Crafters Corner

Saturday, 30 April 2016

COSTUME JEWELLERY WITH ANITA KEJRIWAL

Hello friends,

Happy saturday to all !!! All geared for the weekend ??? But before you start partying, let me break a super happy news to all. I AM A HEARFELT CREATIONS DESIGN TEAM MEMBER !!!!!
Isn't that awesome. I am so thankful to Shalini and Crafters Corner for providing me with all the Heartfelt creations supplies right on time.
So keep watching my blog many awesome projects.
And now on to the main theme of our post today.
Who does not like dressing up and decking up best of jewellery !!! well !! I certainly do ; I need a new piece with each of my dresses and love to try out funky designser jewellery.
What if I say that now you can make your own jewellery according to your own dress code and style.. be it bracelets, hoops, neck pieces and what not. Not true !!!!! Of course it is true !!!!
I have brought for you some amazing dies that will help you create most beautiful costume accessories in just no time.
Well !!!!!! here is the JEWELLERY MAKING DIE FROM ELIZABETH CRAFT DESIGNS and along with it are many coordinating things that will help you to create many many styles and designs of your choice.

Today , I am here with a chic bracelet that will look too cool for any evening party. I made this in just an hour or so and simply loved the final product. In fact, my daughter whacked it from me right after she saw it and very happily gave me her hand to show off the piece.

Here are some quick instructions to make this.

Cut out diecuts from the Elizabeth Crafts Design Jewelry 1 Sea Glass from the ice blue Gemstone shimmer paper of the same brand. You get many colours in one pack hence these are good value for money and even gives one a choice of colours.
Stick two similar diecuts on one another using Art Glitter Glue. This gives thickness and durability to your piece. Do this to all the die cuts.
Next, put all the diecuts in any embossing folder that you have and pass through the die cutting machine. Crafters Corner has a wide range of embossing folders to choose from. Now you have your etched jewellery pieces that can combined with many accessories like charms, pearls, chains and many more to create jewellery of your choice. I have made holes on the die cuts using crop-a dile
and attached it to two chains with help of jump rings. Along with them , I have also added charms and pearls with hooks. Finally , I secured it with silver clasp.

So I hope you liked this super cool jewellery piece designed by me. There are other varieties of jewellery making die from Elizabeth Crafts Design in the store that you will surely love.
So if you love wearing funky accessories, then now its no looking back. Make a piece every day to suit your style and whats best is all the supplies for your creation is available under one roof-Crafters Corner.

Over the next few days, I will be playing with more such dies and bring for you many more amazing designs

Monday, 25 April 2016

Decoupaging on Plastic Tutorial and Liquid Leaf

Decoupaged Box

Hi crafters Dr Sonia here to share a 2nd project with Liquid Leaf .Sharing a mini tutorial on decoupaging a plastic container with gorgeous Bob n Betty papers .I jazzed up the edges of the container with fabulous Copper Liquid Leaf to bring out a uniform and rich metallic copper theme to the project.

Heartfelt creations Botanical Wings flowers

The flowers were made by heat embossing in copper some Heartfelt creations Botanical Wings stamps.

Heat Embossed Flower

The heat embossed parchment flowers were randomly inked with Distress Inks to match the colors of the florals in the pattern paper.

Pearls placed with Crystal Katana

I have been adding lots of tiny pearls to my projects ever since I got the Crystal Katana as its so quick and easy!

Crystal Katana and Tanto

Used the Crystal Katana to add the pearls on the edges of the paper and on the tiny plastic butterflies

Crystal Katana in Action

I used the Made in India Ornate Annie papers designed by the talented Deepika Sharma and which is sold exclusively at Crafters Corner .

Bob N Betty Pattern Papers

Here is the plastic container I altered by decoupaging

Altered Project

For anyone wishing to start decoupage these are the Basic tools of the trade!

Decoupaging on Plastic Tutorial

Decoupage Glue- most popular is Modpodge
Scissors - normal and fine if you want to fuzzy cut pictures to decoupage
Scale- to measure out the sides of your projects and pattern paper
Pen/ pencil to help mark your pattern paper and cut
Squeegee- I have used a different type of plastic squeegee in my Sospeso Trasparente projects which is rather nice but totally in love with the squeegee in the Mod podge kit because of its rubbery nature and wedge spage at its ends which allows one to reach awkward nooks and corners like I will show in the subsequent pictures
Not shown in the picture : Sanding / distressing tool and
Brushes to apply modpodge - use sponge brushes or regular brushes

Decoupaging on Plastic Tutorial

Measure your project and cut pattern paper to line it. I personally like to cut slightly less than the dimension of the side to be covered as I hate to later sand down and cut the paper once it is stuck to a project.

Decoupaging on Plastic Tutorial

If your plastic is super smooth ,sand it to give it a grip .

Apply decoupage glue using a brush as shown above[ the brush I am using above comes with the Plaid Decoupage Kit] - dont add too much glue as it will just wrap and wrinkle your paper.

Decoupage kit

Stick on your pattern paper starting from one end of your project.

Decoupaging on Plastic Tutorial

You get the best results on decoupaging if you remove excess glue from under you paper and here comes the advantage of having a squeegee. Use the squeegee to firmly but gently [ too much force and you will slide your paper off the project!] slide over your paper and the excess glue will come out from the edge of the paper at the end and you can simply wipe it off.

Decoupaging on Plastic Tutorial

Using the squeegee you can easily slide into corners which are otherwise difficult to reach as you can see in the picture below.

Decoupaging on Plastic Tutorial

I have used the squeegee to get a proper adhesion of the pattern paper in the depths of the container I was lining .

Decoupaging on Plastic Tutorial

Once the paper had dried you can give a top coat of mod podge if you wish and later seal it off with a varnish if you want.

Decoupaged Container

Notice the uncovered rather unsightly looking exposed edges of plastic in the project photo above-- well I could line it with paper but that would involve quite a bit of hard work so I took the easier and more fun way out by painting the edges with Liquid Leaf .