May Challenge Winners

Good Morning Crafters,

Today, we the team of Craftsneed, are happy to announce the winners of our last challenge. 

We received an overwhelming response for our challenge last month and picking three from them was a difficult task. Thank you all for participating! We'd like to also let you know, that some beautiful entries could not be picked because the basic guidelines were not met- the most important one being, following the blog.

Onto the results for the challenge. First our two runner ups:

1. Deepti Aggarwal

Love the clean and simple card and the colouring is fabulous!

2. Pooja Sharma

Lovely mixed media project with all the elements beautifully coming together in the scene.

Now onto our winner:

Mukta Parvatikar Maniar 

Lovely shabby chic card with the supplies used very well. We are in awe of this creation.

Congratulations Deepti, Pooja and Mukta. Do mails us at craftsneed@gmail.com to claim your prizes!

We'll reveal our June challenge in the following week, so watch out:)!

Happy crafting!

Mixed media frame

Hi friends,

Few days back I posted a mixed media project as my Dt inspiration for current May challenge on the blog.I got incredible response for my mixed media project.Lot of people were asking how I have done this.

So today I have a nice tutorial post for you all taking you to a tour of mixed media art.Mixed media art is anything where we combine various techniques in a single frame.Let me show you the frame first and then talk more on this.

For this frame I have a used a cardboard as my base and then have put white acrylic paint to cover as a coat on the cardboard.Once the white acrylic paint has dried I have done decoupage with modpodge and tissues.

Once my decoupage is done and dried ,I used a brick stencil to create a pattern on the cardboard.For this i used Modelling paste by Finnabair.I simply applied this paste on the surface with the help of a painting knife.This paste will dry in next 15 minutes.Be sure to was off this paste from the stencil.

After drying this is how the pattern will look like.

Now I started distressing the whole pattern with the help of distress inks.I have also used sprays by Papericious to give better effect on the pattern background.

Now this is how it looks after drying.

Time to embellish it with chipboard, flowers.metal embellishments and other accessories.I have stuck everything using Glossy accents glue.

Let me share some close ups of the project.

All supplies are from http://www.craftsneed.com/

Hope you enjoyed the making,Happy crafting!!

Anushree

Altered MDF Box

Hello Folks...

 This is Afreen here, today i will be showing you , how to decorate your plain MDF box in to beautiful one.. first will show you what I made 

Lets move on to the procedure of making this pretty box ... All you need is few embellishments, Acrylic paints and MDF box of desired size

This is the Raw MDF box am using here..

I added Gesso to cover all sides of the boxes 

Then added camlin texture paste using TIM Holtz stencil.. Add textures on the top and side portion of the box 

Add embellishments.. arrange them as you wish.. here i used Paper flowers,Metal embellishments, MDF, chipboard, pearls, lace.. 

Cover the embellishments and all sides of the box with black acrylic paint

Then apply some acrylic colors as you wish here and there .. use your fingers to apply paints, so that you can get  nice blending of colors..below is the sample pic i applied single color ..

These are the colors i will be using 

I added more layers of acrylic colors like Green, turquoise blue, pink, and mica powder to give royal look for it..

added some glitter balls using glossy accent.. thats all.. its done now.. here is the some more  glipmse of my box

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some more shot

close up shot

close up shot

flower close up

side view

side view

Supplies used

1. MDF box (http://www.craftsneed.com/box-mdf-wooden)
2.  Acrylic colors ( black, pearl pink, turquoise blue, Light green, violet)
3. Gold Mica powder
4. Gesso (http://www.craftsneed.com/papericious-heavy-gesso-black)
5. Camlin texture paste
6. Stencils (http://www.craftsneed.com/stencils )
7. Mdf laser  cut outs (http://www.craftsneed.com/laser-cut-outs )
8. Metal charms , flowers (http://www.craftsneed.com/embellishments-2 )
9. Glitter balls (http://www.craftsneed.com/glitter-ball-box-20)
10. Glossy accent (http://craftsneed.com/ranger-glossy-accents-mini )

All products are available at craftsneed

Pre orders available.. EMI facility available

Thank you for stopping by,

Do leave some love,

Happy crafting

With love

Afreen

Altered Shadow Box

Hi

This is Hema sharing a new GDT project for CraftsNeed …..a one stop collection for all your Craft Supplies.  I have used the supplies from Crafts Need in this project.  Since the last theme was Shadow Box.....I thought of sharing a different approach of making the same, here I share a tutorial for shadow box which can be customized as per the occasion and gift it to your loved ones or as a keepsake. So let me share this fun project with you all and hope you guys can do it and gift it for your loved ones.

Here I picked a ready photo frame which is available in any stores and this we are using as a shadow box.

So here  I have applied black gesso on to the frame and heat set it. Next I adhered few metal charms on to the frame.

Now once we have finished with the gesso …..now is the main frame work.  Take a thick chipboard and cut strips measuring the glass of your photo frame......ensure the measurements are according to the glass because we need to ensure the box fits into the frame perfectly into it.

After your chipboard pieces are cut, paint them with black acrylic and dry it. And stick these on to your glass with adhesive and allow to dry. After its set ….now start assembling your embellishments.  I picked flowers,  fussy cut nakshatra papers, golden bead string, wooden chipboard and started decorating the shadow box.

I took Nakshatra Design paper cut it to the size of the box and used the strip paper for decoration, I used the negative side of the small strip and attached it behind the border strip for a lace effect.....you can see this inside the shadow box.

This is how I finished the inner decoration with some fussy cut wording with the same paper pack and rhinestones and I hand drew the gal and water colored with Koi water colors.

Sharing the finished project and few close up shots.  Here you can use personalize pictures instead of the girl and decorate it for your keepsake or gifting purpose.

Hope you all like this what I shared with you here.  And do share with us your views and what you learnt here......I would be happy to showcase my projects here.

Will share another project with you all till then.........

HAPPY CRAFTING!!

Lots of Love

Hema