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 'Birthday' Challenge!

Hello!

Welcome to the Craftangles 'Birthday' Challenge for the month of August!

Do play and link up your entries HERE

I have some birthday cards to inspire you to play today.

For the first two cards, I used a technique demonstrated  by Kristina Werner recently.

I used make up brushes (from Amazon) to do the ink blending! Khyati had suggested these brushes, and OMG! they are the best for ink blending!!!

For the first card, I started of by blending Distress inks through the Craftangles 'flower cluster' stencil onto the background panel of Craftangles white cardstock. I then die cut the large numbers in Craftangles earl grey card stock and white cardstock, and layered them. I then stamped and die cut the sentiment panels and adhered them with 3D foam tape. I added some clear Craftangles sequins to finish the card.

For the second card, I first used the newly released Craftangles masking paper to cut out the number 50 and adhered it to the Craftangles white card base. I then  blended the background colours onto the Craftangles white cardstock panel. After blending the colours, I used the same stencil as the card above, to blend more colour onto the card base. This gave it tone on tone look.

Once done, I removed the mask and added a stamped sentiment along with some clear sequins to finish the card.

For the second set of cards, I used simple stencilling and combined it with floral die cuts and liquid watercolours.

For these cards, I started by stencilling (Herrringbone) the background with a light blending of Black soot distress ink. I used Craftangles liquid watercolours to paint a piece of watercolour carstock and then die cut the flowers. I combined the coloured flowers with white diecuts and then sprinkled them with some more watercolour.

I finished the card with some jute twine and some sequins and resin beads and a simple sentiment.

The next card is a simple shaker. I used the Craftangles rays stencil for the background and then cut out the number 50. I made this into a simple shaker and added the 

Craftangles 'designer denim' sequins mix.

A bold sentiment and a few sequins adhered to the outside, finished this card.

For the last card, I experimented with the newly released Craftangles alcohol ink paper and Craftangles liquid watercolours.

They work beautifully, but take some time to dry. Once semidry, I added some gold foil to the paper. It stuck to the parts where more ink had collected.

I then die cut this panel and adhered it to a white card base with a floral die cut and a birthday sentiment to finish the card.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards and will be tempted to play along.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions.

Floral cards using Craftangles elements packs

 Hello!

I have some pretty cards for you today, which I made using Craftangles floral elements packs. These are so beautiful and make the most gorgeous cards with the minimum of effort!

My first card is a mini notecard. I started with an embossed backfround. I fussy cut a floral element from the Craftangles 'Colourful flowers 6' element pack and adhered it to the base using 3D foam tape. I  stamped a sentiment on a die cut panel and added that to the card to finish. I also added some Craftangles clear sequins.

For the second card, I used a panel from the Craftangles  'Vintage rosette 3' element pack and flowers from the 'Colourful flowers 5' element pack. I stamped a sentiment over the panel and adhered it to a card base made with Craftangles 'Earl Grey' cardstock.

For the third card, I fussy cut the floral element from Craftangles 'Watercolour florals 1' elements pack. I then layered it on a plaid stamped and grey cardstock panels. 

I adhered these panels to the bright green card base. 

I gold embossed the sentiment from Craftangles 'Life is pretty amazing' 

stamp set and adhered it with 3D foam tape. I used Craftangles clear sequins to finish the card.

I hope you enjoyed these card and will give the element packs a try.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions.