Diwali cards for our soldiers.

Hello!

For my DT post for CraftAdda today, I am using the fabulous Diwali stamp sets from Craftangles.

I was encouraged by my dear friend Neha Gala  who is collecting cards to send to our brave soldiers who could not go home for Diwali.

I was pushed out of my comfort zone, but, I am really thrilled with the cards I made.

For this card, I started by creating a background using the large diya in the 

Happy Diwali stamp set from Craftangles.

I heat embossed the background with Craftangles clear embossing powder. I then blended the background using Memento  Cottage Ivy and Memento Tangelo inks. Once blended, I flicked some water onto the background and lifted off some colour. 

I then placed a scrap sheet of paper over the panel and ironed off the embossing powder.

I then gold embossed the sentiment on a strip of vellum and attached it to the card panel. I used three star shaped buttons in the tricolours as an embellishment.

I finished the card panel by placing it on a kraft card base.

For this card, I started with stamping the fireworks stamp in the Indian tricolour on a piece of white cardstock cut with Simon Says Stamp's stitched rectangle die.

I added a gold embossed sentiment on a vellum panel and added a watercolured diya. I finished the card by placing the card panel on a kraft card base.

For this card, I started by using TimHoltz sun rays stencil and colouring in with Memento Cottage Ivy and Tangelo inks.

I then added a gold embossed sentiment on vellum and a watercoloured diya. I then finished the card by placing the panel on a kraft card base.

For this card, I created a dark sky background for the very first time!!!! I am so thrilled with the way this card turned out.

I clear embossed the fireworks and then blended the background using memento and Tim Holtz inks.

I then flicked some water onto the background.

I then stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut the small diyas from 

the Craftangles Happy Diwali stamp set. 

I added the tricolour panel at the bottom of the card to anchor the diyas and stamped the sentiment onto the panel.

I hope you enjoyed this post and will be inspired to create a few diwali cards of your own.

Thank you so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY!!

Since it is Republic Day today, I thought it would be nice for the kids to do something his week, using our Indian flag colours.

Here's what we made...

Super cute bracelets...We made the paper beads and then threaded them on elastic with coloured plastic beads inbetween.
The girls loved them...all said they would wear them to school tomorrow for show and tell!!!!
What bigger compliment can I get?!

And then we made this gorgeous star...looks so complicated and WOW! But so easy!!! 

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Enjoy!!