Mental health hop - winners

 Hello everyone,

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.

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.

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.

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.