Beautiful Indian Festival crafts – Video Tutorial

Hello everyone, Ishani here. Today I am sharing a video tutorial with 3 Papercraft ideas for various Indian festivals keeping in view the upcoming Festive season, starting with Rakshabandhan! In today’s tutorial, you will see how we can combine stencils with various mediums and make our cards and envelopes more interesting. You can also check more card making tutorials using CrafTangles products here and here.

You can watch my take on Indian Festival cards start to end video tutorial here –

Also if you still haven’t taken part in our ongoing challenge Stencils or Pattern papers, do check it out and share your beautiful creations

Ganesha stencil card
I have used a Ganesha from the Small Ganesha stencil and used Craftangles water colors’ in Pumpkin Orange and Soulmate for the background. I created the shimmer on my black card base made from Midnight black cardstock with Shooting star liquid watercolor.

Products used

• Handmade Water color paper 300 gsm
• Small Ganesha stencil
• Midnight black paper
• Versafine – Onyx black
• Pumpkin Orange
• Soulmate
• Shooting star
• Wink of Stella

Rakshabandhan card with Rakhi

For sisters who send the rakhis to their brothers, here’s a beautiful way to incorporate rakhi on your cards. I used Happy Rakshabandhan stamp set for the sweet brother sister duo nd colored with copics. I stenciled on one side for creating a base for my Rakhi.

Products used

Happy Rakshabandhan stamp

Damask Basics stencil

Dual texture white paper

Neenah classic crest 110 lbs

Memento Tuxedo black

Copics

Hero Arts Hot pink

Gem drops

CrafTangles blending brushes

Gold embossing powder

Versamark

Shagun envelope / Money Envelope

Here is an idea for gifting money in a beautiful envelope, that would work for any occassion! Using Om as my focal point and stenciling on envelope, I created a quick and festive envelope that can be made in multiples too!

Products used

We r memory keepers envelope punch board

Diwali sentiments stamp

Damask Basics stencil

Dual texture white paper

Dye ink

CrafTangles blending brushes

Gold embossing powder

Versamark

Glitter Cardstock

I hope you liked my ideas and would watch the tutorial on how I made these simple cards. Also, hope you are inspired to make some Festive cards for the upcoming festive season. Also, join in with your stencil or pattern papercrafts at our monthly challenge at the HNDMD blog. While sharing your creations with CrafTangles products, use #CrafTangles to share and get a chance to be featured on our pages!

Happy Crafting

Ishani