February 18 Challenge Winners

 Hello!!

Thank you so much for playing my LOVE challenge!

Im so sorry for the delay in announcing the winners. 

Thank you for your patience!

I just love your amazing creativity!

Here are the winners for this month! 

For the  prize

from 

Dadarkar Arts

Vinita Jain

The beautiful pink pop of colour and the stencilling are just fabulous!

and 

for the hamper from

A1 Craft Supply

Anila Dikay

I just could not resist that fabulous ink blending and  that gorgeous sentiment!!

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

Don't forget to come and play!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!!

Paru Mahtani

February 2018 challenge

Hello!!!

Thank you all so much for rocking the NEW challenge to celebrate the second anniversary of 

Paru's Card Making Challenges!!!!

Here is the challenge for February 2018

You can make a for Valentine's day, a card of encouragement, a card for a wedding, or just a card to make someone feel special!

The possibilities are endless! 

I'm waiting to see all your creativity!!

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 made three cards  this month...as magic slider cards, to inspire you!

I have used the Lawn Fawn magic slider card die to make all these cards and all the stamps I've used are from My favourite Things.

You will find plenty of tutorials on how to make your own magic slider cards here.

I have also included videos to show how they work.

Once I assembled the magic slider element, I stamped and decorated the backgrounds, stamped the sentiments and adhered the slider to finish the cards.

I have videos of all the cards to show how much fun they are!

Im submitting these cards for the  'LawnFanatics' inspiration board challenge and the
MFT colour challenge.

 To inspire you some more,

This month my Guest Designer is 

Deepti Aggarwal

I have been following Deepti for a while now and I just love her creative, simple and oh so fun cards!!

Hello Everyone!

This is Deepti from Vishesh Collections.

I live in Bangalore, India with my husband and two little princesses! (They are 8 and 5 years old).

My girls always keep me busy and their school time is my crafting time..;).

I am a management graduate in Human Resources but I chose to be a stay at home mom. Crafting is a stress buster for me.

I enjoy evry bit of it. I am crafting since 2010 and I love trying my hands on different forms of arts. My style is towards CAS side and mostly bright and colourful. 

I am a big critter lover which you can easily notice in my feeds.

Chek out my work at my blog, Facebook and Instagram.

I am so honoured to be chosen as the guest designer for this month at Paru's Card Making Challenges.

Thank you so much Paru for having me,

The theme for this month's challenge is LOVE. 

Here is my take on the current challenge using critters from Neat and Tangled "My Favourite Nut" stamp set.

To make this card, I took A2 size white card stock and ink smooshed the background. Once satisfied, stamped some hearts and then added the water coloured tree bark die cut outs from Craftin Desert Divas. Meanwhile stamped, coloured and fussy cut my focal image from "My Favourite Nut" stamp set. Adhered the same with foam tape to add some interest. Finally finished it by adding some stamped acorns and hearts here & there. And here is the tag...

To make this tag, I have used "Heart of Gold Die" from Neat & Tangled. First , I cut out the heart using the same die as my stencil and ink smooshed it. Then attached the heart of gold die cut out using pink paper ribbon. Adhered the cute image to complete it.

I hope that you are inspired to join in the challenge this month to celebrate LOVE. Can't wait to see what you create!! Happy Crafting!! Hugs xx Deepti Aggarwal

I hope you have been inspired to play along with us this month!

I can't wait to see your creations!

THE PRIZES

As always we have some great prizes to give away!

A prize from Dadarkar Arts

 I am awaiting confirmation for my second prize.

The prize will be announced as soon as I receive the confirmation.

The winners 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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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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August Challenge

Hello everyone! 

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

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

I hope you have great fun playing  along!

It's Rakshabandhan month!!! 

Time to celebrate the love for brothers and sisters and extended family!

The challenge for August is..

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...

Raksha Bandhan is around the corner and I thought this card would be most appropriate to send out to a dear brother with a rakhi! 

The sentiment is sure to make him smile!

the sentiment is combination of stamps from MFT stamps and Papersmooches stamps which a put together on a MISTI tool in order to get precise stamping on the card. I handwrote the words I didnt have and used individual alphabet stamps to create the word 'WORLD'.

The focal image is a die from MFT. I watercoloured a piece of cardstock and then die cut the little boys and girls!

I created the background using Craftangles stencils and mama elephant yellow ink.

Do you have a cousin who is your best friend?

To make this tag, I first cut out a circle using Simon Says Stamp stitched circles. I then punched out circles with my circle punches in different sizes from scrap patterned paper.

I then stamped the sentiment (combination of Simon Says Stamp and Papersmooches stamps) and added the circles and  Pretty Pink Posh sequins randomly.

I love the sentiment as all my cousins and my cousins-in-law are my best friends! We may all be different but we are one in the family circle!

I love the way the colours pop against the kraft bag!

Now for some more inspiration!!

AUGUST GUEST DESIGNER

Deepti Mallik

This month Deepti Mallik as our guest designer!!! 

If you follow her work, you can imagine why I am so thrilled that she agree to guest design for my challenge!! I just adore the card and tag she has made for this challenge...the blue watercolouring really looks like the swirling ocean!!!

truly inspirational!

Here is what she has to say about herself and her creations!!

About Me

I am a sketch artist by default and a card maker by choice.

My card making started with making some new year cards back in 2013 and now it has turned into a passion.

I moved a step ahead last year as I started to illustrate my own designs with my line of stamps "Dees Artsy Impressions" under the umbrella of STAMPlorations :)

I am also an instructor at Craftsy where I teach a class on Watercolour  Cards made Simple.

Besides doing all the creative work, I am also a new mom to my son Siddharth. Life has transformed after his arrival but I am loving the learning here too ;)

I want to thank Paru for having me here:)

About the card...

I made a card with my favourite watercolouring. 

I embossed the images and then watercolored it using Gansai Tambi watercolours.

About the Tag...

I did some traditional stamping, die-cutting, patterned paper mix and another of my recent favourite 

Prisma colour pencil colouring :)

THE PRIZES

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

Deepti has very generously giving away one of her own stampsets as a prize this month! 

How cool is that!!!

And 

Rs.1000 gift voucher from Peek-a-boo designs

We hope you have been inspired to create some beautiful cards for your family!

Can't wait to see your creations!

I will announce the winner of this challenge on the 28th of August, 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

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