You are the sweetest- Ft. Waffle Flower Cross-stitch die

Hello everyone,

Here's our card for Raksha Bandhan, a festival celebrated in India. You can read more about it below.

When Waffle Flower Crafts released their Cross-stitching dies, we were excited despite being a beginner. The excitement only grew by leaps and bounds upon opening the package and throughout the process of die-cutting and stitching the pattern. 

We must admit that clearing out all the little bits from the die cut paper was tedious, but worth the pleasure that we got on finishing this piece of #handmadelove.

Raksha bandhan:

Raksha bandhan is the celebration where sacred thread is tied by sister to brother. It's commitment to protect and take care of sister by brother in all situations. Also sister ties it and pays to good for her brother's well being.

Its obvious that raksha bandhan became emotional and wide spread ritual when India was undergoing attacks by outside looters who not only just tried to loot materialistic wealth but also our sisters 'samman'. 

Today's rakhi celebration is more of "brother-sister" day to enjoy the gifts and sweets. 😊

Little confusion about raksha bandhan tie up by wife to husband is also seen in few places as read in some articles - as we saw that sacred thread tie up is used in many rituals in hindu culture, dring war time in olden days, wife used to tie pooja thread to husband seeking protection from God. Also war was commitment for kings to protect their people and also it's seen as yagnya/pooja of god only.

Rakhi day rituals:

Early morning, thread ceremony to be done where sister does pooja of cotton or silk thread extracted. Basically process of filling positive energy into thread and tie a knot in it which symbolizes holding that energy which will protect the one who wearing. Now a days, it's replaced by plastic/foam sheet images etc.,

The best time to tie Rakhi on Raksha Bandhan is during Aparahna which is late afternoon according to Hindu division of the day or in evening just before sandhya time it seems.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

You are turtle-ly awesome

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Sharing a fun spinner card. If you have been following our cards, you know that we are in love with making spinner cards lately.

If not, then you need to check out our earlier spinner cards here and here.

Today's card is a part of August release Instagram hop, don't forget to check ou the hop to see amazing inspirations by our designers here.

The background was made using waves stencil. We used two shades of blue to achieve this look. 

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. TTCRD-challenge

2. Avenue613 -challenge

3. Crafty calendar challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Birthday Waterfall card Ft. Varada Sharma

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Sharing yet another card using July release by Varada Sharma. We made a waterfall card after quite a long time.

We have used stamps from Varada Sharma July release. Don't forget to check out the release here.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Oh Baby- Shaker card (Monochrome card)

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We are here, sharing a baby theme card.

We wanted to make a shaker card using this die for quite some time. When we saw the theme at Reverse Confetti Challenge this time, we knew we had to make one.

We fussy cut baby image from element sheets that we got from Itsy bitsy. The panel die cut is from Reverse Confetti. The shaker bits are from iCraft.

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Reverse confetti- Stock-your-stash-july

 

 2. Lil patch of crafty friends

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

We are better together

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Sharing our card that we made for #PaperCraftersUniteAgainstRacism hop on Instagram. You can check out the hop here. The goal of this hop is to raise awareness about anti-racism. 

We thought that Hello stamp set would be perfect for this card. Given that we are loving making spinner cards lately, we made this one as a spinner too. Pink heart is the spinner element here.

What sentiment could be better for this theme than "We are better together"?

Supplies used:

Hello stamp set by Waffle Flower

Polka dots stencil by Craftangles

Dye ink pads by Craftyscrappers

Circle die by Little Birdie

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Avenue613

2. Lil patch of crafty friends

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Birthday Spinner card

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 Last week, we received two Happy mails. One of which included Spinner card, the moment we started playing with it, we were overjoyed with the mechanism. Though this card was in our mind for some time now, we never got around making one. So, we thought it was universe's way of reminding us to make one. And here we are, with our version.... 🐻 

We made a birthday card with one of our favourite stamp sets, i.e. Bitty Bears.

Supplies used:

Craftangles Pattern Papers

MFT Bitty bear stamp 

Tubby craft Sentiment stamp

Little Birdie circle die

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Craftangles-monthly-challenge-july-2021

2. Crafty hazelnuts patterned paper Challenge

3. Crafty creations challenges

4. Cards galore challenge

5. Ally's angels challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Happy birthday shaker card Ft. Varada Sharma

 Hello everyone,

We made a Shaker after quite some time, last time we made one was for Valentine's Day. 

Featured in this card is stamp set by Varada Sharma designed for her first Anniversary. Do check out the release here.

For more inspiration, join us over Instagram for a Hop + Giveaway! You might end up winning one of the gift certificate to spend on her lovely shop! You can check out the hop here.

For her first release last year as well, we made a shaker card and wanted to make something on similar lines.

Entering the card into the following challenges:

1. Crafty creations challenges

2. Cards galore challenge

3. Ally's angels challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy crafting.

Chandhini and Subhashini