Tealight candle decorations with quilled Roses

Not just me but many people loved the quilled roses and thus I made quilled tea light candle decors with quilled roses. Arranging them in different patterns was quite an intersting and exciting job and I really fell in love with them.

But I realized that these rose tealight candles cannot be made as stand alone pieces so I had struck them to a base.

The roses in the above picture is decorated with glitter glue after sticking it to the base. This type of square arrangement definitely shows some space in between and the base is clearly visible. (It will be good if the base is painted).

The arrangement of colours are made to contemplate each other. The number of roses used are many as a close arrangement of them was planned. The centre base is made of 5 mm strips so that the tealight candle is placed on a bit level higher and the flame is also clearly visible.

This is made of 2 diferent sizes of strips the bigger roses are of 10mm and the smaller ones are made using 5 mm strips. The smaller roses are two tone strips. The leaves are made using combing technique.The decor on top of the roses and the centre portion is made using 3D cone.

The CD is decorated with 3D outliner colours to match the roses that are placed. The roses are made of dual tone strips and mettalic strips. All are 5 mm strips. 

Tea light Candle decoration in Quilling

One of the loveliest gifting or return gift option for festivals like Navarathri or Deepavali is quilled Tea light candle decoration. I just tried a simple design initially and was so happy with the outcome. The beauty part of these tea light candle decorations are they can be made either stand alone or can be placed on a waste or unused CD or on a square surface.

The stand alone pieces can also be used as a simple hanging or table decors. These can also be used to decorate Aarathi plates.

Both the designs shown below are made using 7 mm strips. And a loose teardrop shaped design was made. The centre portion is a thick circle made with the same 7 mm strip which was circled around a tealight candle so that it could fit in exactly.

Ceramic Cone Art on Paper

When I had to do Aarthi plate for a marriage, they provided me with a stainless steel plate and asked me to deocrate it as I like and one of the designs I made is ceramic cone art. The only condition I was told was that the plate should be reused. So I had to stick a chart inside the plate and do the decoration. I prefferred yellow background for the ceramic cone art and it definitely gave a good look. As the ceramic paint is puff up paints the impression that it created on the paper too was amazing. I placed a small terracotta lamp in the middle too which made it a complete Aarthi Thali.

Designer plate for my Nephew's Upanayanam

Wanted to do something really decorative to display the gifts for my nephew's upanayanam and I made this designer tray. Got a leaf designed green plastic plate which is light weight, I decorated it with laces and patches.

First Try of Warli Painting

Warli is a different and unique kind of painting where the pictures are quite simple and one can depict any event in a very easy way. (This is my own perception). To read more about this Warli Art check Wikipedia. 

When we made pakku mattai plates for Navarathri, I wanted to try this on those plates which had a slightly black and not pure white. It happenned inspite of me and daughter choosing the plates very very carefully. The first brown one was done on a big plate and the second Orange one was done on a small plate. The peacocks came out quite pretty. We used these two plates to distribute chandanam kumkumam and vethalai pakku. As these plates are quite light, even the kids could handle them. And the surprising part was they did not bend inspite of the weight of the cups.