Home Sweet Home

Hello Crafty Folks..

Now greet everyone at your door step with a cheerful and a fresh hello. Yes, I am talking about a name board that defines what you are and be very useful as well.

Today I am on The element Craft studio blog with a very useful project - A pine wood heavy duty nameplate with a slot to add plants or collect your milk and newspaper.

For this,  I used the bubble gum pink chalk paint from Anra crafts and gave it a distressed along with adding some portions of stenciling.

The corners I used the metal findings,  book corners to give it a very vintage finish as well as protect the edges.

This welcome chipboard is a very beautiful and intricately cut pattern from the chipboard collection from Anra Crafts.

Added our family name along with Metal Home embellishment to finish the top.

The panels I distressed with black archival ink from ranger. 

How do you like it? 

Do let me know on the comments below 

Here is the list of all the materials used to make this nameplate.

Nameplate

Chalk paint

Chipboard

Metal edges

Handyman for Letters

Hi all dear crafty lovers, today i am going to share the tutorial of vintage letter rack. 

Another wonderful DIY base from TECS… TECS bases are beautiful  and at the same time very useful too. Stylish and sturdy wall mounted mail organizer with two pockets , provides great convenience and functionality to keep your mail, letters, small documents and catalogs etc in one place with easy accessibility. Let's start with the list of material we need to create this project-

Chalk Paint (Soft Sun, Brown Chalk Paint, Barley Green , Vintage Golden)

Mod Podge

Bordure 15*10"

Vintage Knob Style Brads

crackle medium

Mail Organizer

To start the project, first i applied the barley green chalk paint on the back piece of the organizer. After drying the base color i applied crackle medium on that and then painted soft sun chalk paint as the top coat. I just wanted to give the feel of crackle effect , so did not use very contrasting colors. 

 pic of crackle effect

For the front rack pieces , I applied mod podge on the surface and covered the surface with TECS bordure decoupage paper.  I gave distress effect with archival brown ink on the sides .

After drying the mod podge, I applied varnish on the front rack peices. Then I have used golden color outline tube to highlight some lines of the paper designs and decorated it with wooden cutout and metal vintage knob. I also colored the ball chain in brown color and stick that to give the border design to the flap pieces.

To give the back piece little darker effect, I did dabbing with brown color. Then I  assembled all the pieces together.

To give the final touches to my project, i applied brown color distress effect on the sides of the organizer and decorate it with resin embellishments. 

For resin embellishments, first I applied the gesso on the pieces and then color with brown chalk paint and gave some highlight with golden color.  I hope, you all will like the project. 

Please feel free to message me if you have any questions. all suggestions and reviews are welcome. Thank you for reading my blog. HAPPY CRAFTING to all crafty lovers.

Thanks,

Anika

Winners of Mood Board Challenge April 2019

Hello friends:)

It's Rakhi  here to announce and congratulate our first ever Mood Board Challenge winners----

A heartfelt thanks to all of you who have shared your creative, beautiful and amazing creations with us to participate! Every entry was so beautiful that we truly faced tough time to select just three winners!!!

I am feeling honored to share all selected entries in form of a small gallery...although winners are just three but I truly feel everyone of these also a winner itself as they have courage and enthusiasm to participate and create their own space among others! Bravo my buddies, love all of you soooo much...

All three winners will get their 

amazing craft goodies from The Element Craft Studio and a chance to share a guest designer post on our blog made by using these goodies....

 and....

Here is the surprise for you all creative minds---along with three top winners, we are giving 4 appreciation prices also to 4 entries, who will also get tempting craft goodies from TECS.

Many of you were inspired by color, few by texture, few by motifs and few by season....we have chosen winners as per the most utilized elements of mood board and creativity...

Here I would like to share some facts about Mood Board Challenge---this challenge is not about sending our old posted earlier projects but to make a fresh and new entry as per guidelines of elements indicated in Mood Board to be used to make an entry. Then sharing that entry with caption of mood board challenge by tagging blog post and TECS and then sending us mail of this entry with your details... 

As this was our fist challenge so we ignored some facts but please gals, next time follow guidelines for sure while participating...

Hope, we did justice to this challenge and get ready gals for next Mood Board challenge for the Month of June....will post next challenge soon gals, keep checking!!!

Here are the entries of our First three champs with their names---

Meraj Zaidi 

Richa Tripathi

Kirti's Kraft Kastle

And here are our 4 lucky winners for appreciation goodies bags---

Anju Aggarwal
 

Meera Savla

Pallavi Kapoor

Here are other beautiful entries which stole our heart and we could not resist to share these with you all---

Aparna Shaw

Hemali Shah

Juhi Jain

Neha Phutela Mehta

 Nivedita Ahuja

Priyanka Srivastav

Ruchi Surana

Shilpa George

 Smita Singh

 Surbhi Modi

Jansi Rastogi

P.S.---Please share your complete address with phone number via mail rakhigarg146@gmail.com to claim your prices...

Happy Crafting Gals,

TECS Team!!!

Love Packed in Box

Hello guys,

I am Back on TECS, this time with a gift idea for Mother's Day. Mothers are everything to us and I am sure, none of us would like to leave a chance to make them feel special . Let's get going !

To begin with I have a beautiful carved box from TECS, all their products are super strong and smooth.

There is no need of sanding required. Using the stencil, I created some texture on the base.

Now,  once the texture paste is dry,  varnish on the texture,  so that it doesn't spread while painting above.  Now I painted the whole box with this beautiful wine red chalk paint from Anra Crafts.

Using a decoupage paper,  I pasted the inner base with these cute deer's..  Looks like a mom and daughter to me  isn't this print beautiful? 

Now the top flap of the box I applied crackle medium and painted with a cream for the red cracks to show.

I took one more decoupage paper with beautiful flowers and randomly cut them to do volume decoupage.

Pasted the fussy cut flowers on to the sospeso sheet and fussy cut and embossed them to make a beautiful floral arrangement for the top of the box.

Added some pollen and pink glitter to add some interest.

Finished the arrangement by adding a sentiment "Memories" In the center.

So,  this is how the box looked once done. 

Now,  to make it look more vintage,  I added these metal legs from the Anra Crafts metal embellishment collection.

I totally love the outcome,  and hope my mom would love this too 

I hope you like this project.  Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below.  Thank you for stopping by! 
Until next time..  
Here is the List of all the products used in this project
Trellis Cut work lid box
Deer charm Decoupage paper
Border Fleur decoupage paper
Soft Skin chalk paint
Wine red chalk paint
Zigzag magic
Pink glitter
Metal legs

Cute Birthday Board

Hi, 

This is Anjali, Creative Designer at THE ELEMENT CRAFT STUDIO and today I am here to share with you this lovely MDFchopping board I altered.

Here are few pictures 

I have used chalk paints, flowers leafy twines and the base from the store and I love how it turned out.

I used a single layer of the chalk paint and it turned out so well. I worked on layers and added lots of elements to it.

I have added leaf jute twine on the top with mulberry flowers from the store I also added few handmade flowers, some leaf die cuts and butterflies.

I added glimmer dust using glue with stencils and sprinkling the glimmer dust and it turned out so well.

For the final touch I added this cute little stamped image and sentiment.

Hope you liked the project.

Products used from the store:

- mdf chopping board

- chalk paint

- mulberry flowers

- leaf jute twine 

- glimmer dust

Thanks for passing by.

Do leave your feedback and comments.

Thank you 

Ancient Time Teller

Hi all dear crafty friends, Anika here with an out of the box project for you all---Ancient

time teller...

A very beautiful base designed by our dear TECS team.  TECS team designs always amazed me with their details and inspire to give our best to make the project beautiful. Hope, you all will like the tutorial. So, lets start dears with the list of material that we need to make our project - 

List of material used from TECS---

Victorian Clock Base

Soft Sun Chalk Paint

Barley Green Chalk Paint 

Wine Red Chalk Paint

Vintage Knobs

Filigree Corner

Chain Stencil

Brick Stencil

Victorian Border Stencil

Shri Buddham Decoupage paper

Mod Podge  

texture paste 

ball chain

Varnish

Crackle medium

In this project i did lots of stenciling (my favorite) and coloring. TECS stencils are very easy to use. Their transparency helps you to arrange your stencil in exactly at the place where you want them. 

To start my project i took the front part of the clock and divided that roughly according the stencil designs that I wanted. once i got satisfied with the designs, i did my stenciling with texture paste and paste the ball chain with mod podge around the edges. 

For the middle part , I have used Buddha decoupage paper. The particular sitting posture represents PEACE and Blissful--the house may be blessed with his blessings. 

On the right side of paper ,I have used gloss gel to give some texture effect. for the dial part, i gave crackle effect with barley green chalk paint and pasted ball chain.

After drying the gloss gel completely i gave shading with metallic bronze and red wine color and wiped the extra color with wet tissue.  

For the dial part, I colored the dial cutout with red wine chalk paint.

For the front i colored all with soft sun chalk paint. to prepare the base also, I paste the lace and ball chain around the edges and color all with the same color chalk paint.

After drying the color , I did two coats of varnish on the front part and leave that to dry complete. When the varnish got dry , I applied the red wine color on the stencil parts and wipe the extra color with the wet tissue. I did the same process 2-3 times , until I got the desired results. I gave crackle effect on the top and bottom of the front flap like we have in buddha pic and highlight the stencil work with red wine chalk paint. I have pasted the metal knobs both of the sides.

Now its time to paste all the parts together. I have used wood glue to stick the front and back parts together. I applied wood glue on the sides of the back part and paste the front part very carefully . Align the both parts very properly otherwise it will be difficult to get the parts get fit in the base slot. place the clock machine in the clock and cover that with acrylic glass. i used resin embellishments for the top design to give it vintage look. I applied the primer first and the gave two coats of red wine chalk paint and highlighted the curves with bronze metallic paint. 

   Then i fix the parts in the base slot and gave some final touches with bronze metallic paint to give shine my time teller. 

 Hope, you all will like the tutorial. Please give your valuable reviews and if you have any questions, feel free to send me a message. Thank you all for reading my tutorial. HAPPY CRAFTING TO ALL MY DEAR FRIENDS.