Crafters Corner

Thursday, 15 December 2016

DRESS MY CRAFT----PRODUCT LAUNCH AND A REVIEW BY ANITA KEJRIWAL

Hello !!!!!!

I am Anita here and how are my dear crafter friends doing !!!! All geared up for New Year !!!! OMG!!!! It's almost here !!! Can you believe this !!! It seems yesterday that we just started the year on a new note and a new team and here we are standing to wave it goodbye.

How time flies !!!! I still remember my post first post with Crafters Corner blog almost two years back. I was fortunate enough to write the first blog post for Crafters Corner. And what a journey has been. The baby has grown from toddler to a well groomed lady and here she is on our first in house brand ----DRESS MY CRAFT.

Welcome all !!!!! as I present to you our first and most popular product the Floral Paper Collection - ORIENTAL AND EXOTICA--- Premium Cardstocks with world class quality and every crafters dream.

FLORAL EXOTICA

FLORAL ORIENTAL

And not only that another feather in the cap is the launch of two new powders- FROSTED SUGAR POWDER AND SPARKLING DUST.

SPARKLING DUST

FROSTED SUGAR POWDER.

Both the powders are of extremely super quality and add extra beauty to the projects.

So in my post today, I will reveal all the secrets of these products and bring to your a deeper insight into the above.

Here is a comparative table about the two papers that will be clearly explain you the pros and cons of both papers.

PROPERTIES

EXOTICA

ORIENTAL

PAPER THICKNESS 285 GSM 285 GSM

TEXTURE SMOOTH SMOOTH

PAPER STRENGTH LESS STIFF MORE STIFF

WATER ABSORBENT HIGH LOWER

STAMPING GOOD WITH ARCHIVAL SAME

HEAT EMBOSSING GOOD GOOD

DISTRESSING GIVES A SMOOTH BLEND SAME

DIE CUTTING GOOD GOOD

WATER COLOURING GOOD GOOD

FLOWER MAKING OPEN BLOOMS CLOSELY COMPACT BLOOMS

So that will give you clear comparison between both papers. But that is not all. I have visual pictures to show you about all the qualities of these papers.

You will need two huge cups of coffee or tea to sit back and relax because this is one heavy post loaded with pictures and of course a video ---because seeing is believing !!!!!

Heat embossing is good

Good resist embossing

good distressing paper

good for stamping especially if stamped with waterpproof like Archival Jet Black

water based inks tends to bleed a little

Awesome Die cutting

good for water colouring

gives nice clear embossing

So thats it !!!! I hope it is quite clear by now as to how wonderful these card stocks are. I would call them the ultimate card stock as these have multiple qualities.

Now on to the another product that is the talk of the crafting community because of its awesome quality.

Sparkling Dust and Frosted Sugar Powder

Sparkling dust is a fine shimmery powder, almost weightless nd gives a smooth glittery look to the surface where it is applied. It sticks well with most adhesives and is bright white in colour. However this powder DOES NOT HEAT EMBOSS. So avoid using it for the same.

Frosted Sugar Powder as the name suggests is like fine sugar but a little granular and has very little shimmer or sparkle. It has a translucent frosted look and can be used for mixed media, on flowers, etc. This too cannot be used for Heat Embossing.

Here are the two flowers that I made using the Exotica and Oriental paper. After reading my blog post till now, it will become very clear to you which flower is made from which paper. Can you guess ??
Let me tell you--the flower on the top is made from Exotica paper as it is more open while the flower at the bottom is from Oriental paper as the bloom is more closed and compact.

Here are the flowers with the new powders

Oriental Bloom with Sparkling Dust

Exotica bloom with Frosted Sugar Powder

Here is the video to show you in real way how wonderful these papers are.

Products used from Crafters Corner

DRESS MY CRAFT

Floral Oriental paper collection
Floral Exotica paper collection
Sparkling dust
Frosted sugar powder

So thats comes to an end to this super long post. But I hope I was able to clear all your doubts. If you still have any queries , do leave your comments.
Hope you had a good time with me!!!

Saturday, 10 December 2016

MINI WINTER COTTAGE

Hello dear ones! and welcome! I can't believe it is already the last month of 2016! My New year cards are not all done yet. Everyone are having a winter theme creation of this month. This season is my favorite time of year! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families! I did something a little bit different, a mixed-media textured winter miniature cottage using a mix of various material like MDF, Card stock, paper, acrylic paints, Laser cut chippies, mediums and Snow flack paste .

Have a look at this.... so small... so cute

I must warn you, I made a mess! When i making this cute :-)
But I like to say ~ you have to make a mess to make pretty! :)

Many of you expressed interest in a tutorial for making doll-houses.
It's a little crazy around here today, so please forgive me if this tutorial seems a bit hurried. It really is just a matter of cutting, gluing and adding.

Here goes . . . .
I'll show you how to make a version of this house. This is just basic idea

1, Take thick card stock or thick chart paper. Cut like rectangle shape. If you are using card stock, you need 2 rectangle pieces

2. Cut out the shape,

3, Use Cobblestone stencil with texture paste for stone effect

4, The next step is to break out the hot glue gun.
I like to glue on the windows and doors next. It's much easier to do for framing the window. I choose Wycinanka cut out for cross window. Details are shared in last of this post.

In this pic can see the effect, Color i took acrylic brown

5, Attaching 2 ends of cardstock with stapler

6, Roof: As we did same technique, attaching one side of cardstocks 2 ends with stapler.

7, Make it as a cone by cutting excess part

8, here is the way attaching the 2 part. Use glue gun for fast and easy attaching

9, I dont know what should i called this paper, But you will get from local craft store. This is best one for arranging roof part.

10, Cut the tiny pieces like this and attach on roof with glue gun

How is this Cool idea...Is it? ;-)

Now it's time to talk about the base.

For small houses I like to use MDF square plaque 7" X 7". Its perfect cute for this

11, I marked the few portions in plaque for attaching cottage, stencil work on ground...etc and After stencil work i painted moss effect plaid-craft paint. Mixing of two shade to get dark green