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Baby girls moments – princess scrapbook

I wish you could see my face right now. It closely resembles a poor little wet kitten – who is so sorry for running away from home and has already got wet because of that. :( (Ya, I do feel this place on www is my very personal home…)

Anyways, being away from blogging has made me very very dissatisfied in one part of my heart, so I’ve decided to bounce back. As a ‘coming back’ gift to all of you from my side, I’ll be sharing details of a recent scrapbook project I am working on in my spare time (read minutes…).

Warning: this is the first time I am undertaking a scrapbooking project, so not sure my process is right. I am just going with what-works-for-me. :)

Before making full fledged pages and layouts, I’ve decided to put together various embellishments. Here’s first set of princess attire:

PrincessDress base 1

All these are made from paper.

 

dress copy  

 

 

The dress: I have used thick pink color paper like the one used in greeting cards. (Do you call it cardstock?) It’s a simple evening gown cutout embellished with stones and white paper roses.

I used the simple and fun tutorial by Dozi Design for making the roses.

Grey and pink design is added later on the image using, what else? Photoshop! :)

For our princess’s make up we have (oh my I can feel the same excitement as I did when me and my friends used to dress up our dolls):

a. Mirror: Again I cut the same think pink sheet (actually this is a recycled sheet from some brochure) to the shape of a compact mirror + face powder thingie. On the inside I’ve stuck a round foil paper to act as a mirror and a round off white colored paper to act as the face powder. Tiny glittering start on top are a work of PS.

Lipstick and comb: Pink paper and handles wrapped in foil paper.

Shoes (my fav.): Pink and dark pink colored paper cutout adorned with stone and a thick thread bow.

The grey swirls are again PS.

 

shoes and makeup copy

tiara and jewelry copy Accessories: I drew a tiny tiara and glued the thick thread tracing the line. Embellished in between the loops with pink and white stones.

The bracelet is a simple ring adorned with stones.

Earrings and pendant are again tiny metal rings from my jewelry chain maille collection on which I’ve hot glued matching pink and white stones.

 

 

I then took my hybrid scrapbooking project (is there even such a thing?) to another level. Combining these images with my older princess’s snaps, I made the following layout:

Princess Diya

What do you think?

Would you to create something like this with your baby’s pictures? Is there some way I can help? Do let me know :)

As always, thanks for dropping by @ my e-place.

Cheers,
~Varada

The Spirit of Independence

I think the little thing about beautifying food courtesy Smita’s Little Food Junction is rubbing off on me too.

Independence day is round the corner and I found myself decorating the salad in our favorite tri-color colors.

tiranga salad with border

That’s my tri color salad with Daal Makhani. You can find the recipe on my other blog “Meal Times”.

I also spent some time lately experimenting with my beloved tools again. Here are a couple friendship bands that I made for the kids to exchange a couple weeks ago.

fband combined with border

Some earrings I made for Teej.

new earrings combined

And some old ones I resurrected from my treasure trove…

old combined

Some of my neighbor friends have asked me to design Rakhis for them and also new earrings to go with their dresses. They are willing to even pay me for this!!!

Wow… Life is just great!!!

It is so good to be a citizen of an independent and free nation!!!

Happy 15th August!!!

Times to Treasure Personalized Photo Gifts Service

Ok everyone, here’s the deal.

Personalized Gifts with your photos. The 24 hr Gift Store. Zoomin.com.

Here is how you can get me to design your custom made photo gift.

  1. Click on this ZoomIn link or the one on the sidebar.
  2. Create an account for yourself on ZoomIn.
  3. Upload your photos. You can even import from Picasa or Flickr.
  4. Set up your billing address.
  5. Select the product you wish to create from here. Some interesting ones are
    • Photo books – make a beautiful album from last vacation’s snaps or party pictures. If you are a food blogger or a craft blogger, I can even create a book out of your creations!
    • Canvases or collages – Turn your clicks into objet d’art! Gift someone or show off on your wall!!
    • Tea or coffee mugs – A great Rakhi gift or a gift for someone who has recently started going off to office or living independently!
    • T – shirts – wear your memories
    • Tote bags and many more…
  6. Drop me a mail using the contact form on this web site or write to t2t <at> naari-thewoman <dot> com.

So, get started my friends. Raksha bandhan is round the corner and this year you can give a personalized photo gift to your brother or sister.

Let the mails start comin’!!!

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