A Distressed Window Card With Ranger Crackle Paint

ItsyBitsy recently launched a fabulous new range of Ranger products. There’s Glossy Accents, Distress Inks and my new favourite – Crackle Paint. This product is fantastic. Available in a variety of colours, it allows you to create fabulous aged finishes to your project without having to do much distressing yourself. When I ordered my Peeled Paint Crackle Paint, the first thing I wanted to try out was a window card inspired by this card. Even the techniques I tried out were outlined in this fabulous Read more…

The ItsyBitsy Say it with Roses Challenge

It’s Valentines Day folks!! So first off let me wish all our wonderful fans, friends and readers a very Happy Valentines Day!!! Here in India it’s kind of a non-festival but it’s certainly a reason to craft!! So here I am presenting my Valentines Day creation which coincides with our latest challenge – the ItsyBitsy Say it with Roses challenge.The theme is pretty straight forward. All you have to do is create a project which contains at least one rose. It can be a 3d rose, a rose stamp, a rose picture, Read more…

Non Traditional Masculine Valentines Day Cards

Valentines Day is just around the corner and the Craft Blogosphere is full of hearts, pinks, reds and flowers which are the commonly accepted symbols and colours of the day. That said, if I give my husband a card full of these, he will cringe in disgust. So my blog today is about non-traditional Valentines Day cards – for men. And of course the fabulous range of craft supplies at ItsyBitsy came in really handy for it!My first card is inspired by this creation I found on Pinterest. I love the sentiment Read more…

Baby Boy Scrapbook Pages

I first started crafting with baby scrapbooks for my kids. I’ve made one for my son, then another for my daughter. Then I made one for my friend Ashwina and then I made one for a friend who lives in my building. I am in the process of making a fifth for someone who wants to gift it to her friend and I’ve been procrastinating over it. I finally got a chance to work on it this week and I have to say, I think I’ve found my true calling craft-wise. Baby scrapbooks are so much fun!The first page I did Read more…

A Floral Paper Lantern

I have a quaint little balcony in my flat. It’s not very big but it’s bright and sunny. It’s perfect for a morning cup of coffee or to enjoy the evening breeze as well. I wanted to start beautifying it and when I looked at all the garden options available, they were so over priced that I figured why not try to make something myself. And here’s the finished project – a floral paper lantern. To start things off, I used the template available on this page. After measuring and cutting everything out Read more…

Peacock Craft – guest post by ArtsyCraftsyMom

For January’s guest post I wanted to do something symbolic of India .. and my thoughts were drawn to the gorgeous peacock – The National Bird of India. I had made a peacock earlier with my craft class , This time though I wanted it to be more magnificent and regal ..  I searched my supplies and found a good stash of craft goodies.. Googly Eyes, Sparkly pipe-cleaners, Feathers  big & small , Glitter sheets, shiny sequins, Foam sheet & craft sticks.I drew out a large 8 shaped cutout from Read more…

It’s Time for Some Dazzle and BLING!!

One of the things I love most about ItsyBitsy is the fact that you can get so many crafty products under one roof. Whether you’re into embroidery or paper craft, jewellery making or clay modelling, painting or quilling, you can be sure you will find everything you need right here. I got this idea into my head to do a Dazzle and Bling project for my friends’ birthday. I specifically wanted a big crystal pendant to dangle from an oversized bow and of course, the Blue Moon glass pendants at ItsyBitsy Read more…

Little Darlings – go girl go card by pooja

Hello there ! Pooja here with you today to share a cute card I made using the lovely Little Darling stamps available now at Itsy Bitsy !I will be sharing a lot of new stamping projects for Itsy Bitsy readers.  Hope you are as excited as i am about this 🙂 I totally enjoyed making this card  I have used some white cardstock for the base, on which there is another layer of Pattern paper.There are a lot of beautiful paper packs and single 12 *12 design paper sheets available at Itsy Bitsy do Read more…

Fun Kids Projects with Craft Rolls

I have 2 small kids and being the crafter that I have, they are constantly asking me to make things for them. I don’t think of myself of much of a kids crafter but every now and then I get inspired and create something. My son is turning 5 and we’re throwing a Dinosaur party for him. As I hunted online for party ideas, I came across a set of craft binoculars. I thought, what an awesome project to try out and given that ItsyBitsy has a whole range of craft rolls, I figured it would be easy to accomplish Read more…

Distress Inks make Wonderful Vintage Projects

In case you don’t already know, ItsyBitsy has just launched Ranger Distress Inks in-store and online. These ink pads are just fantastic to create a fabulous distressed feel to almost any project. Of course there are a wide variety of techniques you can try out with distress inks but for my first Distress Ink project for the ItsyBitsy blog I decided to focus on the ink distressing.So I decided to make a vintage themed card with a coordinating envelope. I had recently picked up the Spellbinders Ornate Read more…