PerkyHobby: 2020

Friday, November 20, 2020

Pumpkin Trio

Hello friends,

Today I wanna share a thank you card incorporating digital stamps from Varada Sharma's November release "Season of Thanks"

Without further ado, here you go

Hope you all liked my card and the vintage look!

I'm playing along at Your Next Stamp challenge#152 with my Pumpkin Trio ( 3 pumpkins)

Thank you for stopping by.

Happy Crafting!

Cheers!

Raga.

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Diwali Cards

Hello Everyone,

Having Diwali around the corner, I would like to share Diwali Inspirations from Varada Sharma designs. Here they go,

Card 1 - Heat Embossed Background

Card 2 - Bokeh Background

Card 3 - Simple Scoring(Brick) Background

I'm entering in STAMPlorations birthday linky party challenge with card 1 and Card 2.

Hope you all liked my cards!

Thank you for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Cheers!

Raga.

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Before announcing the winners, we would like to convey our heartfelt thanks to all of you for making our 1st Mental Health Day Hop a success. We are grateful for the wonderful sponsors and the participants without, whom our hop wouldn't be possible.

Without any further delay, here are the winners.

Drum roll, please!!!

1. Alex Syberia Design- $10 GC- @berta572229

2. Chibitronics- a goodie bag (1 STEM Starter kit, 1 additional roll of copper tape, 1 pack of tropical LEDs)-@madebymeghank

3. Crazy crafter store- 1 goodie bag- @sindhumanokaran

4. Colorado Craft Company-$50 GC- @cyc_crafts

5. Concord & 9th - $25 GC each to two winners

i. @bunnydobbie

ii. @inky_prints.crafts

6. Ellen Huston- $25 GC- @redbirdhandmakes

7. Graciellie Design- $25 GC- @cardsncolouring

8. Heffy Doodle- 15£ GC- @bienchencreates

9. Jane's doodles- 20 GC- @jasmincraftymakes

10. Kinda Cute by Patricia- 5 digital stamps each to two winners

i. @le_creazoni_di_cla

ii. @thejoyfulsoulcreates

11. Lawn Fawn -$25 GC- @fortheloveofpapercrafts

12. Miss Ink Stamps- a stencil pack- @ashleycortezcrc

13. Newton's Nook Designs- $25 shop credit- @janisinidaho

14. Pear blossom Press- $25 GC- @pixlnauts

15. Rainbow craftykari -650 INR gift voucher- Shriya Ram

16. STAMPlorations- $20 GC- @chark99

17. The Gray Muse Stamps- $25 GC- @dishaajain12

18. Trinity Stamps- $25 GC- @rt_beingmom

19. Twinklelane Designs- £8 on digital items- @upcycledbymanasa

20. Varada Sharma- October entire release- @irishrosecreations

21. Waffle flower- $25 GC - Joyce

22. Your Next Stamp- $20 GC- @wavingmywand

All the winners, please mail us at hop.winners20@gmail.com to claim your prize. Kindly mail within three days, otherwise prize will be redrawn and new winner will be chosen.

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Autumn blessings

Hello Friends,

Today, I wanna share some more inspiration cards out of Varada Sharma's new release, October Fest. Here you go,

Short clip showing up my rocker card in action,

Hope you all liked my cards.

I'm playing along at

Uniko's October anything goes challenge.

I LOVE MATHS CHALLENGE #17 ( 8 mushrooms + 1 sentiment)

Paperfun day challenge

LeAnn's world 101 challenge #31

Virginia's show and share challenge

Pammies inky pinkies challenge #2041

Word art Wednesday challenge

Creative inspiration challenge

Crafty creations challenge

Thank you for stopping by.

Note : Did you check out the following on-going IG hops?!

Mental health IG hop

Varada Sharma October Fest new release IG hop

Happy Crafting!

Cheers!

Raga.

Monday, October 12, 2020

Apple blossom

Hello Crafty Friends,

I’m Raga Senthil from Perky Raga. I’m so glad to announce that I have joined Varada Sharma

Design Team from this month onwards(October). Though I couldn’t able to join the team earlier

due to some personal situations, I’m happy to go good in line half-way. Thank you Varada for

having me on board. I love making Clean and Simple and Interactive Cards. You can find more

about me details on my Instagram page or my YouTube Channel.

As a Kickstart, I have my first inspiration post to welcome you all to take part in our first monthly

Challenge and a chance to win store credit.

The theme for this month’s Challenge is Fun with Florals (optional anything goes).

Rules for the challenge:

1. Use of Varada Sharma image is a must.

2. Freebies are allowed too. (Go grab the freebie from the shop or better still join

our Silver Membership to get new free digital stamps every month..)

3. Use of Challenge graphic on your post is a must.

4. Link up Here as many times as you want.

5. You can link up from your blog/ Facebook/Instagram. When posting from Instagram, please use the hashtag #vschallenge.

6. Challenge starts on 1st of every month and ends on 28th of the month and winners will be announced on last date of the month.

For my inspiration post, I have used the digital stamp set APPLE BLOSSOM from this month new release OCTOBER FEST.

I love fall and I adore this new release. You can find plethora of ideas running in your head as

soon as you have a look at this beautiful release.

Without further ado, let’s have a look at my card.

Key Ingredients

1. Apple blossom digital stamp set

2. White Cardstock

3. Oil Pastels and Q- tips for blending

Steps

1. Using PowerPoint, I flipped the blossom image, and added apple image to it( from APPLE

BLOSSOM stamp set ). Once I’m satisfied with my composition and size, I took print out on a

white card stock.

2. I coloured the image using Oil Pastels and blend the colours using Q-tips.

Usually water colouring would be my go-to medium, but this time I tried my hands on Oil Pastels to colour my focal image.

3. To keep the apple blossom natural, I chose to play white and pink colour combo.

4. I fuzzy cut my focal image and adhere it on an ink-smooshed background panel with a bold

computer generated sentiment ‘So Sweet’ to balance the big bold apple.

5. Mount the front panel to the card base. Voila!

I hope you are inspired to take part in the challenge. More inspirations coming along your way.

So subscribe and Stay Tuned.

Thank you for stopping!

Happy Crafting!

Cheers!

Raga.

Saturday, October 10, 2020

Up The Happy - MENTAL HEALTH HOP

Hello friends,

Welcome to Mental Health Day IG hop, where a group of cardmakers are representing the art of card making via our beautiful cards on the theme of 'Art for your mind'.

We are so grateful for our generous sponsors and their kind support throughout the hop. We have 22 sponsors and 24 amazing prizes to be won!

Note:To know what our sponsors are offering, hop onto our main IG account @Mental_Health_Hop

Creating Art is therapeutic and has innumerable benefits from boosting your self-esteem, and providing you a safe outlet to relieve your emotions, to giving you a sense of control over your life and helping you to get to know and understand yourself better. During the process of art creation, you will be taking yourself on a journey of self-discovery that will help you eliminate emotional roadblocks, and learn how to communicate with yourself and others.

Creating Art is not about becoming a great artist but about finding meaning and connection in your life. The focus is only on the process not on the end result.

So, go ahead and dare to try your hands on any simple activities like art journaling, sketching, making collages, sculpting with clay, etc. from the comfort of your home to enjoy the therapeutic benefits of artistic expression.

Here, I made an interactive card for the hop, and I wanted to convey the message,

"When you heart art, it adds Rainbow to your life"

Don't you agree that,"Creativity Blows your mind?!"

I'm so thankful to my kids and my friends for believing in me and encouraging me all the times.

So Just spread the kindness. Show some love to everyone that surrounds you, that will lift them up to a great extent and the happiness return back to you in doubles.

Keep spreading the kindness!

Hope you all liked my card. Do you wanna see the rainbow magic in action, click the image below.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Hop along for some amazing inspirations and the opportunity to win prizes from our generous sponsors.

Blog Hop order:

 Chandhini and Subhashini

 Claudia Cubas

 Monica Martinez

 Deekshita Jaideep

 Amanda Stevens

 Raga Senthil --> You are here

Priyadarshini Ramakrishnan

Ishani Sai

 Sandie Munro

Varada Sharma

Rules to participate in giveaway:

1. Follow all the designers.

2. Comment on each stop.

3. Mention your country as some prizes are restricted to Indian participants.

Commenting closes on 20th October 4:30 pm GMT and winners will be announced on 25th October, 2020.

*Winners will be chosen from comments left across all the stops on the hop.

*Open internationally.

*Giveaway accounts do not qualify.

Note: you can find the IG hop order @Mental_Health_Hop

Thank you for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Cheers!

Raga.

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Never fear, Shopping - Pop Up Card

HELLO friends,

I made a card to participate in MFT 2020 card design super star - Innovation Master category. Actually, I saw the announcement a day before yesterday and I had to quickly think of an idea to incorporate the MFT things I have in my stash.

You might have seen me missing in action for the past 4 to 5 months, due to our personal loss, we had to travel to our hometown and then the lockdown period all over India stopped us from returning home.

Now, we are back home and doing well. I felt so happy to pull out my craft supplies after a long time. So without further ado, let's have a look at my card.

IDEA BEHIND THE CARD

The story of my card goes around my daughter Laya and her pet dogs Shero(grey Pup) and Caramel( brown pup). As her birthday is 3 months ahead and having some relaxations over the lockdown, she badly wanted to go for hopping. Who wouldn't, when two super heroes are there to protect you?! Lol. All the more, when offer Sale is going on, one must do shopping! 😀 There is off Sale On Bitty Bear shop (MFT- Bitty Bear stamp set), so my little darling dared to go shopping with her two super heroes.

Let's see the scene now,

I wrapped up my card (5 * 5 inch)using a ribbon and this is how it goes into an envelope.

Front view 👆

Back view👆

Laya and Her pups indisguise (super Dogs). The grey Pup accompanies Laya inside the shop while the brown pup busy scouting the city and to ensure strong protection to his buddies in this covid19 pandemic situation.(yes, he has magical powers to fight against the invisible corona virus 😅)

Bitty Bear Shop:

I made a pattern paper using bitty bear stamp set for the background of the shop and ink smooshed cheerful yellow mid ground to display the product-line. The tagline of the store is 'Never Fear, Shopping' which is a mix up of sentiments from MFT super dog stamp and MFT birthday girl stamp.

The sale bag on right corner is interactive to reveal the off percent. I attached a Brad to the bag(from MFT birthday girl) to make it swooping around.

Can you see how I put the Birthday girl stamp set and Bitty Bear stamp set to creative use by showcaseing the product lines of Bitty Bear shop. ?!! I have used MFT Bottle cap Letters and Numbers DIENAMICS for the shop's name and to display discount price.

Super Hero Caramel(Brown pup),

No fear, Shopping! I'm here.

He is the air quality checker and giving protection to his buddies. He can move too as I have used magnetic pull strip mechanism. Look at him swaying to and fro over the cityscape( MFT CITYBLOCK DIENAMICS). I used the die in layers to achieve 3d effect.

Definitely, she might have sold on for such a good offer Sale. She bagged many good stuffs. It was a happy shopping indeed.

These are the products that I used in my card. I did some surgical techniques with script dies and stamps to customize my sentiments. I didn't use anyother products in my card other than MFT. It's 💯 made out of MFT PRODUCTS ONLY.

List of MFT supplies used:

1. MFT BB Bitty Bears

2. MFT Super Dog

3. MFT Pure Innocence Birthday Girl PI - 271

4. MFT CityBlock DIENAMICS

5. MFT Stitched Star peek-a-boo DIENAMICS

6. MFT Happy Birthday script DIENAMICS MFT - 1389

7. MFT Best wishes DIENAMICS MFT - 1436

8. MFT LLD Bottlecap letters DIENAMICS MFT - 752

9. MFT LLD Bottlecap Numbers DIENAMICS MFT - 753

10. MFT Triangle Stax Dienamics MFT 1280

Note: for the beam lights penetrating into the sky, I used sticky notepads as masking paper. Used Distress Oxides inks for colouring and smooshed BG. The Grey floor is made out of pathway from CityBlock DIENAMICS.

I also have a short walk-through video show my card in action.

https://youtu.be/-gvTzpXLyAY

Hope you all liked my card!

I'm entering my card into 2020 MFT card design superstar, Innovation Master category.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Cheers!

Raga.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Believe In You

Hello Friends,

I’m so pleased and honored to be featured on Prika’s all about crafts blog as the craft enthusiast of the month. Prika is a crafting community where you can find Inspiration from crafters all around India. Just have a look, I’m pretty sure you will be inspired. To read more about me and my crafting journey, please visit here.

Here is my inspiration card,

Your wings already exist, all you have to do is to believe in yourself as you are stronger than you think and let your dreams take flight. Soar high. :)

Keep all your fears away and go ahead and give it a try, you never know how good you are at something that you are scared to try.

I also have a video tutorial for this card, I’ll be so happy if you stop by my channel and leave your thoughts in the comments section.

Click on the image to watch the video.

I’m playing along with the following challenges,

Cupcake inspiration Theme challenge to use butterflies on your projects.

Stamploration theme and photo inspiration challenge

Happy little stampers anything goes with dies challenge.

Word art Wednesday anything goes challenge

Crafty Catz anything goes challenge

Little Patch of crafty challenges

Creatalicious anything goes with optional layer it up challenge

CardzTV anything goes challenge

Virginia’s March show and share challenge

The creative crafters challenge

DragonflyDreams Make it feminine challenge

Let's craft and create challenge

Craftangles March Anything goes challenge

Thank you so much for stopping by. Happy Crafting!

Cheers!

Raga.

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Circle

Hello everyone,

Happy weekend to you all! It's Time for a new challenge at Addicted to Cas Blog. The very talented Sue. N is our hostess and she chose the code word ’Circle’. We are so pleased to have a fantastic crafter Arlene as our guest designer. Kindly checkout her blog for more inspirations.

Here are my takes on the code word Circle.

I hope you all liked my cards and are inspired to participate along in our challenge.

For more inspirations from DTS, please head over to ATCAS BLOG.

Did you check out my recent video tutorials on my YouTube Channel. I hope you will be stopping by and support me by subscribing to my channel.

https://youtu.be/mkCpVhFXYW4

I'm playing along the following challenges,

Cupcake inspiration Theme challenge to use butterflies on your projects.

Stamploration theme and photo inspiration challenge

Happy little stampers anything goes with dies challenge.

Word art Wednesday anything goes challenge

Crafty Catz anything goes challenge

Little Patch of crafty challenges

Creatalicious anything goes with optional layer it up challenge

CardzTV anything goes challenge

Virginia’s March show and share challenge

The creative crafters challenge

DragonflyDreams Make it feminine challenge

Let's craft and create challenge

Craftangles March Anything goes challenge

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Happy Crafting.

Cheers!

Raga.

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Women's Day Hop - 2020

Hello friends,

Welcome to our women's day celebration hop - 2020. First of all, I'm wishing all the wonderful women out here a HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY.

This is our second year doing International Women's day hop. This could not be successful without the co-ordination of our 10 crafty friends and the generous sponsors.

We have surprise sponsors too,

To know more about the prizes, visit the link here

My card for the hop

No matter how far the problems in your life, pushing you down, Be sure to rise up like a dawn.
Though many might find themselves alone in their misery the truth is they are not alone, everyone has struggles. We all have our ups and downs, but it is how we react to them that truly matters. No matter what, giving up on lifelong dreams and aspirations because of few bumps in the road should never be an option. Never ever give up, Rise up like a break of dawn.

This is the message I want to convey through my card, so without further ado, let's have a look at my creation.

When life gives you problems, put your hair up in the bun, deal with it. 😀 Don't ever let the fear in, be strong, be unique and be cool. Most importantly always be yourself.

Edited: I also have a video tutorial for this card, hope you will be stopping by. I’m giving away $15 gift certificate to Honey Bee Stamp to one lucky commenter on this video. I would really appreciate if you spare some time to watch my video, and subscribe to my channel if you have not already.

Hope you all liked my take on the theme and are inspired to play along with us via linky party. We also have few sponsors joining us as guest designers to inspire you all. For more details about the hop, visit our main blog Women be-you-tifully You.

You might be interested checking out My Card for Women’s Day Hop 2021 - Rocking Flowers

Below is the full hop list:

Main blog ------> Women.beyoutifully.you

Guest Designers ----> Casual Fridays

Craftyscrappers

Funky Fossils

Jane's Doodles

Kitchen Sink Stamps

Pear blossoms press

Power Poppy

Time for Tea Designs

Uniko

Your Next Stamp

Hosting Designers----> Anila

Deepti

Ishani

Jasleen

Mugdha

Pooja

Radhika

Raga -- You are here

Rahmat

Sathya

Your next stop is the talented crafter Rahmat

Rules :
1. You have to be a follower of this blog.

2. Comment on all the stops in the hop list. This step is not mandatory but we would encourage you to follow all the blogs participating in the hop.

3. Please provide only one comment per person.

4. Sharing about the hop on social media will earn you extra entry.

5. Comments are open till 22nd March, 12 P.M. IST.

There are 3 ways you can win:
1. Hop along the blogs.
2. Add a project to the linky below, the theme being "Women Empowerment."
3. Hop along the Instagram accounts.

P.S. Winners will be announced on 31st March, on the blog

All the winners will be drawn randomly using random.org tool.

Have you hopped already on Instagram? If not, please click below to start.
Women.beyoutifully.you

I’m entering my card into the following challenges

Time out photo Inspiration challenge