April winners!

Hello!!!

Here are the winners for the April 'anything goes' challenge!!

Swapna Patil

Winner of $25 store credit from Newton's Nook

Swapna's card stood out from day one!! 

I love the shaker element...such a fun shaped card!!

Do drop by her blog and leave her some love!

Jasleen

Winner of Rs.1000 gift card from Mudra Stamps

I just love Jasleen's colourful hearts against the black background...stunning!

Do drop by her blog too and leave her some love!

Thank you ALL so very much for stopping by to play Paru's Card Making Challenges! 

We have an awesome guest designer and a fun challenge coming up on 1st  May.

Do come by and play!

April challenge

Hello everyone! 

Welcome back to all of you who have played with me before and a big welcome to those who are stopping by for the first time! 

I hope you have great fun playing my challenge!

My challenge for the month of April is 

ANYTHING GOES

April challenge

HOW TO PLAY

Make a card or tag using the theme given. Take a photo of your card or tag along with the masking process. 

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

Please display this storyboard prominently in your blog post.

ALSO, please display this logo prominently on your blog.

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.

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

Now for some inspiration...

I made this card using the 6"x6"  'Its a boy' paper pack from Craftangles by CraftAdda. I just love that, even though, this pack had predominently baby motifs, I was able to create a  card this is fun and adult.

I made this card on request for a friends sons 21st birthday. He is passionate about filmmaking, so I decide to use that as a theme.

I used a strip of film reel washi tape and created a reel using my ek success circle punches. I decided to add a celebratory element so I created the bunting using Mayarts jute twine and some coloured scotch tape.

I fished the card with a gold embossed sentiment from Hero Arts and the 21 die cut using Lawn Fawn's Quinn's 123 dies.

I think it has all come together quite nicely!

To inspire you some more, 

this month I have the fabulous Barb Engler as my guest designer! 

Those of you who follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram and Flickr may know her as the hostess.

I was so happy when she agreed to be my guest designer for the month of April!

Barb Engler

Here is what she has to say about herself.

Hi everyone!

I'm so happy to be guest designing this month for Paru and her Challenge!

I live in the upper Midwest of the U.S> in the state of Minnesota. I am now retired from being a floral department manager of a small grocery store.

Retirement means more time to create, which I love!

I started out years ago with scrapbooking, when my two boys were litttle. 

That led to cardmaking, which I started in 2010.

I've always had a love for stamping, especially flowers, and more recently have fallen in love with coloring.

Coloring with Copics is my favourite, but, I love watercolor too. I also really like trying new and ddifferent techniques on my cards.

I must admit I was happy to find out the theme this month was 'Anything Goes'! That meant I could use some flowers for my card...YAY!

I decided to use a beautiful set designed by Wplus9.

It's called, Watercolour Anemones.

Since I love using different techniques on my cards, I decided to try a fun one for these flowers. They are solid stamps, with no space to actually colour, so I used the shadow technique to stamp them.

Using some fog coloured cardstock, I first stamped the flowers with white pigment ink, then used offset stamping with some bright pink ink to create that shadow effect. 

A white embossed sentiment, some dashed, white gel pen lines around the edges and a few white sequins, finish off the card. I love the results!

Paru also asked me to create a tag. 

With tags, my thought always goes to birthday gift tags, so that's what I made.

I thought a shaker tag would be fun!

I used the 'Lots of dots' stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.

It's the perfect set fro creating fun, festive backgrounds!

For the shaker portion, I used the stitched Rectangle die set, also from Simon Says Stamp.

Just pick out some fun, bright colored ink and stamp your design-so easy.

I stamped the sentiment inside the shaker circle and added some sequins.

Stars or hearts stamp sets would work great for this too!

I hope I have inspired you to get out your stamps and try a different technique!

Love 

Barb.

THE PRIZES

As always, we have some fabulous sponsors lined up for this month.

We have a Rs.1000/- voucher from Mudra Stamps

And a $25 store credit from Newton's Nook

I hope that we have inspired you to bring out your craft stash!

This challenge will run from the 1st of April till the 25th of April

I will announce the winner on the 28th of April.

You can link up your creations below.

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

you will find them 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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March challenge winners!!

Hello all!

I am thrilled to announce the winners of our March Challenge....

Sindhura (Trapped in craft)

Absolutely love the colorful flowers and the stunning masking!!

and 

Ria Banerjee

Just love Ria's colorful flowers! And I always love them peeking our from behind a white strip!

Congratulations to the winners and a BIG Thank You to all of you who stopped by to play! I am truly overwhelmed by your response!

Hope to see you back here on the 1st of April when I post my next challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great night!

March challenge

Hello Everyone!

We have a brand new challenge for you today!

It's MARCH...the beginning of spring and the month of the Holi festival here in India!

We at Paru's Card making Challenges would like to challenge you to use COLOURS this month.We would also like you to use some sort of MASKING!

Masking is a technique by which you cover an area that you want to protect and colour around it.

You will find ideas and tutorials in the resources page above.

March challenge

HOW TO PLAY

Make a card or tag using the theme given. Take a photo of your card or tag along with the masking process. 

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

Please display this storyboard prominently in your blog post.

ALSO, please display this logo prominently on your blog.

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.

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

Now for some inspiration...

To make this tag, I used post it tape to mask strips on the tag and coloured them with Black soot distress ink from Tim Holtz.

 

I then stamped the succulent image onto a scrap piece of card stock as well as a piece of Inkadinkado masking paper.

I then cut out the mask and adhered it to the cardstock and stamped the remaining succulent images over the mask.

Here you can see the image with the mask removed.

I then added some red flowers and fussy cut the entire image. I added the image to the tag with some 3D tape to add dimension. I finished the tag by adding a sentiment from the Winnie and Walter 'Big Bold and Happy' stamp set.

For the card below, I used a masking technique that I learnt when I took the 

Online Card Classes 'Mask-erade' class which was taught by Laura Bassen.

To start, I created a mask by die cutting a piece of acetate (OHP sheet) with my spellbinders nestabilities heart die. I also die cut the love you die from die-versions.

I then placed the word die where I wanted it on the card panel and marked a centre point. 

This is where I place the tip of the heart.

I taped the mask in place with post it tape

I used Hero Arts neon colours to colour the hearts.

For the second heart, I overlapped the mask over half of the previous heart...

...and added colour.

I continued in the same way....

...till I addded all the colours that I wanted.

I finished the card by adding the word die cut and placing the panel on a white card base.

I loved the way my projects turned out...I hope that I have inspired you to play along!

We have some more inspiration for you from our 

FEBRUARY GUEST DESIGNER 

JUHI KHANNA

This month we have the talented Juhi Khanna, of Juhishandmadecards 

as our Guest Designer.

She has such a fun style!

I love her work and I am sure that you will too!

Here is what she has to say about herself...

I'm Juhi, an Electronics Engineer from Bangalore originally, but, now live in Singapore.

I started making cards with locally available Indian handmade paper and die-cuts/stickers in 2009.

though I have continued making cards over the years, I got hooked onto stamping towards the end of 2014.

I love to learn and explore stamping techniques with watercolouring being my current favourite.

I am just begginning to explore making CAS cards and often find them more challenging to create than, well,...CAS cards. I love the process though.

You can view my work on my blog , facebook and instagram.

About my card...

I am so happy to be the March Guest Designer for our very own Indian challenge blog and I would like to thank Paru for giving me this opportunity!

This month's theme is Colours and Masking

I created a one layered card with loads of masking and stamping.

I started off with taking my card base and masking a border on all four sides as well a a strip towards the bottom of the card with Washi tape.

Please forgive the messy washi tape...it is a leftover from a previous project.

I then stamped flowers from Jane's Doodles 'Doodle flowers' stamp set onto a large sticky back post it sheet. I then cut them to create masks.

I then stamped onto my masked panel, one flower at a time, masking out the stamped flowers to create a layered effect.

One I was satisfied with the stamping, I completely masked the stamped portions with the masking paper and some masking fluid.

I used the fluid for the tiny stamped areas.

Once the masking fluid dried, I randomly stamped the dotted background.

I finally coloured the flowers in bright colours, after removing the mask and stamped the sentiment.

I also added a black border around the stamped area to finish my card.

I hope my card inspires you to create your own masked project. I would love to see what you come up with!

THE PRIZES

We have some fabulous sponsors lined up for this month.

We have a Rs.500/- voucher from The Craft Shop

a $25 gift certificate from CAS-ual friday Stamps

We also have a bumper prize this month....CAS-ual Friday stamps is offering a 15% discount on all stamps and dies to all the participants of our March Challenge!! 

Isn't that fantastic!!!

Just use the code PCMCMARCH at checkout!

We hope that we have inspired you to bring out your craft stash!

This challenge will run from the 1st of March till the 25th of March

We will announce the winner on the 28th of March.

You can link up your creations below.

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

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

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

We have a winner!

Hello All!!!!

Thank you so much for playing our February Challenge!

We had some fabulous entries and it was a tough choice to pick a winner

 for our Febraury Valentine with Scraps challenge!!!

Our winner of the $25 gift certificate from Jane's Doodles 

is 

Priyanka Mathur

I just love the elegant way in which she has used all her scraps!

And, the winner of the Rs.1000 gift voucher from CraftAdda 

is 

Gouri Khandekar

Such a beautiful card...love how Gouri has cut down the scrap pieces into squares to make the quilt pattern!

Priyanka and Gouri, please leave your emails in the comment box belowso that I may send you your winners badges as well as forward your addresses to the sponsors for your prizes.

Many congratulations to our winners and of course to our participants too...I appreciate that you took time out of your busy schedules to play our challenge!!

We will be back with a new challenge on 1st March...we do hope you will stop by to play!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

February Challenge

Hello!

We have a brand new challenge for you today!

As it is the month of Valentines and hearts, we can't ignore that theme, 

can we? 

We also have loads of scraps around...I know I do..and I thought it would be nice to put those scraps to use this month.

Our challenge this month is 

Please display this storyboard prominently in your blog post.

ALSO, please display this logo prominently on your blog.

 FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM AND TAG YOUR SUBMISSIONS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THE TAG

PCMCHALLENGES

Now for some inspiration...

To make this simple tag, I stamped the image (from MFT stamps) on a scrap of white card and punched it out using my circle punch. I then popped it up on a piece of white card stock cut with Simon Says Stamp Stitched circles, with 3D foam tape. I finished off the card by adding the sentiment and some bakers' twine. 

Other supplies used are... 

 EK Success 1" circle punch, 

 Versafine Onyx black and Habanero inks.

To make this card, I used red card and  black die cut (memento small starburst) card which were left overs from an earlier project. 

I stamped the image from Simon Says Stamp 'Quite the pear' stamp set, onto a piece of scrap white card stock and fussy cut it.

I then put all the pieces together at an angle, for interest, with the playing cards popped up with 3D tape.

I stamped the sentiment with Memento tuxedo black ink to finish the card.

I used some craps of white card to stamp the central image and then fussy cut them.

We have some more inspiration for you from our 

FEBRUARY GUEST DESIGNER 

NEHA BHATT

This month we have the fabulous Neha Bhatt, of Perwinkle Creations as our Guest Designer.

Her style is simple and CAS, but oh so effective! 

I love her work and I am sure that you will too!

Here is what she has to say about herself...

Hi! I am Neha, a house wife - hence full time crafter. 

I have been crafting for  last 10 years. 

I had an opportunity to live in USA for few years and that is where I came to learn about stamps and inks. 

Paper crafting  is a pure passion and my high-way to happiness. 

It gives me that inner peace and keeps me sane. 

My Style is CAS cards. I love the aesthetics behind their designs and how they convey the message.  

My blog periwinkle-creations is comparatively new but you can find my older work on my 

fb page here.

I am on Paru's Card making Challenge Blog  as a guest designer for  Febuary . Having our own Indian Challenge Blog was my dream but due to my laziness I never started it. When Paru started it last month I was thrilled to participate & feel honoured to be a GD this month. There were many awesome entries last month and  some fabulous prizes too. 

This month's challenge  is a Valentine themed card or tag using scraps.

I hardly use pattern paper but I love them. 

I can't let go even smallest of scrap. 

Another thing I hoard is die cut negatives. I always feel there are so many  possibilities with them which remain unexplored and scraps gets piled up. 

I made THIS card a while ago in which I use many stitched panels to create comic book look. I am using that negative and scrap pattern paper to create today's card.  

I made THIS card a while ago in which I use many stitched panels to create comic book look. I am using that negative and scrap pattern paper to create today's card.  

I adhered different PP scrap form the back of each window with 3d tape for creating shadow box effect. I used reverse confetti stamp set , some wood veneer arrows and heart and bow die cuts. I feel all the elements in different windows help to enhance the more part of the sentiment. 

For tag, I simply glued strips of different PP scrap on some leftover CS and die cut the tag. Try doing this with different dies. you will get some really unexpected results.

Hope you will be inspired to use the scrap and create something beautiful and take part in this month's challenge. 

THE PRIZES

We have some fabulous sponsors lined up for this month.

We have a Rs.1000/- voucher from Craft Adda

and 

a $25 gift certificate from Jane's Doodles

We hope that we have started your creative juices flowing!

This challenge will run from the 1st of February till the 25th of February. 

I will announce the winner on the 28th of February.

You can link up your creations below.

Please follow all the instructions carefully...

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

Submissions which do not follow the rules, will not be eligible for the prize...sorry!

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani