Think of you Always!

This post is very special to me and this is why.

It is my first post as a DT member of the Peek -a- boo Designs. Yes home grown stamp designs, must say very proud to be a part of the team.

So the current challenge says Anything Goes where we also have a color board from where I choose three of the colors. Below is my take on the challenge.

Both of my cards are Valentine Day theme with February round the corner :). The challenge was not to use red and yet have a Love card so here it goes.

Yes I love CAS and so used the doodles heart stamp from the "You and Me" set and the sentiment is from "Valentine Love" stamp set.

My second card has some new techniques I tried and here it is.

The background is heat embossed with white and then masked with distress ink.The stampset used is " Valentine Love " and this card also has a co ordinating envelope.

Do play along with our current Challenge here. which is exciting and fun!

Thanks for Stopping by!

Lots of Love.

A set of cards with a big hello!

Hello and Good Morning! ^__^

I'm Halak and super excited today to be presenting my first post as a design team member of Peek-a-boo!

As you know about our current challenge  #2 - Anything Goes, you can make anything you like, but it's gotta have a stamp and any 3 out of the following 4 colors : Saffron, White, Green and Blue. (Yep, going patriotic this month!)

We do have a few additional rules so don't forget to check those out - Here.

I made a set of cards keeping in mind the rules of the challenge and to hopefully inspire all you lovely folks to participate and win some cool stamps!  

Here's card #1.

It's made using the January 2016 Peek-a-boo stamp release.

Stamp Sets used in this project are :
1. Lotus Delight and,
2. You and Me

Out of the colors of the mood board, I picked Blue, Green and White.

(Oh yeah, I did glitter them up, everything's better with a little sparkle! ^__^)  

Here's card #2.

I use the gorgeous CHRYSANTHEMUM stamp from Peek-a-boo.

I absolutely love this big bloom, it is so much fun to color it and just one big bloom is quite apt to make one card .

I used Orange, Green (the green mulberry leaf) and White from the mood board in this project.

Yup, glittered up the bloom on this project too.. what can I say, glitter and flowers are a match made in crafty heaven!

Hope you liked them and here's one last close up! Have an awesome day! *Hugs*  

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Shaker Card and a Tutorial

Hello Everyone!!

I'm Manu and I'm so glad to be a part of the amazingly talented team here at Peek-A-Boo Designs!!! 

Firstly, wishing you all a very Happy New Year, may this year brings in lots of good luck and happiness in your life!

I'm happy to join this team and Peek-A-Boo has some very promising stamp sets coming out in the future!!! This area is something to look forward to in the future!! I'm also glad to be associated with an amazing talent team of Peek-A-Boo Designers and I'm sure it will be a fun ride with them!

There is a lovely challenge this month, it's all about a gorgeous mood board for you to pick colors from and yes, you can make anything!

Checkout the details here

Challenge #02

Anything Goes

You all must have checked the January 2016 Release, if not, do hop over to the Peek-A-Boo Designs site and checkout the amazing launch!  This post is my inspiration from the Launch collection. I will be doing an inspiration for the challenge seperately!

Here are my cards with the newly launched Valentine's Collection. Since Valentine's is just around the corner, stamps related to valentine's were a must!

I loved the doodled heart shape in 'You and Me'  collection and making a card with this stamp was a must. The other stamp set I totally loved was the 'Valentine Love' and I loved making a scene with the same. And yes, this one had to be a shaker card!!!

I have a pictorial tutorial on how I made these cards, So you can sit back and enjoy the tutorial on how I made this shaker card

Take an A5 sheet of cardstock (I took a Fabriano, you can take any cardstock as long as it is sturdy). and I measured abuout .75 from each sides and then cutted the middle portion with a cutter.

Then take a A4 cardstock and convert it into an A5 card. Then happened the distress inks on the card. Do note that I have kept the panel on the card and used masking tape to ensure that it doesn't slips off (this step is really not very much needed, since anyhow the panel will overlap the base of the card. 

Then I had stamped a few heart shaped stamp from the 'Valentine Love' stamp set multiple times. I also stamped the cute little cupid and coloured it using the Faber Castel color pencils.

And now comes the fun part, on how to make the shaker panel. take the panel and adhere a OHP sheet, the size of the shaker panel. Once done, adhere a double sided foam tape to add dimension. (I did this one the coloured portion of my panel ,so that the back side, which is white comes on the front.)

Now, once my sentiment is stamped, Add some sequins (or any small beads, just about anything as long as it's not quite big)  

Now, take off the seal from the double sided tape and carefully add the panel on top of your card. Be sure to keep the card flat while doing so, so that the sequins doesn't falls off the card. 

And TA-DA... your shaker card is ready!!! 

Isn't it fun making one??? I totally loved this one, though I feel I could have added a little more of those distress ink colors in there!

Here are a few more shots of this lovely shaker card!

My second card was done by stamping the doodled heart from the 'YOU and ME' stamp set multiple time, I had just randomly stamped them and then coloured each heart with the Faber Castel watercolor pencils. 

This took a good two hours but then the end result was fabulous!!

Once done, I mounted it on a A5 card base in black color and voila.. I had another vibrant card !

Do play along our second challenge which is based on a gorgeous Mood Board and yes, it's anything goes. Check all the details here. 

I hope you did like my creations and do take time out to gimme some reviews!!

I would love to hear what you have to say about these two pretties!!!

Happy Crafting!

Manu

Challenge #01 : Winners

Good Morning Readers!!!

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year 2016. 

It's time too announce the winners for the First ever Peek-a-boo challenge and we were amazed to see some super duper lovely cards from our readers!! Khudos for such amazing creations, We really had a hard time choosing the winners and yes, some missed it from a fraction of points. 

Please do read and adhere to the guidelines given for the challenge to avoid elimination, we really hated to have not voted for a few of them!

Without much delay lets see who all won the challenge!

And the winners are...

1. Pon Malar

For her such a gorgeous card. We could not take eyes off that very pretty  night scene created!! Very cute and a brilliant idea!

2.  Nandini

Lovely card with distress inks, we loved the simplicity and the elegance the card carried on!

3. Sathya

Such a pretty scene, the pastel colors of this card took our heart away!

Winners, Kindly collect your winning badges from 

www.peek-a-boodesigns.blogspot.in/peek-boo-designs-challenge.html

and email at crafterstale@gmail.com to claim your prizes with 'CHALLENGE 1 WINNER' in the subject!

Keep participating, for we love to see your creations!!

We will be back with some super duper DT Inspirations !

Happy Crafting!

Manu

Challenge 2 : Any thing goes

Hi crafty peeps , 

Good morning and a Very Happy New Year. Hope this year is more exciting , enjoyable, inspiring and crafty.  

We are here again with a new challenge on the first day of this new year. And since we are celebrating our Republic Day in this month we thought why don't we go a little patriotic .. So here is a challenge using the beautiful colors on the India Flag - Saffron , White, Green and Royal Blue 

So here is our color board 

As you can see, predominantly the beautiful Shades of BLUE, SAFFRON, WHITE, GREEN are set against the white background. Make any thing you like , but keep in to use atleast 3 colors out of the 4 in this color board. 

Make sure you use some stamp in your creation.  

Here is an inspiration post made by the current challenge using our new release stamp for January. 

OVERALL VIEW OF CARD

THE BIGGEST LOTUS FLOWER ZOOMED IN

THE SENTIMENT STAMP ZOOMED IN.

Here are the challenge rules posted for all the new crafters joining in with us :

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 in-linkz 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. 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.
7. 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.
8. We will accept a maximum of three entries per person. Please add -2 and -3 next to your name for subsequent entries.
9. 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 used in the card :

                      FOR THE BACKGROUND                FOR SENTIMENT               FOR THE FLOWERS

Cheers,

Vidushi

Winner for bloghop & DT announcement for Jan-June 2016

Hi crafty peeps,

It has started getting cold in here and crafting ,stamp trials, and hot coffee is getting me along.

We received more than an awesome response from every one. Total of 26 entries were received and most of them were brilliant. It was very difficult to choose amongst all and was a very tough decision to make.

So we bring to our our Designer Team for the Term January 2015 to June 2015.

Hi...I m Vijaylaxmi Siyal...Working as a Junior Engineer , RRVPNL at Nathdwara(Rajasthan). I love to craft n upcycling. Crafting relaxes me and gives some happiness n peace to my heart n soul.. It started off as a hobby and on appreciation from tonnes of art lovers I took this hobby to next level.

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

I am 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, I use my spare time to make cards and reconnect with Art. I absolutely love working with stamps.

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

I’m Manu, a software professional turned Craftpenter :) having interest in varied kinds of  art and crafts and someone who enjoy's making handmade things. I'm a mom of 2 old cutie pie and she's made life all the more enjoyable and fun ! I started with paper crafts and ventured into the crafting world accidentally while going  through a card that had been posted by one of my friends. A bit curious, I asked and got to  know that it's done through quilling, thus started my search on the internet and I bumped and bumped into loads of information and that's when I decided to take this hobby of mine forward.

I find crafting extremely satisfying and relaxing and it just brings out a smile when someone is happy because of my work!!!I'm blessed to have a loving and a supporting husband by my side along with the love of our lives, our little baby!!!

Favorite Style/Strength: Multi layer cards || Stamping || Handmade Albums || Flowers || Bling ||

My Name is Piyanki and from New Delhi, India. I am a post graduate in Electronics however it doesn’tadd to my crafting ability at all. I am married and just completed 5 years. Crafting and creativity existed since my childhood. Love for paper was an underlying, unknown love I  would say as I would always get pulled towards beautiful handmade papers, colorful patterns and sometimes colored newspaper, all this put together made “It’s Simply Handmade” . 

Favorite Style/Strength: CAS || Flowers & Swirls ||Sketch and Challenge || Layouts

I am Sharada Dilip here, a MBA finance graduate turned Crafter :) 
 I am very sticker person , love hand drawn images & I love stationary so I mostly use Locally available stuffs in my creations or make my own embellishments available around in my house So that is what distinct my work from Others. I love working on CAS projects....these days I am crazy about stamping and Mixed media,  I love challenges and I am a good team player. I am a Hobby Butterfly I keep hopping Hobbies every season and ready to try new projects!

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

These are the Lovely Crafty Beauties that are a part of our team.

And Now the winner for the blog hop are - Vinita Jain and Dr. Sonia S V.
Please write to us at crafterstale@gmail.com to claim your prizes.

Cute Christmas Card

Hi friends,

Here is a CAS card that I made for our Challenge#1 - Holiday Greeting.

I took a 300 gsm Kraft card stock stamped our newly launched stamp "Merry Christmas" with black archival ink. Fussy cut the stamped image. pasted it on a card piece using double sided foam tape to give it a little dimension. Water Colored it using distress ink. 

From the same stamp set heat embossed the sentiment. Added golden sequins a white button and twine to add in a little color.

Closer view of the Santa..

Do participate in our ongoing challenge

Cheers,

Vidushi

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge # 01 - Mood Board

Hello there lovely crafters!

It’s the holiday season so we have a fresh and our first Mood Board celebrating the festive season. 

THEME : HOLIDAY GREETINGS

The mood-board can be interpreted in various ways but we are sharing a few examples below:

Color : Shades of Blue, Green, Grey.

Embellishments: Ornate, Ribbons, Snowflakes, glitter etc.

Pattern: Swirl, Chevron, etc.

Please feel free to interpret it your own unique way but be sure you mention the items you have chosen and how the interpretation has been used unless its very obvious!

Do not forget to check the general guidelines to the challenge.

This being our first Challenge we are putting on the guidelines here too : 

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 STAMPS IS A MUST.(Not necessarily Peek-a-boo Designs)
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. 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. You MAY use digital items on your projects, but the project must be a dimensional item. You may print digital papers, images, embellishments, stamps, etc. and use them on cards, layouts, mini albums, and so forth.
7. 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.
8. We will accept a maximum of three entries per person. Please add -2 and -3 next to your name for subsequent entries.
9. A Winner will be chosen on their merits. So submit your most creative projects. 

   And that's all there is to it!
10. 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

Last Day to submit the entries will be 31 December 2015 23:55 hrs.

Winners : We will have 1 winner selected on merit basis and 2 runner ups.
Since this is our very first challenge we have we will have a gift for all the three of the winners.

Following are the prizes the selected winner would get.

Winner : 

1st runner up : 

2nd runner up:

An InLinkz Link-up

CREATIVE TEAM CALL and a blog hop

Does you craft project have the " WOW " factor ?

Are your friends amazed by you creativity ?
Do you love to share your idea with others ?

If you answer is "YES" then we want you.

Requirements :
• 2 -3 cards per month.
• Enthusiasm and passion for Peek-a-boo Designs products
• Ability to work on timeline.
• Would be active on social media platform.

Perks :
Get exclusive access to newly launched products of Peek-a-boo Designs , join an enthusiastic and supportive team and have input on upcoming designs.

Apply :

•Send a link / attach photos displaying relevant work.
•You blog link (If any)
•A short bio data.
•A list of creative teams you are part of currently / previously have been. (If any)

Mail it to crafterstale@gmail.com with the Subject line at " CT CALL "

Last day to apply 15 December 2015.

To make this even more fun filled we have a blog hop. 

We will have 2 random winners who can choose one stamp of their from ourexisting   collection. 

Here are the details : 

• Two winners will be chosen at RANDOM to win a stamp of their choice. 
• Just leave a comment on this post.
• Follow our blog.
• Deadline: You have until midnight 15 December 2015 to leave a comment. 

To increase your chances of winning:

• Tell us that you Facebooked about our blog hop but tagging us in your post or checking in with us. 
• Share our blog hop post on facebook. 
• Tell us that you posted on your blog about our blog hop. 

(which means that you have up to two times the chance)