The Ultimate Photo...A Mixed Media Frame

The Ultimate Photo...A Mixed Media Frame

Posted by Rajni Chawla

SUBMISSION FOR FINAL ROUND WITH HEARTFELT CREATIONS

PROJECT 2 : The Ultimate Photo...A Mixed Media Frame

It's all about inspiration. For me, there are lots of things that inspire me like different photos, youtube video, quotes, life experiences, nature and many more. They just inspire me to create and create. As cheesy as it sounds, I get my ideas of what I create from dreams and from the research I do. I got a chipboard sentiment in my DT package the one I got from Dusty Attic but was not finding perfect inspiration for my creations. The sentiment says, ‘The Ultimate Photo’. Now for this, I really needed some Ultimate Click. One day, when scrolling down my timeline I got a comment from Emma Lou and accidentally I clicked on to her profile picture... Aww... such a nice click.. .just PERFECTTT ,I shouted. I scrolled down a little and got another. I really don't know if I did right or wrong by using her personal pictures for this project of mine. All I can say is I couldn't resist making one of my role models as the model of my project. Emma, initially I wanted to blur out your photographs but I'll be frank, your smile just enhances my project even more. Think of it like an embellishment that I have used. Hope you don't mind. :)

Heartfelt Creation Supplies Used :

HC Tropical Hibiscus Stamp

HC Tropical Hibiscus die

Under the Sea Paper Collection

HC Bella Rose Leaves

HC Bella Rose Die

HC Botanical Rose Cling Stamp

HC Botanical Wings Die

Spring Bling Prills -12 pack

Color box Fluid Ink Harvest

Color box Fluid Ink Red Barn

Color box Fluid Ink Warm Red

Color box Fluid Ink Lime Pastel

Color box Fluid Ink Olive Pastel

Other supplies used:

White Gesso, texture paste, rock candy glitter, dusty attic chipboard, Black chipboard, Glittered heat embossing powder, stencil, any glue that dries clear, diamond dust, sprays in shades of blue, green and orange, metal charm, glossy accent, clear crackle paint.

Here are few detailed pictures...

My heart aches if I throw a single inch of a paper...especially pattern papers that I use. After a bad postmortem, all the bits stay safe in a box for further use. They smile every time when I add new to my stash. Here in this project, I used the bits of small pieces to create embellishments for my project. Though I also used many more things....but I m satisfied I used at least a little of it.

Check this picture....Both the frames had many joints. But I covered all by rolling twines few times around it.  The width of the strip was little smaller than the frame...but now beautifully painted with different shades of paints matching to the backgrounds.

Trust me it looked much prettier when seen in person...More shabby,more trendy, Red hot hibiscus popping out from here and there....just fabulous!!

Metal Charm!!

Who can say I used scraps here.

No, No....nothing is scrap if you are in crafting....you just need to shake your head a little to find some ideas. Dusty Attic paints and Dusty Attic chipboards have become another favorite of mine this year. Lucky me that I got such a good collection in my DT package.

Gorgeous textures...Just loving them all!!

Here comes the main title of my project -"The Ultimate Photo"

Isn't it a perfect click....an ultimate photo!!

Your smile is no less than any embellishment Emma. Thank you so much for allowing me to share this project without hiding your pictures.  The project is  full of love and blessings from my side for the beautiful couple.

Grace: Layout using HC Enchanting Mum Collection

Grace: Layout using HC Enchanting Mum Collection

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Good morning friends!!

I am so thrilled and excited to see myself on Heartfelt Creation's board. It's a dream team. God has given me a wonderful opportunity to enjoy this beautiful world of crafting and to meet few more talented crafters across the globe. I know it's going to be a fun learning time with HC family. Today, I am on board with my very first project as a Heartfelt Creations Design Team!

Though I was bit nervous while creating this project as I entered my craft room after many days due to my ill health, but I have surely tried my level best to inspire you.

Full View of the layout: 

Heartfelt Creation Products Used: 

HCPC-3691 Enchanted Mum Cling Stamp Set

HCD1- 768 Enchanted Mum Die

HCDP1-258 Enchanted Mum Paper Collection

HCD1-712 Bella Rose Die

HCPC-3390 Bella Rose Leaves Cling Stamp Set

HCD1-736 Classic Leaf Die

HCPC-3545 Open Leaf Cling Stamp Set

HCST1-401 - Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit (mat and tools)

159723 - Art Institute Glue - Dries Clear

HCD1-787 Sunrise Lily Die

173842 - Score-Pal Measuring & Scoring Board

DDOTS Double Dots 100pc. -3D Foam Squares

ANC818 Go Man Go Prills

TSMP501 Memento Dye Ink Pad - Lilac Posies

TSMP400 Memento Dye Ink Pad - Rose Bud

71082 ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink Pad – Harvest

71026 ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink Pad - Lime Pastel

Other products:

Archival inks Library Green, Clear Rock Candy Glitters, Stickles, Heavy Gesso, Silk Glaze, Micro beads, Dusty Attic Chipboards, Texture Paste, Prima Stencils, Heavy Chipboard, Dry Mech, Spellbinder’s Wonky Rectangles, mists /sprays and Acrylic paints, fussy cutting scissors.

Instructions for Flowers and leaves:
 Follow Emma Lou’s video below for shaping Enchanting Mum Flowers.

The flower centres are made using stamens of Sunrise Lily die. Paint the stamens with ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink Pad – Harvest and Lime Pastel and split them in half. Add Prills using - Art Institute Glue that Dries Clear. Leaves are all stamped with Library Green Archival Ink and painted with ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink Pad - Lime Pastel. Leaves and flowers are shaped using Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit.

Instructions for Vintage Girl Frame:
 The vintage girl image is downloaded from Pinterest. Nest outer two dies of Spellbinder’s Wonky Rectangles with heavy cardstock and make a frame for the vintage girl image. Give a light coating of texture paste on the frame and sprinkle micro beads and leave it for drying. Once dried apply matching shades of acrylic paint and paint the frame.

Instructions for Layout:
Fussy cut the floral gate using fussy cutting scissors. Score rest of the designer paper using score pal randomly and apply a coat of diluted White Gesso. Stick the designer paper to heavy chipboard and also, layer the fussy cut floral gate.  Apply texture paste randomly using stencils and leave it to dry. To speed up the process you can use the heat gun. Once dry spray with shades of pinks and greens. Build few layers of colors drying in-between the layers. Once satisfied with the background highlight all the details with silk glaze.  Dusty Attic chipboards are all painted with dusty in colors acrylic paints and dusted with clear rock candy glitter using Art Institute Glue. Assemble the layout by creating different layers with chipboards, corrugated sheet and cheese cloth and also add dimensions using glue dots.

Here are the detailed pictures...

Beautiful Mums flowers!!

Gorgeous designer paper from Enchanting Mums Collection...

Dusty Attic chipboards...

Banner fussy-cut from designer paper itself.

Sweet....another chipboard from Dusty Attic!!

Chipboards beautifully layered between corrugated sheet. 

Frame created with Spellbinder's Wonky Rectangles textured with mix media texture paste.

Hope I was able to do justice with this collection and I was able to inspire you with this creation of mine.
If you are an Indian crafter and looking for craft supplies at best prices contact Meetu Aggarwal (www.krafterscart.in) or Priya Sivaraj ( www.thecraftshop.in).

  Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy crafting!!

Mixed Media Tag With Heartfelt Creation Supplies

Mixed Media Tag With Heartfelt Creation Supplies

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all..

A very warm welcome again !!

If I am stressed, I make poor decisions, I get sick more easily, and I spread my stress to those around me. And if I m not wrong ,it is same for all. Fortunately, I am an artist and for me there are numerous ways to create some motivational tags and journal pages to get my stress back under controll, I read to myself whenever I'm feeling stressed. My craft, my passion  is the way in which I apply paint to a project, how I think about a new composition or how I structure and write small sentences in a small story. To keep myself motivated I keep surrounding myself with small art pieces which have some inspirational messages that make me understand that soon everything will be fine. Northing is better if I am able to create them by my own. I keep creating small art pieces and display them in my craft area which really helps me moving in today's stressfull life. 

The tag that I am sharing today has become one of my favourite creation that always keeps me motivated to share more. 

"Be an opener of doors"

According to me it means to consider others and try to help them when you can, because we all need help sometimes.

I love this message and always feel more loved if I am able to help someone. Few days back when I saw one of my fellow crafter destashing the Floral Doorway and Latch Stamp by Heartfelt Creations on fb, I immediately booked it for me as Heartfelt Creations Floral Key Collection was my very very first buy of this brand and missed ordering this particular stamp and its Designer papers. I bought rest of the whole collection at that time but was not even known to its proper usage.  I had something in my mind already and this stamp really gave me a kick to try it immediately.  Here is my output. 

I used some dry mech, a leaf spray from Dusty Attics, metal chain, texture paste and deeply scored cardstock [you can use corrugated sheet if you have ] to create all textures. I used the die-cuts from Heartfelt Creation Layered Elegant Swirls to extend a little platform to work on. 

door 

The door latch is stamped couple of times and  fussy-cut in different layers, painted with Gathered Twigs, Scattered Straw and Vintage Photo Distress Inks. 

The flowers from the stamped image are also fussy-cut and layered. these are painted using Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade and Squeezed Lemon Distress inks. For the background I used different shades of coffee by making different consistancies of coffee and water. more water less intense is the colour and less water more intense is the shade. Few shades of acrylic paints and silk glazefrom Colourarte were perfect for highlighting. 

Then comes the little decoration part which I did with Mica flakes, micro beads and glitters. Here are few more close-ups to show all details. 

Hope you found inspiration while viewing it the way I found while creating it :]

If you are new and hunting for various craft supplies at best prices in India,you can contact Meetu Aggarwal  or check her website Here  and Priya Sivaraj or check her website Here 

Hope I m able to inspire you with my creations. If you like my work and want me to see reach my goals as a Dt with Heartfelt Creations, do leave some love n vote for me. Your votes are important for me. You can check all my three creations that I submitted for semifinals in the photograph below:

For more detailed pictures of Desk Calendar cum Mini Album....Click HERE

For more detailed pictures of Flip Fold photo Booklet .....Click HERE

For more detailed pictures of card Let Love Blooms.....Click HERE

And, to vote click HERE 

Thanks for dropping by. 

Happy Crafting !!

          

Dare to fly !!

Dare to fly !!

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all...

Rajni Chawla again on the Dusty Attic Board with another new inspiration for February month. Hope you all are enjoying playing along the challenge each month. February month was pretty hectic month for me and I was totally blank for my second inspiration. I was not able to think what exactly to make. I m not too much into making lauout pieces but always want to make something thats useful and inspirational. I started up making art journal cover but ended up with a decoration piece....this generally happens with me most of the time. Hope able to inspire u again with my new creation. 

IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO HAVE FEATHERS....YOU MUST DARE TO FLY !!

What a beautifull quote came into my mind when I saw Dusty Attic Indian Arrow chipboard. I was attracted to the beautiful carved feathers. Nature has blessed the human with unimagined power: the will to conquer the universe, the desire to know, and the curiosity of the unknown. The word impossible does not match with human nature. we have enough courage to face even our greatest fear....but only if we 

wish !!

Here is the February mood board. 

I worked with shades of blues n browns and mixed them with tones of greens to create something that can inspire me always and can match the above quote.

Feathers ,Flowers....more Flowers....and Birds !!

The blues depict the shades of sky and deep ocean, Shades of greens depict the green nature and browns depict our mother Earth. 

Here is what I came up with. 

I started a coat of gesso, then textures using DA Texture paste....lots of mixing and building layers with leftover chipboard negatives. Yes....you heard it right. I have built  most of all the layers using my leftover negative pieces of chipboard that I used in my prior projects. 

Look at those small square and oval pieces....Do they look like they were waste pieces??

Actually No!!

Once textured,layered and colored they are no more waste for me. 

I try to take out maximum of what I have in my stash. Little hand fisted person I am.

I took Dusty Attic Indian Arrow charm as my main focal image for the concept. These are painted with Dusty in color, Gingernut, Dusty in Color Oceania, Dusty in color Crushed Olive and when dried painted with Dusty in color Clear Crackle medium. Little highlighting with Dusty in color Navajo White was enough to add more beauty on it. 

I have used Dusty in blooms and few bunches of Prima twigs and few flower metal charms to add  more of spring look. I have also used Dusty Attic Geometric Corners here and there. 

Another view....

Another close-up of Dusty Attic Indian Arrow. 

Few more angles showing different layers and texture. 

Few more shades of Dusty in Color are Dusty in color Cashmere, Dusty in color Raisin, Dusty in color Jungle Green, Dusty in Color Capri and Dusty in color Mountains in Medow. 

Can you see the negative of Dusty Attic Geometric Corners hiding behind Dusty in blooms and metal flowers. 

The chipboard piece on the edge again is the negarive of Dusty Attic Geometric Borders.m

And here is my handwritten message....yes, my son preferred and asked me to put hand written message on my project. I know my writing is not that good but not very bad too. 

 I used Black Archival 0.3 pen to write the message. 

Here is the complete list of all the Dusty Attic products I have used together. I have already linked all the products on the Dusty Attic website. For all my Indian fellow crafters, all the products are available on http://www.krafterscart.in/. For more details of the products you can also personally contact Meetu Aggarwal.

Dusty Attic Indian Arrow chipboard
DA Texture paste
 Dusty in color, Gingernut
 Dusty in Color Oceania
 Dusty in color Crushed Olive
 Dusty in color Clear Crackle medium.
Dusty in color Navajo White 
Dusty in blooms 
Dusty Attic Geometric Corners 
 Dusty in color Cashmere, 
Dusty in color Raisin
Dusty in color Jungle Green
Dusty in Color Capri 
Dusty in color Mountains in Medow. 


If you have liked my work do leave some love and to see more of my work, you can visit my blog Passionately curious

ALBUM...Heartfelt Creation's Classic Sunflower Collection

ALBUM...Heartfelt Creation's Classic Sunflower Collection

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all,

Continues second post in a day!!
Creating a blog or updating it with your pending posts...whatever it is...Will be helpful in keeping me consistent and moving forward With my blog. Though I am on rest but I am happy and fully enjoying it. At least I m connected to my craft world and getting enough time to update my blog. 
  I am here to showcase creation that I made few months back for one of my client. It was posted on my timeline and my facebook page on 6th of July 2015. 

I tried my hands on an album using Heartfelt Creation's Classic Sunflower Collection. Oh.....I love this collection. Sunflowers are my all time favourites and their fresh n vibrant colors always tempt me to create more. The inside of the album has all flip fold pages designed by me. 

Here is the front of the album...

The spine is 3 1/2" and looks gorgeous with HC designer paper. 

Front cover all textured and layered created using various mixed media techniques.  

Love love love this flower....so fresh n vibrant. 

Bunch of charms hanging down the spine tied with matching seemed binding ribbon. 

Another sunflower. Now this one is made using classic sunflower flower die and stamp from Heartfelt Creations.. It takes little time and hardwork to design a new project but I am always satisfied with the end results. Its actually worth taking that pains. 

Thanks for stoping by. Do leave some love if you liked my project. 

Hugs :)