AUGUST & SEPTEMBER 2020 CHALLENGE WINNERS

 Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday. 

Today I'm going to announce the winners of August and September challenges. We got a very few entries and hence I announce all the participants as winners. Yay!!

Maria, The Lettering Enthusiast and Mamata

Congratulations!! You are invited as our guests in the upcoming challenges. Yay!

I'll contact you very soon. Thank you so much everyone for visiting and have a blessed 2021. <3

- Deepti -

SHADES OF TURQUOISE CHALLENGE - DEEPTI AGGARWAL

 Hello everyone! Good Morning! How are you guys doing? I hope you are enjoying the Shades of Turquoise Challenge so for. If you haven't seen the challenge yet, kindly click HERE. :)

Today we have a special guest for you who mastered in making beautiful CAS cards. Her cards are very cheerful and bright with happy colors. 

Now let's put our hands together and invite our guest designer of the month

Deepti Aggarwal - Handmade by Deepti

A little bit about her

Hello, I am Deepti, a UX Designer by profession and a crafter by passion. I'm from India, but currently live in Brussels, Belgium, with my husband and two girls. I enjoy everything crafty and love to experiment and try different techniques.  Although I make cards more often, sometimes I try my hands on scrapbooks, mixed media and home decor projects as well. I  really enjoy water coloring. And If I talk about my card making style then I would say .. I love trying different styles but mostly it's  clean, simple, colorful and bright :)

Please follow her on

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Here is the beautiful card she made for the challenge.

What she thinks about the mood board..

I really love the colors of the mood board and as soon as I saw it, the first thing that came to my mind was the water. Voila...I got the idea for my card and created this beach scene by water coloring the background using most of the shades from the mood board. The cake image in the mood board really caught my eyes.. That's how I got the color for the  flip flops ;) Finally doodled some shells & starfish to complete the scene. 

That's really a beautiful card, Deepti. I love it. The flip flops are cute and sentiment is the bomb!! Thank you so much for being our guest this month. It's so nice that you're here today with us :)

And that's all for today. I hope you guys enjoyed today's post! Please don't forget to play along the challenge. Stay Home and Happy Paper Crafting! :)

SHADES OF TURQUOISE CHALLENGE

Hello my dear crafty friends! How are you all? It's me your Deepti and Happy September :) We are almost at the end of the year, see, how time flies!! Today we have another mood board challenge for you. Thank you to the couple of people, Lettering Enthusiast and Maria for taking your time out and participating in the challenge. :)

Now let's move onto the challenge! Our team mate dear Radhika created this mood board. Lovely, isn't it? and I hope you'll play along.

Challenge Rules

1. Only CARDS please.

2. Use at least two colors.

3. You can either stamp or doodle or watercolor or add die-cuts or even sew on your cards.

4. You can combine with any number of challenges.

5. But you can enter only twice.

6. Please turn off word verification.

7. Be creative and Have fun.

8. Last date - 25th September, 2020.

The winner of the challenge will be invited as our Guest Designer.

Here is the inspiration from me..

As soon as I saw the mood board the first thing that hit my mind was 'mermaids'. The color is so apt for the theme. I have this 'Mermaid Stamp from Mudra' for a long time and hence I decided to use it and apply no line water coloring technique to it. I was so inspired by Sindhu_Trapped in craft's no-line coloring and just felt like trying it again. You like it?

I started by stamping the image with Antique Linen Distress ink, created the scene with water colors. I used Distress inks - Peacock Feathers, Lucky Clover and Vintage Photo as my watercolors. I kept on adding the colors until I'm satisfied with the look.

I used Brustro Hot pressed Water color Paper. Once the watercolor is dry I went ahead and added Ranger Crystal Stickles and highlighted the image with Sakura White Gel Pen. Finally finished the card with a sentiment from the same stamp set.

I hope you liked the card and I hope you guys would play along. Thank you so much for visiting, take care and I'll see you next time :)

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

CAS CARD FOR PURPLES,YELLOW AND GREY CHALLENGE

Hello everyone! It's me Deepti and today I have a clean and simple card for the current Purples, Yellow and Grey challenge. There is still time to play along with the challenges, please do participate and have fun ;)

My card features one of the beautiful thinlit dies by Sizzix called Funky Festives designed by TimHoltz. I was very much inspired by the color palette. :)

I simply water colored the background with grey color. I die-cut the thinlit die with Sizzix SideKick Machine in purple and yellow card stocks. Adhered over the water colored front panel, added splatters of black ink and finished the card with the sentiment from Mudra.

I hope you like the card. Thank you so much for stopping by. Take care, stay safe and Happy Paper Crafting. :)

PURPLES, YELLOW AND GREY CHALLENGE GUEST DESIGNER - UJJWAL GUPTA

Hello everyone! Welcome back! I hope you are enjoying the challenges so far. There is still time to play along with our Purples, Yellow and Grey Challenge, if you haven't entered your card yet please do it, we would love to see your creations and would to leave some love on your blog :)

Today, I would like to invite one of my favourite card makers, she's one of my inspirations ever since I started card making. She is wonderful and beautiful soul both inside and out.. 

I'm so happy and honoured to invite our Guest Designer of the month

Ujjwal Gupta - Handmade With Love

A little bit about her 

Hello, I'm Ujjwal. I live in Pune, India. I am a software engineer turned Stay-at-home-mom to two kids. I have been blogging and crafting for over 11 years now and with time my love for art has grown stronger. I love creating and exploring different forms of art be it card-making, scrapbooking, mixed media, or altered art. Stamps and pretty papers are my all-time favorites and I love crafting clean & simple designs that are impactful. 

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Here is the beautiful card she made for the challenge.

What she thinks about the mood board..

" The color palette and the mood board is so dreamy that I wanted to capture that softness so I decided to create the background with watercolors. The macaroons in the mood board inspired the freehand circles. I heat embossed the sentiment in yellow and added tiny stamped foliage as accents. Of course, the grey splatters in the background complete the card."

Wow! Your card is very beautiful, Ujjwal and thank you so much for being our guest. It's such a pleasure to have you <3

And that's all for today. I hope you guys enjoyed today's post! Please don't forget to play along the challenge. Stay Home and Happy Paper Crafting! :)

PURPLES, YELLOW AND GREY CHALLENGE

Hello everyone! How are you? It's me Deepti and Happy August to you all. It's been so long, so we decided to come back to our normal routine. We decided to re-open the challenge blog again because we miss it! Have you missed them? Well.. Today's challenge is all about Purples, Yellow and Grey Mood Board. Without wasting much time let's get into the challenge.

(USE AT LEAST TWO COLORS or YOU CAN GET INSPIRED BY THE IMAGES IN THE PIC)

Challenge Rules

1. Only CAS CARDS please.

2. Use at least two colors.

3. You can either stamp or doodle or watercolor or add die-cuts or even sew on your cards.

4. You can combine with any number of challenges.

5. But you can enter only twice.

6. Please turn off word verification.

7. Be creative and Have fun.

8. Last date - 25th August, 2020.

The winner of the challenge will be invited as our Guest Designer.

Here is the inspiration from us..

Radhika

(Please visit her blog to learn more details about the card)

Deepti

(Please visit her blog to learn more details about the cards)

I hope you liked our cards and got inspired. Kindly share this post and have fun playing with our challenges. We would love to see your beautiful creations. Thank you so much for stopping by. See you soon! Stay Home and Happy Paper Crafting.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

WATERCOLOR PINEAPPLE CHALLENGE

Hello everyone! How are you? This is Deepti.. Long time no post!!!!! ;) Well.. I'm back with a new challenge for you. I hope you guys are safe and well. Let's hope our days will be filled with laughter, health and everything again.

Watercolor Pineapple Challenge

I want to see the gallery with some beautiful watercolor Pineapple cards.

A little about Pineapple
Pineapple is the symbol of hospitality, nobility, luxury and wealth. So eat more Pineapples and serve more Pineapples!!! :D

CHALLENGE RULES

1. Only CARDS please.
2. You should submit the cards with watercolored Pineapple.
3. You can combine with other challenges and enter only twice.
4. Please turn off word verification.
5. Be creative and Have fun.
6. Last date - 25th May, 2020.

And the lucky winner will be invited as guest designer for the next challenge ;)

Are you READY?

Do you wanna know how I made this card? Then check out the video below or hop on my blog and enjoy! :)

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

SCANDINAVIAN PATTERN AND WATER COLOR CHALLENGE WINNERS

Hello everyone! It's been really really long! I'm sorry, life has become so busy, alright! finally I'm here with Scandinavian Pattern Challenge and Water Color Challenge Winners. I would like to thank each and everyone of you for taking precious time to play along the challenges. :)

Scandinavian Pattern Challenge Winner is Sindhu

Honorable Mentions

Ishani & Raga Senthil

Water Color Challenge winner is Ramya

Honorable Menttions

Ashwini, Nandini and Shona

Congratulations everyone! Sindhu and Ramya. Kindly write a mail to deeptistephens@gmail.com to claim your prize. Thank you :)

Guest Designer - Ishani

Hello my dear crafty friends! Welcome back! Today we have another lovely guest designer joining us today with her beautiful water color card. Whenever I see her work, I feel very proud. And she is

Ishani @ Quillish 

Hello everyone,

I am Ishani also known as Quillish and am so glad to be here to share my card with you. Thank you Deepti for inviting me, it's an honour. I have been a part of the Indian Air Force till this June and now a happy stay-at-home-mom to my toddler. I have had a crafty gene but it was dormant till two years back. Quilling opened this new world of cardmaking to me and now I feel blessed to be a part of  such a loving community.

I love coloring, building scenes and love to learn and experiment new techniques but I think I’m slightly bent towards CAS style of card making. This month we get to play with water colours for the August - Watercolour challenge. I am quite a newbie to the different mediums of colouring and I feel that rather than getting wooed by the cool products we must get better in understanding the mediums we have at hand.  I think one of the products one usually buys when they start this hobby, is distress inks. I don't have many but I used the ones I had to create this card.

Do you know that Hydrangea is a flower that changes colour depending on the soils pH level. So my distress inks decided my soil to be slightly acidic and my flower turned into a mix of blue and pink. I went for a One layer card, did some masking for the leaves to go behind the flowers and then coloured each petal a little differently.

To colour a flower, I usually google the real flower. The color and the shadows play a very important role and water colours are so good at giving a natural movement to the pigment and achieve the stunning effects. I went with the lightest shade and got some variations as I coloured. 

I hope you like my card. I am not a pro at watercolouring, but you'll get better only if you try. I believe in - Doing what scares you, until it doesn't! So, get your brushes out and play along. 

Happy creating something catchy!

That was a very beautiful card. Thank you so much, Ishani for sharing your talent with us. Please don't forget to play along with the Water Color Challenge, guys! :)

Guest Designer - Sindhu Jay

Hello everyone! Today we have a very special guest, a very good friend of mine, a CAS perfectionist and a very sweet personality..

Sindhura Prajay

Hello everyone! Sindhu here. I'm so happy to be Guest Designing for the current Water Color Challenge. Thank you so much for inviting me over, Deepti.

Now, a little bit about me. I'm a Stay-At-Home-Mom to our 3 year old son who constantly keeps me on my toes. I have been paper crafting for over 6 years and I’m totally addicted to card making. I am a Clean and Simple (CAS) lover but also like make layered and interactive cards. I also like reading fiction when I find time. 

For my card, I started by painting some circles on the background. I used my Zig markers and water for the purpose. The images were also water coloured using Zig markers. I fussy cut out the images, adhered them on the water coloured background, added the sentiment strip and some clear sparkle sequins. Mounted the panel on the card base to finish the card.

I hope you like my card. You can follow me on Instagram if you like my work. I'm @sindhu_trappedincraft there.

Best wishes,
Sindhu.

Thank you so much Sindhu for accepting my invitation and for sharing your beautiful talent with us. Guys! Don't forget to play along the current Water Color Challenge. See you again! :)

August Challenge - Watercolor

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another challenge here at CSCC and this is your Deepti. This month's challenge is going to be a fun and easy one..

WATERCOLOR CHALLENGE

NOTE : you can water color the background, images, paint flowers or just anything you like..

CHALLENGE RULES

• Only CARDS please.
• You can water color the background, images, paint flowers or just anything you like and wish for..
• You can combine with other challenges and enter as many times as you like.
• Please turn off word verification.
• Be creative and Have fun.
• Last date - 25th August, 2018.

And the lucky winner will be getting something crafty from me ;)

Here is my card!

I started by water coloring the galaxy background with Koi Water Colors and painted the ground as well. Also added splatters of white paint and let the panel dry completely.

Meanwhile, I stamped the animals from Forest Friends by a.muse studio, water colored and fuzzy cut them as well.

Finally stamped the sentiment from Hello Baby by crafTangles on a white card stock and made the fish tail banner and adhered over the card front. Finally adhered everything together with Tacky Glue.

I hope you like it. Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you would play along. Come back again on 5th of August for more inspiration from our Guest Designer. ;)

Guest Designer - Dr. Neha Sanwalka

Hello everyone! Today we have another beautiful lovely guest designer,

Neha

Hello! I am Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta from Mumbai. I am a statistician by profession, have a PhD in Health Science and Dietitian by qualification. I have been crafting since a very young age and dabble in various art forms. My current obsession is mixed media art & creating Art Journals.

It was very exciting to create cards inspired by Scandinavian patterns and designs. There was so much to explore that I ended up creating 5 different projects. For 2 projects, I used stamping to create leafy card panels inspired by Scandinavian patterns and converted these card panels to greeting card (red leafy) & note cards (green leafy). When exploring Scandinavian patterns, I also came across many colouring pages which would make for great cards. Hence, I downloaded 3 such pages, sized them using Microsoft word and printed them on 300 gsm cardstock. I then coloured the images using various colouring mediums and used the coloured images to make cards.

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I had absolute blast creating these cards. I am going to still explore more of these designs as there is so much to learn about Scandinavian patterns.

Thanks, Deepti for giving me this opportunity.

Best Wishes,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

Crafty Flirtations

Wow! What gorgeous cards you made Neha. Thank you for being our guest. Guys! There is still time to play along with the Scandinavian Pattern Challenge. Have fun! :)

Guest Designer - Anila DK

Hello everyone! Welcome back! Today we have a guest designer, one of our previous challenge winners, a beautiful crafter..

Anila Dikay

Let's hear from her..

I am Anila Dikay from Novel-Ideas. An Interior Designer by profession, I shifted to teaching Craft and now a full-time Crafter and a SAHM. I love making cards and all kinds of Paper Crafts. Hope to inspire you to play along with the current challenge - Scandinavian Pattern.

I found these two images from Google and decided to build my cards around these. I created these two patterns using Stamps/Stencil and distress inks and later converted them into finished cards.

my source of inspiration

And here is my first card!

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And here is my second card!

Thank you so much, Anila for sharing your beautiful work with us. Friends, there is still time to play along the Scandinavian Pattern Challenge! :)