Women's day Celebration

Women's day Rangoli 

 Belated Women’s day wishes friends….. How was your women’s day celebration ….???

I want to tell you one thing…. On last year women’s day celebration, our university organized some contests. We were participated on Rangoli competition and won 2nd prize. Janani, mala and myself put that rangoli. 

We have described the activities of women's in different fields like education, sports, music, house keeping etc. It's really hard to draw all within particular time. So we planned to express social activities of women's through folk art called warli. 

They have given an hour time. We used Crystal salt with color powder.  Even we couldn’t complete the kolam on time, we deserved the prize. Because of our Spontaneous answers to Judge’s questions… They asked so many questions actually…. 

Surprise was, only our photo (taken while we get prize) published on next day's news paper on behalf of entire celebration….

Here is our rangoli... Photo taken from second floor…

Women's day Rangoli 

 Jana & Mala standing near our kolam and Mala was informing me that we got 2nd prize...

Women's day Rangoli 

Keep Smiling....:)

Nylon Stocking Serial Light

Hi friends….

Come let us decorate our home with dazzling serial light…

Generally the houses will be lit up with hundreds of tiny electrical lights on special occasions.…Those are known as serial lights because the bulbs are serially wired. You can get it from any local electrical shops.

 I wanted something special to decor my pooja room and chose this light. I transferred the serial light into beautiful glowing flower bunch.…

I made this craft 5 years ago (don’t know where it has gone now) when I got the procedure from a TV program. I just found the photo today and started blogging…  

Materials needed:

Serial light of any color (I bought blue color serial light, so that same blue stocking I used… )

Nylon Stocking cloth

Aluminum wire (silver color)

10  number thread or nylon thread

Green tape

How to do :

Tie a bunch of three bulbs.

Make petals with aluminum wire and stocking cloth. The procedure is same as of wings making in Nylon stocking butterfly.

Click here to see 

http://www.craftoframya.blogspot.in/search/label/Nylon%20Stocking%20Butterfly

Then consider the light bunch as stamens and attach three petals one by one, around the bunch.

Wind green tape to cover the tied stock.

Continue the same process for making all flowers. 

Add some artificial leaves.

Now arrange them in a basket as I did, otherwise place them at pooja room or racks or car dashboard or wherever you want…

Switch ON the light…

See how it looks…. NICE na.....???

Nylon Stocking Serial Light 
Keep Smiling....:)

Tissue Box Decoration

Tissue Box Decoration

Tissue Box Decoration

Hi friends,I’m here with a colorful clay model … 

You can make your home beautiful by using your creativity and artistic sense… If you are an artist, Then I’m sure every corners of your home will be decorated by your hand works…

My dad always ask me to make something for our car… Suddenly this idea hit my mind... I tried to decorate a plain tissue box. And it came out very well… 

Tissue papers are the most common useful things at home. So today I’m going to teach you how to make your tissue box more decorative in a very low budget.  

How to create rough texture on plain surface:

What you need:

Tissue papers

White gum

Water

Flat brush

Colors (I used Sap green and Lemon yellow)

How to do:

Tear the tissue paper randomly into small irregular pieces (Don’t use scissors).

Mix white gum with water in the ratio of 1:3.

Apply the mixture on box with flat brush and stick a tissue piece.

Again coat the mixture on the paper and stick another piece of paper on top of that.

Wrinkles effect will be produced while you bind 2-3 layers of tissue pieces.

Cover all the surface with the same procedure.

After the box completely dries color it with your own choice.

I used my favorite sap green lemon yellow combo. Take a look...

Tissue Box Decoration

Clay modeling :

You would have known the clay modeling procedure obviously. Just press the clay pieces with your fingers to  bring desired shape. And paint the dried clay models with bright colors. Now, glue it on tissue box.. 

I made a big rose with bud,  some tiny flowers, small pearl buds and leaves....

Here is my finished project.....

Tissue Box Decoration

You can use this box to decorate in functions, your room table, your car...... 

Especially you can gift it to your loved one...

Tissue Box Decoration

Click here to see my another post in clay modeling...

http://www.craftoframya.blogspot.in/search/label/CLAY%20MODELING

Hope you liked this craft... If so, tel me what exactly you feel about this....!!!!

Nylon Stocking Butterfly

Hi friends....

I'm very happy that the followers of our blog and likes on craft of ramya page are increasing every day. Thanks a lot for your encouragement. As I already told, I'm coming with the Nylon Stocking Butterfly today.

Everybody loves butterflies; they define the happiness in our garden. Butterflies have always been a part of craft, so why don't we try butterflies in stocking cloth. Stocking can be available in all art material shops and very popular in flower making. I'm sure you will try this craft.

This butterfly can be fixed where ever you want, on gift boxes or hat or something else. It is to decor room wall generally.

Materials needed:

 Nylon stocking cloth

 Aluminum wire  (silver colour)

Cotton

Nylon thread

Plier

Kundan stones

Glitters

How to make Nylon Stocking Butterfly:

First we need to make the wings. The aluminum wire plays an important role here. Prepare the shapes with wire.

Wind the wire around any cylindrical ring (You can use bottle caps or pain balm bottles as a ring) Take two different sizes of rings to make two different wings. One is smaller than another. Twist at the end and cut the excess with plier. Make two wings in both sizes.

Now we need to give shape to the wings. You can shape the wings in the way you like. Refer the picture for my butterfly’s shape.

Next wrap the wire with nylon cloth, gather at an end and thread it. Cut off the remaining cloth.

Then use some cotton or tissue paper to form a body. Cover the cotton with nylon and tie it with thread of same colour. Thread the stuffed cotton to bring the shape of butterfly’s body.

Now its time to attach the wings to the body. We have to attach the bigger wings first (one by one) then smaller wings below the bigger ones.

Finally make antennas with the same aluminum wire and glue it beneath the head.

You can add some glitters and kundhan stones in its wings to make it more attractive.

The beautiful butterfly is ready to fly into your heart. You can fix this to your flower bouquets now.

The pictures are here.....  

Nylon Stocking Butterfly

Nylon Stocking Butterfly

                         I need your valuable feedback friends..... 

Rangoli

Hello Friends ... I wish you all Happy Pongal..

Pongal is the most popular harvest festival of Tamilnadu. Pongal comes in mid-January every year and marks the beginning of Uttarayan, the Sun's movement northward for a six month period. Celebrations include painting entire house, drawing of kolam, cooking of delicious pongal....

Now you can guess what my part here is....?!? Of course I have started 2 draw kolam yesterday night itself. One with paint in pooja room, one with sunnambu(lime stone) paste in front door and another one with colour powders at front gate. Kolams are believed to bring prosperity to homes and not only meant for decoration purpose. So I love to draw kolam's especially rangoli. Because, I am not good in dotted kolam.

But the Celtic knot design(yellow paint), I have made with the help of dots, because the measurements should be equal in all lines. I got the Celtic Design from the link below

http://www.tglass.net/TGlass/Celtic/celtic%20knot%20bloom.jpg

and did some changes.

Celtic design

Celtic design

Rangoli at moon light

Rangoli

Limestone paste rangoli

Limestone paste rangoli

Some more photos of last year celebrations here..........

Limestone paste rangoli

Rangoli

Traditional kolam

Glass Paint on Plastic Sheet

        This post is to wish all my friends, a prosperous and delightful 2012… I hope all your dreams come true on this New Year.

            I did the glass paint on plastic sheet also known as OHP sheet. We can see this picture while enter in my room. I just painted using old waste glass liner and glass colors which I don’t want to throw out. So it wasn't results smooth lines.  So I didn't frame this picture rather just pasted on wall with cello tape. This background looks more cute than foil know…..?  

           Maybe adding some elements would make it more attractive. Yeah I mentioned about the butterfly which is made by stocking/Nylon material. This might be the next post.

Glass Paint on Plastic Sheet

Happy New Year once again.........:)

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Christmas Tree

Hi Friends…..

In this auspicious day I would like to wish all my friends a very merry Christmas… I’m here with a beautiful Christmas Tree. I’m going to show how to create your own wishing tree.

The procedure is the same as of Golden Tree. 

You can learn from the post

http://www.craftoframya.blogspot.com/2011/10/golden-tree.html

The materials can be used are Green wires (instead of gold wires), Green leaves, Stars, Golden Bells, Muticolour sounded beads, Thermocol balls and whatever sequences you get, but it should be colourful enough to decorate your tree. It can be either jewels or some other type of accessories.

I have used 30 green wires to make this tree. An important thing is to reduce the number of branches gradually in each upper set to get this cone shape. I made a cherry bunch using thermocol balls. And attached a golden star on the top. You can Zoom the picture and see what and all i've used as ornaments. 

Check out the wishing tree here

Christmas Tree

I have made this and gifted to my uncle 3 years ago. And i'm happy to share after so long, but in this Christmas day.