Graduation Photo Framed

Graduation Photo Framed

Hi friends, I started this blog in 2010 to chronicle the various school projects and crafts I made with or for my little one . Many of you have seen her on my blog  and literally seen her grow up over the years. So this is a very special blogpost as I am sharing a frame I made to commemorate my little girl graduating 10th standard [equivalent to O levels]. Not only did she graduate  with flying colours but her school honoured her by presenting her with an award for excellence in academics over the  whole 10 year period.

Handmade Flowers

I framed her photo with lots of handmade roses inked, sponged and sprayed with a medley of colours to match the colours of my daughter's saree [ our traditional Indian dress]

Handmade Flowers

I used a variety of materials including paper, foam, sospeso and shrink plastic to make the flowers and leaves.

Handmade Flowers

The roses are made from very thick card stock to hold their shape well so they were quite time consuming to make.The foam flower was quick and easy to make.Here is the link for the foamiran flower tutorial 

Handmade Flowers

The heart shaped base is made of MDF. It was given a coating of gesso and I decoupaged it before adding all the flowers and leaves.

Graduation Photo Framed

I hope you liked this project and Thank you for dropping by and supporting!

Supplies used: Sospeso,Foamiran,Shrink Plastic, Resin Frame-all from Crafters Corner. Butterflies, Foliage Dies: Little Birdie

Linking to  https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2023/01/challenge-621-anything-goes.html

This project was  chosen as a Designer Spotlight at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Theme Flowers. How Thrilling and Thank you so much !

Autumn Flowers Photoframe

Paper Flower tutorial 

    I love making and  altering photo-frames and this frame features simple handmade Paper flowers made using the Spellbinders Rose creations die and glitter balls

Paper Flowers

            The vintage photo is of my husband , his sister and parents on the day he graduated from medical college many years ago!!

Paper Flowers

         The frame base has a deep orange colors . My flowers are a creamish yellow and the petal edges and center inked with a tinge of red. The leaves have several shades of green!

Paper Flowers

The fringed flowers were made using a shiny metallic paper. My husband loves flowers and gardening  so I made this photo-frame especially for him!

Paper Flowers

I hope you like this simple Photoframe with lots of flowers and foliage!
Supplies : Dies : Spellbinders Rose Creations  , Heartfelt creations Classic Leaf
Stamps : Heartfelt creations Leaf
Linking to 

1. Sparkles Forum Challenge
2. Simon Says Work It Wednesday Nov
3. Sweet Stamps Anything But a Card Dec 15

Sun and Sea Photo frame

Handmade Photoframe

       I love making photo-frames by recycling old desktop calendars and have made and gifted so many over the years...they are a big hit with the recipients and so much fun to make too!

Handmade Photo frame

        We are planning a short holiday to the beach soon and I guess that is what made me choose this theme for the Photo-frame. And yes the  photo is of my daughter in the toothless grin stage at 8 months !

Googly eyed Sun

        I cut out the sun image from a Tarot card set I had bought during a phase I was fascinated with the numerology, astrology etc etc! To increase the cuteness quotient I added googly eyes , a pink rhinestone nose and a big smile! The golden backdrop is a Joy Crafts Lace die cut which I added to the sides of the photo-frame too.

Embossed Clouds

        I embossed the clouds and gave them a bit of blue over the edges  and added a blue glittery heart just to up to cuteness!

ShellCraft

 I filled the  tiny bottle with glitter balls and chunky glitter and my daughter really went "ooh so cute" over it !

Rhinestone Palm tree

 I am a sticker girl  cant resist buying cute stickers !Layered the palm tree on a golden island encrusted with diamonds!!

Shell craft

 And that's the closeup of the shop sailing over the waves[ the waves are a chipboard piece I heat embossed in 2 shades of blue]

Ship

The ship had a pirate sign on the flag but I wanted cuteness so hid it with a glitter heart!

Resin Craft Dolphin

 I love this dolphin I created using resin, alcohol ink and a chocolate mold!!

Resin Craft Dolphin

And here is one more view of how the light shines through the little dolphin!
I hope you enjoyed my handmade Photo frame!

Supplies : Dies : Joy crafts Lace border, Memory Box  Cloud , Provocraft net, Couture creations Oval, Lifestyle crafts Circle,

Linking to Unstampabelles, BGC 72 

Pop Up Scrapbook Album

Pop Up Scrapbook Album

           Dear friends Thank you so much for all the love and wishes you showered on my daughter's Frozen theme birthday post !
           Sharing a pop up mini album featuring my daughter from her toddler years.I am literally in love with Karen Burniston's Pop Up Oval Accordion die. Using the die it was so easy to make this pop up scrapbook album

Paper flowers

The Heartfelt creations sun kissed fluers were inked with distress ink and a few strokes of wink of stella.The white flowers were stamped & heat embossed on parchment and the leaves were stamped and embossed on parchment and inked with mowed lawn distress ink.

Dragonfly

The dragon fly was made with a golden textured paper and glitter foam using a Cheery Lynn  die

Glitter Foam Honeybee

My daughter helped make the glitter foam honeybee [ again with a Cheery Lynn die]

Felt Sunflower

Used fabric leaves for felt sunflowers made using Cheery Lynn  die again.

Stamped Flower

Added Wink of Stella for a subtle shimmer on this Hero Arts stamped flower.

Castle

The cute castle is a sticker I had been hoarding for ages!

Pop Up Scrapbook Album

Made a this parchment flower [stamped and heat embossed] and tinged it pink to match the lacy pink frock my daughter is wearing in the photo!

Glitter Foam Dragon fly

The Cheery Lynn   dragon fly has become and favorite and I love how glamorous it looks in glitter foam!

Glitter foam ladybird

The Cheery Lynn  die cut ladybird has multiple layers of glitter foam and metallic gold paper!

Pop Up Scrapbook Album

       This is my first mini album of sorts and kept it simple by just mixing and matching the pattern papers and embellishments to match the colors in the photos!

Pop Up Album

This beautiful epoxy sticker was gifted by my friend Lisa! Thank you so much for your generosity Lisa!

Pop Up Scrapbook Album

          This view shows the accordion folding and pop up elements in the pop up album and the best thing is it can be folded flat and stored away!

Pop Up Scrapbook Album

I hope you like my first mini scrapbook album
Supplies : Dies : Heartfelt creations Classic Leaf, Heartfelt creations Sun kissed fleur [ used to make the buds][Crafters Corner]

Cheery Lynn  Butterflies, Tiny things with wings,Sunflower, Grass, Love

Elizabeth Craft designs Karen Burniston Oval Accordion die [Crafters Corner]

Papers : DCWV, Prima Introspection [Crafters Corner]
Wink of Stella[Crafters Corner]

Handmade Photoframe

Handmade Photoframe

Dear friends ,Thank you so much for the encouraging words on my Tips for a Better Blog post ! I had put in a lot of work on that post and it feels nice that many of you found it useful. Sharing a simple handmade photoframe made by recycling a desktop calendar

Handmade Photoframe

The paper flowers with the pom pom centers are handmade and here is the link to the Paper Flower tutorial 

Handmade Photoframe

The butterfly was stamped and heat embossed and then water-colored.These Sizzix butterflies and the Cheery Lynn  butterflies are my favorite! You can see more of these butterflies in my fairy land diorama tutorial 

Handmade Photoframe

Sharing  something which is making me sad
Blogging and sharing crafty tutorials and interacting with my blog readers has always given me such joy in the past  but I am  rather saddened today as I found one of my photoframe tutorials published on a website with all my watermarks erased from the photos. This is the 5th time this sort of thing is happening...writing tutorials takes so much time and effort and it is so disheartening when people simply copy whole posts and post to their websites...so depressing !
Do guide....feeling rather miserable !
Update : I Contacted the admin of the offending website and they have now removed the copied article...that is some consolation!

Supplies : Dies : Spellbinders lace hearts,Spellbinders majestic labels 25, Memory Box rounded fence, Marianne bird, Sizzix Tim Holtz tattered florals, Heartfelt creations leaf,Sizzix butterfly , Cheery Lynn  butterfly, Cheery Lynn  fanciful flourish

Foam Flowers Photoframe

Foam Flowers

            Dear friends Thank you so much for the fantastically warm response you gave to my friend Rupa's Wood grain tutorial ---that is what I like best about blogland- the way we support and encourage each other!

          Sorry I have not been around to visit....I had an extremely busy week last week with a huge patient load and my usually good time management skills went for a big toss.I feel so bad for letting down the Tuesday Throwdown team as I couldnt make my Guest DT project for them this week.

           Sharing a simple Photoframe my daughter and I had made as a Teacher's Day gift. Altered a desktop calendar like in the earlier DIY Photoframes I had shared and this time added foam flowers.

Foam flowers

Made the foam flowers using a favorite Cheery Lynn  Sunflower die using this tutorial : Easy Daisy tutorial . I love using foam to craft as it doesn't crush and this was a special advantage in this photoframe as I didn't have to worry about the flowers getting crushed while the handmade photoframe traveled to school!

Handmade Photoframe

We used chunky glitter on the center of the purple flowers and added Heartfelt creations stamped and die cut leaves. This was a super simple Photoframe churned up in minutes!

You can see similar foam flowers here: Fairyland Diorama tutorial 

How to make easy DIY Photoframes : Photoframe tutorial 1, Photoframe tutorial 2, Photoframe tutorial 3, Easy Picture frame tutorial 

Supplies : Dies : Cheery Lynn  Sunflower, Cheery Lynn  Butterfly, Heartfelt creations Leaf, Marianne Fence

Teachers Day Gift -Photoframe

Handmade Photoframe

             Dear friends sharing a simple photoframe we made by recycling another desktop calendar for Teacher's day [Tutorials : Photoframe tutorial 1, Photoframe tutorial 2, Photoframe tutorial 3, Easy Picture frame tutorial ].Its a fairly simple frame with just a few die-cuts, a lace fashioned into a heart and some quilling.

Handmade Paper flowers

The large pink flower [made using a Sizzix die and this tutorial : Easy Paper Flower tutorial] was chosen by my kiddo and adding the pink quilled elements on the corners of the frame was also her idea!

Handmade Photoframe

In this post I am also sharing a bit of my crafty happiness with you -the past few days have been super lucky for me in blogland- my  3 D chariot won at the Marianne Dies Challenge, The Roses Photoframe won at Cheery Lynn Dies Challenge, My Fairyland Diorama was top 3 in 4 challenges and my Fairyland Pop up card won at Create something Catchy challenge.

Blogland is also so super encouraging to young crafters and I was so thrilled my daughter's Clay Diorama was top 3 in Brown and Sugar Sea theme challenge and also featured crafter at Anything but a card!

My daughter's Egyptian Mummy was featured at Crafty Gossip Party Ideas and was handpicked winner at A girl who crafts !

And not just the challenge wins and top 3s...I am so thankful that you  my blogger friends leave so many wonderful encouraging comments on every post...So blessed to have such amazing warmhearted blogger pals!
Supplies : Dies : Spellbinders Majestic labels 25,Heartfelt creations Leaf,Sizzix Flower layer 2