Art Platter Art, Craft, Quilling, Origami and DIY Tutorials

Continuing in our series of Diwali crafts, here we attempt to make a set of decorative diyas and thali. For a change, shades of blue have been used in this decor set. This decorative diya – thali set can also be gifted to your dear ones during the festive season.

Make these cute cupcake toothpick toppers in no time using construction paper and some colors. This could be a fun halloween project for kids to do too! You can come up with different designs to suit your theme.

Many of our visitor friends ask how to make the triangular units for building 3D Modular Origami models. This simple tutorial is to explain that.

Tutorial to make a pair of quilling earrings made using strips of paper in a flower design. These earrings are made by tightly quiling the paper strips.

You are going to be seeing kundan rangolis a lot more for the next few weeks. Its festive season and what can bring more sparkle and color to Navratri or Diwali celebrations than a colorful kundan rangoli?! Here is one such floating rangoli plate made on a wooden base in rich gold and silver colors.

The Modular origami lemon is one one of the easy to assemble modular origami fruit models. This half cut lemon model will be a nice addition to you origami fruit tray. We will be using yellow and white color paper for this model. The DIY tutorial is below.

Here is the first kundan rangoli in the series of rearrange-able kundan rangolis that I plan to feature. Let’s get ready to welcome the festive season with these colorful and sparkly floating rangoli designs. 

Halloween is coming soon and as a start, here are some cool Halloween Nail Art ideas. These designs can be painted on short and long nails in little time. Prepare to go spooky! 

Here is a tutorial with steps to make a fringed felt flower. This is a simple flower making work and needs no sewing. These felt flowers can be used on multiple art and craft projects.

This is a simple craft which can be done for Lord Ganesh marking the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. This work would take about 30 minutes of your time and can be customized in different colors and designs as per your choice.

Recently I made quite a large painting on a sheet of thermocol for my wall. Here is the thermocol wall art…

Explosion Boxes are a combination of scrapbooks and cards which can be custom made to suit different occasions and celebrations. This is a tutorial which shows how to make an explosion box with two layers.

With this post I am starting a new section on destinations where you could shop for artistic and ethnic apparels and accessories. The idea is to keep these predominantly Indian with flavors of other cultures too as and when I stumble across them. The shopping destination we see here is ‘The Palace‘ in Besant Nagar, Chennai (Tamil Nadu). I walked into the shop one late evening and was welcomed by the soft lighting of the store.

Pookalam is an arrangement of flowers in the form of a design like a floral rangoli. Athapookalam designs are made during the Onam Festival in Kerala. Here are some Athapookalam designs for this Onam.

The handmade card featured here is suitable for a wedding or engagement ceremony. The primary embellishments used are pearls, die cut flowers and a chipboard corner. Black card stock has been used as the base.