New beginnings

So this is very new to me... The most difficult part? To remember to keep coming back.
Ill share with you a recent project, which i love not just because it was my baby...

(like all other crafters i LOVE it when clients let go and you get to experiment all on your own! THATS when you actually get better results)

...but because I think it was one of the sweetest gesture by the person who requested it.

It was a wedding gift from T for a new addition to the family, so the colours had to be wedding-ish, and a "home" element was a must.

So after a lot of indecisiveness on her part ( because she wanted something that would last and be actually useful) we decide upon an altered photo frame.
                           
Almost all the elements that you see are handmade..

I love working with sentiments.. and compose them myself. (More control than stamping ;) although stamping is a beautiful technique too)

And if it were up to me I would "distress" anything that crosses my path! I love it so!
I think it gives definition.

The flowers are handmade... I don't have dies for it... Everything is hand drawn and cut :)

I have used a few fabric leaves though.. Just to change the texture language...

And the beloved music sheet :) my latest love :)
                            

There was a coordinating box too... Which had to be minimal as compared to the main frame... So I repeated the elements minimally... a blank tag is for the client to write on her own :)

 

 

Please do leave some feedback in the comments :) you know I thrive on it :)

After a considerable time spent weighing the pros and cons and the responsibility, I now present to you my blog... The inspiration for which came from many crafters but primarily my really good friend who is not yet ready to reveal her blog to you...
It had taken me forever to muster the confidence to create a page on Facebook for something that I thought I was good at... It took a lot of inspiration from V who since then has become a good friend... I started with a small home business creating different kinds of paper crafts and altered products.

It's been a little more than an year since All That Sparkle began and mA it's been doing far better than I could imagine... Posting pictures of my projects seemed so dead ended on Facebook... It was just a project which costs this much... People like it.. leave a comment.. Some ask for the price... But the truth is its not just a project of art... Its not just a product that costs that much..

There's a certain amount of Love... Effort... Inconvenience.. Worry, and sometimes even tears that went into it....

Over time Ill share with you things that I craft, new and old, the amount of love and effort that went into them, the stories behind the projects...my inspirations... other crafters and oh yes maybe a little about the journey of me and my 3 year old growing up together...
I do hope I stick around here and this doesn't end up as another abandoned project...

So please do leave a comment or any questions you might have... So I too can keep coming back here ;)

Ill leave you with a project I did recently , ill come back later with more pictures details on it.