August 2018 Challenge winners

 Hello!!

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.

Thank you so much for playing my FAMILY challenge..So many fun entries!!

I am truly humbled that you all come over month after month to play my challenges!!

Don't stop!

Here are the winners for this month! 

For the Guest Designer position for the month of September,

Priyanka Kantak

Such an adorable card for a sister!! Love it!

Priyanka, I will be in touch.

SPECIAL MENTION

Donna

Such a lovely card and sentiment... Home means family!!

Sharda

This tunnel card is too cute!

and 

Anu

Look at the Super Bhai! Too cute!

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, who play month after month! 

You inspire me to keep this challenge going!

Remember...

The September  challenge will go live on 1st September at 12 am IST. 

Don't forget to come and play!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!!

Paru Mahtani

July challenge winner's post

Hello!!

Today I have the winner of the July BIRTHDAY challenge, Darnell Knauss, to inspire us with her fantastic creations!

Some of you may know her...for those who dont, do check our her TWOFER challenge !

I started this challenge after being inspired by her and her generosity!

She is a brilliant card maker and an amazing person!

Enjoy her creations!

Darnell Knauss 

Hello!

Om honored to be here today!

Paru and I became friends through commenting back in 2013 and through her participation in my NBUS challenges. 

I was delighted when she started this challenge.

I have been making cards for about 20 years now and blogging for over six.
I am married 47 years and have one son and daughter in law and twin grandsons.

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!

I loved reading about the wonderful festival of Rakshbandhan that you celebrate during the month of August in India.

it is fabulous that it celebrates the special family relationship between brothers and sisters!

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!

Thanks so much for joining us here on Paru's Card Making Challenges to celebrate family!

My next challenge will go live on the 1st of September..don't forget to stop by!

In the meantime, you have till the 25th to play my FAMILY CHALLENGE. 

You will find all the details here.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Creations from the winners of the July Challenge

Hello!

Starting this month, 

I will bring you some inspiration during the month, 

in order to keep the creative juices flowing!

We had three honorable mentions for the challenge last month.

I decided to invite them to guest design for the challenge this month so that they can inspire us with their creativity.

My first honorable mention designer is 

Raga Senthil

Here is what she has to say!

Hello Lovelies!

I am Raga from Perky Hobby!

Im super thrilled to be guesting for Paru's Card Making Challenges 'Family' challenge this month.

Thanks Paru for this opportunity!

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.

I started crafting a year ago. I love to illustrate and mostly all of my cards consist of my sketches and handwritten sentiments.

I think I enjoy making CAS style cards by incorporating interactive parts at times.

Check out my work at my blog  http://www.perkyhobby.com/, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/perkyhobby/  and on Instagram @perky_hobby.

Here is my take on the current challenge, using my illustration. (photo inspired from Google)

Rakshabandhan (the festival of Rakhi) 

is celebrated to cherish the bond of brothers and sisters.

To make this Rakhi card, I took A2 size white cardstock and created the wall and floor scene using patterned papers.

I sketched my figures, watercoloured them and adhered them on the front panel using foam tape and I gave washi tape to the little girl to mount her little cute brother over the wall for his mischievous behaviour.

I finished the card with a handwritten sentiment.

For the tag, I ink smooshed the background, using the bubble art technique. I fussy cut it and added a handmade flower (from Itsy Bitsy) 

for the rakhi and the sentiment to complete it.

I hope you are inspired to join in and play the challenge!

Happy Crafting!

My second Honorable mention GD is 

Mugdha Gujrati

Hello everyone!

This is Mugdha Gujarathi from Craftomania. 

I am an MBA turned full time crafter and mother of a cute little boy.

I love card making, quilling and to experiment with limited supplies. 

I started my blog in November last year and Paru's Card Making Challenges is one of the few challenges I participated in for the first time and I won it too!

That was the kickstart to my crafting journey and today I am glad to be here.

Thank you so much Paru for inviting me over!

This month's theme is "Family" and I have made a quilled card. 

I hope it inspires you to play along.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Do leave some love for these beautiful ladies and their amazingly creative work!

Join in and play my FAMILY challenge.

Challenge ends on the 25th of August and the winners will be announced on the 28th.

Have a wonderful day!

Paru Mahtani

August 2018 Challenge

Hello!!!

Thank you all so much for your amazing creativity for 

the July BIRTHDAY Challenge!

In India, we celebrate the wonderful festival of 'Rakshabandhan', in the month of August.

It is a sweet festival where brothers and sisters pledge their love for each other.

The sister ties a thread, usually with a charm on it, around the brothers wrist to signify her love and the brother vows to love and protect her always!

So I thought it would be appropriate to have 'FAMILY' as the theme for the challenge.

Here is the challenge for August 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

I have the fabulous 

Tracey Mcneely

as my Guest designer this month!!

I've gottten to know Tracey through Instagram and am a huge fan of her work. I'm so thrilled she could guest design for my challenge this month.

Here is what she says about her project!

Hi, I'm so excited to be Guest Designer for the July challenge at Paru's  Card Making Challenges! 

I'm Tracey McNeely and my blog is In My Creative Opinion. 

I live in the beautiful Muskokas of Ontario, Canada and I have had a life long love of pretty paper.

This month the theme is FAMILY, and I have a lot of girls in mine. 

I am always looking for birthday cards or words of encouragement and the Essentials by Ellen Inner Mermaid stamps and designer dies are perfect for the mermaids in my family.  

I started off by laying some Salty Ocean and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide inks on my craft mat and then it was spritzed with water. 

For the card I made a quick pass across the inks with some Bristol Smooth cardstock on an angle so that I didn't transfer the ink on the entire panel and then I set it aside to dry. 

Before the ink dried up I took a second panel cut down to 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" of Bristol Smooth and repeated the process for the tag.

While the panels were drying I stamped and heat embossed my images with gold embossing powder on some Neenah Solar White 110 lb cardstock. 

I like to use the thicker cardstock when embossing. 

The images were then coloured with Copic markers.

The sentiments were stamped on to both projects with VersaFine Onyx Black 

and then I adhered the images with foam tape for dimension.

To inspire you some more, 

here is what I made.

I just love this first card!! I used the 'Magical Dragon' stamp set from 

My Favourite Things to make this card. 

I intended to show the dragon, but it was so cute, that, I didn't think it appropriate to slay it!! ;-P

So, I decided to show just the flames!

Isn't it super cute!

Other stamps used are from Craftangles and Paper Smooches. 

I used tim Holtz distress inks to colour.

The second card is a card for brother and sister in law..in some communities in India, rakhis are gifted to sisters in law too. So I decided to make this simple card with two rakhis 

for brother and sister in law.

I used Simon says Stamp rectangle dies, Stampin' Up stamps, Flora and Fauna stamps and Die cuts and More dies, to make this card.

Its a fairly simple card. The rakhi is held in place with a piece of washi tape on the inside.

I hope you have been inspired to create a card for a family member! 

I'm looking forward to seeing what you create.

As there wasn't much time for last month's winner to design in time for this post, I'll have a winners post up around the 15th of the month..to keep inspiring us.

I will also have a great Guest Designer  creating more brilliant cards to inspire us, 

as well as cards designed by the three honorable mentions, 

during the month of August, 

so stay tuned!

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 THREE other winners for an honorable mention, who will also get an opportunity to design a card each for this challenge blog.

Sounds fun?

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

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

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

An InLinkz Link-up

July 2018 winners

 Hello!!

Thank you so much for playing my BIRTHDAY challenge!

What fabulous entries!! Such amazing ceativity!

Here are the winners for this month! 

For the Guest Designer position for the month of August

Darnell Knauss

Such an unusual birthday card and so much fun!

Darnell, I will be in touch.

SPECIAL MENTION

Perky Hobby

This interactive card is just brilliant!!

Craftomania

I just fell in love with this beautiful embossed background and the whole simple feel of the card.

Red Obsession Cards

Look at the gorgeously coloured mermaid!!!

Thank you all for playing along this month. 

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, who play month after month! 

You inspire me to keep this challenge going!

Remember...

The August  challenge will go live on 1st August at 12 am IST. 

Don't forget to come and play!!

There are going to be some big changes and new opportunities from next month!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!!

Paru Mahtani

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.

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

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

An InLinkz Link-up

June 2018 challenge winners

 Hello!!

Thank you so much for playing my MASCULINE challenge!

What amazing entries!!

Here are the winners for this month! 

For the  paper pack from 

My Happy Packs

Priyanka 

Her magic slider card with a super dad was just too good!

and 

for the Rs.1500

gift card to an Indian store of your choice...

Pankti Modi 

I just LOVE her elephant slider card!! Just too cute!

Many many congratulations to the winners.

Do follow the links and leave them some love!

Thank you all, who play month after month! 

You bring so much joy to my life!

VERY IMPORTANT

I have a sincere request to the winners..

PLEASE SHARE YOUR PRIZES ON SOCIAL MEDIA!

The more you share, the better chance you have at winning awesome prizes 

from more and more sponsors.

If, for any reason  you do not wish to accept the prize, 

(such as not being able to pay for shipping of the prize), 

please contact me ASAP, so that I may pass on the prize to someone else.

Remember...

The July challenge will go live on 1st July at 12 am IST. 

Don't forget to come and play!!

There are going to be some big changes and new opportunities from next month!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!!

Paru Mahtani