Diwali Blog Hop

Hello and welcome everyone for this festive hop. Some of us Indian crafters from around the World decided to share our love of paper crafting and create something special  on the occasion of "DIWALI". Thanks Chaitali for organizing this fun hop! You should have come here from Sindhu'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.
I don't have any special stamps or products for Diwali, so I was trying a few things. I wasn't very happy with everything but in the end, I love the results. So here are the cards I would love to share with you.

 For my first card, I used some watercolors for the background, Imagine Crafts/ Tsukineko Memento Dye ink in co-ordinating colors for multi-color stamping. The stamps are by Lil'Inker Designs and the sentiment is from Papertrey ink

For my 2nd. card I used a Diya as my focal image. Diya is made of clay and we light it in the evening. Actually we decorate the whole house, inside out with it, although now a days electric small lights have taken it's place :). But here I just drew it freehand using my watercolor and brush.

for my last card, since I was trying out various things, I used the same products as my first card and just stamped everything in a different way.

Now the next stop on the hop is the sweet and talented Tasnim. If you find any broken link, pls. go back to the start of the hop at Chaitali's blog.  Happy Diwali to you all!!

Here is the hop order:

Chaitali

Gayatri

Mayuri

Smriti

Deepti

Indira

Piali

Sindhu

Isha

Tasnim

Shilpa