Priyanka Shashi: 2019

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Christmas Artist Trading Cards

Hi my crafty friends

I created so much on Christmas stuff but kids holidays kept me busy around them and couldn't get time to post my creations. I created these small wonders with my Faber Castell watercolour pencils.

I have worked in layers in these ATC cards. After cutting the correct size paper I coloured my hand drawn images with watercolour pencils. After working on bling theme I wanted to give it a vintage look, so I used my script stamp roughly here and there in the background.

For adding the sentiment I used my old classic wooden stamp set. I have distressed the edges of sentiment and image layer of card to increase vintage look and have pasted the image layer on heavy card stock of red colour.

I am Playing with

1. CraftTangles December Challenge - Christmas

2. Lets Create Challenges #154

3. Creative Inspirations December Challenge - Festive Fun

4. HLS December Christmas Challenge

5. HLS December Watercolour Challenge

6. Dare2bartzy December Challenge - holiday-fun

7. http://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/2019/12/cic485-gerda-steiner-designs.html

8.https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2019/12/mlccb-17-december-anything-christmas.html

Best Wishes from OWL of US

Hi friends,

Today I am sharing my new watercolour multi layered card giving best wishes for the New Year 2020 from OWL of us 😀😀😀

I started with stamping the cute little family on heavy card stock with black Ranger Archival waterproof ink pad. I then did water colouring with my watercolour cake paints.

After finishing water colouring I stamped the sentiment from same owl clear stamp set. In the background also I took a textured white cardstock from Little Birdie and again coloured it in blue with watercolour paint. Then I added heart stamp from my classic wooden stamp set to create more interest in background.

While compiling all the layers on card base I added a paper doily to create some contrast and dimension. The owl stamp is lovely and the sentiment is just suiting it. Thanks for looking it. Hope you will have a great year ahead.

I am entering my card in -

1. Take It Make It Challenge - Craft Stamper

2. HLS December Watercolour Challenge

3. https://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2019/12/cas-challenge-december.html

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Christmas ATC

Hello my crafty friends

Merry Christmas!

In Christmas there is so much of BLING!

With all my busy schedule of painting, crafting and decorating Christmas trees...I enjoyed making these Christmas ATCs based on BLING theme. I found it very easy and appealing to work on this theme. It was completely fun to create these ATCs.

For creating these wonderful ATC I have used heavy card stock and I have coloured my hand drawn images with Artline Brush Markers. I did some stencilling in the background with light blue and white colours to give the feel on snow in winters. To bring bling in my project I added white sparkle dust in figures and blue mix sequins from Craft Bug in the background.

Hope I have done justice with the theme which I feel absolutely yes. And I am just finding them adorable and my kids loved them so much that they asked me to put them on Christmas tree. If you also like it leave some love and comments. Thank you for stopping by.

I am Playing with

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Decoupage Bottle Art Workshop

This was my first time workshop with wonderful ladies. All the participants were so enthusiastic and creative. They adorned their bottles beautifully to turn the empty glass bottles in attractive home decor piece.

I want to enable all the participants of my workshop to recreate the bottles again by their own. So here I will tell the complete ‘workshop tale’ with easy steps of Decoupage Bottle Art and a check list of materials at the end.

Here we go....

Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and other decorative elements.

1. Prepare the bottle

Started with preparing the bottles by cleaning them with thinners. ‘Hot water’ was the safeguard for us to speed up the process of removing paper stickers and the remains of glue or paper we wiped off with damped cloth in ‘enamel thinner’.

*Enamel thinner is oil based, so after its usage remember to wash the bottle with dish washing soap and wipe it dry with clean cloth.

2. Cover the bottle with White Gesso

As soon as the bottle was ready to work on the participants made them ‘white fairies’ by putting two base coats of ‘white gesso’ with foam dabbers.

3. Cut out the Decoupage Napkin

All the participants selected decoupage napkins of their own choice and cut the wanted images out of it. For that again the ‘water’ was the trick – used a detail brush with clean water to outline the wanted images and pulled away the extra part gently with hands. It was easy peasy lemon squeezy….😀😀

4. Pasting the Napkin

Before beginning we removed back layers of napkin which is very important step. Ensuring the place of the napkin design on bottle we started to paste it by putting mod podge (not very thick) on the bottle surface. Napkin design needed to be pressed out gently either with fingers or with brush from middle to out to make it wrinkle free. Pressure of your brush should not be rough as you will tear your napkin.

5. Apply Mod Podge Layer

The participant applied one thin layer of mod podge over napkin images pasted on the bottle to give a secure coat.

6. Adding Painting Effects

Now we added tints and gradients of one or more colours to add painting effects specially at the top and bottom of the bottle. This also had to be done with foam dabbers/sponges.

*Always try not to add colours too near to napkin designs. If mistakenly colour goes in the napkin design wipe it with damp cloth immediately.

For special writing effect we used script stamp.

7. Varnishing the Bottle

When all the participants were happy with the final look of painting and stamping effect they did 2 to 3 layers of clear varnish to secure the art work and make it waterproof.

8. Adding Embellishments

After finishing all the cutting, pasting, painting and varnishing process, we decorated the bottles with some simple things like jute rope, ribbons, beads, flowers and butterflies to make it more attractive.

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