We have a winner!!!

Hello Everyone!!!

Here are the winners for the May 'SUMMER' challenge!!

Simply Handmade

Winner of $25 store credit from  Concord and 9th

Priyanka's card could not get more summery!!!! 

I fell in love with her motifs and the most of the all the cool vellum glass!!!! 

Do drop by her blog and leave her some love!

Neha Bhatt

Winner of Rs.500 gift card from Crafter's corner

Im sure many of you know the fabulous Neha Bhatt!!! 

Her card makes me want to reach in and pick up the glass of lemonade!

(unfortunately I don't drink beer!!!)

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  (you will not believe who!!!) and a fun challenge coming up on 1st June!

Do come by and play!

May 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!

The challenge for May is..

HOW TO PLAY

Make a card or tag using the theme given. Take a photo of your card or tag along with the masking process. 

If you have a blog, write a post about our challenge, including photos of your card or tag and your process.

Please display this storyboard prominently in your blog post.

ALSO, please display this logo prominently on your blog.

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...

What do you think of when you think of Summer??

To me summer is mangoes, ice creams, bright flowers and sunny hot days!

To make this card, I created my own patterned paper (on Photoshop) with a mango motif.

I then added the pretty yellow floral paper from Doodlebug designs along with the polaroid die cut  (Lawn Fawn), the sun die cut (Sizzix) and the goggles die cut (Impression Obsession).

I finished the card with a heat embossed sentiment on Vellum from Paper Smooches.

For this tag, I die cut two popsicles (Scrapping cottage) and watercoloured them in mango and raspberry flavours!

I stamped ice cubes (PTI) on the tag and adhered the popsicles with foam tape.

I finished the tag with pink and orange bakers twine.

Doesn't really need a sentiment no?

MAY GUEST DESIGNER

To inspire you some more, this month the fabulous  Ujjwal Gupta is in the house as guest designer for our challenge! 

Those of you who follow her may know her fabulous work! 

It is truly an honour to have here  to inspire us this month!

Ujjwal Gupta

About Me

I am Ujjwal, a stay at home mum and artist and have been in the blog world, creating and sharing and hopefully inspiring for more than 6 years now.

I love clean and simple designs that pack a punch.

I am excited today to be guest designing here, it is such an honour!

Card

It's no secret that I adore Lawn Fawn stamps and I thought 'Cruising through life" stamp set was perfect to create a lovely sunny day in the park.

The sun and the clouds are from Jane's Doodles Seamus Stamp Set and the sentiment is from Hero Arts. I white heat embossed all the elements on Canson Watercolour Paper and then coloured with distress inks and a waterbrush.

Tag

Now what's summer without some lemonade..right?

For the tag, I used another Lawn Fawn mini stamp set called "Make Lemonade". I stamped the imae on Canson Watercolour paper and coloured them using Faber Castell Markers. I fussy cut the lemon and popped it up using some foam tape. 

For the sentiment, I combined two different stamps-Lawn Fawn Best Pun ever and Hero Arts Magical Castle. I also lightly inked the edges using some crushed olive distress ink and a sponge dauber and tied some jute string.

I hope you like the projects I have created and feel inspired to play along!

THE PRIZES

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

$25 gift card from Concord and 9th

Rs.500/-  gift card  from Crafter's Corner

I hope that we have inspired you to bring out your cool summery designs!

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

I will announce the winner on the 28th of May.

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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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!

April challenge

Hello everyone! 

Welcome back to all of you who have played with me before and a big welcome to those who are stopping by for the first time! 

I hope you have great fun playing my challenge!

My challenge for the month of April is 

ANYTHING GOES

April challenge

HOW TO PLAY

Make a card or tag using the theme given. Take a photo of your card or tag along with the masking process. 

If you have a blog, write a post about our challenge, including photos of your card or tag and your process.

Please display this storyboard prominently in your blog post.

ALSO, please display this logo prominently on your blog.

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 using the 6"x6"  'Its a boy' paper pack from Craftangles by CraftAdda. I just love that, even though, this pack had predominently baby motifs, I was able to create a  card this is fun and adult.

I made this card on request for a friends sons 21st birthday. He is passionate about filmmaking, so I decide to use that as a theme.

I used a strip of film reel washi tape and created a reel using my ek success circle punches. I decided to add a celebratory element so I created the bunting using Mayarts jute twine and some coloured scotch tape.

I fished the card with a gold embossed sentiment from Hero Arts and the 21 die cut using Lawn Fawn's Quinn's 123 dies.

I think it has all come together quite nicely!

To inspire you some more, 

this month I have the fabulous Barb Engler as my guest designer! 

Those of you who follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram and Flickr may know her as the hostess.

I was so happy when she agreed to be my guest designer for the month of April!

Barb Engler

Here is what she has to say about herself.

Hi everyone!

I'm so happy to be guest designing this month for Paru and her Challenge!

I live in the upper Midwest of the U.S> in the state of Minnesota. I am now retired from being a floral department manager of a small grocery store.

Retirement means more time to create, which I love!

I started out years ago with scrapbooking, when my two boys were litttle. 

That led to cardmaking, which I started in 2010.

I've always had a love for stamping, especially flowers, and more recently have fallen in love with coloring.

Coloring with Copics is my favourite, but, I love watercolor too. I also really like trying new and ddifferent techniques on my cards.

I must admit I was happy to find out the theme this month was 'Anything Goes'! That meant I could use some flowers for my card...YAY!

I decided to use a beautiful set designed by Wplus9.

It's called, Watercolour Anemones.

Since I love using different techniques on my cards, I decided to try a fun one for these flowers. They are solid stamps, with no space to actually colour, so I used the shadow technique to stamp them.

Using some fog coloured cardstock, I first stamped the flowers with white pigment ink, then used offset stamping with some bright pink ink to create that shadow effect. 

A white embossed sentiment, some dashed, white gel pen lines around the edges and a few white sequins, finish off the card. I love the results!

Paru also asked me to create a tag. 

With tags, my thought always goes to birthday gift tags, so that's what I made.

I thought a shaker tag would be fun!

I used the 'Lots of dots' stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.

It's the perfect set fro creating fun, festive backgrounds!

For the shaker portion, I used the stitched Rectangle die set, also from Simon Says Stamp.

Just pick out some fun, bright colored ink and stamp your design-so easy.

I stamped the sentiment inside the shaker circle and added some sequins.

Stars or hearts stamp sets would work great for this too!

I hope I have inspired you to get out your stamps and try a different technique!

Love 

Barb.

THE PRIZES

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

We have a Rs.1000/- voucher from Mudra Stamps

And a $25 store credit from Newton's Nook

I hope that we have inspired you to bring out your craft stash!

This challenge will run from the 1st of April till the 25th of April

I will announce the winner on the 28th of April.

You can link up your creations below.

To be eligible to win a prize, please follow all the instructions carefully...

you will find them 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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March challenge winners!!

Hello all!

I am thrilled to announce the winners of our March Challenge....

Sindhura (Trapped in craft)

Absolutely love the colorful flowers and the stunning masking!!

and 

Ria Banerjee

Just love Ria's colorful flowers! And I always love them peeking our from behind a white strip!

Congratulations to the winners and a BIG Thank You to all of you who stopped by to play! I am truly overwhelmed by your response!

Hope to see you back here on the 1st of April when I post my next challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great night!

March challenge

Hello Everyone!

We have a brand new challenge for you today!

It's MARCH...the beginning of spring and the month of the Holi festival here in India!

We at Paru's Card making Challenges would like to challenge you to use COLOURS this month.We would also like you to use some sort of MASKING!

Masking is a technique by which you cover an area that you want to protect and colour around it.

You will find ideas and tutorials in the resources page above.

March challenge

HOW TO PLAY

Make a card or tag using the theme given. Take a photo of your card or tag along with the masking process. 

If you have a blog, write a post about our challenge, including photos of your card or tag and your process.

Please display this storyboard prominently in your blog post.

ALSO, please display this logo prominently on your blog.

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 this tag, I used post it tape to mask strips on the tag and coloured them with Black soot distress ink from Tim Holtz.

 

I then stamped the succulent image onto a scrap piece of card stock as well as a piece of Inkadinkado masking paper.

I then cut out the mask and adhered it to the cardstock and stamped the remaining succulent images over the mask.

Here you can see the image with the mask removed.

I then added some red flowers and fussy cut the entire image. I added the image to the tag with some 3D tape to add dimension. I finished the tag by adding a sentiment from the Winnie and Walter 'Big Bold and Happy' stamp set.

For the card below, I used a masking technique that I learnt when I took the 

Online Card Classes 'Mask-erade' class which was taught by Laura Bassen.

To start, I created a mask by die cutting a piece of acetate (OHP sheet) with my spellbinders nestabilities heart die. I also die cut the love you die from die-versions.

I then placed the word die where I wanted it on the card panel and marked a centre point. 

This is where I place the tip of the heart.

I taped the mask in place with post it tape

I used Hero Arts neon colours to colour the hearts.

For the second heart, I overlapped the mask over half of the previous heart...

...and added colour.

I continued in the same way....

...till I addded all the colours that I wanted.

I finished the card by adding the word die cut and placing the panel on a white card base.

I loved the way my projects turned out...I hope that I have inspired you to play along!

We have some more inspiration for you from our 

FEBRUARY GUEST DESIGNER 

JUHI KHANNA

This month we have the talented Juhi Khanna, of Juhishandmadecards 

as our Guest Designer.

She has such a fun style!

I love her work and I am sure that you will too!

Here is what she has to say about herself...

I'm Juhi, an Electronics Engineer from Bangalore originally, but, now live in Singapore.

I started making cards with locally available Indian handmade paper and die-cuts/stickers in 2009.

though I have continued making cards over the years, I got hooked onto stamping towards the end of 2014.

I love to learn and explore stamping techniques with watercolouring being my current favourite.

I am just begginning to explore making CAS cards and often find them more challenging to create than, well,...CAS cards. I love the process though.

You can view my work on my blog , facebook and instagram.

About my card...

I am so happy to be the March Guest Designer for our very own Indian challenge blog and I would like to thank Paru for giving me this opportunity!

This month's theme is Colours and Masking

I created a one layered card with loads of masking and stamping.

I started off with taking my card base and masking a border on all four sides as well a a strip towards the bottom of the card with Washi tape.

Please forgive the messy washi tape...it is a leftover from a previous project.

I then stamped flowers from Jane's Doodles 'Doodle flowers' stamp set onto a large sticky back post it sheet. I then cut them to create masks.

I then stamped onto my masked panel, one flower at a time, masking out the stamped flowers to create a layered effect.

One I was satisfied with the stamping, I completely masked the stamped portions with the masking paper and some masking fluid.

I used the fluid for the tiny stamped areas.

Once the masking fluid dried, I randomly stamped the dotted background.

I finally coloured the flowers in bright colours, after removing the mask and stamped the sentiment.

I also added a black border around the stamped area to finish my card.

I hope my card inspires you to create your own masked project. I would love to see what you come up with!

THE PRIZES

We have some fabulous sponsors lined up for this month.

We have a Rs.500/- voucher from The Craft Shop

a $25 gift certificate from CAS-ual friday Stamps

We also have a bumper prize this month....CAS-ual Friday stamps is offering a 15% discount on all stamps and dies to all the participants of our March Challenge!! 

Isn't that fantastic!!!

Just use the code PCMCMARCH at checkout!

We hope that we have inspired you to bring out your craft stash!

This challenge will run from the 1st of March till the 25th of March

We will announce the winner on the 28th of March.

You can link up your creations below.

To be eligible to win a prize, please follow all the instructions carefully...

you will find them in under 'how to play' in the right sidebar.

Thanks so much for stopping by...

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani