Craftangles 'Anything Goes' challenge.

Hello and welcome to the first Craftangles monthly Challenge. 

The theme for this month is 

Anything Goes.

CrafTangles Monthly Challenges are a creative way to not only get inspired by our fabulous design team members, but also an opportunity to don your crafty hats and inspire others.

We would be hosting a new Challenge on 1st of every month with inspirations from our design team.
It would run for the complete month and post that our Design Team members would Pick up three winners and 3 honorary mentions.

The 1st winner would get a Goodie Bag from CrafTangles worth Rs. 500 and the two runner-ups (2nd and 3rd winner) would receive a goodie bag worth Rs. 250. (Shipping is Free for Indian Address). International winners can choose to pay for International shipping or they would be provided with a Voucher / Coupon worth Rs. 500 / Rs.250 which can be redeemed against CrafTangles products at www.hndmd.in .Apart from the goodie bags, each winner would also receive a surprise coupon code that they can redeem at www.hndmd.in against CrafTangles products. 

In order to participate follow the below guidelines

1. Like CrafTangles and HNDMD Facebook pages
2. Follow us on Instagram  - CrafTangles and HNDMD
3. We would be using Inlinkz to add your projects to the challenge.
4. Projects can be made using any brand craft supplies. You would get extra brownie points if you submit a project made using at least one CrafTangles product. Products may vary according to each challenge's theme.
5. Only projects/posts made after the challenge has gone live would be eligible for the challenge. Predated posts and projects would not be allowed.
6. Link to actual project page only. Link to the main blog would not be considered. 
7. In case you do not have a blog, share the project via your social media channels - Instagram or Facebook. Mention the products used in the description. Do not link to albums in Facebook, only to a specific image.
8. All type of Craft, Art and Home decor projects are eligible for the challenge, based on the current month's theme.
9. Maximum of 3 entries are allowed per participant per challenge.
10. Winners would be provided with badges/blinkies to share on the blog and social media

Here is my inspiration for this brand new challenge.

I have played with the newly released Craftangles 'All year round- Calender stamp'.

Oh its  so much fun and has so many possiblities...I will share more in the days to come on social media so do keep a look out!

I will also share a tutorial soon.

To create this card, I checked the dates for the month of January on a calender and masked off the rest of the stamp, before applying ink to it.

I then removed the masks and stamped the dates. 

I then added the days of the week and the month. 

I wanted to highlight the 5th of the month so I stamped it on another piece of card stock with red ink and punched it out with a circle punch.

I then distressed the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink and adhered it the the calender using #D foam tape, in order to make it stand out.

I then stamped, coloured and added the aquarius image from Mama Elephant.

I layered the calender with red cardstock and and then adhered it to a beige card base.

I stamped a birthday sentiment and a die cut from Craftangles to finish the card

I also added some paint splatters to create some interest.

I hope this card has inspired you to play with this stamp and play along in our challenge.

Do read the rules carefully as given above.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Paru Mahtani

The April Challenge at Paru's Card Making Challenges

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!

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 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