BGC#67 : Spring Green with Spring Elements! with Bipasha

Hello..Hello Helloo Wonderful bloggers!!! It's Bipasha with you here  :)

How have you been doing??

You all might have been enjoying our current challenge and April is already in its mid week!

I  have been following all your creations linked to our Mr Linky tool for our ongoing challenge and they all are soo mind-boggling! 

BGC#67 - Spring Green with Spring Elements!

Let me first quickly walk you through the challenge guidelines ...

1.      Make any paper crafted project (Card , mixed media , altered item etc) with Green being the prominent color .

2.      Add Spring elements to it for e.g. grass, flowers, sunny day scene, Easter related items such as bunnies, birds or anything that shouts Spring!!!

3.      Make sure you explain in your post what spring elements you have used.

4.      Link back to our challenge .

5.      Deadline 1^st April to 30^th April.

N.B. Please go through the challenge guidelines carefully to qualify your entry for the challenge and who knows! You can be a winner and win amazing goodies from our generous sponsors!! 

Now onto my inspiration:

An Easter Egg Money Bank it is!

And here is the overall look:

RECIPE:

1.I used a plain foam egg for the base and made a slit to insert coins and cut out a circular opening at the bottom base with a removable enclosure to open the bank.

2.Used the gloss gel to adhere the selected green punched out layers onto the base and embellished it accordingly with all the elements. I glued down all the elements using  Prima's 3D gloss and yes! Its done :)

Ingredients: 3D gloss gel, Graphic 45 "time to flourish" die cuts, Martha Stewart hydrangea & Frond Punches,Foam Egg,Twine, Charms, Seam binding, Tim Holtz metal frame

Thanks for stopping by :)

Hope my creation inspires you and don't forget to play along with us here

Much love xx

Bipasha

BGC#66- Mixed Media with Bipasha !

Hello..Hello Helloo Wonderful bloggers!!! It's Bipasha with you here  :)

How have you been doing??

You all might have been enjoying our current challenge and March is already in its last week!!!!!

I  have been following all your creations linked to our Mr Linky tool for our ongoing challenge "Mixed Media".. and they all are soo mind-boggling! We are sure to have a very tough time deciding our BGC#66 winners ;)

So Mixed media it is this time! That is, creating a visual art using more than one medium. It has been always my favourite forte. I have been really interested in trying different art elements as well as inks to create dimensional artworks...and hence came up with a little inspiration for all you crafty people this weekend!

Let me first quickly walk you through the challenge guidelines ...

 Make a mixed media project using more than one medium (gesso, mist, ink, gel medium, texture paste, paint). It has to be visible in your work.

- Mention what kind of medium you used in your post .

- Your project must be new and must have been done after our challenge announcement.

- Deadline to enter: 31th March 2015 until 11:55 PM IST.

N.B. Please go through the challenge guidelines carefully to qualify your entry for the challenge and who knows! You can be a winner and win amazing goodies from our generous sponsors!! 

Now onto my inspiration:

A mixed media card it is!

And here is the overall look:

RECIPE:

1.I used a plain off white card for the background. 

2.Glued two cut out paper pyramids from the gorgeous "Prima's Romance Novel" diagonally in two opposite corners.

3. Stamped and spattered  randomly in the mid region with the colour blooms, some beads, etc

4.Once I am happy with the BG, I started altering my elements to match my BG. I chalk painted the mdf frame into black and stamped a butterfly and some scripts onto it using Prima's white chalk ink. Also, I splattered randomly with my mahagony distress stain spray on the selected die-cuts.

5.Next, I glued down all the elements using  Prima's 3D gloss and yes! Its done :)

Mixed media ingredients: (mediums used)

Colour blooms, archival blank ink, chalkboard paint, chalk ink, distress stain spray, 3D gloss

Thanks for stopping by :)

Hope my creation inspires you and don't forget to play along with us here

Much love xx

Bipasha

Playing with Dies~a tutorial ! with Bipasha

Hello... Wonderful crafters

This is Bipasha with you. Aren't you enjoying our challenge already with the gorgeous inspirations shared by the talented DTs?? I have spent a real crafty time this month with new creations and loved going through all the projects added to the Mr. linky for the ongoing challenge....You do mesmerize us every time with your creativity. :)

Now coming onto sharing a little crafty technique for today....

I thought of making a project experimenting the versatile use of our different dies in an innovative way. This project has a very close connection to my heart. I am quite happy with the end results and hopefully you would love the plot too.

Technique recipe:
I used 4 die cuts of Cherry Lynn 's Wedding Vows, cut out of ivory sheets. I cut out the couples from the designed frames, hence we are left with 4 layers of each.

I also, cut out 4 strips of hard card stock which will act as the support ribs for my altar. Yes you hear it right ! We are making an wedding altar :). The strips are folded in halves lengthwise and glued down to build the pretty altar...doesn't it look elegant already?

And here the couple goes layered to create a dimensional effect and stands pretty and high in our beautiful altar.

Next, we cut out two bases: one for the roof and the other for the floor.
So yes its as easy as that and we are done !

I don't believe there is any technique for embellishing or decorating your project because I think each of your hearts will do the job better and in an unique way...

This is how my heart expressed its feeling inspired by the colours of this month's challenge theme...

Use this simple recipe and play with your wedding dies or any similar frames and surprise yourself, creativity is endless...ain't it ?

Thankyou for looking into the project and would love to see your precious feed-backs or answer your queries, if any. I am just a comment away :)

Signing off for today, Happy crafting,
Bipasha

BGC#63 Monochromatic with Bipasha!

Hello everyone !!

So here I meet you again wonderful crafty people :). By now, the other talented BGC DTs have already came out with wonderful inspirations and I have been truly enjoying each of their unique creations.

 This is a special post for me because for the very first time in my mixed media creations and with many of you sweet peoples' request, I tried to capture one tutorial for you !!

So without further ado, lets go quickly through the ..

Challenge guidelines :  (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY)

• Make a project using shades of only one color (any color - your choice). If you are not using shades just go for one single color against the neutrals.

• Neutrals like white and black will be allowed but in minimum amount.

• If you are using a stamped image make sure you stay in the color scheme u picked, but you are free to use skin and hair shades for coloring human images.
• Here is the color wheel for your reference if you are using shades !

•  Link back to our challenge to be eligible for the prize
•  deadline to enter - 30th Nov 2014 until 11:55 PM

And....

The winner will receive a lovely prize from

Which is this
Magnolia - tilda with 3 flowers stamp

Isn't that amazing?? :)

I went with the Blues and made a mixed meda altered art "DREAM big".....:) and really love the way the project came up as...

  And here is the video tutorial(art recipe) for it :

Products used :

Chalkboard paint #577230 Sea Breeze

Modeling Paste #961411

Heavy Gesso white #961442

Color Blooms Soft teal,Precious Stone,cobalt

Metal trinklets #960407

Prima Resin #892418

Stencil-Prima pin wheel tags

Prima art extravagance glitter set(carribean sea) #961565

Prima coffee break collection Ephemera

Prima Cigar box flowers

Hope the project inspires you! Waiting eagerly for your views and leave back your queries, in case you have any..

See you again,till then

Happy Crafting,

Bipasha ;)

Winners Day - BGC#53 June celebrations challenge

Hello all !

Welcome back to another winners day post here on BGC !

We loved what u all made for the June challenge - Stamping and Misting 

Some of the entries really blew our mind! 

Here are the Toppers ! 

Category - Cards only 

Pooja 

Such a nice card !!! Love the vellum and all the misting inside with stencils !

Sathya Kala 

With this lovely mixed media card ! Love the stamping on fabric !

Nandini  

Now thats something ! Nan created this amazing scene on a cotton fabric with paints and misting for the moon ! Its simple but its truly splendid !

The random winner for this category is - Shylaashree     !!! 

Category - Layouts Only 

Ela

Thats the amazing LO Ela presented for this challenge !

Oh my there is so much to see here ! i really love the choice of colors and the elements she put together . 

If you look closely there is stamping on the laces and mesh cloth ! just wonderful ! 

Kathleen White

Kathleen gave us this fantastic LO with some stamping on fabric leaves ! I really love the choice of papers she used here . And that illusion of the skirt flowing ..... its just wonderful !

Kripa Koushik

Kripa stuns us with this cute and colourful LO ! Such beautiful embelishments ! if you look closely you will see her net fabric with lots of stamping and gold paste.  Good job there ! 

And the Random winner for this catagory is - Nandini  !! 

Catagory - Everything else 

Rupa  

Those are some superb altered boxes made into show pieces !

What a wonderful transformation ! Love the stamping on fabric on each piece and the misting. 

Sarah George

Sarah made this cute little box with super shabby look ! 

Love the sentiment stamped on fabric !

snehal welde  

Snehal came up with her own communication system for letting her milk vendor know when she doesnt need milk ! This sign board she made is hung on the door when she doesnt need milk ! :) 

Thats so thoughful ! Superb ! 

And the random winner for this category is  - Rupa 

Congratulations girls !!!! Please take your respective badges from the side bar ! 

Winners please email your full indian address and phone to lightbox.c(at)gmail(dot)com.

With the subject line being - Winner BGC#53 Catagory name (Winner BGC#53 Cards only)

Thanks for joining us today! 

* Please scroll down to the next post to see the May celebrations winner redraw. *

BGC#53 - Stamping (On fabric) and misting with PJ

Hello my dear friends !

I just got back from my 3 week vacation and i'm feeling refreshed !

Meanwhile the girls here at BGC were busy creating some really good projects for you 

according to the challenge theme thats been running all JUNE ! 

BGC#53-stamping-misting-challenge

So now u know the rules but let me just repeat theme again 

challenge guidelines: 

Challenge duration- 1st june to 30th june (Full Month)

• Make any project that fits into the 3 categories below

1. Cards ONLY

2. Layouts ONLY

3. Everything else - 3D crafts, Popup boxes , Altered art , mixed media , Canvas , Hangings etc. Anything paper crafts.

• You must have visible Misting on the face of your project - Any kind of misting will do for example - Using mists like Lindy's stamp gang or color bloom by prima etc,  Making a splatter with a paint brush , Using a tooth brush with water colors to create a nice misting on your project. 
• Your project must show Stamping on Fabric !  Its time to pick and experiment with any type of fabric and see how your stamps work on them. !

Simple enough !

Please note that we reserve rights to disqualify any entry that doesn't follow the rules .

Thank you. 

Ok with all that understood ! Lets move on to my project. 

I went for 3. Everything else category 

And altered a medicine box.  

This is how the box looked before.  

And this is how it turned out ! 

•  I started by pasting some text scripted paper on the sides of the box. 

Which you can see perfectly in the above picture. 

• I then made a mixture of 1 part white glue with 1/2 part water and mixed it well .
• I used this mixture for sticking tissue on the top of my box. This gave me some real good texture to play with. 
• After all the tissue sticking i let it dry for about 2hrs . 
• Once dry i misted my textured surface with mists . (Lindy's stamp gang and cosmic shimmer.) That gave me my background to work on.

•  I then used this nice and slightly shimmery fabric piece in rectangle to stamp my sentiment. Here is a TIP- when working with loosely woven fabrics like what i used ,keep a crisp piece of paper underneath before you stamp. This should give you a good image. 
• The fabric piece looks a little lifted due to the texture beneath it. It is stuck in place with Glue dots as foam dots would have showed from underneath. 

•  I then embellished my box with flowers , die cuts , distressed mesh cloth ,and some metal embellishments.

Here is a closer look at the flowers !

I made all of them myself except the peach and the baby pink rose . 

Hope that you enjoyed my post and you are inspired to join us in this challenge . 

If so then just pick a category and jump in !! 

you can link your challenge entry HERE

BGC#53 Stamping & Misting challenge !

Hello my fabulous crafters...

 This time its Bipasha with you hosting the super-duper fun celebration with fabulous prizes to be won !

A time for new celebration with a new month...Yess ! This year we are celebrating each month with a new positive vibe and alacrity . 

So for a twist we thought of having fun playing with you guys
 "for a whole month" with an unusual combo....

  "Stamping & Misting"

and share some yummy goodies with you.

Sounds interesting and innovative right !

Without further ado let me go through the challenge guidelines: 

Challenge duration- 1st june to 30th june (Full Month)

• Make any project that fits into the 3 categories below

1. Cards ONLY

2. Layouts ONLY

3. Everything else - 3D crafts, Popup boxes , Altered art , mixed media , Canvas , Hangings etc. Anything paper crafts.

• You must have visible Misting on the face of your project - Any kind of misting will do for example - Using mists like Lindy's stamp gang or color bloom by prima etc,  Making a splatter with a paint brush , Using a tooth brush with water colors to create a nice misting on your project. 
• Your project must show Stamping on Fabric !  Its time to pick and experiment with any type of fabric and see how your stamps work on them. !

Simple enough !

We will have 3 following prizes to be won for the 3 catagories :

Prize one - CARDS only 

The winner for this will receive the Lala Land Cowgirl Marci Stamp as a Prize from our generous sponsor Kraftzone

Prize Two - Layouts only 

Prima Hearts Neutral- Say it in Crystal ! Adhesive stones

Docrafts Papermania: Cling Urban Stamp

The winner for this will receive the above yummy goodies as Prize from our generous sponsor Lulupu

Prize three - Everything else

Crafter's Workshop Stencil 12x12-Damask

The winner for this will receive the above glamourous damask as Prize from our generous sponsor Creativita

I so very wish that I could participate in this wonderful challenge and try my luck in winning these yummy goodies !!!!! :D

So coming onto my take on the challenge,

3D being my forte, I went with the Category 3 : Everything else .I made a name board hanger for a craft room using the embroidery hoop !

3D being my forte, I went with the Category 3 : Everything else .I made a name board hanger for a craft room using the embroidery hoop !

#For stamping:  I have stamped on the fabric leaves, after I coated them thoroughly with gesso. Also I used stamping on the satin laces.

#For misting: I have splattered gesso with a toothbrush on the flowers and embroidery span, and a slight splash of (cotton candy) lyndy's spray on the crochet lace.

Materials used:

Embroidery hoop

Satin Cloth

Satin ribbon

Shell,Metal charms

junkard finding bulb packaging

fabric flower and leaves

gesso

PPs

crochet lace

Lyndy's spray (Cotton candy)

Sparkled balls and golden bead

Random stamping with momento black ink

Stay tuned as our talented DTs amaze you with their enchanting projects in the other categories in the following weeks !! Hope my creation inspired you to some extent ;)

Happy Crafting and do join us in the fun !

With love,

Bipasha.