3 Card Ideas to Make for Diwali

*Green cards and envelopes

*Clear acrylic jewels

*Foil print kraft paper

Cut some strips of different papers to whatever the size you’d like the candles to be.

Glue the strips centrally onto the card.

Stick on the jewels as flames to finish.

*Red cards and envelopes

*Foil print kraft paper

*Mini glue dots

*Bright coloured paper

Cut a piece of metallic paper to 8x8cm, fold the bottom edge of the paper up - approx 0.5cm and then fold it back on itself. Repeat the process to concertina the paper all the way through.

Fold the concertinaed paper in half tightly.

Glue the two centre edges of paper together, so that you create a fan shape

Carefully ease out the edges to create an upside down semi circle and stick to the card using glue dots.

Cut out three flame shapes decreasing in size and then glue one by one on top of each other. Stick to the top of the folded lamp shape to finish.

*Black cards and envelopes

*Neon adhesive gems

*A needle

*Pink cotton thread

*Green cotton thread

*Red cotton thread

*Foil print kraft paper

Cut out a semi-circle at a suitable size for your card.

Stick it on to the card using the glue stick. This will form the base of your lamp.

Draw some lines for flames to use as a sewing guide.

Thread the needle and tie a knot at the end. Starting from the underside of the card, pierce through to the front with the needle and then sew a running stitch around the flame lines.

Finish stitching around one of the lines then tie a knot at the back and repeat with the two other coloured embroidery threads.

Stick on some self adhesive gems to finish