October 17 Challenge

Hello everyone!!!! 

Thank you so much for playing the "Rainbow" challenge in September!

I was so happy by the response! So many beautiful cards!

Here is the October challenge!

Make a card or tag with a touch 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...

To make a touch of  gold tag, I first printed out a cardstock sheet of toner , which, I used to die cut the Spellbinders peacock feather.



I then used two different colours of Craftangles foil on this die cut.

Here is the beautiful result.

To make the tag, I used a scrap of blue cardstock to die cut a PaperTreyInk bookmark. I had previously stamped this scrap with peacocks to create a tone on tone look.

I then adhered the foiled die cut to the tag and added a blue ribbon to complete the tag.

Beautiful isn't it?

For the card, I used Simon Says Stamp Stitched square dies to cut two nesting squares out of the 'Colours of India' 6"x6" paper pack from Craftangles.

I then cut the final square out of green cardstock and heat embossed a mandala from the newly released 'Happy Diwali' stamp set from Craftangles, in gold.

I finished the card by adding a bit of May Arts ribbon with a golden bell for fun!

To Inspire you some more...

My very dear friend and cardmaking superstar
Neha Bhatt
of
Perwinkle creations
is my Guest designer this month
and she has some fabulous cards to inspire you!

Hi Crafty Friends,
I am back on my favourite challenge blog once again! The theme is “Touch of Gold”. With Diwali
approaching, I decided to make a card and a tag for the festive season.

For the card, I have used waffle flower’s Lacy Flower stamp as rangoli!
I embossed it with glitter gold
embossing powder by Brutus Manroe. It is hard to capture the jazzy look of it but it looks gorgeous
in person. I cut the panel using spellbinder die. To color the Rangoli, I used Candied Apple, Ground
Espresso and spiced marmalade distress inks. The sentiment is from Ranganjali. A thin wavy stripe of
golden glitter paper is added. A small floer from the same set is embossed, colored and tucked under
the panel to balance the design. I mounted the panel on similar colored but textured card base.

Tag is created using Papertrey Ink die. I lined the back side with a circle die cut blended using Candied Apple Distress oxide . I inlaid few flower centres, die cut using glitter paper. To finish it off, embossed sentiment in gold & tied some golden threads.

I hope you are inspired with my creations and will play along!

Thank you Paru for this opportunity! Wish to be back soon! Have a crafty festive season !
Hugs.

To further inspire you,
we  have two beautiful cards from  the design team over at
Peek-a-boo designs,
our generous sponsors this month!
The first card is made by the super talented Vijayalaxmi Siyal!!



She has gold embossed a  beautiful background stamp 'Quilted love' from Peek-a-boo designs to create a stunning background.
She then used the 'Pretty Roses' stamp from Peek-a-boo designs, beautifully coloured, to create the focal image.  She then added the Celebrate die cut  sentiment in gold and added a touch of elegance by adding the 'Blooming beauty'  (also from Peek-a-Boo designs) washi tape in rose gold.

The second card is by
Priyadarshini Deshpande

She too has used the 'Pretty Roses' stamp set from Peek-a-Boo designs, 
but has coloured them a gorgeous red!
Who can resist red roses!!!
She assembled these beautifully fussy cut roses on a white card base
with gold glitter tape and a few gold nuovo drops added to add interest.

Stunning aren't they!!!

You can check out all of Peek-a-Boo's new arrivals here!

I hope you have been inspired to play along! 

I can't wait to see what you create!

THE PRIZES
This month we have TWO fabulous prizes from
Peek-a-Boo designs!

One Rs. 1500 ($20) and one Rs.750 ($10) gift card!

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

May Challenge

Hello everyone! 

Thank you so much for fabulous challenge participation in April!!

As always, you made it really really hard for me to pick a winner!! 

Keep it up people!!

May 14th is Mother's Day, so lets see some beautiful cards for MOM this month!

Here is the May 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 have made lots of cards for  for Mother'sday!

Lets start with some shaker cards that are really simple..

For the first card, I printed out the sentiment (inspired by a card that I saw on Etsy),
directly onto the card stock.
I then used the PaperSmooches wine glass die to die cut the shape to create a shaker window. I inlaid just the stem of the glass and added deep red sequins to the glasses.
I finished the card by adhering it to the cardbase using 3Dfoam tape.
I just love the way the card turned out!

For the second card, I used the Die-versions Old Globe East die. 

After adhering the plastic sheet to create the shaker window, I inlaid the die cut to create this super simple card.

I added some heart and flat sequins in deep red to the shaker.

I finished the card with a sentiment from mftstamps 'Space Explorer' stamp set.

I just love the CAS look of both cards.

For the third shaker card, I used the PaperTrey ink mason jar cut out on a panel on which I had printed out the sentiment.

After creating the shaker window, I added the buttons and used Craftangles 'Hearts All around stencil' to fill up the background.

Fun no?

Our sponsors this month are Newton's Nook and Craftangles.

So, I have used supplies from both brands to make these cute mother's day cards.

I love the newly released Craftangles 'Hearts All around' stencil..and I felt it paired beautifully with the Newton's Nook stamp set 'Wild about you'

I used the 'Lawn Fawn' grass diecut, sentiments and dies from Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamp, patterned paper from bob and Betty, inks from Memento and sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to finish the cards.

To make these two cards, I used the newly release 6"x6" Craftangles paper pack 'Timeless Treasures' and mftstamps 'I'm Owl yours' and 'Purrfect friends' stamp set.

This last card is a fvourite...

I used the newly released Craftangles superhero paper pack and the 'Supergirl' stamp set aslong with a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards as much as I have making them. 

I haven't made any tags this month as I have made so many cards!

To inspire you further this month

I have the awesome 

Khyati Kothari 

Mothers day Inspiration using CrafTangles Products

Hello Crafters,

With Mothers Day just round the corner, I thought I would share some inspirations with you all. As most of you know CAS has never been my forte so when I had to guest design for Parus Cardmaking Challenges I was terrified, but I decided to give it a go and I am glad I did :)

So without further wait, here are the tags I made for the challenge -

Few more tags -

And One card that I made -

Products that I have used are -

CrafTangles Co-ordinated Stamp and Die Set - Super Boys
CrafTangles Co-ordinated Stamp and Die Set - SuperGirls
CrafTangles Stamp - I am Stuck on You
CrafTangles Stamp -  Mom you Rock
Zig Markers
Kuretake Gansai Tambi Starry Watercolors
CrafTangles Stitched Rectangles Dies
CrafTangles Stitched Circle Dies
Canson Watercolor Paper
A2 note cards
Distress Inks 
Black cardstock 
Embossing Powders

I hope you are inspired to play along!!

THE PRIZES

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

A fabulous goodie bag  from

Craftangles

worth Rs.1000.00

and a 

$25 store credit from 

Newton's Nook

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