Diwali cards using Craftangles foils

Hello!

I have been addicted to foiling ever since Craftangles has released their brilliant foils!

Here are some Diwali cards and tags that I have made using these foils.

To make the shaker tag below, I have heat embossed the Ganesh image with clear embossing powder before using the gold foil.

After many trials, I found that I must ensure that the clear embossing powder is even and not splotchy. Only then does it get covered evenly with the foil, when put through the laminator.

There has been a lot of discussion about the way to apply the foil. I have achieved best results by putting the laser printed image or heat embossed image through a laminator, along with the foil.

I created another Shaker tag using playing card die cuts as shaker elements. For the background, I heat embossed and foiled the fireworks and Diwali sentiment 

from Craftangles Happy diwali stamp set.

For this card, I die cut the beautiful diwali sentiment from Diecuts and more,  from a sheet of black toner paper...which is nothing more than a sheet of black that I printed out on my laser printer.

I then used the Craftangles copper foil which covered this die cut so beautifully.

I diecut the same sentiment from a background panel and then dry embossed the panel with paisleys.

Finally I inlaid the diecut to complete the  simple card.

I finished it off by adding a few Craftangles clear sequins.

I am submitting this card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday  'add a sentiment' challenge.

This card below, is by far my favourite!

I die cut this beautiful diya from Diecuts and more from toner paper and then used the Craftangles rainbow foil to cover it.

Once done, I diecut a piece of white fun foam with the same die and used it to pop up the diya on the dry embossed background.

Here, I used the negative piece of the rainbow foil that I used above to create another diya.

For this diya, I first clear heat embossed a piece of paper and then run it with the negative foil piece  through the laminator. Once done, I trimmed the diya  and popped it up on the dry embossed Craftangles sapphire blue card background with some foam tape.

I finished both the cards with some Craftangles clear sequins.

I hope I have inspired you to try out some foils  and have some fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions

August Coasteride at Indian Craft Room..round 2

Hello!

We at Indian Craft Room are back with round two of inspirations for the August coasteride challenge.

I am the  hostess this month and my challenge is...

 My challenge to you was to create a post card using the storyboard below.

 My challenge to you is to create a project  using only one colour, other than, white, black or kraft.

The challenge will run from the 1st to the 28th of August 2016.

 As always, we have a few rules. Please read them carefully before you play.

1. Follow Indian Craft room

2. Blog about the challenge on your personal blog and link your post back to Indian Craft room.

3. If you do not have a blog, please post about the challenge on social media and link it back to Indian Craft room

4. If you have a blog, download and display this ICR challenge badge prominently on your blog.

5. Display the story board prominently in your blogpost and link it back to Indian Craft Room.

6. Upload your photos to the ICR gallery using the tag name 

                      ICRCSPR01

6. Like ICR on Facebook and Instagram

If you have any questions, or just love what we do,
please feel free to leave  me a  comment below.

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at The Craft Shop

Here is my 2nd inspiration for you this month.

To make this card, I started with a piece of bright pink card stock. 

I die cut the Speelbinders Shapeabilities  butterfly from it, creating a negative diecut. 

I dry embossed this panel using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. 

I cut the same butterfly from a piece of  light pink patterned paper from my stash

and inlaid the positive diecut into the negative and adhered it to a piece of white cardstock. 

I then mounted the entire panel onto a white card base and added some sequins to finish the card.

I just love the pop of pink against the white, don't you! 

I hope I have tickled your creative senses with this card and that you will come out and play this challenge!

CoasteRide ends at midnight on August 28th 2016
Don't forget to tag your submissions in the ICR gallery with the tag name 

ICRCSPR02

Now that you have all the details come on over and play along!

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great day!