Winnings and Gifts from the Crafty Community !

From Di of Pixie's Playground

        Hi friends at the outset itself let me warn you not to feel jealous.....I am posting this not to make you envious but to re iterate just how generous the crafting community is and to express my gratitude to the crafting community as the year comes to an end!

       I have been blogging for more than 5 years and the generosity of the crafting community and bloggers especially never ceases to amaze me!

Let me shout a big Thank you to...

• Di from Pixie's Snippets Playground : Di hosts weekly Linky party at her site and she takes the trouble to single-handedly visit each crafter and leaves such encouraging words on their posts. She selects and features super gorgeous projects each week and always has some amazing prize on offer . You have to tell her if you want to win a prize that week or not.....I confess I unashamedly want to win a prize each week!! The super gorgeous Sizzix stamp- die set shown above was a prize I won during her 200th Challenge celebration!! And I sooo loved the cute card she sent me...I am a big sucker for handmade cards!! I urge you to link up your creations each week to Di's Playground...its one of the most friendly Challenge sites in blogland!
• Monika Reek

From Monika Reek

         Monika is a crafty blogger just like you and me and I was simply blown away when just like that ,she sent  me all the gorgeous papers, sparkly beads, 3 d decoupage image sets, embossed cards and the icing of the lot...a handmade card featuring a beautiful beautiful embossed butterfly! My husband brought home this parcel and we were going to go out to see the latest James Bond flick "Spectre" ....but all I was interested was in drooling over each little thing in her parcel....I think my crafty friends can identify! 

       Ooh girl I dont know if you are crazy or not to take the trouble to send me all this stuff all the way from Germany but big big hugs!!

• Karuna of Lulupu Craft Store

From Lulupu

         Paper crafting is a budding industry in India and Karuna 's passion for crafting made her open her craft store Lulupu.She so generously sponsors and hosts monthly Challenge and I was voted winner in the 3 D Challenge  with my 3 D pinning pop up ball. The picture shows the beautiful prize she sent me!! Thank you so much Karuna for providing Indian crafters with a platform to showcase our Paper-crafting skills and encouraging us to excel!

• Devika of Kukies Basket

From Devika

      Devika is a blogger friend who also started a craft store to help fill the lacunae in getting craft material in India. She writes long eloquent letters to me and is super good for my ego as she praises me like anything!! I was so touched when one day a parcel arrived with all the lovely die cuts shown above....I am hoarding each bit like crazy as I cant bring myself to use them up!!And yeah she said some of them are for my daughter but wicked lady that I am I am grinning that my daughter has forgotten about these beauties!!...that way I get to hoard them longer!

• Diana of DL Art

From Diana of DL Art

          Diana hosts an extremely popular linky party each month in addition to RAK's and weekly themed Challenges on her blog. She also has a shop selling cute gorgeous crafty items. She so generously sent me all these stuff when I was lucky enough to win her linky party one month. I urge you to link up your creations at Diana's site...she is one of the most friendliest souls in blogland and now has a bunch of equally friendly DT many of whom are my friends!

• Marianne Designs

  

  From Marianne

  If you enjoy die cutting I am sure you have come across dies by Marianne designs! This very generous company sponsors several Challenges around blogland and I won the  2 gorgeous die sets shown above when I was voted winner for my 3 D chariot at the Marianne Design Divas Challenge 
• Pamelia Johnson

From Pamelia

          Pamelia is someone I am literally in awe of....her mixed media creations are simply mind-blowing...one can sit and stare at every inch of her creations so be sure to drop by her blog if you havent! The lovely stuff you see above were won during her generous giveaway and she sent me all these stuff all the way from Canada! Pamelia is so generous is sharing her crafty secrets and I looove that she comments on her blogger friends blogs and encourages us no end....Thank you so much Pamelia !

•  PoppyStamps

From Poppy Stamps

       I love dies and always drool over the gorgeous die cuts my fellow crafters  use. In India we only have access to buy the limited variety of dies the handful of sellers here sell so it was dreamy to win gorgeous Poppystamps dies which are not available in India ! I won the  dies shown above in 3 separate occasions...twice during new release hops and once as a lucky winner during the poppystamps monthly Challenge .I also want to specially thank Poppy stamps DT Jeanne Jachna for seamlessly coordinating sending me the prize all the way to India all 3 times!

• ModSquad Challenges and Designs by Ryn

Designs by Ryn

         I was lucky enough to win the gorgeous rubber stamps designed by Ryn when I took part in the ModSquad Challenges. I had been debating buying Ryn's stamps are they are so popular now but since I am not confident about whether I could do justice to her beautiful designs I had resisted...it was such a thrill when a couple of weeks later I won her stamps and the icing on the cake was when she personally emailed me!! Oooh it was like being contacted by a celebrity....if you know what I mean!!

         I urge you to play at ModSquad Challenges...they have unique Challenges and the DT do take care to visit your blog and choose top 3s and they have gorgeous prizes on offer too!

•  Scrapping4fun Challenge and Pooja

From Scrapping4Fun

          Now this present has a story which you may find heartwarming ! Like most bloggers I too have blogger friends I regularly visit and one day I casually visited my talented blogger pal Pooja and noticed her creation had been shortlisted at Scrappin4fun Challenges and needed "votes" to win. Well I do love to support my blogger friends in whatever small way and so yes I went ahead and voted for her! Later I came to know that I had won a prize just for voting!! How cool is that and quite crazy! I confess when the prize arrived in the mail with a "Swiss postage" I had a hard time recollecting why I was sent it till I read the note attached!

• Stamplorations

From Stamplorations

        I was lucky enough to win this gorgeous stamp set designed by my blogger friend Deepti [ she actuallydesigns her own stamp line...isnt that amazing!]from the Stamplorations blog. And I loved the fact that the owner of the shop Shery took the extra trouble to add a hand written note...isnt that sweet!Thank you so much Shery!

• Shalini Mittal of Crafters Corner

From Shalini

          I worked as DT for Shalini for more than a year and she is such a generous soul. She has sent little and not so little gifts to not only me but to my daughter so many times! Thank you so much Shalini...I should have posted this long time back!! Shalini sent my little girl the adorable ladybug bag and beautiful kingfisher compact mirror! My daughter still takes it to her school to show off whenever she gets a chance!

From Shalini

Yes apart from my regular monthly DT packages  I have been lucky to get beautiful crafty toys in my mail  from Shalini's Crafters Corner!

From Shalini

Shalini would send gifts not only during festivals but also when she returned from a trip abroad and also if she specially loved a DT post...Thank you so much Shalini once again!

• Shilpa Kenia  of Shilpi

  

  From Shilpi

            Now this little gift is something which is very exciting for me...I recently came to know that an Indian company Shilpi has launched its own line of ink pads with some pretty neat and unique features. I merely congratulated the artist- owner Shilpa on facebook and lo she messages me she would send me some samples to try out! Woo hoo...cant wait to try them out!
• Vishakha Mittal

From Vishakha

           Facebook is a time stealer but yes sometimes you can chance upon some fun crafty events on FB ! Vishakha is a crafter + seller who recently posted on FB if anyone was interested in working with some metal embellishments. A couple of wonderful crafters recommended  my name and I told her I was up to a Challenge ! Well I am somewhat ashamed to say she sent me these lovely things nearly 2wks back but I am yet to really use them...love them too much and feel they need to be showcased in a worthwhile project which I am yet to complete!

• Sharada of HappyMomentz

  

  From Sharada

            Sharada is a sweet blogger friend I have had the pleasure to meet in person several times since we stay in the same city! She made this cute shaker card for me and gifted my daughter the beautiful plaque shown below. We have a small group of paper-crafters who meet up once in a while and Sharada almost always takes the initiative to get us all together!

From Sharada

• Anuja

  

  From Anuja

             Anuja is another crafter friend whom I have met in real life a couple of times. We both share the passion of crafting with different materials and not just paper. Recently during a crafters meet Anuja was kind enough to gift this cute little handmade paper purse to my daughter...this is so cool..it has 2 pockets inside to hold papers, crayons and any other knick knacks a little girl may need! And she even monogrammed it for my daughter! Thank you so much Anuja....you dont know how happy it made my little girl!
• Bangalore Crafters

  

  Bangalore Crafters

           And I am leaving you with a "group selfie" we took during a crafters meet at Bangalore. That is Anuja at the top left holding the camera, the one in red top below her is Remya. The blue blouse smiley one is Sharada.Behind Sharada are Rupa, Pooja, Mary Antonia Raj, Tanvi and Jaya in that order! The little head is my daughter's and on the right hand lower corner is me !
       And to all my readers and blogger friends....Thank you so much  for all the wonderful visits and comments you leave on my blog....it means so much to me!