DT Introduction - July to December 2016

Hi every one!!

As promised I'm here with all the DT's introductions .. Im in love with this new team !! They are super versetile and each every ones style is unique and different from each other !!

We have Daksha from  Kolkata, India. Who a homemaker n artist/crafter by profession. She is a mother of two lovely kids n has a very supportive husband,who is her strength. She was  into Tanjore, vrindavani ,pichawai ,mural paintings... Her paper crafting journey started almost 7 years back. 

Favorite Style/Strength: 3D CARDS  ||  Mixed-media || Image Stamping || 

Next we have Halak from Mumbai , India and is super psyched to be on the design team for a second term! . She is a commerce graduate, learnt painting and charcoal sketching during school days but had to quit because of studies. Now that majority of studies is over, she use all her spare time to make cards and reconnect with Art. She absolutely love working with stamps.

Favorite Style/Strength: Whimsical  ||  Mixed-media || CAS || 

We have Juhi from Singapore. She is  a stamping fanatic. Though she have been crafting in some form or the other since she was a child, she started serious stamping early last year. She love to learn and explore new stamping techniques with water coloring being her favorite right now. She also love to teach crafts.

Favorite Style/Strength: Altered Projects ||  CAS ||

Martha was born in Colombia, but lives in Miami, USA. Her first language is Spanish, which is why her blog is written in Spanish; but don’t worry, she have a translate button. She has studied Social Communications and Journalism, but she has loved crafts forever. She used to work with metal jewelry, but one day she discovered stamps, ink and paper, and now it is her passion. She has realized that working with paper crafts is the best therapy. 

She live with her husband and her two daughters.She divide her time between her family, her work in a Public Relations Company and her passions which is her blog and crafting on various design teams. She love to create cards, and alter different projects because she love to learn new techniques. 

Favorite Style/Strength: Altered Projects ||  CAS || 

 We have Nadia who is  35 years old.and  lives in Ukraine.She have a loving husband and a wonderful little girl of 5 years. Scrapbooking is hobby for her. She am madly in love with it now for 4 years.She love the brightness and believe in miracles! 

Favorite Style/Strength: Layouts ||  Mixed Media || 

Ria Banerjee from Kolkata, India. She is 24 years old, a teacher by profession and also gearing up for the research field. Painting is her hobby from which she got into Card making. She love Clean and simple designs, which have caught her attention right from the time when she thought of making a card. She also love to try her hands on other techniques and styles. 

Favorite Style/Strength: CAS || 

We have got Shilpa who stay at Bangalore, India. She painted since childhood. Originally she was  a card maker, hooked to Mixed media couple of years back. And now creating journal pages, canvas and playing with mixed medias is her passion. Usually her creations are vibrant, Lively and colorful. Her art keeps her sane.

Apart from art she is a voracious reader and enjoy cooking!

Favorite Style/Strength: Mixed Media || 

We have Swapna, from Karnataka. She loves Emroidery, specially Karnataka Kasuti. Earlier she used to make Embroidered cards.

She came across stamps and all recently about 2 years back. Slowly developed interest in making cards. About year back she came across Stencils and slowly she started using them again and again. For many colouring is relaxing but for her ink blending does that job.

Favorite Style/Strength: Stenciling || CAS ||

Lastly we have  Vijaylaxmi Siyal...Working as a Junior Engineer , RRVPNL at Nathdwara(Rajasthan). She loves to craft n upcycling. Crafting relaxes her and gives some happiness n peace to her heart n soul.. It started off as a hobby and on appreciation from tonnes of art lovers she took this hobby to next level.

Favorite Style/Strength: CAS ||  Altered Art || 3D Projects

Hope you liked our team .. I promise they would inspire you tremendously !! Do stay tuned we have one more post coming up next where four of our dts would inspire you with their wonderful creations !!

And after this post I would be seeing you guys on the Peek-a-boo Designs blog a little less as our super awesome DT member and blog coordinator Martha Lucia Gomez would be introducing all the challenges and launches from now on .. 

So happy crafting and enjoying Peek-a-boo Design Products..

Love n Hugs 

Vidushi 

Welcome To Our New Design Team - 2016 !!

Good Morning crafty friends!

Today we are so pleased to announce a new Design Team for July - December 2016 and also a farewell to those that are moving on.

Peek-a-boo Designs has had some remarkable & talented designers on our team and we are thrilled to be able to continue in this tradition with these new team members aswell.

What an amazing design team call we just finished. Peek-a-boo Designs received applications from so many talented designers all over the world! Thank you to each and every one of you that took the time to submit your work, it is truly appreciated.

We are happy to announce the new Design Team that will finish off 2016 with us are:

Daksha Popat (India)

Halak Shah (India)

Juhi Khanna (Singapore)

Martha Lucia Gomez (Florida)

Nadiya (Nadyunya Bilovodenko) (Ukraine)

Ria Bannerjee (India)

Shilpa Nagaonkar (India)

Swapna Patil (India)

Vijaylaxmi Siyal (India)

Congratulations to all of you ladies! We are looking forward to all of your creativity. 

We would also like to sincerely THANK YOU to those DT members who are  finishing up their term with Peek-a-boo Designs in June and we wish them well with their future crafty adventures.  

Manu Gupta
Piyanki Biswas 
Sharada Dilip Acharya

Please stay tuned for our Design Team Introduction coming soon.

Happy Crafting !! 

Challenge 6 # Inspire Yourself !!

 Hello Lovely Crafters!! Welcome to the blog with new challenge and some awesome prizes to win AND most importantly a brand new release and loads of inspirations!!

        We are so overwhelmed with your fantastic response for our previous Challenge # 5 !! All entries are so so beautiful & gorgeous that its gonna tough time for us to pick the winners from all of you guys..but we loved all the entries & off course love you all so we would like to see you again & again  with your wonderful entries..!!

We have a lovely challenge for this month.. All our DTs had real fun creating each element in their projects so that all off them could be different from each other and you guys could have a huge range of choices !!

Here is what this challenge is all about :

All our 5 DTs have completely different themes and elements in their projects.. You need to be inspired by any one of the projects and use any THREE (3) element from any one of their projects and make your entry for the challenge!!

 ** Additional Rules for this Challenge **

Use atleast THREE elements from any ONE of the DTs project and make your entry project and mention in you entry which element have you picked.

For inspiration our DT members have made a project each be sure to pick elements from just one project to qualify.

Here is a glimpse of the projects. You could click on their entry picture to check all the details of their project on their Blog.

HALAK SHAH

A classic CAS birthday card using the Solid Shapes stamp set for background. Elements used : Brads, Sequins, Die-cut (Sentiment is a Die-cut), Glitter, Washi Tape, Paper Tape and Pastel Colors.

MANU GUPTA

A Super cool summer cooler card with mainly ice cream elements from the 'Summer Cooler' stamp set. Have used, Stamps, masking technique, vellum, heat embossing, confetti, sequins etc!

PIYANKI BISWAS

A CAS Card with the smartest sentiment set of the month. Used Button, partial die cut, blings , Pattern paper , co coordinating CS and Fabric washi tape to embellish the card.

SHARADA DILIP ACHARYA

I have a fun travel layout on a Polka Dot pattern paper with loads of tags and embellishments and loads of stamping of course. Used twines, washi tapes, buttons, and loads more .. 

VIJAYLAXMI SIYAL

A fun Monster Card with Galaxy Background Using Distress Inking, Water Bleaching Technique, Paper Piecing / Fuzzy Cutting, Heat Embossing, Stamping, Coloring , birthday Celebration as elements to complete the card !!

Stamp Set used in this post  from our new collection are as follows!!

Other stamps from our MAY release :

You can purchase these from www.thepeekaboodesigns.com.

 General Rules : 

1. Be a follower of our blog
2. Create a new project for the challenge. No back links please. Altered art, ATCs, cards, scrapbook pages, or any other craft projects are acceptable as long as they adhere to the month’s challenge. You may enter as many projects as you like.
3. USING STAMP IS A MUST
4. Please link to the exact post on your blog - not the home page URL of your blog - using the inlinkz icon at the bottom of the challenge.
5. You MUST mention our blog in your post AND link back to our blog or your entry will not be counted.
6. If you do not have a blog you can enter our challenges by tagging us on facebook and instagram with "#PABDchallenges". If you do not tag us we do not see your entry.
7. You may enter a card, a page layout, an altered item, a mixed media item, a mini album.. anything that fits the challenge, unless the challenge states that a specific type of project must be created. Please , no 100% digital projects. A part of the project can be digital.
8. No restriction on the number of challenges you can take part in - As long as your project matches our challenge, you may "pile on" the other challenges to your heart's content.
9. We will accept a maximum of three entries per person. Please add -2 and -3 next to your name for subsequent entries.
10. A Winner will be chosen on their merits. So submit your most creative projects. And that's all there is to it! International Crafters are welcome to participate in our challenges but their prizes would only be sent to an Indian address due to high shipping cost

Hope  you like our fun challenge and our new release !!

Love

Vidushi !!

Peek-a- Tute : Baby Boy Themed Pop up Box !!

Hii...This is Vijaylaxmi & Welcome again to the second tutorial post of the day !! I hope you all have seen our DT Piyanki's Post where she described how wonderfully one can use all Tiny Elements from stamps to create the beautiful cards & backgrounds !!

I am super excited as i am sharing my very first Video Tutorial on how to make a Pop-up-Box :)

( Please bear my tiny mini mistakes in the video ;p )

This is what i made for my tut post -- A Baby Boy Themed Pop-up-Box !!

Check out the Video --

Stamp Set & CS Used from Peek-a-boo Designs are - 


1) Little Wonder                                           2) Holi Hai ( For Balloons )
               

3) Black Card Stock - 12*12

So..Did you enjoyed the video ..I hope you liked it !! Then don't forget to hit the like button & also to subscribe our channel for more such videos & Tutorials !!


Hey..wait Guys...that's not all for today ...!! As this is the last post of this month so i decided to showcase some more cards ..so sit back & keep reading this post till the end ;p

Here is my first card --

Steps On Making this - 

1) Took a White CS n then using Dotty Lines Mini Stamp created a white heat embossed background.
2) Distress the BG with Candid Apple & Abandon Coral DI using heat emboss resist technique.
3) Stamped the cute Panda From Our Exclusive Cute Critter Set on Neenah white CS. then Colored it using water-coloring pencils & fussy cut it !!
4) Put it on a wood grain circular panel which is layered with a Vellum Scalloped Circle.
5) Stamped the Sentiment from Bold Love 'N' Hugs Stamp set ..loved the way we can club so many different words to create one perfect sentiment from this stamp set.
6) finally added a twine through a punched hole and place it on the embossed bg panel using 3D foam tape for more interest !!
7) Yay..its done..simple !!

Stamp Sets & Vellum Used from Peek-a-boo Designs are - 

1) Cute Critter Set (Exclusive)                            2) Bold Hugs 'N' Love         

3) Dotty Lines Mini Stamp                                       4) Vellum - 12*12

Second Card --

 Steps On Making this - 

1) Took a Water coloring CS n then stamped Roses & Leaves using Flower In A Jar Stamp.
2) Colored all the Flowers & leaves using water-coloring pencils & fussy cut all !!
3) Put a piece of beautiful PP at some diagonal overlaying the golden paper strip on a Neenah white Card Stock.
4) Stamped the Sentiment from the same Flower in A Jar Stamp set ..& added some Black stones here n there for final touch-up..!!
5) Loved the way it turn out..simply  beautiful :)

Stamp Set & CS Used from Peek-a-boo Designs are - 

1) Flower in A Jar                                               2) Golden Card Stock 12*12

            

                                      Third & Last Card --( My Most Favorite too ;p)

Steps On Making this - 

1) Took a vellum First of all n then Golden heat embossed all Roses & Leaves using Flower In A Jar Stamp.

2) Colored all the Flowers & leaves using Nirmal water-colors & fussy cut all !!

3) Took a Mint CS and stamped the Stripes from Its Plaid Time Stamp Set in same mint color pigment ink using Tone-on-Tone Stamping Technique !!

4) Heat embossed the sentiment in gold from The Lily Hope Stamp set on vellum banner !!

5) Then Splatter some Golden & Blacks inks for extra texture and look :) 

6) Cut a frame from Golden Card Stock ..placed it in center then arranged the vellum flowers & leaves around it & then the sentiment banner !!

7) Then added some Black & Golden Sequins also here n there for final touch-up..!!

8) I just loved this card ...not looking like made by me ..lol...but this one is my favorite from all above cards ;p

Stamp Set & CS Used from Peek-a-boo Designs are - 

1) Flower in A Jar                               2) Its Plaid Time                          3) Lily Hope

           

                                       

 4) Vellum - 12*12                                                         5) Golden Card Stock 12*12 

                                                                                   

All Three Cards ---

Phewww....the post comes to the happy ending ..i hope you guys enjoyed everything i shared today !! 

PS Reminder -- Our Current Challenge # 5 has still time to participate So link up your beautiful creations fast & pls don't forget to read the Challenge Guidelines as we really feel bad to disqualify any of your lovely creations just because of not following the rules.

Happy crafting everyone...Hugs ..

Vijaylaxmi ( Shalu)