Diwali Cards

2nd Post of the day. Please scroll down or click here to see the Appreciate You post.

Diwali is the Festival of Lights celebrated through India. The festival is celebrated by lighting lamps all around and outside the homes and with plethora of sweet and savory dishes. I love this festival as it feels so bright to be sorrounded by lights and where families & friends get together and have a good time. So, when I saw that a few Indian stampers had joined together for a Diwali blog hop, I had to create a few cards. You can start the blog hop at Chaitali's blog (She even has some Silhouette cut files for you) and get all the details there.

Warning - Picture Heavy Post as I ended up creating three cards :)

1) I used the PDCC 155 colors (mint, gold and leather) for this card. I also used Retro Sketches #34. 

The lamp (diya) image is from about.com - a free clip art. I printed it and colored it with copics. The sentiment is in Samarkan Font.

Here are PDCC Challenge panel and Retro Sketch,

2) I did this second card again using PDCC 155 colors (mint, gold and leather) and this time I used the CASE this sketch #3 for this card.

I used the same lamp clip art and sentiment. :) Just a variation in the sketch. I used gold bling for the gold color.

Here is the CASE Sketch #3,

3) Last but not the least, I used Lawn Fawn's Lunar Lights stamp set to create this card. During Diwali we hang these lanterns in our homes and you get the most amazing and beautiful lanterns and this stamp set reminds me of those lanterns. I paper pierced the lanterns in bright patterned papers and kept it simple.

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Supplies:
Stamp - Lawn Fawn Lunar Lights
Paper - PTI Enchanted Eventing and White CS, PTI Aqua Mist and Dark Chocolate Patterned Paper, Bo Bunny Patterned Papers, GKD Mint Card Stock, Gold Glittered Paper from Hobby Lobby
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - Gem Stones, Circle Punches, PTI Scallop Border Die

Embellish Color Challenge

Embellish Magazine Color Challenge with the use of squares - were Purple, Green and Black. This color combo is a bit hard for me to visualize and I wanted to give it a try. The Squares were a bit challenging, I always have hard time putting these punched squares together and this card is no exception :)



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Supplies:
Stamp - Paper Source Asian fan Stamp
Paper - PTI Plum Pudding and Black CS, GKD Avocado CS
Ink - Memento Black
Other - PTI Ribbon, PTI Vintage Button and Rustic Twine

WCMD Challenges from PTI

Nichole Heady at PTI had these four challenges for the World Card Making Day. It was like globe trotting with cards :) Lots of fun.

WCMD Challenge #1 - Japan



I did not have any Asian Themed PTI Stamp sets. So I used the combination of Boxes, Bags and Tags and Beyond Basic Borders. I created this card bases on my feel of Japan and its art and colors :)



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Boxes, Bags and Tags, PTI Beyond Basic Border
Paper - PTI Ocean Tides Bitty Boxes DP, PTI Rustic Cream CS, PTI Pure Poppy CS
Ink - PTI Pure Poppy, PTI New Leaf
Other - SU Word Window Punch, White Gel Pen, Sakura Star Burst Pen

WCMD Challenge #2 - Mexico



I used the Guidelines 2 Stamp set to create a tiled background and used it with Lemon Tart Bitty boxes DP. Some how these colors always convey Mexico to me :)



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Guidelines 2, PTI Vintage Picnic
Paper - PTI Bitty boxes DP in Lemon Tart, Guidelines 2 CS, PTI Ripe Avocado CS
Ink - PTI Pure Poppy, Ranger Distress Ink - Faded Jeans, PTI New Leaf
Other - PTI Vintage Buttons

WCMD Challenge #3 - India



I used the Guidelines stamp set to create the background and then added some bling to it. Kept it simple with juts the sentiment (which I printed from the computer). I added a few pure poppy buttons too. I used a combination of Orange and red Inks as lot of Indian Saree's have this color combination over pale blue background :)


It might be hard to see the bling on this card as the photograph might not be capturing it well. But it looks beautiful IRL.

Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Guidelines
Ink - PTI Pure Poppy, PTI Orange Zest, Versamark
Paper - PTI Aquamist and Pure Poppy card stock
Other - PTI Vintage Buttons, Gem stones

Challenge #4 - Australia



I was influenced by the reds and browns in the Australian art and plus I used the challenge of dotting the stamped images with White Gel Pen. :)



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Background Basics Retro, PTI Flower Garden
Paper - PTI Kraft, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate CS, PTI White CS
Ink - PTI Dark Chocolate
Other - Nestabilities, Ribbon, White Gel Pen

TESC 84 and Moxie Fab World Challenge

The Moxie Fab World Challenge this time is called - Gradient is Radiant. It was really neat challenge and I ended up using the latest Taylored Expressions Sketch #84 for this card. This sketch is really very versatile and I can see myself using this in future. This card was also for the OCC Challenge of creating Monochromatic cards :)

Here is my card,



Diwali the festival of Lights is coming in the Month of October and I wanted to make a bunch of cards for that. I used this fan stamp from the Paper Source Company. They have come with this whole line of Indian stamps that are just stunning. I used the Dee Gruenig Gradient Ink for the image. It is the Dee Gruenig's Signature series from Marvy called Blending Box. It has shades of Orange within the ink pad making it easier for this kind of gradient stamping. You might not be able to see the shades in the stamped image, but it is there :)

I also used different shades of Orange from the Coredinations Card stock for the panel on the card further tying in the gradient factor. I kept the card simple without adding further embellishments. I kind of liked the different shades of orange on the card.

Here is the sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp Set - Indian Fan Stamp from Paper Source
Paper - Coredinations Card stock, SU White CS, PTI Vintage Cream CS
Ink - Dee Gruenig Blending Box - Shades of Orange, Chai Distress Ink from PTI
Other - SU Word Window Punch, Marvy Circle Punches

Diwali Card using Kazan Sketch 35

Diwali is a Indian festival coming in October which is called Festival of Lights. I was working on some Diwali cards and the latest sketch 35 from Kazan was the perfect for one of the cards.

Here is my card,



DP is from Luxury Stack (DCVW). These paper are really very nice. I kept the card simple with just a ribbon. The image stamp is from Flourishes called Strut your stuff. This is a peacock feather that I used for this card. I stamped the image in Ranger Distressed Ink - Faded Jeans and then I used Sakura Gelly Roll stardust pens to add some glitter to the peacock feather. Sentiment was printed from computer. This week's sponsor for 2s4y is also flourishes :)

Here is the sketch,


Supplies:
Stamp - Strut your stuff from Flourishes
Paper - Luxury Stack from DCVW, Vintage Cream and White CS from PTI
Ink - Ranger Distressed Ink - Faded Jeans
Other - PTI Vintage Cream Ribbon, SU Word Window Punch

Deepavali Wishes

Deepavali or Diwali as it is commonly known is the Festival of Lights. "Deepawali" (also transliterated as "deepaawaLi") literally means a row of lamps (Sanskrit "deepa" = lamp and "aawaLi" = row, line). This is a festival where friends and family get together, have good food and enjoy time with each other. Back home in India, we would also put "Rangoli" - intricrate doodle designs in front of the house, light lamps, wear new outfits and have fun :)

Here at home in Texas, we lit a lot of lamps and have good food and in spirit of Deepavali, I created this card.

I had this Basic Grey Paper that was so suited for this and this Paisely stamp that I have been dying to use. Paisley is also something that is often used in lot of Indian dresses and designs. I printed the words "Happy Diwali" using MS word and then punched it out using SU Word Window punch. Used the scalloped Nestabilities as background for the paisley stamp. Just a simple card, but I liked how it turned out.

Supplies:
BasicGrey - Collection Pack - Phoebe, PTI Card Stock (PTI Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream), Square Scallop Nestabilities, SU Word Window Punch, Offray Ribbon.