November winners post 1

Hello and welcome to my November winners post!!

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

RAGA SENTHIL

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!!

You can play my CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE HERE!!

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

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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!

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

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January 2018 Challenge

Hello!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I cannot believe we are celebrating

2 years 

of Paru's Card Making Challenges!!!!

Thank you all so much for coming back to play my challenges month after month!!!

I am truly humbled by your love!

Here is the challenge for January 2018

You can make a New Year card, a card for a new baby, new house, a wedding (new journey), a card for someone starting a new job, new studies, or, even use new craft material!!!

The possibilities are endless! 

Let see your creative juices flow!!

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.

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

INSPIRATION

I've made a lot of cards  to inspire you this month!

The first card is a super simple shaker card using my sponsor Winnie and Walter's 'Cheers' die.

I think it makes a great NEW Years card, hence following the theme of NEW!

The sequins in the shaker are from my sponsor Hndmd.

I cut out a shaker window using Simon Says Stamp stitched square die at an angle to create some interest. I placed the die cut Cheers sentiment across the window to finish the card.

The cute tag below is made using stamps from the Craftangles (by HNDMD) 'Indian Wedding' stamp set, watercolours and concentric stitched dies from Simon Says Stamp. 

I decided to leave the focal image black and white and use watercolours around it. 

I also added a silver and gold bell for fun. I wish I could make you hear how festive it sounds!

The next card is also made using my sponsor Hndmd's Craftangles 'Indian wedding' stamp set. I stamped, watercoloured and die cut the image and matted it with  a larger die cut of the same shape.

I used patterned paper from Craftangles to create a background for my image. I finished the card with some jute twine from MayArts and some silver and gold bells and sequins.

The sentiment from the same stamp set is typed inside the card.

Weddings are NEW beginnings, so here too I follow the theme of the challenge.

For more inspiration, I made some cards using NEW supplies that I recently purchased!

The first card features the VW Beetle die from Flora & Fauna stamps. The background is white embossed and ink blended and the sentiment is handwritten. 

I created the yellow striped using Craftangles 'Stripes' stencil.

I made the card below using my awesome NEW dies from My Favourite Things.

I have been dreaming about making this card!!!

The box die is from Lawn Fawn, the bottles are from MFT and the wood grain stamp is from 

Bo Bunny!

For the next card, I used my brand NEW stamps from 

Flora and Fauna stamps.

I created the background with Impression Obsession Map stamp and Memento London Fog ink.

I masked, watercoloured and die cut the focal image. 

Upon my son's suggestion, I extended the stripes from the focal image onto the background.

I think it creates great interest.

I made the tag/bookmark below using brand NEW stamps from 

Three Room Studio, designed by the awesome Sandy Boon!

I used my white Signo gel pen to create interest on the kraft background.

This month my Guest Designer is 

Anila Dikay

She has an amazingly clean style and she has some fun cards to inspire you!

Hello Friends,

I'm Anila.

To begin with, wish you all a very Happy New Year!

May this year bring you lots of creativity and innovations!

I am super happy to be Guest Designing at 

Paru's card Making Challenges.

I am a Mumbai based crafter. I was working as an Art and Craft teacher in a reputed school, in Mumbai. I got into blogging and crafting since last year. CAS card making is something I enjoy the most. I am greatly inspired by many crafters around.

You can see more of my work at my blog "Novel Ideas" or my Instagram handle "aniladk"

I am extremely grateful to Paru for giving me this opportunity.

I am sharing a card and tag today which I made based on the current theme of the month

NEW!

I am using a new stamp set here for both my projects.

Also, the sentiments used here are some quotations which I found online and printed out.

The sentiments reflect the new beginnings and the new opportunities brought in by the New Year.

Here is a look at them...

My card is made using MFT(My Favourite Things) Happy Hedgehogs stamp set.

I stamped the images, coloured them with Zig markers and fussy cut them.

I printed the sentiments on white cardstock.

I die cut the sentiment panel using a stitched rectangular die.

On a card base, I adhered the pattern paper from MFT.

I then mounted the rectangular die cut on the base using foam adhesive.

I adhered the images on the card and created the grass effect using pencil colours.

To make this tag, I used the same MFT Hedgehog stamp set. I stamped the image, coloured with Zig and fussy cut the image. On a white tag, I stamped the flower image from the same stamp set using green dye ink. Adhere the MFT pattern paper on the tag.  

I printed out the sentiment and die cut the same using the stitiched rectangle die.

I mounted this on the patterned paper using foam adhesive.

I adhered the image on the tag. 

Lastly, I added a few sequins and tied the ribbons to the tag.

I hope I was able to inspire you today!

Happy Crafting!!

Anila

THE PRIZES

2

$25 gift cards from 

Winnie and Walter!!

A goodie bag worth 

Rs.1500

from HNDMD

and 

Two Surpise gifts 

from me personally

The winners will be announced on the 28th of January,

 so 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

I am playing the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday 'Anything goes' Challenge.

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December 17 Challenge winners

 Hello!!

Thank you so much for playing the December 'Christmas' Challenge.

So much creativity! 

I was blown away!!

Here are the winners for this month! 

For the 

Fabulous goodie bag from 

HNDMD

Maura

I just could not resist that bright moon and that adorable scene!!!

For the Rs.500 voucher from 

Papericious

Priyanka

I just love how Priyanka has taken an Indian design stencil and turned it into a Christmas tree!!

That is really ingenious!

 Many many congratulations to the winners!!

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 January challenge will go live on 1st January 2018 at 12 am IST. 

It's the challenges' 2nd anniversary so there will be absolutely awesome prizes to be won!! 

Don't forget to come and play!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!!

Paru Mahtani

December 2017 Challenge

Hello everyone!!!! 

Thank you so much for playing the THANK YOU challenge in November!

We had so many beautiful entries!!

Now its the Christmas month! 

A fun time to craft and experiment and share lots of craft love!

Here is the December challenge!

Make a CHRISTMAS 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.

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

Now for some inspiration!!!

I have used Craftangles stencils, manufactured right here in Mumbai, by my sponsor Hndmd, to make these Christmas inspirations for you.

To make my Christmas card, I started by creating a background panel using Cratangles 'Tangerine Orange' cardstock and the Craftangles Plaid stencil with Tim Holtz distress inks 'Fired Brick' and 'Black Soot'. I cut the panel down to size using the Simon Says Stamp stitched rectnagle dies and created a vellum overlay using the next size of rectangle from the same die set.

I then used stamps from Hero Arts to create the winter scene in a mason jar. I used timholtz distress inks on the mason jar too and used a light splatter of water and a Signo white gel pen to create the effect of snow. I finished the card by adding some May Arts ribbon and some white enamel dots and adhering the plaid panel onto a black card base.

Unusual but such fun colours!

I'm submitting this card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday 'Anything Goes Challenge'.

For the tag, I decided to stick with the same colour scheme as the card. Here I used the skyline stencil from Craftangles and stamps from the new 'Season's greetings' stamp set from Craftangle to make this super simple tag. I added a holly and berry diecut (hero arts) to finish the tag.

For the last tag, I used the Craftangles Christmas trees stencil and the same warm colour scheme as above. Here I gold heat embossed the sentiment and added some die cut Christmas trees (Impression Obsession) and some Craftangles clear sequins for interest.

I love how my projects turned out..I hope you are inspired to dive in  and make some wonderful Christmas cards for friends and family too!
I'd like mention here, that all the backgrounds that you see in my card photos, are amazing 12"x12" papers from my sponsor this month, Papericious! Do check them out!

For more inspiration, I have for you this month..

The wonderfully talented

Ishani

I love her style and today she shows you how you can make you christmas cards with mininmal supplies!!

Hello dear friends,

I am so glad to be here to share my creations for the Christmas theme with you.

I am an Indian Air force officer by profession and a crafter by passion. 

I experiment with quilling, stmaping and other media to make my cards.

I love the versatility the quilling strips give me to form them into any shaoe I want to.

I did the same for my card. I used 3mm strips for the card. I cut aroung 1cm long pieced os two diffferent shades of green and stuck them to make them look like th brances of a Christmas tree.

I took three different colours and rolled them together to form the baubles (ornaments). Othre baubles were done the similar way.

I made a bow of the similar colours and stick them and the baubles below the brances to festoon my Christmas tree.

I stamped the sentiment at the other corner, put a feew sequins and mounted on a red card base.

Tadaa!! Here is my quilled Christmas card!!

for the tag, I stmaped two images of the poinsettia stamp with versamrk ink and gold embossed it.

I used Zig clean colour real brush markers to colout the two stamped images and fussy cut them. 

Later I cut on of the images in a way that I only had the red bracts (leaves) which I stuck on the whole coloured image to give a 3D effect. I die cut a scalloped tag, gold embossed my sentiment, stuck my poinsettia in the corner and finished off by tying a ribbon.

I hope you are inspired by my projects and next time if you don't have a stamp (like I didn't have) for making your cards, You'd try getting your humble paper strips out!!

THE PRIZES

As always,this month too we have two fabulous sponsors!

A Rs. 500 voucher from 

PAPERICIOUS

and

A goodie bag worth Rs. 1000 from 

HNDMD

With all this wonderful inspiration this month, I am looking forward to all your entries!!

The winner will be announced on the 28th of December, so do not 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 and have lots of fun!!

Paru Mahtani

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