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Graphic 45 Gift Box            Hi friends, it's very ,very hot in Bangalore right now and I have not been crafting or blogging as my craft room with my computer is on the top floor of our house and it's literally a furnace there !!         But I had to make a Christmas themed project for my DT post at the Rudolph Days Challenge  and so here I am burning the midnight oil [because it's slightly cooler at night]!! Graphic 45 Time to Flourish My crafty mojo has been near absent and to try and rectify it I went craft shopping and picked up my first Graphic 45  paper packs!! Woo Hooo am I in love or what!!! Chocolate Box I altered this  box [ which housed chocolates gifted to us  by a kind soul!] with my first Graphic 45 paper and added lots of my favorite elements including snow[ using whipped spackle ], cute birds, a chipboard candle stick and chipboard giftbox ! Graphic 45 Gift Box   Adde...

Mini Album        Hi friends, recently my family and I vacationed in Phuket , Thailand and we spent so much time in the oceans that for my DT post for Crafters Corner, I made a Mini Album in an Ocean theme with a cute water-colored mermaid, shells and various ocean motifs ! Handmade Flowers I love making flowers and this project has quite a few handmade flowers. The big blue sparkling rose was made using Spellbinders Rose Creations  die using this Tutorial : Easy Rose Tutorial . The Magenta Fluffy flower was made from craft foam and the Cheery Lynn  Sun flower die using this Tutorial : Easy Daisy Tutorial and the Pink rose was made using craft foam and the Spellbinders Bauble Blossoms 1 die. Handmade Flowers I also added some handmade clay flowers [ the plumeria and the little white buds you see scattered around] made freehand using Thai Clay [ an air drying clay] and Oil paints. I love picking up shells fro...

Hi friends, it gives me great pleasure to write a post on the amazing water-coloring  Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens  . Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens  at Crafters Corner These amazing watercolor brush tip pens from Japan are all the rage in the paper-crafting industry and are available in different sets to suit your budget. So you can pick up a set of 12 to experiment and see if you like it , buy individual colors or splurge and go all  the way and buy the complete 80 set! Here is a brief intro about these marker pens: What are Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens ? These are watercolor pens with tips in an actual brush format and the brush is of such high quality that you can get fine lines as well as broad brush strokes. Why are they so popular in the paper-crafting industry? They are one of the easiest ways to color stamped images Fine tip allows you to color even small stamped images easily Vibrant color...