I made 2 more wreaths with wool. This blue wreath with white beads is similar to the pink wreath that
you might find in my previous posts. The only difference is the different wool colour and beads pattern.

And here comes the other one (third one from wreath series). This is also made with wool, no surprises in that area. But it does not use any beads. You can see for yourself.

  I wrapped the wool around the Styrofoam wreath form. When finished, I braided the rest of the wool. To make it thicker, I used around 4 strands in each part of the braid making it 4 x 3 = 12 strands thicker. Then I wrapped and pasted one braid in the inner area of the wreath. For the outer area, I wrapped and pasted three bands of braid. Because, if you use just one, it might not be visible. Along with the braid, I used these cute little birdies which I bought from Xenos store for about 1.5 euros. And some crochet flowers for almost the same price.

I loved these birds. For those who want to use only one bird, try to buy a little bigger one. I used two to represent the bond of a couple...me and my other half :)

I used a pin to attach the birds on the wreath. One end of the pin goes inside the bird (kind of tough)

and other end goes into the wreath. And to make sure it does not fall off, I also applied some adhesive to the birds.

These are the crochet flowers that I pasted. I do not know how to do it, so I bought it. For those of you who know how to crochet, go ahead. Making your own flowers is always the best idea. You have wide range of colours to choose from and can make it with different floral patterns.

And............... tadah !!

Mixed media art

Here's a blog post depicting my experiments in the mixed media art. I have used crayons and modeling clay to do this work. The final art looks like this:

I started off by sprinkling some crayon shavings on a canvas. I used mostly primary and secondary colors. This makes the art look colorful and vibrant. After that, I placed baking paper/butter paper on top of the canvas and ironed the surface. The baking paper helps in keeping most of the melted crayon on the canvas.

I repeated the process of melting crayon shavings so that the whole canvas area is covered with color.

After the crayon on canvas has dried completely, I made some swirls in random sizes using modeling clay. I glued them on the canvas. There were no sketches made for this work. Everything was random.

Makeover of a glass vase

I had a glass vase which was completely plain. I got an idea of a makeover using clay. This kind of clay is called modeling clay. It is wet initially which helps in modeling. It dries up after few minutes. Starting with simple lines lengthwise, it ends up looking like this:

I am really liking the final look of my old vase :)

Floral wreath using tissue papers

Happy new year folks. Welcoming the year 2014, I made a floral wreath using tissue papers. It is simple and easy. I bought a metal ring from Idee craft store here which costed me 90 cents. Colorful tissues add a great look to this wreath but I chose white as I was (and am) missing snow a lot this winter. In future, definitely I will try some colored tissues too. So here is how we get started.

   I took a tissue paper which is generally folded into a quarter of its size. I used one of its creases and cut through using scissors. Now I have 2 rectangular pieces of 1 tissue paper. Likewise I made a large stack. For making one flower, I used 5 such rectangles. More you use, more fluffy the flower becomes. But using too many is also not good as it makes folding difficult. So, after stacking 5 rectangular pieces together, I made a valley and then a mountain (these terms are given to these folds in origami, you can look it up in google) . When you hold it on the side, you will be able to see a zigzag pattern. After folding the tissue stack, finally you will end up with a thick strip of paper. Now to add some look, I trimmed the edges into semicircular shape. I placed the ring on the table and I placed the folded tissue stack on it and tied it to the ring.  

Now that the tissue stack is secure, I gradually lifted up one layer of the tissue paper. Slowly repeating this on either side of the thread until the very last layer, gives a full bloomed floral look. 

Now, one flower is completed. To cover the rest of the circumference of the ring, I repeated all the above steps.

For this wreath, I made seven flowers. The number of flowers needed depends on how big the metal ring is and on the length of the tissue strips. If the length is less, one has to make more flowers to cover the ring. 

To make the flower stay in proper position, I glued the thread to the ring and later pasted the tape behind the flower. This helps in keeping the flower face us.

Here is the final look. Hope you like it :)