Paru's Perceptions

Hello!

I am having so much fun playing with the newly released Craftangles Valentine printed element packs! I could easily combine a couple of packs along with  Craftangles patterned paper to make some gorgeous cards! 

For the first card, I cut out a panel from the Craftangles Watercolour florals 2 Elements pack and added the sentiment heart  from Craftangles 'All for love 2' elements pack with double sided foam tape to the centre. I inked the edges of a precut cardstock panel with Tim Holtz 'Worn Lipstick' distress ink and matted the floral panel before adhering it to the card base. I finished the card with some Craftangles pink sequins.

For the second card, I used another panel, with the cutest birds, from the Craftangles 'Watercolour Florals 2' Elements pack and added another heart sentiment from the Craftangles 'All for Love 2'     elements pack with 3D foam tape. I inked another cardstock panel, just like above and matted the printed panel. 

I finished the card with pink sequins from Craftangles

For the third card, I inked the card base directly with Tim Holtz 'Carved Pumpkin' distress ink. I then adhered the printed card panel and adhered the sentiment with 3D foam tape. I added some Craftangles clear sequins to finish the card.

For the next three cards, I used patterned papers from the new Craftangles 'Sweet Love' 6"x6" paper pack to act as a base for the super cute elements from the 

Craftangles Watercolour love 1 elements pack. 

I left the cards super simple so that I could add sentiments in the future or use them as they are.

I hope you will be inspired to make some of your own valentine cards and will give these beautiful patterned papers and printed element packs a try!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a wonderful day!

Paru Mahtani

Hello!!

This past month I have been playing around and making handcarved rubber stamps using speedball rubber sheets (you can also use large size erasers like Staedler) and speedball carving tools.

Here are some images showing the process.

I found this particular design on Pinterest.

It took me a while to work out...was very satisfying in the end!

The stamps are carved our of a thick rubber sheet. They have no capability to cling to an acrylic surface. So in order to use them with an acrylic block, 

I used a reusable cling sheet 'Tack 'n' Peel from Tsukineko.

I cut and mounted this sheet on an acrylic block to provide a cling surface for all my hand carved stamps. Now stamping with these homemade stamps is super easy.

Here are some more designs...

and the tags I made with them.

I used Tim Holtz distress inks to stamp on textures card stock to give it an uneven fabric like feel.

I hope you are inspired to create some of your own!

do leave a comment below if you have any questions.

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Have a great day!

I am playing the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday "Sparkle" challenge.

 I used the Stampendous elegant borders stamp set to create a white heat embossed panel.  

I then watercoloured the panel.

I added the Sparkle die cut from Papertrey Ink along with the sentiment from the corresponding stamp set to finish the card.

I also added some 'Sparkle' with Pretty Pink Posh sequins!

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Have a great evening!

Happy Halloween!

When I saw this card sketch on retro sketches, I knew I had a chance to use the Darcies stamp set that I had bought last year, but not yet used! I used glossy accents and white enamel accents to make the monster's eye pop! The sentiment is a free digi...unfortunately I didn't save the source so I don't remember where it is from. I will share the the file at the end of the post for those who may want to use it.

I used papers from Craft Adda's Crafttangles Old Paper by Tamara 6"x6" paper pack. I distressed the edges with  Tim Holtz distress ink and added some self adhesive gemstones to finish the card. 

Here's wishing you have a monstrously fun weekend!

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Hey there!

A quick post this evening as I am playing the CASology Cue Card Umbrella challenge and the Freshly Made Sketches challenge #204.

When I saw the cue card from Casology, I just had to pull out my Art Impressions stamps! 

I stamped it on ivory cardstock and watercoloured the image. 

I then created a background of falling stars with my Winnie and Walter stencil and add the sentiment with an umbrella brad from Recollections to finish the card. 

I will frame this later to gift to a friend.

 

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Have a great day!