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Fathers Day Shirt Card

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Namaste friends! As Fathers day is on 16th June 2019 so you all must be thinking about what to make for your father. Here I am today with very simple and easy fathers day card. You can gift him on any other occasion also. I am sure he will love it and cherish forever. Things you will need : 1. one color card paper for card measuring 12 in by 8 in. 2. contrast card paper measuring 4.5 in by 4.5 in to make tie. 3. A pair of scissors 4. Glue 5. Scale Here's what you do: Take card paper and fold it into half to get 6 in by 8 in. Mark 5 cm inches from both the side from top leaving 3.5 cm as shown below.  Up where the mark is, cut 2 slits into the paper toward the center, like this:  Then fold the tabs you cut on top over diagonally and glue them down. It will look like the collar of a shirt over the tie, like this: Now we are gonna make tie. Take the square paper .                             Fold it diagonally like shown

Upcycling Wooden Furniture

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Namaste friends, Hope you all are doing great. Today I am sharing how I upcycled my shoe rack using decoupage technique. I had this wooden shoe rack which because of dust and rains got patchy and was not looking nice. So, I decided to give it a makeover. Firstly, if you are working with furniture then first step is to sand it properly. If its old one then this step is more important. Sanding removes old paint, dust and makes the surface smooth. After sanding I have applied gesso all over. I have used Camlin gesso. Then I have applied directly the lemon chiffon (light yellow) shade of chalk paint from Itsy Bitsy. My this rack is kept in my balcony so thought to decoupage it with flowers which can go with my plants kept around in the balcony. To decoupage first select the design tissue and tear the design which you want to stick. Then you have to apply decoupage glue on the surface where you have to stick decoupage tissue. Generally the tissues are

My Return to blogging

Hi Friends, I am returning after a looooong gap. I hope now I will continue to update my blog regularly. So here are few updates which I want to share. Within these years I have learnt and made many things like scrapbooks, customized albums, desk calendar albums, mdf Albums, Explosion Boxes, mix media and decoupage. Nowadays I am in love with decoupage as I can upcycle anything with it. I will share my works which I have done and some tutorials in  the upcoming posts. You can check my facebook page if you are interested to see my work. Happy crafting friends! stay tuned !! Aditi