August Challenges - Week #4 - Pallavi Iyer

Hello hello hello! Welcome back to our last week of the challenges. I know you guys are enjoying a lot and we are so happy to see so many beautiful creations in the gallery!! clap, clap!!

And now let's dive into the challenge which is hosted and sponsored by a very beautiful and sweet lady, a gorgeous mixed media person

Pallavi Iyer

(you guys must check her blog. It's full of awesomeness!!! )

Challenge Theme - Create your own background.It could be on a card,layout or an altered project.No pattern paper allowed.Use tools like stamps,handmade or commercial stencils,paints ,watercolours,texture pastes,embossing or anything else that strikes your fancy and show us your creative experiments.

And one lucky winner will receive this beautiful prize

This prize pack contains Vintage themed 6 by 6 papers ,around 35 sheets

Laser woodcuts : 7 pieces

We are memory keepers Out and About clear stamp

PAper doilies : 10

Papermania Vintage Notes stickers sheet

Itsy Bitsy Butterfly Stickers

and a bunch of pink gardenia paper flowers

Thank you so much dear Pallavi for the awesome challenge theme and prize pack. We are so hppy to have you!

RULES

1. Create any project with a beautiful background (for more info check the theme)

2. Only new work please

3. You can enter twice

4. You can combine with other challenges (as many as you like)

5. This challenge will run for a week i.e from 22-08-2015 to 28-08-2015

We, Catchy Girls, came up with some artistic cards for you!

Ramya

Ruchi

Nandini

Vinita

Jaya

Shylaa

Deepti

I hope you got inspired by the above projects. Now it's your turn to Create Something for the challenge! Please link your cards below. Thanks so much for stopping by! See you soon with the winners post :)

August Challenges - Week #3 - Gayatri Murali

Hey hello everyone! Welcome back to week #3 of the challenges. I hope you are having a blast playing along and without further ado let's jump right into the challenge..

This week's challenge is hosted and sponsored by a very stylish and stunning cardmaker

Gayatri Murali
( her work screams ishSTYLE!! and I love it!! )

Hello and welcome! This is Gayatri Murali from Handmade by G3. I was thrilled when Deepti asked me to host a challenge on her blog celebrating her Birthday this month. What a great idea? I love her work and so I said a big YES! Here I am hosting a challenge for you.
Watercolouring is hot among cardmakers at the moment.  The best part of this technique is anybody can give it go. You don’t have to be an artist to do watercolouring on cards. You can do backgrounds using watercolour, watercolour an image or both… And there are stamps set specifically designed for this technique as well making it easy for anybody to do this technique. So I decided to challenge you with a watercolour challenge using some inspirational photos from Pinterest.

Here is the photo for the watercolour inspirational challenge.

image source - pinterest

So pick one photo or use all the photos as your inspiration to make a card. I have a card I made for the challenge which you can use as an inspiration as well. Here it is.

For this challenge I used Watercoloured Anemones from Wplus9 on my card. This stamp set is specially designed to give you the watercolour look. I simply used three shades of purple inks for the flowers and green inks for the leaves. Then stamped the sentiment from Strictly Sentiment 5 also from Wplus9 using black ink. Embellished with purple sequins called Amethyst and Purple Pansy from Pretty Pink Posh and green twine from Twinery.

No challenge is complete without a prize right? Yes! I have this awesome prize pack filled with stamps, inks, Washi tape, dies, markers and embellishments for one lucky winner.

Now it is your turn to play the challenge. I cannot wait to see your take on the challenge.

Have fun!

Fantastic challenge and you know what! I'm drooling over the prize! Let's see! who is lucky!!!! (I'm not - obviously.. ;) haha) Thank you so much dear Gayatri. We are so happy to have you.. <3

RULES

1. Only CARDS are allowed

2. Only new work please

3. You can enter twice

4. You can combine with other challenges (as many as you like)

5. This challenge will run for a week i.e from 15-08-2015 to 21-08-2015

We, Catchy Girls, came up with some artistic cards for you!

Nandini

Radhika

Ramya

Ruchi

Vinita

Deepti

I hope you got inspired by the above projects. Now it's your turn to Create Something for the challenge! Please link your cards below. Thanks so much for stopping by! See you next week.. :)

August Challenges - Week #2 - Dr. Sonia

Hello my dear crafty friends! I hope you enjoyed our last week's challenge and I'm so happy to hear that so many of you enjoy playing along the challenges. Sweet!!! We had some fantastic entries and thank you so much guys for all the enthusiasm!!

Yeah! Welcome to Week #2 of the challenges and this week's challenge is hosted and sponsored by another fantastic lady - a crafty doctor ( :P)

Dr. Sonia

(despite her busy schedule she accepted my tiny request, I really appreciate that. 

Thank you so much dear Dr.ji)

Hi crafters....It gives me immense pleasure to be hosting a Challenge for Deepti. I chose a theme which is very dear to me: Handmade flowers. I love to make flowers in different media and I would love you to try your hand at making your own flowers too. I do have a compilation of handmade flower tutorials on my blog : Handmade flower tutorials

Challenge Theme 

Handmade Flowers - using any material- paper, clay, fabric, foam etc

Wow! Awesome! It's been a while since we made some handmade flowers!! Let's rock it!!

RULES

1. Create any project that suits the challenge theme

2. Only new work please

3. You can enter twice

4. You can combine with other challenges (as many as you like)

5. This challenge will run for a week i.e from 08-08-2015 to 14-08-2015

And the winner will receive this AWESOME prize from Dr.ji

Dr. said - I hope your readers will enjoy the prize..

I (deepti) said - They will love it!! <3

this prize pack contains...

1. Spellbinders Aster metal card-stock die cut flowers

2. Felt Cheery Lynn  sunflower die cuts

3. Cheery Lynn  Heart die cuts

4. Cheery Lynn  Bicycle die cuts

5. Spellbinders Palm tree die cuts

6. Pie Lane bird stencil

7. Pie Lance flower stencil

8. Shilpi Sentiment Stickers

9. Pie Lane decorative sticker

10. Snag' em Dahlia clear stamp

11. Studio g set of 3 patterns clear stamps

12. 10 sheets of assorted 6 x 6 pattern paper

We, Catchy Girls, came up with some beautiful projects for you!

Jayashree

Nandini

Radhika

Ruchi

Vinita

Megha

Ramya

Shylaa

Smita

Deepti

I hope you got inspired by the above projects. Now it's your turn to Create Something for the challenge! Please link your cards below. Thanks so much for stopping by! See you next week.. :)

August Challenges - Week #1 - The Craft Shop

Hello everyone! Happy August and as promised I'm back with the very first challenge for this week which is hosted by a dare and dynamic lady

Owner of The Craft Shop
Priya Sivaraj 

Hello peeps!

     

      Priya here from TheCraftShop! I was so excited when Deepti came up with the idea of we hosting our challenge in her blog! I take immense pleasure in writing for Catchy challenges now. This blog and Deepti are so dear to us!! And we love to see you through this blog.

This would be a simple challenge to get inspired from TheCraftShop banner and create your projects. Your projects can be anything!We are so excited and cant wait to see what you all come up with!

Thank you so much for the opportunity Deepti .Wishing you many more success ahead!. You are an amazing soul! 

Huggss

Thank you so much Priya for hosting the challenge! And I'm really honoured to have you here and thank you so much for all the kind words.. <3

RULES

1. Create any project inspired by 'the craft shop' banner
2. Only new work please
3. You can enter twice
4. You can combine with other challenges (as many as you like)
5. This challenge will run for a week i.e from 01-08-2015 to 07-08-2015

And the winners will receive a gift voucher of Rs.500/- from The Craft Shop

We, Catchy Girls, came up with some beautiful cards inspired by the above banner! 

Vinita 

Shylaa

Nandini

Megha

Smita

Radhika

Ramya

Ruchi

Jaya

Deepti

I hope you got inspired by the above cards. Now it's your turn to Create Something for the challenge! Please link your cards below. Thanks so much for stopping by! See you next week.. :)