Floral Profusion

As the name suggests, this post is all about flowers ;)


Second post of the day, dedicated to Floral Profusion challenge #114 (A Floral Profusion HANDMADE FLOWERS) being hosted by, Crafty Cardmakers And More.
This is a quick post, short and sweet! (I'm running short on time, the challenge is about to close, need to enter this)

Without further delay, I present my piece of art...

All these gorgeous red flowers are hand made using cardstock; not paper but cardstock. It was difficult to mold cardstock, and yes it made my fingers ache, but the results are amazing. The petals are a lot stronger, they don't tear or bend easily. 

These are keepsake boxes, ideal for gifting trinkets.
Hope these inspire you too!

Happy crafting!

The Quilled Pram

Today's post is dedicated to give everyone an understanding of the amount of effort and time that goes into making all those cute little things for the tiny new comers; and in the process make clear why Favors & More's products are defined as 'Exclusively handcrafted'.

The focus will be on the Quilled Prams that we recently did on some 70+ baby boy announcement favors for a very happy mom-to-be.

It looks simple, with nothing much to it right? But when you actually get down to making these, it takes minimum 15 minutes on each pram -note: the time stated is just for the pram, does not include the assemby of favor boxes and other details-.

Please understand that nothing used on these prams (except for the acrylic pacifier) is ready made.

What we start off with is a plain sheet of cardstock -yes cardstock not paper-; and cut it into the desired shape. We end up with something like this -reminds me of pac man :) -

Once that is done, each piece is individually dry embossed by hand. Which takes times ofcourse, but gives the desired detail.

The above was a bit difficult to capture, so this is the best the best pic.
Now that the simple part is over, we come to the quilling part. What we start off with are called quilling strips, over 220 in this case:

 Each of these is quilled to form the wheels, and the handle of the pram.

  Once that is done and the ends secured, the wheels are added to the prams

This is like 60% of the job done (with respect to the embellishment). After this, the prams are added the favor boxes, and further embellished with a bow, pacifier and handle. I was too tired to take pictures of those as I proceeded.

So you see, when at Favors & More we say 

'exclusively hand crafted' 

we mean it!

Here is the finished product:

and here is what makes it all worth it:

"Saba, the boxes are so adorable i love them...it shows all the hardwork thank you so much...next time i will be contacting for (other) themes inshallah" ~ Mrs. Arzak

Here are some other similar prams that we have done:

 According to my mom; "each is a piece of art"

Happy crafting! =)

Cupcake Invites

Peace be with you!

I am so happy to be blogging..yay! and I know its not a Wednesday, but I'm posting to make up for the 3 Wonderful Wednesdays that were missed.

I have a great fun project to share with you all today...and its inspired by all the lovely cupcakes being baked; Cupcake Invites!

I've had this idea since forever but finally got some time to myself to execute it. Basically these are cute little cupcake style boxes, with 2.5" diameter and 4" to 6.5" in height.

The one above has a chocolate wafer base, with blueberry topping and vanilla icing embellished further with a tiny teddy, beetle, butterfly and flower. You see that wafer on the topping...

the wafer is the removable invite! Its big enough to hold all the essential information, cutely disguised as the wafer :D

The second cupcake is taller, and embellished with a bead centered flower.

Here too the invitation is disguised as the wafer, and the tall base is spacious enough to hold some candy, chocolates or anything similar.

The decoration options for these are endless, you can make them as simple or as elaborate as you want...its all up to you. They can be used as invitations for parties, or even as memorable announcements. When you are giving these to someone, you are ensuring that they remember the event for a life time because these cupcakes can be stored for as long as you want... they will never go bad ;)


Hope you liked this project, and hope it was worth the wait!

Happy crafting!

For further details email sabascraftland@gmail.com or visit Favors & More. You can also visit my card gallery.