Hola Punches!

And finally, the day has come when I decided to try out punching "seriously". I always thought it was an easy-peasy job! But well...............I stand corrected and thoroughly humbled! There is SO much to do in punches, I think I am looking at mixed media for a LONG time to come :) This card made me a HUGE fan of all those who make cards because I don't think I ever use THIS many supplies of different kinds in a frame!!!!!!! Putting that variety together in a presentable form IS a task and my respect for card-makers has gone up two notches!

My first serious trial at punches and their use :)

Answering all the questions:

I've used a hand-made beige-gold paper for background, a simple beige paper punched using Martha Stewart punch-around-the-page deco fan punch, the flowers are made using Punch Punch Super Giant and Large Daisy punches, the half-sticker pearls (smaller ones) are from a local shop, the big half pearl is from Panduro (Sweden), the "scrapbook paper" effect on the beige paper is hand-drawn swirls and leaves (for the life of me, I can never decide what scrapbook paper will fit where and I hardly have any anyway), the organza ribbon is from Pipoos (Belgium), the leaves are 2" and 1" leaf punches I bought from A-One Craft Supplies and so are the pollens. The "Smile" is yours truly's hand-writing (I still can't figure stamping too well!)...........have I listed everything?

Linking this one to Crafty Creations Free for All challenge :)

Happy Punching (Hahahaha)

Pritesh

 PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)

A first for Beaute Naturelle - Part 1

Hello All,

I had been working on and for this post for a long long time and now that Meghana Chaudhary Joshi is ready with her boutique, Beaute Naturelle, I hereby post the work I did for the boutique!!!! Yay!

When Meg came and discussed the idea. I was so excited. This was my first order of this kind - sign boards. She gave ONLY the text and I had 100% creative freedom to decide how I wanted the things to be. I must admit, I LOVE working that way! So, in the series of sign boards, this was the first one I made: Adornment. This is for the jewellery section of her boutique! For all those who are in Pune, please DO check out her place. It's beyond belief good! I was so tempted to buy the whole shop off! :) And she opens on Saturday, July 7 @ 5:30 pm. Check her webpage for more details............here's to Meghana, to Beaute Naturelle and to women entrepreneurship :)

MUCH more to follow (remember all the snippets from the post wip wip worray?), counting down to Meg's boutique's opening.......

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)

Cards - 1

Hello All,

Looking at so many crafters using scor-boards so effectively had been making me feel extremely guilty about sitting over mine! I had not even opened the packaging in last 20 days! After seeing Hussena's wonderful boxes and envelope, my guilt finally overcame me and I opened my scor board package. It is a BIT tricky to figure out things with it for someone like me........I have finished struggling and came up with this :) Thanks Hussena, for inspiring me :)

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)