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Instant Flower Rangoli

Today on the occasion of Pongal festival, when my friends kept sharing pictures of beautiful Rangolis and Kolams created by them in front of their houses, I really wanted to make one myself. Being in a foreign land far away from home, I didn’t have immediate access to Rangoli powders, …

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Bottle Painting and CD art

Hi Folks, When we planned to celebrate our second son’s first birthday along with Christmas party, I wanted to make some handmade artifact specially for him. Planning to make a handmade pop-up card for him, I started looking for ideas that went on and on. Nothing materialized and  the deadline …

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Quilled Super Nova

Hi Friends, I’m Back with a new piece of craft after quite a while!! 🙂 Though I had valid reasons which kept me away from blogging for almost an year, I was always yearning to experiment something  new in  art or craft and post it here. And so……… after doing a CTRL+ALT+DEL …

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Pen Caddy – Craft by Shayne

Hi Folks, This time, it’s not me who’s going to share my craft with you all… Instead it’s going to be my 5 1/2 year old son!! On hearing about a craft competition for kids, in an online forum, I felt that it would be good if he took part …

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Wedding Wish – Double Sided Step Card

After going through lot of options,  finally settled down on this Double Sided step card pattern to make a wedding wish card. This time I have added my own hand quilled embellishments, in addition to store bought stickers. The card stock I have used for the base measures 10″ x …

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Handmade green crystal necklace and matching earrings..

Hi Folks, Back again with my new handmade green Swarovski crystal necklace and matching earrings. The length  of the necklace can be adjusted from from 16″ to 18″. I have used silver wire, seed beads, 6 mm and 4 mm Swarovski crystals, rounded silver balls, for making this.   For making …

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Handmade Crystal Bracelet – Design 3

Friends, Made this one for an online Jewelry competition based on the theme “Any jewelry with blue as its primary colour”. Just felt like participating and I ended up making this blue bracelet with Heart charm and matching blue earrings with mini hearts. This is the first bracelet I’ve made …

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Quilled Frame – 3

Another quilled frame by me  in the row. I have used the Malaysian flower technique for the flowers. With few of curls and buds placed in symmetry , the frame turned out be impressive. what do you think! 🙂 Here is the youtube link for making Quilled Malaysian flowers. Thanks to …

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Handmade Crystal Bracelet – Design 2

Here come’s one more stretchable bracelet after a short while in jewelry making. I have used stretchable bracelet wire, Swarovski crystal beads, charms and spacer crystals to make this 7.5″ bracelet.

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Pebble Painting

Hi Folks, My five year old’s collection of pebbles and his enthusiasm in converting them into colourful shapes, ignited an interest in me,  to try out a painting on this little pebble. The result turned out to be pretty interesting! Procedure * Choose any pebble which has atleast one of …

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