tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88694609152149776112024-03-21T21:02:10.751-07:00Handmade Crafts With LoveCrafts have become my hobbies, my passion.Sharing my passion with you all.PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-27030230702451209762017-12-28T17:20:00.001-08:002017-12-28T17:20:34.550-08:00Playing catchup on jewelry updatesWhile I am on blogger, I figured I will also post about the jewelry that I had made in the past, but never updated the blog. Thanks to my gal friends who were visiting me and motivated me to make these earring for them. So gave me a reason to make them.<br />
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-554213006582405742017-12-28T17:15:00.001-08:002017-12-28T17:15:26.767-08:00Acrylic Painting of PagodaI know its been a few years that I have posted on this blog. I have not spent much time for hobbies lately. Even if I did, I have not taken the time to post it here on the blog.<br />
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I realized the importance of taking the time for myself to spend on my hobbies, given how crazy life gets. So I joined an acrylic painting class from someone who teaches at her home. I took a very long time to finish this, as I only do this every Sunday for 90 mins and then totally forget about it during the entire week. But fortunately I found a teacher who has a lot of patience. So I managed to finish at least one painting this year. I hope to continue the journey and build on my painting skills in the new year.<br />
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-3294302745429146742014-07-15T23:19:00.000-07:002014-07-15T23:19:55.986-07:00Birthday cards with JenniferYesterday Jennifer had another one of her card making meetups. She had 3 cards along with envelopes on the agenda. I had such a good time making these cards. I felt like I have been doing this forever though I haven't made any cards since a long time. Here are the cards we made.<br />
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-32978059700662513092014-05-14T23:05:00.002-07:002014-05-14T23:05:52.155-07:00Took some time to make few cardsIt's been about a month almost that I made these cards, but I forgot to post them here. I went to one of the card making meetups I used to attend, after a long time. The format was, make as many cards as you want in a certain and pay few bucks per card. So I went almost towards the end of the session after my long bike ride. But still got to make about 5 cards that I really loved. I can't tell you how good it feels to get back to some creative projects. It takes my mind off of all the shit that goes on in life and just think creatively. On top of it, I love it when the cards come out good. Here are the cards I made.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">My love for pearls only grows by the day. They look so simple but elegant. It's so easy to get a great look without all the bling. I think you can just carry off a simple pearl strand necklace with anything you wear. </span></div>
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This time I got a chance to make a three strand pearl necklace. It's a custom order from my friend P. Thanks to my friend for giving me an opportunity to get back to jewelry making and show my love for pearls. It took a long time for me to do all the three strands with pearl knotting.</div>
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With pearl knotting, you have to be very careful to get the knot really close to the pearl, otherwise it doesn't look good. So I had to pay a lot of attention to each knot. It so happened that I made all three strands and then hooked up to the clip and at the end, one of the hooks broke. So I had to cut each pearl out of the knotted necklace, and then knot them all again. Glad at least it was just one strand. But look at the grand look it gets. I hope the friend I made it for, likes it because I love it. </div>
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PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-82708124146393084712013-12-09T22:19:00.001-08:002013-12-09T22:22:16.836-08:00A Christmas ornament I have not been active on crafts department in the recent times but I have been doing small projects here and there like trying acrylics and some cards here and there. But today's post is about something different. A Christmas ornament made by glassblowing. I tried this last year and I was amazed at how beautiful it looked and so I did it again. Last year I made a blue ornament. <br />
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I wanted to do more like a glass blown vase or a display piece but it was getting too expensive to try any such thing in the studio. So this year again I went back to make a Christmas ornament that I wanted to gift a dear friend of mine. In contrast to last year, I picked a red color this time. I love this bright colored one as it is more Holiday-ish and signifies fall colors.<br />
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-43542230269791864852013-09-18T00:39:00.001-07:002013-09-18T00:39:36.410-07:00Baking Artisan breads - Croissants, Brioches and DanishesAfter a long break, I decided to restart my blogging experience. While I was thinking what to write, I found a good reason to write - not about arts and crafts but about a similar interest I keep - cooking/baking. I always wanted to learn the technique of baking french pastries and finally got a chance to learn.<br />
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I shall say it is an elaborate process. We started this process yesterday by mixing the dough and then layering it with butter. And several steps of folding these two layers and then freezing the dough. After repeating 3 times, I had to leave it overnight. The dough has a different mixing process for croissants and brioches. For brioches we had to mix all other ingredients first and after a window test, we had to add butter bit by bit while for croissants everything was added at once and mixed in the stand mixer. Few things I learnt was weighing ingredients was very important to the accuracy of +/-2 gms. Also freezing the dough between each fold was important too so yeast can work its magic uniformly.<br />
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Window test was a process of spreading the dough until you can see through the dough without making holes while doing that. If you are able to do that, that means the dough reached gluten development stage. Then there are some new terms I learnt too. One is proofing - which is keeping the croissants in a hot temperature about 80F proofing device to let the dough rise. If you do not have that, one option is to put the croissants in an oven with light on and put some hot water at the bottom of the oven.<br />
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Those are the croissants and danishes before they went into the oven. Look at the fancy shapes we made for danishes. Pinwheeel shapes, diamond shapes and chocolate filled danishes etc. We had a lot of fun making these. The dough is very much the same as croissants. Danishes are much more forgiving than croissants however. Brioches had more moist and silky elastic kinda texture, which was different from croissants.</div>
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Some of the other students used peaches blueberries as toppings on danish along with pastry cream while I used pastry cream due to my fruit allergies. The pastry cream, I learnt is nothing but custard we make at home but made from corn starch and eggs instead of ready made custard mix. </div>
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<span id="goog_938679159"></span><span id="goog_938679160"></span>Look at all the golden brown french pastries. They are just melting in my mouth. This is how I packed and brought them home. Yummy !! We requested our teacher to teach us some macaroons next spring. Hoping to learn some of those techniques too.PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-7566299850013896652013-04-30T22:47:00.001-07:002013-04-30T22:47:49.292-07:00The figurine experimentI call it the figurine experiment. Today in my acrylics class, we were asked to paint a figurine. I have added a photo of the figurine we were asked to paint and the painting I ended up with. It's not anywhere close, but I am just happy, there is at least a human face that is visible in the painting. :)<br />
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This painting is a step towards painting real models. In two weeks time, we are going to get real models and we will have to paint them. So today, we tried to accentuate different shades/shadows in the figurine by using monochromatic black and white colors. The different shades from whites to darks are coming just from mixing blacks and whites in different ratios.Hopefully it is a good start towards getting better at painting figurines. It almost looks like carbon drawing but this is all acrylics. Interesting, isn't it? </div>
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I love, love, love flowers, and roses are my favorite. I love spring because it is so colorful with all the blooming flora. So I try to use flowers in my cards, my jewelry, my painting even. :) So when I started learning Acrylics with Thea Peterson from Kirkland Arts Center, after the first class, I went to Michael's store to see if there are any books that teach you to paint and I found one with pictures of flowers, though not many instructions. I picked up that book and showed it to my teacher and asked her, if I can learn to paint some of the flowers from that book some day. She said, let's do it right now, and she asked me, what is your favorite flower. I said Rose, she turns to this page where this flower is and says, this is complicated but we will do it. And it took me almost three classes to actually get all the intricate details. This was after second class I believe. I still have to take a picture of the one after third, which does not look that different but it adds a little bit more details to the middle area where all the petals looks merged in this picture. But before I forget, I wanted to post this. As always, your feedback /comments are much appreciated. Btw, I have one more that I did this week, painting an apple, that looks like a kid trying hands on painting. Wait for it for some good laughs. :)</div>
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-24600373467582887952013-04-14T13:12:00.000-07:002013-04-14T13:12:00.179-07:00Jewelry Booth at Geetanjali EventHi everyone, A warm hello to you all.<br />
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It's been a while I posted anything in this space. So I figured what better chance to post again. I had an opportunity to put up a Jewelry booth at an Asha organized musical performance show, Geetanjali.<br />
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I had setup a booth last year but for handmade cards, not jewelry with two other friends and much better pros at card making Chaitali and Pooja. I think we raised more money from cards than my jewelry, but no amount is insignificant in my mind, when it comes to donations and fundraising for a good cause. We had a lot of roadblocks yesterday, started with power outage for two hours which delayed the show and people were not to excited to look at the jewelry in the dark while being confused about whether the show will happen or not. But I have to say, there was an old-aged couple who came by and the uncle switched on his flashlight keychain while his wife looked at the jewelry and I switched on my cell phone flashlight. She actually bought 3 sets and convinced another lady to buy earrings. This simple gesture had warmed my heart and made my day. That was the biggest sale of about $65 I made. Other than that there are few folks who bought some earrings. But that was about it.<br />
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Usually folks stop by during the dinner break to checkout what's there but given the power failure, there was no break. And volunteers left and my role changed from selling jewelry to helping in different roles as I am also an active volunteer with Asha. There was so much confusion all around, lack of volunteers had made it even more difficult but I am glad everything was okay at the end. Whoever was there helped their best to move things forward and make the event succeed. Besides all the obstacles, the show was a great success, though my jewelry was not so much of a success. But hey, I am hoping there will be lot more opportunities like this.PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-80966495174208177912013-02-10T22:25:00.001-08:002013-02-10T22:25:38.759-08:00VioletsThe next one in the line of painting flowers in acrylics is violets.<br />
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-1747913404934451802013-02-10T18:44:00.002-08:002013-02-10T18:44:19.771-08:00PoppiesHere is my try of painting Poppies using acrylics.I think it looks like a kid's painting :) <div>
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PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-65833815662148687962013-02-10T17:17:00.000-08:002013-02-10T17:17:03.870-08:00Valentine's sweet treatsToday I met with my fellow card makers to make some cool cards and sweet treats boxes for valentine's day. I found the theme a little funny. I will tell you why. First of all, I don't have a valentine in my life, so making these cards made me think, I am getting ready for a valentine, just in case, I get lucky before valentine's day. :) First we made a box for chocolates as shown below.<br />
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I thought it was funny because, as they say in India, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, as most Indian guys are foodies. Not sure about other nationalities, so do not want to generalize here. The fact that we added some candy to the mix made me laugh. At least that way guys will look at the card, isn't it?If that's not enough, we made more sweet treat bags like above. If you cant make sense of it, its a little candy bag with well decorated Hershey's on either side.</div>
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If you think it's indirect to give a box of sweet candy to the guy, I also made a card that you see vaguely in the pack above. See, don't you think, I am getting ready to ask someone ? Alas, if only there was a guy to ask that question, isn't it?</div>
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PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-4432442500331990232013-02-09T21:49:00.000-08:002013-02-09T21:49:00.506-08:00Cosmos Cosmos are annual flowers very similar to dahlias. Well, I just got to know that fact now. :) I was looking for flowers to paint in acrylics and I found this one with different shades and gradients of yellows and oranges that caught my eye. Hence I decided to try it out while I am still in the art mode today. This view is from the back side/bottom of the flower where you can see the sepals and the petals. This I thought was a step forward from my flowers earlier this week. I love all kinds of flowers because of their cheeful colors that bring a smile on my face any day. The reason why I love spring too. :)<br />
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The next target is my favorite animal - the horse. I love horses since I was a kid and I read stories like Black beauty and Circus. The circus was my favorite story book when I was a kid. The story was about a girl who works in a circus and takes care of a horse and the horse gets lost and she goes searching etc. I vaguely remember the story now but I still love horses. :) Here is an attempt. I didn't get the hairs right but I hope it looks like a horse. For me it does, though I can do a much better job at it. :)<br />
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-19325794134813443372013-02-09T12:00:00.000-08:002013-02-09T12:00:01.366-08:00My first charcoal drawingAs I had mentioned in my earlier post, this year is about exploring different forms of art and figuring out what I like best. For any form of painting, you know you need to know some drawing skills. So I thought I will do a basic drawing workshop. I did just that last Saturday. They thought us drawing basic shapes, some shadowing techniques etc. But the part that I was interested in, drawing faces, figures etc. is something we did not even get to. I wanted to practice a little bit of that. So this morning I got up and I was in the mood to draw.<br />
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I did not know where to start. So I picked the easiest. There was an image of a girl as a cover of newsprint journal we use for drawing. I did not get the face exactly right and I did not even get the facial features right. But hey, who gets it right the first time right? This just means I need to practice a lot more. :)<br />
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PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-26897468082873597532013-02-07T23:02:00.001-08:002013-02-09T17:37:05.320-08:00Trying my hand on acrylicsAs you probably know by now, any thing related to arts or crafts catches my interest. I always wanted to learn some form of art since I was a kid. Since I already know I am really bad at performing arts like dance, music, acting, etc. fine arts always caught my interest. But I never had the confidence to try it.The last one year I had indulged so much into crafts, that now I got some confidence.<br />
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This year, I decided to try something new as always. So I joined an acrylics class in the neighborhood. I have been going for past three weeks but the last two weeks has been just basics that I didn't even get to paint much. Finally this week, we got our hands dirty. We were asked to paint a vase that was kept in front of us all. Here is what I had made. As you can see, one thing I realized is that not everyone can be an artist, clearly not me. :) But wanted to share my little achievement. :) This looks like a kid's painting but I guess it is one of my first paintings. :)<br />
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Today I went to one of the Paint and Sip events and managed to paint another acrylic art. This also is pretty naive, but two paintings in a week is something that i have never done and hence I am happy about it. Hopefully will soon learn to paint different shades and shadows so they look real and 3D instead of this flat 2D paintings. :)</div>
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PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-51625894568010053862012-12-09T22:08:00.002-08:002012-12-27T23:21:48.410-08:00Rings GaloreThis weekend was my Rings workshop. I went back to silver-smithing for a weekend. The workshop included two rings - one band ring and one ring with a stone in a bezel. I figured I will make the two rings for me and my future husband. :) But I ended up making four, figure that. :) I made three band rings and one bezel stone ring.<br />
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Disclaimer : If you are my future husband reading this blog, sorry my dear, but all the rings are the size of my fingers. But to be fair, it's your mistake that you haven't met me yet. :) Today, "Haven't met you yet" and "Put a ring on it" songs were on my mind.:). Guess what, I just thought, like Cinderella's story, maybe I will find my husband by the size of his finger that would fit one of these rings. :)<br />
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Today's ring was more interesting. I picked a blue died agate stone for my ring and a scalloped bezel to for my ring. It followed similar principles as the bezel in the pendant I made last time. Still sawing was my most difficult task of the day but I guess I am getting better. I did manage to not break any saw blades this time around and I got it more precise too. :) The challenge was the band attached to the ring than the bezel itself.<br />
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You might be wondering how the first ring is closed, when I left it open yesterday. I couldn't give up on that ring. I annealed it today and then uncompressed it again, soldered and then formed it into a band. Of course all these rings have a nice finish as I spent a huge amount of time, sanding them, buffing them, oxidizing them again and again till they got the finish I wanted. I didn't know why one would oxidize a silver ring until now. You can see the silver band I made yesterday and you can see why. It is to make the pattern be more obvious. Otherwise the stars would blend into the shine of the sliver. I was so excited, I wanted to keep on going but it had to come to an end. Hopefully I will do something more in the new year. :) Till then, have fun my friends.<br />
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-57438573034847766932012-10-28T21:46:00.000-07:002012-10-28T21:46:15.503-07:00Life as a silversmith for a weekend I have been doing a lot of beading in the recent times and I had also setup jewelry stalls at multiple events during this month of October. I felt like I was doing the same thing as a routine and I wanted to step it up a bit. So I decided to try making something from scratch, which meant I had to learn sawing, filing, soldering etc. When I searched online, I found one place which was offering Introduction to sliversmithing workshop for this weekend. I signed up for it on Friday, it was so impromptu. <div>
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They said, just come in and we will give you the materials. As promised they gave us a piece of Copper for the first day yesterday. The task for the day was to make a brooch out of copper. We cut out little shapes out of paper and stuck it to copper piece with rubber cement. I chose butterfly shape. I cut it out sawing all around and broke about 4 blades in the process. Seriously it's tough sawing these shapes. </div>
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We then had to cut out inside shapes, for which, we had to first drill a hole and saw the remaining part. Then we did embossing using metal pattern stamps as they call it. Then lifted the center, the belly of butterfly a little bit again by different embossing technique (using wood at the back). The next step was to solder the pin at the back. Even that we made from scratch.Soldering was a huge process. You have to de-oxidize it first, called flushing, then you have to apply flux, called fluxing. Then you have to put solder (there are easy, medium, hard types, you have to know the right one to pick), then use the fire to solder it to the right temperature , otherwise the metal will anneal. It took a good 8 hours to finish this piece. Then we had to put it in a tumbler (rotating shaft with moving silver/steel pieces that add shine) over night to get the shine. My least favorite part of the whole thing was sawing and the most favorite part is soldering.</div>
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Day 2 task was to make a pendant. I thought since we learnt so much yesterday, it will be relatively easier. We used fine silver and sterling silver today and a stone set in a bezel. </div>
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We used a silver strip as a bezel for the stone, cut it to just fit the stone and then soldered it. Then took a fine silver wire and then made a circle out of it and then cut it and soldered it. The first was the outer circle and then the inner bezel. We then took a silver piece and our task was to solder these pieces to the silver piece. We had to then cut the piece just by the round shape. We added some pattern to the silver piece and then added some silver dots. This whole thing took another 8 hours. We had to flush, flux, file using filer and sand paper and solder so many times till it looked decent. Attaching the dots the pendant was using sweat soldering technique. There is a silver hook we added at the back that you cannot see, that too had a different soldering technique called right angle soldering. </div>
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PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-20468978044880305072012-10-18T00:27:00.001-07:002012-10-18T00:27:49.962-07:00Thank You cards for Asha Poker eventAsha, the non-profit I volunteer for, is hosting a Poker tournament tomorrow. So I was approached by one of the volunteer to make 10 Thank You cards. Of course I did not have anything ready to go. But since it's been ages, I got a chance to make cards at home, I readily said I will make them. I had no idea what I was going to make however. :)<br />
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I tried couple of ideas but not every day, you can get creative. Especially when you have had a long day and you got back home tired, there is no way you can think straight. So I resorted to an old friend to rescue - my Silhouette Cameo. I had not even unpacked this stuff out of the boxes after I moved apartments in August. So it was a challenge to get this all working. I set it up, and browsed through some designs in online Silhouette library and liked one Thank You card template. I never used these templates before, so you can imagine that also was an experience. I downloaded the template, un-grouped all the parts as I had to print each piece on a different pattern paper. Though it meant less work on my side, it took forever to cut all these shapes for 10 cards. So waiting for all these pieces to be cut patiently was a huge task.<br />
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After that was done, I quickly put them all together. On second thought I should have used brown for the white pieces I added, but I like how it came out. Check it out and let me know what you think.<br />
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Everything else: Silhouette Cameo's magical powers :)PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-84589579048977190052012-09-24T22:28:00.001-07:002012-09-24T22:53:14.485-07:00Turquoise JewelryI made some more jewelry as I mentioned earlier, for the Give month coming up. The common theme turned out to be Turquoise. It was not planned though, but the Turquoise caught my eye this time around and I could not help but get some of those beads home. I debated for a while, should I really invest so much, as these ones were expensive. Actually all the beads I get are from a local bead store that ensures quality. I try to pick different colors as I do like to have some variety but sometimes after I come home, I realize that some of the colors I picked are pretty close. :) It's funny how your mind thinks, isn't it?<br />
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One other thing I realized is that I do like vintage jewelry, like big earrings etc. You saw some in my earlier post and I have added few more to that list. Without much further ado, here is some of the jewelry. More jewelry is in the making but whichever is done, I took pictures to upload.<br />
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<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-57190647681760076382012-09-24T22:20:00.000-07:002012-09-24T22:20:01.618-07:00September CardsHere are some cards I made this month. Some of the techniques used are dry embossing, embossing with embossing powder and emboss resist. The paper used is from Stamping Up and so are the stamps, as I made these cards at the card making meetup hosted by Stamping up demonstrator.<br />
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For embossing, used Versamark embossing ink and clear, white and black embossing powders. Besides that used Stampign Up embossing folders, framelits, ribbons, etc. Made a mix of Birthday cards, Thank You cards and a Halloween card too.<br />
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PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-64101889740734700482012-09-12T22:03:00.000-07:002012-09-12T22:05:00.747-07:00Some Jewelry from the weekendAfter a long break, last week I felt I need something positive in life. Something creative that reinforce some positive thoughts in me. So I took my stash and started making some jewelry. I also learnt to do pearl knotting and made couple of chains. Thought of sharing with you all.<br />
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Please leave me feedback to let me know how you guys like it. I am going to make some more this coming weekend. The goals is to make some jewelry for the upcoming Give campaign here. I plan to put all these up for sale and whatever money I get will be donated to Asha for Education, a non-profit organization that supports children's education and women's empowerment projects in India. I have been volunteering for this organization for the last 3 years and I do not know how much change I am bringing to people's lives but it has definitely brought changes in my life and my thinking.</div>
<br />PGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17191472064677511364noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869460915214977611.post-10176561277181391772012-07-09T15:39:00.000-07:002012-07-09T15:39:34.993-07:00Crafting after a long breakAfter a long time, this is my attempt to get back to crafting. The only way to do it was in a group setting. So I decided to go to one of the local meetups again. We made three cards and a box to keep these cards. Though I hope to get back to crafting regularly from now onwards, it might not happen for the next few weeks at least because of my move. Hope to get back to it soon. In the meanwhile, here are the cards we made.<br />
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Another weekend, that I could not go biking. So what do I do? I got the crafting therapy I needed, from the local Impress Store. They had a class called "Different Point of View" - Using 1 stamp 10 ways. So the stamp we used is the one below shown in the first image. I thought I will go in the order of complexity and list them out here. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The first one was a simple black and white combination card with just the stamp on the card front.</span></div>
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Second one: Simple Thank You card. Just stamped the card on a scrap paper and cut out the flower to use it on this card.</div>
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Third one: Stamped the image on pattern paper and cut it out.</div>
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Fourth one: Used the image as the background. Used Versamark embossing ink for this but did not emboss.</div>
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Fifth one: Stamped the image on a scrap paper and used a flower punch to cut out the shapes and colored them with orange and red Memento markers.</div>
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Sixth one: Uses a kissing technique. Inked the stamp in brown, inked tag stamp in basil color and pressed the tag stamp on top of the original stamp and then stamped it on paper here. Also used checks background.</div>
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Seventh one: This did not come out as good. But we used Stazon Ink on laminated sheet (transparency) with sticky back. After we stamped, we removed the adhesive backing and added glitter to it leaving out the edges and then stuck it to white background. I think the Stazon ink pad had too much ink and hence the smudging and maybe this stamp was not ideal for the transparency. But you get the idea.</div>
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Eighth one: We used Inchi squares here to stamp the image and used copics to color them.Then we used Mango ink for the yellow background on inchies</div>
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Ninth one: Scrunched a white sheet of paper, applied orange, blue, green inks directly from ink pad randomly leaving some white spaces. Then stamped the image using Black ink for the background. Also stamped the image on another scrap paper using versamark black ink and embossed it. Then colored it using copics, cut out the shapes and used dimensionals to lift'em up.</div>
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Tenth: Kept the best one to the last. :) Used a resist technique here. First stamped the image with versamark ink and embossed using clear embossing powder. Stamped the butterfly on a separate paper and cut out the wings and colored it yellow and green. Then stamped the same image for the center. Also stamped with the diamonds background stamp on the right top corner and the side border. Then used lavendar, mango, basil inks to sponge the background. Then added the butterfly at the last using dimensionals.</div>
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