Mini Note card- Cat Lover's hop

 Hello friends

We know we are late in sharing our entry for Cat Lover's hop, but nevertheless we find time to make it to the linkup.

We have a note card to share. It's really simple one. We did some stencilling for the background. The cat image is from Little Birdie stamp set. The sentiment is from the same set. 

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Cat-lovers-hop

2.Krafty chicks challenge-anything-goes

3. Simon-says-anything-goes

4. Cards tv-anything-goes-challenge

5. Crafty-catz

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Bookmark- Cat Lover's hop

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Sharing one more entry for Cat Lover's hop. This time, we made a bookmark.

The image is by Time for Tea design. Ain't it so adorable! We did background stencilling. Finished off with a handwritten quote. 

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Cat-lovers-hop

2.  Cards tv-anything-goes-challenge

3. Crafty-catz

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day.

Chandhini and Subhashini

Surprise Gatefold Diwali card

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We wanted to try something other than simple fold, so did Surprise Gatefold card inspired by Jennifer McGuire. 

This Lattice Fusion stencil by Mudra is so versatile, it can be used for different occasions. We enjoyed stencilling with bright colors!! 

Added Diya stamp by Varada Sharma. Though many things have changed in the last few decades, like LED lights and fancy lanterns; nothing comes close to earthen lamps for Diwali, agree!!

Supplies used- 

Lattice Fusion stencil by Mudra

Sunflower, Cotton candy and Lavender Dye inks from Craftyscrappers

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Mudra-craft-challenge-36-lit-it-up

2. Krafty chicks challenge-anything-goes

3. Simon-says-anything-goes

4. Stamplorations Belated-birthday

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Chandhini and Subhashini

Lantern Diwali card

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Be like the lights of Diwali...

Driving away darkness and spreading brightness all around.

Sharing our second card using Akash Kandil (aka lanterns) and Happy Deepavali sentiment which are a part of Varada Sharma November pre- release- Light up the World stamp set. We used Memory box die for background and some ink blending to show light coming out from lanterns. 

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Krafty chicks challenge-anything-goes

2. Simon-says-anything-goes

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Chandhini and Subhashini

Diya Spinner card

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 We have an interactive card using diyas (earthen lamps) from @varadasharma 

The idea for placement of the diyas came from a Rangoli that mom had put during Navratri. I (Subhashini) shared it with Chandhini to implement the idea in our card. That is when the interactive card freak in Chandhini got an idea spark to make a spinner card. Well, I couldn't say a no to her idea😅

Inspired by @ashleytucker video!! A spinner card was in our to do list for long time.

Well, many things have changed in the last few decades, we now have LED lights too. But nothing comes close to earthen lamps for Diwali, agree!!

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Krafty chicks challenge-anything-goes

2. Crafting happiness challenge

3. Allys angels

4. Allsorts challenge--celebrations

5. Simon-says-anything-goes

6. Stamplorations Belated-birthday

7. Timeout challenge

Thanks for stopping by!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Beary Happy Birthday Card

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Sharing a birthday card.

We were inspired by the sketch at Sugarpea Challenge. We flipped the sketch. We have used Bitty Bears stamp set by MFT. We used pattern paper from our stash.

1. Mix-it-up-challenge-72

2. Crafty hazelnuts patterned paper

3. Wordart wednesday.

4. Crafting happiness challenge

5. Allys angels

6. Allsorts challenge--celebrations

7. We love chocolate baroque- challenge

8. LPOCF

9. Cute card thursday-stamping

10. Creative moments

11. Krafty chicks challenge

12. Creatalicious challenge

13. Simon-says-layer-it-up

Thanks for stopping by!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Mental Health Day 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.

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. Winners are requested to share their prize once claimed, by tagging us.

Thanks for stopping by!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Stencilled Diwali Card

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Sharing our second Diwali card for this year. 

Diwali is synonymous with vibrant and rich colors, hence we went with these colors for stencilling with this gorgeous Floral Mosaic stencil by @mudra and combined with @itsybitsy Ornate die and @dadarkararts Gold Mirror cardstock. Photographing gold mirror cardstock was a real challenge.

We began by stencilling the design using Blueprint, Arctic and Peacock Dye inks from Craftyscrappers. The Stencil is by Mudra. We cut a Ornate die cut using Gold mirror cardstock. Then heat embossed the sentiment using Gold embossing powder. 

Supplies used- 

Floral Mosaic stencil by Mudra

Blueprint, Arctic and Peacock Dye inks from Craftyscrappers

Ornate die by Little Birdie

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Mudra-craft-challenge-36-lit-it-up

2. LPOCF

3. Crafty sentiments

4. TTCRD

5. Stamplorations-stencil-challenge

6. Pammies inky pinkies challenge

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Diwali Slimline Card

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Sharing our first Diwali card for this year!! 

For those who don't know about Diwali, it is an Indian festival of lights to celebrate the return of Lord Rama after 14 years of exile by lighting earthen lamps outside their home. People celebrate by wearing new clothes, distributing sweets, visiting friends and family and bursting crackers 💥 

We have tried to depict the typical Diwali night with the sky filled with fireworks  and lanterns outside house. 

Though we don't burst crackers anymore, we couldn't resist adding this lil boy enjoy his Diwali with crackers onto our card. Combining all these elements would definitely call for a Slimline Card size! So, here we are....

We did ink blending for the background using Craftyscappers dye ink pads. The boy image was stamped, watercolored and fussy cut. The Ranganjali Lantern Die was cut out from Gold mirror cardstock. To give the effect of glowing light from lanterns, we did some ink blending on vellum using Yellow ink and pasted it behind the die cut. The sentiment was heat embossed on vellum using Black embossing powder. 

We are happy with the outcome! 

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Lets create challenge challenge-164-ag/paper-strips

2. Uniko-challenge-61-anything-goesl

3. Creative fingers challenge

4. Stamplorations Belated-birthday

5. October-show-share

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Floral Shaker card

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Sharing our Floral Shaker card for Varada Sharma October release!

We have used Magnolia Wreath stamp, yet another attempt at Dot coloring. And paired up with this beautiful sentiment! Turned it to a Shaker card to add oopmh factor! Don't you think this card would bring a big smile on the recipient's face!!

Entering into the challenges:

1. Time out - we used optional twist of adding pink

2. The flower challenge

3. Pixies-snippets-playground-challenge - Black die cut is cut from a scrap paper

4. Avenue613

5. Cards galore challenge

We would like to invite you to visit our post on Mental Health Day hop plus giveaway here.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Unicorn riding over the Rainbow

Hello friends

We find happiness in rainbow 🌈 where do you find yours?

Sharing this card we made inspired by Create a Smile Moodboard. Here we were inspired by a card that @sandyallnock made. Used cute unicorn 🦄 stamp by Create a smile. The cloud stencilling is done using Craftyscrappers Create a scene Stencil.

Though this card took some time, we did enjoy the process and the outcome. You know, we love making interactive cards.

Entering into the following challenges:

1. We-dare-you-to-create-smile-september_30

2. The paper shelter- Colour-it

3. Cute card thursday-dies-punches

4. Lets create challenge challenge-164-ag/paper-strips

5. Uniko-challenge-61-anything-goesl

6. Creative fingers challenge
7. Crafty catz

8. Paper craft challenge

9. Cut it up challenge- world-cardmaking-day

10. Birthday-project-september

11. Unicorn challenge- spooky-andor-cute

12. Crafting happiness challenge

13. Stamplorations-stencil-challenge

We would like to invite you to visit our post on Mental Health Day hop plus giveaway here.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Hello Shaker card

 Hello friends

A simple HELLO 🙋‍♀️ could lead to a million things.

Sharing this card which we made for Pink Fresh Studio WCMD challenge, this time combining two themes- Die- cutting and Shaker. As this die is long to fit in regular card size, we used 5*7 inch card base. We used Craftreat Daisy background stencil. Added sequins for Shaker element and tada... Our card is ready!!

Supplies used:
Pinkfresh Hello with Botanicals die

iCraft sequins

Entering into the following challenges:

1. Pinkfresh studio- WCMD-challenge-1-diecutting

2. Pinkfresh studio- WCMD-challenge-11-shakers

3. Cinspirations- ATG

4. Crafty creations challenge

5. Pennys challenge

6. Wordart wednesday

7. Uniko-challenge-61-anything-goesl

8. Stamplorations-stencil-challenge

9. Pammies inky pinkies challenge

We would like to invite you to visit our post on Mental Health Day hop plus giveaway here.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Chandhini and Subhashini

Mental Health Day Hop + Giveaway

Hello friends

**This is gonna be a long post, so grab your favourite cup of beverage and sit back and relax.

Welcome to Mental Health Day blog hop, where a group of card makers are representing the art of card making via our beautiful cards on the theme of 'Art for your mind'. This hop is a part of Instagram hop, for more chances to win, please check our Instagram hop here.

When we think of the word- Mental health, one might think of issues like Depression, Schizophrenia or Bipolar disorder. But even stress, anxiety are forms of mental health issues. If these are left unmanaged for long time, they may need medical attention. Art helps us to relax and rewind from everyday stress. There is a sense of happiness in creating art, which is therapeutic. When we enjoy the process of creating art, we tend to forget the negative emotions and stress.

As part of Mental Health Day Hop, we would like to reinforce this fact that art and craft are therapeutic. We encourage all of you to take some time every week, if not everyday, to pursue some hobby like drawing, coloring, doodling, card making or whatever is your pick.

Our story

During the Chennai floods of 2015, we were in hostel all alone, quite literally, there were just 5 girls in our hostel, most girls packed their bags to leave for their hometown as soon as floods began.

We could not travel back to our home as both trains and flights did not function. So, we had no option but to stay back. It was depressing to see all our friends and roommates leave. We had no novels to read and spend time. To add to it, network connectivity was poor, so it became tough to speak to our parents. All this took a toll on our mental and emotional health. We spent days crying and asking "why did it happen to us?" "Why could we not enjoy home stay like other students?" Little did we know then that it wasn't of use. We had to live through it all and come out strong.

Quilling came to our rescue. We fortunately had quilling supplies with us. So, we resorted to quilling pendants and earrings to beat the blues and kill boredom. We found solace in quilling. It helped us divert our mind from the fearful situation. 

We found the history repeating itself, this time it took form of COVID-19. The only difference this time was that it created emotional and mental turmoil that lasted for many months together. Our overthinking habit just broke loose with no boundaries, whatsoever we tried.

The fear of contracting the disease caused the strictest lockdown in India. Wherever we turned, be it social media, newspaper or television, the news was flooded with high number of cases, grief and unfortunate misery it caused to migrant workers. The future seemed to be bleak. Coupled with this, we also had the stress of completing our thesis. This caused us a lot of stress, our days and nights were filled with gloomy thoughts. There were times we felt helpless and didn't have the motivation to do anything. We even questioned our existence. The whatever little time we could find after online classes and thesis work, we spent in stencilling backgrounds and coloring, though we didn't get time to make a complete card. But the little time we got to craft was therapeutic, it halted out negative thoughts. We felt happy seeing colors despite gloomy days. It is art and craft that helped us to stay sane in such tough times.

Thank you for joining us. Hop along for some amazing inspiration and the opportunity to win prizes from our generous sponsors.

Our Card:

The message we want to convey through our card is: When we enjoy the process of creating art, we tend to forget the negative emotions and stress. Art brings colour to our life.

Don't you think interactive cards bring a smile on the recipient's face! 

We love making interactive cards, so today we are sharing a magic color slider card. We have used image by Time for Tea Designs. We used a pattern paper from our stash. The rainbow was created using ink blending. Love how this card turned out.

Here is the order for the blog hop:

Chandhini and Subhashini - You are HERE

Claudia Cubas

Monica Martinez

Deekshita Jaideep

Amanda Stevens

Raga Senthil

Priyadarshini Ramakrishnan

Ishani Sai

Sandie Munro

Varada Sharma

Rules to participate in giveaway:

1. Leave a comment on each stop.

2. Mention your country as few prizes may have shipping restrictions.

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

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

*Open internationally.

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a great day!

Chandhini and Subhashini