Wedding gifts packing

One of the many rituals of the wedding functions, one ceremony involves gifting clothes to the groom and his immediate family.
Now since it is a indian and tgat too a punjabi wedding...the clothea have to be packed in a fancy manner.. :-)

And if you have some crafty fingers at home., then there is nothing to stop you.
It was sister's idea and I just followed the suit with different colors and embellishments. Boxes are made from scratch using cardboard base and thermocol sides.
Base is covered with silver/golden glazed paper sheets and sides are painted using fevicryl fabric colours. Then the boxes are decorated with laces and embellishments.
After putting the cloths inside, we packed them with transparent plastic covers sheets.

This is what we did till 5 in the morning...!!

DIY Rakhi - tutorial

Hello friends,

With one of the main festivals approaching next month i.e. Rakshabandhan, I was keen to share the method to make beautiful handmade rakhis.

It is super easy and an altogether different feeling to tie a hand made rakhi on your brother's wrist...which he is going to flaunt for quiet sometime...:-)

We, at our home have been making rakhis for...well...as long as I remember...

Material Required:
- Satin thread (kacha resham)
- Glue
- Ribbons
- Laces
- Embellishments (lots of)

Here is the picture depicting procedure to create base of resham:

Steps: 
1. Wind the thread over a small bangle or between your fore fingers to create base of desired size.
2. Tie it tightly from the middle (as shown in picture 1). After tying, cute the side loops and remove the bangle. 
3. Turn it around from the cut-sides to give it a round shape and cover the knot in the middle (I guess, picture 3 shows it better than words)
4. Use an old toothbrush to smooth the resham threads, the task will be mush faster and efficient if you are using kachha resham (highly recommended)
5. After brushing, trim it from the sides to give a perfect round shape.
6. Last step is to pressed in a huge book to take the proper shape. We used to keep them overnight.

Later on, use variety of embellishments and decorate the resham bases with different designs, let your creativity do the magic...!!

Stick on the ribbon/thread on the back. Remember to stick a small piece of paper on the back side over the ribbon/thread to secure it firmly to the base.

Here are the pictures of final creations-

 

 

ETA: Sharing this on Artsy Crafts July 2014 Rakhi special challenge

http://www.artsycraftsymom.com/artsy-craftsy-july-2014-challenge-rakhi-special/

Stone painting

Our recent trip to lonavala filled our baskets with some more memories, lots of beautiful pictures, and a few stones.
Yes stones..!!
When we were going to bushy dam, i observed plenty of round shaped stones lying there in abundance...looking at them i remembered the idea of stone painting.
So as we used to do in our childhood days...i called the kiddo..and both of us were busy collecting the perfect shape n sized stones.
After coming back on saturday eve..we did this on sunday afternoon..
Stones washed, dried, coated with pearl colors, and worked upon with fevicryl 3d outliner.
Simple stones converted to beautiful paper weights.

And this last one with sun and smileys (partially done by little one) went to his teacher as a gift on first day of new session :-)

Paper Bow - Origami

I was just browsing the internet for craft ideas using old magazine papers, when I came across Helen's blog.
She has shown awesome tutorial for creating paper bows...it is easy and very well described.
Having already tried paper bags, this was the definitely immediate thing to try.
So, Here is my take on the paper bows:

 

 

 

Card with pencil shavings..

This is a real simple craft which is done using the shavings of pencils.

It is a good activity to do with little older kids who can handle the delicate pencil shavings.

I guess, almost all of us would have done it during our childhood days.
It is simple, easy to make, & with minimal craft supplies. You just need a cardstock, glue, some colourful pencils and a sharpener.

Here is our attempt.

Word Art

I saw this sometime ago in one of the MAD sort of shows in one of the kid's channels...

The random fonts and sizes of letters gives it a very different kind of look.

I liked the work...and hence decided to give it a try.

So it started with cutting different letters from different newspapers. And then sticking them randomly on a sheet of cardstock.

We also created two cards for father's day..that is today. :-)

I am thinking about using this word art sheet for some other project..like may be a pen holder..any suggestions from the talented vrafters are always welcome...:-)

Ghadoli decoration

"No event in our home can be over without any crafty thing done"
These were the words of bride-to-be, that is my youngest sis. So we rolled up our sleeves and started the work.
The wedding took place last month..because of overload of work..I couldn't click many pics of the work we did. Here is the one activity we did earlier as well.
As a tradition of ghadoli in our community, the sis in law carries a small pot on her head, fills it with water from the nearest temple and bride uses this water to bath after haldi ceremony. The whole lot of ladies and kids march on the way to temple, dancing to the beats of punjabi dhol.
So sharing the pic of a simple steel matki decorated with maroon velvet cloth, laces, and embellishment.

Me and the little one did the task. He was either putting glue on pot or on his fingers...and was helping me with selecting the embellishments and laces.. :-)