Hello friends, Today am sharing with you all an explosion box made for my husband's birthday.

This is how the box looks when it is closed

When it is openend it explodes with a cake in the center. I followed the tutorial of Rina Meyer's from you tube to make this box.

I have used black cardstock for the base and recollections pattern papers.

My most favourite part is the center cake. I made that using chart paper and covered it using gift papers. I decorated the cake using spiral roses.

The explosion box has pockets on all the 4 sides. On one side of the explosion box I made an accordion fold pocket tags.

Another pocket contains a small book of precious moments. 

The other two pockets contain greetings and a letter. 

I decorated the lid of the box using flowers , pearls and crochet borders. 

My husband was happy and surprised after opening the box.  I too thoroughly enjoyed making the box and took care of every small details so that he likes my gift .

Submitting to
Lulupu challenge - " go 3D"
Imaaginations craft challenge blog - " Anything goes"
Dream valley challenge - " Favourite colour combo" - Whenever I wanted to make a project I would always think that black and pink will only look rich and good compared to others. So that is my favourite colour combo. In this full project I have used various shades of pink with black.
4 crafty chicks - " Photo inspiration " - I was inspired by the cake and created an birthday theme explosion box with a cake at the center
Imaginations - " Bingo challenge" - I have used pattern papers, punches and pearls in my project . Pattern papers for covering the explosion box and for the pockets , punches I have used in the lid and for making cake, pearls I have used for decorating the lid of the box.

Hello friends, Today am posting a pop up card of the theme beyond the sea. This is my first attempt in making a pop up card. I made this card based on my favourite movie "Finding nemo" . The song "beyond the sea" from this movie is very close to my heart so created a card with all the beyond the sea creatures.

I started off by taking a white cardstock and painted it blue using gelatos .Then I printed some pics of nemo and under water creatures.  Using small pices of folded papers I created that pop up effect. I followed the tutorial of jojo to create this card. Click here for the tutorial. This card is very very easy to make as it involves no measurements.

I kept the front of the card very simple.

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Beyond grey challenges - "Lets get Kiddish"
create something catchy challenge - "Pop up Cards"
4 crafty chicks - " Inspired by a song" - I created a card inspired by the song " beyond the sea"

Hello Friends, Happy tamil new year !! The theme of this month's lulupu challenge is to make a CAS card on the theme " Summer".  When I thought about summer the first thing that came to my mind is watermelon. Summer is the season for watermelons and it is a wonderful thirst quencher. Watermelon juice is not only tasty but it is also a healthier drink rich in water content. So I decided to make a quilled watermelon card and here it is.

Hello Friends, hope you all are enjoying your weekend. Today am posting a pink and white card made for the creative colours challenge.

I started off by colouring the edges of the watercolour paper using acrylics and distress inks. I coloured the digital stamp using pastels. The die cuts are actually cut from a lace and coloured using distress inks.  I embellished the card using handmade flowers.

I have used pink, peach, green and white and green colours from the picture. Since it is the onset of spring season I have used bright rose flowers as embellishments.

I have stamped a sentiment "Welcome Spring" at the bottom and decorated the card using pink pearls. 

Hi , I wanted to do an art journal for quite a long time but din't find time to do so. When I saw the theme of sentimental sunday's challenge being "doodle" I decided to fulfill my long term wish of doodling an art journal. I love to doodle as they are random and have no strict patterns or rules. In this art journal I have doodled some of my favourite patterns. 

Hello friends, Today am posting the tutorial of  making a double sided step card. This is my first attempt to make a 3D card or folding card. For tutorial I used a A4 sheet but using cardstock makes your card stand firm. . I found the tutorial of this simple and easy card in the blog glimmercraft.com by Sabrina. (Picture heavy post)

Similarly Crease between the lines at measurements 2" and 3.5". At 5" score from top to bottom. The dotted lines in the picture shows the lines to be scored. 

At 2" score make a valley fold , at 3.5" mountain fold. 

At 5" between the lines valley fold and at top and bottom mountain fold. At 7.5" make a mountain fold.  Do not fold at 8.5". 

Alternate mountain and valley folds will result in a zig zag folds . 

After folding you will get something like this

                                                     

                                                      

MOUNTAIN FOLD ( inverted v fold)

VALLEY FOLD ( v fold) 

Hope the tutorial is clear. Happy crafting !!!

Submitting to

Create something catchy challenges  - Picture inspiration - I used black and pink combination inspired by the picture.
Hobby Cutz challenge - "Celebration "
Dream valley challenges - " Big birthdays"
Through the craft room door challenge - " Anything goes"
Mycraft creations challenge - " Anything goes"