Shabby Chic Diorama 3D Baby card

Hello Crafty Folks!!

I'm Manu from A Handfull of Art and I have a super cute shabby chic diorama baby card today to share with you all !! I have used the Charming Baby Girl paper pack to make this cute 3D card.
I'm so in love with this paper pack and it's just the right appropriate paper pack for all the baby girl related projects that you would like to make, be it, a baby album/scrapbooks/cards/baby related gifts or be it anything.

Lets checkout the Diorama 3D card!

I couldn't stop myself from clicking the pictures so you all would be having a bombardment of  pictures of this cute itty bitty 3D card!
I would also be sharing a few tips and tricks on how to use some products bringing out the best in them and with minimal wastage!

I have embellished it heavily with a lot of embellishments from the Dress My Craft products and totally loved the way it came out, quite shabby and chic !!

The cherry on top was the rainbow glitter chunk which I used graciously on the edges of the card.

Here's a tip!!
1. Close the fan if you are working in a room with the fan turned on. It will just make it easy for the glitter to land up everywhere!
2. Use a tacky tape ! YES, you heard it right, I have used a 6 mm tacky tape on the edges and then peeled it off, Then I applied the rainbow glitter chunk and then  removed the excess by running my finger all over. This also helps the glitter to adhere properly and it removes the excess glitter.
Easy peasy!! no mess with the glue and the best part.. the glitter application turns out to be very very uniform all over. I loved doing it this way!

This diorama 3D card has  4 layers, 1st is the front panel which has a opening, 2nd is the panel on which the flowers are struck onto, 3rd is the layer on which the baby image is pasted and the last is the backing of the card.

Here is a side view and I have used the super cute bubblegum accessories dangling with the pink coloured acrylic chain!



Below are a few more closeups!

I hope you liked this cute 3D diorama card and would love to try one !

Products used from DMC

Charming baby girl 12*!2
Acrylic chain
Pastel Pearl Charm
Daisy flowers
Vintage White lace
Rainbow bows pink
Big 3D fairy flower
Mini round brads
Pink tassle
Micro rose leavez
Twisted rose buds
Poppy rose Cream
Rainbow glitter chunks
Dry green moss powder

Precious Baby Boy 3D Explosion Box

Hello Crafty Friends !!!!

Its Anita Here with loads of crafty awesomeness from Dress My craft!!!! This is one store that has all the fine materials to take your creativity to the next level.

Loads have new products have been uploaded and you an check them all out here.

The best things that I love about DMC products is there excellent quality and design.

Be it baby projects, mixed media, fabric transfers or floral projects... We have it all here !!!

So let me show you what is on my table today !!!! Its the cutest adorable baby boy explosion box!!! But i is no ordinary explosion box. It's a 3D Explosion box !!!

A 3D explosion box is one that gives the look of a whole or part of the decor in 3D way. Here I have created a real miniature baby room with all the baby nick nacks and toys!!! And it opens like an explosion box.
Moreover, one can write messages, do some journaling and even put baby photos here.
I have used the newly introduced transparent dome . This can be used to created a miniature show piece or use with any project like have done it here.
I have filled the dome with many DMC products and believe me !!! Its so much fun to do this.
The Precious Baby boy paper stack is the most beautiful one and along with the coordinating sequins and motif sheets, this project was a super fun to make. The results is amazing as you can see!!

I also have a video tutorial to show you the box closely.

This is picture heavy post , so just relax and stay calm.

So how was it friends !!! Isn't this super cute !!!!

So do make one and share with us. 

All the products used are listed below.

Miniature Clown

Miniature Icecream tub

Miniature set of baskets

Precious Baby Boy

Sea breeze sequins

Miniature Dome

DIY Pearl Cap Triangle

DIY pearl cap round

Pastel pearl charm

Teddy T-shirt bell

Donald Bell

DIY star rings

Long Ears Teddy-cool

Baby Rattle Blue

Smileys 1

Vintage Lace White 1

Ribbon bow -Baby blue

Diamond Chain -silver

Pearl Eiffel tower

Double Tone hanging

Curly roses -soft yellow

Curly Roses -Shaded Blue

Micro Mini Pearl Beads

Rainbow Glitter Chunks

Do visit the store for all your favourite craft supplies!!!!

Have a great day and Happy crafting !!!

Baby envelopes | Video tutorial

Happy Monday everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Mine was great with scrapbooking classes in kolkata. Well, I'm here today with a pretty post on baby envelopes. I've created three baby envelopes using all gorgeous products from Dress My Craft. These are 3* 7 sturdy envelopes created using the floral oriental papers. I've a full video tutorial on how I created this and I hope you like it.

List of materials used:

Charming baby girl paper pad

Mulbery flowers

Bubblegum pearl charms

Micro pearl beads

Doily die

Flourish die

Hemp cord

Leaf die

Shadow Box with Precious Baby Boy paper pack + a Tutorial

Hello Crafty folks!!!

Manu here and I have a cute shadow box to share with you all today, but before that.. lets remember the CHA times.... !
DMC has been to CHA!! What a wonderful show!! I'm so glad to have been associated with Dress My Craft which has also marked it's baby steps to an international market and here's wishing the owners a big big congratulations to have made it BIGGG Internationally!! I'm sure it must have been an exhilarating experience and you all must have been glued at your mobiles/laptops at whiles inquisitive of what Shalini and Team would be showcasing in the Live videos!! So much for the technology that you can see anything, anywhere!! Wow.. truly an experience in it's own.

Dress My Craft launched their two absolutely adorable paper packs, Precious Baby boy and Charming Baby Girl at CHA, and these two are a total must have paper packs for all those baby albums/creations of your's!! I so wanted to make an baby album with this, but I saved it for the later!! I made a Shadow Box with Precious Baby boy paper pack and also have a little tutorial on how I made this one!! Lets look at the process!! I will be having lots of tips and techniques that I follow along the away! These are majorly my experiences !!
Here's what I made, this paper pack is too amazing with blue being the main color palette and teaming with the blues are the yellows and browns!

Lots and lots of embellishments from the motif pack is what made this shadow box absolutely adorable! 

Lets start with how I made this one.

1. Take a raw shadow box and gesso it, I used white gesso. Once done, let it to dry.  I picked up the white because the white color compliments baby projects very well.

So that's Tip 1: Doing a baby project?? Choose whites or either pastel tones, these tones gel very good with baby themed papers. 

2. While the shadow box is drying, choose papers from the Precious Baby boy pack and the motif sheet. I already had fussy cut the motif sheet, hence it's almost half in the picture above. You can catch some glimpses of the fussy cut images at the extreme top left. Here's another tip!!

Tip 2: When you fussy cut the images, make sure to leave a little margin while cutting from the image boundary, this has 2 benefits , 1) chances of cutting over the boundary reduces 2) The images looks more like a die-cut image .. I like a little 1 mm gap!! 

 3.   Now cut the pattern paper as per the dimensions of the shadow box. and distress them, here's another tip

Tips 3: Always distress the pattern papers to be adhered, it gives a little more nice feel to the complete project ! The edges seems complete in this way!

4. Adhere the pattern paper onto the box with Mod Podge, yes, Mod Podge is the best sealent and works wonders ! It also comes in various finishes and I used the Satin one to give a little sheen to my project.
Next comes the best part, Embellishing your project, sky is the limit when you do this.

Here is the final finished shadow box!

Here are some more pictures from various angles of the baby shadow box! I couldn't stop taking pics are each and every angle and would want you also to go through the details !!

I'm completely in awe of the motif sheets with this Precious baby boy paper pack and it has some very cute vintage themed baby related images!
Did you see the little circle shaker that I did with the cute elephant inside??

Checkout the Rainbow Glitter on the flowers, a little glitter is always welcome!!

The bottom two partitions acts as photo holders !

The gorgeous laces and beautiful blue color chain does enhances the complete look of the box!

To add a little extra oomp, I took a recently launched Mudra chipzeb and dabbed it with the versafine embossing ink and then sprinkled the Rainbow glitter on top!! How cool is this technique to make some glittery projects?? I have used a couple of more chipzeb in this shadow box!

I hope you liked the project and would want to grab these gorgeous papers right off the shelves now!! Go grab these!! I'm completely in awe of how this shadow box tuned out to be, it's more of a dreamy kinda one!!

Product used :

Acrylic Chain - Cool blue

Teddy T-shirt Bell

Vintage Lace one

Ribbon bows-baby blue

Rainbow glitter chunks 

Precious baby boy Motif sheet

Precious baby boy 12 *12

Sunshine Yellow sequins

Mod Podge Satin Finish

Mudra Chipzeb

Prima Flowers