Butterflies & Mushrooms

Hi there...today I have come with a simple and beautiful idea. After my experiment with salt dough few month back, I got crayola clay from a craft store. I started the work thinking that I would make a bigger piece of Maa Durga this time but ended up making cute tiny mushrooms, birdies and other trinkets. Later, I saw this delightful project in a blog. I really like the simplicity of it so I made these beautiful butterfly pieces using crayola clay as base. With some branches and butterfly cut outs the project was done. This project is real simple. You can go to this link to see the inspiration behind this project. Here is my version of it. Hope you like it.

Cute mushroom...I painted them with acrylic color..

base is made crayola clay, dented with a straw to give it a nice texture....twigs are inserted on it.. after 2-3 days it turned solid (i used air dry clay) and twigs were fixed on the base...



some butterfly prints glued to it and job done!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Magic of Red

Would it be wrong if I call them red beauties? Lovely red mixed with little dash of black.. that's the magic of poppies. Beauty of flowers is magical even if it is made with paper. That's what I did again... yep I made more flowers using party streamers and craft paper. Hope you are not getting tired of seeing more flowery post here. So here comes the first project of this year...lovely poppies in a recycled holder.

Holder is made with cardboard & toilet roll tubes and painted with grey color.

Flowers are neatly arranged by my little one as you can see here....who thinks he should be doing everything that his mother says No to.

And little goodies that belong to his sister got their right place. Love that cute turtle erasers.

Have a nice weekend everyone, do checkout my post next week. It won't be flowers again I promise :)

A Happy Start !

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.!!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy Colors

Hello dear friends... some of you may have already noticed that I am crazy for paper flowers. I am really addicted to flower making these days. It makes me happy so I keep picking new flower related projects....today I am showing the wreath I made few days back. I call it my Happy Wreath...why? because it remind me of lovely spring days in this cold November. With lovely red flowers and cute butterflies it look very refreshing. I tried to capture the project with pictures....have a look...

Base of the wreath is made with dry fallen branches from my front yard....gathered and taped with the green floral tape.

Flowers are made with the party streamer using the same method I used here.






Cute birdies out of cardboard waste...it already had a lovely blue color on the other side...I just cut the shape and little drawing with black sharpie.






Tweet Tweet birdies...







Happy Weekend to you all !!

Recycle Craft

Recycle Time!!...It's really very satisfying to create something beautiful out of waste....that what my this week project is all about. Last weekend I made these two lovely pieces out of empty wine bottle and a rice sack. I simply cut and glued the sack to the bottle and made some decorative design on top with some ribbon and string leftover. I got some slender branches from outside and glued paper flowers to it...its all done without spending anything..... I have some more recycling ideas coming up soon...but for now take a look at these pretty pieces......

Close view of the designs..

Hope you like it. Have a great weekend everyone.

Paper Roses

Lovely roses....right ! I made them this diwali using party streamers. This is such an amazing result from simple party streamer. I saw some crepe paper flower tutorial in You Tube. I had some party streamer handy so I gave it a try.....I couldn't stop after one as you can see in the picture.... then I tried the same thing with the paper towel and it looked lovely too. Here is the link to the tutorial. There are many other good tutorial in You Tube. Take a look at these beauties :)

This is a paper towel rose....I colored a sheet first ...then cut the strips after it dried....folded it in shape....

Have a happy weekend everyone..

Diwali ki Subhkamnaye

**Happy Diwali to all my blogger friends. May this Diwali brings happiness, health and prosperity to your life.**

Enjoy your Diwali and have a happy weekend!!