tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57595372468672452702024-03-05T14:01:55.663+05:30Paru's Card Making ChallengesA place to play fun card making challenges!Paru Mahtanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939543381936473404noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759537246867245270.post-70057686321177711632018-12-28T00:00:00.000+05:302019-01-04T11:09:13.915+05:30December Challenge winners!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank you so so much for playing my CHRISTMAS challenge!</div>
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I truly appreciate that you all have come over month after month to play my challenges!!</div>
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Here are the winners for this month! </div>
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I just LOVE this glittery wreath..don't you?</div>
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I just love that stencilled background!!</div>
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So much movement on this card..remarkable!</div>
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Welcome back Sathya! As always, your work is stunning!</div>
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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.</div>
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Many many congratulations to the winners.</div>
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Thank you all so much for coming to play here month after month!</div>
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You inspired me with your creativity and humbled me with your love.</div>
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Please give a warm welcome to my November THANK YOU challenge winner </div>
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Her process is always AMAZING, so please read the entire post and leave her lots of love!!</div>
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Be inspired to play along my <a href="https://paruscardmakingchallenges.blogspot.com/2018/12/december-2018-challenge.html">December CHRISTMAS challenge!</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">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.</span></div>
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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.</div>
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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...</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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. </div>
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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.</div>
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Happy Crafting.</div>
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Wow!!! Raga's work has really inspired me...So many fabulous ideas to make cards with minima; supplies!!</div>
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You can play my <a href="https://paruscardmakingchallenges.blogspot.com/2018/12/december-2018-challenge.html">CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE HERE!!</a></div>
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Thank you so so much for playing my THANK YOU challenge!</div>
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I truly appreciate that you all come over month after month to play my challenges!!</div>
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Here are the winners for this month! </div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!</div>
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Being part of this wonderful card making community is something I feel so very grateful for...day after day! Stay blessed everyone!</div>
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Please welcome the winners of the October TOUCH OF GOLD challenge!</div>
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I'm so very sorry for the delay in posting their work.</div>
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Without any delay...here goes...</div>
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I am from Tamilnadu, recently moved to the US with my loving husband and darling daughter. Currently, I am a SAHM and crafting has been my hobby since my childhood. I’ve always loved doing something creative and I got it from my mom, who has tried various art forms! However I’m now stuck to Paper crafts – Cards and Quilling. I entered the blog land of crafting a few years back and got to know a loooot of tools, techniques, crafters, blogs, types of crafts and more!! And I’m still learning! You can find my work here,</div>
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For this month's challenge 'Thank You', I've made a card using Altenew's Starry Flowers stamp and die set, colored with distress inks and Faber Castell watercolor pencils. The background is a lovely watercolor patterned paper from Dress My Craft. The sentiment is stamped using Versafine Onyx black ink. I've added a few sequins and also some glitter and shine to the flowers using Wink of Stella shimmer to complete the card. For the matching tag, the tag shape is diecut using Crafter's Companion tag dies. The flower is stamped from Mudra's Floral Silhouette using distress inks. It is similar to the card and I've added a matching purple polka dots ribbon to finish it. Hope you like my card and the matching tag! Get inspired and play along :)</div>
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"To make this card, I masked and stamped the image in a light shade of distress ink and then did no line watercolouring.</div>
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To make the card, I started out with a masking fluid and water colour panel that I had made a while ago. I used the Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die to cut it to size. I then die cut 'Thanks' (a Winnie and Walter die) and inlaid it with ivory coloured cardstock, cut with the same die.</div>
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Thank you so much for playing my TOUCH OF GOLD challenge!</div>
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And...I'm really super duper excited to be guest designing for Paru's Card Making Challenge. Thank you so much Paru for having me here.The theme for the current challenge is " A touch of Gold". And here is what I've created.. Totally festive..<br />
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To make this card, I took A2 size card stock and gold embossed it using string of lights stamp from <a href="https://www.winniewalter.com/products/happy-owlidays-with-evelin-t-designs" target="_blank">Winnie & Walter's -Happy Owlidays with Evelin T Designs</a> stamp set. Then, I ink blended it using rainbow colors distress inks as shown and further colored the lights with watercolors in same tone. Once satisfied, I die cut it using rectangle dies from <a href="https://www.winniewalter.com/collections/cutaways/products/essentials-lana-cutaways" target="_blank">Winnie& Walter's - Essentials: Lana Cutaways</a>. After that, I adhered it on white note card.<span id="goog_27290164"></span>
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Then , I die cut out the happy (from Do crafts) Diwali (from sizzix alphabet dies) sentiment using gold glitter foam sheet. Adhered the same on the card base. For the final touch up, I added glossy accent to these rainbow lights. Here are some more pics which I've clicked from different angle to show you gold embossing and glossy accent effect..<br />
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I love to learn and experiment with new techniques, but, think I'm slightly bent toward the CAS style of card making. I am on the design teams of Indian Quilling Challenge, CAS-ual Friday challenges and Cupcake challenges. I am delighted to share a card with the TOUCH OF GOLD to inspire you to play along at the challenge.</div>
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Here she is with some fabulous inspiration for the October <a href="http://paruscardmakingchallenges.blogspot.com/2018/10/october-2018-challenge.html">'TOUCH OF GOLD' challenge.</a></div>
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Manisha here!</div>
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I'm currently a full-time crafter, having quit my job to take care of my little daughter.</div>
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My interests very widely-cardmaking,scrapbooking, mixed-media and now I'm even into making home decor products. Recently I started a venture where I sell all the handmade items that I make-The Simple Joys Store.</div>
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I'm absolutely excited to be guest designing for Paru's Card Making Challenge! and what got me more excited is this month's theme- A TOUCH OF GOLD! I just love adding gold elements in my projects-kind of like a weakness :D</div>
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For this I created a background cut file and had it cut on a matte gold cardstock using my Silhouette Curio. Then I had some fun with Ranger's Alcohol Inks and created some backgrounds. I then die cut the backgrounds using Altenew's floral Fantasy 3D die set.</div>
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I then adhered the gold frame on the card base and then arranged my die cuts towards the base of the card. To balance out the whole look, I added a sentiment-black on gold and finished off the card with some black ink splatters.</div>
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To create the card background, I used the Craftangles abstract circles stencil and the Craftangles 'fairy dust' glimmer paste and set it aside to dry.</div>
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Isn't this card adorable!! I love the circle clouds!!</div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am Anu (Crafter Anu). I am a Delhi
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Hi. I'm Sharda, originally from Jaipur, now married in Mumbai.</div>
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I am an MBA (finance) by qualigfication and have worked with Axis Bank. But, my heart was always there in creative work, be it writing, crafting or even garnishing the day to day meals.</div>
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Crafting is my stress buster. !0 minutes of creativity takes away all the tiredness and relaxes my heart and mind to the core. I enjoy making all kinds of folios and albums and scrapbooks. Recently I started making cards as my health was not permitting long sittings required for albums. So card making came to my rescue.</div>
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I have created a card with Craftyscrappers 'Buzzing by to say hi' stamp set.</div>
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Firstly I created the background with Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed and Dried Marigold distress inks.</div>
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Stamped the bee, coloured it with markers, fussy cut and adhered it with foam tape. Used a die cut sentiment with glossy accent and heat embossed the sentiment on black cardstock and lastly added some enamel dots.</div>
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Her creativity is fabulous and exciting!</div>
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Here is what she had to say about herself and her creations!</div>
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Hello Crafty Friends!</div>
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I am Priyanka from Mumbai.</div>
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By profession, I am a voice over artist, lending my voice for E-learning, T.V. commercials, radio ads and Corporate AV's.</div>
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I'm have a bachelor's degree in Textile and Fashion Technology and am a voracious reader.</div>
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You can find me <a href="https://www.instagram.com/curlymakes/">here</a> on Instagram and on my <a href="https://curlymakes.wordpress.com/">blog</a></div>
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I am so honoured to Guest design for </div>
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This is the very first cardmaking challenge that I won.</div>
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This month the theme is 'Anything Goes'.</div>
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For this I have made an oval easel card and a tag to go along with it.</div>
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I have used the Simon Says Stamp background stamp 'Flower Explosion' in both my card and tag.</div>
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For the card, I have coloured with Koi watercolours and used an oval die by Die Cuts and More .</div>
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I also tried the inlaid die cutting technique for the sentiment.</div>
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The 'Thanks' die cut is by Pink and Main.</div>
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For the tag I used a Spellbinders tag die.</div>
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I stuck a black tag die cut on the back to add interest and also to make it sturdier.</div>
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The sentiment is from an Itsy Bitsy stamp set.</div>
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To inspire you some more,</div>
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I have some fun cards for you this month!</div>
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Pop-up slider cards are a lot of fun ,</div>
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showing a box of fun goodies for a friends' 50th birthday.</div>
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I started out by die cutting the pop up panel using a die </div>
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(which I've had for years but never used!)</div>
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from The Rubber Cafe. </div>
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I couldn't find a link to the store but here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS2WIEOEbQ">video</a> showing you how easy it is to make one.</div>
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The dies I used for the box and the goodies are from My Favourite things and Honey Bee Stamps.</div>
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The sentiment is something I made up and printed out.</div>
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I used distress inks to colour the glasses and Camlin watercolour cakes to create the paint splatter.</div>
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My second card is very simple and CAS.</div>
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I used Craftangles white texture paste along with Fevicryl gold powder..This powder is usually used with a medium to paint. I decided to add the dry powder to the white texture paste as an experiment.</div>
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I love the dull gold finish I got.</div>
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I used the Craftangles Ganesh stencil and once dry, I added a small hibiscus flower (stamped,watercoloured and fussy cut) to add a spot of colour.</div>
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The Ganesh panel is cut using Simon Says Stamp stitched dies and adhered using fun foam on a white textured card base.</div>
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Im so sorry for the delay in announcing the winners of the August Family Challenge...I've had a frozen shoulder which has been giving me a lot of trouble lately.</div>
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Thank you so much for playing my FAMILY challenge..So many fun entries!!</div>
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I am truly humbled that you all come over month after month to play my challenges!!</div>
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Here are the winners for this month! </div>
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Such an adorable card for a sister!! Love it!</div>
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Priyanka, I will be in touch.</div>
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Today I have the winner of the July BIRTHDAY challenge, <a href="http://twofercardchallenge.blogspot.com/">Darnell Knauss</a>, to inspire us with her fantastic creations!</div>
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I started this challenge after being inspired by her and her generosity!</div>
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She is a brilliant card maker and an amazing person!</div>
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<a href="https://www.djkardkreations.com/2018/08/family-is-forever.html">Darnell Knauss </a></div>
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Om honored to be here today!</div>
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Paru and I became friends through commenting back in 2013 and through her participation in my NBUS challenges. </div>
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I have been making cards for about 20 years now and blogging for over six.<br />I am married 47 years and have one son and daughter in law and twin grandsons.</div>
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When I'm not travelling, and being 'Bama' to those boys, I enjoy every minute of this very satisfying hobby and all the many frienships I have made through blogging!</div>
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Both of my cards were made to reflect the joy and light heartedness that young brothers and sisters exhibit and how important family is in this world!</div>
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I am Raga from <a href="http://www.perkyhobby.com/">Perky Hobby</a>!</div>
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Im super thrilled to be guesting for Paru's Card Making Challenges 'Family' challenge this month.</div>
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I'm originally from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, currently residing in Gurgaon, Haryana, with my husband and two adorable kids (daughter of 6 and son of 3 years). I'm a computer application graduate and I have chosen to be a stay at home mom.</div>
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This is Mugdha Gujarathi from <a href="http://craftomania123.blogspot.com/">Craftomania. </a></div>
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This month's theme is "Family" and I have made a quilled card. </div>
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In India, we celebrate the wonderful festival of 'Rakshabandhan', in the month of August.</div>
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</style>Paru Mahtanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01939543381936473404noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759537246867245270.post-40569198855877883132018-07-28T00:00:00.000+05:302018-07-28T01:55:01.096+05:30July 2018 winners<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What fabulous entries!! Such amazing ceativity!</div>
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<a href="https://www.djkardkreations.com/2018/07/my-boozy-twofer-cards.html">Darnell Knauss</a></div>
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Such an unusual birthday card and so much fun!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am so excited to be back! </span></div>
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What amazing entries!!</div>
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Here are the winners for this month! </div>
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Her magic slider card with a super dad was just too good!</div>
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Many many congratulations to the winners.</div>
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For the first two cards, I have used the most beautiful floral card stock from 'My Happy Packs'..my wonderful sponsor for the month!</div>
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I started out with a die cut square (Simon Says Stamp stitched squares) of the floral card stock whcih I adhered to a 5"x5" square card base.</div>
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I stamped the sentiment (also from the same set) onto white cardstock and adhered it to the card using 3D foam tape.</div>
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I die cut the work Dad using a Simon Says Stamp die and adhered it to the floral panel,</div>
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To this I added the MFT dienamics Open road die cut.</div>
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I die cut and adhered the word Dad (Simon Says Stamp) and finished the card with this cute sentiment from Technique Tuesday.</div>
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I then die cut the map using Simon Says Stamp stitched circle dies.</div>
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I then die cut and embossed the compass using the Recollections 'Nautical' die set, </div>
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from white card stock, and adhered it to the centre of the map using 3D foam tape.</div>
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I stamped a simple sentiment and image from </div>
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For the first card, I have used products I bought from my wonderful sponsor Ranganjali's store.</div>
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The Altenew stamp set 'Beautiful lady' and the weave embossing folder from Darice.</div>
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I stamped and embossed the floral image in white and coloured it in using Steadler watercolour pencils. I then stamped the sentiment from Craftangles and added some white acrylic paint splatter.</div>
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For the next card, I've used these beautiful stamps (Handstitched) from my wonderful sponsor </div>
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'Neat and Tangled'!</div>
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These images go perfectly with the theme, don't you think?</div>
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I started by stamping the floral,cross stitch and heart stamps to create a wreath.</div>
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I then cut apart the sentiment stamps in the set to create a custom sentiment.</div>
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I coloured the 'Mom' die cut (Simon Says Stamp) using Tim Holtz 'Worn Lipstick' distress oxide, and also the pretty flowers. I then water coloured the leaves and created an ink smooshed background using the same distress oxide.</div>
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I then die cut the panel using Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle dies and added it to black card base. The dark card base really makes the panel pop no?</div>
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The third card, I think is my favourite!</div>
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I was inspired by some cards I saw on Instagram and Pinterest.</div>
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I started with a red card base. I then took a piece of white square card and stencilled it with Memento 'Dandelion' ink and Craftangles 'rays' stencil.</div>
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I cut out the black heels from one pair and paper pieced it onto the red shoe. I then layered the black shoes below the red shoe to give them some dimension.</div>
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I placed them to look like they were clicking their heels and added the printed out sentiment across the panel.</div>
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I added the Grandma die cut (from Simon Says Stamp) to finish the card.</div>
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For the next card, I started out with a print out of a free digi of a Chanel perfune bottle.</div>
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I then used Heidi Swapp's minc gold foil to foil the image.</div>
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I then used the ink smooshing technique with Tim Holtz distress oxide (Worn Lipstick) to create the background..on the bottle and the background. </div>
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I then fussy cut the bottle and added some fun foam to give it some dimension when adhered to the background.</div>
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I added the Grandma die cut from Simon Says Stamp, the printed sentiment and some 'Pink Cupcake' sequins from Craftangles to finish the card.</div>
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as guest designer today!</div>
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Many of you know her and play her wonderful</div>
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which challenges you to incorporate math into card making!</div>
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So much fun!</div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My name is Milka,
crafter and card maker from Croatia. I work as primary school teacher, teaching
Mathematics and Physics. I love my job!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I craft since I can remember. Coloring,
card making, hand lettering, sketching, origami folding, crocheting, knitting,
modeling, photographing, gardening, reading... all the things I enjoy a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Since 2014, most of my
crafting is card making. My favorite design is CAS (clean and simple design),
my favorite coloring technique watercolor, my favorite coloring medium Distress
Inks and favorite technique heat embossing. I’m a part of several design teams
and occasionally invited to guest on other blogs. I also run my own challenge.
For more details about me, visit my blog Crafty Milka <span style="color: #e69138;">(</span><span lang="HR"><a href="https://craftymilka.blogspot.hr/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #e69138;">https://craftymilka.blogspot.hr/</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #e69138;">).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was overwhelmed when
Paru invited me to join her in this month’s challenge: Mother’s Day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Wonderful theme!!! I
decided to incorporate all my mentioned above favorites in to my projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stamped lilies on a watercolor paper panel and colored them in watercolor
technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I added some shades onto petals
with colored pencils. Then I heat embossed in black word ‘Mama’, which is
Croatian for mom. I glued the panel on a card base, added some white dots and
highlights with white gel pen and my card was finished.</span></div>
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I am so very happy with all your brilliant entries this month!! </div>
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So much amazing creativity, you made it really hard for me to choose!</div>
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So sorry for the delay in announcing the winners...</div>
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The flowers are just beautiful, but, the background is even more stunning!!</div>
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Many Many congratulations to the winners!</div>
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Thanks for all your amazing entries for the COLOUR challenge!!</div>
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As the challenge has started late this month, it will run till the 29th of April.</div>
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For my first project, I made a gift tag using Hero Arts woodblock and cling stamps and Mft dies.</div>
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I started by die cutting the tag using an Mft tag die. </div>
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I then created a background using the hero arts birthday background stamp. </div>
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I then stamped and coloured the flower (also from Hero Arts) using Sakura Koi watercolours. </div>
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I fussy cut the flower and adhered it to the tag using 3D foam tape.</div>
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I die cut some leaves using Mft dienamics tropical leaves dies. </div>
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I then used Tim Holtz' mowed lawn distress ink to darken the edges of the leaves, to create some interest.</div>
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I finished the tag with a bit of jute twine from Mayarts ribbon.</div>
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To make this card, I started out with a white card base, which I masked and watercoloured using my Camel watercolours, to create a soft teal wash. Once it was dry, I used a hero arts background stamp to stamp some dots to create some interest. </div>
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I then stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut some cherry blossom flowers from the Craftangles 'Mom you rock' stamp set and adhered them to the card base. </div>
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I then die cut the sentiment (from Winnie and Walter), and, used Memento Angel Pink ink and Tim Holtz 'bubblegum' distress ink to colour it. </div>
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I stamped and watercoloured the pop up part of the card using stamps from the Craftangles 'Mom you rock' stamp set and Camel watercolours.</div>
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I also stamped the inside of the card using Hero Arts small dots background stamp and Memento Angel pink ink. </div>
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I am Bharati Nayudu and I am very excited and greatly honoured to play along with Paru's Card Making Challenges as Guest Designer for the month of April. </div>
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The theme is flowers -to welcome spring,</div>
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I live in Visakhapatnam, a coastal city in India with my 10 yr old son (who loves craft as well) and my loving husband-my soulmate. I have a talented little sister who is my best pal and an artist. I am an HR executive by profession and crafter at heart, committed to spreading handmade happiness.</div>
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I started blogging and entering online craft challenges from August 2017. </div>
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Although, I am quite new to the blogland, thanks to a very encouraging and supportive crafting community, I feel completely at home. </div>
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It's as if the mothership found me and now I live in the world of crafts!</div>
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Besides card making, I also enjoy quilling,decoupage art, art journaling and giving virtual hugs to crafty friends all around the world.</div>
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may your spring be filled with colourful flowers and cards.</div>
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I blog at <a href="http://www.bharatinayudu.com/">www.bharatinayudu.com</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bharati_nayudu"> I am active on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bharati_nayudu </a><span id="goog_1401227395"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1401227396"></span></div>
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My first project is a card inspired by my dear friend Sanjeevini, who has a very happy and cheerful personality and who loves flowers and bursts of colours.</div>
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To make this card i started with heat embossing, in white, the flowers and leaves from the stamp set 'More spring flowerw' by Simon Says Stamp.</div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "cambria";">Inbetweenies</span><span style="font-family: "cambria";"> stamp set by </span><span style="font-family: "cambria";"> Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions</span><span style="font-family: "cambria";">. To add some texture to the tag i applied some embossing paste
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