Art Inspired

Islamic art has never ceased to impress me and the more I explore the more I am in awe of its detailing, geometry and inclusion of calligraphy within art.

There are many reasons for this kind of art...primarily that Muslims are restricted from drawing images of living forms and this gave way to exploring a different form of art that included organisation of shapes and exploring whole lot of options within it. It is also said to constitute an infinite pattern that extends beyond the visible material world..

So, we have experimented some of these ideas and this is what we have come up with
Hope you guys like it :)

Not giving up!

You know those times..when you are so passionate about doing something in life...
And you do...
But it ends up in a disaster. You think you have made alright stuff...or designed alright..and then comes the result time...when you are judged...and how you take it defines how you will design your way ahead in life...
We face the worst kind of criticism...believe me when I tell you...literally the worst kind!
So bad that it can crash your dreams at once. But guess what...you know what helps?
All those encouragement from your family, friends, well wishers....
Then there were friends...open supporters, silent spectators....thanks to all...that in a way has built up my confidence.
I really want to mention my hubby...Faraaz has not only been my best critic with giving me positive criticism..he has been my constant support. Always encouraging me with the "c'mon it's okay. You can't stop trying.."
And so I kept designing...one after the other....silliest of the silliest designs I could imagine...some happened to click fine with people....(uuuhhh--Alhamdulillah)
But majority went unnoticed and they lie dumped in my carton where I have personally rejected my designs.
The whole point here is never give up...if you really want to...'coz what you want shall be achieved.
And when that is achieved...atleast I won't forget my first silly design...

The Scroll!

I was totally excited for this Invitation. My friend wanted something really special for her wedding invitation. As per her wish it would be a scroll. Since she wanted it to be really elegant, royal and subtle, she wanted only one such invite to be made that would be given to the groom's side. So this was only one invite I made...I might not do that again without a bulk order.. As with this order I have taken a step further and might not do single invites. There are losses that incur and I sure dont want that in future. But yeah, we can have one really special invite with the rest being casual invites. This can be surely considered as an option.

Back to the scroll....Considering the fact that she wanted something royal we went with velvet and the colour purple...slightly towards the pink side. It was ofcourse her choice. So purplish pink was decided. We decided to use lace on the box...It wasnt until the end that it got it's right place :)

Now the printing part. I first experimented with gold ink..it looked pretty ok. But silver changed the look alltogther. So I went with silver.  Just so that it didnt resemble the regular scroll I used only one scroll stick at the top. Towards down it got a U shape and that made all the difference. The lace also finally got its place!

Here how it looked on completion.

The golden ribbon and stone studded ring was used after rolling up the scroll and securing it in a box. We almost went on a 'hunt' for the box. We wanted a wooden one and that...either won't fit in our budget or the scroll wouldn't fit in the box! But out of nowhere my friend surfaced with this box which had the exact velvet texture and colour to that of scroll.. So no credits to me for the box! 

I had to nail the lace inside the box as fevicol didnt work. Fevicryl to an extent proved helpful on the outside.

So this is how it is..

And this is how my friend plans to send it to her bridegroom!

I totally enjoyed making this invite! Thanks Mona for this opportunity! 

Colour Delight

This Wedding Invite will remain my absolute favourite! I had made this for my closest friend. She wanted all the colours of the world on her wedding card. And I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out until I decided to trust her choice and explore my creativity. Alhamdulillah it has been well appreciated...so much that even the groom decided to have the same design! Thank you Marie and Sid bhai for my first break in this feild!

I proposed this design to her which I had photographed. I spill colour droplets in water and shot their moments...for sheer pleasure of photography. I then designed the swirls in PS.
She loved it almost instantly! :)

And then this is what the final output looked like

The couple had a pic shot with their love bands and they wanted it on the insert. Again I was not sure about the visibility but went ahead with it..
I used metallic texture paper and had it printed at KGN Xerox, an absolute wonderful printing stop!
I pasted stones to give that extra edge to the card.

Here is the complete picture of the wedding invite