Thursday, March 28, 2013

Roses in Heart Card

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Creating handmade cards is a delightful and tangible way to share your thoughts, feelings and love with family, friends and Colleagues.

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You can design your own greeting cards and decorated them beautifully with drawings, paper punched shapes, stamps, ribbon flowers, thread or paper quilling. Unique design with sophisticated touch, will increase the beauty of your handmade greeting cards.

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Hearts or love shapes are the perfect shape for all sorts of love-themed occasions like Valentine's Day, Birthday and Weddings

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Inside of this card, you can see that both pages are blank. This is the perfect place to write some messages or draw pictures.

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Special occasions really deserve special greeting cards to express ones sentiments. Handmade paper greeting cards are just perfect to brighten-up ones and is much more personal and easier to make than you think.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Homemade Classic White Bread

Making  bread  is really enthusiastic experience, there is no great mystery in it but  simple things do need to be followed. One most important and first thing to bear in mind that too much heat will kill off yeast. Here I am sharing basic  homemade bread recipe with you.  Making your own home baked bread really  give you a tremendous feeling of creativity and satisfaction. Classic White Bread (5)

INGREDIENTS:

  • Warm water – 1  1/2 cups (100 degree F)
  • Active dry yeast – 1  1/2 tsp
  • Sugar – 1 Tbsp
  • Salt – 1/2 tsp
  • All-purpose flour – 4 1/2 cups
  • Unsalted butter, very soft – 2 Tbsp
  • Unsalted butter, very soft – for greasing and brushing (1  tsp)
  • Olive Oil – 1 Tbsp

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METHOD:

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Yeast Mixing :

  • In a large  mixing bowl, Combine 1/2 cup of the water with the yeast and sugar and leave until frothy - about 10 minutes.

Flour Mixing :

  • Add the remaining water, butter,  2 1/2 cups of flour and the salt to the yeast mixture. Mix with a wooden spoon (or in a mixer), adding the remaining flour , one cup at a time , until dough pulls cleanly away from the sides of the bowl. Knead  well until dough become  smooth and not sticky.

Kneading :

  • Turn dough out on to a lightly floured surface, fold it in half towards you then push down and away from you. Give the dough a quarter turn and repeat folding and pushing, using the heel of your hand. The dough will be soft and sticky at first, but it will become more elastic as you knead it well, so don’t be tempted to add more flour.  Don’t try to pull or tear the dough. If you do so, you will break the strands of gluten that you are working hard to develop.
  • Continue kneading for an additional 5 to 10 minutes the dough feels soft, smooth, silky and elastic.

Rising:

  • Shape dough into a ball and place it back in  the  large, lightly oiled mixing bowl and cover with lightly oiled plastic wrap to rise until doubled, about 1 to 1 and 1/2 hours. Slowly risen dough makes the best bread, so leave the dough at room temperature or in a very gently heated place.

Work  on Risen Dough:

  • Turn the risen dough out onto an un-floured  surface and punch down all over to flatten out the air. Now Knead the dough again and again until smooth and elastic. No need to use any extra flour as it will spoil the final texture of the bread.

Grease loaf pan:

  • Grease your 8x4 inch loaf pan with butter and keep it aside.

Shaping the dough:

  • Shape the dough into about a 9 inch wide x 12 inch tall rectangle, with the short side towards you. Fold one third of the dough down, then fold it down again. Pinch the bottom seam to seal. Your rectangle should be approximately 9x4 now. Turn the seam side up. Fold each end over about 1/2 inch, tuck in any loose ends and pinch to seal. Place the loaf seam side down into the  greased 8x4 inch loaf pan.
  • Cover loaf pans lightly with oiled plastic wrap and allow to rise until doubled in size, about 45-60 minutes. Dough will rise above the top of the pan.

Baking :

  • Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375 degree F.
  • Brush the risen dough with butter or olive oil before baking.
  • Place  your loaf pan  in oven and bake for 35 to 40 minutes. Your bread is done when the loaf will be golden color and when turn it out of the pan and tapped on the bottom  with your knuckles - it should sound hollow.
  • Now you can turn the loaf out of the pan and bake upside down on the oven shelf for 3 minutes to crisp the crust all over.

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  • Remove  the loaf from the oven and  and let it cool completely on a wire rack(3 to 4  hours) before slicing.

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Note:

  • Most breads are best eaten about 3 to 4 hours after baking.
  • warm water must be not hotter than 100 degree F.   A liquid that is too hot will kill off the yeast and the dough will not rise.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Red teardrop Jimikki Earrings

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Hold all attentions with this  handmade Jimikki earrings, exclusively designed with Red  teardrop acrylic beads/Plastic beads/crystal beads and red ghungroos.

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In this beautiful Jimikki earrings, ear stud features Metal Beads Flower-Shaped findings/Flower-Shaped Spacer Beads Jewelry Findings is glued on a flower shaped gold plated frame and it is embellished small red ghungroos.

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Ear stud attached to Jimikki hangings which features clear cubic zirconia stones and hand polished red teardrop acrylic beads.

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This teardrop acrylic beads/Plastic beads/crystal beads are hand polished and hand faceted for beautiful sparkle and shine and it is perfect for garment and accessories like earrings and Necklaces and so on.

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Acrylic beads are Non-toxic and environmental.

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Sterling Silver wired multi row wrap Ring

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This is a beautifully handcrafted, Sterling Silver wired multi row wrap Ring. This unique,  adjustable ring is very easy to make.

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Here I used 20 gauge Sterling Silver wire and 2 White pearls to make this pretty Multi Row Wrap Ring. This ring size is 5. You can adjust the coil to stretch out knuckle to knuckle, or coil it up tight.

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Friday, March 22, 2013

Handcrafted Love Card

You can design your own greeting cards and decorated them beautifully with paper punched shapes, stamps, ribbon flowers, thread or paper quilling. Unique design with sophisticated touch, will increase the beauty of your handmade greeting cards.

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This is a simple  LOVE card designed beautifully. Here I designed  this easy card using different colors of  Embroidery Threads and Magenta Paper heart shapes using Paper Punch, to get an unique style.  
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Simple Valentine's day cards

You can design meticulously crafted paper greeting cards and decorated them beautifully with paper punched shapes, stamps, ribbon flowers, thread or paper quilling. Unique design with sophisticated touch, will increase the beauty of your handmade greeting cards.

Here you can see 2 basic cards

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This is a simple LOVE card designed beautifully. There you can e see 2 paper maple leaves on the top and bottom of the card, there you can right your loved oness name ( top) and white your name ( bottom) and can write messages also. The I Love you wordings can be cut from desired color cardstock paper .

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Special occasions really deserve special greeting cards to express ones sentiments. Handmade paper greeting cards are just perfect to brighten-up ones and is much more personal and easier to make than you think.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Simple Thank You Card

This is very simple but beautiful Handmade Thank you Card using cardstock paper. Handmade version is much more personal and easier to make than you think and is more sentimental.

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Handmade greeting cards give you the satisfaction of creation and is a perfect gift for loved ones for any occasion.

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Whether the occasion be a birthday, a wedding Anniversary, Mother’s day, Father’s day, Valentines day, Christmas, Vishu, New Year, a congratulations, Get well soon, New baby born or a sympathy card, somehow, when it has been handmade, it seems that much more unique and meaningful.

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Blue Paper Butterflies

Paper wall decor ideas are really very simple, cheap,  creative alternative ways of blank wall decoration with handmade paper or machine cut flowers , butterflies, fruits or anything you like.
Handmade wall decorations add style and personality to interior decorating and staging home interiors at no cost. You can decorate you walls with recycled papers, cardboards, cloths, frames, CDs………. anything and everything like this.
Here I did a simple decoration with blue cardstock paper cutout butterflies and placed it on wall in a specific manner. ( See below pictures)
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You can decorate you wall in many ways using these butterflies
Some Ideas are here ::
  • Cutout  more paper butterflies from desired color papers and make a  heart shape or flower shape on your wall. using  different colors of paper butterflies  and  different sized ones will enhance its unique beauty.  
  • make a rectangular,  square or  love shaped border using these paper butterflies and place family photo or kids photo or  nature pictures in the center of it. So your  paper butterflies will act as a border.
  • If you have artificial flowers in your living room or dinning area, place 2, 3 butterflies on top of  each flowers, that will increase its beauty and originality.

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Friday, March 15, 2013

Light Purple Shamballa Drop Earrings

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This handcrafted graceful drop earrings I made with  Purple Shamballa Beads and gold plated round beads.

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This simply beautiful earrings features gorgeous Light Purple Shamballa Beads, Gold plated round beads/6mm Gold Plated Round Spacer Beads and Gold Plated Filigree Bead caps. It is attached to a lovely Fish Hook Ear Wire with Coil and Ball/Gold Color Fish Hook Earwire Findings.

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Shamballa )also spelled Shambhala or Shambala, Shambhala or Shangri-la) Fashion beads are latest  trend or  most admired style.

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Shamballa is a Buddhist word synonymous with peace, enlightenment and tranquility, and it is also extremely eye catching!

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Stunning Shamballa beads are originally come from a Tibetan Buddhist tradition Shamballa . This is a mythical kingdom that is suppose to be hidden somewhere in the Middle of Asia that was believed to be the “pure land”.   This “pure land”, a fabulous kingdom was and is as much a spiritual idealization as it was a geographic location. It is said that “Shamballa” brings freedom to earth and people with the knowledge of love and and self-empowerment, with each person having a connection with all of creation. “Shamballa” is a spiritual philosophy of peace, tranquility, enlightenment, harmony, and love.

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Shamballa beads or cord are available in a wide variety of colors in market that can be used to make different types  of elegant jewelries like Bracelets, Earrings/Ear studs , Necklaces or Rings.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Sparkling Goldstone and White Beaded Jewelry

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This hand crafted elegant long chain is exclusively designed with Sparkling brown Goldstone and White beads, Gold Plated Round Spacer Beads,Gold plated flower spacers/ 2 mm Gold Vermeil Sterling Silver Bali Daisy beads /Gold Plated Sterling Silver Small Flat Bali Spacer Bead/8-petal Flat Daisy Spacer Beads and Gold color small spacer Bead caps.

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Pendant of this necklace  increases its beauty. It  is definitely eye catching one. Pendant features brown see beads, sparking clear cubic zirconia stones and brown Meenakari Art placed over  a round gold plated base. It is embellished with brown or honey  color ghungroos.

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I used different sizes of White beads and Gold color beads in this necklace to give an unique style.

Advantage of this chain is, it is suitable for women of all age groups and any type of women’s clothing.

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Glittering  brown color goldstone beads are made from glass infused with copper flecks achieving an amazing glittering, golden effect. It sparkles because there are little bits of copper in it.

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Goldstone is typically a brick red/brown with metallic flecks. This faux stone comes in various colors including blue, green, and brown. Goldstone is a type of synthetic glass made with copper or copper salts in the presence of a reducing flame. Copper ions  become merged or blend  into the glass silica and when the reduced goldstone melt cools, the copper remains in isolation and precipitates into small crystalline clusters.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Everyday Cocoa Powder Tea Cake

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This  soft and tasty  prepare Cocoa Powder Cake is  quick and easy  to make. It's simply delicious.

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INGREDIENTS:

  • All purpose flour – 1 and 1/3 cups
  • Unsweetened Cocoa powder – 1/4 cup
  • Baking powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Salt – 1/8 tsp
  • Unsalted butter, softened – 1 Tbsp
  • Brown sugar or white Sugar – 1/2 cup
  • Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
  • Egg – 1 no
  • Water – 1 cup ( you can use milk instead of water)

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METHOD:

  • Grease an 8 x 2 Inch  heart shaped baking pan  with some butter or oil  and  lightly flour it.
  • Preheat oven in 375 degree F.
  • In a large bowl sift together all purpose flour, baking powder and salt. Keep it aside.
  • In an electric mixer, beat butter on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
  • Add sugar and vanilla essence in it and beat until mix everything well.
  • Now add egg and  beat well.
  • Now add cocoa powder and mix well.
  • Add flour-baking powder mixture to the electric mixer and mix everything well.
  • Add milk or water alternately to the beaten mixture , beat on low speed until everything well combined.
  • Pour cake batter to greased pan.
  • Bake it  in preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until the top turns golden brown and a tooth pick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
  • Remove your tasty chocolate cake  from the Oven.
  • Allow the cake cool completely ( 20 minutes) before cutting and serving.
  • If you want ,decorate the Cocoa Powder Tea Cake with frosting and icing and Enjoy!!!

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