Recycled Coffee Bean Sack Cushion - DIY

I purchased some coffee bean sacks from a warehouse in the middle of nowhere awhile ago. I had made some table runners for my craft stall using a few, and still had some sitting in my garage just waiting to be transformed.

Ever since my folks got us a (mind blowing!) Breville Coffee machine, I wanted to transform our formal living room to make it an informal fun place to hang out! My transformed pallet wood IKEA tables already added so much character to the place, but I knew I wanted to make some recycled coffee bean sack cushions to add to the couch (in the process also transforming some existing sad-looking cushions I had bought ages ago). Here is how they turned out.

These recycled burlap coffee bean sack cushions require only one coffee bean bag, simple stitching (but thank God mum and dad helped!) and can be made in no time!

DIY Gift for men: Simple leather keychain

Is it me, or do you find it very difficult to shop for men? I wanted to gift hubs something useful, handmade for our anniversary, so thought this would be something special. He loved it and is using it to hang the keys to our home :) I am sure it will be loved by the man in your life as well, so here is the easy DIY tutorial.

Wallet Card!

Folks, this is a card I had made for hubby dear on his birthday. The inspiration for this card was a wallet. 

Here it is all wrapped up in an altered box. Hubby thought it was an actual wallet! 

Football card!

Hi folks, 

In this blog post I share a football themed card I had made for a soccer fanatic! I made a Z-card with some handmade pop-out embellishments to give it a rough look. I wanted to keep a minimalist color theme, to accentuate the theme of the card. Used the honeycomb embossing folder for the gorgeous footballs and stars. Did a lot of stamping on the pages inside, and voila!

The recipient loved it! Hope you like it too!

I have also entered the card in the following challenges:
Our Creative Corner - Wish upon a star: http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.co.at/2015/12/wish-upon-star.html
Share Joy Challenge 15 - Sketch and Tic Tac Toe: http://www.sharejoychallenge.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/share-joy-challenge-15-sketch-and-tic.html
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C317 challenge:

http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/crazy-4-challenges-c4c317.html

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C316 challenge:

http://crazy4challenges.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/crazy-4-challenges-c4c316.html

Love,
Divya

More masculine cards!

Hello friends, in this post I share three masculine cards I had made. 

Card no. 1 

For this card, I was inspired by a suit! I made a blazer sleeve where I could slide in the shirt card. To this blazer, I added two pockets. 

Altered travel suitcase with "Memories" mini album

Folks, in this post I share an altered travel suitcase I had created. In it, is an altered mini album along with an envelope to store more pictures. There is space to add any memorabilia collected on the trip as well. 

Suitcase:

I had picked up this suitcase box at a discounted price, and I wanted to do something with it. So, I thought what better than to make a travel suitcase. I first painted it with acrylic paint. After the paint dried, I stamped it a bit to get background. Then I used scrapbook paper, envelope, jute string, paper and fabric blooms, washi tape, tags, stickers, and other embellishments. 

Tool Box Birthday card!

Hi folks, 

So, in this blog post I share a "toolbox" card I had made long back. I had made the box with paper. Then I made a handle to the box, a tag, and sketched out all the tools, and then fuzzy cut them as embellishments. 

Here is how the toolbox looks from the front:

Retirement Card/Album!

This was among one of the first scrapbooking albums I had created. I think I had made this back in 2010 as a project for retirement. At that point of time, I did not exactly know what kind of craft I was getting into, and due to the lack of resources, I had handmade EVERYTHING! I even sketched out the embellishments and the letters myself! Tied all this using lace to finish it all.

This was the cover:

Masculine cards - perfect for the men in your life!

In this post, I share some fun masculine cards, that are super easy to make, and look adorable, and use up lots of scraps from your stash. Don't you just love that? So, for these cards, I used up left over papers from my previous projects. Frankly, I am not even sure which paper lines they were from! 

Card no. 1

I divided the first card into two segments and used two contrasting colors for the same. Distressed the papers, and in between added a tag. Found a picture of a dilapidated car online, and thought it was just the perfect subject for my card. I then embossed some black bazzil cardstock for the background. Then, added the car on top of it. Used some die cuts, stickers, and washi tape as embellishments.