Sospeso on 3D surfaces

"Sospeso Transparente" is a 3D volume decoupage craft invented and patented by Monica Allegro (an Italian Artist). The procedure involves the following steps:
(1) Preparation of the Sospeso sheets
(2) Cutting and sorting
(3) Heat embossing and sharing
(4) The assembly of the shapes in flat designs to create some gorgeous three-dimensional finishing.

I have attended the workshop in 2013 by Ms. Kosha Shah from, who is a paper artist from Mumbai. Shabana had organized this at her place and like always I was one of the participants to learn this beautiful paper art. I have made this tissue box decoration and one more on a photo frame in the workshop.

Sospeso materials are available online and can be purchased from the craft shop (Owner: Ms. Priya Shivraj)
Some more decoration made by me on pen stands and small MDF cut outs.

Pen stand (sospeso on wood)

These gift tags (sospeso on MDF cut outs) can be added with this or any gift to make it complete.

The wooden products or laser cut MDF are available online at The Crafts Lane.

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Merry Christmas

My second quilled typography project is now completed. Although Christmas is not too near, I have created this project keeping the red and white theme of "Merry Christmas".

Like the Eiffel tower project, this is also done on 8/10 inches canvas. The background is created with red and white artist grade acrylic colors from Camel and using a cracking medium which I had bought from Fevicryl Hobby Ideas store. Before the typography is done, the individual letters are cut out from paper and pasted on the canvas. After that outlining with 2 mm wide white text-strips and beehive with 3 mm wide red paper strips were completed.

Here are some snapshots while working on the canvas.

Outlining with white text strips

Texting is completed with inside beehive pattern

The patterns and shapes that are mostly seen in these assemblies:

(1) Malaysian petals
(2) Combed petals
(3) Composite flowers
(4) Leaves in sets of 3,5 or 7 in numbers
(5) Husking
(6) Multi color husking
(7) 2D and 3D tear drops
(8) Marquise

Embellishments that are used in these assemblies are:
(1) Half pearls
(2) Pollens

The assemblies are snapshots and finally they all became part of this project. The overall process of making the flowers involves the following steps:

(1) Choosing the background color and color of the strips used to create the shapes
(2) Plan a count of the total number of shapes
(3) Measure length and cut strips based on individual shape counts
(4) Create individual assemblies like the flowers and leaves (for flower assembly the Silicone Glue is used as shown in the snapshot below)

The individual flowers are assembled beforehand on small plastic sheets using a sealant (Anabond RTV 666, available in any craft or hardware stores). After 6-8 hours when the glue is complete dried it can be cut out from the plastic sheets and this is how the flowers look like as shown in the picture below which can be further decorated with leaves and swirls using the same glue.

This is an edited form of the picture by me with a Christmas Theme :)

The assembly can be customized in different ways and can be used to create different projects.

I have used a lot of Malaysian flowers in most of this assemblies. One reason for which is that it is one of my favorite patterns. For a quick tutorial on how to make a Malaysian flower petal shape please watch out this video.

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Enjoy !

Eiffel Tower (la tour Eiffel)

The biggest attraction of city of love, Paris

The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It was named after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and build the tower.

I have been staying near the city of love, Paris, since last three months. Orsay-ville, a beautiful hill station of the Paris region, is my new residence and certainly the new nest to nurture my creative ideas :)

With time, I had realized that Paper Quilling art is not just something I like to do, but it is something which gives me enormous happiness and a passion to live with for long. So I created my very first quillography and 3D assembly project with the theme of EIFFEL TOWER or la tour Eiffel as the French would say.

Here comes the picture of the completed project.

The center is a hand drawn Eiffel Tower (created from an impression) and then outlining it with 3 mm width black text-quilling strips from A-one craft supply, Bangalore. The rest of the quilling is done with 3 mm light green text-quilling strips. The beehive pattern to fill up the texts (Adine Kirnberg Calligraphic font) is done with light blue and orange color strips, each of 3 mm width.

Canvas background: The complete project is created on an A4 size (8 X 10 inches) canvas. The canvas background is created by the distressing effect with Tim Holtz distress inks (purchased from the craft shop, Bangalore).

The 3D assembly is a technique by which the flowers, leaves and swirls are incorporated on the project and customized accordingly.

Following are snapshots of the project on the go:

Outlining text with text-quilling strips and also the Eiffel tower impression (high gsm, 3 mm wide)

 Completed outlining the text

Completed beehive pattern inside the outline of text

For the floral assembly, all the flowers, leaves and swirls etc are assembled separately and finally they are arranged on the final project. 

 Preparing the 3D flowers on silicone sealant

Below I have shown another assembly idea which can be used in any other project and can be arranged in a customized way.

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Let there be always light and a reason to smile :)

Let there be always light and a reason to smile :)

April 2015 denotes one of the most important decision of my life when I had to quit my job in the research industry after a long tenure of five years and eight months. The reason is indeed a happy one for sure as we had moved to France with new work, new goals, and new dreams to fulfill :).

I love to learn new things and meet new people. One of those things that I love to be involved with most of the time is craft-making. Since 2012, I had got several opportunities to participate in various craft workshops in Bangalore. Candle making was always there in my wishlist and it became a reality when I visited "Neoart" in Bangalore and met Ms. Anushree Vyas. I was following her beautiful work of art for almost about a year and finally decided to learn the art of making different kinds of candles in May 2015. I felt happy to get enlightened through learning the art of creating candles and spreading the gleam of happiness in my own way :).  I also started my journey in the field of consulting and training. I made some cherished relationships and met some wonderful positive spirits. They all became my reason to smile.

That's me with 15 different forms of a candle made in a one-day workshop with NeoArt before I left Bangalore.

Candles learnt: Ice candle, T-tights, designer T-lights, Floating, Prop candles, Handmade rose, Gel candle, Ball candle, Luminarc candle holder, Photo-embossed candle/holder, Cup candles, cupcake icing candles, chunk candles, layered candles, Beeswax sheet candle,  

During these last three months of my homestay in France, I never felt like sitting at home for a single moment. Probably this is because I had really so many things in my mind to plan for and so many things in my work list to be accomplished. I made my first set of hand-made candles at our new residence in the beautiful hill station named Orsay-Ville in eastern France.

 

Here are some pictures of my first venture of candle-making and topping them up with some Sospeso design, another beautiful craft form. I definitely laid my way with a lot of creative ideas for the next set of ventures.

 A set of different candles (rose bed, cupcake, ball, and t-lights)

 Sospeso design on a candle holder (T-light candle inside)

Set of designer candles: Festive feeling and at the same time a nice way to gift someone with a reason to smile and a gleam of happiness.

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The Royal "R"

After a long time tried my hand with my best favorite "Paper Quillography", writing with Paper quilling :)

Here come the majestic font with an "R" monogram .....go Green.....

Size: A4
Patterned glossy paper as base
Fluorescent green and bottle green used for the swirls and the beehive patterns
The outline is done by 4 mm wide text-quilling strips from Art'zire :)

Express your feelings with greeting cards

Here comes few trials on some greeting cards, specially designed to be used for any occasion.....these are all blank cards, made from A4 sized colorful card stocks and other scrapbooking materials like paper doilies, laces, embellishments and definitely my favorite paper quilling to make beautiful floral patterns on top......

One more with decorated paper doily and applying some distressing effect over the edge....:)

Ganesha and Shringaar

Here comes my art dedication for Ganesha Chaturthi… A Ganesha mural painting on 12/16 inches canvas.

This had further motivated me to create "Shringaar" [dressing up] on 18/24 inches canvas.