Out came the frustration....

Hello Everyone!

I know that, I disappeared again. I have been working really hard on my job applications.... No luck yet, but I'm sure something is going to turn positive very soon. Well, enough of my bragging... Today's post is to show you something that I created last Friday, but before you can see what I made, I would like to tell you the story behind its creation.

Last Friday wasn't so good at work , so I came home all frustrated & wanted to pent it out somewhere. I tried working out for 30 minutes but it did not help. Then I freshened up & sat with my journal in lap. I stared at the empty page, but did not know what to make. Just imagine, I'm already having a bad day & then zero inspiration. I even went thru a few pin on Pinterest, but no.... nothing.... nada...... I was about to give up & go to sleep, when I remembered that I had bought some generic acrylic paint bottles from Walmart long back & did not get to use it. So I decided that whatever..... lets just check out how these colors work, so I randomly picked a sea green color from the colors I have & painted the entire page in it. After 2 coats of paint I liked the coverage.Then I stenciled butterflies on it in white, which I regretted immediately after, so I painted them colorful. Now I added flowers to it, random colors, colored in leaves & grass & went ahead to tweak to butterflies more using metallic & neon gel pens. The entire thing that came out of it looked good. But there was some empty space which made it look incomplete.

After giving it a long look of 5 minutes, I made up my mind to fill that space with a beautiful quote. I keep a list of quotes in a separate book. It must be having at least 100 quotes, which I knew would overwhelm me, hence I decided to take a little leap of faith & pick a random quote closing my eyes.I know what you all are thinking, even I felt childish doing this, but I did it even then. Closed my eyes & placed my finger in a quote & opened my eyes. When I saw the quote I selected, I was amazed, so I immediately wrote it down beautifully. You must be like what was the quote, so... I'm not gonna tell you here. You can have a look for yourself below.

You see what I meant, I was frustrated, had no inspiration, did everything randomly & see how Luck pointed me towards Faith. Since this day I feel that my faith is newly revised & I feel that finally its all going to work out for me.

Hope after reading this you too keep faith in yourself & push harder towards your goals. Let me know if you all liked it. Also you can post back if you get some inspiration to run free & create something new. I  would love to see what you have create & hear back from you all. Thank you very much for taking your time to notice it. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding :-) 


Supplies used: Apple barrel acrylic paint, paint brushes, Stencils, Metallic & Neon gel pens, Paper, Pencil, Eraser, Sakura Micron pens,

Words to live by....

Hello Everyone!

I have been feeling low lately.... So I needed some reminder for myself. What could be a better way to inspire yourrself, than putting your thoughts down on paper... 

As you all know I hate writing, & I'm always short at words, so I just wrote down what I meant in 1 word each time. Here is my process......

When I completed inking my rough draft.... it felt beautiful by itself... but I needed more, so I decided to add a bit of color to it....

Once I added these bold colors my true inspiration, the words seem to be hidden. Finding them was more important, so I went in & made them bold....

                                                

I loved the way the entire thing came out to be.... I found inspiration for this art from Lindsay Ostrom.  She has some beautiful artwork at her blog. So what are the words that inspire you...???  Would love to see what you can create. Thank you very much for taking your time to notice it. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)
 


Supplies used: 

Paper, Pencil, Eraser, Sakura Micron pen (0.05, 0.3, 0.8), Faber Castell & Crayola color pencils.

Drama Queen

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all had a blast for Christmas & must be expecting a fabulous New Year ahead.
After a long time I had some fun with scrapbooking. Today's layout is created using Shabby Princess Easy Pie Template #29 & a color combination provided in ColorQ Challenge #169.

Now you all must be wondering whose snaps are these in this layout??? Guess ....... Its ME !!!!
I was just going through all my childhood pics 2 days ago & I came across all of these. My mom has always encourages me to take part in all kinds of extra-curriculum activities in school.

In India, the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated at homes as well as in public on a very large scale. Huge Ganesh idols are placed & worshiped at each street & in every apartment complex. Similar 'Ganesh pandal'  was near the our house. Lot of competitions used to be arranged for every age group. 

The result of such an atmosphere was that, I participated in a lot of singing, dancing & fancy dress competitions there too. "Fancy Dress" was my favorite as I got to dress as a different character each time. We always picked a different historic/mythological from the Indian origin. My mom & my 2 elder cousin brothers took a lot if effort to make the look "perfect". Mom helped me get ready, dressed me up, did my makeup & trained me for the role whereas my bro's would work on the accessories required. All my family including my granny, mom, dad, uncle, aunt, bro's & even my paternal aunt's (dad's sisters) & their respective husbands would come to encourage me. All the snaps in today's layout are taken during those years in all such competitions whenever I bagged 1st prize.

I hope you all liked it. Thank you very much for taking your time to notice it. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)

Supplies used: 
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
Paper & Accents: ScrapOrchard Storyteller kit,  

Make it Monday #47

Hello everyone!!!!

My first card post for this year!! I'm looking forward to loads of more crafting & fun this year..

Recently I came across Papertrey Ink blog "Capture the moment". I have been going through their video tutorials every week for past 1 month now, but as I was busy with exams & submissions I was not able to use their tutorials to create something new. This week's PTI challenge #47  includes a recap of all the past techniques, so I guessed this is the correct opportunity to grab . 

Today's card is based on two of the 46 different techniques. I picked up Make It Monday #2: Vellum Sentiment Strip & Make It Monday #31: Creating Backgrounds with Non-Background Stamps. To begin with, I adhered a plain pink cardstock on a white background. Then I stamped the pink background with a generic stamp of  "a gift" all over. Then I stamped "Happy Birthday" from the Communique Curves Sentiments set from PTI on a vellum strip. I also stamped a birthday cake on a oval shaped vellum & colored it with color pencils. Just to bring the cake in view I pasted a white cardstock behind the cake & adhered the sentiment & the cake to the background using glue dots. To hide the glue dots for the sentiment strip I attached pearls over it.

Here is my card:

 

I know you all would love to see a few close-ups of the details, so here they go: 

Thank you very much for taking your time to notice this card. Hope to hear again from all of  you soon. Till then take care. :)

Another Frame it.....

Hello once again to all my friends!!!!
Was getting bored & made another cute card. I used MelJen's another cute digi freebie. After coloring it looked so cute that I could not wait to share with you all.
Thank you very much for taking your time to notice this card. Hope to hear again from all of  u soon. Till then take care. :)

उगाच घरी बसलो....

काल दिवसभर सगळीकडे एकाच खबर होती की "उद्या म्हणे Snowstorm येणार आहे". या बातमीमुळे इतका गोंधळ की कॉलेज नी सुद्धा सुट्टी declare केली. म्हणे पहाटे पासूनच बर्फ पडणार वगैरे वगैरे.....

सकाळी ७ वाजता जाग आली म्हणून खिडकी उघडून पहिला तर पचकाच झाला सगळा. बर्फ तर सोडाच, पण साधं बर्फाच sample सुद्धा नव्हत..... असा राग आला की मी पुन्हा comforter डोक्यावरून घेउन झोपले.

सकाळी पडणार होता तो बर्फ दुपारी १:३० नंतर हळू-हळू सुरु झाला. आता संध्याकाळचे ६ वाजले आहेत आणि फक्त रस्ता पांढरा होईल इतका बर्फ पडला आहे. या सगळ्या गोंधळात कॉलेज ला सुट्टी होती पण त्यामुळे इतरही सारी कामं अडून बसली.

आज तर काही Snowstorm वगैरे नाही आला, आता म्हणे उद्या येणार आहे. म्हणजे उद्याचे सुद्धा सारे कार्येक्रम तांगणीवर......

आता तरी एकाच गाणे आठवत आहे --

"सांग सांग भोलानाथ बर्फ पडेल का?

कॉलेज भोवती बर्फाचे तळे साचून सुट्टी मिळेल काय?

सांग सांग भोलानाथ.........."