Saturday, May 28, 2016

We have a winner!!!

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


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!





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!

Sunday, May 1, 2016

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
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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!



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