DIY Greeting card using Washi tapes

Hello folks, how are you all doing? 

Well yeah, ‘Something Different’ has been away for a while, but here I am back again with super-simple greeting card tutorial.

You can make this card within no time. No colours, no brushes, no punches, no glue!! Only things we are gonna use are paper, scissor, pencil and a marker pen, and set of your favorite washi tapes.

(For those who do not know what washi tapes are : These are just like cello tapes with cute printed designs on them. You can find plenty of variety in any craft store.)

 I have taken 17 cm x 21 cm white card paper. You can choose any size you wish. My washi tapes are 1.5 cm wide. So I have marked 4.5 cm line from one of the short edges of the paper, so that I can stick three pieces of washi tape vertically. (Check the blue washi tape portion in image below.)

You can make all sorts of colour combinations as well as the directions here. I have used four different washi tapes and pasted them in alternate horizontal and vertical directions. 

Then fold the remaining white sheet in half such that left short edge matches with our 4.5 cm marked line.

Almost done! Just write your greetings/wishes or name of the person you wish to make card for, on the front side and some lovely message inside. And your greeting card is ready!! :) 

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A 'Wall hanging' tutorial :)

Namaste everybody :) Greetings from 'Something Different'.

Today we have brought for you another wall decor tutorial to brighten up your room. Lets add some colours :)

Here's how we made it :

Step 1: Choose any coloured paper sheets. Cut rectangular pieces of size 27 cm x 18 cm out of each sheet. Mark lines at distances as shown in the image below.

Step 2: Now cut the internal rectangle. And make folds along the lines as shown in following image.

Step 3: Mark a line at a distance (say 1 cm from cutout area). Apply glue to the area on the right side of this marked line as shown. Make sure there is no glue on the left side of the marked line.

Step 4. Fold the paper along the first fold that we made in beginning (along the line at distance 13 cm). And then again fold along second small fold (we had made earlier) over it so as to secure our entire glued piece together. It should look like this now.

Step 5: Make other pieces in a similar way.

Step 6: Now decorate these pieces as you wish. We have used quilling technique to make this floral decorations. You can use glitter, stickers, stamps, punch crafts, or you can even paint.

Step 7: We are gonna use ribbon to make this wall hanging. Approx. 4 feet ribbon is needed.
Start with the bottom piece. Stick ribbon to the backside of the piece as shown. Then leave some gap and go on to next piece. In this way, stick ribbon to both ends of all the pieces.

There you have it. A beautiful, colourful wall decor piece for your room :) You can put your photos in these paper frames. Standard (4 x 6 inches) photos will fit in it perfectly.
Or you can write your favorite quotes on some white paper (size 4 x 6 inches) and slide through these frames and you are done!! :) :)

Hope you enjoy making this wall hanging.

See you soon :)

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Project 'Flora'

Hi everybody :)

So we have shifted to a new place now. And all these white walls are like blank canvas for me :D So 'Something Different' decided to add more colours to this place.

For past few days I had been working on a project, which I called 'Project flora'. Its a series of colour-penciled drawings of different flowers. I had referred to some internet photos and sketches to make these drawings.

This is how project flora evolved:

#1 Started the series with beautiful tulips 

#2 'Lilies'

#3 Lovely Carnations

#4 Elegant hanging flowers called 'Fuschia'

#5 Ended the series with bright red Plumeria flowers

Once all drawings were finished, I framed them using normal thermocol sheet and white gelatin paper.
And now Project flora is all ready and up on the wall. Here is the final look :)

Thumbs up!! :) Very happy with the result. What do you say?? You too can try something like this and brighten up your home with lots and lots of colours.

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Tutorial : An easel greeting card

Hello folks, hope you all are doing well. Today 'Something Different' has brought for you another greeting card tutorial. In this tutorial, we will learn how to make an easel greeting card. 

Steps are quite simple. 

Step 1: For this card, I have selected colour combination of Pink, White and black. Choose coloured paper sheets as you like. Cut pieces out of these sheets with dimensions:

Pink : 1) 12.5 cm x 11 cm 

         2) 12.5 cm x 18 cm

       3) 12.5 cm x 3 cm

Black : 1) 11.8 cm x 8.5 cm

          2) 11.8 cm x 2 cm

White : 1) 11 cm x 8 cm 

               2) 11 cm x 1.2 cm

Step 2: Make design as per your wish on first white paper piece. And paste it on first black piece and then again on first pink piece as shown below. This forms Part A of our easel greeting card.

Step 3 : Now, take second pink piece. Make folds at distances of 2 cm and 7 cm from one of the short edges. This is Part B of our card. 

  

Step 4: Write your short message on second white piece. And paste it on second black and third pink piece as shown.

Step 5: Paste the message strip that we prepared in step 4 along the short edge of Part B as indicated in the image below.

Step 6: Now, on the back side of Part A, mark a line at a distance of 6 cm from bottom long edge. 

Step 7: Apply glue to the 2 cm fold of Part B.

And stick part B to part A in such a way that 2 cm fold-line matches with the line marked on Part A in step 6. 

There you have it. A beautiful easel card is ready.

And if you fold it, both parts will perfectly stack over one another.

Write your message inside. You can customize this card in every possible way. You can change the colours, design, shape and size; basic procedure remains the same. 

Hope you enjoy making this card. 'Something Different' would love to hear your feedback. 

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Domino's garlic breadsticks' box turned into a fancy jewellery organizer!!! :D

Hi peeps!! Hope you all are well :) I know, I know, this blog has been quite inactive for a while, and I am reallyyyy sorry about that. But now 'Something Different' is back in action with this new tutorial : a Jewellery organizer box!!

This is one also 'best out of waste' kind of project. Mother's day is coming up, so this could be a great project for kids too to do during their summer holidays. You can make any other kind of organizer, say for your stationery accessories or say crafting tools, following the same steps.

Here we go :

Step 1: As I mentioned, this is a 'best out of waste' project. So the basic box that is used here is actually a 'Domino's garlic breadsticks box' :P :D First step would of course be 'cleaning the box' well.

Then I stapled those little flaps in back, so that we get a proper rectangular box.

Step 2: I have white paper sheets to cover the box (and later colored them), but you can always go for colored paper sheet, if you like.
First I covered the edges of the bottom part of box as shown in pictures below.

Edges of the upper part are little angled (not perfect straight lines). I covered this edges as indicated below.

So you box will now look like this.

Step 3: There are two tiny flaps coming out on the top cover of the box.

Cut those off. That will give better flexibility while opening and closing the box.

Step 4: And then cover rest of the interior portion of the box as earlier.

Step 5: For the outer side of the box, I have used this pretty wrapping paper sheet. It has a nice, elegant design and I guess that goes well with our 'jewellery box' concept. If you wanna make any other kind of organizer, you can choose the outer cover accordingly.

Step 6: Then I colored the interior white portion with acrylic colors of shades matching with the cover and then I pasted pieces of a card board paper sheets to give it a neater look.

So that's how the box is decorated. Now we can start making inner compartments.

Step 7: You can make any number of inner compartments as you wish. Procedure will be as below:

Here I wanted to make 15 cm x 7 cm x 3 cm box. For that, I took a rectangular piece of size 21 cm x 13 cm. and marked lines at distance of 3 cm from each edge. (That is going to be height of that box.)

Step 8: Cut and fold along the lines as shown.

Step 9: Apply glue to the overlapping flaps. And your first inner compartment is ready. Simple, isnt it?

In a similar fashion, you can make rest of the compartments of different dimensions. Make sure they fit in the jewellery box well.

Step 10. Arrange the boxes and put your jewellery knick-knacks in it and there you have your pretty pretty jewellery box!!!

Why throw away the boxes, if you can make such cool things out of them!! So people, enjoy your Domino's garlic bread and then make something useful and beautiful out of it... Something Different!! :)

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