Thursday, 19 January 2017

Traditional decorative hanging

Dear Friends,

Today I am sharing with you my new creation designed specially for my loving students and teachers as I promised.

The elephant die of Sizzix is my favorite and inspired me to create best out of waste using disposable hangers at home ,I tried to pick easily available materials at home for making it. Hope you will love it too.

Getting inspired by this learning I am sure you will be having lot more ideas and creativity coming in mind.

Please share how this idea inspired you??
Love to hear from you!!!

Materials I used

Pastel sheet (any colour)
Black marker or pen
Wool in different colours
Sequence/studs
White beads
Pom Pom
Glue
Needle
Old disposable hanger
Sizzix Bigshot Die-cutting machine
Two sizzix dies link and image show below.

http://www.teachingaids.in/product/sizzix-bigz-die-elephant-2-a11118

http://www.teachingaids.in/product/sizzix-framelits-die-set-8pk-circles-scallop-657552

PROCEDURE

1.First make a small Pom Pom from wool with the help of a fork as shown in the image.

2. Wrap the wool around the fork

3 .Put a knot in the centre.

4 .Now remove the wool from fork and cut both sides and give it the final shape of pom pom.

5. Now make a big PomPom with the help of a big comb as shown.

6. Repeat the steps above as we did with the fork. Now the big and small Pompoms are ready.

8.Cut out an elephant from the die and paste a piece of pink sheet to cover the ear as shown

9. Now make the design on the elephant cut out with doodling technique (use any colour of your choice).

10.Now put beads and pom pom in wool string with the help of needle.

11. Paste the elephant on the string.

Now to cover the hanger-
1. Take a paper and paste it on the hanger as shown.

2. Paste paper on one side.

3. Paste all the strings on the hanger, and cover the back of the hanger

4. After pasting the paper and strings on hanger, decorate the hanger with circular cut outs from the die. Give the outline with black marker, and decorate it with your creativity.

5. Doodle the plain area of the hanger (optional).

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Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Paper Kandeels in Tri-color with a bonus mobile project!

Hello, to all Teachers!
Happy Tuesday!

Hope you all enjoyed your New Year celebrations!!!

I am back here to share my first 2017 inspirational post on Republic Day theme!
It's not a big deal to plan 26th January Republic Day. Don't worry I can help you!

First and foremost things are to decorate the class in sober Tri-color balloons, ribbons or flowers. This will bring the feel of nationalism and the atmosphere will reflect a kind of national feeling.

Nothing arouses more pleasure in the heart of every Indian than to see the fluttering tri-color of our flag. So here I am presenting how to decorate and make your class more attractive in a new style using awesome AllStar / Sizzix dies!

1. First, let us work on Tri-color Kandeels!

How I did:

Die cut tri-color paper (4 each) using Rectangles dotted frames die and embossed one panel in each colour using the embossing folder -bohemian-botanicals-set.

It's very easy to stitch them as they have tiny holes in it. Stitch them as shown in the pic. ( attached all the pieces of the same colour). Don't stitch the last panel.

Now cut some fringe strips in tricolour to decorate the bottom of the kandeel. I stapled these frills on all the bottom edges. Stitched the fourth panel now as shown in the pic and wrapped the satin ribbon over the seam (stapled again).

Die cut some butterflies out of pattern papers, mirror sheets, off-white sheets.

Die cut some flowers and leaves using Floral Wreath die in different colours. And pinched them for dimension using my fingers as shown in the pic.

Now decorate the front panel as shown in the pic.

2. Now for a surprise bonus project!

When you watched the parade, you saw the glory and Tableaux of different states and Union Territories depict the cultural tradition and progress of their religion!

You can create a project on different states/cities showing their importance, monuments, the place to visit, temples, their religion etc. Or you can create any project on any theme!

I have a beautiful collection os Mysore city postcards, so showing how I matted them to create a mobile!

I placed two nesting nrectangles dotted die on a blue coloured CS shown in the pic( double fold the sheet to save the time) and die cut them.

Now pasted the dotted blue frame using fevicol but (take care not to put fevicol inside edges of the frame and at the top). I applied the fevicol in dot style. And tied a thread on one of the centre holes of the other blue panel. The children/teacher can write the information about that place.

I placed the postcard like this, shown in the pic and placed the blue tag under the post card and tied it with a thread.

I die cut some letters and matted them on the centre tag to show the slogan" I LOVE INDIA" In place of letter O, I die cut a heart and coloured it. Die cut a bird out of pattern paper and adhered it on my photo mat.

Now my mobiles are ready to show!!! Isn't it amazing!!! What do you think!

These photo mats are veryversatile. Even you can interchange the theme for any project by replacing these pics.

Supplies used:

http://www.teachingaids.in/product/sizzix-framelits-die-set-9pk-rectangles-dotted-661561

http://www.teachingaids.in/product/sizzix-thinlits-die-set-23pk-floral-wreath-660256

http://www.teachingaids.in/product/sizzix-embossing-folders-4pk-bohemian-botanicals-set-item-657810

http://www.teachingaids.in/product/sizzix-bigz-xl-alphabet-die-block-talk-capital-658563

http://www.teachingaids.in/product/sizzix-bigz-die-hearts-656334

http://www.teachingaids.in/product/sizzix-big-shot-machine-only-white-gray

Other supplies used:
Off white, orange, green, blue, yellow coloured Cardstocks
Some different Pattern Papers
Crepe papers
Some Post Cards os Mysore City
Red colour and Tim Holtz water brush
Double shade thread, needle, scissors, Satin ribbons, tiny beads, Fevicol

Hope you all enjoyed my project and Kindly leave some love and feedback and How I Inspired You.

Kindly Share your Republic Day projects with us at FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/teachingaids.in/ or you can mail us!

Happy Crafting!
Vinita Jain

Saturday, 31 December 2016

New year wish card!!

Hello friends !!

I am Aarti here with my first post of greeting card

Creativity is at its peak when an artist thinks and works from the heart. On this grand platform TeachingAids blog, I present you my creations that is very close to my heart !!!

Hope you all enjoy and learn from some of the artistic creations. Step by step process is mentioned
below. Don’t forget to have fun while you do it!!

A special note of thanks to Vikas Ji for giving me this splendid platform.

All the best!!!

STEPS

Step -1: Paint the white sheet with the green and yellow shades, try free hand brush strokes.

Step -2: Using black marker draw leaves as shown in the picture below.

Step -3:Cut the leaves and slightly roll them backward

Step -4:Paint the background for the card with water colour on a good quality handmade water colour paper

Step -5 : Use Sizzix Bigshot machine and cut the roses by using Sizzix Bigz Flower 3D die

Step -6:Colour them with the pink ink on both sides

Step -7:-Roll the die cut of rose by using tweezers and give them the shape of rose .glue the end point of the petal.

Step -8: Give the edges of roses and sprinkle the sparkle on the edges of rose.

Step -9: Prepare the base with card stock paste them with double tape to give 3d look

Step -10 :Cut the butterfly and distress it with yellow ink.

Step -11: Cut the net using die cut and distress

Step -12: Now everything is ready to be pasted.

Step -13: Paste all the things made and embellish the card.

Step -14: Cut the paper using die Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 3PK - Labels, Long - 659131 and stamp using Sizzix Clear Stamps - Birthday Phrases - 656120 for the message.

Gift it to a loved one!!