Multi colour jhumka

Multi colour jhumka with ethnic look

Quilled jhumka (Ethnic look)

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-17

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-16

Easy Kolam with rice flour and dried coffeer powder.

Quilled Jhumka (Hand painted)

Black colour jhumka with hand painted design and pearls.

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-15

Simple Maavu Kolam/Rangoli-14

Quilled earrings with hand painted design

These Quilled earrings are hand painted with contrasting green colour. Also cute pearl beads and stone adds elegance to this earrings.

Simple Maavu Kolam/ Rangoli-13

Simple Maavu Kolam/Rangoli-12

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-11

Simple maavu kolam/Rangoli-10

Iyengar padi kolam

Traditional Iyengar padi kolam made with Rice flour. Turmeric powder and kungumam used for dots.

Quilled pendant-1

My first quilled pendant sparkling with stones.

Quilled pink colour earrings

Quilled Triangle earrings

Colourful quilled triangle earrings.

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-9

Simple arisi maavu kolam with contrasting dried coffee powder. Eco friendly kolam.

Simple maavu kolam/Rangoli-8

Quilled Jhumka (black colour)

My Black colour quilled jhumkas are ready to pair up with ethnic dresses.

Things you need:

Quilling strips 4 (black colour)

Quilling strip 1 (copper metallic strips)

Quilling needle

Glue

Pliers

Quilling mould

Fevicryl golden colour glitter 3D

Fevicryl green colour 

Pearl beads 2

Golden beads 2

Head pins 2

Method:

Stick all black strips together and finally stick the copper metallic strip.

Start rolling using quilling needle to form a tight cirlcle.

With the help of quilling mould form a jhumka shape.

Use glitter and green colour to decorate the jhumka  and let it dry.

Insert the head pin and add pearl and golden bead.

With the help of pliers bend the end of head pin.

Jhumka is ready ..

Pencil design

I have used normal HB pencil to draw this design.

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-7

In this Kolam, I have used kungumam (sindoor) and Manjal powder (Turmeric powder)to keep dots.

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-6

My pencil sketching of Lord Shri Rama and Sita marraige

This is my 50th post, thanks all for your support to this Magicsparklz blog. I started this blog as a hobby blog but it started to grow big with more audience. 

I am so happy that I posted this pencil sketching for my 50th post. Also to my surprise, it was not planned earlier. Every day I am learning new techniques in pencil sketching and yet to explore more...

I wanted to highlight few things so I used red pencil for Lord Shri Rama's tilak and Sita's kumkum also shading for borders. 

Interested in more pencil sketching, click here.

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-5

I have used Rice flour (Arisi Maavu) and dried filter coffee powder residue to draw this kolam. This kolam is a simple one and looks appealing by adding coffee powder.

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-4

I have used Rice flour to draw this kolam and used coffee powder to make dots. After making filter coffee, don't throw the residue. Take the residue powder and spread on a paper and let it dry for 2-3 days. After it is dried you can use it for kolam. Simple isn't it?????

Simple Maavu kolam/Rangoli-3

Simple Maavu Kolam/Rangoli-2

Make normal bindi more attractive

The normal store bought bindi can be made beautiful by adding extra touch. 

Things needed:

Eye-liner

Ready-made store bought Bindi

Colour Kumkum (available in fancy stores)

How to:

First stick your ready made bindi

Take yellow colour and keep dots as shown in pic. Three dots at bottom and one on top.

Draw small lines at the end of dots using Eyeliner.

Your normal bindi is turned beautiful and attractive. Replacing yellow, you can use matching colour to your dress.

Simple maavu kolam/Rangoli-1

Kolam/Rangoli is the famous art form of India.In olden days, Arisi Maavu (rice flour) is used to  make kolams. As it serves dual purpose of making kolam and food for Ants. This is one of the easy thamarai kolam with Arisi Maavu

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My first customized Quilled earrings

I am so happy that my first customized quilled earrings have come out well. 

Quilled Beehive earrings

My quilled beehive earrings, lets get started on how to do this earrings

Things you need:

Quilling needle

Blue colour strip 2(3mm)

Red colour strip 2 (3mm)

White colour strip 2 (3mm)

Black colour strips 4 (3mm)

Greem colour strips 4(3mm)

Rings 4 (Silver colour)

Earring hooks 2 (Silver colour)

Glue

Fevicryl silver colour gliters

Method:

First stick 2 Green and 2 black strips and use the glue bottle to make a big circular coil.

Stick 1 blue, red and white colour strips together and form beehive.

Insert the beehive and stick it with glue.

Finally apply dots using fevicryl glitters. Let it dry.

Add the rings and hook to get one earring.

Repeat for the next one.

My quilled earrings

Quilling is so much fun and I made my third earrings with quilling strips. 

Newspaper earrings

Eco friendly jewellery are gaining more importance nowadays like teracotta jewellery, Paper quilling, etc. Suddely an Idea clicked, why dont we try some jewellery out of news paper. I tried these recycled news paper earrings it came so well.

Bindi designs-16

Diwali (festival of lights) is fast approaching and here we are with some unique festive bindhi designs (kumkum designs). Try these designs and rock the festival. You can draw these designs using eyeliner and colour kumkums (sindoor in liquid form comes in different colours).

Tutorial on how to make quilling Jhumka

I am posting the tutorial on how to make quilled jhumka..hope this tutorial is useful to all beginners.

Bindi design for beginners

I have got mails asking me to post some simple tricks to draw bindi easily. Its tough for some of them to draw with the eyeliner brush as your hands might shake when try you draw bindi on forehead.

My second earrings using quilling strips

My second earrings using quilling strips

My first step in quilling

Quilling is a wonderful art made with rolling the strips of paper. These jumkhas are my first attempt in qulling jewellery which is the latest trend now.

Bindi designs-15

Some more pottu/Bindi/Tilak designs using eyeliner.

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Some Tilak designs to draw

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Some more Bindhi/Pottu designs for your creativity.

How to make Eco Friendly Ganesha using Atta/Wheat flour?

Ganesha is the most favourite God for many and instead of buying painted Ganesh Idol which is always creating harms to mother nature. Why not try an eco friendly Ganesha idol made out of roti/chapathi dough for this Ganesha chathurthi

Pencil sketching of a girl

My first step in shading....more to learn

Bindi designs-12

Free ecard to download

Go ahead and download this card, you can use this personalised ecard for Bday wishes.  Insert the pic of the person in round to whom you want to send bday wishes.

My pencil sketching of Shri Ramanujar

My Pencil Sketching of Shri Ramanujar

Black lace and beads attached

Black lace for hands and beads for neck are attached to green blouse to enhance its elegance.

Bindi designs-11

Draw these Bindi designs using eyeliner