'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

MONSTROUS Creations !

Hello Friends 

Sharada Dilip here , I am sharing creations with our MONSTROUS Stamp Set Today

The cute little monsters stole my heart instantly , My son was jumping with joy as he said they were something he would love to receive !

He suggested a Card , a gift Tag and some Book marks !! 

Isnt that an-awesome set ....what a kid would love receiving??

For the Card we decided a theme where my son wanted them to be exploring the sky !

I have stamped the monsters as a  background, unevenly as the monsters or aliens as he says float in the blue sky ! 

The rocket is stamped and fussy cut and colored with water color pens 

The silver punched stars are added to complete the Birthday card 

The Gift tag matches the card with similar elements but this little fellow had googly eyes and he's all set to come to the party  !

Finally the Book Marks that we wanted was more of fun ! 

The water colour paper is layered with gesso and then we colured it with water colour crayons 

It was fun mixing colours and getting this kind of back ground !

The monsters are stamped and watercoloured then  fussy cut and adhered along with line we wanted on the book mark !! 

Book-a-sur is a totally Indian Book mark :P, Book monster and eye think of you always are soo adorable !!

Here is the stampset used 

I hope to have inspired you,  Do remember to link up your entries for this month's challenge!

I love to hear from you & truly appreciate your feedback. 

Happy Crafting!

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