The fall season is almost here and it brings along good weather and festivals to celebrate! Fall reminds us of neutral tones with hints of yellows and oranges. While we wait for Halloween to arrive, we can surely spruce up our homes (and gift bags) with paper pumpkin crafts.

In this DIY tutorial we make gift tags and décor ornaments from a single sheet of coloured paper. 

We hit two birds with one stone in this tutorial as we start with making paper flowers from coloured paper.

1. Cut the sheet of paper into 5 equal strips (1.75” each).

2. Cut the five strips into these sizes – 2X11”, 2X9” and 1X7”.

3. With the help of an empty-refilled pen and a ruler, we mark creases on the paper every 1 cm.

4. The technique of creasing with the pen is also called “scoring”.

5. Once you have marked all the creases, the strip of paper should look like this:

6. Now fold the strip in a zig-zag manner in opposite directions.

Once done, it looks like this:

Tip - Score all the strips before you start pasting them to avoid the gucky-sticky on your sheets.

7. Paste the two ends of the strip together, using glue, and let it dry.

Tip - Hold it in place for a while before you set it aside to dry.

8. You shall have 5 somewhat floral paper circles.

9. Once you have these mechanical-looking shapes, trace and cut out circles from the left over paper for the base of your flowers.

You don't have to trace the circle out, you can eyeball it really. 

It's just my OCD that makes me use a stencil. *sigh*

10. Now all you have to do to make the paper circles into flowers is to hold it from two opposite ends and press it towards the centre of the circle. You’ll have a flower that is being held by your finger.

11. Paste the flower on to the circle, using glue, to avoid it from popping back up. Once you are done pasting all the circles onto their bases, you’ll have flowers looking like these. Pretty huh?

12. Flip them over and look you’ve made beautiful flowers!

13. Once you make these flowers, you can either use them to decorate a gift tag or you can make them into beautiful pumpkin ornaments for gifting as well as your own home décor.

14. To make the gift tags, fold a sheet of paper (6” X 3”) into half.

15. Paste the flower on top of the card and trace out leaves from green paper and cut them out to paste them onto the gift card.

16. Punch a hole at the top-left corner of the card and thread a twine through it.

17. And you’re ready to gift away!

Now to make a pumpkin ornament, you have 5 flowers that you made out of a single sheet of paper.

18. Place the flowers on top of each other in the following order from bottom to top:
9” flower – 11” flower – 11” flower – 9” flower – 7” flower

19. Paste the flowers together using glue.

20. I’ve added a bit of *nature* to my ornament by using a real dry stem of a flower from my garden. You can use brown paper instead.

21. Cut up a few leaves to stick them on top of your ornament and decorate them with a few beautiful butterflies.

22. You have made a great gift and décor from a single sheet of paper and you can even hang a bunch of these together to make a mobile out of it.

 

--- Happy fall season! ---

Hello!

Since we have had enough of rains this season and are now approaching winters, I am starting to feel a bit of “summer missing” creeping into me. Which is why today I am going to share a décor mood board for everything that you need to bring the warm, sunny and beachy summers right into your living rooms and lock them in forever! (Maybe even throughout the winters)


Here's one of my works for your rain-spiration!

Let’s start with the colour tones, we go for some neutrals with a splash of aqua and turquoise and maybe hints of reds, yellows or greens. I would suggest going pastel with your colour scheme. The walls can be painted white, beige or even brown.

(you might want to steer clear of creams but those are worth a shot!)

I picked a few wall colours from the Asian Paints Colour Palette for the beach breeze scheme:

You can add the pops, the splashes and a few hints of colours to your basic neutral furniture and walls and floors with soft furnishings such as rugs, wall hangings, cushions, throws, sheets, paintings and even with a number of lighting fixtures and decorative items such as vases, stones and sculptures.

So I imagine a Florida Styled living room when I make this colour scheme for homes as this is the one room that intends to give you and your guests a warm (and bright *wink wink*) welcome to your home. I have included the beach décor making the place look bright and breezy during the day and reminds me of a beautiful beach date set-up at night.

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Note - While going for something beach-y, remember to work your way with the textures. Try incorporating as many suitable materials in your design as you can. 

Go for something raw and natural (like ropes, petrified wood and jute) and add comfort with smooth and soft textures (cotton and wool).

This is all for now! Happy colours! :)

Helloo!

I am back with another Scrapbooking Layout!

But first!.. I would like to talk about a product that every crafter seems to fall in love with almost instantly {yup!.. I was a victim too!}.. MISTS!

So when I was young {okay, last year! :P}.. I used to mix acrylic paints in water to make my own mists. This was when there were not a lot of companies producing this AWESOME thing!

These Tim Holtz mini misters were with me all along!

And a few days back I bought mini spray bottles {30ml each} and a LOT of paints.. and made my own batch! :D

Sooo pretty! *happy tears*

So now onto the Layout.. I was inspired by the Purple Pumpkin September Sketch Challenge!

I also tried the new Silicon moulds.. used POP {Plaster of Paris} as the medium and sprayed it with my mists.. worked perfectly! :D

I am also entering the layout for the Mema’s Crafts September Challenge and Chromatic Craze Challenge #2!

Okay its around 2:00 AM IST now.. and I have college tomorrow!.. So I guess I should be sleeping soon!