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.

Trick or Treat?!

Hello friends,

As fall is here and halloween is approaching, I made a quick and very sweet cas card to share with you all. Here you go,

I just doodled the sweet little candy corn and grounded him with pattern paper. His spooky eyes are mase out of white sequins and black enamel dot. Hope you all like this sweet and spooky candy corn made by me.

I'm joining in the following challanges,

CASology challenge,

Cas on Sunday challenge of theme 'make a fall or halloween card' ( sweet halloween card in fall colours)

Comfy circles

Hello Lovelies,

Happy Friday everyone. I made some thank you cards to share with you all. Let's have a look at my today's make,

That little butterfly is me nesting in a comfy crafting circle. So I thank all my wonderful friends in this crafting community who makes me so comfortable and keep my spirit high. Many Thanks to you all for your constant support my dear friends.!! Love you all!!

Note: I fussy cut those circles. 😊

Hope you all liked my card. I'm joining in the following challenges,

Inkspirational challenge,

Timeout challenges 

Uniko challenge

Thank you for stopping by. Happy crafting!

Cheers!!

Raga.

Punctuation Smiley

Hello crafty peeps,

Hurrah!! I'm so thrilled to be guest designing at CASology this week.

Thank you so much Melissa and team for this great opportunity.

The cue card at CASology for this week is 'Punctuation'.

You all may come across puctuation humours and obviously you all know how much punctuation matters! So definitely it's such an interesting cue with lots of possibilities.

Without further ado, let's see my take on this cue,

I used semicolon and parentheses (punctuation smiley) as my focal point with a pop of color (pink). The bold sentiment is handwritten by me. Hope you all liked my take and it's worth to stop by at CASology blog for more inspirations from DTs.

I'm joining in at,

Time out challenge,

Stamploration anything goes Cas challenge

Thank you for stopping by. Many thanks to the CASology team once again for this great honour.

Happy Crafting!

Hugs!

Raga.

Black and white beauty

Hello lovelies,

Here is my second card of the day using four petal fri-die from CAS-ual Fridays stamp store, that I won in last month encouragement challenge at calling all sistahs.

Let's go for the show off,

Can you see the centre petal holds the flower pattern from the tutu girl stamp set from CAS-ual Fridays!? I found that it adds so much interest to the flower. I also added a layer of vellum petal for soft look(got inapiins from photo at calling all sistahs) Hope you all liked it too.

I'm joining in at the following challenges,

Calling all sistahs challenge

Happy little stampers cas vellum challenge,

Stamploration anything goes CAS challenge with optional twist black

Thank you for stopping by. Happy Crafting. 

Cheers!!

Raga.

Four - petal flower

Hello friends,

Hope you're all doing good.  I'm back quite after a long time, with a couple of cards using four-petal Fri dies from CAS-ual Fridays stamp store.  Here you go,

Few close up shots,

 Hope you all liked it. I'm entering my card into the following challenges,

CAS-ual Fridays challenge,

Time out challenge,

Thank you for stopping by. Happy Crafting. 

Cheers!!

Raga.

Hello Autumn

Hello friends,

Today I have a stamped card to share with you all. Let's have a look,

The florals are from craftyscrappers' sending sunshine stampset. I kept the florals as my focal point and created the textured stripes as BG using tissues and watercolors. Also added vellum circle and dry embossed circle fussy cuts behind my florals for interests. Placed a twine bow and gum drop embellishments for added beauty. Hope you all liked it. 

I'm entering my card into the following challenges,

Just us girls challenge of theme stripes

Addicted to stamps and more 

All sorts challenge of theme autumn glory 

Thank you for stopping by. Happy Crafting. 

Hugs! 

Raga.

You've got style

Hello friends,

A quick cas card incorporating origami dress, to share with you all after a busy day. Hope you are all doing well. Well, let's go for the show off,

I chose black and gold combo as autumn is approching. The sentiment is handwritten by me.

I think I have found my style of cardmaking. (Cas with interactive at times in a perky way fully handmade in the sense no stamping no diecuts). What do you think of my style? And what's yours. Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below. Hope you all liked my card.

I'm entering my card in to the following challenges,

Casology where the cue word is "dress"

Thank you for stopping by. Happy Crafting. 

Cheers!!

RAGA.

Flipping whale

Hello friends,

I got some time to share an interesting interactive card with you all. Here you go,

My darling whale from lawn fawn can do a terrific flip. Do you want to see? Here is a small video for you all. Hit the play button to watch it.

Do you want to know how I made this? Well, I was inspired by a talented artist Connie Stewart at youtube. Later I came to know Sandy Allnock ( well known fabulous crafter) also made a card after her. So sharing both of their making videos here. Click the links and learn to make one for yourself. It's so interesting and fun.

Connie's video- https://youtu.be/KebfQv3fILQ
Sandy allnock's video -

Hope you all liked my version too. ☺️

I'm playing along at twist challenge

Less is more challenge

CASology challenge

Watercooler Wednesday challenge

Words to craft by challenge 

Thank you for stopping by. Happy crafting.

Cheers.

Raga!!

Greetings in Tamil

Hello lovelies,

Happy Friday everyone. Today I want to share a card in my mother tongue Tamil with you all. Here you go,

The handwritten sentiment ( vanakkam thozhi) says hello friend in Tamil. Hope you all liked it. 

Challenges to participate in,

Make my Monday Back to school challenge

Cut it up challenge ABC'S or 123 (the script is not in english but in Tamil)

The paper shelter challenge of back to school theme 

Words to craft by challenge


Thank you for stopping by. Happy crafting.

Cheers!!!
RAGA.

Love is precious

Hello lovelies,

Happy Wednesday everyone. Today I made a super cute card depicting mother's love. Here you go,

I used watercolours for my BG as well as for my illustrated birds. The sentiment is from altenew. Leafy diecuts were shared by my friend Ishani. Hope you all liked it.

I'm playing along the following challenges,

Cupcake inspiration challenge,

Less is more challenge

Muse card club challenge

Create something catchy watercolour challenge,

Uniko challange of theme it's so much more friendly with two of optional twist to have a child

 Thanks for stopping by. Happy crafting.

Cheers!!

Raga.