May 2018 challenge

Hello!!!

Thank you all so much for your beautiful  creations for the FLOWERS challenge!!

Here is the challenge for May 2018

Mother's Day is May13th 2018, so go ahead and make your mom happy!

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 made a few cards to inspire you today..

For the first card, I have used products I bought from my wonderful sponsor Ranganjali's store.

The Altenew stamp set 'Beautiful lady' and the weave embossing folder from Darice.

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.

For the next card, I've used these beautiful stamps (Handstitched) from my wonderful sponsor 

'Neat and Tangled'!

These images go perfectly with the theme, don't you think?

I started by stamping the floral,cross stitch  and heart stamps to create a wreath.

 I then cut apart the sentiment stamps in the set to create a custom sentiment.

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.

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?

The third card, I think is my favourite!

I was inspired by some cards  I saw on Instagram and Pinterest.

 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.

I then used my EK Success shoe punch to punch out a pair of shoes in red and many in black.

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.

I placed them to look like they were clicking their heels and added the printed out sentiment across the panel.

I added the Grandma die cut (from Simon Says Stamp) to finish the card.

For the next card, I started out with a print out of a free digi of a Chanel perfune bottle.

I then used Heidi Swapp's minc gold foil to foil the image.

I then used the ink smooshing technique with Tim Holtz distress oxide  (Worn Lipstick) to create the background..on the bottle and the background. 

I then fussy cut the bottle and added some fun foam to give it some dimension when adhered to the background.

I added the Grandma die cut from Simon Says Stamp, the printed sentiment and some 'Pink Cupcake' sequins from Craftangles to finish the card.

I am submitting my cards for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge (anything goes).

To inspire you some more, 

I have the fabulous 

Milka Gubo 

as guest designer today!

Many of you know her and play her wonderful

'I love Math Challenge' 

which challenges you to incorporate math into card making!

So much fun!

Hello everyone!

My name is Milka, crafter and card maker from Croatia. I work as primary school teacher, teaching Mathematics and Physics. I love my job!!

 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.

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 (https://craftymilka.blogspot.hr/).

I was overwhelmed when Paru invited me to join her in this month’s challenge: Mother’s Day.

Wonderful theme!!! I decided to incorporate all my mentioned above favorites in to my projects.

I made both, a card and a tag, for my mom. I’ll send these to her this week, just to get them prior Mother’s  Day.

 With some masking, I 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.

Next up was the tag. I don’t make tags often, so this was quite a challenge for me. The simplest way to deal with this challenge was to go with same design as on the card. I did everything same as on the  card, just skipped heat embossing. After coloring and drying, I cut the tag shape on my die-cutting machine, punched a hole in a tag, added some ribbon and my tag was finished.

If you would like to find out more about products I used in my projects, please visit my blog.

Thank you so much for having me Paru!!

THE PRIZES

A $15 gift card from 

Neat and Tangled

and 

A Rs. 1500 gift card from 

Ranganjali

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

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

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

October Challenge winners

 Hello!!

Thank you so much for playing the October 'Hint of Gold' Challenge.

Here are the winners!

For  the Rs.1000 gift voucher from CraftAdda

Hussena (Quill and Punch works)

The gold frame is a the perfect accent !

And

For Two 6"x6" paper packs from Nakshatra Designs

Swapna Patil (Dream Pages)

The gold embossed sprig is a perfect hint of gold!!

Many many congratulations to the winners!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Remember...

a new challenge will go live on Tuesday November1st at 12 am IST.

Don't forget to drop by and play!

October Challenge

Hello everyone! 

Welcome back to all of you who have played my challenges before 

and a big welcome to those who are stopping by for the first time! 

I hope you have great fun playing  along!

October is a month of festivities here in India...we have the 10 day festival of Dussehra (which celebrates the victory of good over evil ) and the festival of lights, Diwali, 15 days later!

All month we celebrate by wearing bright colours which will always have a 

hint of GOLD!

So taking this celebratory theme forward, our October challenge is to make a card or a tag which has just a HINT OF GOLD!

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...

This month, I have made a set of 6 notecards with a Diwali theme.

I have used the brand new Diwali stamp set from Craft Adda, Henna Elements stamp set from AveryElle, Gold and white embossing powder, and Tim Holtz distress inks, and Sakura Koi watercolours.

To make this card, I first gold embossed the rangoli pattern on the card. Then I masked off half the card and used Tim Holtz distress inks to colour the other half. I added the paisley design from Altnew's henna elements stamp set. I finished the card with a gold embossed sentiment from Craft Adda's diwali stamp set.

 For this card, I stamped the rangoli design in black and and coloured it using sakura koi watercolours.

I have used the same stamp for this card too..heat embossed here with clear embossing powder and watercoloured using Sakura Koi watercolours. I finished the card with a gold embossed sentiment on a vellum panel.

Here I have gold embossed the lantern on one half of the card and masked and blended the other half.  I used one of the elements  from Altnew's Henna Elements stamp set on this card too.

I have used the emboss resist technique for this card. After the watercolour dried, I ironed off the embossing powder to create a soft look. I finished the card with a god embossed sentiment on vellum.

Here, I heat embossed the lanterns and then blended Tim Holtz  distress inks. I splattered some water on the distress ink to create some interest.

I finished the card with a god embossed sentiment on vellum  and some burlap string from Mayarts ribbon.

GUEST DESIGNER

Please say hello to our fabulous Guest Designer this month

Priya Sondhi

Hi all! This is Priya from Priya-N-Papers. I am super duper excited to be invited at Paru's Card Making Challenges. I am a software engineer Team Leader by profession but at heart I am a full time paper crafter. I am from India but currently living in US for past 4 years because of my job.

From the childhood I was into crafts. I used to craft with my super talented sister. But during collage, I lost my touch and fell totally into academics. Roughly 6 years back when I was sitting idle in office, I stumbled across Martha Stewarts crafts. That's how I was introduced to paper crafts. I found it very interesting. Slowing I discovered craft blogs of many talented crafters from India like Tejal, Kavitha, Bhavana, Karuna and many more. I was totally inspired by them and followed their blog and started crafting myself. One fine day I started to blog to share my crafty process.

My all time favorite craft technique is creating backgrounds using heat embossing and distressing with distress inks. Now a days I am hooked to watercoloring.

For the October challenges, the challenge is to add a hint of Gold. There are alot of ways to add Gold into your creations like foiling, embossing, Gold paper/washi tape/sequins and even using gold watercolors. For my inspiration, I have used gold foiled paper for card and Gold embossing powder for the tag.

Diwali Card :

I love making Diwali cards! Since it's already October I took it as an opportunity to make one. I used Fringed die from MFT and die cut strips of cardstocks in warm colors. I also diecut a strip of Gold foiled cardstock and added in between to add a touch of gold. Then I adhered all the strips to create an Ombre effect.

I also heat embossed Diya Stamps from Mudra's new Diwali release. The sentiment is from Varna's Diwali stamp set which they released last year.

Here is a closure look at the gold + Ombre effect. 

Best Wishes Tag :

For the tag, I diecut a watercolor cardstock using Avery Elle Bookmark die and then used Gansai Tambi watercolors for some rainbow effect. I heat embossed the Lacy circle stamp from Waffle Flower using white embossing powder.  For the gold, I heat embossed Honey Bee's Zen Floral Stamps on vellum with gold embossing powder from Ranger and fussy cut the images and created my own bouquet. I added some sentiment and Twine to finish off my tag. It's an any occasion tag which you can use for birthday's, anniversaries, Diwali, etc.

A closer look at the gold effect. The gold embossing on Vellum looks fabulous!

That's it from my side. I hope I inspired you a little today to make some festive projects with a pinch of Gold. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

Have a great day!

Happy Crafting!

Priya Sondhi

THE PRIZES

As always, we have a fabulous sponsor lined up for this month.

 A Rs.1000/- gift voucher from CraftAdda

and 

Two 6"x6" paper packs from Nakshathra Designz

We hope you have been inspired to create some beautiful cards with a HINT OF GOLD!

Can't wait to see your creations!

I will announce the winner of this challenge on the 28th of October, so don't forget to stop by!

You can 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

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!