Hello readers !

I have been seeing Macrame tapestry everywhere in Pinterest these days. And looked very pretty. Just ropes becoming into such pretty patterns. And I was swept by the ongoing Macrame craze too. And today I finished making my first Macrame wall hanging. I started yesterday afternoon and finished by night *high-five  me* :) , the tassels took some time today. I used wool for making tassels. I got some regular jute rope from the hardware store. It works better if the rope is not nylon and a bit thick. I made the square knot in this attempt. There are tons of tutorials in YouTube. So here is the final craft. I hope you like it.

Sunflower candle holder

Keeping up with the festivities of Diwali, I have made some more clay candle holders which I will be sharing in series of blogposts. In this post, I have made a candle holder which looks like a sunflower. The  material is air dry modeling clay which I have used in many previous projects. Paints are acrylic. 

I rolled a sheet out of the modeling clay and cut petals in it.

Then I arranged the petals on a circular clay piece which acts as a base. The best feature about this clay is you can use water to join or blend pieces.

I wanted the petals to be a little high instead of laying flat, the way real flowers are. So to do that, I rolled some tissue paper and placed it underneath the flowers. So when the clay dries, it holds its position.

Similarly, I went on with another layer of petals with tissue roll underneath.

The final layer of petals....and to seal off, I placed another circular clay piece in the center.

Leave the clay to dry on its own. It takes 1 or 2 days to dry based on how thick the petals are. 

Once dry, you can paint it as you like. I chose red and yellow.

Handmade candle holder

Hello friends! A very happy diwali to all :)

The festival of lights is here. The beauty of this festival is seeing the pretty diya's around the house.
I made a candle holder from modeling clay which I have learnt from this video tutorial. She has made a very pretty holder. I had a great time making. Am happy to share mine in this post. This is how it looks.

Start off by cutting circles in a sheet of modeling clay. Each circle will become a petal in our holder.

 Make petals by pinching one side of the circle and attach them using few drops of water as shown below.

Handmade Birthday card

Hello folks!

Here's a simple and fun card that I made for a sweet little kid. It folds up to look like a tiny thin book but when you open it, it has a nice 3D effect. First, you need 4 sheets of paper which are squares. I took about 7cm sized papers.

There is a nice video card tutorial on YouTube.

I folded them and cut them like below.

Fold them further. And stick them to each other.

Then I pasted some printed papers as shown below. 

I added some trims to the front side and pasted two felted hearts.

And tadaa !

Krishna's kalamkari painting

Happy Janmashtami! Here's a painting of Krishna in kalamkari style. Water colours are used except for outlines with marker and krishna's jewellery with silver pen.

Folk women painting

Helloo !!

A very happy new year to all the readers. Here comes another canvas painting. It depicts the Indian folk women in a formation celebrating a local festival. The colors are water based. And outline it drawn using a marker.

And its done :) !!