It's time to make Christmas cards!

Hello!!

I have made some fun Christmas cards for you today, 

using Craftangles stencils, glimmer pastes and art sprays!

For the first card, I used the Craftangles 'Floral Mesh' stencil with Tim Holtz distress inks to create a backgroud. 

I die cut this panel using Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle dies. 

I then added a stamped and fussy cut holly image and a sentiment (from Hero Arts).

I then layered it with another die cut panel (in red) on a black card base from Craftangles.

I finished the card with some clear sequins from Craftangles.

For the second card, I used the Craftangles snowflakes stencil 

and the Craftangles Fairy Dust glimmer paste to create a background. 

I then added a die cut panel in white in the foreground and a die cut lamp, wreath and bow.

I added a sentiment from Hero arts and finished the card by adhering it to a red card base from Craftangles.

For the next card, I started by smooshing some Tim Holtz mowed lawn distress ink onto a smooth white card base. 

Once dry, I used the Craftangles Christmas tree stencil along with the Craftangles 'Fairy dust' glimmer paste to create the background.

I then adhered a die cut white panel for the foreground and a die cut and distressed (with Tim Holtz tea die distress oxide) deer. 

I then stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts and adhered this panel to a kraft card base to finish the card.

Oh, and I also added a die cut bow to the deer for a splash of colour.

For my last card, I created a background using the Craftangles 'Dots' stencil and Craftangles 

Art sprays. Once dry, I used the Craftangles 'Rays' stencil and Craftangles gold glimmer paste to create a unique background.

I then added a die cut white deer layered with a die cut piece of fun foam in order to give it dimension.

I added a sentiment (hero arts) and a little red resin heart for colour and interest.

I adhered the panel to a white textured square card base to finish the card.

I hope you enjoyed these cards as much as I enjoyed making them!

All the products used have been linked to the HNMD site so do have a look.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani 

Paru's Perceptions.

Happy Diwali!

Hello!

Happy Diwali!

I have for you today, two cards using distress ink smooshed backgrounds. 

For the first card, I used Tim Holtz Carved Pumkin and  fired Brick distress inks to create an ink smooshed back ground. What this means is, that, I put down some ink on a piece of acetate, sprayed some water on it and then applied the ink onto the back ground.

Once dry, I stamped the diyas and Om with the same ink to create a tone on tone background.

I stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut the Ganesh image from Craftangles 'Ganpati Bappa' stamp set and adhered it to the card panel using 3D foam tape.

I then stamped sentiments from the Craftangles 'Diwali Sentiments' stamp set and added some gold sequins to finish the card.

For the second card, I started with an ink smooshed background created by using Tim Holtz Carved pumpkin and Festive berries inks and water. Don't you love that almost liquid firey look of the colours!

I stamped Lakshmi devi's feet using the Carved pumkin ink for a tone on tone look.

I stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut the Lakshmi image from Craftangles 'Shubh Labh' stamp set and adhered it to the card panel using 3D foam tape. 

I finished the card by stamping sentiments from the Craftangles 'Diwali Sentiments' stamp set and adding some gold sequins.

I hope you enjoyed this post and will try out these stamps.

Have a wonderfully festive season!

Stay blessed!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions

October ethnic cards blog hop!

Hello!

Welcome to the Craftangles October  blog hop 

where we are showcasing Craftangles stamps.

You will start here. 

Next on hop is 

Shabneez

and 

Deepti 

Don't forget to comment and leave some love at every stop on the hop...

there are loads of prizes to be won!

Im playing with Craftangles stamps today to make some ethnic cards with some watercolour backgrounds.

These cards are really simple and easy to make, so I hope you will give them a try.

For the first card, I created a background by ink smooshing Tim Holtz 'Salty Ocean' distress ink.

Once dry, I heat embossed the sentiment ( from the Craftangles 'Diwali Wishes' stamp set) in gold.

I finished the card, by adhering the panel to a light blue card base.

for the second card, I created a background by ink smooshing Tim Holtz 'Picked Raspberry' distress ink.

I then added a gold embossed diya on vellum and a sentiment from the Craftangles 'Diwali sentiments' stamp set.

I adhered this panel to a white card base to finish the card.

For the third card, I created the ink smooshed background using 

Tim Holtz 'Peacock feathers' distress ink.

I then used the Craftangles 'Warli borders' stamp and 

a sentiment from the Craftangles 'From all of us' stamp set.

I added some jute string and adhered the panel to a black card base to finish the card.

I hope you enjoyed these cards as much as I enjoyed making them.

If you have any questions or even if you just liked them, do leave me a comment below.

From here, you now go back to

  the HNDMD blog 

and leave a comment  there

 in order to win some fabulous prizes!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions

Blue diwali

Hello!

The Navratri festival is being celebrated in full swing all over India right now.

Today, we celebrate the colour blue!

For my first card, I used the fireworks stamp from the Craftangles Happy Diwali stamp set, to stamp and heat emboss with blue embossing powder, on Craftangles navy blue card stock.

I just love the effect.

I then stamped and silver embossed the sentiments from Craftangles 'Diwali sentiments' stamp set on

Craftangles vellum, and adhered it to the card panel.

I adhered this to a light blue card base made with Craftangles cardstock, to finish the card.

Super simple and easy.

For the second card, I created a mandala using the little diya stamp in the 

Craftangles 'Diwali Sentiments' stamp set.

I then cut out this mandala using Simon Says stamp stitched circle die.

I layered it on a circle of silver glitter cardstock from DCWV.

I then added a star brad in the centre, so that the circles would turn.

Its super fun!

I mounted this circular panel onto a square panel of Craftangles Navy cardstock and then onto a white square card base.

I finished the card with a sentiment from the "Diwali Sentiments" stamp set.

I've tried to capture  some of the beautiful glitter cardstock in detail below.

I hope you enjoyed these cards and will play with these stamp sets! 

They really are a lot of fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani!

Warli cards

Hello!

Im showcasing the newly released Warli Borders stamp set from Craftangles today.

Its a simple stamp, so I made some simple but effective cards which show how they can be used in different ways for different occassions.

For the first card, I gold embossed the image along with a sentiment from 

MFT stamps on plain black cardstock from Craftangles

I think the image and the sentiment go well together.

For the second card, I stamped the image of the wedding party Warli border in black on white card stock. I then used Tim Holtz distress inks to colour images.

I stamped the sentiment, from Craftangles 'Indian Wedding' stamp set in black Versafine ink.

I then trimmed the card stock to size and mounted it with foam tape to a brown card base made with Cinnamon Brown cardstock from Craftangles.

For the third card, I stamped the Warli village scene border on Craftangles Tangerine cardstock using Versafine Crimson ink.

I then die cut this panel using Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die and added a gold embossed sentiment from the newly released Craftangles 'From all of us' stamp set.

I then mounted this panel using fun foam, onto a SSS die cut panel of Craftangles 'Wine Red' cardstock.

I have to say here, that, Craftangles cardstock is by far THE MOST luxurious card stock that I have used. It just feels so smooth and any technique that you use on it is a huge success.

I then adhered this panel to a white card base to finish the card.

A simple stamp set, three simple cards.

I hope you will give this set a try.

I'd love to hear what you think...do leave your comments below.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions.

Playing with Craftangles new release!

Hello!!

Have you see the brand new release from Craftangles?!!

The characters and sentiment stamps are so versatile, I will be playing with them for a long time!!

People of India 

World's Best

From All of Us

Diwali Sentiments

For the first card, I stamped and masked the various characters to create a group.

I then used watercolour pencils to colour in the characters and then added the sentiment from the brand new diwali stamp set from Craftangles Diwali Sentiments

The second card is even more fun!!

I decided to make a shadow box pop up card!

I started with a super simple cover for the card..I used the 'Hearts all around' stencil and Tim Holtz 'bubble gum' distress ink, and a simple sentiment from the 'From all of us' stamp set.

For the pop up inside, I used the women stamps from the 'People of India' and 'World's Best' stamps sets to create a cute pop up! I used another simple sentiment on the inside to finish the card.

For the final project, I decided to use the characters and the stamps to create a couple of cute gift tags.

I really love how all these projects turned out.

 I hope you will be inspired to try them out. 

 I will have videos up on social media..so do look out for them.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions

Christmas card using Art Wax

 Hello!

I am show casing a fabulousnew product from Craftangles today!

It's Art Wax! 

You will see in the video below, how just a tiny bit of this gorgeous metallic coloured wax can transform any project into a thing of beauty!

It works best on a black background so here is what I came up with.

I started out by applying the Craftangles black charcoal texture paste on black cardstock using Craftangles stencils.

Once dry, I rubbed a little bit of the Craftangles 'Iridiscent pink', 'Iridiscent violet'  and 'Bronze' art wax to create a metallic background.

I even tried it on Craftangles 'Black diamond' glimmer paste and the results were fantastic.

Enjoy the video.

Once the backgrounds were done, I cut out the panels using Simon Says Stamp stitched dies.

I then heat embossed the sentiment (Penny Black) on Craftangles vellum , die cut the tag (mftdienamics) and the Christmas trees (Impression Obsession), added a satin bow and adhered the panel to a white A2 card base. 

Its hard to capture the gorgeous beauty of this waxed background in a photo, but, you get the idea.

Craftangles stencil used with Craftangles Black diamond glimmer paste is 'Flourish'.

For the second card, I have used a sentiment from Hero Arts and 

the bench and lamp from Lawn Fawn. I gold embossed the sentiment and images and added them to the die cut panel to create an unusual Christmas card.

The Craftangles stencil used here is  'Doodle around'.

For the third card, I have used the Craftangles stencil 'Geometric bliss' 

and a fabulous Santa die cut from Impression obsession, 

which I die cut from copper coloured cardstock. 

The sentiment is from Impression Obsession too.

For the last card, I used Craftangles 'black diamond' glimmer paste which is absolutely fantastic, along with the Craftangles 'Indian motif' stencil.

The gold embossed sentiment is from Penny black and the die cut trees from Impression Obsession.

Hope you liked these cards and will give these products a try!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Diecutting and stencilling with glimmer paste

Hello!

I've been having so much fun with Craftangles glimmer pastes this month!!

I also decided to play with the Tiffany inspired colours..aqua, white, gold and black.

Here is what I came up with!

For my first card, I started out by stencilling a cardstock panel with Tim Holtz 'Cracked Pistachio' and Craftangles 'Gold Dust' glimmer paste and the Craftangles 'dots' stencil.

I then die cut the word 'Happy' using the Winnie and Walter die and created a simple shaker card, filling it with Craftangles 'clear shimmer' sequins.

I added a stamped and fussy cut Altenew  layered rose to add some colour. I finished the card with a white heat embossed birthday sentiment on black card.

Its hard to photograph the gold glimmer, but the card looks really pretty.

For the next two cards,

I started out by creating two patches of card using 

Craftangles 'Gold dust' glimmer paste and Tim Holtz 'Cracked Pistachio' distress ink.

I did this in order to use these panels to die cutting.

For the second card, I started by creating a card panel using 

Craftangles 'Fairy dust' glimmer paste and Craftangles 'Abstract stencil'.

I used the gold glimmer panel I made to die cut the Flora and Fauna 

Volkswagon beetle car. I also die cut the same using some craft foam,

which I used to give the card some dimension.

 I then encircled the car with the My Favourite Things Happy birthday die cut, cut from

Cratangles Aqua cardstock.

I finished the card with a white embossed sentiment on black cardstock.

Again, its hard to photograph the glimmer, but its Oh so pretty!

For the last card, I was inspired by this card I saw on Instagram.

I loved the look of layered balloons and decided to try it myself.

I used the aqua and gold glimmer card stock I created to die cut the balloons (From Lawn Fawn) . 

I further inked the aqua balloons to add some dimension. 

I prepared the card panel using Craftangles 'stripes' stencil and Craftangles 'Charcoal' texture paste.

Once the panel was dry, I adhered the balloons and the sentiment (from Simon Says Stamp) and finished the card with some shiny black sequins.

I really love how these cards turned out..I hope you like them too.

Thanks so much for stopping by..

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions.

Craftangles August blog hop

Hello!

Welcome to the Craftangles August blog hop 

where we are showcasing the most amazing Craftangles glimmer pastes!!

You would have come here from   

Shabneez's blog .

Don't forget to comment and leave some love at every stop on the hop...

there are loads of prizes to be won!

Ever since I've tried the Craftangles glimmer pastes, I've been hooked!!

Combine them with Craftangles stencils and you can have a winner every time!

I started off with the Craftangles 'starry lights' stencil and 

the Craftangles sparkling silver glimmer paste.

Take a look at my process video to see how!

I then added spots of Memento Dandelion ink  around the lanterns for some interest.

I then heat embossed the sentiment (hero arts) and added it to the card panel 

before adhering it to a white square card base.

Fun no?

For the second card, I used the Craftangles 'herringbone' stencil and 

the Craftangles 'blue denim' glimmer paste.

Check out the video below to see how.

I then die cut the panel using Simon Says Stamp stitched square dies 

and added some layered roses from Altenew stamps.

The card looked beautiful so I decided to leave it without a sentiment.

For the third card I used the same Craftangles  Denim blue glimmer paste and 

Craftangles 'Abstract circles' stencil.

Take a look at the process video below!

To make the card, I stamped coloured and fussy cut this beautiful plane from 

an unknown stamp set from my stash and added it to the panel that I 

had previously die cut , using Simon Says Stamp stitched squares stamp set.

I finished the card by adding  the sentiment that came in the stamp set.

For the last card, I used the Craftangles 'diamond fade' stencil and 

the Craftangles 'Sparkly silver' glimmer paste.

Check out the video showing how I did it!

I used the little  boy from the newly released 

Craftangles 'Birthday Boy' stamp set for the focal image.

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the boy and adhered him to the card along with a silver heat embossed sentiment from the same set.

Sweet and simple, no?

I hope you enjoyed these cards as much as I enjoyed making them.

If you have any questions or even if you just liked them, do leave me a comment below.

From here, you now go back to

  the HNDMD blog 

and leave a comment  there

 in order to win some fabulous prizes!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions

Happy Independence day!

Hello!

Happy Independance Day!!

I have some fun and super easy rakhi cards for you to try today!

Rakshabandhan, the festival of sibling love is coming up soon and I thought it would be fun to incorporate our national colours with this festive ocassion.

For the first card, I used the 'Lace reloaded ' stencil from Craftangles along with Tim Holtz 'Carved pumpkin' and 'Mowed Lawn' distress inks to create a pretty background. 

I made a rakhi using an evil eye charm  and some white cord, and placed it in the centre of the background card panel. 

I then adhered this panel to the white card base. 

I adhered it to the inside card, using a bit of washi tape.

I stamped the sentiments..a combination of sentiments from Flora and Fauna stamps, 

Winnie and Walter stamps and Craftangles Stamps (Happy Rakhshabandhan) to complete the card.

Super quick.

Here is a video showing you my process.

For the second card, I used the 'Rays'  stencil from Craftangles along with Tim Holtz distress inks 'Carved pumpkin' and 'Mowed lawn'.

I created a background like I did above, and used the evil eye charm rakhi as the centre.

This time I used a combination of sentiments from Lawn Fawn and 

Craftangles (Happy Rakshabandhan and Happy Rakhi Bro)

Here is a process video for the same.

The third and final card is my favourite, I think.

I used the tricolour ( Tim Holtz 'carved pumpkin' , 'mowed lawn' and 'chipped sappire') and the 'skyline' stencil from Craftangles

to create a city skyline scene.

I added clouds using the nature stencil and Tim Holtz 'broken china' distress ink.

So many brothers and sisters are far away from each other at this time of the year, so, 

 the beautiful sentiment from Craftangles 'Happy rakhi Bro' stamp set 

seemed most appropriate with this background.

I made a rakhi using a heartbeat charm..It seemed perfect with the whole card.

Here is the process video..Do try out this stencil.. I thought it was the most fun!

I hope you enjoyed this post and the videos! 

I'd love to hear what you think so please leave me a comment below.

I am playing the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday 'Distress it' challenge today!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions.

Holiday cards using Craftangles Glimmer paste and Craftangles texture paste.

Hello!

I've had the best time making these holiday cards 

using Craftangles stencils, Craftangles white glimmer paste and Craftangles white texture paste!

Here we go...

For the first card, I used a technique called shifting..demonstrated by Tim Holtz during his new release yesterday on facebook.

It basically means that you apply colour through the stencil, 

shift the stencil and then apply the second colour.

Here is a process video showing you how I created this background 

using Craftangles 'squares' stencil and Tim Holtz distress inks.

Stencils and Texture paste.

Hello! 

I 'm so excited to use a brand new Craftangles product! 

The Craftangles Black Charcoal texture paste and Craftangles Glimmer paste.
Both these products are just amazing and so much fun to use to use! I hope you will give them a try!

I've put together a few process videos, so I apologise for the length of this post.

I created a panel using Craftangles 'skyblue' card stock, geometric flowers stencil and the black texture paste. The results are amazing..as you can see.

Immediately after using the paste, I washed off the stencil with water and dish soap. 

Once dry, the texture paste is hard to remove.

I die cut the stencilled panel with Simon Says Stamp stitched circle die and adhered it to the centre of a square white card. 

I stamped an fussy cut these beautiful gerberas (from Unity stamp co.) and adhered them to the card along with some glass beads to finish.

I haven't added a sentiment, so I can use this card for any occassion.

For the second card, I created a panel using the 'Overlapping circles' stencil from Craftangles and the Black Charcoal texture paste. I then die cut the panel using Simon Says Stamp stitched square dies, matted it with black cardstock and adhered it to a square white card,

using fun foam to add some dimension.

I stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut the meditating frog from Stampendous 'Frog Yoga' stamp set

and added it to the panel. 

I think it really pops against that black background.

I finished the card with a sentiment from Flora and Fauna.

Here is a close up of the texture paste.

For the third card, I decided to create a black on black panel.

I used the Charcoal texture paste with the Craftangles stacked blocks stencil.

The result was brilliant..

Here is a process video.

Once the panel had dried, I decided to add some pop!

I stamped and fussy cut images from my brand new Sunny Studios 'Berry bliss' stamp set.

Once I arranged them on the background, I added some white paint splatter to add some interest.

This is really one of my most favourite cards and I'm so happy to share it with you.

Here is a detail photo of the gorgeous black on black background!

For the 4th card, I started with a square piece black cardstock from Craftangles, the Craftangles fireworks stencil and Craftangles Glimmer pastes 'Lemon zest', 'Orange peel' and 'Amethyst'.

The fireworks these pastes created are just beautiful!!

After some thought, I stamped and fussy cut this fun image from Art Impressions and added it to the panel and card base. 

I couldn't think of a sentiment, so I've left it for now...I wonder who this card will go to!

I hope you have enjoyed these videos and these cards!

If you have any questions, do leave me a comment.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions!