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!

One stamp three ways!

Hello!

I have a a quick post for you today, showing off the new Craftangles background stamp 

'Floral circle background'.

I have stamped and heat embossed it on different card stock panels and,

 made three very different cards.

For card no 1...

1. I stamped and heat embossed the image with white embossing powder on black card stock. I then used Simon Says stamp stitched rectangle dies to cut it out.

2. I coloured the image using Steadler colour pencils.

3. I stamped the sentiment (from the Craftangles stamp set 'Beautiful bloom border'.

4. I die cut and coloured a butterfly and added it to the card along with some gemstones,

for some interest.

5. I matted the card panel with blue card stock (also cut using the SSS dies),

and adhered it to a black card base.

For card no 2.

1.I started out by stamping and heat embossing the beautiful image in white 

on white watercolour cardstock.

2.I then watercoloured the image using Sakura Koi water colours.

3.Once it dried, I die cut the panel using SSS stitched circle dies.

4.I added another circle below for interest.

5.I then added some paint splatter to the card base.

6.I adhered the watercoloured panel to the card base.

7. I die cut the word birthday (Craftangles 'Birthday wishes' stamp and die set) using gold card stock.

8. I added the rest of the sentiment (Craftangles 'Everyday Sentiments') and finished the card with some gold sequins.

For card no 3.

1. I stamped and heat embossed the image on red cardstock with gold embossing powder.

2.I cut out this square panel using SSS stitched square dies.

3. I used black cardstock to matt this panel.

4.I adhered it to the white square card base using fun foam.

5.I die cut the word 'Happy' (from Winnie and Walter) and adhered it to the card along with the stamped birthday sentiment.

I finished the card with some black jute twine and a gold bell.

I hope you liked these three cards and will give this stamp a try.

If you do, do not forget to tag us with #craftangles on social media.

We at HNDMD would love to see your creations.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Shaker with Bells

Hello!

Today I have a couple of simple shaker cards for you, 

which I made using Craftangles "Colours of  India" paper pack.

To make this card, I created a simple white shaker window using Queen and Company frame dies. 

I then placed some gold ghungroos (bells) inside,

 and placed it on a background of the dancing girls paper.

A simple gold embossed sentiment from Simon Says Stamp finished this card.

To make the second card, I used two different papers from the same paper pack.

I created the shaker window using Queen and Company oval frame dies, placed the sequins and sealed the window using the India patterned paper. I then placed this sealed shaker on the dancing girl background.

I love how the yellow paper pops and our national colours shine!

I love this paper pad so much, I have bought a second one!

I hope you will try out this paperpack.

You can buy it here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Craft Adda New release

Hello!

Have you seen the fabulous new Diwali release 

'Festival of Lights' and ' Happy diwali ' stampsets

 from CraftAdda?!

These stamps are superb quality and when stamped the images are super crisp!

I have used some of these gorgeous stamps to create a set of  3"x4"notecards...perfect for the festive season!

I used a range of techniques to make these notecards... masking, rubber stamping, watercolouring, emboss resist and heat embossing. 

For this card, I first gold embossed the rangoli pattern from the 'Festival of lights' stamp set. I then masked off half the card using post it tape and used Tim Holtz distress inks  Fired Brick and Dried Marigold to blend the colours. I used a paisley stamp on the coloured background to create some interest. I finished the card with gold embossed sentiment from the same stamp set.

Sparkle Challenge

I am playing the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday "Sparkle" challenge.

 I used the Stampendous elegant borders stamp set to create a white heat embossed panel.  

I then watercoloured the panel.

I added the Sparkle die cut from Papertrey Ink along with the sentiment from the corresponding stamp set to finish the card.

I also added some 'Sparkle' with Pretty Pink Posh sequins!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a great evening!

Indian Craft Room Recepie challenge!

Hey there!

There  is still time to play the Indian Craft room recipie challenge and win some awesome prizes from the Craftshop!

To play you have to look at the recipie given below and create a Christmas or new year card or project.

Here is my second dose of inspiration for all you crafters out there!

To make this card, I used patterned paper from the Doodlebug Design Inc. 6"x6" paper pack. I cut an embossed the white wreath using a Cuttlebug die and embossing folder. The tag was cut using an MFT die and heat embossed with snowflakes from an Inkadinkado stamp set. The stocking was cut from patterned paper and paper pieced with white card stock.  I added some gold ribbon and sequins to finish off the card.

The sentiment was stamped in black and heat embossed with clear embossing powder ( a trick I learned from Jennifer Mcguire).

I hope you feel inspired to create!

You can find a lot more inspiration from our DT here on the Indian Craft room page.

Thanks so much for stopping by..

Have a good night!