Paru's Perceptions

Hello!

I have a couple of cards for you today, made with the newly released stencils from Craftangles!!

They are so gorgeous..I cant get over them!! 

I have started with my favourite stencil..'mandala'.

To make this card, I used  Hero Arts Unicorn White ink to stencil over a deep green card stock. This ink takes a while to dry and I couldn't wait, so I dried it with my heat tool. This set the ink beautifully!

To finish the card, I stamped and diecut the sentiment using the Birthday stamp and die set, also from Craftangles.

For the second card, I used Tim Holtz 'Picked Raspberry', 'Worn Lipstick' and 'Victorian Velvet' distress inks to stencil the 'mandala' design onto smooth white card stock. I then cut this panel using Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die. I then layered this panel over some pink cardstock.

I used a second stencil on the card base as well as the stencilled panel to add some interest.

This stencil is the newly released 'Rays' stencil from Craftangles.

To finish the card, I used a die cut sentiment from the Craftangles birthday stamp and die set.

I hope you liked the cards and will be inspired to try out these stencils yourself!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions

Hello!

Check out my DT blogpost for the Hnmd blog today!

'Happy birthday to yowu'! 

This is the awesome new stampset from Craftangles! I just cant get over the cute pups!

Today I have teamed this stamp set with papers from the 

Craftangles 'Birthday wishes' 6"x6" paper pack to make three fun cards! 

I have also used the newly relaeased Craftangles 'Birthday' die and the 'Birthday Wishes' stamp set.

I had a lot of fun making these cards...I added little white gel pen highlights to the buntings too!

Do try out these stamp sets and dies! 

I cannot praise the new Craftangles dies enough..they cut like butter! 

Super fun!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Paru's Perceptions

Hello!

I am jumping in and playing the Winnie and Walter 3rd birthday bash challenges today! 

It's the last day today!!

I am playing the the 'bright colours' challenge, the 'sequin challenge' and the 'create a pattern challenge' today.

To create the base of these shaker cards, I used the 'My precious' stamp set from Winnie and Walter. I used my Misti tool to create the background pattern of the gems. 

Once I created the shaker elements using Lawn Fawn's Polaroid die and Queen and Company's circle frame dies, I used plastic gem shaped sequins to fill up the shaker.

I love the brightness it brings to the cards.

I finished the cards with sentiment dies and stamps from PaperTrey ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Hello!

I am jumping in and playing the Winnie and Walter 3rd birthday bash challenges today! 

It's the last day today!!

I am playing the 'stencil challenge', the 'bright colours' challenge, and the 'ink blending' challenge and the 'sequin challenge'

To make this card, I used the Winnie and Walter roses stamp set. I watercoloured the roses and fussy cut them, as I did the sentiment too.

I used the Winnie and Walter triangles stencil and hero arts neon inks to create the ink blended stencilled background.

I added a (mft) stitched frame cut out of gold cardstock to add interest to the card. I finished it with transparent sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and adhering the panel to a kraft card base.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

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

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the ICR Blog Hop!

It has been a wonderful year at ICR and we are ending the year with a blog hop by all the 

team members who were creating for ICR this year!

For this blog hop, we are creating cards with 

any type of EMBOSSING.

It could be heat embossing (wet embossing) or,

 embossing with an embossing folder (dry embossing)

You would have come here from 

Gopi's blog..

I have a set of 5 christmas cards to share today.

I have used both wet and dry embossing techniques on all the cards. 

I hope you enjoy reading about them as much as I enjoyed making them!!

For the first card, I doodled four christmas trees, 

painted them using Sakura Koi watercolours and fussy cut them. 

I then cut the snow bank using Mama Elephants's landscape trio dies and,

 embossed the background with Cuttlebug embossing folders.  

I then placed the background panel on a 5"x5" red card stock base.

I finished the card with a sentiment from Hero Arts and a bit of jute twine from MayArts.

I have seen versions of this card  a lot on Instagram and Pinterest, and, 

I was inspired to try making my own.

I embossed the background panel with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and, 

blended Memento Summer Sky ink onto it.

I stacked three stitched circle die cuts one on top of the other and 

added googly eyes, a shiny gemstone for the nose and a doodles smile.

 I then added twigs, (die cut using Memory box dies)

 for the arms and a doodled and coloured scarf.

I then placed the panel on a red card stock base and

added a sentiment from Hero Arts to finish the card.

I love the feeling of breeze, when I see this card

I particularly love this card! 

I learnt how to colour the Holiday Bow from the Ton stamps, 

here on Youtube.

The rest of the card is simple..

A Cuttlebug embossed background panel and,

 a gold heat embossed sentiment on vellum finish the card.

I doodled another three Christmas trees, coloured and cut them for this card. Again, I used the Mama Elephant landscape trio dies to create the snowbank and Cuttlebug embossed the background.

I finished the card with sentiments from Hero Arts and jute twine from May Arts.

For this card, I Cuttlebug embossed swirls on the background panel, to begin with.

I then stamped and heat embossed and fussy cut two cups from 

the Paper Smooches 'Cyber Cafe' stamp set. I placed the cups on a vellum panel on which I had heat embossed the heat swirls in white embossing powder. I then hand stitched the panel onto the card base. I added a gold heat embossed sentiment and some green Bakers Twine to finish the card.

I hope you enjoyed reading about these cards, and I hope you are inspired to create some of you own this season! 

Do leave a comment..I'd love to hear from you!

Next on the hop is the lovely Pratyusha..head on over and leave her some love!

We have some awesome prizes in store for you...

a bag of goodies  (dies, stamps, etc.)

from

Don't forget to link up your creations here and leave a comment on all the blogs!

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Thanks so much for playing along...

Have a great evening!!

Hello! 

As you can see I have been busy making shaker cards all month.

I'm also feeling very thankful for all the blessings in my life, so, 

even though we don't celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday in India, 

I thought it would be nice to showcase some thank you cards. 

So here they are...

 For the first card I used two different papers from the "Colours of India" paper pack. 

I just love the vibrant colours and fun motifs!

To create the shaker element , I stacked up 8 frames cut using ''Peekaboo" rectangle frame dies. 

I then adhered it to a piece of patterned paper cut to size to create a backing. 

I then filled in the multicoloured sequins. 

I cut another frame to which I adhered a piece of acetate, 

and placed it over my stack to seal the shaker.

Once this was ready, I cut a piece of patterned paper to size and adhered it to the white card base. 

I then adhered my shaker to the base and added the sentiment to finish the card.

For my second card, I used patterned paper from the "We are pregnant " paper pack.

The process is the same as above, only here, I did not use a backing for the shaker stack.

I adhered a piece of patterned paper cut to size to the card base and then adhered the shaker stack directly to the card. I filled it with sequins and then sealed it with the acetate topper. I cut the top frame from Patterned paper from the same paper pack.

I finished off the card, as before, with a die cut sentiment.

I am truly enjoying making these shakers..

I hope to have inspired you to make some of your own too!

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

Hey all! I am on the CraftAdda blog today with a couple of cards made with the awesome new 6"x6" Autumn Harvest paper pack from Craftangles! 

You can see a flipthrough of this paper pack here!

The papers are gorgeous...thick and luxurious to work with. 

The patterns work well with each other, as you can see.

The card techniques  are pretty much self explanatory.

I used the "Landscape trio" die from Mama elephant to add some interest as well as the feather dies from Simon Says Stamp and the gold heat embossed sentiment from 'Paperwishes'. 

The jute twine is from MayArts ribbon.

Come on over to the CraftAdda store and check out all the awesome patterned papers!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great evening!

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Here is my inspiration for you this month.

To make this card, I used four different patterned papers..some from my scraps and a sketch from 

the Retrosketches blog!

I used sequins from the Crazy Crafter!

It is an awesome craft supplies store run by Sudha Kalra.

The sentiment is from my brand new birthday stamp set from Concord and 9th

 and the wooden butterfly button is from my stash.

Hello All!

I am playing all the Winnie and Walter 2nd Birthday bash challenges today!

With this card I am playing the 

Rainbow challenge with Vanessa

Make your own background with Gayatri

and the 

Over the edge challenge with Kelly

to make this card, I started with the sequins dies from Papertreyink. I stamped them in rainbow colours to create a background.

I then die cut a vellum panel using Simon Says Stamp Stitched rectangle dies and heat embossed the sentiment and the diamonds from Winnie and Walter's My Precious stamp set on the panel. 

I overlayed the panel on the background and held it in place with a gold brad from recollections.

This is truly one of my favourites!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

I am playing the 

Over the edge challenge with Kelly

and the 

Inlaid die cut challenge with Mayuri

to make this card, I die cut Winnie and Walter's 'Party confetti cutaways' in primary colours. 

I then die cut a square panel of white cardstock with the same die, multiple times, going 

over the edge 

each time.

I adhered the white panel to the card base and then inlaid the colourful confetti into the die cut panel.

I die cut a panel of vellum using Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangles  as a base for the die cut sentiment.

I finished off the card with some Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Hello All!

I am playing all the Winnie and Walter 2nd Birthday bash challenges today!

I'm starting with 

the 2 Challenge with Shay  

and

the  Anything but a card Challenge with Kate

Here I have made a tag using Simon Says Stamp Stitched circle dies.

The 2 flowers and leaves are left over pieces from 

the Winnie and Walter 'Maggie's Roses Cutaways' die set

You will see the die cut pieces in the card here.

I just loved the look of the left over pieces, so I added some sequins to the centre and used them on this red tag. They really pop don't they! I just love the shimmery card stock too!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!