Friday, January 19, 2018

Gears & Sweet Memories - A Mixed-media layout

Hi friends,

I am sharing today a mixed-media layout with a vintage feel that I made for my sister-in-law sometime back. As I wanted a gender neutral project, I used MDF gears to embellish my project.


 The MDF gears are from iCraft by The Craft Studio. iCraft has one of the widest range of gears and lots of other designs in MDF cut-outs with appropriate thickness and clean cuts for any mixed-media project. 


For the base, I coloured a 12 by 12 MDF with Wild Honey Distress Ink in the edges and sealed the ink using Distress glaze. I than tore a pattern paper on edges to give a distressed look and gave it a wash with diluted purple and blue. Once the paint was dry, I adhered pattern paper to coloured MDF base. I added some texture using Ranger texture paste and stencils


I mixed black Fevicryl acrylic paint with Ranger texture paint and used it through Tim Holtz stencil to add texture at places. I also dusted some Perfect Pearls on the textured areas to add the gold touch. 


I used gold, silver, blue and purple Fevicryl acrylic paints to colour the gears.  



This is a metal embellishment that I coloured using similar acrylic colours as MDF. I cut the clock from a pattern paper and pasted it on center of the embellishment. I added some micro-beads and Mod-Podge dimensional to finish it.


Sweet Memories is also an MDF from iCraft and it was heat embossed with Ultra Thick Embossing Powder from Ranger 

I hope you liked this layout.

Love,
Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta
Crafty Flirtations 

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Your Love Gives Me Wings To Fly

Hello Friends,

It's almost a month to go for Valentine's day, but we all start making cards & gift items early. So here, I am sharing with you a frugal mixed-media layout for Valentine's  gitf.



  • I wrapped some laces I had at home around a 3 by 8" piece of plywood (scrap piece of plywood).
  • Apply a coat of Gesso. Once the Gesso was dry, I coloured the background using spray paints I made at home (You can find numerous frugal recipes on YouTube).
  • For the focal point, I cut a heart from a red card stock and applied red glitter on it using glue.
  • I drew wings on vellum using Ranger Emboss It pen and heat embossed it using White Embossing powder. Then I fussy cut the wings.
  • I stamped sentiments on white card stock and applied a coat of Glossy Accent on them.
  • To finish the piece, I adhered wings, heart and sentiment on the coloured ply using Glossy Accent. 
Hope you enjoyed this quick & frugal Valentine's gift.

Love, 
Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta
Crafty Flirtations 


Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Doodled ATCs

Hi friends,

Hope 2018 has been going great for you. I am sharing some ATCs I made with doodling sometime back. Hope you like them.


  • Blend Distress ink on 2.5 by 3.5" card stock. 
  • Draw circles of various size on card stock using Sakura Micron and fill them using Sakura Gelli Roll pens.
  • Add highlights to circles.
  • To finish, apply a thin coat Glossy Accent on the edge and sprinkle with glitter. Adhere stamped sentiment using double sided foam tape.

  • Blend Distress Ink in Shades of blue on 2.5 by 3.5" card stock and stamp some pine trees on top using Archival Inks.
  • Stamp some Pine trees on a card stock and fussy cut. 
  • Draw a tortoise on card stock and doodle using various patterns and fussy cut. 
  • Create a slider system on the inked and stamped panel and cover the base using Dress My Craft Frosted Sugar (I used Glossy Accent to adhere Frosted Sugar).
  • Adhere the tortoise on it using home made slider system. 
  • Add a card stock at back and fussy cut pine trees on top. Add some Dress My Craft Frosted Sugar on the Pine trees.
  • To finish the ATC, adhere sentiment (handwritten) using double sided foam tape.


  • Doodle a feather design using Sakura Micron on yellow card stock.
  • Write the sentiment with help of a stencil & Sakura Micron to finish the ATC.


  • Doodle a floral design using various Sakura Gelli Roll pens on black card stock,
  • To finish the ATC, write a sentiment also using Sakura Gelli Roll Pen.


Hope you like these ATC with Doodling.

Love,
Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta
Crafty Flirtations 

Friday, January 5, 2018

Rocky Roads Art Journal

Hi Friends,

Happy New Year to all of you. In my 1st blog of 2018, I am sharing an Art Journal Spread with a total of 7 supplies (Apart from basic supplies). I absolutely love the quote "Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destination" as its such a huge motivation and confidence booster and this Art Journal Spread is all about it.



Supplies Used:

  • iCraft Stencil (rock/ stone stencil)
  • Ranger Distress Ink: Picked Raspberry
  • iCraft MDF Phrase 
  • Sakura White Gelli Roll Pen 
  • Sakura Black Brush Pen
  • Ranger Gold Embossing Powder 
  • VersaMark Embossing Inkpad 
  • Basic Supplies: Blending Tool, Heat Gun, Glue
Steps to Create: 
  • Ink the MDF phrase with VersaMark Ink and heat set with Gold embossing powder.
  • On your art journal, blend Distress Ink with help of a blending tool through a stencil.
  • Once you have stencilled on the entire page, colour the negative space using a brush marker or any black pen that is water proof.
  • Once the ink is dry, flicker some water to reactivate Distress Ink and create texture.
  • Outline each stone using white Gelli Roll pen.
  • Adhere the embossed MDF phrase to finish the page. 
Additional Tips
As this was a 4 by 8 stencil, there were a few harsh lines where ever the stencil ended. I connected some Inked rocks with help of paint brush & Ink to remove harsh end-lines of stencils and make the page look more generic 


I hope you like my simple page, yet quirky Art Journal Page.

Love,
Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta