Pen and Paper....Mandala Design

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Pen and Paper....Mandala Design, 6'x8' 

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design, 6'x8' 

I enjoy Mandala drawings and it was such a pleasure to make this card for the challenge set by Indira for her mega-celebration. I have used a black Uni-ball gel pen to draw the design on thick card stock and used Sakura glaze pens to fill color. The glaze pens have given a wonderful embossed look and texture to the design !! This is a big card, 6x8 inches and I kept working on it while teaching my younger son for his exams.By the way, here it is on my bookshelf and you can see two of the books written by me in the left most corner and one on the right most corner.

some work in process pics....

Hope you can see the embossed effect of the glaze pens here........

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design 

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design, 6'x8' 

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design, 6'x8' 

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design, 6'x8' 

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design, 6'x8' 

at some places I have given multiple layers of glaze inks to enhance the embossed effect.....some highlighting with a white Uni-ball pen.....

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design 

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design 

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design 

The 18x14 cm panel is mounted with foam tape on a cream cardstock base. The sentiment inside is computer generated. I worked for about 90 mins every day for three days and totally enjoyed it, thank you Indira, it really was lots of fun !! The colors somehow remind me of the vibrant Patachitra paintings of Orissa !! Hope you all like this...I apologise for the bad pics, all clicked using my phone and on cold winter nights !! If you want you can see some of my earlier Mandala paintings here and here.

Pen and Paper....Mandala Design 

linking to Indira's challenge
http://cosmicstrawberry-colette.blogspot.in/2014/12/cosmic-colours-challenge-8.html

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Recycled Peacock bottle and gift box set

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am back after a long time,a quick post to share another painted bottle with all of you....

Decoupage and glass colors

I have used Glass colors and decoupage on the bottle. The peacock design is on both sides of the bottle. I have used water based glass colors by Hobby ideas in  blue and green on the bottle and a teeny- tiny bit of glitter around the decoupaged image. Used two coats of varnish to seal the colors and the image. The gorgeous papers are from Mesmerising India collection by Divya Thallap available with Craftslane. The bottle is a recycled liquor bottle and the box a coffee mug pack. The box is also decoupaged using same collection and I have distressed the edges by using metallic acrylic colors in metallic blue/green shades. 

Decoupage and glass colors

Decoupage and glass colors

The top of the box and two sides have been stencilled using homemade texture paste and fancy Feathers stencil and then painted in blue/ green and a little bit of gold dust powder. This is how it looks with the lights  ...................

Decoupage and glass colors

This gift set is for a dear friend with some more goodies already packed in the recycled box!!

linking to http://lulupu.blogspot.in/2014/11/challenge-42-gift-for-festivals-made.html
http://blog.imaginationsonline.com/2014/11/challenge-5-out-of-box.html
http://anythingbutacard.blogspot.in/
http://beyondgrey.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/bgc63-monochromatic.html......used blue/greens.
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.in/


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