Hello and welcome! I am a day late in this post. I was busy prepping for the festival and never wrote the post until just now. But since the festival is still going on, wishing everyone who is celebrating Happy Diwali!
This post serves double – giving Diwali wishes and also our latest Inspiration Station challenge.
Even though we alternate the challenger for every challenge, my sister has presented both the previous and this challenge, since her pick coordinated with the festival theme so well. We both thought it would be a great idea to go with. Instead, I’ll take over the coming two challenges.
And this is her picture/color inspiration –
{source; Converted to palette at coolers}
Isn’t it gorgeous! The colors are so stunning!! And the diay looks so artistic. I knew I had to replicate this best I could!! And here’s what I came up with –
I started with the background, watercoloring it using a mix of Gansai Tambi and Daniel Smith watercolors. To replicate the threded swirly pattern on the ground the diya is laid on, I wanted to stamp the Hero Arts Leafy Vines in gold pigment ink, but that didn’t stamp very well. Instead I went over with Gansai Tambi Starry Colors with my own design. I also added gold splatters.. and then some more dots using the brush.. using the same watercolor gold.
For the diya I used Ranganjali Ornamental Diya. I have some cardstock with metallic sheen in different shades. I used the die to cut a gold cardstock twice and then used another lighter colors cardstock wot emboss it. I then fussy cut it, and then colored it using Zig Brush markers. I then adhered the die cut layers together on top.
For the sentiment, I used CrafTangles Festive Lights and heat embossed it in gold over some navy cardstock and fussy cut it. I then assembled the whole card and glues the pieces in place.
Well, that’s my card! Checkout some dazzling tags my sister made here! So festive!! I really loved the design on all three of them.
Thank you so much for stopping by!
Experiments With Card Making Etc 