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 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

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June 2018 Challenge

Hello!!!

Thank you all so much for your amazing creativity for the May Mother's Day Challenge!

Father's Day is on June 17th 2018. 

So here is your chance to make a fun masculine card or tag.

Here is the challenge for June 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 some fun cards for Dad this month!

For the first two cards, I have used the most beautiful floral card stock from 'My Happy Packs'..my wonderful sponsor for the month!

Who says floral is not masculine???

For the first card, 

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.

To this, I adhered a stamped, coloured and fussy cut image from 

the Craftangles 'Dad you rock' stamp set.

I stamped the sentiment (also from the same set) onto white cardstock and adhered it to the card using 3D foam tape.

I die cut the work Dad using a Simon Says Stamp die and adhered it to the floral panel,

 to finish the card.

I wanted to create a whimsical scene of happiness and fun between a father and daughter.

For the second card, I started off again with another die cut square (Simon Says Stamp Stitched squares) floral panel.which I adhered to a 5"x5"square card base 

To this I added the MFT dienamics Open road die cut.

I then die cut and adhered the Volkswagon bus (from Flora and Fauna clear) using 3 D foam tape, 

to the panel.

I die cut and adhered the word Dad (Simon Says Stamp) and finished the card with this cute sentiment from Technique Tuesday.

In both the cards, I think, the paper does all the work!

For the next card, I started out by stamping the Impression Obsession 'Map' stamp using Versafine Smokey Grey ink onto white card stock.

I then watercoloured the map...something I've never done before!

I just love how it turned out!

I then die cut the map using Simon Says Stamp stitched circle dies.

I then die cut and embossed the compass using the Recollections 'Nautical' die set, 

from white card stock, and adhered it to the centre of the map using 3D foam tape.

I then die cut the word Dad (Simon Says Stamp) and adhered it to the top of the map.

to finish the card, I printed out the sentiment and adhered it to the card using 3D foam tape.

I had a bit of the map scrap left over, so I used my PTI bookmark die to cut it out.

I cut out two panels, so I could use it like a tag.

I stamped a simple sentiment and image from 

Three Room Studio

which just seemed perfect for this bookmark tag.

What do you think?

I am linking my cards to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge (Anything goes) and the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge (Masculine)

To inspire you further, I have the amazing

Ardyth Percy Robb

Good Morning!

I'm excited to be the Guest designer for the June challenge at Paru's Card Making Challenges

where the theme is MASCULINE.

I decided to use some Essentials by Ellen product from the latest release (and and older one, too!) and my favourite, Catherine Pooler inks.

Plaids and straight lines are often featured in masculine cards, so I started by using Plaid Maker to create a bold plaid background with Melon Ice.

This may not always be considered a 'masculine' colour, but teaming it up with black and grey definitely gives it a modern masculine look. I ended the plaid on one edge to leave room for my sentiment.

I stamped the biggest stripe with Black Jack ink to create a border between the plaid and my sentiment area.

I added accents with Black Jack and stamped my sentiment (from Totally Random Sayings, volume 2) in midnight ink.

These big bold letters are perfect for masculine cards!

I stamped and die cut a coffee cup from Oh Frappe and created a coffee sleeve with a piece of white card stock I had stamped with the white solid square stamp in Melon Ice ink.

I tied my tag in to the card by using a lot of the same elements. My plaid is smaller, to reflect the smaller size of the tag and I used the same stripe, a sold area of Melon Ice inking and the little heart with stickles in it.

We hope you have been inspired by our creations!! 

I can't wait to see what you make!

THE PRIZES

A paper pack from 

My Happy Packs

and 

A Rs.1500 gift voucher 

from me from an 

Indian Craft store of your choice!

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

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

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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April Challenge

Hello everyone! 

Thank you so much for great challenge participation in March!!

I can say you made it really really hard for me to pick a winner!! 

Keep it up people!!

This month is an easy one, so hope to see lots of you participating!

Here is the April challenge!

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...

As the theme is anything goes, I decided to make  a Spiderman themed notecard and tag!

For the card, I started by using my oval punch to create the basic shape.
I then used a Steadler XS tip pen to create the web.
For the eyes, I die cut the Impression Obsession spectacles in black and white; Cut the black spectacles in the middle and added the white centres.

I die cut a white square using Simon Says Stamp Stitched squares, to use as the background.
I drew the spider web using a black micro tip pen.
I then adhered it to a kraft 3"x3" kraft card base to make a fun note card.

For the tag, I started by using an Oval die cut.

I drew a spiderweb using a black micro tip pen.

I used the love sign hand from Paper Smooches 'Helping Hands' to create Spiderman's hand!

I drew the spider web on the hand using the same micro tip pen as before, and added it to the centre of the web.

I added a sentiment from Stampendous'  'Cupcake Numbers' stamp set.

I'm quite thrilled the way these two turned out! I hope to have inspired to play with your supplies and create something different!

To inspire you further, I have a fabulous Guest Designer this month...

Sathya Kala 

Hi Friends

Am delighted to guest design here today at ParuCardmaking Challenges. Its such an honor to be invited and Thanks much for the lovely opportunity, Paru.

Little bit about me!

I Am SathyaKala, Toxicologist by Qualification and Passionate Papercraft Enthusiast. Am from Chennai, currently residing at UAE. Married to a wonderful friend and we are blessed with 8 year son. 

Am inclined towards art forms from childhood. Its much with Dance and Music in earlier part of my childhood with coloring, embroidery being my favorite hobby. When i stumbled upon a Food-Art blog in 2011, i discovered my passion for Quilling, which led me to where am today.

I dabble with different art forms - Quilling, Cardmaking, Mixed media, Coloring and Brush Lettering. This keeps things fresh and my mind inventive. I find that one passion crosses over the next, giving a different spin to it.

You can find me at my blog : Paperie Expressions and at Instagram : sathyakala.23 

This month’s theme is  "Anything Goes" at PCM and i have come up with a Mixed media card and a Tag.

 First up is Mixed media Card.

                                                                       

Made a mixed media square card. Lot of stamping , stenciling and texture pastes on the background.

Floral cluster along with tinted cheesecloth, twine bow are made on a doily.

Few vellum butterflies, generous splashes of white gesso and few clear droplets are added as finishing touches.

Next up is a Simple Tag.

                     

Made a simple Tag, with watercolor bg using Brusho crystals.

Stamped leaves stamp using Green archival ink followed by Watereffects Stamp using black archival ink.

Sentiment is stamped over Vellum and added with few vellum butterflies.

As a final touch, added glossy accents to few raindrops.

I hope you feel inspired to play along this month’s Challenge - "Anything goes”

Cheers,

Sathya

THE PRIZES

As always, we have our fabulous sponsors giving away some amazing prizes!

A fabulous goodie bag  from

CraftyScrappers

and a Stampset worth Rs. 975/- from 

Letz Craft

The winner will be announced on the 28th of April, 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 and have lots of fun!!

Paru Mahtani

An InLinkz Link-up

February challenge

Hello everyone! 

What a great number of submissions we had for the January challenge! We sure started off the year with a bang!

Here is the February challenge!

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 created this card using Impression Obessions dies and stamps from the 'Rinding Pretty' set!
And, then, I used the Chibitronics led light circuit to light up this card!!!

Other stamps and dies used as from Hero Arts, lawn Fawn and Litle B

Isn't this fun?

You can learn how to create your own circuit using the Chibitronics starter kit, HERE.

I also made this tag using the beautiful hollyhocks die from Impression Obsession, and a stencil from My Favourite Things. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp and the pretty sequins from 

Pretty Pink Posh.

For more inspiration,

I have the Fabulously talented 

Bhavana Kesarkar

as my guest designer today!

I have admired her work for many years, so its a real honour to have her here to inspire us today!

Hi Everyone!

I am Bhavana. Thank You Paru, for inviting me as a  guest designer!

I feel so honoured.

A little about me..

I am from India and currently live in Santa Clara, California. I love card making and I have been making cards for the past 6 years. 

I love anything artsy and craftsy. You can check out my work at my blog 

Blending art and craft

I am excited and had fun making cards with the LOVE theme.

My first card is very simple; I did an ink smooshing technique for the background using 'Fired Brick' distress ink and water, the love hand sign is from Paper Smooches 'Helping Hand' stamp set.

For my second card, I used Sugar Pea designs, 'Enchanted Garden' stamp set and dies.

I used  Zig real brush pens watercolour markers to colour them. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp 'Favourite flowers' stamp set.

I adhered the image using foam tap and added some clear sequins to finish my card.

For the tag, I used Winnie and Walter's 'You've got mail' stamp set. For the background stamping I used aged mahogany distress ink and did second generation stamping and for the envelopes I used water colours. 

The stamped sentiment is from the same set.

I hope you have been inspired!

Happy Crafting!

THE PRIZES

This month we have two outstanding sponsors!

We have a starter pack from 

Chibitronics

and 

 a $50 gift card 

from 

Impression Obsession

I hope that you have been inspired

 to create some fun tags and cards for LOVE

 and to join in the challenge!

The winner will be announced on the 28th of February , 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

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