

Colourful flower pot !

One of my most awaited projects to say...

A step by step daily progress(it really means) at last resulted in a beautiful flowery pot :)

I am very grateful to my husband for his support to finish this :)

We gave this as a gift to one of our relatives' house warming ceremony..

A close up of the flower design with butterflies swarming...

This is a flat brush painting with fabric colours..



How to paint the flower pot:

1.The pot is first rubbed well with salt paper.

2.Then coated twice with primer. After each coating it is dried for a day time.

3.Glossy ivory paint is then coated all over the pot and dried for a day time.

4. Flat brushes of sizes 1,4,6 and 8 are used according to the needs.

5. Fabric colours are used for painting.

6. Metallic gold fabric colour is used on the neck and bottom of the pot to outline.

7. At last, the pot is coated twice with glue and gloss for a glossy look .

Lord Ganesh idol painting!

Lord Ganesh idols painted with all surface metallic colors!

Top view of the idols..

I enjoyed painting the idols with those bright colors..

One of my favorite collections :)

Cranes in fullmoon light !

Its an Anchor stitch kit embroidery!

Stone work!

Stone work on OHP sheet..
Can be kept as an embellishment on Pookalam designs or Aarathi.

Sunset - Anchor Stitch Kit

Sweet little home :)

Pink ..pink.. and pink.. Its the Pink Somethings Challenge from Stamp something!!

I love to participate in this pinkish challenge ! 

And here is my pretty pink card with a sweet little home, a little girl holding flowers and 

a few beautiful flowers at the corner of the card :)

Well!! I used..

• Dark pink chart paper for card
• Post-it papers for flowers, butterfly, house and "Sweet Home" tag
• Match sticks colored with sketch pens for fence
• Golden thermacoal balls as an embellishment
• Color pencils to color the little girl

I took this snap in sunlight and the shadows have added a punch!
It was fun to do such a card and many thanks to Stamp Something organisers for offering such wonderful opportunities!!

World House Sparrow Day!

I am contributing the below story and the bird feeder to Cute Sparrow Crafts Event '10 by Shama Nagarajan in her blog My Handicrafts this day March 20, World House Sparrow Day.

A bedtime story for kids:

Characters: Sparrow (Chintu)
                   Pigeon (Bantu)

                Once there were two pals Chintu and Bantu. They play, sing, dance and eat together. They stayed together in a tree hole. Bantu often listens to Chintu's songs and they enjoyed their peaceful living.
                One day, a man came with a chainsaw ( a machine used to fell trees) and fell the tree in which Chintu and Bantu stayed. They both flew away from the tree and got separated for long days. Chintu and Bantu searched for each other and finally met one fine day.

Bantu: Hi Chintu, How are you? Glad to see you here after a very long time! Where have you been all these days?

Chintu: I am fine Bantu! Yes, as today is World House Sparrow day, I came here to this city. How are you Bantu?

Bantu: I am doing good Chintu. How did you get an idea to come to this city?

Chintu: I can find some food here only on this day and people will take care on us rather than threatening us. Moreover, I donot like the city traffic sound and pollution. There are no green trees found here for protection. I am scared about the people in cities. Anyways, Bantu I am happy to see you again!

Bantu: Hey Chintu, don't worry ..there are some friendly people too who provide us food and shelter. Come, lets share some grains from this bird-feeder.

Chintu: Nice Bantu.. If our Earth is taken care with trees grown everywhere and given importance to all living beings, it will become a paradise! Hoping to get those days Bantu!

Bantu: Sure Chintu.. Some kind-hearted people will save us and we can become free from traffic and pollution one day! Come on chintu.. Cheer up! Please sing a song for me..

Both Chintu and Bantu happily shared their grains from the bird-feeder and had a nice day with chintu singing and Bantu dancing and all plays!
Save the Earth by growing more trees, give shelter to all living beings and get rid of the pollution.

The Bird -feeder: 

Items required to do the bird-feeder:

1. A plastic bottle
2. Two ice -cream sticks
3. Food grains
4. Rope to tie

How to do the Bird-feeder:

 1. Make holes in the plastic bottle for the ice-cream sticks to get inserted as in the picture.
    The birds can stand on it.

 2. Put a hole just above the ice cream stick .
    The hole should be big enough for the birds to feed on grains.

 3. Fill the bottle with food grains.

 4. Tie the bird-feeder with a rope where birds can comfortably feed on the grains.

Crafty towel hangers..

 

Pretty knots make beautiful towel hangers :)

Sweet Puppy !!!!

I love puppies..and I like this work very much :)

 

Its an Anchor stitch kit craft work started by my brother in his school days and ended by me now ;) 

Flower basket with plastic craft wire

 

Items Required:

1. Plastic craft wire of any color
2. Readymade flowers and leaves
3. Soap bar
4. White sheet
5. Bell pins
6. Pink beads

 

How to do the flower basket:

1. Wrap the white sheet on the soap bar and fix it.
2. With the plastic craft wire, put 8s as shown in the picture and fix it with bell pins.
3. Beads are added to the head of bell pins before inserting. It looks more decorative.
4. Continue till the whole soap bar is covered.
5. For the basket's handle, tear the wire into two thin wires and keep folding them in such a way that they form 90 degrees for each fold.
6. Pin them up with bell pins at the ends.

My childhood days' works

A gift given to my brother...

A pencil drawing..

 

Guru - Sishya painting

 

Paper roses!

Items required:

     1. Orange and green colour Crepe papers

     2. String

     3. Artificial leaves

     4. Synthetic gum

     5. Scissors

     6. Flower vase

How to do paper roses:

Reference pattern: http://foldingtrees.com/2009/04/guest-feature-crepe-paper-roses