Craftangles Love Challenge.

Hello!

Welcome to the Craftangles 'LOVE' challenge!

Today, I have used Craftangles stamps, stencils and printed element packs to make  three quick and simple Valentine cards. 

Enjoy them and I hope that you will be inspired to play along with the challenge.

You will find all the details HERE.https://blog.hndmd.in/2020/01/craftangles-monthly-challenge-januarry.html

My first card is super simple.

I die cut the cute image from the Craftangles Elements Pack, Sweet Love 2 using a stitched square die and adhered it to a 5"x5" folded card make out of  Craftangles Black card stock.

I added some Craftangles clear sequins to finish the card.

For the second card, I stamped and watercoloured the cute girl from the 

Craftangles Sweet Love stamp set and fussy cut the image. I then created a stencilled background using the Craftangles sunburst stencil.

I stmaped the sentiment and adhered the fussy cut image to the base using 3Dfoam tape.

I adhered this card topper to a Craftangles Rich Red card stock.

I used some Crafangles clear sequins to finish the card.

For the third card, I die cut this cute smore's image from the Craftangles 'sweet Love 2' element pack, matted it with pink card stock

and adhered it to a 6"x4"  white card base.

As there was some space, I die cut three hearts  to create some interest.

I hope you enjoyed these cards, and will be inspired to play along with 

the Craftangles LOVE challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions.

Playing with Craftangles stencils and Texture paste

Hello!

For my post today, I decided to play with the Craftangles white texture paste, Craftangles stencils and Craftangles floral element packs.

The cards I made are super quick and super simple and good for those times when you don't want to think too much. :-)

For the cards above and below, I started out with two die cut panels of black cardstock from Craftangles and used the Craftangles white texture paste with the 'Doodle Around' stencil to create an abstract background.

Once dry, I added the large butterfly from the Craftangles Vintage rosette 1 element pack on the card above and a sprig of watercoloured flowers in the same colour on the card below.

As you can see I also changed the orientation of the card.

So its one back ground two ways.

I added a simple ' thank you' sentiment and some gem stones to finish the cards.

For cards 3 and 4, I started out with the Craftangles  'Diamond fade' stencil and the 

Craftangles texture paste, on Craftangles 'Kraft' and 'Lilac' card stock panels.

Once the texture paste was dry, I fussy cut and added the flowers from the 

Craftangles colourful flowers 5 element pack 

and arranged them on the cards, again, with the simple thank you sentiment.

I hope you liked these quick and simple Thank you cards and will give these supplies a try.

Id love to hear what you think...Do leave me a comment.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions

Craftangles Monthly Challenge #10 'Festivals'

Hello!!

Welcome to the Craftangles Monthly Challenge #10.

This month we are making cards for festivals.

You will find all the challenge details here...do play along!

For cards one and two, I started with a stencilled background using the Craftangles 'Swirly Circle'

stencil and Tim Holtz distress inks. I then stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut the diyas from the Craftangles 'Happy Diwali' stamp set. 

For the first card, I adhered them to two die cut circles (these were left overs from and earlier card, which I had made using the Craftangles 'Rays' stencil and Craftangles white texture paste.)

I then added some self adhesive gem stones to finish the card.

For the second card, I stamped a sentiment from the Craftangles 'Diwali Sentiments' stamp set, adhered the two diyas to the stencilled background and added Craftangles sequins to finish the card.

For cards three and four, I started by creating a background using the Craftangles 'Swirly circle' stencil and Tim Holtz  distress inks.

For the focal image, I used the Craftangles 'Small Ganeshas' stencil and Tim Holtz 'Carved Pumkin' and 'Fiery Brick' distress inks. I adhered it to the background using fun foam. I then finished the card with  silver thread, green metallic sequins and die cut leaves from My Favourite Things.

I loved making these cards...I hope you love them too and will be inspired to play along with our monthly challenge "Festivals".

You can link up your cards here.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a wonderful day!

Paru Mahtani

Fun with Mandalas

Hello!!

Did you know that Craftangles has the most amazing Mandala stencils?

For my Diwali cards today, I decided to use a their stencils to create some different backgrounds.

The cards are pretty simple and very quick and easy to make so I will list the supplies as I go along. If you have any questions as to my method, please leave me a comment.

Card 1: Stencil: Mandala reloaded, blended with Tim holtz 'Mustard seed' distress ink .

Stamp: Happy Diwali , Diwali Sentiments

Card 2: Stencil: 4 leaf lace

inks: Tim Holtz 'Carved Pumpkin' and 'Fiery Brick'

The Om die cut is cut from gold mirror cardstock

Card 3 : Stencil: Mandala reloaded 

                                                     Texture paste : Craftangles mixed media essentials

                Stamps : Diwali sentiments

                                 Happily Ever After

Painted with Craftangles Liquid watercolour on Craftangles Watercolour paper.

Card 4 : Stencil: Floral Mandala

                                                     Texture paste : Craftangles mixed media essentials

                Stamps : Diwali sentiments

                                 Happily Ever After

Painted with Craftangles Liquid watercolour on Craftangles Watercolour paper.

Card 5 : Stencil: Mandala reloaded 

                                                         Tim Holtz 'Mustard Seed' distress ink.

                Stamps : 'Shubh Labh'

Painted with Craftangles Liquid watercolour on Craftangles Watercolour paper.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I hope you liked the cards. 

Do leave me a comment. I'd love to hear what you think.

Have a wonderful day!

Paru Mahtani

Ink blending with Craftangles stencils

 Hello!

I love making and keeping a stock of simple cards which can be used for any occasion.

So, I made a few quick cards today using Craftangles 'Swirly Lace' and 'Net Lace' stencils and  Tim Holtz Distress inks. 

I started by die cutting 4 panels out of one 12"x12"sheet of the newly released Craftangles smooth white card stock using the Simon Says Stamp stitched squares die. 

I then used the two stencils mentioned above and Tim Holtz distress inks 'Faded jeans', 'Broken china', 'Chipped Sapphire', 'Dusty Concord', 'Carved Pumpkin' and 'Mustard seed' to create these ink blended panels.

I die cut the Winnie and Walter bold 'hugs' using matching colours and adhered them to the card with fun foam to give them some dimension. I finished the cards using Craftangles sequins 'Bumblebee', 'Oxford Blue', and 'Orange'.

Here is a closer look at these cards.

What kind of cards do you like to make? I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions.

Fun with Craftangles foils

Hello!

I have some fun experiments with Craftangles foils for you today!

For the first card,  I used Craftangles 'Geometric bursts' stencil with icraft deco foil transfer gel. Once the gel was dry, I used Craftangles gold foil and a laminator to foil the card. I used a strip of Craftangles vellum to add a gold outline sticker sentiment to finish the card.

Hello!

I have a few cute mini notecards for you today, which I used making floral cutouts from Craftangles 'Elements packs', stencils and stamps for the current

Craftangles 'Anything goes' challenge.

For the first card, I started with a floral element and leaves from the 

Craftangles Colorful Flowers 4 element pack. I created a background panel using Craftangles 'Ornamental Lace' stencil. I added them all to a 3"x3"mini notecard  along with a birthday sentiment. If you look closely you will see the dew drop sequins adhered to the flower.

For the second card, I fussy cut a floral bouquet element from the 'Craftangles Colourful flowers 6' element pack. I die cut a banner and added a birthday sentiment. I adhered this to a dry embossed panel and then to a 3"x4" mini notecard. I also added some dew drop sequins.

For the third card, I stamped this beautiful flower from the Craftangles 'Everyday Sentiments' stamp set using a very light coloured ink, on watercolour paper. I then did the no line watercolour technique using the Craftangles liquid watercolours. Once dry, I fussy cut the flower and adhered it to the embossed background panel using 3D foam tape. I added a stamped birthday sentiment and adhered the panel to a 3"x4" mini notecard. I added some Craftangles clear sequins to finish the card.

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

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

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.