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.

T Time #5 - Spotlight Stamping Technique..

Hello dear friends! Hope you all had a great Monday.. :) This is Deepti S here, well.. from on-wards I would like to address myself as 'Catchy Design Deepti'.. so how's my new name? Sounds funny? LOL.. :D

Anyway back to the business now.. I made two cards using a stamping technique called 

SPOTLIGHT STAMPING TECHNIQUE. And it's really cool one. I've never tried this technique before but after trying it was like WOW! should make more cards using this tech.. :)

For the first card you'll need

1. Cardstocks

2. Two different colors of ink + black ink

3. Any stamps

4. Compass/Circular die

   

First stamp the image in versafine black/any black in on the white/color card stock.

Now stamp the same image in different colors on to the other piece of CS..

Now select a few interesting points in the image and draw a circle using compass..

Then cut them out and adhere them using foam tape on to the first stamped image..

And that's it add a sentiment and give some details.. 

Now here is the second one!

Stamp a sentiment on the cs..

Stamp the sentiment again with different colors of inks..

Now punch out a few hearts where you find the image is little bit interesting!

Now adhere them on to the piece of previously stamped image..

And that's it our second card is also ready!

Hope you like this tutorial and hope you would give it a try.. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and forget to join the POP UP fun.. ;)

Meet our July Guest Designer - Juhi K

Hello friends!! I am super excited to introduce to you our July Guest Designer, Juhi K. I am sure you will love her awesome pop up card. So let's welcome her...

Hi, this is Juhi from Juhi’s Handmade Cards and I am super excited to be Guest Designing here at Catchy Challenges. I have been a passionate paper crafter for almost 5 years now. I say passionate because every spare minute I get (which is not much as I work full time at a semiconductor MNC in Bangalore and have a 2.5 yr old daughter) goes into crafting…which also means my home is almost always messy and I don’t socialize much ;).

I would describe my style as bright and happy…though I am beginning to try vintage now…..you can see a bit of both in the card I created for this month’s challenge. I hope you like and find inspiration from my cake pop-up card. It folds flat, an excellent tutorial on how to make this can be found here. 

Wow!! isn't this an amazing pop up, that cake looks yummy :) Thank you so much Juhi for joining us and now my dear friends what are you waiting for take all your crafty things out and join in the fun at CSCC #5

Time for a candy #1

Hello lovely people.. Hmmn.. enjoying the weather? well.. oh yeah! It's pouring here like hell since morning and I'm loving it.. <3 Are you thinking what's this post about?? It's all about some 'Candy' sweet candy.. Yep.. Every month on 5th we'll have a candy for you.. Aren't you excited!! I am! I wish I could win some yumminess.. ;)

Alright! This month we have a very lovely sponsor, The Craft Shop is offering this cool stamp set to one lucky winner.. :)

How cool is that!! and do you wanna grab this?? Then all you have to do is follow this blog, share this page and link up your name below.. 

And winners will be announced on 30th of this month.. :)

Hope you like this post and don't forget to play along with our current Pop up challenge.

Thank you so much for stopping by.. See you soon..

CSCC #5

Hello Friends,

This is Poornima hosting this month's challenge. I hope you had fun participating in our last challenge. We are back with a new challenge theme. And this time it's -

Pop Up Cards

We are asking you to make pop up card on any theme. But you cannot add 3d projects and fancy folds. No inspiration picture this time, you can use any color scheme and elements in your cards.  

You must follow these rules -

1.  New work please.
2  Only cards are allowed. Fancy folds, 3d projects are not allowed.

3. You can enter as many times as you like

4. Feel free to combine with other challenges
5. Backlink your cards to this post

Winner will receive a gift voucher of Rs 500/- from Itsy Bitsy 

Our DT team has created lovely cards to inspire you.

Deepti Malik has come up with this awesome card-

Next is wonderful card by Smita..wow love the popped up flowers

Megha has created this pretty birthday card -

 

This box card by Tanvi which lies flat and can be mailed in a regular envelope is simply superb -

Deepti Stephens has come up with this simple card -

Here's my card -

I hope we have inspired you. We would love to see what you come up with. Do play along with us and have fun. For queries, leave a comment. We will get back to you ASAP.

Till Then,

Happy Crafting

Winners CSCC #4!!!

Hey Friends,

So here comes the D day...time to announce our winners of CSCC #4.We thank each and every participant for sharing their amazing creations with us.It was a treat to us.

finally..here is the Winner...and it's POOJA for her amazing card..we loved it!

Congratulations Pooja!!!Kindly write to info@itsybitsy.in to claim a gift voucher of Rs. 500/- and don't forget to grab your badge from the side bar.

Super picks of this month's challenge are:

RAHMAT

DR.SONIA SV 2

RUCHI 

Congratulation girls!!!See you all soon with new challenge!

Until then be crafty!

XXX

Smita

Play along with us!

Hello Friends,

This month we have a fun and wonderful challenge.It's a wedding theme with floral inspiration.Do hop on to the original post and play along with us!

Looking forward to see ur creations!

Regards,
Smita

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 !!

June T-Time-Flip mini album

Hi Crafty Friends,

This Smita here with T-time for this month.I know this is the most exciting part of the month where you get to learn new techniques from paper world.

I do not want you all to wait more,here is my tutorial for a flip mini album.It's a pretty simple album to make.It's a fun way to make an album interesting.This album opens from all the sides so this fact makes it more interesting..especially for kids.

Things needed to make this album:

1.Cardstock.
2.Adhesive
3.Scoring tool
4.Chipboard and embellishment(Optional)

Pic 1:Select the cardstock:

Pic 2:If you are making a rectangular album of size 5 3/4 by 4 1/8 inches.Then cut cardstock as listed in picture and scor half to form topfolding and side folding card.

You can also make a square album which will be for example a 3 by 3 inches album would need 6 by 3 in(4 number) and scor half.

Pic 3:

Pic 4 :

 Pic 5:

Now the final embellished and decorated album looks like this which opens from all the sides:

Square album looks like this:

Hope you got inspired by my tutorial and we would love to see your creations!!
Any doubts please leave a comment,I will get back to you.

Do join this month's challenge here .
Have a crafty day!!
XXX
Smita

Guest Designer - Apeksha Kothari

Good Morning friends!!
This is Tanvi here with the GD inspiration post for this month. We have a young talented CRAFTPENTER today - Apeksha Kothari :-).

Here are a few words from her -

"Hello All,

When Deepti approached me to be the guest designer for her current challenge, I was really surprised and excited at the same time as I had never done this before. Also, i was a bit scared cause I have been missing from the craft world for a long time. Thank you Deepti for this opportunity.

I have always been inclined towards crafts from childhood but I started crafting a couple of years back and there was no looking back. It is an amazing therapy and a stress buster.

Here is a card I made for the present challenge being hosted on catchy challenges blog and I hope it inspires you to create something and be a part of this wonderful challenge.

Play along and most importantly have fun while creating something.
-------
Regards,

Apeksha."

Apeksha has this very elegant card for the wedding theme - 

Thank you Apeksha for joining us & hope you all lovely crafters too will share your wedding creations with us.

Have a crafty day.

CSCC #4 and DT CALL

Hello dear friends,

This is Smita here with a fresh challenge for the month of June.As Wedding season is in the air we have a wedding inspired picture for you this month.We are really looking forward to see your cards based on this inspiration.

               Please create cards related to wedding and with floral inspiration

Rules of our challenge remain the same, with one extra rule to have fun!!

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 of this challenge will receive a gift voucher of Rs500/- from Itsy Bitsy

Our design team has some wonderful inspirations ,

Megha made this cute wedding card with some gorgeous blooms

 Deepti Stephens with this awesome monochromatic card

Deepti malik has come up with this beautiful colors and blooms

Tanvi with her pearly gorgeous card

Poornima has a beautiful card with lovely blooms!

And here is my card lace wedding dress card..

Hope you are inspired and excited to play along with us and yes, we will soon be up with another post with our amazing Guest Designer for the month of April and a T- time by me :) 

DT CALL
Yeah..we are ready to have our new DT members..So if you want to join our designing team just add DT with your name while you enter for the challenge.

Have fun
XXX
Smita