Showing posts with label tutorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tutorial. Show all posts

Sunday, September 10, 2017

DIY Easy Thumbprint Cards

Hello, everyone! Today I am sharing something different, something fun, something that does not need any fancy craft supplies.
I'm sharing a couple of thumbprint cards, these are super quick and easy to make. They are a fun activity to do with your child. They are best made by little fingers, but since my little person was at school I landed up doing this on my own, and I had so much fun!!!

Here's what you need to make these:

  • White cardstock or chart paper
  • Sketch markers
  • Inkpads in 2-3 colors, acrylic paint will also do.
The steps are self-explanatory. 
Begin by drawing 2 straight lines with a green marker.
Ink up the tip of one of your fingers with a color of your choice and stamp twice at the top of the green line.
Continue stamping on the 2 sides of the green stem ensuring that you ink up after stamping each time.
You can begin with the tip of your fingers and move on to stamping with more finger area for bigger petal sizes.
Stamp as many flower stems as you want.
You can finish it off with a bumble bee. Stamp in yellow with your thumb and add details with a black marker.
 To finish the card, trim the white cardstock panel to fit your cardstock base. To create a blue cardstock base, I used the same blue ink and rubbed it along the edges of the white card stock base and stuck the stamped panel with double sided foam tape.

Here's another easy floral thumbprint card idea. I think you got the idea, the steps are self-explanatory.
 I followed the same process as the first one to finish the card. You can also add a sentiment if you like.
Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. The possibilities are endless!

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Butterfly Shaker Card

Hello everyone, today I'm sharing my very first shaker card. I love shaker cards and wouldn't believe how easy these are to make if hadn't made one myself!
Butterfly Shaker Card

I've used the Birthday Birthday Set from Happy Little Stampers.
I even made recorded a video -
Thanks for visiting!
Butterfly Shaker Card


Monday, May 9, 2016

Thanks a ton!

Easy stamped watercolor background with #happylittlestamper stamps
Hello everyone! I absolutely love this Happy Little Stampers Birthday Friends set.

I made a fun watercolor card with this set. I'm no expert at watercoloring, but this was so easy. I even made a video on how I made the card. Check it out here
or the HLS Youtube Channel

Easy stamped watercolor background with #happylittlestamper stamps

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Happy Little Stampers Video

Close up of one layered card with masking, partial stamping and ink blending using stamps from Happy Little Stampers
Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing a video that I made for Happy Little Stampers. I made a CAS one layered card with some masking, partial stamping and ink blending.
One layered card with masking, partial stamping and ink blending using stamps from Happy Little Stampers

Check out the video at the Happy Little stampers YouTube Channel or on my channel over here:
Playing along Less is More Week 263 One Layer Challenge

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Stamping with the backside of stamps

One layered card with Stamping with the backside of stamps. Stamps from Winnie and Walter
Hello everyone, happy Monday! I've used a fun technique in today's card. I've made this card by flipping and stamping with the backside of the stamps. I learnt this technique from Mayuri's Radiant Stamping Techniques Card Class . I've used the Scenery: The Party Hangover set from Winnie and Walter. I first stamped in color with the stamp placed the wrong side up on the acrylic block and then stamped over it with the stamp the right side up in black.
One layered card with Stamping with the wrong side of stamps. Stamps from Winnie and Walter
I made a video too, check out my wrong side up stamping video
Playing along, w&w Belated 2nd Birthday Bash | Rainbow Challenge with Vanessa and

Monday, December 28, 2015

Floral Watercolor Card

This is one of my favorite cards, it makes me feel like an artist :). With the "Watercolor Blooms" Stampset from Altenew
I can pretend to be a watercolor artist, I just love how this card turned out...and it was really, really easy....check out the start to finish video on how I made this card and find out for yourself.
I enjoyed making this card so much that I made a frame too....and if anyone asks, I painted them myself ;)
Playing along:

Altenew Video Challenge #3

Inkspirational Challenge - Challenge #98- Bah Humbug!

Thursday, October 22, 2015

No Line Coloring

Happy Thursday everyone! I tried no line watercoloring for the first time and I'm happy by the way it turned out.
I even shot a start to finish of how I made the card and I think I've done better than last time....would love to know what you think.....

playing along:

Altenew Video Challenge #2

Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog - Challenge #167 - Make Your Mark

Friday, May 29, 2015

Giant Heart Explosion Card Photo Tutorial

Here's the tutorial on how to make the below 2 feet by 2 feet giant heart explosion card.
This card opens up into an even bigger 4 feet by 4 feet card...
A very good video tutorial on how to make a 6"x6" heart explosion card can be found here....the card is made out of one sheet of 12"x12" paper in this tutorial, since it is not possible to get a 4'x4' sheet of paper (well not usually atleast :) ) I followed a slightly different approach..........so here goes my tutorial...
CAUTION: This is a picture heavy post.

You will need:
4 sheets of medium thickness chart paper (preferably black)
Patterned paper - I used about 20 sheets of 12"x12" patterned paper (I know that a lot!)
Cutting mat, paper cutter/craft knife, Glue (I used fevicol MR), scissors (ofcourse :P )
Distress ink (I used vintage photo)
Paper distresser 
Shimmer sprays in shades of brown and gold
Sprayer/mister filled with water
Big Heart Template

To begin with I drew and cut out 4 hearts measuring approximately 2'x2' from the 4 sheets of black chart paper.  Fold the chart paper in half along the longer edge and draw half a heart and cut the folded heart to get a symmetric heart - Pic 1
2 hearts like the one shown in picture 2, fold and press these in the center to get a good crease
and 1 heart with 2 extra flaps as shown in picture 3 and 1 heart with the extra flap on only one side (forgot to click a picture of this heart :( )
Lay the 4 hearts as shown in photo 4, with the hearts with flaps alternating with the hearts without flaps. Apply glue onto the flaps and stick to the hearts without flaps (one edge of one of the hearts will be open).
Fold along the white arrows on pic 5, and the base of your card is ready.
Now we have to cover it with patterned paper. Apply glue at the lower part of the front cover heart as shown in pic 7 and stick a 12"x12" of patterned paper on it, cover the remaining heart also with PP (pic 8), let the PP spill over the heart.
Once the PP is stuck properly, turn the heart over and place over a self healing cutting mat and cut off the extras with a paper cutter/craft knife (pic 9)
Open up the card and repeat the same steps for the 4 hearts on the inside, pics 10, 12.
Pic 11 shows the inside of the card entirely covered with PP.
As is visible from pic 13, the edges of the hearts do not look very neat, that's because I didn't do a very good job with the craft knife.......no worries, I'll just just go over all the edges with a paper distresser to get a nice worn out, vintage look (pic 14)
Now that our card is covered with PP on both sides we can have some fun with shimmer sprays. I used shimmer and antiquing sprays in shades of brown (pic 15)
Cover the entire card inside with the shimmer (pic 16)
Once you are satisfied with the shimmer coverage, take one heart at a time and spray plain water onto it, spray water till all the shimmer and antiquing inks start dissolving and mixing into each other, hold the heart up as shown in pic 17 to let the colors run into each other.
pic 18 shows the card after mixing all the colors with water, once dry distress the edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink (pic 19)
I didn't spray the outer side of the card with the shimmer sprays but just distressed the edges (pic 20)
Now my card is ready to be embellished.......
Remember to not embellish the folds on hearts 1 and 2 on pic 19 otherwise you will not be able to close the card shut.
and here's what the completed card looks like...
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please feel free to write to me at juhi.handmade.cards@gmail.com for any queries, I would be happy to help.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

DIY Exploding Box Tutorial and a Workshop Alert

Exploding Boxes are one of my favorite paper craft products to make and they are one of my best sellers too. In this video tutorial I show how to make this 4x4x4" exploding box with the layered cake inside it.


I hope you enjoy the video, I would love to hear your feedback.
Kits (complete with embellishments, diecuts and patterned paper) to make this box are available, please write to me incase you would like to buy them.

I will also be conducting a half day workshop on making more elaborate exploding boxes on Sunday, 5th April 2015, the details of which are as follows:
Learn to make elaborate, multi-layered Exploding Boxes for gifting/selling 
When: Sunday, 5th April, 1:00pm to 5:30pm
Where: Whitefield, Bangalore
Who can attend: Adults and Teens
What you get to take home:
- One completed 6x6x6" multi-layered Exploding Box Card (similar to the one in the pictures)
- Supplies to make one more 4x4x4" box
Fees: 3000/- per person (inclusive of all supplies)
What you need to bring with you to the workshop: A pair of scissors and fevicol
Mail me at juhi.handmade.cards@gmail.com for more details





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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Handmade Ribbon Flower Christmas Tree Tutorial

Hello fellow crafters, wishing you and your family Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Sharing a  picture tutorial to make a tabletop handmade ribbon Christmas tree.