Working with Stencils- Some Basic Techniques

Hi Everyone, Saadia here Little Birdie Crafts has recently launched beautiful new stencil designs and great art and mixed media journals. I thought I should share with you some of the very basic stenciling techniques, these will be useful to those who are new to stencils. I used only one design of stencil in almost all of the techniques. Stencils and stenciling: The stencil is usually a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, wood or metal, with numbers, alphabets or a design cut Read more…

Happy Diwali – Tri fold Money Envelope

Hey guys How are you all? I am sure you all must be all enthusiastic about the upcoming Diwali festival…..which is something even I look forward to. As a kid I remember, Diwali was all about beautiful dresses, rangoli with my sisters (back then I was only allowed to watch), firecrackers, Faraal (Sweet and savory eatables) and of course Diwali money envelopes given by elders on Laxmi Pooja Day….such fond memories. I am sure you all must be associating some of these things with your memories. Read more…