Hey!

Since the last 24 hours I've been in the mood to create a lot so do expect a lot of content for the upcoming week.

For my second Chrismas card, I wanted to incorporate my favorite color - PINK! For the background, I used my old stamps + stencils to create a textured background and followed it up with a coat of diluted gesso. For the baubles, I used pink food coloring as the color is vibrant and followed it up with the same stamps + stencils. After fussy cutting the baubles, I assembled the card and went over the baubles with my white pen and perfect pearls in black and white. To finish it off, I used a handwritten sentiment and added a few splashes of white gesso.

Entering this card for the following challenges:

1) Wordartwednesday - anything-goes
2) Creations in Pink - Challenge # 16 - Anything Goes in Mainly Pink
3) Sparklesforumchallenges - Challenge # 122 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
4) Challenge #12 - Anything Goes Mixed Media Creative Challenge at We Love 2 Create at Polkadoodles
5) Timeoutchallenges - Challenge #149
6) Crafty Creations - Challenge #403 - Anything Goes
7) Craftycatzweeklychallenge - Good morning Challenge 485
8) Wk 48 - Anything Goes Card making & Craft Challenge at Polkadoodles
9) Just Us Girls Challenge #516 - Wild Card Week
10) Inspired By - Pink Christmas
11) Lilpatchofcraftyfriends - C #119
12) Bestieschallenge - december-challenge
13) MIUCB #32 - Anything Goes + Veggie Stamping
14) IKEsWORLD CHALLENGES #127 - L is for LOOKING FORWARD TO XMAS/AG
15) December Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #70
16) 613 Avenue - Challenge # 228 - Anything Goes w/Optional Twist: Doodling or Zentangle Art
17) Creataliciouschallenges - Challenge #176 ANYTHING GOES with optional winter
18) Ttcrd - Anything Goes Challenge - Our last for 2019!!!!
19) Artsystamperchallenge - Challenge #5 - Winter Holidays
20) Stamplorations - december-challenge (Inspired by the Theme - Holidays)


Thank you for stopping by!

So again it’s been a while, but as you know college life never gets easier, as much as I love doing crafts and being creative I needed some time off for my exams and I’m back at it again. Blogging and sharing what I do is one of my biggest passions and I don’t want to lose touch with it, as they say, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Quite often I have seen that those who do crafts often have the best of best tools and the newbies seeing all this get intimidated and choose to not get crafty, but let me assure you that to be creative you do not need all those things just the basics and you’re good to go. Through my blog, I want to show how you don’t need to spend too much to make a good card or a DIY project and you do not need a billion tools to get crafty, using things lying around your house can be just as good. Working on a budget can get tricky if you want to get a few necessary things which may be expensive, but I will try my best to be reasonable with any spending. I love doing crafts and these projects because you can not only give meaningful gifts but also not create waste around the house and use these things.

Thank you so much for taking the time and reading this, I will try posting more regularly now as I said earlier. If you would like me to do something and have more ideas for me write it down in the comments; Thanks again and have a great day.

Hey!

Feels really weird to have finally come back to blogging after almost 3 years. The biggest reason for leaving blogging was my academics, I got held up with it and couldn't make time to post.I tried many times to get back but just didn't. Finally this year, I decided that it's time to get back to doing the thing that I love the most - art.

Over the last three years, I have had many crazy experiences which threw me out of my comfort zone. I realised that I was blessed with the basic amenities of life, a loving family and great friends while there are so many people out there who don't have any of them. I also  realised that my skills, capabilities and passion are so well defined that I need to make the best use out of them. What better way than through this blog? With that thought in mind, I decided to change the concept of my blog completely.

Let's start with the basics.

Who am I?

My name is Sidelle Menon and I'm 20 years old.

What is the blog going to be about?

All of the posts from now on wards will include art and craft made out of recycled items or craft items that I have hoarded since the last few years. I will be also sharing a few tips and tricks on how to make the most out of your existing art supplies so that people who cannot afford expensive art supplies can still make good use of the old ones.  

Thank you so much for sticking by so far. I will be posting regularly from now on. Have a great day!

Hey Guys! So today I am back with a really simple background stamped card. I used the flower stamp from my Mind's eye and stamped it repeatedly on the background and colored it with my water color pencils. Lastly added a handwritten sentiment.

Hey Guys!I've been crafting a lot these days and I really like it! So for today's card, I used the beautiful peony scroll stamps from Altnew. They are my first set of Altnew stamps that I picked up from Crafters Corner a while ago and I'm going to get the most use out of them. So I made 2 A-6 cards with envelopes. I used 2 different patterned papers from my stash and cut them to 4*6 inches. After adhering them to the base, I added a few distress ink splatters of fossilised amber and abandoned coral. I stamped the stamps multiple times on a piece of scrap, coloured in with my acrylic colours and finally fussy cut them. This took nearly 3 hours to colour and cut but it was worth the effort. I adhered them to the background, added a hand written sentiment and a few sequins. Here are a few closeups.

Hey Guys!
So I'm back and today's post is a part of the recycling card series and I'm sharing a mini tutorial. So for today, I've used just one card to make the tags. Hope you enjoy the tutorial!

Step 1- Cut out four tags from the card base.






                                                             4) Word Art Wednesday-Anything Goes
                                                             5)Avenue 613- Anything goes
                                                               Happy Crafting!

Hi Guys! So I know that Christmas is a long way ahead but as it is my favorite festival, I thought of preparing for it from now only. So for today's card, I used scraps of paper to make my christmas tree, adhered it to a tag made out of scrap cardboard, tied a few pieces of ribbon, adhered that to a card base and finally added a handwritten sentiment. Here are a few pictures.