Limelight Sketch and Product Challenge!

This is the first time I am participating in the Sketch and Product challenge by Limelight Papercrafts.

This is what I did for the above challenge.

I used card sheets and marbled sheets which are handmade from Sri Aurobindo Handmade paper, Pondicherry. This paper craft kit has about 40 sheets. Each paper is different from the other. There are many choices like dark sheets, pale sheets, card sheets, marbled sheets, mottled sheets just to name a few. What luck! My cousin gifted me from her trip to Pondicherry. Really I must visit this beautiful place sometime.

Oh by the way did I mention what was the topic? Here it is....You are supposed to create a card using something that reminds you of the holidays like Christmas,etc., using the following sketch. We just finished celebrating Diwali in India. So I created a card for Diwali, the festival of lights!

For embellishments, I used a sequinned flower that I bought from a craft store and fevicryl sparklers to give a beautiful outlining to the lamp! Hope you all like it!

Another Rangoli.....

Happy Diwali!!!!!

Wishing all my readers a very happy and prosperous Deepawali! I found these cute looking diyas at a local market! These diyas placed among Rangoli surely did brighten my evening!...Hope this festival of lights brings prosperity, happiness and joy in your days ahead!

In the process....

My Elder Sister V gifted me this really cute Perlen-Bastel set (A beautiful box of different kinds of beads from www.nkd.com from Germany.

I should have taken a picture of the box before I started making the jewellry. Anyways, I was so excited that I just wanted to complete everything. Atleast I took a picture while making the necklace. :-)

I will upload the pictures of finished ones in the next post....till then tata! Have a great weekend!

From my Sketchbook!

The first one is of an Indian actress...any guesses????....well actually I had received a forwarded mail from one of my friends to take a look at the drawings by an unknown artist...I dont know who that artist is....but to practice I sketched this one by seeing that drawing...The original one by the unknown artist was better I feel.

This sketch of Mahatma Gandhiji I learnt from a portrait book. U can purchase many books to learn sketching from. There are many types like Landscapes, Temples, Portraits, Nature.....etc..

Water color painting

I did this Painting long back when I was learning Water colors. I used a very old calendar for reference.

MEME

Sukanya had sent this meme long time back...Here it goes



The rules of the tag are as follows:
* Pick up the nearest book*
Open to page 123*
Find the 5th sentence*
Post the next three sentences*
Tag 5 people and acknowledge the person who tagged you
Ok here it goes......


The nearest book is '200 Craft projects made easy by Simona Hill'

and on page 123, is "Ribbon Weaving"

5th Sentence is "Weave the next weft under the first warp and over the second and so on to the end."

1. Alternate the weft ribbons .
2. check the ribbons are neatly lined up before pressing as shown opposite.
3. push the weft ribbons closer or remove the last ribbon.