Guest Designer - Zalak Mandal

Hello Crafters,

I am one of your crafty fellow Zalak A Mandal, I blog at handmadecardsbyzalak.wordpress.com. When Vidushi Saraf shoot me an email about guest designing, without a second thought I immediately replied her and I am really happy to guest designing here at Peek-a-Boo designs. I would like to thank Vidushi Saraf and the current design team memebers to give me this opportunity.

I also want to thank to all DT memebers for inspiration and great projects. And Hope to see new creations from new DT memebers.

So now lets head over to my projects I created using my Guest Designing Kit. It was really surprised moment when I received this stamp and Stencil.

Wow...... I really love this stamps and Stencil, don't you? Let me tell you this stamp and Stencil are made in India. So crispy and detail images, can absorb ink very smoothly. And clears all your ink from stamps using baby wipes.

So I have made 4 CAS cards and 1 layout (my first try). Here is what I made using this. 

This is my first card using Back to School stamp set. I did smooshing technique here, using Festive Berries, Picked Raspberry and Craved Pumpkin distrees ink. I colored winner cup with zig brush marker. To finish my card I embellish with sequin and twine.

This is my second card using same stamp set. I blend peacock feathers,  salty ocean, dusty concord and seedless preserve. Then I stamp owl, books and rule on watercolor paper and then colored it with zig brush marker. For stars I stamed with versamark ink and heat Embossed with white embossing powder. Last for sun I blend mustered seeds and Craved Pumpkin then applied glossy accents and sprinkled some diamond dust. ( I hope you can see effect in pictures) 

This is my third CAS card using Splitter Spatter stamp. I stamped umbrella which has heart images using picked raspberry then from that stamp only there is cute little hearts so I stamped them randomly using spun sugar and picked raspberry. I also stamped sentiment inside card and heat Embossed with gold embossing powder. 

This is my last, 4th card using same stamp set. I again stamp umbrella and colored it with zig brush marker and applied Glossy Accents over it and sprinkle diamond dust and randomly arrange it and embellish it with sequins.

This is my first Layout that I made using two stamp and Stencil. And tried to give Back to School theme. Used distress ink, heat Emboss, fuzzy cut stamped images, some of sentiment from my recollections papers(which is already heat emboss, you just need to color).

I hope you all like my projects. Thanks for stopping by. 

Happy Crafting

Zalak

Challenge #7 and a Blog Hop

Hey crafty heads !!

We had an amazing time last month trying and finalizing all the new release items. You can buy the new release items from our webpage www.thepeekaboodesigns.com.

Without any further delay let me talk about the Challenge this month.

The basic theme is ANYTHING GOES and there is a little twist to the same.You need to use an item from your OLD STASH and mix it with something you added RECENTLY PURCHASED. Yep we generally ignore our old supplies and on creating stuffs from the new ones. So here is the time open your old supplies .. remove that small amount of dust from them .. and create some awesome project combining them with new ones.

 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/STENCIL 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

To add some fun to the challenge and bidding a goodbye to the existing team we have a blog hop.. Hmm yeah I know we dint even realize the time flew by so quickly and a span of 6 months passed away with a blink of an eye.

To view all the inspirational post visit their personal blogs which are listed below.

The Mega Prize is a Rs.1000  gift voucher  to choose what you like at the Peek-a-boo Designs online store.

Here are the details of the Blog Hop:

• Five winners will be chosen at RANDOM from any of the design team blogs and they would get the gorgeous creations made by our DT and some goodies that they would add along.
• Leave a comment on the design team blogs listed below and the Peek-a-boo Designs blog for your chance to win!
• Be sure to be a follower of all the Blogs (5 DT Blogs and 1 Peek-a-boo Design Blog)
• Deadline: You have until midnight IST on Thursday, 30th June to leave a comment. 
• Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop by tagging us and using ---> #PABDbloghop
• Tell us that you shared it with your Instagram friends by tagging us (@peekaboo_designs)  and using ---> #PABDbloghop
• Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop by linking your blog hop post to the assigned inlink.

Peek-a-boo Designs Blog  <----- You are here

Halak Shah

Manu Gupta

Piyanki Biswas

Sharada Dilip Acharya

Vijaylaxmi Siyal (Shalu)

Challenge # 3 : Tic-Tac-Toe !!

    Hello Lovely Crafters ...Vijaylaxmi here...!! Welcome to the blog with new challenge and some awesome prizes to win !!

        We are so overwhelmed with your fantastic response for our previous Challenge # 2 !! 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..!!

  Since this is the Month of Love & we are celebrating Valentine's Day in this month !!

So here goes our Challenge # 3 : Tic - Tac - Toe

>> As you can see, there are 3 rows & 3 columns in the grid & total 9 elements to choose from . All you to do is create a valentine/ love themed project ( A Card/ A Tag/ A Layout/ An Album or anything ) , but keep in to use at-least 3 elements form a particular row / column or a diagonal. 

>> Also make sure you use some STAMP in your creation.  

Here are the inspiration cards created by Our Creative Team-mates using our new release stamp for February--

Vijaylaxmi 

 ( Used Diagonal Elements D1 - Flowers+ Gold +Heat Embossing &

C1 + R3 - Sequins+Gold+Pink+Striped Element+Heat Embossing)

(Stamps - Peonies Love, Its Plaid Time & Bold Hugs n Love)

Manu

 ( Used R1 - Flowers+ Blings +Punch Out)

(Stamps - Peonies Love & Bold Hugs n Love)

 Piyanki

 ( Used Diagonal Elements - Flowers+Gold+Heat Embossing)

(Stamps - Peonies Love , It's Plaid Time & Bold You )

Sharda

( Used C1 - Flowers+ Twine +Red/Pink & R2- Twine+Gold /silver +Bold sentiments )

(Stamps - Peonies Love & Bold Hugs n Love & It's Plaid Time)

Halak

( Used C2 - Sequins+Silver+Striped Elements & R3 - Red/Pink+Striped Elements+Heat Embossing  )

(Stamps - It's Plaid Time & Bold Hugs n Love)

Here are the challenge rules :

1. Be a FOLLOWER of our blog
2. Like/Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
3. 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.
4. USING STAMP IS A MUST ****
5. Please link to the exact post on your blog - not the home page URL of your blog - using the in-linkz icon at the bottom of the challenge.
6. You MUST mention our blog in your post AND link back to our blog or your entry will not be counted.
7. Display the challenge topic and our logo prominently on your blog.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. We will accept a maximum of three entries per person. Please add -2 and -3 next to your name for subsequent entries.
11. 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.

Stamps Of the Month February Used here are -

 

We will pick one winner and  gets to choose any one stamp from our entire range as the winning prize. With that they get to become the guest designer for the month of April. 

So start crafting !!