Hey Paper#2

Happy Sunday to all you lovely ladies.
This is Tanvi here with the second post in our series HEY PAPER. Today we have a very versatile crafter Deepthi Udapa joining us.

Lets hear it from her -

·         Tell us a little about yourself

Hi there!!! I am Deepthi Udupa. I am an artist, crafter, mom, student, teacher and occasionally singer and baker and many other things J. Currently I am living in Mumbai and studying art from Mysore.  I blog at dipti-myart.blogspot.in and have a page on facebook called Vibgyor N More.

·         Tell us something about the kind of work you do.

I am more into drawing and painting than crafts. I do charcoal painting, doodle, drawing, and painting.  I love paper crafts too. Though I have done quilling, paper cutting, card making, and decoupage, I love paper quilling the most in crafts.

 

·         How and when did you start crafting?

After my high school I started drawing with pencils and the interest in art grew. But it was just a hobby for me till a few years ago when this hobby became a passion.  Earlier I used to blog only about my artwork. Four years ago I accidentally stumbled upon the blog All things Paper and I got hooked on to quilling. Since then I started doing paper crafts.

·         What is your favorite crafting?

Quilling is my favorite in crafting. I love recycling.  And in paintings, watercolors are my favorite medium right now.

·         What is the one skill that you wish to excel in?

I cannot name just one thing in which I want to be good at. I want to be excellent in all the things I do. Life is too short to just concentrate on one thing, so I want to learn and do everything and be good at it too. Currently I am trying to improve my watercolor skills and portrait quilling.

·         Name five things without which your craft space is incomplete?

 Naming just five things is very very difficult ……. Yet if I have to name just a few, it would be my paint supply,  papers,  quilling strips , glue,tools like scissors and …… oh is it already five things!!!?  

·         What inspires you to create a project?

Anything and everything inspires me when it comes to art and craft. The smallest ant to the big buildings, my daughter, everything inspires me.

·         What do you do when you are not creating?

 I like learning new things. So when I am not creating, currently I am learning guitar, classical music and I experiment with baking and occasionally take baking classes.  I am also doing my Bachelors degree in Fine arts currently and so busy with assignments and exams. Next I would like to learn photography.

·         Are there any artists/crafters that you look up to? How do they inspire you?

 Oh!!!!  There are soo many artists and crafters that I admire!!  Yulia for quilling. And when it comes to paintings, there are too many artists to name here. There is too much creativity in soo many artists that each and everyone is an inspiration to 

 Please give a word of advice to our readers?

Do whatever you want to do and be whatever you want to be. Life is very short to have regrets.

Do visit her blog to see more of her work & leave her some love. Thank you so much Deepthi for joining us today. 

We will be back with another crafter soon until then happy crafting & hope you join our current challenge.

Hey Paper! #1

Hello Lovely Ladies,

This is Poornima. Hope you are enjoying crafting. We at Catchy Challenges always try to bring something innovative, new and catchy for you, whether it be Challenge Theme, T Time or GD posts. So to continue the trend, today I am introducing a new series of posts - "Hey Paper! An Interview" where we will be interviewing a crafter every month. We all want to know something more about the crafters in blogworld - their crafting style, tools they love, technique they like etc etc etc. And in "Hey Paper!" your favourite crafter will be sharing all this and more with us.

Today we are interviewing a well known crafter from our own Indian Craft World. Her crafting style speaks for herself. She is no other than Priya Sondhi from Priya-n-Papers. Let's know something about her.

1. Tell us a little about yourself 
     "I am a full time Software Developer...  I am basically from Punjab but currently in United States on a project... I always had one hobby or the other... In childhood my hobby was to collect postal stamps and coins.. when I started studying computer, it got shifted to web designing and development... I earned few dollars doing freelance web designing too... ;) and now its paper crafts and I don't think it will ever change as I am totally in love with it... !  My greatest strength is my family and friends.. I consider myself luckiest of all as my parents treat me as a friend and my friends like a family...
      
2. Tell us something about the kind of crafting you do?
Anything with papers. Not just cards, I like to make home décor and other utilities items as well.  like Mini albums, tri-shutter albums.. Credit card holders, money holders, paper bags, boxes, etc...

3. How and when did you start crafting?
  It's been around 3 yrs that I started making cards... I discovered the world of paper crafting through Martha Stewart Crafts, I was fascinated by the b'ful world of papers, colors, fancy cuts and folds... Slowly I discovered few blogs of Indian crafters like Juhi, Kavitha, Tejal and Spardha. I slowly started my process of learning paper crafts. One fine day I decided to visit Itsy Bitsy craft store.. and that was the beginning of my crafting journey :)

4.   What is your favorite technique? 
     My current favorite technique is heat embossing and water coloring

5. What is the one skill that you wish to excel in?
    I wish to excel in stamping and coloring images

6. Name five things without which your crafting space is incomplete?
a.     Tombow Multi glue
b.     Fiskars Trimmer
c.     MS scoreboard
d.    Pattern Papers
e.     Paper Flowers
f.      Black ink

7.  What inspires you to create a project?
   New techniques in paper crafts, pinterest

8. What do you do when you are not creating/ crafting? 
     Recently, I joined health and dance clubs. So either I am exercising or dancing.. :D I love dancing.. ;)

9.  Are there any artists/ crafters/ designers that you look up to? How do they inspire you
  Every crafter has her own unique style. I love to see new work. New crafter’s keep adding freshness to our lovely hobby

10.  Please give a word of advice to our readers
 Keep busy yourself. Time is precious, don’t waste it. Find your passion and throw your heart and soul in it. It will bring a new meaning to your life.

To inspire you all Priya made a card for the current challenge..Thank you so much, that's really sweet of you.. <3

 

I hope you like our "Hey Paper Interview" series. We will back next month with a new crafter. Till then keep an eye on this space don't forget to participate in our current challenge.

Till then,

Happy Crafting !!