Stencil mania by Swapna

Hi... Crafty folks...

Here I am with my first post for this month. We loved to see your active participation in our July challenge and  hope you all are playing along our challenge this month which is  colour inspiration.

Read the rules carefully before linking the project.

Use 3 or more colours from the inspiration picture and link in the challenge post. We would love to see your creations with Peek-a-boo designs for the challenge.

Now coming to my post for the day. I am sharing 3 cards with stencils which released last month. Tried to make Masculine cards which are hard to make (as people say) .

Card #1 - 

* I used BOX-tacular stencil. 

* I used few distress inks to blend. 

* I placed the stencil and blended orange shade colours first then off set the stencil to blend next set of colours. 

* Heat embossed the sentiment. Kept the background pretty simple.

Card #2

Men play the role of angel in our life. As father, as brother and as husband then why can't we give them an angle card?

* Its a double fold card.  

* I die cut a blue CS with the large stitched oval die and white CS with second largest stitched oval die. 

* I placed the white oval on regular card base and blended distress inks very lightly for subtle background. 

* Glued the smaller oval die cut on navy blue oval and glued it on open side of the card base. Stamped a fairy in black ink. 

* Die cut the word with white and heat embossed it with gold UTEE for more dimension, backed it with black diecut word and glued on the card front.

Card #3

Its a simple one layer card and sneak peek of my next post.

* I liked this stencil but i wanted only little portion of the stencil. 

* I selected the area i want on the card, placed it on card front and masked off the remaining area with masking tape/low tacky tape/washi tape. 

* Blended distress inks from darker green to yellow.

* Stamped the sentiment with grey ink so that it doesn't over power the leaves.

I hope you liked these cards..

All the supplies are listed bellow.. You can shop for these on Peek-a-boo designs site

Thank you for stopping by...

See you in next post...

Swapna Patil

Stencil love - 3 cards

Hi... Hello..
Crafty friends... I am Swapna from The Dream Pages

I am Swapna from The Dream Pages, I hope you are playing along this month's challenge which is LAYERS

Hope you are enjoying our blog posts from all fellow DTs. This is my second detail post for this month for PABD and its mainly on STENCILS. Sometimes its tricky to add layers in CAS cards but its fun to challenge yourself to do so. When the post is about stencils then lets talk about these stencils a bit.

These are 8.5*8.5" stencils which allow you to cover larger area so these can be used to make 5*7" cards also and for Mixed media too.

Now coming to my projects

Card 1

I have a small, behind the screen story for this card.
To be frank I was not sure about this card. My fellow Dt Ria have designed this stamp and after July release she asked me 'Did you like Humming blooms' set n particularly bird images? I said liked but I might not do justice with birds so I will use only flourish from the set. Then I thought WHY NOT TRY birds. So decided to make this card.

* My first step was to keep the card base ready, so i took a black top folding card base. I secured the base to my work surface along with stencil. Applied texture paste concentrating towards centre portion of the base. Left it air dry.

* I stamped and coloured the small bird from the set on water colour paper and coloured in rainbow theme. Then fussy cut the image. I used wink of stella for blending colours and to add shimmer to the image

* Heat embossed the custom sentiment on black CS.

* Mounted bird and sentiment with foam tape.

Closer look

Supplies

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Card 2

I will try my best to explain this card.

* I took 15*7" CS, scored at 5 and 10".

* Partial die cut on each flaps using the stitched oval dies.

* Placed the stencil on one flap and applied SSS lavender ink and on other flap I applied hero arts white pigment ink. While placing the stencil on other flap I made sure the design that the design continues.

* Cut white CS with second large and second small stitched oval die. Stamped image with same SSS ink. Coloured the image with colour pencils. Stamped sentiment with Versafine black onyx ink.

* Glued large oval inside card. Mounted small oval in the front.

Supplies

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Card 3

After doing 2 cards I was thinking to do one more card with our third stencil. Thought to keep it simple.

* Placed the stencil over a white CS. Used two distress inks to blend.

* Trimmed it 0.5 cm on all sides so that it can fit on the card base.

* Stamped the sentiment with black ink. Applied black wink-of-stella for shimmer and Glossy accent for gloss.

* Die cut a heart, applied wink of stella and glossy accent.

Closer look

Supplies

Thats it..

Hope you liked my work..

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Suggestions are always welcome...

Thank you...

Swapna

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 !!