A Handfull of Art

Hey There!!! It's been a long time at the blog here and blogging has definitely taken a backseat and I'm quite present at my other Social Handles and I promise to be more active here! I just popped in to show you some lovely flower making which is a DIY and it's extremely easy to make these Poinsettia flowers! It's quite easy and these flowers can adorn your projects in a very pretty way!! All you need is some Vellum paper and the flower cut outs!  I also have a video tutorial of the same! Do check it out here: Have a great day and happy crafting!!!

If you have been following me on my Facebook page ( www.facebook.com/ahandfullofart ), you must by now know that I truly love making Baby albums, each baby album brings in a new experience and gives so much to learn and absorb, not to mention that truly happy feelings of my clients when I get to hear how I made a difference in their lives by giving them a handmade album which will help them in capturing and documenting the gorgeous moments from their little one's life's. I have a new baby album which is probably the closest one to my heart till date! It's a Nursery Rhymes themed album and this one is truly full of colors !! Here are the detailed pictures. I hope you will enjoy seeing the pictures! I hope you loved seeing the album!! Thank you for stopping by !! Love, Manu!

Hello Everyone! Birthday's are so special and I'm sharing a super fun way to Jazz up your Birthday parties and make them a huge huge hit with kids and adults alike! Birthday Props are a trend these days and why not??? It's a quirky way to add more fun and make your party pictures look amazing! When Nikita from  We Are Real Moms  asked me to guest design for their September challenge, I was all up for the game! (Read all about their fun challenges Instagram, the insta link is mentioned above) I'm sharing a few photo props which have been a HIT (Read BIG HIT) in the past and I never get bored of making these party fun props. Sharing a few that I did earlier. Also I have a little giveaway for you all, Scroll through the end to find out! The Best part about these is that they are completely customized and can be made very generic or very specific to the guests in your parties. Checkout the pictures below to see a varied varieties of these fun props! Ho...

I'm sharing a new album, a pocket accordion mini album on the DMC blog today!! Here's a link: http://dressmycraft.blogspot.in/2017/08/pocket-accordion-mini-album-with.html Do check it out! Happy Crafting!

I'm very very excited to share that I will now be designing for Dress My Craft, a totally Made in India Brand and this is what excites me all the more!! My first post is up at their blog and I have worked a little around their glam and sparkly sequins! Here's a teaser of what I'm showcasing at the blog. Here's the link to the post.. http://dressmycraft.blogspot.in/2017/05/glam-up-your-projects-dress-my-craft.html Do check it out!

This month's challenge theme at the Mudra blog is Chalkboard and I have a few cards to share which comply with the challenge as well as a pregnancy stamp set inspiration and a totally gorgeous floral card with a DIY background using the super stamp set Alpha set from the Mudra stamps!! Here's a sneak peak! Checkout the complete project here !!! http://mudracraftstamps.blogspot.in/2017/05/chalkboard-challenge-inspiration-plus.html

I have two things to share with you all today! First, a gorgeous baby boy album and the second is the winner of the Mudra Blog hop!! I'm very late in announcing the same as I was caught up with a couple of things at my end! Here's the baby boy album that I did for a cute little one! To check out the complete pics and a video, checkout my FB page www.facebook.com/ahandfullofart Now to the winner!! Payal, kindly send your address along with the contact details to manu.ahandfullofart@gmail.com within 48 hours to claim your winning prize! Happy Crafting!

I love love love making interactive cards and one such card I love is a 'Card in a Box'. It folds up flat and opens up into a box shape card! This is what I made with the Mudra's Stay Magical stamp set! Checkout the complete post here I totally love making this pretty one! C ya soon

As you all know that I love love love making baby albums and I finally gathered the courage to do a fabric bound handmade album! The binding system of this album is sewn too for extra strength and this 10*10 album has lots and lots of space for putting up the pictures of your little one! Here are a few pictures and I also have a video of the walkthrough of the baby album :)  The cover page has an interactive element as well, a slider and the boy slides to reveal a message at the slider panel! A few pictures follow! Don't forget to watch the complete video at the end of the post! Watch the video here !! Thanks for stopping by!

Hello and welcome to our “First Birthday Blog Hop”!  Yes, Mudra is one year old this month and what an amazing journey it has been so far. And this month, we want to celebrate our big milestone with you because it wouldn’t have been possible without your support. We have so many fun things lined up throughout the month with lots of chances for you to participate and win some cool prizes. We wanted to start the celebration today by bringing together our amazing creative team and few of our friends to share some of their beautiful creations with Mudra products. We have an amazing line-up of projects that you sure are going to love! RULES:  - Follow  Mudra Blog - Like Mudra  Facebook Page - Follow us on  Instagram  - Subscribe to your  Youtube - Visit all the designer's blog hop post and leave them some love. - After finishing the blog hop, add your name in the inlinkz in  Mudra Blog Hop Post . PRIZES: To celeb...

I recently did a friendship themed album to be gifted to a male friend and thoroughly enjoyed making this pretty one! There is not better gift than a gift of someone you can trust and friendship is the most purest form of all the give and takes!! I did the album in the mixed media style and loved the outcome!! Used my new Prima doll for the center of the album and the client loved it all, and that was the icing on the cake! I love trying out different forms for my albums and this style called as Mixed media is my current favorite one!! Linking it to the Happy Little Stampers Mixed media DT call!

There's nothing better than making a album full of memories and I love love love making baby albums!!! There is nothing close to perfect than keeping all those special moments of your little bundle of joy all at one place!! Here's a baby album I did recently and I so so so love this! I'll put up a video soon, meanwhile, you can enjoy the album's cover page which is done with using a lot of elements and is a total mixer of a lot of things used!! Entering it for the Happy Little Stampers DT call for mixed media!

I recently had a chance to make a all together replica of my earlier card for a friend. So much so for the persuasion to letme change the colors and a little bit, all went into the drain and I then finally gave up and make it exactly similar to the one I did sometime back for the DT post I did ! Here's the card made all together again!! I must say it's diff to create exact replica's of the card even for the one who made it initially! PS: I'm using the same image i used for the earlier card as I did  not get a chance to photograph the new one I did! entering it for the HappyLittle Stampers CAS Challenge.

I'm more of a album making person, yet I do have a couple of spellbinders nestabilities which I had bought in my early crafty time!! A Friend asked recently to  make a card for her fiance and she settled on a double slider card! It was supposed to be all romantic and roses defines romance!! what else could I have done! I used the Altenew Vintage roses stamp set that I had purchased for making roses for scrapbooking purpose and decided to use those to make the slider card Here's a pic! The slider mechanism works when you pull the ribbon and the two inside flaps pulls out!! I loved the outcome of this pretty one!! Entering it for the Happy Little Stampers DT Call for the Dies and the mixed media category!

I love cute critters and they tend to make me happy!! I have been hoarding a lot of cute critter stamps and recently got this cute mama elephant stamp set and was eager to try it out!! Here's what I did with the stamp set. These critters are awesomely cute and I made a shaker card!! Entering this card for the Happy Little Stampers DT Call!