Hi folks,
First of all, Happy Pongal! For those of you who don’t celebrate the festival, Makar Sankranti or Pongal or Sankranthi or Lohri is a Hindu festival dedicated to the Sun god, Surya. It marks the end of winter and is traditionally celebrated as a harvest festival. I haven’t celebrated this festival in person but my cousins and family never fail to send me pictures of their celebrations!
Instructions:
To mark the occasion, I stretched my Diwali stamps to make a card for Pongal! This card is easy to recreate and you only some hand drawn elements to make it! Here is how I made this card:
- I first stamped the lotus border from the Madhubani borders stamp set on cream card stock. I then colored it using copic markers.
- Then, I lightly stenciled using the Indian Ornate stencil and Cocoa Brown ink pad.
- Later, I stamped the girl image from Diwali Cute Character stamp set and colored using alcohol makers and colored pencils. I drew images of a pot with overflowing pongal (a traditional dish prepared from the new harvest of rice boiled in milk with jaggery) and a kite (another attraction of Sankranthi). I used the design stamp for the diya from Elegant Diwali to heat emboss a pattern on the pot.
- Lastly, I die cut some alphabets from an ink blended card stock of pink and orange and stamped the ‘happy’ from the Elegant Diwali stamp set to finish it off! I then placed the cream card stock on a larger coconut cream card stock.
- I made a matching envelope by stamping the lotus border using Cocoa Brown ink and stenciling using the Indian Ornate stencil previously used for making the card.
Supplies:
That’s it! Isn’t it great if you can use stamp sets for multiple occasions? Be sure to check back for more inspiration from the team!
Thanks,
Kavya
