Hiking box card!

 Hello!!

I made a really fun box card  today!

It is for a friend who plans to hike in all the 50 states of America to celebrate her 50th birthday!

To start, I printed out a map of the USA on two sheets of A4 size smooth white card stock and used Lawn Fawn's scalloped box card die to cut out the box elements.

I then used the same type of card stock to cut out the interior elements of the box card.

I masked out clouds and blended the sky on three panels using Tim Holtz 'Faded Jeans' distress ink.

On the the 4th panel, I used Tim Holtz 'Brushed Corduroy' distress ink as I did on the inside support panels. I used Impression Obsessions 'Evergreen Trees' die to cut out trees in different shades of green to create a forest. To make the hiker, I used MFT Dienamics 'Boy meets girl' die set. I cut out the boy, and, using an image of a stick figure hiker as a reference, I cut the arms and legs and 

re-attached them to create the hiker. I used some acetate to support the hiker from behind.

I added water coloured and fussy cut images of binoculars and a compass and die cut birds (Recollections) in the background.

I then added a die cut Penny black birthday sentiment. 

I die cut the '50' from scraps that were left over of the map, using Lawn Fawn's 'Quinns 123' die set.

Finally I created a belly band on which I stamped sentiments from Technique Tuesday. I also distressed the belly band using Tim Holtz 'Vintage photo' distress ink.

I had more scraps of the USA map on hand, so, I decided to cut out a simple tag on which to write the greeting to the recipient.

This card has been so very satisfying to make!! I just love how it turned out.

I'd love to hear what you think!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

I am playing the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday 'Layer it up' challenge today.

Playing the Twofer challenge.

Hello!

I made  these cards to play Darnell's brand new Twofer challenge!!

The challenge calls for the use of one stamp in two different ways and for two different ocassions.

After, I made the cards, I went back to read the blog post more carefully, and realised I had to use a feather stamp!!!!!!

Since I have made the cards and written the post, here goes...

 I have used one of the planets from MFT's 'Space Explorer'  for two very different cards.

The first card is a personalised notecard  made for  a little boy who likes planets.

I stamped and water coloured the planets, fussy cut them and popped them up with double sided foam tape on a simple night sky background which I made by splattering some white acrylic paint on blue card stock. I adhered the panel on a 3"x4" note card with the boy's name stamped on it.

I used Stampendous 'Retro' alphabet stamps to stamp the name. 

For the second card, I used Lawn Fawn's Scalloped Box card die with the same navy blue cardstock as the the card above.

I stamped the planet multiple times and water coloured and fussy cut them to create lanterns.

I die cut the banners from the Lawn Fawn set and then hung the 'lanterns' from them. 

Hanging the lanterns took a bit of experimentation.

I sewed the string though each 'lantern', knotted the string and then sandwiched and adhered the string between two of the banner die cuts.

This way they hang like real lanterns.

I added some coloured paint splatter to the box and added the shiny gold embossed sentiment and gold sequins to finish the card.

 I just love how it turned out!!

I forgot to take a photo of the cards together, so here is a photoshopped image of the two, for the purpose of the challenge.

Thanks so much for this new challenge Darnell!! It was TWO much fun!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great evening!

Paru Mahtani

Box cards using Craftangles Rakhi stamps

Hello!

I'm back with some more Rakhi cards today!! 

I just can't get enough of the newly released 'Happy Rakshabandhan' stamps from Craftangles!

I decided to make a couple of box cards using the Lawn Fawn scalloped box die.

I decided to shake things up a bit and make a card for a sister instead of a brother! 

So I took part of the sentiment from the Craftangles 'Happy Rakhi' stamp set and added the sister die cut (from Simon Says Stamp) to complete it. I just love the way it turned out!

The beautiful patterned paper is actually wrapping paper from Mandalay fine stationery..gorgeous 

isn't it?

For the second card, I've repeated the same sentiment and stencilled the white panels using the Craftangles 'Mandala' stencil and Memento inks. I added some self adhesive rhinestones for some bling.

I hope these cards have excited you and inspired you to try out the Craftangles 'Rakhi' stamp sets!

Have fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

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