Art Journal #17 – Everyday things

Today’s post is a journal page I did way back in july when I had a lot of green leaves fall in the apartment’s parking lot. I love these wonderfully shaped leaves and wanted to preserve them in the form of a journal layout. Painted the page a light blue using acrylic colours. Did a lot…

Gift bags for Thanksgiving

Its that time of year when you are busy making gifts and cards for your loved ones near and far.Yet another reason for crafters to spend more time creating! 🙂 I made a paper bag using regular paper and glued a fall themed pattern paper over it. Also used some pumpkin cut outs, sentiments and…

Sunflower bookmark

Below is a bookmark made using Lawn Fawn®’s Our Friendship grows and Claire’s ABC stamp sets! This makes an entry into Anything But A Card challenge from Sweet stampin. Thanks! 🙂

Art Journal #15 – Ancestry

When I got the Gothic Tim Holtz® stencil, it reminded me of the wall paper pattern common  during the Victorian era. Not giving it much thought, I painted the pages a lemon yellow using acrylic colors and stenciled the pattern using 3 shades of Distress inks in a random manner. It looked pretty but I did not have…

Card #5 – Smile!

Below is another card I made last evening.. Supplies used: 1.White 110 lb Neenah® Bright white Cardstock 2. Lawn fawn® ‘Just for you’ stamp set – coffee cup, saucer and ‘smile’ 3. The Crafters Workshop® stencil for the background. 4. Tim Holtz® Distress inks – Black soot (for the border), Peacock feather and Mustard seed (for the background)….

Art journal#2 – Dachau tour inspired

I have a habit of collecting every single piece of paper from a trip – be it brochure, train and plane tickets, boarding pass and even receipts. While looking through this box of keepsakes, I came across the leaflet for a tour of Dachau Concentration camp during our trip to Munich. The visit was highly informative, taking us…