Handpainted Pen Stand - Warli - Soul

Express your emotions with a real feel....❤️😇😇😍

A customized pen stand with modernized warli..... A unique gift which is very much connected to you and your partner...    Each face  of the pen stand depicts a  daily life scenario... Warli is the medium used here for expression....😍🥰

Fishy fish in Madhubani

Since quite a long time, there was a pending wish such as hands-on for new art but could not get time, perfect mood and also bit laziness to start with new .....was Madhubani art :). I always got attracted toward this art due to its bright colors used and enlightening effect due to black outline :) and attention given to boarders of objects. My last few weeks were just full with exploring about this art, through some Indian art magazines and internet. After some studies of such references I could get confidence to start with my first Madhubani :). This is what I could put myself with this lovely art :).

It is done on natural handmade paper with water colours. I have used black point pen for bordering it.
I will explore few more days with this art and then I have a plan of reusing my mordernised warli concept with madhubani. Soon I will post about it :).

Few words about Madhubani art-

Madhubani or Mithila painting is a style of Indian painting, practiced in the Mithila region of Bihar state, India. Madhubani painting is characterized by line drawings filled in by bright three to five colors and contrasts or patterns.

Traditional Madhubani paintings themes include Ram-Sita, Shiva Parvati and depcitions from daily life, with objects like fish, trees of fruits such as mango and pomegranate and birds like peacock, parrots. Attractive floral motifs act as borders.
Linking it to Colours Dekor's Weekly stories and Paint Party Friday.
Thank you for visiting this post :)

DIY Photoframe Tutorial

I have made this photoframe as a recycled project in last month with the help of my daughter, Harshi. She was very excited to do it, as it was all going on for her photo :).

For making this frame I got inspired by one of the tutorial given by Sonia :)

I loved it the way it turned out. So I thought of sharing it's making steps briefly over my tiny blog :).

I have used last year's desktop calendar, green color handmade paper, mirror beads, 3-D outliner glitter and a gift wrap paper, glue, cutter/craft knife.

I have used paper piece of calendar which is just before the thick last one cardboard paper of calendar.

I have arranged photo at center on it and marked its outline. Then I have cut out  the marked area at a slightly smaller size so that the frame will overlap the photo slightly.

Then I have marked the slightly greater cut out on green handmade paper as compared to cut out area. Then applied glue to four sides as shown in below picture.

For decorations, I have used left over mirrors from my painting stuff. Harshi has helped me sticking them surrounding her photo :). Still it was plain in look, so in order to make it more colorful, I have cut out red old gift wrap paper and put it as a boarder below the snap. Harshi has got more affection towards 3-D glitter outliner, she wanted to have hands-on on it, so holding her hand, I made a boarder below it.

 So how is it? Did u like it....

Tip specially for kids while making the photoframe-

Make the aperture with the craft knife before kid start making the frame.

I am linking it to Patty's Kids craft@Colours Dekor and ABC Wednesday: K is for kinks

Peep into my doors! Not a warli this time...

Just thought of sharing one of my handmade stuff with you guys....

We have been shifted to our own house since 3.5 years. Since that time I was in search of a unique nameplate for my door with special personal touch. I am the person who loves to decorate her home with personal feel at almost each corner of the house. I guess that is why I take much time to fill in things in my house....I found hardly such a nameplate which can give a kinda aura when someone enters to my home...Hence I gave up an idea of buying nameplate and thought of creating one on my own....

Luckily some leftover stuff from Subodh's (my hubby) hardware kit had some plastic plywood kinda sheet, m-seal, araldite...I thought such things are OK to start with a nameplate..offcourse my drawer is full of acrylic colors, beads and brushes....

I have cut the plastic sheet with the dimension which I found suitable for nameplate on my door. An acrylic color of earthen (warli background color left over) was applied on it. It was allowed to let it dry for some time. Acrylic colors doesn't take much time to dry..that's why I love them to use...:)

Further with m-seal,...(unfortunately I had grey, black m-seal which is used for plumbing work, rather white is best for making some artistic mould like)...I made Ganesha and snail. Black m-seal gets dried up soon...hence one need to be fast with shape molding. Ganesha was colored with golden brown and snail was colored with green, yellow and black. Please use talcum powder while making such articles with m-seal. I have applied mirror like beads on the snail's tail. Both the things were stuck on colored plastic sheet with araldite. I allowed it to dry for some time. Meanwhile I made letters for our surname with m-seal, which were stuck on plastic sheet using araldite. Then the alphabets were colored.

Also I made a boarder on nameplate using m-seal and colored with yellow acrylic. I purposely used irregular shape of alphabets to give a natural, artistic look. One can use stencils if they want proper alphabates.
How is the nameplate? Did you guys like it? Please put your helpful feedback on the same. I would love to read it..:)
I hope you guys njoyed reading tutorial too.