Happy Saturday! I hope everyone's having a great Saturday. Today I'm sharing a mixed media canvas I made for a friend;
as a few of you might know I moved to Singapore recently. Right after we moved here, my husband had to travel for work for 5 weeks, leaving me and my LO in a new place with no friends or family around. I was lucky enough to meet my friend at this time, she never let me feel alone in a new place, invited us on play dates, introduced me to her friends and helped me find my way around the neighborhood.....
After reading about Jennifer Mcguire's "Share Handmade Kindness" challenge for friends and family,
I just knew I had to make something for her.
Even though I'm just a beginner when it comes to mixed media, I enjoyed adding all the layers and textures on this canvas.....and love how it turned out.....and the best part is the photo is not fixed and can be changed.
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Creative Artiste Challenge 8 - Mixed Media
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I made this canvas for a friend who had a baby girl recently. The quote was cut using my Silhouette Cameo, the background patterned paper is from DCWV, I added a generous dose of sparkle Mod Podge over the entire canvas.......love love love the shimmer :)
I also added a customized photo frame (yup you guessed it the baby's name is Saannvi ;) )  to complete my handmade gift set.

 Sharing another canvas I completed recently...I intended to gift it to a colleague for his house warming but DH felt it is too bright and kiddish......so I landed up keeping it for myself.

I transformed two boring metal photo frames into these....
with washi tape, 3D chipboard stickers and alphas......these took less than 2 hours to make.
 I have covered the pink one with mod podge and left the green and blue one as is...I'm happy with both the results. 
Giraffes are my daughter's favorite wild animals at the moment so she is very happy with this one :) 

 .....I want to take this message forward into the new year, might not be possible at all times but I guess it's worth trying.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


I have always been fascinated by snowflakes, even more so probably because I haven't seen any in real life :(
I tried out these super easy (and inexpensive) plastic straw snowflakes and loved the results!
You will need:

1. Plastic straws - mine were 8.25" long
2. Hot glue gun and glue sticks
3. Fevicol / Elmer's Glue
4. Fine glitter / diamond dust
5. Scissors
6. Stapler

Shadow boxes have been on my mind for long, last week I finally got around to making one. I made this for my parents who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this November.
I first painted the MDF shadow box black and added some patterned paper at the edges and inside the box partitions. Added photos in three partitions and covered everything with a generous layer of Mod Podge. I finally embellished the box with MDF, chipboard and metal embellishments.
Supplies used:

1. 12x12" MDF shadow box
2. Gesso and Black acrylic paint
3. K & Company patterned paper
4. Mod Podge
5. Tim Holtz tattered floral die
6. Tim Holtz distress paint
7. Mdf embellisments from here and here
8. Metal embellishments are from a RAK from Mallika
9. Flower centers are from my stash

1. Soft Magnet sheet (I got mine from here). You could use an old fridge magnet
2. Mod Podge
3. Card Board
4. scissors/corner rounder/die. 
5. Brush or any other applicator

Here's Kriti busy with the supplies :)
First up I die out the cardboard, magnet sheet and photo. I used a Tim Holtz alterations die as it can cut through cardboard and magnet easily.

 I like to make personalized gifts for all the kids whose birthday parties Kriti is invited to...I was at a complete loss about what to make for my neighbor's teenage daughter (I had already gifted her a scrapbook last year)....so I came up with a nameplate for her room...I hope she likes it.

I up-cycled this bottle of Schwarzkopf Volume Boost Shampoo. Sliced off the top with a cutter, added some washi tape, sequined lace and golden ribbon bow. 
The kusudama flowers are from an old magazine.  I sprayed some walnut stain ink and golden shimmer mist on flowers once completed. The flowers though extremely easy to make involved a LOT of paper folding! 
Here's the vase brightening up my otherwise boring office desk...

The wooden buttons for the flower centers are from some old curtains.

I am obsessed with tin makeovers these days. I have a huge stock of milk powder and milk supplement tins used by my daughter and mother-in-law.....

I started off with with this tin
covered it up with some scrap fabric using Mod Podge and added some paper ribbon.
For the fabric flowers I followed this tutorial. If you are as lazy as me when it comes to fussy cutting you can try this instead of cutting neat circles using a template- simply folded your approximately square piece of fabric multiple times as shown in the pictures and chomp off the top: shown by the black line in the central image of the collage (do forgive the crumpled fabric). You will get some sort of a crude circle which still gives you a beautiful flower...the ones I made are proof (ie if you find mine beautiful :P)
I've used chenille sticks instead of floral stem. I found that chenille sticks are not able to take the weight of the flowers too well but they do give the flowers a nice wobbly effect. I hot glued the stems to the inside of the tin to keep the flowers in place.

linking up to:
Lessology #25 for the love of fabric