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:
All these are made from paper.
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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! |
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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. |
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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:
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
Today’s a special day for me. It’s my Kanhaji’s birthday. Kanhaji is like my very own friend. Someone who is more than a mythical character, more than a deity, more than most people I’ve ever known.
Here are some of the pictures I collected from Internet. I sincerely wish I could back link to all the sources. So please pardon me, if you see one of your images here with my watermark.
We recently took a trip to Mathura. Wanted Akshara and Diya to experience the magic of that place. Here are some of the pictures of Kanhaji from that trip.
Here are a few Krishna idol I am love with
And here are some pictures of kids at my home dressed as Krishna
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My nephew, Shubh
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and my older one Diya dressed as Radha and Kanha
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My desk at office and my older one when she was little with one of my Kanhaji idols
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Oh, I know I can go on and on and on about Kanhaji, so let me stop rambling…
Here’s wishing Happy Birthday to Kanhaji and Happy Janmashtami to all of you….
May the peace and joy of Lord Krishna be with all of you…!!!
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Ah August!
The month of celebrations!!
The month of Goodwill!!!
Check out the list of celebrations we have this year in August
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Onam (Monday, (August 23rd)
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See what I mean? This is just the general list. Apart from all the birthdays / anniversaries of loved ones etc.
What better way to celebrate these days than to give gifts? And how cool will it be if you can come up with ‘personalized’ gifts for each occasion!
That’s the theme of my new ‘service’ which I’ll be ready to offer in just a couple more days.
Almost all of us have digital photographs these days. Some sweet memories linked with our friends, colleagues, spouses, parents, kids and other loved ones. But what do we do with them?
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Stack them away in some forgotten folder on our lappy?
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Write them out to disk and keep them for ‘one day’?
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Or go find a photo store, take prints and pile them into albums.
We watch our memories transform from
to something like
That’s it?
How about something like
or
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Like it? Read on, there’s more
How about transforming some of your images into photo books (like the ones above) or canvases or mugs or tote bags ?
Exciting?
I am planning to offer to design these things for you. At 0 (yes, that’s a zero) cost of designing! *
All you end up paying is what ZoomIn** will charge you for printing and shipping. No extra dime. In most cases these items will cost you comparable (or even lesser) than your local photo print stores.
You can click here to take a sneak peek into the products and prices and here for some of the special offers.
I am onto the last bit of puzzle finalizing how we are going to do it. You know, the technical details you wouldn’t like to hear about. And then bang! I’ll be at your service! Designing cool stuff from your photographs to be used for yourself or your home or to be given as gifts.
For sure you do not want to miss a thing like this! Keep watching this space or better still, sign up here so you get updates in your inbox. You don’t want to get left out of the “0 cost” thingy, do you?
Sincerely,
Yours in celebrations,
~Varada
* Let me make it clear here that this 0 cost is a limited time offer and may not last long.
** ZoomIn ships to any doorstep in India, US, UK and Canada for now. Rest of the world will have to wait – either till ZoomIn starts shipping there or I find another provider to do something similar. Extremely sorry, rest-of-the-world!
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