July 2018 challenge

Hello!!!

Thank you all so much for your amazing creativity for 

the June  MASCULINE Challenge!

July is  my birthday month,

so it seems a great time to have a BIRTHDAY challenge!

Here is the challenge for July 2018.

Make a Birthday card or tag!

HOW TO PLAY

Make a card or tag using the theme given. 

Take a photo of your creation and link it up below.

If you have a blog, write a post about our challenge and link it back to our challenge, including photos of your card or tag.

Please display this storyboard prominently in your blog post so that others may be inspired to play.

ALSO, please display this logo prominently on the sidebar of your blog so that others may join us.

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If you don't tag them, we will not see them on social media.

VERY IMPORTANT

PLEASE Link your blogpost/social media post to the linky below.

INSPIRATION

Today I have the fantastic 

NEHA BHATT

of 

Perwinkle creations

as Guest designer

Hello Crafty friends,

I am so excited to be back! 

This month’s theme is Birthday.

I have used supplies from various brands. 

But the idea was to use that word balloon stamp from Mama Elephant. 

It was lying in my stash so I decided to ink it up. 

I paired it with another ME set – Cat’s Meow . 

I have use Copic Markers to colour the images.

The tag die is by L'il Inker Designs and balloons are by Sunny Stamp Studio. (Aren’t they amazing?)

 I used  Altenew inks to stamp these layered balloons. Sentiment is by Jane’s Doodles. 

I tried to use  similar colours in card and tag to make it look like a set,

 even though I have used completely different

 products. 

I Hope you feel inspired to take part this month.

To Inspire you some more,

I have a fun birthday card and tag too.

June-July belong to the zodiac sign of Cancer, 

so I decided to explore the theme of zodiac signs and constellations.

I printed out a definition of the word 'Cancerian' to highlight their traits,

on a piece of textured cardstock.

I then masked off an area on the card and created a galaxy background using 

Tim Holtz distress inks and oxides.

I  drew the constellation 'CANCER' using a white gel pen. I added little stars with the gel pen too.

I added some self adhesive gemstones to add some sparkle to the constellation.

I surrounded this constellation with a birthday die cut circle from MFT dienamics,

and added the stamped sentiment from My Favourite Things stamps' 'Space Explorer' stamp set.

For the gift tag, I started out by stamping the Impression Obsession Rose background with 

Tim Holtz 'Black Soot' Distress ink.

I then cut it out into a tag using  Spellbinders Nestabilities dies.

I then added a die cut rose from Winnie and Walter and a gold embossed sentiment from Hero Arts.

I finished the tag with a piece of black bakers twine.

 I hope Neha and I have inspired you to come over and play!

PRIZES

I am changing it up from this month onwards!

I will choose ONE winner , 

who will then be the GUEST DESIGNER  for the next month's challenge.

I will also pick THREE other winners for an honorable mention.

Sounds fun?

If you would like to be considered as a Guest Designer, 

please add GD to your post.

The challenge will run till the 25th of July...

The winners will be announced on the 28th of July.

Don't forget to stop by!

Please link up your creations below.

To be eligible to win a prize, please follow all the instructions carefully...

you will find them above and in under 'how to play' in the right sidebar.

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

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