September challenge at Paru's Card Making Challenges

Hello everyone! 

Welcome back to all of you who have played Paru's Card making Challenges,

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

I hope you have great fun playing  along!

This month we have an interesting challenge..am looking forward to all your great interpretations!

The challenge for September  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.

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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 card, I used the burlap background stamp 

from Impression Obsession on ivory card stock. 

I stamped over it with Winnie and Walter stripes stamps, 

using distress inks, spritzed with water. 

Once the panel dried, 

I added sentiments from MFT stamps "Celebrate Big" stamp set.

I added some burlap twine from MayArts ribbon 

and sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to finish the card.

To make the tag (cut with the mft tag die),

 I used the honeycomb stencil from 'CraftAdda' and Fired Brick distress ink from Tim Holtz.  

I then filled in some of the spaces with Sakura Koi watercolours in primary colours. 

The 'hugs' die is from Winnie and Walter. 

To make it pop, I added a bit of vellum under the die cut. 

I finished the tag with some black cord.

THE PRIZES

As always, we have a fabulous sponsor lined up for this month.

 A $20 gift voucher from Serendipity Stamps

I will have the Guest Designer post and information about the second prize, up on the blog

 in a couple of days!

Don't forget to check in...it's going to be exciting!!!

We hope you have been inspired to create some beautiful cards with a focus on WORDS!

Can't wait to see your creations!

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Yay! I won on NBUS!

Yay! Yippie! I won  on the NBUS#5 challenge with this card…
Wow! time to go shopping!
Thank you Darlene!!

Thanks for stopping by…

Have a nice day!

Inspired by Retro Sketches

Hey there!
 I was inspired to make these cards when I saw the retro sketches challenge last week. Unfortunately I missed their deadline!
I did however combine many of my favourite techniques to make these cards so that I could submit them for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog 'Love this technique' challenge.
My favourite techniques that I have used here are water colouring, rubber stamping, heat embossing, die cutting and using this gorgeous organza ribbon!
For the water colour panel, I applied some distress inks to my craft sheet, spritzed a lot of water on to it and then lifted off the colour with my card stock.
The sentiment (heat embossed in black on the yellow DCWV All about the Girls cardstock) is such a happy one from Simon Says Stamp and the blue ribbon from my stash was just the perfect colour.

I would love to give this card to a kid going off to college or maybe to someone going overseas…

I just love this globe die from Die-versions…and it went perfectly with my map background from Impression Obsession. I heat embossed the sentiment (from Momenta) on a vellum panel and added the organza ribbon from my stash.

Thanks so much for stopping by…

Have a great day!