Add banners to your projects with Anupama Choudary!

My guest today the the talented Anupama Choudary of Scrapbooks from India. Her style is graphic and bold, indicative of her design background and chockfull of fabulous textures which she achieves with mediums and embellishments. There are always unexpected and beautiful details on her pages. Today she shares with us her fave technique of adding banners to pages. She's also hosting a challenge with a fabulous RAK for the winner! :)

But first, let's drool over her beautiful gallery, shall we?

Hi there! I am Anupama Choudary from Hyderabad, India. I am married to an actor and we have two beautiful kids, Saanvi (7) and Karishnu (5).

I am a trained Interior Designer and did my Masters in Business Administration. I love being a stay-at-home mom and working from my home studio, Once Upon A Time. I make artist-edition scrapbooks and frames on order for local clients. I am honored to be a Design Team member of Inkido (Papercraft Scandinavia), Scrap for Help andBerry71Bleu in 2013. I would describe my style as 'Artsy Grunge'. However, if my daughter wants a 'pretty' page, I make one :) You can see more of my work at Scrapbooks from India. 
Thank you, Yvonne, for having me and visiting your blog has always been a pleasure.

I'd like to share a fun tutorial about one of my favourite techniques - adding a banner to my scrapbook pages! I always love to find innovative ways to include it on my layout. Here are some -

1.  A banner layered with corrugated paper and G45 papers

    

2. A Doily banner

    

3. A Chipboard-stringed Banner

    

4. A banner made out of trinkets from the dollar store!

   

5. An alpha banner

    

6. A banner made from scraps - simply distress and layer!

    

Finally, the layout I made for 'Do More with Less' - A Clothesline Banner

   

STEP 1: I picked interesting scraps of patterned paper from my Inkido stash and shaped them into pennants.

STEP 2: I added to the string a Prima clothespin and some blooms. 

STEP 3: I cut vintage pictures from a 12x12 sheet and 'hung' them on my clothesline.

STEP 4: I embellished the banner with bling, buttons, stamps and paint. 

There you have it, folks! An easy peasy way to add interest and movement to your pages :)

Now for my challenge - Make a Scrapbook layout /altered art with a BANNER. You can use paper, cardstock, burlap, fabric...the sky is the limit!

Play along to win this RAK from me.

Ready to play along? Please link your newly created layout/altered art featuring a banner via Inklinz [located at the end of the post] by Friday April 5th, 11.59pm (GMT+8).

As always, please leave a little love for my guest Anupama.