Red And White Card

Hello Friends!

Its been raining here for the past few days. Sometimes it is quite a heavy rain. Sometimes it is a drizzle. On the whole it is highly overcast and damp for the past one week or so. Because of heavy rains and winds, there are frequent power outages. With high levels of humidity it is really unbearable when there is no power.

Most of our daily schedule is disrupted because of power cuts. So it is irritating sometimes.

Well here is a birthday card with minimum colours. I have used white and red combination as background and a little bit of black in sentiment and embellishment. 

Red and White Card

I have folded the Ivory card stock into half and glued the die cuts. I then added the sentiment and butterfly sticker.

Red and White Card

Sometimes I hate to touch the stamping materials. It is so messy. And then the stickers I bought in a sale along with other crafts materials were overflowing my storage bins. So I had to use them.

This card has plain white insert and a plain white envelope.

I think the colours are too bold. But I thought white and red is a good combination. Can red coloured be paired with any other colour? Any suggestions please. I have so much of red card stock with me 

Materilas Used:

• White Ivory Card Stock A4 size
• Red Card Stock
• Tattered Lace Decorative Rectangles Dies
• Glue
• Happy Birthday Sticker
• Butterfly Sticker

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Warm Wishes

Hi there. Today I am posting another card which is simple and easy to make. 

As base I have used A4 size white Ivory stock card folded in half. I used strips of baby pink card and purple colour polka dots printed paper to add some colour. I love polka dots. Do you?

The scalloped ovals were die cut from pink and white coloured card stock to match the design. I stamped the sentiment on the white oval with black ink and added a small 3D sticker. 

I have used double sided foam tape to give a little dimension to the oval die cuts.

Warm Wishes Card

Warm Wishes Card

For the insert, I have punched border on three sides of pink paper using border punch. This card has plain white envelope. 

Insert Border using Punch

Insert

Sorry for the bad quality of images. Here it is all overcast and raining continuously for the past few days. 

Hope you all got vaccinated. Please follow all the precautions for protecting yourself and others from Covid 19. 

Stay Safe! Stay Healthy!

Materials Used :

• A4 size White Ivory Card Stock
• Baby Pink Card Stock
• JAGS Paper Pack -Spring Back -A5 Size
• Scalloped Oval Dies
• Sentiment Stamp
• Rangers Archive Ink-Jet Black
• 3D Sticker
• Glue and double sided foam tape
• Pink coloured paper for insert
• Border Punch

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A Blue Thank You Card

Here is a Thank You card. I make a lot of them as there is lot of demand for thank you cards on various occasions.

Thank You Card

Thank You Card

Base of my card is white Ivory card stock. I have used dark blue card stock and printed paper from JAGS. All the material is listed below.

I love the Blushing Flower die from Memory Box and the Deckled Rectangles dies from Spellbinders. The Border Dies from Spellbinders are also one of my favorite.

Thank You Card

For inserts I have used white and dark blue colour papers. I have punched out the borders in the corner using border punch.

Materials Used:

• A4 size Ivory Card Stock
• A4 size Dark Blue Card Stock
• White Card Stock scraps
• A4 size JAGS printed paper pack W&M CPPS15
• Spellbinders  Nestabilities A2 Bracket Borders One Etched Dies S5-181
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Deckled Rectangles LG Etched Dies
• Memory Box Blushing Flower Branch Dies
• Sentiment Stamp
• Blue Ink
• Glue and double sided foam tape
• White  and dark blue coloured A4 size coloured paper for insert
• Border punch

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Simple Book Mark

Hi Friends!

Today I am sharing one of my bookmarks made in craft workshop conducted for kids. This is simple and easy to make with minimal craft materials. 

The workshop was for children aged 5 years and above. I had tough time controlling them. Most of them were boys and they were not interested in crafts. 

One of the child brought his sister (who was just 3years old) along with him and insisted that she be with him. She was constantly crying. I made her sit on my lap and asked her to help me. She did a good job but was sobbing all the while. Slowly she got engrossed in the work and stopped crying.

It was an experience I can never forget. I do love children. But controlling children from different age groups is really difficult especially when most of them are boys. 

I supplied the craft materials. So I took along with me lots of material as there lot of kids who joined in the last moment.

I had lot of Craft paper Scraps with me. This one is hand made paper with basket weave texture. The colour was a mixture of pink with orange and glittery. That's why the colour is different in the images.

We took a long piece of paper folded width wise  as shown below.

Then punched a hole either on one side or in the middle  on the top side. Then we glued the folds together.

The children choose from the various stickers-butterflies, cartoon images, flowers among many other things.

Boys chose the stickers of cartoons, super heroes or cars and airplanes. Girls mostly chose flowers, butterflies of cartoon characters.

Here I glued the  Kittie and cup cake sticker as the little ones choice. We the tied the blue glittery string and added a wooden bead.

At the end of the class every one was happy and beaming. They proudly carried their craft work to give to their moms/dads.

The little one proudly displayed her creation in the class and was happy when everyone clapped for her.

As I gave a free hand to older kids they did create some very good pieces. Alas I could not take photos of them as I was trying to pacify and control the younger kids.

It was an enriching experience for me and I learnt a lot from the children.

Stay Safe Stay Healthy.

Materials:

• Handmade Paper with Basket weave
• Puncher
• Glittery String
• Wooden Bead
• Glue
• Self Adhesive Stickers

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Thank You Card

Hello Friends!

Hope you are all doing well.

I am posting after a long long time. With Corona and lock downs life has changed a lot. We are still very careful, going out only when absolutely necessary and taking all precutions.

Here is a card I made some time back. A simple Thank you Card. This card was made in one of my classes for demonstration.

The base of the card is plain white ivory card stock. I have used sunny yellow hand made paper with square grid and red card stock for butterflies.

For the insert, I have used two different shades of  paper. The top layer is off-white coloured and underneath yellow coloured paper strips. I have punched out all the four corners of the top insert using butterfly border punch. 

Insert 

This card has a plain white envelope.

Hope you like this card. Watch out for more...

Materials Used:

• A4 size  White Ivory Card Stock
• White Card Stock scrap for stamping
• Sunny Yellow square grid handmade paper 
• Spellbinders Nestability-Scalloped Labels One dies
• Sizzix Thinlits Dies-Winged Beauties
• Sentiment Stamp
• Red Ink
• Glue, dimensional Dots
• Off white A4 size paper for insert
• Sunny yellow coloured paper strips for the four corners for insert
• Corner Punch Butterfly design

Stay  Safe. Stay Healthy.

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Ratham Rangoli

One more Ratham or Chariot Rangoli. This can be drawn both for Sankranti-Kanuma, Mukkanuma and also on Ratha Saptami.

There are many other Ratham rangolis in my previous posts. You can find them here: Ratham Muggu

Some of them are here:

Hope you like these Rangolis.

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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Ratham Rangoli

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We have reached the end of our month long Rangoli festival season. 

Today Sun has  entered Makara or Capricorn- known as Makara Sankranti. So it is auspicious time for next six months.

Tomorrow and day after tomorrow we will be drawing only Ratham or Chariot rangolis. 

Hope you all are celebrating this festival with joy and happiness. These are tough times. What is ahead we don not know. We can only pray for better times.

Hope you like this rangoli.

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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Tulasi and Kalash

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21 dots - 5 rows and then Straight dots upto 5 Rows on either side.

This time for Sankranti, I wanted something different for rangoli. Usually we draw kites, pongali pots etc. But this time I chose Tulasi-Holy Basil which is sacred to us. Kalash is also an auspicious symbol.

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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Pongali Pots

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Center Row 19 dots - 7 rows,

15 dots - 4 rows,

 7 dots - 2 rows. 

All are Straight Dots

Pongali Pots or Bhogi pots and lotuses with Swastikas is the theme for my rangoli today.

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.   

  

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Kites and Pongali Pots

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13 X 13 Straight Dots.  Border  around it is extra dots

Kites and Pongal pots or Bhogi pots is the theme for todays Rangoli. Hope you like it.

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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Lotus Rangolis

Pongali Pots Rangolis from some of my previous posts are given here for your convenience.

Rangoli -12 , 41,152,176,261,262,298,343,81,387,389, 406. I could only list a few. 

Please search for Lotus Rangoli and you will find many more.

Note: Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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Kites Rangoli

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14 X 14 square Dots

Sankranti is a festival of kites.  In many parts of India, Kite festivals are held. International level competitions are held. So my rangoli is inspired by kites.

Hope you like this rangoli.

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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POANGALI POTS

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Straight Dots. The pattern of Dots is as follows:

23 dots in center and 21,19,17,17,13,13,9,9,5,3,1 dots on either side.

Pongali is a rice dish made on the occasion of Sankranti Festival, also known as Pongal festival. Pongali can be a sweet dish made of rice, milk jaggery, cardamom raisins, cashews and other nuts or spicy prepared from rice, vegetables and green gram. These dishes are made as an offering to Gods.

Hope you like this Rangoli. 

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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Kites Rangoli

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21 to 1 Straight Dots

Kites! Sankranti, Makar Sankranti, Pongal what ever is the name of the festival, it is not complete without kites. They are colourful and these day s come in so many shapes and sizes. 

Kites are an interesting subject for Rangolis, as they are easy to draw and 

Hope you like this Rangoli.

Please check my blog from time to time as I will be posting more Rangolis each day. 

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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Lotus Rangoli

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17 to 3 Straight Dots.

Once again Lotus rangoli. Lotus with Ashtadala Padma. Ashtadala Padma also known as Ashtadala Kamal means 8 petalled Lotus. This is considered as sacred and auspicious. It is a symbol which represents Goddess Lakshmi; Goddess of wealth and prosperity. 

Ashtadala Padma attracts, peace, happiness, wealth, prosperity,  abundance and much more. It is drawn to represent Goddess Lakshmi and drawn on Fridays or any auspicious occasions. 

Hope you like this Rangoli.

Please do drop in your suggestions and comments if any. I always love to read them. It motivates me to create more Rangolis.

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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Flower Pots

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21 dots 3 rows in the center and Straight dots on either side upto 3 dots.

Floral rangolis are always pretty. Small flowers are easy to colour and take less time. But we have to colour them a bit carefully. Hope you like this one. 

Note: This one is my own original creation.

Most of these designs are my own original creations, which I create by spending much time and after hard work. So please don't post these photos or designs (even if you draw these by your own hand) on your site or blog in any format.

Please link back to my blog. I hope you understand this and respect my request. Thank You.

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