TOP 4 and Winner (I Love Math Challenge #12)

Hi everyone! :o)

HUGE apologizes for not posting this yesterday... I went to a birthday party early in the afternoon and after that hang out with my friends until late night hours. Thanks for understanding. :o)


Thank you all for joining I Love Math Challenge #12!

We had 19 FABULOUS entries!! Valentina, Kaja, Neha and I enjoyed very much visiting your blogs (and other social media profiles) and seeing your CAS Birthday Cards featuring geometrical shapes. Amazing creations!!! :o) Ladies, you've inspired us a lot and gave us again a very difficult task to pick TOP 4 favorites. You can find all entries on main challenge post here.

Here are our TOP 4 favorites 

in order of entering the challenge:

1. Cornelia (fun stamping) #6

Valentina: 'Amazing idea with overlapping triangles in different red shapes with a touch of yellow. Love this CAS card. Black animals and a big sentiment with a washi tape fit just perfect.'

Kaja: 'I just love the bold look of the triangles along with the black animal silhouettes. The card really suits the challenge theme perfectly.'
Neha: 'I love the way you used shapes. Very minimalist and beautiful design.'
Me: I love the way triangles are arranged, their colors and cute animal silhouettes. Everything is so nicely put together. Great CAS design.

2. Anila Dikay #10

Valentina: 'Super simple idea to make a birthday card only with rectangles. Wonderful idea!'

Kaja: 'The creative use of rectangles on this cards makes me smile. The paper used makes this cake look really yummy and delicious.'
Neha: 'Brilliant use of shapes. Love how you created the focal point with shapes.'

Me: Amazing take on the challenge theme and a very creative usage of rectangles. Brilliant minimalist design.

3. Priyanka Kantak #16

Valentina: 'I love this simple and clean card with rainbow colours. It's beautiful! And I like how the little squares are used with a bit of rainbow colour. Amazing!'

Kaja: 'I love rainbow colors and they really make this clean and simple card pop. Love it!'
Neha: 'Such a simple design but you totally nailed the theme. Great job!
Me: I love wonky squares, rainbow colors and how everything is nicely put together. Brilliant CAS design.

4. Priyanka Kantak #18

Valentina: 'Rainbow colours are perfect for simple and CAS cards. And I love the lanes in the beautiful blue sky. This card reminds me of the streets of Brighton where you see these lanes at every step. And some stripes at the background are just perfect.'

Kaja: 'The faux stitching detail on the background really makes this card come to life. Of course, I also love the rainbow colors of the banners!'
Neha: 'Clever use of banner stamp to interpret the theme.'

Me: Amazing take on the challenge theme. I love rainbow triangular banners and lovely background faux stitching. Such a pretty detail.

Congratulations Ladies!! Here is a TOP 4 badge for you. Feel free to download it and proudly display it on your blogs. Please read Privacy Notice below (thank you!).

The winner of one Jane's Doodles stamp set from the TOP 4 Favorites, 

chosen by Random.org is

4. Priyanka Kantak #18

Congratulations!!! :o)

Please contact me in a week to claim your prize (email: milkagubo81 (at) gmail (dot) com). You have to send me confirmation e-mail from the e-mail address that you provided entering the challenge. If I don't hear back from you in a week, another TOP 4 Favorite will be randomly picked. I will give my best to reply to your e-mail within 72 hours. If you don't get a response from me in 72 hours, please resend your e-mail.

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Thank you all for wonderful support and participation. :o)

Due to some technical issues, our next challenge will not start on April 7th 2019, as planed in yearly schedule. As for now, we are postponing the challenge for a week, so it will start on April 14th, 2019. If technical issues are not solved by then, we will postpone the challenge again, until issues are solved. I will keep you updated and share information here on my blog.

Big hugs to all!! Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

I Love Math Challenge #12

Hello everyone and welcome to a new I Love Math Challenge!

This is the twelfth challenge. If you're new to my blog, you can find all about the challenge here.

A theme for this challenge is picked by me: GEOMETRIC SHAPES on CAS (clean and simple) BIRTHDAY CARDS.

"Geometric Shapes can be defined as figure or area closed by a boundary which is created by combining the specific amount of curves, points, and lines."

Source: https://www.toppr.com/guides/maths/basic-geometrical-ideas/basic-geometrical-shapes/

List of geometric shapes:

• circle
• triangle
• rectangle
• square
• polygons
• parallelogram

Source: https://www.toppr.com/guides/maths/basic-geometrical-ideas/basic-geometrical-shapes/

CAS (clean and simple) guidelines according to CASology blog:

• One main image
• Lots of open space, uncluttered
• Limited layers & embellishments
• Quick & easy to recreate

Source: CASology blog

And now inspiration from the team...

First couple words from our new team member, Valentina.

'My dear crafty friend Milka invited me to join as a fourth member of a wonderful Design Team in I Love Math Challenge.

I was honored and really happy to be invited since this is my first time to become a member of a Design Team. 

As this was my secret wish that one day I join Design Team, I'm super excited and grateful for this opportunity. 

So thank you from the heart, Milka. I truly admire crafts and cards of all these girls. 

I Love Math Challenge is such an exciting and funny challenge that it wouldn’t be right to say no. 

Eventhough I’m not a Math person, at all. I’m still using my fingers and my phone for simple operation. 

I know this is kind of awkward but that’s me. :) So don't be scared and eventhough you don't like Math, you can still try and join us at challenge. :) '

And here is Valentina's take on the challenge.

ADORABLE!!! Wonderful CAS design, layout, super cute images... and a lot of rectangles. ♥ I love Valentina's take on this challenge and how she used Polaroid frames as geometric shapes. LOVE!!! ♥ Jump over to Valentina's blog and find more details about her card. :o)

Here is Kaja's take on the challenge.

Super cuteness overload!!! AMAZING design, layout, color scheme, super cute shark, everything beautifully colored... and oh WoW triangles!!! ♥ I love Kaja's take on the challenge, her card and how she incorporated triangles into her scene. LOVE it!! ♥ Jump over to Kaja's blog and find more details about her card. :o)

Here is Neha's take on the challenge.

GORGEOUS!!! Beautiful design, layout, modern look, colors... and oh that alcohol inked circles. ♥ I love Neha's card and how she used only circles on her card, even the sentiment. LOVE it!!! ♥ Jump over to Neha's blog and find more details about her card. :o)

And here is my take on the challenge: Geometric Grid Birthday Card.

I made this card for my brother Goran who's birthday is this Saturday. :o)


How I made this card...

I die cut three CIRCLES on a white cardstock paper panel and stamped 'Happy Birthday' sentiment stamp from Lawn Fawn which I received as a birthday gift last year from Lawn Fawn. :o)

As I was working, I placed the panel on my Xcut self healing mat. I liked a grid in the background, so I decided to the grid for my card. As I didn't have any grid paper in my stash, except white one (and that one I didn't like), I copied the Xcut mat on a white cardstock paper using my printer/copy/scan device and got myself a patterned paper I wanted. :o)

I cut a wide stripe from the grid patterned paper, glued it on a white top folded card base, glued the panel on the card base and my card was finished. :o)

Super simple, great design for masculine cards, various geometrical shapes... I really like how my card turned out.   :o)

Card measurements: 95 mm x 140 mm  (3 3/4" x 5 1/2")

List of supplies:

• Lawn Fawn 'Happy Birthday' sentiment stamp (2018 birthday gift from Lawn Fawn)
• Sizzix circle thinlits dies (from starter kit)
• white cardstock paper
• Ranger Archival Ink, Jet Black
• UHU liquid glue
• Sizzix Big Shot
• printer
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Xcut self healing working mat (grid)
• bone folder
• scissors

I'm linking my card to following challenges:

Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge (if any) is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

1) Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies Challenge, February 2019
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Love To Scrap Challenge Blog, Challenge LTSCB #118 - Anything Goes with optional twist Monochrome

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Uniko, Uniko Challenge #51 - Anything Goes, optional twist Love
This is my 3rd entry to this challenge.

4) Uniko, 7th Birthday Linky Party

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

Now it's your turn...

Create CAS (clean and simple) birthday themed card using any geometric shape(s) on your card.

More details about the challenge...

Challenge Starts: February 7th 2019, 10:00 PM CET (UTC +1)

Challenge Ends: March 7th 2019, 11:55 PM CET (UTC +1)

Challenge rules:

1. Math: geometrical shapes
2. Theme: birthday
3. Project: card
4. Design: CAS (clean and simple) card
5. Geometrical shapes must be used on your card.
6. Only CAS birthday cards for this challenge.
7. The challenge is opened Worldwide (+18), except for minors.
8. You don't have to be a Math Lover to join this challenge.
9. Your creation must be new. Please do not link creation that has been posted prior to the day of the challenge.
10. Projects must be handmade!
11. Any stamp company/artist is welcome.
12. Any other craft supply company/artist is welcome.
13. You must be my blog follower through Blogger.
14. Mention the challenge in your blog post and link back to the challenge.
15. Display Challenge badge in your blog post.
16. Link up as many projects as you want.
17. You are welcome to combine your project to as many challenges as you want.
18. No blog hop and direct selling links are allowed here.
19. Link your direct blog post and not your entire blog, so we could locate your creation.
20. Please turn off word verification.
21. Prior you enter the challenge and add your link to Inlinkz, please read these Challenge Rules and Privacy Notice (shared at the bottom of this post below Inlinkz).
22. Have fun!

I reserve the right to remove links that do not comply with challenge rules.

Prize: 

One Jane's Doodles stamp set of winners choice. Kaja, Neha, Valentina and I will select four favorite projects (TOP 4), which will be featured here on my blog on March 31st 2019.
Among TOP 4, there will be a random draw (using Random.org) for one lucky winner who will then receive the prize. :o)
Winner has to confirm the prize in a week. Unconfirmed prize will be redrawn and given to another TOP 4.
If we have 4 or less entries to the challenge, all projects will be considered as TOP projects.


I hope you'll like the new challenge theme, get inspired and join us with your Math creations. Kaja, Neha, Valentina and I can't wait to see your creations. :o)

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Just leave me a comment on this blog post or send me an e-mail. 

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback! Enjoy and smile! :o)

Milka

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I Love Math Challenge: Meet the Team

Hi everyone!!

A new I Love Math Challenge starts tomorrow, Thursday, February 7th 2019. We will continue with quarterly challenges, same as previous years (if no unexpected situations). If you're new to my blog, you can find more about the challenge here.


Today I want you to meet the team. :o)

Neha Bhatt of Periwinkle Creations is a friend crafter from India. Math lover, amazing crafter with brilliant designing ideas. Her stunning creations blow me away every single time. :o)
Neha supports the challenge from it's beginning with her amazing creations and ideas. Neha joined the team as a designer collaborator in a year 2017.

Thank you for all you do, Neha!! ♥

Here are links to Neha's blog, shop and social network accounts:
Blog: Periwinkle Creations
YouTube Channel: Neha Bhatt
Instagram: @nehabhatt
Facebook: Periwinkle Creations

Kaja Vezenšek of Kajcyika Crafts is a friend cardmaker from Slovenia. Math lover, with amazing designing ideas and skills. Her super cute cards melt my heart. :o)
Kaja supports the challenge from it's beginning with her brilliant math ideas and creations. She also helped me creating our lovely challenge badges and watermark signatures for the team, as I don't have proper software to create them. Kaja joined the team as a designer collaborator last year, 2018.

Thank you for all you do, Kaja!! ♥

Here are links to Kaja's blog and social network accounts:

Blog: Kajcyika Crafts

YouTube Channel: Kajcyika Crafts

Instagram: @kajcyika.crafts

Facebook: Kajcyika Crafts

Valetina Bizjak of Barvito malo mesto is a friend crafter from Slovenia. She creates super cute cards and other projects. Interesting fact about Valentina: she is not a Math lover. :o)

Valentina supports this challenge from it's beginning. She participated in most challenges with her beautiful creations. I'm very happy that she accepted my invitation to join the team from this year.

Welcome to the team, Valentina!!! ♥

Here are links to Valentina's blog and Instagram account:
Blog: Barvito malo mesto
Instagram: @valentina B

Me, creator and host of the challenge. I live in Croatia. I'm graduated traffic engineer. I love crafting, Math, Physics, teaching, gardening, nature, cooking, books... a lot of stuff!! :o)

I hope you'll like challenges we prepared for you this year, as well as our Math creations. We are looking forward to see your Math ideas and creations. ♥

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile!! :o)

Milka