March Craft challenge: Week 1.

Hello again.

While I am trying really hard to understand this whole blog thing, I thought to share my latest project with you all.
March, being Craft month, is celebrated by all us crafters. Me and a friend "Saba" over at sabas-craftland.blogspot.com decided to play our part. We pick a theme and made a project for the first week.
Our theme was "HOLDERS". It could be anything; a box, an envelope, a bag, and so on.

Saba did an altered cylinder that she called "sweet smiles". 

I just love the way she put together this amazing cylinder. So much work.

So for my project, I have this old ugly-looking box lying in my room for ages. We used to keep our keys and some found things in this box. 

I have been looking for an opportunity to alter this box, so this was pretty much the PERFECT moment to go for it. :)
I took the dimensions and started cutting my papers. I chose Yellow chevron paper from American Crafts Seen & Noted paper line, because my niece did not want me to change the color of the box. Hence yellow has to be my only choice. lol
Anyway, I gessoed the whole box first. And then adhered red cardstock on all 4 sides. I chosed red because I wanted the yellow to pop out properly.

Only one rule for the challenge is to use ONE HANDMADE EMBELLISHMENT on your project. I made this yellow flower using 25 punched out hearts that measures 1". Hearts were white originally, I colored them and distressed them using Mustard seed and vintage photo DIs.
Added some punched flowers and punched butterflies and a lil bit of pearl string. This lace was a gift from a very dear friend.

I had heaps of fun altering this box. Now my mom is very happy having this box in our living room, all prettified and adorned :D
Now whenever we have a visitor, my mum proudly show this box to them. *happiest moment*

I hope you like my box. And I hope that you'll leave your comments aswell..
Much Love.
Khadija

Rise n Shine, Sunshine!

Assalam-o-Alaikum everyone!

First and foremost, thank you for visiting my blog. I'm fairly new, so please forgive me for all the flaws and umms, emms, yeahs. lol. I know I'm going to use 'em alot.

Emm so first of all, let me introduce myself to all you wonderful people. I'm Khadija. A rainbow lover, scrapbooking addict, colorful, junk artist, journal-writer, card maker, pizza lover, vintagey, talkative, very sensitive AND a blessed person!
 
Scrapbooking is my passion. I used to prettify my notebooks and diaries when I was teeny-weeny school going kiddo. I used to add tons of photos in my daily journal, and my friends used to ask me that WHY ARE YOU WASTING YOUR TIME IN IT? But I always felt good doing this. Spending money on pink hairbands, or funky clutches was never my choice. Every month, when my mom handed me the pocket money, i started counting on how can I get max. number of crafty things in this amount. lol.

Thank goodness everything is available online now, So no big deal for anyone.

I love making albums. Preserving memorable moments is so FUN. Daily journal a.k.a Smash booking is another essential part of my life. Altering is one of the newest time-pass. I altered quite a number of notebooks for my nieces and their friends. Its always good to see them using those notebooks now. :)

So yeah, my passion is moving along with a good speed, Mashallah. I am going to hit 1000 fans on my Facebook page. For that, i'm pretty excited. I am also pretty positive that I'll find some new friends over at this wonderful blog too.

~Have a great day, and A VERY HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY TO ALL THE WONDERFUL WOMEN OUT THERE.