We are back with a bang! CSCC #1

Hello friends! Yes! we are back again. I'm so happy to re-launch the challenge blog again and this is just because of your pure pure love and affection. Thank you so much for showing such sweet love on these challenges. Sometimes we do take breaks just to kill our monotony, the same thing happened here and now we are back with new hopes and inspirations. For a change we changed our challenge blog name... Catchy Challenges to 'Create Something Catchy' Challenges.. There will also be a new feature called            'T Time'.. T means technique, tip or tutorial, that will be shared by our DT...Cool huh?

Okay! Let's jump into the challenge now..

The challenge is very simple, get inspired by the above pic and create a card.. :)

Rules

1. New work please

2. Only cards are allowed

3. You can enter as many times as you like

4. Feel free to combine with other challenges.

The winner will receive a gift voucher of Rs. 500/- from Itsy Bitsy

Let's see what the 'Catchy Girls' have come up with..

Smitha 

Deepti Malik

Megha

Poornima

Tanvi

Deepti Stephens

Hope we have inspired you enough! Now it's your turn to play along and have fun.. ;)

Winners and a News!!

Hey everyone! I know it's too late, sorry for the lateness in announcing the winners for Glitterify and Go girly challenges. Was too busy and to need to help up with many things.. Okay! Let's move on our winners..

Glitterify Challenge Winners

Top 3 in no particular order

Pooja

Radhika

Ayushi

And our two random winners are

Sarah and Tina

Congratulations girls. Please grab your respective badges from the side bar. Winners please write to info@itsybitsy.in to claim your prize.

Keep Calm and Go Girlie Winners

Top 3 in no particular order

Snehal

Shilpa

Jasleen

And the random winners are 

Rupa and Radhika

Congrats.. Please grab your respective badges form the side bar. Winners please write to info@itsybitsy.in to claim your prize..

The News

We are taking a break.. well.. to be frank I'm taking a break.. ;) I'm closing down Catchy Challenges for few  a months. As you guys already know that we are running an Orphanage and a Society, we (hubby and myself) need to concentrate a lot, we'll be travelling a lot. I'm very thankful and grateful for you guys for taking your precious time to participate in these challenges. You guys are really cool. I'm so thankful to my sweet DT members Megha, Poornima, Tanvi, Smita and Deepti Malik for contributing their cards, for making me so special and for being with me all the time.. Don't worry friends! I'll be sharing my work regularly and actively at Catchy Design Collections.. Will be in touch with you all the time..I hope one day I'll re-open the challenges again. Until then take care and have fun.. :)

"Keep calm and Go girly" Challenge

Hey Friends,

Wow what a glittering month it was..thanks all for your enthusiastic participation in Glitterify challenge.
Now it's turn for this month's fresh challenge...guess what its completely new and different....
You love to be girly or may be your daughter likes girly stuff...now u have got a chance to use your girly things on your Scrapbook page..yes you got it right,this month's challenge is to CREATE a SCRAPBOOK LO(12x 12 or 8x 8) with GIRLY theme.Use pinks,flowers,butterflies ,ribbons and many more from your dreams and imaginations.

To give you some inspiration here are our DT works:

Pinks and flowers Deepti Stephen's layout look so girly and cute.Love her 12x 12 LO with lovely sentiments and handmade blooms.

Megha has done a fantastic job with her layout.The girl and the flowers make it so cheerful.Again handmade flowers are so bright.

Here is Deepti Malik's LO.The simplicity speaks through sober pink and white.Love the elegant LO.

Here is my (Smita) girly and chirpy LO.It's a 8x8 LO.

Tanvi and Poornima will join us soon!

If in doubt please do not hesitate to write to us for clarifications.

Two random winners will be selected & they will receive Rs.500/- gift vouchers from our  ITSY BITSY . 

"Itsy Bitsy is India's leading hobby and craft supplies retailer offering over 10,000 craft related products all under one roof. You can shop with them at any of their physical stores in Bangalore and New Delhi or online at www.itsybitsy.in. 

Top 3 will be earn a badge to flaunt on their blogs.
Hope you guys would play along and have fun..
Good Luck.. :)

Meet our new Catchy Girl..

Hello friends! Hope you are enjoying our current Glitterify Challenge. I'm so happy to see so many new crafters taking part in Catchy Challenges. Well..  I'm so excited to share that we have a new addition to our 'Catchy Girls Team'. She is Deepti Malik. I just love her work a lot. Kindly visit her blog Dee's Art Utopia and leave some love.. :)

Now, over to Deepti..

Firstly, I would like to thank Deepti Stephens for giving me this opportunity to be on the Design Team of Catchy Challenges. 

My name is Deepti and I was born in Lucknow, India. I grew up in a small Hindu family with my loving parents and caring elder brother , did my Masters in Science followed by MBA, worked for about 5 years and then moved to Cleveland, USA after marrying Vikas. My husband is a wonderful supporter, admirer and critic of my work. 

As far as my creative side is concerned... I have always had this creative knack and now since I am a home maker and have loads of time, I am exploring and expanding my creativity everyday and in every way ;). I loved sketching and painting from my childhood but paper crafting is a newly acquired passion. All thanks to the wonderful world of blogs which I recently joined from January 2013. My card making style is Clean & Simple (CAS) and what makes me unique... I guess is the fact that I incorporate my own hand drawn elements in my creations. Hope you will enjoy and be inspired by my work :)

Thank you Deepti for this opportunity :)

Hugs

Deepti

Here is her gorgeous creation.. :)

Very festive and beautiful..

Thank you so much Deepti for joining our team. Guys! Kindly do take part in the current challenge and have fun :)

Winners-Mini note card+Envelope

Hi Friends,

It's time to announce the winners of last month's challenge.Thank you all for active participation.

Here are the Top 3 (no particular order)

Vidya

Shalu

Shilpa

Now the random winners who win Rs 500 gift voucher from Itsy Bitsy are

Jasleen

and

Ayushi Juneja

Congratulations ladies! Kindly grab your respective badges from the side bar and  send a mail to info@itsybitsy.in to claim your prize.

Hope you all are having fun with glitter for Glitterfy challenge ..come and play along!

GLITTERIFY - Anything goes with Glitter / sparkle.

This is Megha with a new challenge at Catchy Challenges....and its going to be very cheerful, bright, delightful, sparkling, festive challenge. 

In India we must have one more extra season - "festive season”, as from October to December there are so many festivals. We celebrate - Karva chauth, Id, Dusherra, Diwali, Christmas and so on. So the catchy team decided to begin celebrating the festive season too. 

Our new challenge is GLITTERIFY - Anything goes with Glitter / sparkle.Hi friends

 

You have to create anything for the festive season – cards, tags, boxes, gifts, etc. ....but it should be brand new. Its easy peasy naa. Hope you all got what I want to say, or you can easily interpret by seeing inspiration from our team.

Challenge Guidelines1- You can create anything- card, tag, boxes, layout, rangolis, altered item, etc that incorporates our challenge theme. No BIRTHDAY, THANK YOU cards. It must be related to a festival.2- You have to be a follower of our blog!3- Your project must be made after this date. No back linking allowed.4- You can combine with any number of Challenges.5- You are allowed to submit 3 entries per Challenge.So what you are waiting for…...dig out your creative ideas and start working on your new sparkling creations.

 Here is sparkling inspiration from our team -Tanvi is presenting - sparkling tea light candle holder

Smita with her beautiful - sparkling card

Myself with - Diwali special explosion box

Deepti & Poornima will join us soon.

If in doubt please do not hesitate to write to us for clarifications.

Two random winners will be selected & they will receive Rs.500/- gift vouchers from our  ITSY BITSY . 

"Itsy Bitsy is India's leading hobby and craft

supplies retailer offering over 10,000 craft

related products all under one roof. You can

shop with them at any of their physical stores

in Bangalore and New Delhi or online at 

. www.itsybitsy.in

Top 3 will be earn a badge to flaunt on their blogs.

CLICK ON THE INLINKZ BUTTON TO ADD YOUR SUBMISSION

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Winners!!

As promised we are back with the winners post. As already mentioned, we are going to announce only one winner and he/she'll be receiving a gift voucher of Rs. 1000/- from Itsy Bitsy for his/her best creation. Awesome!! :D 

Okay!! Without further delay the winner is 

POOJA

Yay!!! Congrats dear. Please mail to info@itsybitsy.in to claim your prize..

And now the top3 in no particular order..

Indira

Charu

Sindhu

Congrats dear ladies. Please grab your top3 badge from the side bar..

We have a very cute and fun challenge for you this month.. Kindly do take part and have fun..

Thank you.. :)

3 x 3 Mini Note Cards + Handmade Envelope

Hello everyone! Welcome to yet another brand new challenge at Catchy Challenges. 

We have a very cute, easy and fun challenge for you!

The challenge is to make a
'3 x 3 Mini Note card' and the twist is 'Make your own envelope'.. 

And the theme is 'Anything goes'... 

So easy rt! Well.. We got a few beautiful entries for the 'Unsual Bingo Challenge' and I'm so happy since we got some extraordinary entries from some extraordinary and 'Unusual people'. They really rocked our last challenge and thank you so much guys for your participation and we'll be back soon with the winners post.. :)

Stay tuned!!!!

Okay! We are here to sweeten up your heart with our sweet and cute creations!

Are you ready for some sweetness???

Megha

Tanvi

Smita

Poornima

Deepti

RULES

Please check the sidebar.. :)

There will be two random winners and the winners will receive a gift voucher of Rs. 500/- each from 

ITSY BITSY

"Itsy Bitsy is India's leading hobby and craft supplies retailer offering over 10,000 craft related products all under one roof. You can shop with them at any of their physical stores in Bangalore and New Delhi or online at www.itsybitsy.in. 

Ok friends! Hope we have inspired you enough.. 

Please follow the rules and kindly do take part in the challenge and above all just have fun ;)

I wish you all a very good luck..

Thank you!

Winners!!

Hello everyone! It's time to announce the winners of the 'blog hop' and the 'charming sketch' challenge..
The lucky winner who  is going to get these cute stuff from Tanvi is......

SUMAN

Congrats Suman.. Please contact Tanvi to claim your prize.. (tanvee10.shah@gmail.com)

Now let's move on to our 'Charming Sketch' winners.. Two lucky winners will receive a gift voucher of 

Rs. 500/- each and the lucky winners are..

NEETHA AWATI 

and

RACHANA'S ART

Congratulations dear girls.. Please write to info@itsybitsy.in to claim your gift vouchers.. :)

Now Top 3 in no particular order..

Hima Bindu

Vidhya

Jacki

Congrats ladies! Please grab your badges from the sidebar..

We proudly announce the Honorable mentions of the challenge..

Dr. Sonia

and 

Charu Joshi..

Congratulations!! :)

Okay! Guys! Don't miss the fun at Trashy Bingo..

Thank you!

Bingo + Blog Hop

Hello lovely friends! How are you doing today? Well... I would like to share a happy thing with you all.. We've crossed 100+ followers!! Yay!! Aren't you happy guys? These challenges are nothing without your love, support and encouragement. So I would like to thank each and every person for making this 'Catchy Challenges' a super hit.. :D I would like to thank Itsy Bitsy for their support and also I would like to thank Sunehra, Megha, Tanvi, Smita and Poornima for their love towards this itty bitty challenge blog.. :) So guys! Let's celebrate this happiness with a blog hop.. Our beautiful Tanvi is offering this beautiful prize for one lucky winner... :) :)

Hmmn.. so yummy!! If you wanna win this prize please leave comments on all the DT blogs as well as here at Catchy Challenges..Once you are done with commenting please link up your name below..
                                                             'NO CHEATING PLEASE'..

Yep!! Start commenting now...                      Catchy Challenges (you are here)

  Megha Jain (your next stop)

Tanvi Shah

Poornima Jain

Deepti Stephens

This blog hop will run for a week i.e., last date: 7th of August and the winners will be announced on 10th of August.. :)

And now let's move on to our challenge.. It's really terrific and unusual and I can say it's a bit tough to play along... Well.. Here we go.. :)

BINGO + ANYTHING GOES

Yes! Please choose your favourite row or column or just the diagonal line to make your project and please mention about that row or column in your post.. :)

NOTE : If you don't want to use or break mirror use anything that has the characters of a mirror.. :)

Yeah! Here is what our Terrific team came up with..

Megha

(Newspaper, glass bottle and wood)

Tanvi

(Safety pins, Natural twine, Acetate)

Smita
will join us soon.. :)

Poornima

(Safety pins, Natural twine and Acetate)

Deepti

(Newspaper, mirror and acetate)

I used CD flakes instead of mirror..

RULES

1. Any project will do as long as it fits with in the theme

2. You can use recycled items

3. Only new projects please

4. This time there will be no random winner only one winner (hand pick) for his/her best project.. 

5. For more details please find the rules on the sidebar..

One winner will receive a gift voucher of Rs. 1000/- from Itsy Bitsy..

"Itsy Bitsy is India's leading hobby and craft supplies retailer offering over 10,000 craft related products all under one roof. You can shop with them at any of their physical stores in Bangalore and New Delhi or online at www.itsybitsy.in.                                           

Ok guys! What are you waiting for!! First finish the blog hop and then play along the Bingo. If you have any doubts please leave a comment here and we'll get back to you asap. Have a 'Trashy trashy' fun.. :D

A 'Charm'ing Sketch Card from Itsy Bitsy

Hi folks, it's Sunehra here with another Itsy Bitsy inspiration for Catchy Challenges. The theme this time is A 'Charm'ing Sketch. Challenge creator Deepti put together this fabulous sketch and we're required to create a card using the sketch and adding a charm somewhere in the project. I just LOVE the sketch and I love charms too so this was a cakewalk for me. So without delay, here's what I came up with and just below that is the sketch!

I started by layering 3 white cards one on top of the other,  a style that master crafter Erum does in most of her projects so splendidly! I embossed the top half of the top layer with the Itsy Bitsy Damask folder and for the rest of the card, I used the Sew Ribbon tool to lace these fabulous crochet ribbon trims from Itsy Bitsy. Don't you think that the ribbon lacing was perfect to match the lines at the bottom of the sketch? For the shape at the top, I used an Itsy Bitsy Antique Fusion bloom with some Gardenia leaves and I gotta say I was thrilled that the colours were so complementary.

Finally for the charm, I created this full bow out of some pink organza ribbon and right at the centre I added a scissor charm. I first got this idea from one of Starr Timmons's project at the Shabby Tea Room. I loved the idea of a scissor charm and was so kicked that Itsy Bitsy had them! 

Well that wraps up this post. I hope my card inspires you to enter the challenge and looking forward to your comments and feedback on this blog.

Cheers!

Supplies Used:

Winners-Rainbow challenge

Hi Everyone,

We are so amazed with  your overwhelming  response this time....33 stunning entries, but believe us it was very difficult to select the winners! Each entry is superb.

So here are our TOP 3 with no particular order

          Dhivya-wonderful ribbon weaving

       Prathiksha Sanghani-

Effects to kill with rainbow colors

  and Priya 

with her neat and amazing project

Congratulations ladies!

Now it's time to announce our two random winners!!!

 Indrani Sharma

  and 

  Sujana

Congratulations ladies! Kindly grab your respective badges from the side bar and  send a mail to info@itsybitsy.in to claim your prize.

Hope you would play along our challenge - The CHARMing challenge this month too! Thank you so much.. :)

A CHARMing Challenge

A very Good Morning to you all. 

This is Tanvi here to announce the challenge for this month. Thank you so much ladies for adding color to our   rainbow challenge......................we had 33 entries each with a unique VIBGYOR background!!

This month we have a very easy peasy challenge - make a CARD using the sketch by our talented DT Deepti..............but as always being a catchy challenge we have a slight twist here...............you must include a charm in the sketch so we DTs call this a "CHARM"ING SKETCH. :-).

Here go the inspirations from our catchy girls.

First we have Deepti's card with the charm dangling under the gorgeous tulle bow.

The beautiful bloom co-ordinates so well with the pattern paper Poornima has used.

This is Smita's awesome inspiration with a handmade charm. Lovely isn't it?

Awww!! I love the use of that zip slider in Megha's card.................what an idea madamjee. ;-)

And finally...................this is my card.

Here are some guidelines to help you -

1. Create a new CARD using the sketch given.

2. Please, please follow the challenge theme to QUALIFY your entry.

If in doubt please do not hesitate to write to us for clarifications.

Two random winners will be selected & they will receive Rs.500/- gift vouchers from our sponsor ITSY BITSY. Top 3 will be earn a badge to flaunt on their blogs.

"Itsy Bitsy is India's leading hobby and craft supplies retailer offering over 10,000 craft related products all under one roof. You can shop with them at any of their physical stores in Bangalore and New Delhi or online at www.itsybitsy.in.