Post 669: Three Pairs of Earrings (Inspiration for Lindy's Gang October 2020 Color Challenge)

Hi friends!

Hope you are doing well :) 

Lindy's Gang October 2020 Color Challenge is in full swing. 

There are still a few days left to play along. 

We have a beautiful mood board for you. 

There are generous prizes on offer, so please do join the challenge. 

All the details about the Challenge can be found on the Lindy's Gang Blog.

Lindy's Gang has gorgeous sprays, pigment powders, squirts & embossing powders, they ship worldwide, to check out their store, please click HERE. 

Also, to get product updates & lots of inspiration, we have a vibrant Lindy's Creative Gang Facebook Group.

Lindy's Gang October 2020 Color Challenge

Color Palette Guidelines: Aqua – Grey – Magenta

To enter the Color Challenge you MUST use at least 2 colors from the monthly color palette and as always you may also use black, white, neutrals or metallic colors as well! We are finding that there are so many amazing artists who are joining our challenge, that we can’t keep up with choosing winners! So, we’ll still have 5 winners of $50 gift certificates to Lindy’s, (sometimes more if we get tons of participants), and of those, 3 projects will be picked by Lindy’s for style, linking, etc, (the details are below) and 2 will be randomly drawn. Hopefully more people are encouraged to enter and we’ll get even more gorgeous projects! We just love sharing the Lindy love & thought this would be a great way to do it without anyone feeling intimidated.

For the challenge inspiration, I've created Three Pairs of Earrings. I made boho beads using Lindy's Magicals & Sprays and then converted them to earrings. To know how to create Boho Beads using Lindy's, please click HERE.  

Lindy's Products Used:

Sprays- Gag Me With a Spoon Gray, Poppin' Pink, C'est La Vie Cerise, Merci Beaucoup Mint, Tilt-a-Wheel Teal

Magicals- C'est La Vie Cerise, Bougainvillea Fuchsia, Gag Me With A Spoon Gray

Three Pairs of Earrings

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

Post 663: Lindy's Gang July 2020 Color Challenge

Hi friends!

Hope you are doing well :) 

Lindy's Gang July 2020 Color Challenge is live. 

There are still a few days left to participate. 

We have a beautiful mood board for you. 

There are generous prizes on offer, so please do join the challenge. 

All the details about the Challenge can be found on the Lindy's Gang Blog.

Lindy's Gang has gorgeous sprays, pigment powders, squirts & embossing powders, they ship worldwide, to check out their store, please click HERE. 

Also, to get product updates & lots of inspiration, we have a vibrant Lindy's Creative Gang Facebook Group.

Lindy's Gang July 2020 Color Challenge

Color Palette Guidelines: brilliant yellow---deep purple---hot pink

(We didn’t want to limit you to specific colors, in case you didn’t have them in your supplies). 

To enter the Color Challenge you MUST use at least 2 colors from the monthly color palette and as always you may also use black, white, neutrals or metallic colors as well! We are finding that there are so many amazing artists who are joining our challenge, that we can’t keep up with choosing winners! So, we’ll still have 5 winners of $50 gift certificates to Lindy’s, (sometimes more if we get tons of participants), and of those, 3 projects will be picked by Lindy’s for style, linking, etc, (the details are below) and 2 will be randomly drawn. Hopefully more people are encouraged to enter and we’ll get even more gorgeous projects! We just love sharing the Lindy love & thought this would be a great way to do it without anyone feeling intimidated.

Hope to see your beautiful creations this month!

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

Post 660: Lindy's Gang June 2020 Color Challenge

Hi friends!

Hope you are doing well :) 

Lindy's Gang June 2020 Color Challenge is live. 

We have a beautiful mood board for you. 

There are generous prizes on offer, so please do join the challenge. 

All the details about the Challenge can be found on the Lindy's Gang Blog.

Lindy's Gang has gorgeous sprays, pigment powders, squirts & embossing powders, they ship worldwide, to check out their store, please click HERE. 

Also, to get product updates & lots of inspiration, we have a vibrant Lindy's Creative Gang Facebook Group.

Lindy's Gang June 2020 Color Challenge

Color Palette Guidelines: bright green  -  coral-y orange  -  teal/turquoise

(We didn’t want to limit you to specific colors, in case you didn’t have them in your supplies). 

To enter the Color Challenge you MUST use at least 2 colors from the monthly color palette and as always you may also use black, white, neutrals or metallic colors as well! We are finding that there are so many amazing artists who are joining our challenge, that we can’t keep up with choosing winners! So, we’ll still have 5 winners of $50 gift certificates to Lindy’s, (sometimes more if we get tons of participants), and of those, 3 projects will be picked by Lindy’s for style, linking, etc, (the details are below) and 2 will be randomly drawn. Hopefully more people are encouraged to enter and we’ll get even more gorgeous projects! We just love sharing the Lindy love & thought this would be a great way to do it without anyone feeling intimidated.

Hope to see your beautiful creations this month!

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

Post 658: Lindy's Gang May 2020 Color Challenge

Hi friends!

Hope you are doing well :) 

Lindy's Gang May 2020 Color Challenge is live.  

We have a beautiful mood board for you. 

There are generous prizes on offer, so please do join the challenge. 

All the details about the Challenge can be found on the Lindy's Gang Blog.

Lindy's Gang has gorgeous sprays, pigment powders, squirts & embossing powders, they ship worldwide, to check out their store, please click HERE. 

Also, to get product updates & lots of inspiration, we have a vibrant Lindy's Creative Gang Facebook Group.

Lindy's Gang May 2020 Color Challenge

Color Palette Guidelines: soft pink---light green---soft gray

(We didn’t want to limit you to specific colors, in case you didn’t have them in your supplies). 

To enter the Color Challenge you MUST use at least 2 colors from the monthly color palette and as always you may also use black, white, neutrals or metallic colors as well! We are finding that there are so many amazing artists who are joining our challenge, that we can’t keep up with choosing winners! So, we’ll still have 5 winners of $50 gift certificates to Lindy’s, (sometimes more if we get tons of participants), and of those, 3 projects will be picked by Lindy’s for style, linking, etc, (the details are below) and 2 will be randomly drawn. Hopefully more people are encouraged to enter and we’ll get even more gorgeous projects! We just love sharing the Lindy love & thought this would be a great way to do it without anyone feeling intimidated.

Hope to see your beautiful creations this month!

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!
Preeti

Birthday Instagram Giveaway

Hi folks :)

I'm having a little birthday giveaway on Instagram. 

If you'd like to win these goodies in the photo which include stamps, stencils, inks, chipboard, wax & a handmade card, you can find all the details HERE.

I'll announce 1 winner on 1st August, 2019. Open Worldwide.

* This is not a sponsored giveaway 

Have a great day xoxo

Thyroid Awareness Month Blog Hop

Hi friends!

Welcome to the Thyroid Awareness Month Blog Hop

Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety) here. Thanks a lot for visiting my blog :)

 I'm very thankful for being part of this special event organized by the amazing Milka Gubo :)  

(Image Source: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201501/Disease/)

January is Thyroid Awareness Month. The aim of this blog hop is to support Thyroid Awareness Month and to raise public awareness of the importance of a Thyroid Gland and problems it can cause when not working properly.

The extremely talented, Milka Gubo, is our host for this event. There are 26 designers from all over the world in this blog hop, which was from January 5th until January 30th. Each day one designer shared a handmade project on her blog. Today, 30th January, is my turn to share a project. You can find all the info. about the hop on Milka's Blog. (There are some giveaways on some of the blogs, so please do visit, comment on & follow the blogs in the blog hop list, to encourage & support the designers & the event.)

The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped endocrine gland that is located in the lower front of the neck. The thyroid’s job is to make thyroid hormones, which are secreted into the blood and then carried to every tissue in the body. Thyroid hormone helps the body use energy, stay warm and keep the brain, heart, muscles, and other organs working as they should. When this gland doesn't function properly, it can cause various symptoms and diseases, please click HERE to find more information about the same. If this gland isn't working properly, some symptoms one can experience are: fatigue, weight gain, depression, sentitivity to cold, muscle or joint aches, brain fog (including poor memory and poor concentration), non-refreshing sleep, brittle hair and nails, constipation, shortness of breath, thinning hair, PMS, significantly calloused heels, low libido and infertility. Thus, it is important to get regular medical check-ups done to ascertain if there are any issues present & be properly treated for the same. 

The theme of our blog hop is Thyroid. We will be sharing our handmade projects featuring butterfly, butterflies and/or blue paisley pattern. Thyroid looks like butterfly and blue paisley patterned ribbon is a new symbol of Thyroid Awareness month, so it was our choice to incorporate these elements in our handmade projects. I chose to feature a butterfly on my card. 

Butterfly Card

Process:

1. Die cut the watercolour paper panel using a Winnie & Walter die 

2. Created a loose watercolor background using Lindy's Gang Magical Shakers

3. Did background stamping to create some texture using a Visible Image Stamp & distress oxide

4. Die cut the butterfly and word using Cutplorations dies & white cardstock, adhered these die cuts to the panel using Tombow Multi glue

5. Embellished the card with a half pearl 

6. In the end, foam mounted the panel on an A2 sized white card base. 

Supplies Used:

Lindy's Gang Magical Shakers- Guten Tag Teal, Time Travel Teal & Bavarian Blue 

Visible Image Stamp- Imagine Dream Inspire 

Distress Oxide Inkpad- Broken China

Winnie & Walter's Essentials Lana Cutaways

Cutplorations Dies- Flutter Zen 1 Layering dies and Hugs word die 

BLOG HOP LIST

The hop will last 26 days. Each day one designer will share her handmade project on her blog at 9:00 PM CET (UTC +1).

Milka Gubo (January 5th)
Imke Ludwig (January 6th)
Jane Taylor (January 7th)
Kaja Vezenšek (January 8th)
Samantha Mann (January 9th)
Andreja Lampe (January 10th)
Анна Коссаковская (Anna Kossakovskaya) (January 11th)
Ksenija Rizova (January 12th)
ValentinaBizjak (January 13th)
Alexandra (aka Ale) Suta (January 14th)
Kristina Pavlović (January 15th)
Tanja Kabel (January 16th)
Željka Jurkovic-Grizic (January 17th)
Donna Mikasa (January 18th)
Sabrina Lamarina (January 19th) SKIP COMMENTING
Darnell Knauss (January 20th)
Nonni Niskanen (January 21st)
Larissa Walgemoed (January 22nd)
Dunja Trautmann (January 23rd)
Neha Bhatt (January 24th)
Beverley Brown (January 25th)
Ishani (January 26th)
Maja Macura Sakač (January 27th)
Naz Sasayakiglitter (January 28th)
Sue Hastead (January 29th)
Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety) (January 30th)

I am linking my card to the following challenges:

CUTplorations January Challenge (I was inspired by the blues and greens in the photo and I have used 2 cutploration dies here)



Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge


Thanks a lot for your precious time :)
Stay Blessed!
Preeti

The Positive Vibes Hop- Vintage Art Journal Spread "Listen to Your Heart" by Dutt Preety

Happy New Year Dear Ones :) 

Hi! I'm Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety). Welcome to The Positive Vibes Hop. 

The purpose of our blog hop is to start the new year on a colourful & creative note, spread positivity & good vibes.We hope you'll enjoy the mixed media projects & pictorials we have prepared.

My Project: 

Vintage Art Journal Spread 

"Listen to Your Heart"

I've created a Vintage Art Journal Spread titled "Listen to Your Heart". I wanted to convey a positive message that we must follow our own heart & be brave. Creating vintage mixed media art journal pages is one of my favourite forms of art & so I wanted to start 2019 with something that truly makes my heart happy :) I've used my favourite colours- blue & green on these pages. 

Pictorial:

Step 1: Applied white gesso to the pages to prime them for mixed media work, then adhered various washi tapes to the pages & applied a coat of clear gesso on top of the washi tapes.

Step 2: Adhered die cuts, thread & painter's mesh tape to the background using soft matte gel

 Step 3: Mixed Fabrika Decoru's 3D gel with glitter with their Deco Topping Stones, Marbles & Crystals, to create a textured paste. Then applied this paste to the pages for texture & shine. 

Step 4: To add color to the pages, used Lindy's Gang sprays in various shades of blue, green and a black to add depth. Sprayed with water to create movement and dried between each layer of colour. 

Step 5: Did background stamping using archival ink & various Mudra Craft Stamps

Step 6: Used Vintage Photo Distress Ink to distress the edges of the pages, the edges of the Tim Holtz ephemera elements, paper doll & quote chips 

Step 7: Created the layers using all the ephemera elements, Mudra Craft Stamps' Chipzeb, gauze, paper doll & quote chips. Adhered everything using soft matte gel/tacky glue

Step 8: For the finishing touches, darkened the edges of the pages with black soot distress ink, added a bit of shine using Prima Waxes, adhered a few gems and created white and black ink splatter. 

Materials Used: 

1. Lindy's Gang Sprays: Sassy Sapphire Shimmer Spray, Azure Sea Asters Shimmer Spray, Tibetan Poppy Teal Shimmer Spray, Screamin' Banshee Black Shimmer Spray, Bells of Ireland Green Shimmer Spray, Drop Dead Gorgeous Green Shimmer Spray

2. Mudra Craft Stamps- Stamps (Hexa Mini, Geometric Stories, Checker & Swing Girl), Chipzeb (Floral Flourish, Swirls)

3. Fabrika Decoru 3d Gel with Glitter, Deco Toppings- Marble, Crystal, Quartz Mix

4. Prima Finnabair- Vintage Silk Wax, Heavy White Gesso, Clear Gesso, Soft Matte Gel

5. Tim Holtz Quote Chips, Paper Dolls, Emporium Ephemera

6. Ranger's Distress Inkpads- Vintage Photo, Black Soot and Archival Inkpad- Jet Black

7. Fantasy Dies

8. Aleene's Tacky Glue 

Our Fabulous Sponsors

List of Sponsored Prizes:

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2. Prima marketing: goodies worth 25$ with free shipping worldwide 

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4. Crealies dies : 2 Goodie bags worth $50 

5. ICraft: 3 Goodie Bags worth 3000INR 

6. Heartfelt creations: 5 Gift vouchers worth $25 each 

7.Rainbow craftkari: goodies worth 2000INR 

8. MUDRA: Goodies worth 2000INR with free shipping worldwide 

9. Kisan Arts : 3 Goodie Bags worth 2000INR 

10. Itsy Bitsy : online gift vouchers worth 2000INR 

11. Canvas and crops brand: gift card worth $25 

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14 . Craftangles : Goodies worth 1500 INR 

15. papericious: online gift vouchers worth 1000INR 

16. Nakshatra designs: Goodies worth 700INR 

17. Madras Bazaar: Goodies worth 2000INR 

18. Dadarkar Arts : goodies 

19. Die cuts and More: Gift vouchers worth 2000INR 

20. The Craft Shop: Goodies worth 2000INR 

Rules of the Hop:

To enter the sponsored giveaways you MUST:
1. Comment on all the blogs in this hop
2. Follow all the blogs in this hop
3. Share the hop with your friends on social media

Winners will be announced on 14th January, 2019 on our social media accounts, so please follow us to find out if you are a winner. Winners must email positivehops2019@gmail.com before 21st January, 2019 to claim their prize.

Disclaimer: Due to the magnitude of the hop, we the artists, are only responsible for putting the winners & sponsors in touch via email.

Blog Hop List:

1. Riddhi Jani
2. Apexa Nagar
3. Dutt Preety (that's me)
4. Pooja Sharma
5. Aditi Mahajan/ Sunila Mahajan
6. Kavitha
7. Uma Didwania
8. Aditya Khaitan
9. Bela Shah
10. Priya Gajjar
11. Ruchi Gupta
12. Aangee Shah
13. Priya Mishra
14. Hema Velcraft
15. Vidhi Jadeja
16. Kriti Mishra

Find us on Instagram:

1. Riddhi Jani
2. Apexa Nagar
3. Preeti Datta (Dutt Preety)
4. Pooja Sharma
5. Aditi Mahajan and Sunila Mahajan
6. Kavitha
7. Uma Didwania
8. Aditya Khaitan
9. Bela Shah
10. Priya Gajjar
11. Ruchi Gupta
12. Aangee Shah
13. Priya Mishra
14. Hema Velcraft
15. Vidhi Jadeja
16. Kriti Mishra

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)
Wish you a happy & creative new year. God Bless!