Diwali blog hop - 2019

Hello friends,

I'm Raga here.

Hope you're all in full swing for Diwali celebration.

For those who are not aware of Diwali (for my international friends), here is a short description.

Diwali

Diwali, or Deepawali, is India's biggest and most important holiday of the year. The festival gets its name from the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) that Indians light outside their homes to symbolize the inner light that protects from spiritual darkness. This festival is as important to Hindus as the Christmas holiday is to Christians.

Diwali is a five day festival of lights celebrated by the Hindus, Sikhs and Jains for a variety of reasons, although the main theme which runs throughout is the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil.

To celebrate, houses are decorated with candles and colourful lights and huge firework displays are held while families feast and share gifts.

 Blog Hop

To make the celebration more joyful, we have come up with a blog hop filled with wonderful inspirations and generous sponsors. Special thanks to all the sponsors for taking this hop to next level.

Special thing about this hop: Card Drive

As we are neck-deep in our celebrations, surrounded by our families, it would really be ungrateful if we miss to remember all those Real-life heros who make it possible for us to enjoy all this securely and fearlessly, in our homes. As a token of our gratitude and to acknowledge their   sacrifice for us, we sent out handmade cards to a few Army and Air Force units all over our country, as a part of this hop. A small effort from our side to convey that they are in our thoughts and prayers.
This was made possible by our teammie Ishani , who herself is a part of the Indian Air Force family.

These are the cards that were sent to the brave hearts from my side. I'm so happy as they were acknowledged by them with thanks and simple sweet talk over phone. We are so proud and grateful to honour our real heroes on this occasion.

My cards for the hop:

Card 1: 

Techniques used: Ink smooshing, stacked diecuts to create dimension, ink blending, dry  embossing, handwritten sentiment

Card 2: 

Techniques used:  Ink smooshing, die- cutting, heat embossing, handwritten sentiment.

Card 3:

Techniques used: Spinner Mechanism, stamping, fussy cut, digitally printed sentiment.

Here is my card in action mode,

Card 4:

Techniques used: Die-cutting, dry embossing, EZ lights, handwritten sentiment, hand-drawn and fussy cut Diya.

Here is my card in action mode,

Hope you all like my cards. I'm so excited to hop along with you to see my friends' creations.

Bloghop order  : 

Anila Dk 

Deepti Aggarwal 

Ishani  

Mugdha Gujarathi 

SD Pooja 

Radhika 

Rahmat (http://cardsandcookingcorner.blogspot.com)

Raga Senthil --> You are here at the last stop 😊

Rules :

To be eligible for prizes you have to comment on all the blogs in this hop. Last date to comment is 31 Oct.Following our blogs and sharing about it is optional but will definitely give you an additional chance.

Winners will be drawn randomly from the comments left on all the blogs and will be announced on 5 Nov 2019 on all the blogs. We have prizes for international commenters too :)

We have 13 Awesome sponsers take a look at them

Uniko Stamps – 1 Stampset of choice from available stock 

STAMPlorations - $15 Gift Code to store

Crafty Scrappers –  Digital Images.

Dress My Craft–  Goodie bag worth Rs.1000

Crafter’s Emporio – Goodie bag worth  Rs.500 

Craftangles - Goodie bag worth Rs.1000

Crazy Craft Store – Goodie bag 

Creative minds – Felt flowers worth Rs.500

Dadarkar Arts – Goodie bag worth Rs.1000

Papericious -Rs.1000 Goodie bag 

Rainbow Craftykari – Gift Voucher  worth Rs.500

Tubby Crafts – Goodie bag worth Rs .1000 

Handcrafted Expressions(Kriti Mishra )– Goodie bag worth Rs.500

My Special thanks to:

SD Pooja for organising this blog hop and made me a part of it. 

Anila DK for thoughtful process about card drive.

Ishani for making it successful.

Mugdha Gujarati, Deepti Aggarwal, Rahmat Gouse and all the participants of this hop for their wonderful contribution. 

Last but not least, many thanks to all our generous sponsors. 

Wishing you all a very happy and safe Diwali! 

Thank you for stopping by.

Happy Crafting!!

Cheers!!

Raga.