Hi Everyone,
I am here on the blog with some Diwali decoration projects inspired by our ongoing challenge Celebrations and Lights.
Diwali is all about lights, sweets and celebrations. So I have a tutorial of slab Diya holders, a flower lantern and a hexagon tray. Yep, you guessed it right it's a long post ;)!
Here's a look at the final projects together:
Let's begin with the Slab Diya holders
- For this, I have used white cement.
- Take a plastic cup for mixing white cement with water and desired acrylic paint
- Pour this mixture in a ziplock bag- I took ziplock bags of size 4*6" and 5*6"
- Place a Diya at centre with some weight on it.
- Allow it to dry overnight.
- For this, I have used white cement.
- Take a plastic cup for mixing white cement with water and desired acrylic paint
- Pour this mixture in a ziplock bag- I took ziplock bags of size 4*6" and 5*6"
- Place a Diya at centre with some weight on it.
- Allow it to dry overnight.
Next, Flower lantern
- Cut cardstock in different sizes of petals to use as templates
- Trace down each petal 6 times on White Papericous Sigma Cardstock
- Cut all the petals
- Take 2 bowls of water- add orange and red Indian Inks. Dip the 2 smallest size petals in orange ink and the remaining petals in red ink and let it soak for some time. You can also use distress inks to colour the petals.
- Let all petals dry
- For base take disposable small cup, cut down the base make holes and use a binding wire with some pearls for the handle
- Using glue gun start attaching petals smallest to biggest
- Take a thick cardstock and attach it at the bottom
- Finish it off by adjusting petals and place tea light led candle
- Cut cardstock in different sizes of petals to use as templates
- Trace down each petal 6 times on White Papericous Sigma Cardstock
- Cut all the petals
- Take 2 bowls of water- add orange and red Indian Inks. Dip the 2 smallest size petals in orange ink and the remaining petals in red ink and let it soak for some time. You can also use distress inks to colour the petals.
- Let all petals dry
- For base take disposable small cup, cut down the base make holes and use a binding wire with some pearls for the handle
- Using glue gun start attaching petals smallest to biggest
- Take a thick cardstock and attach it at the bottom
- Finish it off by adjusting petals and place tea light led candle
Lastly, Hexagonal tray
- For this, using a thick cardstock make a hexagonal template. Using the template cut chipboard in hexagonal shape for the base.
- Cut 4 pieces of 6.5" x 2" and 2 pieces of 6" x 2" each on cardstock and chipboard. Cut 12 pieces of 2 x 2" on cardstock.
- Use the longer cardstock pieces as hinges to stick the chipboard pieces to the hexagonal chipboard base and the 2" x 2" pieces to connect all sides to form a tray with depth.
- Finish the tray with pattern papers and decorate. I have used quilling decoration in this one.
Here are some close ups:
