Spring 3D Easter box card!

So, I have been crazily working on 3D pop-up cards - they are just so much fun to make, and look adorable! Here is one I had made for Easter wishes.

The handmade pop-up greeting card is like a Pandora's box - featuring a cute hand sketched, and water colored Easter bunny with goggle eyes, sitting in a garden holding a huge Easter egg. I made the card super fun and bright.. which is generally not my style, but I loved how it turned out!

Cinderella Pop-up card!

Yes, I said it - I am officially obsessed with pop-up cards. Anything that looks out of the ordinary greeting cards catches my eye. I wanted to create a girlie pop-up card, to go down the memory lane of my own childhood. I know I would have loved this card growing up. I loved fairy tales, spinning stories, and everything to do with fairyland.

My mom says that as a kid I would spin stories and get my brother in trouble, and would talk for hours about all things that happened at school. Once a chatter box, always a chatter box! :)  

So, here I made a Cinderella-inspired Pop-up card. I thought of everything that reminds me of the whimsical Cinderella fairy tale - the pumpkin carriage, the glittery glass slipper, the fairy godmother, a starry night, and lots of magic. 

Painting - Bani Thani!

Folks, in this post I would like to share a painting I had made several years ago. It is my version of the famous "Bani Thani" miniature painting. It is not an original, but I loved it so much that I had to try it! 

Hope you like it!

Love,
Divya

Radha Krishna paintings - Digging through my archives!

Folks, in this post I share some paintings of Radha Krishna I had made some years ago. The inspiration of all these paintings is the famous Krishna raasleela on the banks of the river Yamuna and the Madhuban forests of Vrindavan. 

Painting no. 1

Painting no. 2

Painting no. 3

And, here is a close-up of the above:

Hope you like them! :)

Love, 

Divya

Mini Album - A perfect Wedding Gift!

Hi folks,

In this post, I share a recent mini album which I had made as a gift to a cousin at his wedding. The mini album contains about 20 pages.

The front and the back of the mini was meant to resemble a gathbandhan (a wedding knot). The maroon front with the sequin and gold lace signifies the girl's saree and the pink back signifies the dupatta on the boy's shoulder at the wedding ceremony. For a closure, I used a gorgeous gold pearl brooch, and added a metal clasp to it. I also added some pearls and beads as danglers.

For the background, I used acrylic paints to get some brightness. For the title of the album, I used adhesive stickers and adhesive sheets on bright orange cardstock, and then used gold foil over it to get an embossed look. I also made gold embossed metal corners with gold foil to give a rich royal look that is a complete must at Indian weddings!

Old Ganesha Art - Digging through my archives!

Hi all,

Today I am sharing some of my Ganesha art pieces I had made long back. I don't remember when I had painted them, but I know I have always loved painting Ganesha, because I have always been so mystified with this divine God.

Hope you like these.

Lots of love!

Divya

Recycling - Cereal box Journal!

In this blog post, I reveal a journal I had made long back with empty cereal boxes lying around the house. There were just so many, that I wanted to use them. So, I cut them all to size, and made a journal with them!