Teens Trends-2

Hello friends. For the past few days, there were showers now and then. There was also lot of humidity which is quite irritating. Today morning we have had very heavy downpour.

I am also suffering from severe back pain. All these have forced me to stay at home and do almost nothing. However the creative wheels in my mind keep on going round and round. I get so many ideas. I need to note them down or else these days I don't remember them.

Any way I am working on some greeting cards. So many festivals starting from August. I also need to clean out my home preparing for the festive season. But with lots of constructions going on around us, it is no use cleaning. Within a day, the dust appears again. When it is wet outside, I don't feel like taking up cleaning inside the house.

Remember I posted the latest Jewelry and other accessories that are trending with teens? You can see them here:

Teens Trends

Here are some ear rings.

This green one above is florescent and glittery. There are other colours too I think. But my niece picked out this one.

The two danglers below are black metal. There was a time when black metal was in vogue. Now again it is in fashion I believe. These things are cyclic and return after a certain time to be in fashion once again. Lots of designs were available but somehow our elders frown upon these black metal jewelry. 

The ones below are star shaped ear studs which look to be made of acrylic and have different patterns on them. They are colorful and go along with the teens outfits very well.

 This one looks like made of rubber. I am not so sure. They are very light weight.

 The ones below are meenakari.

These are coloured stones which are circular but the surface has a star finish. These can be used by us as second tops.

I am yet to repack and organise my share of purchases. Some of them I have to gift wrap and keep ready for the birthdays and other occasions starting from August. 

I also need to take stock of my jewelry making material. Of late I have not  touched them at all though I have many ideas for creating new pieces.

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Thank You card

Hi Friends ! Hope you are all doing well.

Here the water crisis continues. Temperatures are down a bit but lots of humidity. Well here is a simple thank you card:

The base is blue coloured textured card stock. This looks darker than the actual colour.

I have used three coloured hand made paper, which has an embossed grid on them. I cut out squares out of them and attached it to the card using glue. 

Then I punched out the butterflies-four of each colour from the metallic papers. For making one butterfly, I took one butterfly and attached another one with dimensional tape to give it some dimension. Then I added the crystals. I attached the butterfly to the squares using glue.

I stamped out the sentiment in black ink on a circle punched out of yellow card stock, a thinner one. I sponged the edge with orange ink. Then I attached it to the card with dimensional tape.

Hope you like it.

Materials Used:

Blue coloured textured card stock

Yellow, orange and green Hand made papers

Yellow and purple metallic paper.

Yellow card stock

Butterfly and Circle Punches

Coloured crystals

Sentiment stamp

Black and orange Inks

Dimensional tape and glue.

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Bindi- The Forehead Art- Part- 10

Here are some more designer sticker Bindis.

I include these Bindis in the gift given to girls and women during our festivals, marriages and birthdays. We have the tradition of giving bangles, Bindis and other cosmetics to girls and women on special occasions.

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Friday Free Patterns

Here is today's pattern

It is Sunflower embroidered on a pure cotton handkerchief. 

The base is pure cotton fabric. I have used Pearl cotton threads- single strand through out. 

I first embroidered the edge of the circle using dark brown thread and outline/stem stitch. Then I filled up the inside with Chinese knots using the same thread. 

Then, I used yellow thread to stitch the petals, using lazy daisy stitches, starting from one end and stitching around the circle and ending near the place I started. Note that the stitch anchoring the chain is a bit longer and I left a little space between the stitches.

Then using a shade lighter thread, circled each of the chain stitch, passing through the anchoring stitch of the chain. 

I stitched the stems using stem stitch and the leaves using satin stitch.

Stitches used: Stem, Lazy Daisy, Satin, Chinese Knots.

This pattern can be used on hand kerchiefs, blouses, children's frocks, kurtis or tunics, saris, hand and bath towels, table linen, kitchen linen and bed linen.

This is the pattern. You have to size it according to your requirement while printing this.

Hope you like this pattern. 

Please Note:

• These designs are my own creations.
• All images and text in this post are copyrighted and all rights are reserved.
• You can use them for your personal use only.
• If you use them, please send me the pictures of your work using these patterns, which I will post on my blog
• OR if you post your work using these patterns on your blog or site please link to the original pattern here on my blog and let me know about it. I would appreciate that very much.
• If you want to share them please attribute the work to me, with link back to this blog.
• Please do not re-publish or Post the patterns or my work on your site or blog or any where or distribute my photos or text.

I hope you will respect my request.

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Sunflower Birthday Card

Here is one more birthday card. The theme is sunflower, for sending some sunshine during this monsoon.

I have chosen, cream coloured shimmery card stock as base. I attached the self adhesive black and silver tape. Then I attached the sunflower dimensional sticker.

I added a few butterflies to make it more colourful. 

Then I stamped out the sentiment on a punched out circle from yellow hand made paper. I coloured the edge with yellow and orange pencils to match the sunflower and attached it with double sided foam tape to give it dimension.

This is very easy and simple to make.

Materials Used:

Cream coloured shimmery handmade paper

Black and Silver self adhesive tape

3D Sunflower Dimensional sticker

Butterfly Stickers

Yellow coloured hand made paper

Circle Punch

Sentiment Stamp

Black Ink

Yellow and Orange colour Pencils

Hope You like It

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Fairy Birthday Card

Hi there. Its been raining here for the past few days. Just showers on and off through out the day as well as night. It is all wet and muddy outside. I am not venturing out to markets unless it is absolutely necessary. 

So I am doing some cleaning and weeding out trash and also reorganising my huge stash of hobby materials, daily for some time. Then, I am spending time on my crafts and also trying out new recipes. 

Here is one more birthday card:

This card has been designed for a little girl.

I started with a soft pink textured card. First attached the blue printed tape. 

Do you believe in Fairies? I certainly do. I feel children should believe in Fairies and miracles. That is why I chose the Fairy theme and attached a fairy with the magic wand. 

What do little ones want on their birthday? Gifts, isn't it? So I attached a gift near the wand - as if the gift materialized by her magic. 

Then, I came across the wonderful dimensional sticker sentiment. This suited the theme of the fairy I chose. 

Next I stamped out the Birthday sentiment, on a circle punched it out of light blue hand made paper.

I always like CAS cards; easy to make and specially for children, I prefer not much clutter on the card.

I am making more cards but they are in various stages.

I don't much like the stamping part. It is all messy and I need to have all my supplies around me. One has to be very careful, in cleaning the stamps and our hands every time we stamp as there is always the danger of using an uncleaned stamp on an ink pad or smudging the greeting cards. 

So I am keeping the stamping part for the last. One day I will stamp out the various sentiments required for my finished cards.

Then there are also the envelopes. I am trying to make matching ones. Here the problem is getting the matching colour or design paper and in right thickness. Here we don't have the availability of materials is very limited and mostly what we want may not be available. So one has to make something out of the available ones.

If I have to post, it then, I have to keep in my mind the weight of the card along with the envelope.  Postage is costly. 

Hope you like my card.

Materials Used:

Light pink textured card stock

Printed self adhesive tape

Some 3D stickers

Light Blue hand made paper

Circle  Punch

Sentiment stamp and black ink

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