Today I welcome you to a special Diwali blog hop. Some of us Indian crafters from around the world decided to share our love of paper crafting and create something special for the festival. Its a 2 day hop. You should have come here from the talented and sweet Piali's blog.
Diwali is popularly known as the "festival of lights". It is one of the most important festivals of the year for Hindus and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. I explain it to my Swiss friends as Our Christmas...lol....and they understand what it means to me and actually now a few wait every year to celebrate with us and enjoy the home made sweets and snacks.
Today is the day dedicated to cards
For my first card I used a Diya as my focal image. This is made of clay and we light it in the evening. Actually we decorate the whole outside and inside of the house with it. But here I just hand drew it, embossed and colored using some watercolors. For the background I used the stamp from my favorite company Hero Arts.
For my second card, I used the image of our God "Ganesha". Ganesha's elephant head makes him different...there is a long story behind it. Ganesha is widely known as the Remover of Obstacles and more generally as Lord of Beginnings.
I took inspiration from the web. Hand drew him and then embossed on a hand made paper which has some gold flecks in it. The background is various Distress inks and Hero Arts background stamp.
Thanks Chaitali for organizing the hop. She also has a linky tool on her blog, if anyone would like to participate. Oh!! before I leave, there are some cut files for the Silhouette on her blog too. I could not use any because my Cameo is still in transit...lol.
I hand drew my focal images and used embossing pen with some embossing glitter (2nd. card) to emboss them. So I am submitting this card for the challenge at WOW Embossing powder blog.
Now its time for you to hop over to see the gorgeous creation by Sanketi !!!
Hop order:
Smriti Gayatri
Pooja
Piali
Isha- That's me:)
Sanketi
See you all tomorrow with a Home Decor project:)
22 comments:
Gorgeous cards Isha! Love the embossed details. You are amazing with Distress inks!
Gorgeous cards for sure! Love them all. I love the background on all the cards. Makes the focal image pop out, Isha! Happy Diwali!
Wonderful cards Isha! your drawing skills are awesome!
Amazing backgrounds! And those drawings look like print! Very well done!!!
beautiful card .love your diya .
megha
http://meghanuj01.blogspot.in/
Fabulous cards Isha! The sunburst background is just perfect for the diya and your doodling is awesome!
Lovely cards Isha!
Hi. Lovely cards you made. I love the first one with the embossed effect :)
Happy Diwali.
The hand-drawn images are just a-ma-zing!! Love love your cards! You must tell me how to emboss hand-drawn images!
These are lovely! Great drawing! And I love the embossing! :)
Oh Wao!! such Beautiful cards Isha...love your colors and embossing.
Hi Isha! Got to know about the blog hop from Gayatri's blog. It's a great idea. Your cards are lovely. I love the first one with the rays effect a lot!
Cheers,
Indira Tanwar
http://arty-sorts.blogspot.in/
Fabulous cards Isha. How wonderful to include your culture into your cards. Happy Diwali to you. Several of my Indian friends at work celebrate and come to work in traditional saris which is just beautiful. One of my Indian workmates gave me a whole lot of Indian wedding invitations to recycle and some of them have Ganesha's image on them and I wondered what it represented. Glad I saw this here. Have a great day
Beautiful cards Isha,first time here,nice to participate in the hop and get to know all of you. am your new follower.
excited to see the homedecor proj
thanks
Kavitha
www.snapkavi.blogspot.com
Happy Diwali, Isha!! These are beautiful cards. I love your idea to share this holiday, its meaning and its beauty with all of us!! Thank you.
Lovely cards! I love how you have the background done in the first one to show the rays of light from the lamp. Just wonderful. Have a great holiday.
I love that you're all celebrating this wonderful holiday with a blog hop - great idea!! Happy Diwali & I love your cards :) xxx
awesome drawing....
Loved both the cards..
Such gorgeous backgrounds. Both of them turned out just perfect.
Hi Isha!Hope you are doing good.Both the cards are really beautiful.I loved your hand drawn Diya.My daughter´s name is also Diya.Happy diwali in advance.
These are beautiful! Thanks for introducing me to your festivities, so interesting!
Beautiful, Isha -loved learning a little of the origin of "Ganesha". Hope you and your family are having a wonderful Diwali :)
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