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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March challenge

Hello everyone! 

What a fabulous challenge we had in February! 

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

Keep it up people!!

March is the month we celebrate the festival of colours Holi, in India.

So why not play with colours right here with our very own challenge !

Here is the March 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...

For this months's 3 colour challenge, I have made this fun shaker card! I have used a white card base, black and white twine and the three colours, red, yellow and green, to make this card.
I used Peek-a-boo scalloped circle die to make this shaker.
I used the die to cut seven scalloped circles, which I then stacked using Ranger multi medium matte. I added a piece of acetate before adding on the final layer of circle. I created a background using
Lawn Fawn's  'Sew Lovely' stamp set.
I placed the sentiment from MFT's 'Sew Nifty' stamp and die set across the shaker to finish the card.

For the tag, I started with a cream coloured tag, cut using MFT's 'tag you're it' stamp and die set.

I then stamped the gingham pattern in brown across the bottom of the tag. I added a bright yellow die cut sunflower (spellbinders), some Mayarts twine, a wooden button and some red sequins to finish the tag. The sentiment from Hero Arts, really pops on the checked background, don't you think?

To inspire you further, the fabulous Jasleen Kaur is in the house!!

Here's what she has to say...

Jasleen Kaur

Hello!

I'm Jasleen and i feel so happy to be invited over at Paru's Card Making Challenges 

 as a Guest Designer.

I started my crafting and blogging journey three years ago when I accidently stumbled upon some beautiful handmade cards while surfing the internet.

Card making and quilling are what I enjoy most, and I'm more inclined towards Clean and Simple, minimalist style of card making.

I mostly draw my inspiration from the simple things I come across in day-to-day life, and when I need to recharge my mind with a creative dose of inspiration, visiting blogs of other card makers and crafters helps a lot.

You can view more of my workon my blog Happily Ever Crafter or my Instagram Account.

Thank You paru for this amazing opportunity.

I'm sharing a card and two tags I made keeping this month's challenge theme in mind, which is to use just three colours (other than black, white and kraft) on your card or tag.

Here is the card..

This clean and simple one-layered card 

was made using floral stamps from 

Happy Little Stampers 'Doodled flowers' stamp set. 

I coloured them using Faber Castell watercolour pencils and connector pens.

The sentiment is from MFT's 'Donuts and Sprinkles' stamp set and

from Mudra's 'Mom I Love You' stamp set.

I have also stamped on the inside of the card.

To make the first tag, I die cut the scalloped  circle using the Sizzix framelits die-scalloped circles. That cup was make by hand, cutting and then scoring with the help of MS scoring tool and
bone folder, followed by sponging it with brown ink.
The yellow cake was made using felt and the 'cherry' on the top is a die cut heart.
The base was lightly sponged using distress ink-salty ocean and
the little cupcake was mounted over this base.

 The second simple tag has the sentiment stamp from Inkadinkado 'Kids Quotes', which, is heat embossed in white over a kraft tag.

The umbrella and the cloud are stamps from Janes Doodles -Rain or Shine set.

I hope you feel inspired to play along with this month's colourful challenge!

Love 

Jasleen.

I hope you have been inspired!

Happy Crafting!

THE PRIZES

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

A Rs. 1000.00 voucher 

from 

A1 Craft Supply

and a Rs. 500 voucher from 

Ranganjali

The winner will be announced on the 28th of March  , 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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June Challenge winner!

Hello!

Thanks ever so much to everyone who played the June "Father's Day" challenge!!

Thanks also for your patience in waiting for me to announce a winner!

Here are the winners for the June "Father's Day" Challenge!

Deepti Aggarwal

She wins the $25 gift certificate from Neat and Tangled.

And 

first time challenge player

Shivani

She wins a beautiful paper pack from Papericious!

Congratulations to the winners!!!

Please email me at 

parusperceptions@gmail.com 

so that I can share the winners badges with you as well as the prizes.

The July challenge is up on the blog...you can join in 

HERE!

June 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!

Fathe's day is on June 19th this year, so I thought I should dedicate this challenge to all those awesome fathers who make our lives so very comfortable!!

The challenge for June is..

HOW TO PLAY

Make a card or tag using the theme given. 

Take a photo 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 made this card for my pizza loving husband!! Sunday dinner is usually pizza night...an activity which my husband and teenage son  have fun sharing...they usually argue about the pizzas though!!

When I was looking through my stamps, I thought this stamp from the PaperSmooches 'Think Fast " stamp set was perfect for the occasion!

For the background, I used the cutlery background cling stamp from Hero Arts.  The sentiment stamp is from Simon Says Stamps Fathers' Day stamp set.

I used two  stamps from the same Paper smooches stamp set as well as the same background stamp as above for this tag!

I cut the circle using Simon Says Stamp stitched circles  and punched a hole to add the bakes twine to finish the tag. All images are watercoloured using Sakura Koi watercolours, fussy cut and popped up with 3D foam tape to add dimention and interest.

I hope I have inspired you to think outside the box on this theme!

JUNE GUEST DESIGNER

Virginia L

What can I say about her that you don't already know!!!! She is the queen of card making!

I am so honoured that she is my guest designer for this month!!!!

Here's what she has to say about herself!

About Me

I'm blessed with two wonderful adult children and a loving and supportive husband. In my little world,I love creating cards, traveling and making yummy food.  I am currently on Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge DT. I am the founder/host of Virginia's View Challenge.  I discovered stamping nearly 20 years ago and has been fascinated by it. I have entered countless challenges and contests, with many failures. But no matter how good I feel about each card, I strive to make the next one better! Being passionate about trying new techniques that intrigue, I love to share ideas and creations in my blog. I truly appreciate the fellow card-maker/bloggers' positive feedback and I hope to encourage other fellow card-makers as much as I can. Thank you, Paru, for inviting me to be your guest design for June!

About the card:

I created the background with the stencil (Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Gear) with Distress Crayons. By applying and mixing the colors with my finger tips, the background was easy to create. I then lightly applied some Wendi Vecchi Embossing Paste (white) over and let dry. After that, I stamped the sentiment from Brushed Happy Sentiment Set (from The Ton Stamp). For final touches, I attached the globe from TH Souvenir Adornments with strings.

About the tag: 

I stamped the Hero Arts Goldfish in Distress Inks (Carved Pumpkin and Festive Berries) with the help of MISTI. After stamping the image, I clear-embossed the fish. I did the same with the sea weed/grass in Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and Scuba (Simon Says Stamp). After that, I sprayed blue mist (  Lindy's Gang Steel Shimmer Glitz Spritz and Heidi Swapp Project Life Spritz). Once the paint dried, I embossed the sentiment with Hero Arts Platinum EP. I added the droplets with Per White Opel Liquid Pearls. I added the adornment/twines for the tag.

The tag is for my son who is leaving for an Engineering internship in San Francisco ( I live in Canada) tomorrow! Oh boy, I am gonna really miss him! 

THE PRIZES

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

$25 gift card from Neat and Tangled

A paper pack from Papericious

I hope that we have inspired you to bring out your  thoughts for Father's Day!

This challenge will run from the 1st of May till the 25th of June.

I will announce the winner of this challenge in July 

as I will be travelling in the second half of June.

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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