Thursday, 5 March 2015

Guest Designer: Shilpa Nagaonkar plus a tutorial

Hi Friends

It's Manu here and I'm so happy to have Shilpa back here today, being featured as our guest designer!! You all know her pretty well and she is someone who needs no introduction. I'm myself in awe of her very pretty creations and love love love her mixed media! We sure truly love her mixed media, right!!! And that not all, throughout this whole month we will continue getting a lot more inspired for we have more inspirations for you! 

Before I ask Shilpa to take over, I'm sure that you are equally excited as we are to celebrate Lulupu's Birthday bash! Check out all about the celebrations here and do not forget to follow all the guidelines to be eligible for your entry into the bumper raffle draw(I'm actually waiting for the month end eagerly to see all your lovely creations!) The Challenge for this month is 


Check out the lovely Moodboard at the link above and now lets see what Shilpa has in store for us!


Hello Everyone, Its great to be back here at Lulupu, yes, its for Guest Designer Post Today.
I've created Mixed Media Gift Box inspired by Moodboard for this month's challenge.


I loved to use Teal color from Mood Board...further have pink and Gold in my project.Theme is to use '3'. I've used 3 Colors, 3 flowers, 3 leaves. 

Here is the step by step to create mixed media work on box


Originally this was a thick Kraft box. I applied a coat of Gesso. To create texture, I adhered paper Doilies and Gauze at random places with Matt Modge Podge.


Next layer is created with Wendy Vecchi white Embossing paste and Memory Box stencil.


When Embossing paste dried completely, I spritzed Lindy's inks in Mint and blue colors, used my heat tool to dry them. As we have gold color in Mood Board, I buffed acrylic gold with my fingers on raised areas of textured box


Lovely frame is from Prima, I colored it in gold and also have used Ranger Crackle Accent. You will find beautiful crackles if you zoom in the photo. 


My 3 sentiment cards go inside the box. They have a background created with Lindy's sprays, text and texture stamps, gold acrylic and stencil. 

That's it for now!! Hope you liked my project and get inspired! 
Don't forget to enter your project for Lulupu challenge this month to win fabulous prizes.

What a lovely project Shilpa, Loved the colors, the turquoise feel to the whole box!! 
I hope you all have enjoyed the pretty makeover of the box and would love to make one for yourself!! Go, try it and do show it to us!! 


Hugs!
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Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Shadow Box Frame & Birthday Game#1 and Prizes and

Hello Friends,

Neha here, This is quite an exciting month at Lulupu, as this month Lulupu completes 3 fabulous years!!! Yes, you heard it right, Its Lulupu's 3rd Birthday and we are celebrating it in a very special way. Each DT member has planned some games, there is a Facebook contest and a wonderful monthly challenge as well for you all. You can win some  amazing goodies worth Rs. 3000 in Lulupu Facebook contest and also each game winner will receive a voucher worth Rs. 300 and a handmade project by the DT created for this month's inspiration. 

Theme- Birthday- Turning 3

 I'm sure that you all will love this month's celebrations with us. We would love to see you all create Birthday related gifts and maybe surprise your loved ones too !!

The prizes are bigger and you are gonna love them!! 
So hang on and scroll down to see the yummy goodies up for grabs!!

Prizes for the winners in Category 1



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 Prizes for the winners in Category 2



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 Prizes for the winners in Category 3
I'm sure that you must have loved our prizes!! We love them too and will eagerly look forward to your lovely creations with them(of course, once the results are out!) So Bang on and join us in the celebrations!


For this month's challenge we have a fabulous board for you. Here's a look at what I have created for this challenge. It's a Shadow box frame and so suitable for our category 2.


Some close ups







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I was inspired by the mood board in the following ways
1. colors (soft pastel shades and bright pink)- used in pp, banners, embellishments (flowers), pearls
2. lace, ribbon (pink flower is made with an organza ribbon)
3. embossing (sentiment and corner )
4. shape- square
5. flowers, glitter
I used a double sided PP for making this shadow box frame. The PP is from sweetest thing paper pad. Used a pink colored CS for photo mat and placed it using glue dots. Then embellished it using lace, flowers, die cuts, pearls, bottle charm, wood veneers etc. Sentiment and corner were heat embossed using golden EP. Took a piece of ribbon and glued its both ends on the sides of shadow box, so that it can hanged on the wall. I hope you like it!!

BIRTHDAY GAME#1

Now comes the game part. I have created a  MUMBLED JUMBLED game for you.

These are names of some famous craft brands which have been jumbled up. All you have to do is to find out the correct names and mail the list of the names to contest@lulupu.com with subject "Game#1 - Your Name". One Random winner will be picked from the correct entries.
 I hope you enjoy the game. 
 So do join us in this month long celebration and participate in the fun challenge here. There are loads of prizes to be won and loads of inspiration coming up fro my other very talented team members as well. Have great day ahead!!!
Hugs!!
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Monday, 2 March 2015

Winner Lulupu Challenge #46

Hello Friends, 

Its time to announce the projects which caught our eyes and the winner for Challenge # 46 - Love you sweets. We had a really hard time picking out favourites, since there were so many lovely creations and each one of you has created unique projects! 

So, starting with the special mentions (in no particular order): 










The DT's Top 3 (in no particular order):

Nikkita



Lovely candy box and multi fold card

Piyanki



Unique idea of creating a recipe book! 

Zalak

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Lovely Easel card, with a lot of elements!


And now, with a huge round of applause for the winner of this Challenge!

Jasleen



 Some DT love: Simplicity, Technique, Unique idea, hearts as the shaker component and doily top for do mason jar.
Congratulations winners. Please contact hello@lulupu.com to claim your prize and don't forget to grab your badge.
All the winners, please grab your respective badges from here. We look forward to seeing your creations for the current challenge Birthday Special Moodboard.
See you very soon.
 
Love
Dolly

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Sunday, 1 March 2015

Challenge#47 Lulupu's 3rd Birthday Special - Moodboard Inspiration

Hello dear friends!

It’s the start of a new month and a very special month for us. Yes, as Karuna mentioned, it is Happy Happy Birthday for Lulupu! The paradise for all craft lovers!

Now who celebrates a birthday without a party right!!! So for all our readers, let the party begin! J
This month, we have a host of inspiration, tutorials, some fabulous guest designers, loads of games and a super duper mood board for you all to play with us. Not only do you get to showcase your talent and celebrate Lulupu’s 3rd Birthday, but you get a chance to win yourself some lovely goodies, as Karuna’s post mentions.


And to get you in the mood we have a special moodboard as the inspiration for this month!

Theme : Birthday - Turning "3"


(Moodboard photo credits: Top Left: Studio DIY; Top Right: Sweet & Saucy ; Centre Right: Greer Chicago; Bottom Left: Elizabeth Anne Designs;Bottom Right: Sweetmelangeblog )

Rules for the Challenge:
The projects must be all Birthday related and you must choose a minimum of 3 things from the moodboard as your inspiration. The moodboard can be interpreted in various ways but we are sharing a few examples below

Techniques: Distress look, Embossing, Crackle effect etc

Materials: Wood, lace, ribbons, tissue, string etc

Embellishments: Frames, tassels, pennants, flowers, glitter etc

Shapes: Circle, Rectangle, Ovals, Cylindrical etc

All other things: Gold, Calligraphy scripts, Colors.

In addition to choosing 3 things from the moodboard, we have a number '3' in our moodboard, so either you may interpret it as the number itself as its our 3rd Birthday or use 3 of something, like sequins, 3 pattern papers, or 3 flowers etc

Please feel free to interpret it your way but do ensure you mention the 3 items you have chosen and how the interpretation has been used unless its very obvious!


So what you waiting for, jump right into the celebrations with us 

For this post, I have taken the inspiration from the mood-board in the form of the lovely hot pink and gold color. I have also interpreted the number 3 by using three different colored leaves (colors inspired from the yummy macaroons) as the main focal point of the card I have created.



So here’s a quick tutorial on how this card was created:
I started out with an 8.5”x 5.5” card stock which was scored at 2 1/8”, 6 3/8”. I used some hot pink card stock to create the background. Once I had my background ready, I just sponged some Versamark ink with some stencils and used some gold perfect pearls to get the soft look. For the main focal point, I fussy cut some leaves which I stamped using distress inks. Since the 3 was the lucky number, I used 3 leaves to pin on the card, with a brad, and spread the leaves around. The main sentiment ‘Happy’ was die cut multiple times and adhered together to give some dimension. Lastly, I stamped birthday on a piece of cardstock, trimmed it and foam adhered it to the card!



So, I hope you all enjoyed the easy breezy card which you can create in a jiffy!
Stay tuned for more inspiration!


Lulupu is turning 3, so we will be having 3 categories to enter your projects into. You may enter maximum 2 projects in each category with no (1) and (2) against your name.


1. Cards and Invites

2 Décor and Layouts

3 Gifts, Boxes, Favor Bags, Albums 

I hope you all like my project! Do leave me your comments or any queries regarding any of the products used here and I will get back to you as soon as possible :)





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Lulupu 3rd Birthday Bash Celebration!

Birthday Bash Blog Badge
(Save the image and uplaod on your Blog to Participate)

Hello Everyone!
Karuna here...

Today is a very special day for me. 3 years ago Lulupu.com was launched officially for the public aiming to be a leading Online Craft & Hobby Store. It’s been an exciting ride so far, and the crafters who have joined us have been equally excited. Together we’ve been able to spread the love for paper craft, card making, scrapbooking, mixed media, home decor and a whole bunch of stuff! We grew from a store selling a handful of craft products to now selling over 1500 plus products across a variety of latest trending craft supplies. A number of things have been improved since the first launch, the site has been refined, resources added based on member feedback, and we’ve now got the ability to serve everyone across India with payment option from COD to online payment. 
As I look back, my heart is full of gratitude for all the love that we have been showered with. I take this opportunity to thank each one of you who has contributed in making us a popular and go to crafts store today!

We like to celebrate this special day by doing something nice for our team and also for our customers. We have planned tonnes of games, contests and a fabulous monthly challenge to keep you excited. Not to forget the most amazing sale on our site all through the month you just cant miss!!

To get started hop over to our Facebook Page for an amazing contest to win goodies worth Rs.4000!
Lulupu Facebook Contest
Look at our bumper Raffle :D

We have 5 amazing games running through this month which have been specially created by our Design Team Members! Each Game winner will receive a voucher worth Rs.300 plus a handmade project by the Designer exclusively created for this months inspiration.

To enter Lulupu 3rd Birthday Bash Bumper Raffle

1. Follow our Blog
2. Like our Facebook Page & join the Birthday Bash contest on the Page too.
3. Subscribe to our Newsletter
4.Follow us on Instagram
4. Copy and paste the Blog Badge above on the top right/left of your blog with a link back to this post.
5. Add your name to the inlinz below.
6. One entry per person only.

One lucky winner will take away this raffle home!

 Watch out for more chances and ways to win all through this month.

 Before I sign off we have a special sale on the store with all prices marked down by 10%-40% but until 10th March only. so don't forget to grab your favourite supplies while they last.



Happy Crafting and sharing
Karuna and team Lulupu.

Please follow the guidelines and add your name below to participate in Lulupu 2nd Birthday Raffle. Ends March 31, 2015
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