Fond memories and time to say goodbye!

Hello Everyone!

Manu here and I'm bringing you a few set of cards that I did for the current challenge! This post also happens to be my last post for PABD and I would like to take a moment to thank the entire team for the wonderful effort everyone puts into and bringing amazing stamps creations with the stamps made in India, something which I'm very proud of!

Here's what I made!

This challenge is all about using your old and new stamps and I have made a set of cards using my old and new PABD stamps!

I also have tried using some of the stamps which I did not had a chance to work with earlier!

Stamps used:

        

I hope you all will like my creations and do participate in this months challenge!

Happy Crafting!

Manu

Bookmarks Galore!

Hello Everyone!!!

This is Manu here and I have some really pretty bookmarks done with the new June release of PABD.

Before heading over to the bookmarks, Do remember to participate in the blog hop that PABD is hosting for this month, find all the details in the link below along with the information about the new challenge for this month. This month it's all about  using your new and old stamps!

http://peek-a-boodesigns.blogspot.in/2016/06/challenge-7-and-blog-hop.html

Lets checkout the bookmarks that I make!

The challenge this time around was to use the new release and the old stamps simultaneously into the projects!! Here's what I made

These sentiments are from the new release called 'Positive Quotes' and for the embellies, I have picked up the 2 old stamps known as 'Summer Cooler' and 'Chirping away'

Here are the stamps that I have used!!!

 

The Mandala stamp is probably one of the best stamps in this collection, with endless possibilities, this stamp set is a must have!!

In the left bookmark, I have stamped the flowers from the mandala onto a cardstock and arranged this floral arrangement onto the base of the bookmark. Seeing the leaves there, that also is taken from a mandala in this collection. The right hand side bookmark is a color riot!! I have tried to incorporate a lot of colors in this one!!

Here are the stamp sets used!

Think of bookmarks and none for the books?? Not possible, right, so this set is esp for the bookworms!!!! 

Stamp sets used!

I hope you all liked the bookmarks and will surely try these stamps for something other than cards!! I loved making these!!

Happy Crafting!

Manu

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)

'Away we Go' : Bookmarks and a spiral pop up card!

Hello Everyone!!!

I'm sure you all must be enjoying the fabulous creations by our DT members and there have been some really cool summer themed projects doing rounds here at the Peek-a-Boo blog!! Blame it on the super cute MAY 2016 release!! This one release has something for everyone and makes way for very pretty stamp sets to be added to your stamp treasure!!

PABD also houses the Exclusive stamp Set, where a stamp set can be purchased via the month's exclusive stamp set. Check the complete scheme at the PABD blog and the FB pages!

I'm working with the Exclusive set for this month which is a Travel Theme based stamp set and is named 'Away We Go' !! This stamp set is very versatile and has some really nice travel related stamp sets!

Here's what I made with the stamp set.

I made a set of 3 colourful bookmarks along with a spiral pop up card

Both the creations have minimal embellishments and the focus is mainly on the travel related stamps that are there in the stamp set. 

This is how the spiral pop up card opens like

The card has an interesting opening and this one is really simple to make. All you need is a square piece of paper and then you simply cut it out like a rolled rose. adhere the innermost point and the outer most point with the below and upper flap of the card respectively and watch the super cute way the card opens up! Adhere the stamp cutouts on the spiral of the card!

Here's a look at the bookmarks!

These are very simple and easy peasy too!! I loved the Hot Air balloon and decided to use that stamp as the focal. These balloons are stamped and then coloured with Nirmal watercolors, which are kind of the indian version of the peerless watercolors!! Super economical and the best thing is the no-hustle way of carrying it around!

The base of the bookmarks is made with masking the clouds shape with distressing. I handcut the clouds shape onto a piece of paper and then used that as a base to make the background moving from bottom to top and making the sky background. 

Onto that is then adhered the fussy cut, coloured images of the stamps from the set.

The right hand one was done with the masking started halfway and the bottom was sponged with the green distress ink and the grass is hand drawn !

and these are then finished off by stamping the sentiments onto the boomarks!!

Here's the Travel theme stamp set!

Perfect bookmarks for a travel addict! I totally loved making these bookmarks and the card and loved the way these came out to be the colourful ones!!

I hope you liked them as well and do not forget to enter into our current challenge which is all about inpiring yourself!

Read the deets here.

Challenge #6

Inspire yourself

Happy Crafting!

Manu

Peek-A-Tute : Monstrous Desktop Calendar!!

Hello Everyone!

I hope you must have all loved the MAY 2016 Peek-A-Boo Designs release. This is a real treat to eyes and I'm sure everyone would be having their own favorites from this release!!!

We have a new challenge, well that's kind of a ritual with the beginning of a new month, right!! this time the challenge is all about drawing inspirations from the DT's. Find everything about the challenge here

Challenge # 6

Inspire yourself

Do remember to read the guidelines carefully for participating in this months challenge! 

Now for the new release, well, like I mentioned before that this month's release offers a whole lot of varieties for each and everyone!!! This month has travel, super awesome sentiments, monsters, summer cooler, mango and soo much of fun with the stamps!!!

I have a tutorial here today!! I totally loved the MONSTROUS stamp set and literally had to snatch away this stamp set from being used by my fellow DT's. I really really really wanted to work with this set and somehow, I managed to register this set against my name for this month!! now once this was done, since I'm really smitten by these cute yumm creatures (now who says monster's as yumm -- that's me) I really had to think hard as to how to make a good use of this stamp set, and then I stumbled upon the idea of making a calendar with this stamp set. Who would not love to have a monstrous calendar!!! 

Here's what I made!

Here's the stamp set I used to make this calendar 

This set is designed by one of our very own DT Vijaylaxmi Siyal and I'm totally in awe of these itty bitty cuties! 

Sit back, relax coz I have a tutorial on how I made this calendar

1. Take cardstock panels measuring 6.5*5 inches. I took 12 to make for a month each, but then later I decided to ditch half and make use of 6 panels for 12 months. 

I distressed each panel with a few of my favorite distress inks! That Fossilized Amber is the newest one in my collection and I totally love this cool color!

2. Once the panels were distressed, I opted for grass like appearance on the panels and cutted out some green colored cardstock in two different shades to give some depth! These are then given a free hand shape and are then struck to the panel with some double sided tape to give dimension.

3.  Here comes my most favorite part. I stamped the monster images onto a cardstock and then coloured them using the Nirmal watercolors(These were sent over by another Dear Friend, Tejal and yes, I totally love these colors, these are much like the peerless watercolors and are very smooth and rich to work with ) Once done and dried, these are then fussy cut! Here's a little monster party!

4. A major portion of the calender is complete!! Now I made a little holder for the same.

I took cardboard and cutted it out in a little bigger size than my panels.

Here's how I'm ,making the base to which the panels will be attached together. 

Stick in properly with the tacky tape and make incision points at the edged of the cardboard pieces. ! Now you can make the two ends meet and mark the openings for the binder rings to slide in!

So this makes the base for the panels!

Here's my completed calendar!

I'm so in love with this cute little monster calendar!! Ohh yes, I did use the sentiments from another of the May 2016 release!

These word cluster stamp sets are very much versatile and I have made all my sentiments using the same stamp set! 

Here are a couple of more monster pics!

I had a super duper time making these little creatures!!!

I hope you liked the calender! Do remember to link up your entries for this month's challenge !

Happy Crafting!

Manu

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 !!