International Women's Day Hop - 2021

 

Hello Friends, 

Welcome to our 3rd International Women's day Celebration Hop  - 2021. First, I'm wishing all the wonderful women out here a HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY. 

Lots of amazing sponsors are not only sponsoring our hop, but some are also taking part in the hop line by sharing their inspirations. We are more than grateful to all our sponsors, without whom our hop could not be a great success. 

For more information about the prizes they are offering, check out the link here. 

My card for the hop

Flowers never cannot smile despite having a brief life span. So are women, who never cannot spread happiness despite going through daily challenges. They work all day long to keep things in order and hardly get recognised for their efforts. Don't they deserve the much needed break from their daily routines?! Let's support them for what they are and appreciate their efforts often because a little love and care goes a long way. 

My Card - Rocking Flowers (Action Mode) 

I illustrated this whimsical lady, and the flowers are some random pick from Pinterest. I'm so fortunate to find these doodled flowers as they pair well with my illustration. It was a happy accident.

I'm sharing the image and the template for the mechanism here as follows. You can download and use it. 

Rocking Girl Transparent Background

Rocking Flowers and Pull strip with Flaps

Mechanism Template

Sentiments

Mid-ground Panel

Foreground Panel

I also have a video tutorial for this card on my channel, kindly check out by clicking on the image below.

I hope you enjoyed watching my video. I would appreciate if you subscribe to my channel and leave your thoughts in the comments section. 

Hop order :

Alberto Gava

Alex Syberia Designs

Anila Dikay

Casual Fridays Stamps

Colorado Craft Company 

Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps

CrafTangles

Crafty Meraki 

Deepti Aggarwal

Ishani Sai

Jasleen Kaur

JoeSysavath.....takes you to Instagram 

Joy Clair Stamps

Kinda cute Patricia 

Kitchen Sink Stamps

Mugdha Gujarathi

Pear Blossom Press 

Penguin Palace Stamps

Pooja D.........takes you to Instagram 

Radhika Hobbycrafts

Raga Senthil ------>YOU ARE HERE  

Rahmat Gouse

Rainbow Craftykari

Sathyakala Sankaran

Simon Says Stamp

Stamplorations

Uniko 

Varada Sharma Designs

Women.beyoutifully.you - leave a comment in the end after hopping all stops.

Rules:

1. Leave a comment on each stop, and in the end, comment as "done" on the Women.beyoutifully.you blog.

2. Only one comment per person please.

3. When linking a project, add our graphic and a backlink to the blog.

4. Following all accounts is an added bonus, though it's optional.

5. Although sharing about the hop is not mandatory to win, we would highly appreciate it if could you give us a shout-out on your social media.

6. Only cards linked in the linky are considered for prizes.

7. Lastly and most importantly, ENJOY! :)

There are 3 ways you can win:

1. Hop along the blogs.
2. Add your cards (maximum up to 3) to the linky below, the theme being "Women Empowerment."
3. Hop along the Instagram accounts.

Please add your cards and comments by 15th March, 12pm GMT.

I'm entering my card to the following challenges:

 Lil patch of crafty friends

 Creative-moments-challenge

 Catch the bug challenge

 Crafty calendar challenge -feminine

 Crafty-catz-541-anything-goes

 Creative fingers challenge

 Simon says Beautiful Blossom

Digi doodle studios challenge-36-something-beginning-with-f

Dragonfly dreams challenge-include-flower

Get creative challenge

Crafting happiness challenge 87-flowers

Pammies inky pinkies challenge

Avenue613

Thank You so much for stopping by.

Happy Crafting!

Cheers!

RAGA.

Diwali blog hop - 2019

Hello friends,

I'm Raga here.

Hope you're all in full swing for Diwali celebration.

For those who are not aware of Diwali (for my international friends), here is a short description.

Diwali

Diwali, or Deepawali, is India's biggest and most important holiday of the year. The festival gets its name from the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) that Indians light outside their homes to symbolize the inner light that protects from spiritual darkness. This festival is as important to Hindus as the Christmas holiday is to Christians.

Diwali is a five day festival of lights celebrated by the Hindus, Sikhs and Jains for a variety of reasons, although the main theme which runs throughout is the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil.

To celebrate, houses are decorated with candles and colourful lights and huge firework displays are held while families feast and share gifts.

 Blog Hop

To make the celebration more joyful, we have come up with a blog hop filled with wonderful inspirations and generous sponsors. Special thanks to all the sponsors for taking this hop to next level.

Special thing about this hop: Card Drive

As we are neck-deep in our celebrations, surrounded by our families, it would really be ungrateful if we miss to remember all those Real-life heros who make it possible for us to enjoy all this securely and fearlessly, in our homes. As a token of our gratitude and to acknowledge their   sacrifice for us, we sent out handmade cards to a few Army and Air Force units all over our country, as a part of this hop. A small effort from our side to convey that they are in our thoughts and prayers.
This was made possible by our teammie Ishani , who herself is a part of the Indian Air Force family.

These are the cards that were sent to the brave hearts from my side. I'm so happy as they were acknowledged by them with thanks and simple sweet talk over phone. We are so proud and grateful to honour our real heroes on this occasion.

My cards for the hop:

Card 1: 

Techniques used: Ink smooshing, stacked diecuts to create dimension, ink blending, dry  embossing, handwritten sentiment

Card 2: 

Techniques used:  Ink smooshing, die- cutting, heat embossing, handwritten sentiment.

Card 3:

Techniques used: Spinner Mechanism, stamping, fussy cut, digitally printed sentiment.

Here is my card in action mode,

Card 4:

Techniques used: Die-cutting, dry embossing, EZ lights, handwritten sentiment, hand-drawn and fussy cut Diya.

Here is my card in action mode,

Hope you all like my cards. I'm so excited to hop along with you to see my friends' creations.

Bloghop order  : 

Anila Dk 

Deepti Aggarwal 

Ishani  

Mugdha Gujarathi 

SD Pooja 

Radhika 

Rahmat (http://cardsandcookingcorner.blogspot.com)

Raga Senthil --> You are here at the last stop 😊

Rules :

To be eligible for prizes you have to comment on all the blogs in this hop. Last date to comment is 31 Oct.Following our blogs and sharing about it is optional but will definitely give you an additional chance.

Winners will be drawn randomly from the comments left on all the blogs and will be announced on 5 Nov 2019 on all the blogs. We have prizes for international commenters too :)

We have 13 Awesome sponsers take a look at them

Uniko Stamps – 1 Stampset of choice from available stock 

STAMPlorations - $15 Gift Code to store

Crafty Scrappers –  Digital Images.

Dress My Craft–  Goodie bag worth Rs.1000

Crafter’s Emporio – Goodie bag worth  Rs.500 

Craftangles - Goodie bag worth Rs.1000

Crazy Craft Store – Goodie bag 

Creative minds – Felt flowers worth Rs.500

Dadarkar Arts – Goodie bag worth Rs.1000

Papericious -Rs.1000 Goodie bag 

Rainbow Craftykari – Gift Voucher  worth Rs.500

Tubby Crafts – Goodie bag worth Rs .1000 

Handcrafted Expressions(Kriti Mishra )– Goodie bag worth Rs.500

My Special thanks to:

SD Pooja for organising this blog hop and made me a part of it. 

Anila DK for thoughtful process about card drive.

Ishani for making it successful.

Mugdha Gujarati, Deepti Aggarwal, Rahmat Gouse and all the participants of this hop for their wonderful contribution. 

Last but not least, many thanks to all our generous sponsors. 

Wishing you all a very happy and safe Diwali! 

Thank you for stopping by.

Happy Crafting!!

Cheers!!

Raga.

Trick or Treat?!

Hello friends,

As fall is here and halloween is approaching, I made a quick and very sweet cas card to share with you all. Here you go,

I just doodled the sweet little candy corn and grounded him with pattern paper. His spooky eyes are mase out of white sequins and black enamel dot. Hope you all like this sweet and spooky candy corn made by me.

I'm joining in the following challanges,

CASology challenge,

Cas on Sunday challenge of theme 'make a fall or halloween card' ( sweet halloween card in fall colours)

Thankful card

Hello friends,

Happy Monday everyone. Fall is here and it's time to thank someone who is doing wonderful things for you. So I do thank my family and friends for everything ( Please dodo vis my previous post to see a thank you card that I made for my friends). Here is a card that I made using freebies from create a smile challenge blog. Let's have a look,

How generous of this bird to help this small ant. ( Though it's not a big thing for the bird as it's fall 😅). Those who know the story of bird and ant story can understand what I mean here 😀. ( The moral of the story is 'if you do good, it will come back to you' also 'you should not forget those who help you'). I thank my lovely husband for giving me a wonderful and secured life and i'm so grateful for every little things he do. Also I thank all of my friends in this crafting community for helping me grow. 😊💕

I hope this card brings smile on your face. 

I'm joining in the following challanges,

Uniko Challenge

Stamploration october theme and sketch challenge.

Cupcake inspiration challenge

This bird is so versatile that I made one more card just contrast to this fall card. So stay tuned. 

Thank you for stopping by. Happy crafting.

Cheers!!

Raga.

Comfy circles

Hello Lovelies,

Happy Friday everyone. I made some thank you cards to share with you all. Let's have a look at my today's make,

That little butterfly is me nesting in a comfy crafting circle. So I thank all my wonderful friends in this crafting community who makes me so comfortable and keep my spirit high. Many Thanks to you all for your constant support my dear friends.!! Love you all!!

Note: I fussy cut those circles. 😊

Hope you all liked my card. I'm joining in the following challenges,

Inkspirational challenge,

Timeout challenges 

Uniko challenge

Thank you for stopping by. Happy crafting!

Cheers!!

Raga.

Cosmos beauty

Hello friends,

Happy Friday everyone, today I have a cas card in black and white to share with you all. After a long time, I made a floral sketch.  Let's have a look,

The cosmos flowers are inspired from calling all sistahs challaenge photo. They are hand-drawn and watercoloured by me. Hope you all liked it.

I'm Joining in the following challanges,

Calling all sistahs challenge,

Stamploration anything goes Cas challenge

Word art wednesday Tuesday throwdown challenge

Thank you for stopping by. Happy Crafting. 

Cheers!!

Raga.

Punctuation Smiley

Hello crafty peeps,

Hurrah!! I'm so thrilled to be guest designing at CASology this week.

Thank you so much Melissa and team for this great opportunity.

The cue card at CASology for this week is 'Punctuation'.

You all may come across puctuation humours and obviously you all know how much punctuation matters! So definitely it's such an interesting cue with lots of possibilities.

Without further ado, let's see my take on this cue,

I used semicolon and parentheses (punctuation smiley) as my focal point with a pop of color (pink). The bold sentiment is handwritten by me. Hope you all liked my take and it's worth to stop by at CASology blog for more inspirations from DTs.

I'm joining in at,

Time out challenge,

Stamploration anything goes Cas challenge

Thank you for stopping by. Many thanks to the CASology team once again for this great honour.

Happy Crafting!

Hugs!

Raga.

Black and white beauty

Hello lovelies,

Here is my second card of the day using four petal fri-die from CAS-ual Fridays stamp store, that I won in last month encouragement challenge at calling all sistahs.

Let's go for the show off,

Can you see the centre petal holds the flower pattern from the tutu girl stamp set from CAS-ual Fridays!? I found that it adds so much interest to the flower. I also added a layer of vellum petal for soft look(got inapiins from photo at calling all sistahs) Hope you all liked it too.

I'm joining in at the following challenges,

Calling all sistahs challenge

Happy little stampers cas vellum challenge,

Stamploration anything goes CAS challenge with optional twist black

Thank you for stopping by. Happy Crafting. 

Cheers!!

Raga.