Hello Crafty Friends,
Today we welcome one of our new design team members – she is someone whom I have admired for a long time. She wasn’t able to join earlier due to some personal reasons, but this month onwards she is able to do so and I could not be more excited! Today she is here sharing a gorgeous project for our monthly challenge – Fun with Florals. I will let her take it away from here :-)
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:
- Use of Varada Sharma image is a must.
- 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..)
- Use of Challenge graphic on your post is a must.
- Link up HERE as many times as you want.
- You can link up from your blog/ Facebook/ Instagram. When posting from Instagram, please use the hashtag #vschallenge.
- 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:
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.
