November winners post 1

Hello and welcome to my November winners post!!

Please give a warm welcome to my November THANK YOU challenge winner 

RAGA SENTHIL

Her process is always AMAZING, so please read the entire post and leave her lots of love!!

Be inspired to play along my December CHRISTMAS challenge!

I'm Raga from Perky Hobby and I'm super thrilled to be guest designing at Paru's Card Making Challenges. Thank you Paru for having me.

I'm from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, currently staying in Gurgaon, Haryana with my husband and two adorable kids (daughter of 7 years old and son of 3 years old). Im a stay at home mom and have started taking art and craft classes for kids now.

I love to illustrate and mostly all of my cards hold my illustrations. Im a bit wonky towards CAS style of cardmaking and I love to make interactive cards too. I'm new to the stamping world and I'm still learning new techniques and tricks!! You can see my works here...

Blog:http://www.perkyhobby.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perky_hobby

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/perkyhobby/

For this month's challenge theme of Christmas, I have made a card using Christmas wreath. The front panel of the card was head embossed with white embossing powder using brick stencil from Itsy Bitsy craft store. For making the wreath, I took an old bangle of my daughter and wrapped it with a green pipe cleaner and added some rhinestones for berries.

Finished the wreath with bells and a a bow, Then I mounted my wreath on an embossed card stock and added a strip of vellum holding the sentiment Merry Christmas from Create a Smile cool buddies stamp set. I distressed the edges using gold splash ink. Finished my card by adhering it to the vertically folded base card stock.

For the shaker tag, I took a Kraft card stock and fussy cut it. To create the snow falling effect, I splattered Fevicol and water mix, heat embossed with white embossing powder. I don't hold any chunky glitters to add in, so I stuffed art stones by crushing them a little. 

the snowscape was using had torn white paper. I sealed it with an acetate piece and a kraft frame using double sided foam tape. I used Christmas tree stamp from the same cool buddies stamp set, coloured using watercolours and added glossy accent for the baubles. Finished my tag, with the same sentiment and tied it together using red satin ribbon.

Hope you are all inspired to play along the challenge. Thank you for stopping by.

Happy Crafting.

Cheers!! 

RAGA

Wow!!! Raga's work has really inspired me...So many fabulous ideas to make cards with minima; supplies!!

You can play my CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE HERE!!

Creations from the winners of the July Challenge

Hello!

Starting this month, 

I will bring you some inspiration during the month, 

in order to keep the creative juices flowing!

We had three honorable mentions for the challenge last month.

I decided to invite them to guest design for the challenge this month so that they can inspire us with their creativity.

My first honorable mention designer is 

Raga Senthil

Here is what she has to say!

Hello Lovelies!

I am Raga from Perky Hobby!

Im super thrilled to be guesting for Paru's Card Making Challenges 'Family' challenge this month.

Thanks Paru for this opportunity!

I'm originally from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, currently residing in Gurgaon, Haryana, with my husband and two adorable kids (daughter of 6 and son of 3 years). I'm a computer application graduate and I have chosen to be a stay at home mom.

I started crafting a year ago. I love to illustrate and mostly all of my cards consist of my sketches and handwritten sentiments.

I think I enjoy making CAS style cards by incorporating interactive parts at times.

Check out my work at my blog  http://www.perkyhobby.com/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/perkyhobby/  and on Instagram @perky_hobby.

Here is my take on the current challenge, using my illustration. (photo inspired from Google)

Rakshabandhan (the festival of Rakhi) 

is celebrated to cherish the bond of brothers and sisters.

To make this Rakhi card, I took A2 size white cardstock and created the wall and floor scene using patterned papers.

I sketched my figures, watercoloured them and adhered them on the front panel using foam tape and I gave washi tape to the little girl to mount her little cute brother over the wall for his mischievous behaviour.

I finished the card with a handwritten sentiment.

For the tag, I ink smooshed the background, using the bubble art technique. I fussy cut it and added a handmade flower (from Itsy Bitsy) 

for the rakhi and the sentiment to complete it.

I hope you are inspired to join in and play the challenge!

Happy Crafting!

My second Honorable mention GD is 

Mugdha Gujrati

Hello everyone!

This is Mugdha Gujarathi from Craftomania. 

I am an MBA turned full time crafter and mother of a cute little boy.

I love card making, quilling and to experiment with limited supplies. 

I started my blog in November last year and Paru's Card Making Challenges is one of the few challenges I participated in for the first time and I won it too!

That was the kickstart to my crafting journey and today I am glad to be here.

Thank you so much Paru for inviting me over!

This month's theme is "Family" and I have made a quilled card. 

I hope it inspires you to play along.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Do leave some love for these beautiful ladies and their amazingly creative work!

Join in and play my FAMILY challenge.

Challenge ends on the 25th of August and the winners will be announced on the 28th.

Have a wonderful day!

Paru Mahtani