Friday, December 28, 2018

December Challenge winners!

 Hello!!

Thank you so so  much for playing my CHRISTMAS challenge!
I truly appreciate that you all have come over month after month to play my challenges!!

Sadly, due to health issues, I am shutting down this challenge.

So instead of Guest design posts for next month, 
the winners will receive surprise prizes from me.


Here are the winners for this month! 




I just LOVE this glittery wreath..don't you?



I just love that stencilled background!!



So much movement on this card..remarkable!

And last but no the least...




Welcome back Sathya! As always, your work is stunning!

Winners, I will be in touch with you about your prizes and with your badges for you to flaunt on your blogs! I am travelling, so will be in touch around the 1st of Jan.

Many many congratulations to the winners.
Do follow the links and leave them some love!

Thank you all so much for coming to play here month after month!
You inspired me with your creativity and humbled me with your love.


Please note...

This is the last challenge!



Thank you so much for stopping by!
Have a great day!!

Paru Mahtani

Monday, December 10, 2018

November winners post 1

Hello and welcome to my November winners post!!

Please give a warm welcome to my November THANK YOU challenge winner 



Her process is always AMAZING, so please read the entire post and leave her lots of love!!
Be inspired to play along my December CHRISTMAS challenge!


I'm Raga from Perky Hobby and I'm super thrilled to be guest designing at Paru's Card Making Challenges. Thank you Paru for having me.

I'm from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, currently staying in Gurgaon, Haryana with my husband and two adorable kids (daughter of 7 years old and son of 3 years old). Im a stay at home mom and have started taking art and craft classes for kids now.
I love to illustrate and mostly all of my cards hold my illustrations. Im a bit wonky towards CAS style of cardmaking and I love to make interactive cards too. I'm new to the stamping world and I'm still learning new techniques and tricks!! You can see my works here...

Blog:http://www.perkyhobby.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perky_hobby
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/perkyhobby/

For this month's challenge theme of Christmas, I have made a card using Christmas wreath. The front panel of the card was head embossed with white embossing powder using brick stencil from Itsy Bitsy craft store. For making the wreath, I took an old bangle of my daughter and wrapped it with a green pipe cleaner and added some rhinestones for berries.


Finished the wreath with bells and a a bow, Then I mounted my wreath on an embossed card stock and added a strip of vellum holding the sentiment Merry Christmas from Create a Smile cool buddies stamp set. I distressed the edges using gold splash ink. Finished my card by adhering it to the vertically folded base card stock.


For the shaker tag, I took a Kraft card stock and fussy cut it. To create the snow falling effect, I splattered Fevicol and water mix, heat embossed with white embossing powder. I don't hold any chunky glitters to add in, so I stuffed art stones by crushing them a little. 
the snowscape was using had torn white paper. I sealed it with an acetate piece and a kraft frame using double sided foam tape. I used Christmas tree stamp from the same cool buddies stamp set, coloured using watercolours and added glossy accent for the baubles. Finished my tag, with the same sentiment and tied it together using red satin ribbon.


Hope you are all inspired to play along the challenge. Thank you for stopping by.
Happy Crafting.
Cheers!! 
RAGA

Wow!!! Raga's work has really inspired me...So many fabulous ideas to make cards with minima; supplies!!








Saturday, December 1, 2018

November Challenge winners

 Hello!!

Thank you so so  much for playing my THANK YOU challenge!
I truly appreciate that you all come over month after month to play my challenges!!
Please Don't stop!

Here are the winners for this month! 

For the 
GUEST DESIGNER
 position for the month of November...



This card  and that rainbow is just stunning!!!

SPECIAL MENTION



Such a fun and simple Thank You card!



I Just LOVE the reflection in the sea!! Absolutely beautiful card design.


and for the prize from 





This SUPER  Mouse is just too super!!!!

Winners, I will be in touch with you with your badges for you to flaunt on your blogs!

Many many congratulations to the winners.
Do follow the links and leave them some love!

Thank you all so much for coming to play here month after month!
You truly inspire me to keep this challenge going!

Please note...

The December challenge is now live !
Don't forget to come and play!!


Thank you so much for stopping by!
Have a great day!!

Paru Mahtani

December 2018 challenge

Hello!!!
Thank you all so much for coming and playing my 
 November THANK YOU Challenge!
So very grateful that you'll come back again and again to play!!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!
Here is the challenge for December 2018 !


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.


FOLLOW/JOIN  THIS BLOG
 FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM AND TAG YOUR SUBMISSIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THE TAG
#PCMCHALLENGES

If you don't have a blog, post your photos on social media and TAG them with #PCMCHALLENGES
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

To start off, I layered red and green Simon Says Stamp Stitched die cut panels on a white card base.
I then die cut the elf legs, put them upside down on a tag die cut and added the sentiment from Craftangles  'santa claus' stamp set.

I added some twine and some shiny stars and the card was done.
Quick and simple!


Here, I started out with a tag, die cut from Kraft card stock. On this I stamped the mason jar and christmas elements from a Hero Arts stamp set.
I coloured it in and used mu white gel pen to add some details for interest. The sentiment is from Craftangles 'Season's greeetings' stamp set.
 I added some red and white bakers twine to finish the card.


I also made these super fun Santa 
Claus gift envelopes. They are pretty simple.. a piece of black paper wrapped around the envelope and a square frame cut out of gold and silver glitter card stock, along with a stamped and fussy cut sentiment from Craftangles. 


I hope these cards, inspire you to
bring out those Christmas goodies and come and play!

PRIZES

I will choose ONE winner , 

who will then be the GUEST DESIGNER  for the next month's challenge, 
to be posted around the 15th of the month.

I will also pick TWO other winners for an honorable mention, 
who will also get an opportunity to design a card each for this challenge blog. 
Their creations will be posted around the 20th of the month.



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