Chapter three - our progress so far

This past year had been really hard on all of us in one form or the other. Many small and big businesses have been badly hit due to the pandemic. In this situation, we were doubtful about the hop, whether we would get a response from sponsors. Also, most of our team members are busy, some with their little ones doing online schooling. After a much needed discussion, we decided to go on with the hop. As the times have been tough for one and all, we realized that the need for hop is even greater now. We all need some form of encouragement during difficult times, we need someone to assure us that we are not the only one in this, there are many more people and we will sail through this storm together. There is no better way to say it than a parade of encouragement cards all over the social media. 

We are now gearing up for our Third hop, with the experiences from our past two hops, we have started this one much ahead of time. 

We were prepared that many sponsors may not be interested and we understood the situation but we were proved so wrong! We got a tremendous response from our sponsors. Including the ones who have stood behind us right from our 1st Hop to this upcoming one. 

The number of prizes and sponsors are overwhelming. The prizes offered are as such that, at times we thought of taking a break from team and joining as hopper. Let me stop here before I spill the beans!  Mark your calendars for 8th March, GMT 2pm to get ready to HOP with us on our blog and Instagram and a linky party for you all to link you projects on our blog.

Do follow us on:

Instagram 

Facebook group 

Love and peace from us to all.

Chapter two of our Journey

After the success of our 1st hop in 2019, for the 2nd hop we decided to expand it further to FB and blog as well. We also created a dedicated Instagram account. Our 2nd hop was on Instagram and blog plus we had a Linky party! With the experiences from the 1st hop, we ironed out the creases for this hop pretty well right from the start, and it was planned more efficiently. 

However, extending our presence on blog and FB brought some unexpected challenges. We had to maintain not one but three separate accounts!  We felt deeply humbled that many International as well as local craft supply brands came forward to sponsor us not only by offering prizes but also by participating in our blog hop. We continued to receive more visibility.

Just when we thought everything was in order, Instagram and FB had something else in store for us: “Blocking the links”! Our major platform to spread the news about the hop was FB, which became a hurdle at this stage. After continuous reporting and wait of few days, the issue was resolved, and a new lesson was learnt to test out things beforehand. 

Despite flawless planning, there were lots of confusions and misunderstandings (10 girls working together isn't easy we tell you🤣🙈). Until the last week of February, we weren't even sure how we were going to pull this off. We did overcome it with each other’s support. 

To our surprise, our 2nd hop was a great success. Our Instagram account @women.beyoutifully.you has over 200 supporters, and our FB group is going strong with 341 members. We had 26 sponsors globally. The Linky party was received with enthusiasm and we had more than 60 beautiful encouragement themed projects linked! 

Just as our hop was about to end, we had a linky issue, but that was overcome smoothly. 
Another hurdle came wrapped as “COVID-19"; the hop got extended by a few more days. Following the winners' announcement, several prizes could not be shipped whereas a few got delayed owing to the worldwide lockdown. Despite these obstacles, we are thankful to our winners for their patience, and to most of the sponsors who kept their word by sending the prizes as soon as the lockdown eased. We are very grateful for that, and also for the fact that despite being badly hit by the pandemic, people were emphatic towards us and the situation. 

Planning and execution of this hop has taught all of us to be more accepting and be ready to face uncertainties in any form and to go with the flow. As a team, we were put to a daunting test and we all came out of it with great personal learning experiences.

Thank you for stopping by.

Do follow us on:

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Facebook group 

Love and peace from us to all.

A quick heads up

Hello friends, I am here to give you all a quick heads up about a couple of things regarding the upcoming hop.

Starting tomorrow we will start posting actively about the hop. First few days our story, then a glimpse at our team members and sponsors, and finally leading to the hop day.
Make sure you follow us on all our social media handles. The prizes are really big this year, so help us share the word about it.
Please do invite your friends to join our FB group, follow our blog and Instagram below: 

                                                                          Instagram 

Facebook group 

Love and peace from all of us!

International Women's day bloghop

Hello friends, first of all wish you all a

Happy Women's day!

Behind the face and the words of this blog post are 10 women who are very different from each other in every aspect of life, whether it's their age, places where they live, their appearances or their identities, and moreover,  their unique individual crafting styles! The most impressive thing is that these women, despite this diversity, had come together and joined hands to start this HOP last year.

We as women are social, responsible, empathetic, vulnerable and nurturing. Well, the list of qualities can go on and on and we can use n no. of adjectives to describe a woman. With these qualities in mind, let us all crafty women from all around the globe take a step toward women empowerment. All we need to do is be positive, encouraging, and uplifting to each other via our paper crafts, as it is the love for crafting which binds us all together here. A little bit of kindness goes a long way, and let us shine and share the warmth together.

Remember this -
"You are like a Sun-- impenetrable but emitting warmth within yourself and to those around you."

Now we welcome you to our 2nd International Women's day Blog hop. This year we are organizing an Instagram hop as well as a Blog hop and what's more exciting is you also get to be a part of it through a Linky party. Our team will be sharing their projects on their blogs and on their Instagram accounts as well.

Further, we are delighted to have few of our sponsors as the Guest Designers for the Blog Hop. Not only have they generously sponsored our event, they have also created a project for inspiring everyone of us. Thank you so much, our dear sponsors.

Excited to check out what they have made?? We know you all are :)

Please note:  In order for you to be eligible for prizes, you are required to leave comments on ALL 21 blogs. In case of a broken link you can always come back here. 

Let's start hopping......

You are here 
(Our main blog)------>Women.beyoutifully.you

Guest Designers ---->Casual Fridays
                                    Craftyscrappers
                                    Funky Fossils
                                    Jane's Doodles
                                    Kitchen Sink Stamps
                                    Pear blossoms press
                                    Power Poppy 
                                    Time for Tea Designs
                                    Uniko
                                    Your Next Stamp
                                 

Hosting Designers---->Anila 
                                      Deepti
                                      Ishani
                                      Jasleen
                                      Mugdha
                                      Pooja
                                      Radhika
                                      Raga
                                      Rahmat
                                      Sathya

Rules : 

1. You have to be a follower of this blog.

2. Comment on all the stops in the hop list. 
3.This step is not mandatory but we would encourage you to follow all the blogs participating in the hop.

4. Please provide only one comment per person.

5. Sharing about the hop on social media will earn you extra entry. 

6. Comments are open till 22nd March, 12 P.M. IST. 

There are 3 ways you can win:
1. Hop along the blogs.
2. Add any number of projects to the linky below, the theme being "Women Empowerment."
3. Hop along the Instagram accounts.

P.S. Winners will be announced on this blog on 31st March.

All the winners will be drawn randomly using random.org tool.

Have you hopped already on Instagram? If not, then please click on the below link to start:

Women.beyoutifully.you

Love and peace from all of us!

Women's day hop Sponsors

Hello friends as we are getting ready for tomorrow's hop, first we would like to introduce our generous sponsors to you all, without their kind support we couldn't have come this far!

The sponsors' graphic looks wonderful, don't you think?

A loud round of applause for our wonderful sponsors, here they are:

Alex Syberia Designs - 3 digis of winners choice
Casual Fridays Stamps - $25 Gift Certificate
Clearly Besotted Stamps -  £25 Certificate
Crafters Emporio -  Goodie bag worth 750 INR
Craftyscrappers - 2 Digital Stamp Sets
Crazy Crafter - Goodie bag
Creative Minds - Goodie bag worth 500 INR
Dadarkar Arts - Goodie bag worth 1200 INR
Funky Fossils Designs - £15 Gift Certificate
Gracielle Designs - $25 Gift Certificate
Heffy Doodle - £10 Gift Certificate
Indian Craft Addicts - 1 Stamp set
Jane's Doodles - $25 Gift Voucher
Kitchen Sink Stamps - $25 Gift Certificate
Lawn Fawn -  $25 Gift Certificate
Little Birdie Crafts - $25 Gift Certificate
Mudra Craft Stamps -  2 prizes 1000 INR/- each
Pearblossom Press- $25 Gift Certificate
Pink and Main - $20 Gift Certificate
Power Poppy - 1 Stamp set of winners choice
Prika All about Crafts (a crafting community) - Gift Coupon worth 500 INR
Simon Says Stamp - $25 Gift Certificate
STAMPlorations - $25 Gift Certificate
Time for Tea Designs - £20 Gift Voucher
Uniko Stamps- £10 stamp in stock
Your Next Stamp - $25 Gift Certificate

We also have surprise sponsors
Crafter's tree - Goodie bag worth 1000 INR /-

Rainbow Craftykari - a Goodie bag 

Just a reminder that you can join us on Instagram and Facebook Group , lots of exciting are coming !

Stay tuned for tomorrow's Blog Hop , we are excited for sure,  hope you all are too!

Love and peace from all of us!

Sneak peeks !

Hello friends !We are so glad you are joining us today,  we are all gearing up for the International Women's Day hop and working hard behind the scenes.Would you like to see what are we creating for the hop ? Just a sneak peek !

Anila 

Mugdha

Sathya 

Rahmat

Radhika 

Jasleen 

Deepti 

Pooja

Raga

Ishani 

Aren't they amazing , each one of us has interpreted the theme differently.I hope you are excited to see the full reveal.Just a reminder that you can join us on Instagram and Facebook Group , lots of exciting are coming ! Just two days more ,stay tuned !

Women - be you own kind of beautiful

Hello and welcome to our Blog  “Women – Be your own kind of Beautiful ” ! We believe that every Women is beautiful in her own way.

The idea behind this blog is to encourage women through our crafts. We look forward to building a positive environment with your support on this blog. Just a small word of encouragement from fellow women goes a long way and can do wonders. So lets us come together and empower our sisters all around the world.

Last year a group of 10 Cardmakers (Anila, Deepti, Ishani,Jasleen, Mugdha, Pooja, Radhika, Raga, Rahmat and Sathya) came together to organize an Instagram hop on 8th March for International Women’s day, we received tremendous support from all of you .This year we are taking a step ahead - with  a dedicated blog , a Facebook group and an Instagram account.  Women’s day hop will be a major event on all these platforms, but we plan to have posts throughout the year on women empowerment. The Facebook group has already gone live and we are overwhelmed by the response we are getting it already has 240+ members and going strong and Instagram account goes live today. Be sure to check it out.

Coming to our blog, we will be hosting our annual event which is International Women’s day Blog hop (along with an Instagram Hop) and we look forward to your participation through a Linky party! Yes this year it is not just us but YOU will also be encouraging our fellow sisters through your crafts.
We have a line up of amazing sponsors and Guest designers for the hops, so keep an eye on this place. 

We would be very delighted if you could follow our blog and spread a word about it - Thank you 🙏

Love and peace from all of us!