Greeting Card

I was thinking about making a greeting card for a while was not sure what to make and how to make it! Spent many days just thinking of designs, even collect few things to use in my card. But finally when I sat to make the card below was the output(without making use of the things collected nor what all themes I was pondering upon :))

To get the background I tried many options on my journal, tried to get texture using salt, spray painting and what not but used the most easiest one.

To get the pattern I just used a piece of cotton, water colors and water and TA DA! below is the result.
What I did was, wet the cotton ball using water put a little water color over the cotton and just dabbed it on the paper. Initially I was thinking of sticking to blue and green color but later added a hint of black and red for more effect. I was really happy with the end result. Did not take the work in progress pictures but would definitely like to share few tips.

• As for any water color painting, after the paint dries the paint would be in a little lighter shade that what we see when it is wet, so use the color based on how intense you want it
• You can see I did not try to mix colors into each other, all the effect is of water. Purposely I made sure that some paper is visible as I chose the paper color for that. If you don't want the paper to be visible then you need to dab the cotton accordingly.

A closer look.......

Once I was done I simply put few pictures to give it a feel of ocean and finished it with the wishes. (Did not take close ups :( )

 

 

I am entering into following challenges

Challenge # 50 - Summer Splash

BGC#69 ‘Cards Only’ challenge

 

Quilled Earrings-3

 

Quilled Earring-2

Over the weekend got some time to make few more earrings. These are tiny and look very cute too!!!!!

 

Quilled Earrings-2

Quilled Earrings

 

Another set of quilled earrings

 

Water Color Painting

Water Color Painting

 

I came across this water color painting challenge in http://lulupu.blogspot.in/2015/04/challenge48-water-colors.html. It set me thinking, it's almost ages I took up my paint brush for water colors. There are very fond memories I have with water colors, so many competitions I participated as kid, the drawing classes and many more..........

So I decided I should give it a shot again and believe me it made me so happy. Below is the output

I am participating in Lulupu Challenge #48

Quilled Earring

Quilled Earring

 

I have been very fascinated by quilling since the time I first came to know about it around 1.5 years back. I tried my hand and found it very simple and interesting. I tried different patterns of flowers using quilling , always searched on net on different varieties we can make. I was somehow restricted to just trying new techniques but did not try to come up with finished product. Finally decided to use my skill to make a set of earring :)

 

For any one who wants to learn quilling there are so many sites, videos available you can just refer them and understand the process. I will share some of favorites too. 

 

This I what I made....................

 

When I started working on it I had a different design in mind. Basically a flower shaped earring. But after I was done with the petals I did not feel like making that shape. I tried some different patterns which I can make with those tear-drop shape

 

I personally liked the second one but felt was too long for my taste. So went with the first one. So below is the product.

 

 

 

 

After finishing this I was left with two more tear-shaped petals, since I was planning for a flower shape I had made 5 petals each. So decided to go ahead and make another pair of earrings :)