Third Mindful Art and Card workshop + 'Rakhi' Card

Hello sweet peeps,

Today I hosted my third series of Mindful Art and Card classes. We made a "Rakhi" card with distress inks and die cuts. My student, who is a lovely girl of 11 had lots of fun during the process. "Rakhi" is an Indian custom where the sister ties a bracelet made of cords on the brother's wrist. It is a symbol of love and affection from the sister towards the brother. While the sister ties the bracelet, brother in his heart loving pledges to protect his sister. Rakhi comes from the word "Raksha" in Sanskrit which mean protection. It looks like a friendship bracelet and is made with bright and vibrant colours such as red, green, gold etc. At the end of the ceremony, the sister puts a little piece of Indian sweet into her brother's mouth and he hands over a cash gift to her as a blessing.

Coming back to the card, the sentiment has been die cut using card stock as well as the gold foil wrapping of Ferraro Rocher chocolates. My husband quietly buys the chocolates and eats them even more quietly. Sometimes, I try and save the wrappers and carefully stick them on to another piece of recycled paper. Once it is dry, I let it go through my Cuttlebug to even out the texture. We have used Distress Oxide inks here and to be honest, I am fairly pleased with how it all turned out so blue and beautiful.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:

https://colourcrazychallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything colouring goes

http://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything for men

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ - Simon says stamp

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://unstampabelleschallenges.blogspot.com/ - good news

Monica 

Male card with recycled material

Hello bloggers,

Here is a male card to show you today which has been made with partly recycled material. The matt gold cogs have been die cut using an old wallpaper sample. The bright gold cogs were die cut from wrappings of Ferraro Rocher chocolates. The little round shapes are the waste bits which I had to stick at strategic positions to hide some flaws. The black paper was very fancy gift packaging in its previous life. The sentiment is a die cut as well. 

I will participate in the following challenges with this card:

https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://ikesworldchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Monica 

Live Love Laugh

Hello lovely peeps,

Here is a card made with watercolours painted by Aleeza. She put masking tape to keep the white space in the middle. The colour ran out a little and entered below the masking tape but I quite liked the effect. 

The watercoloured background was layered on to black cardstock. 

The sentiment die was bought from a wee little store while we were in Perth last October. 

 I will enter this card in the following challenges:

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/ - make your own background

http://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://ikesworldchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - Christmas /anything goes

Monica 

Om, Amen, Amin - Peace to one and all

Dear lovely bloggers,

You may not believe this - this card has been made with a free sample of wallpaper that I had lying around for the past 20 years. I finally looked into my stash of wallpapers and felt that the glue was getting less sticky so I decided to use them and not lose them. Lol. 

I stuck a beautiful Om peel off in the centre and went over with Fevicryl fabric glue on the left. At the bottom, I have used washi tape to cover up the white space.

Om is apparently a very powerful Sanskrit mantra and it has been scientifically proven to have healing vibrations. So here is my offering of love and peace to each one of us on this planet. 

May there be love, may there be forgiveness, may we be kind.

I will enter the following challenges with this card:

https://artydivaschallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.com/ - always anything goes

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/ - always anything goes

https://cccdigicreations.blogspot.com/ - no patterned paper

http://happycraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Monica 

Black white and red

Hello lovely bloggers,

Here is my card to show you today. The image was stamped with a Kaiser craft clear stamp on a scrap piece of paper however for some reason it did not look clear and crisp. So I picked up a very ordinary black Pilot gel pen and tried to follow the flowers, stems and leaves. 

The border has doodled with the same black pen. A piece of cardstock was embossed and I layered the image on a red paper which was from a Starbucks cup (after cutting it out) on it. The black paper is also from fancy packaging material. 

The ribbon and button are from my stash and it sure took me a long time to position them right below the image. All is well that turns out well.

I will enter in the following challenges:

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/ - flowers, floral paper

https://aaacards.blogspot.com/ - maximum white space + option flowers

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/ - flowers all over

http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/ - use your paper scraps

https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Monica

Water colour background

Hello dear bloggers,

I watercoloured the background on this card using the smoosh technique. The sentiment is handwritten.

I will participate in the following challenges:

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/ - sentiment as the focus

http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/ - no patterned paper

http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

https://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com/ - make a collage background

Monica 

My second Mindful Art and Card workshop

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is a card I put together a couple of days ago. The background has been painted with Mala tubes from Ikea. I diecut the nestie and slapped on the sentiment stamp on it. A felt peace sign sticker on the left to complete the picture and the card is all set to make peace. I hope...

I hosted the second Mindful Art and Card workshop today and my student and I had lots of fun painting abstract canvasses with acrylic paints. She said that had a purple cover for her bed so she matched the colours on the canvas. Guess, what she painted with? A piece of foam that came along with a Baby G watch that Aleeza bought.  I thought they came out quite neat. What do you think?

Below are the same canvasses painted by my student along with an abstract acrylic painting on water colour paper done by Aleeza. She used a piece of cardboard to paint it.

This is my student - a very charming and confident young girl of 11 with her abstract acrylic on 300 gsm water colour paper. She used a comb to paint this.  It looks much nicer in real life.  

Aleeza took the spare paint from the sponge and very quickly dabbed it on a card, hand wrote the sentiment and put it all together in minutes. I thought that was cool.

I will submit this card for the following challenges:

 https://colourcrazychallenge.blogspot.com/ - anything colouring
https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/ - anything goes
https://laviniaworldchallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes using rubber/acrylic stamp
http://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/ - peaceful
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/ - use a real stamp
https://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/ - anything goes
https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything occasion goes
http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Monica