Wk47- Pan Pastel UK Challenge...Mix It Up!

Sunday again and another challenge day here at the Pan Pastel UK blog!

We hope you all managed to see last week's Create and Craft show and see all the lovely new products we had to show you and some great techniques and amazing samples from the team!

Our random winner chosen by Random.org this week from Week 45 is *drum roll please*...

ta da!!! Sue the Iron! 

Well done Sue, you've won some fab Pan Pastel goodies so please email us to claim your prize! 

Our favourite Top 3 from Week 45 are:

No 6 Donemark, No 11 Catherine and No 17 Katharina....great work everyone, we loved your makes! Please feel free to grab your winners blinkies from the sidebar!

So let's get to the challenge this week - as you know, Premium Art Brands bring us some amazing products, including the fantastic quality Maimeri Mediums....so our challenge this week to the team is:

*Mixing It up*....

the team were asked to mix their Pan Pastels with some kind of medium or fluid, which could be anything they wished from water to crackle glaze to Maimeri...the choice is theirs, and YOURS. We realise not everyone has medium ready at hand at home so if you'd like to join in this challenge you can enter any make you wish but we'll give you extra brownie points if you join in the challenge too so show us what you can do, we know you all have some awesome talents up your messy sleeves!

The winner of this challenge will be chosen at random and announced on 8th December and you'll win £30 of Premium Arts goodies! You have until 3rd December at noon to enter!

So let's get on with the challenge and the stunning inspiration from the team...

Zoe - I have mixed Bright Yellow Green Ex Dark PanPastels with Glassy Medium and put it through a mask.  Please pop along to my blog to find out more....

Claire I've used Permanent Red and Black PanPastels to create the music script for the Christmas Tree. The background was made by mixing silver PanPastel with water in a mini mister and spritzing the black card - once it was dry I stamped snowflakes with versamark ink and then applied Rich Gold PanPastel over the top....

Terry ...I altered a photo frame and had lots of fun with making my own background for the frame. I worked with Gesso, the Metallic Acrylic Mediums, crackle, Metallic PanPastels and Utee on the flowers together with embossing powder and inks. So lots of mixing with fluids me thinks xxxx

Suzi I decided to create a mini canvas, using Maimeri Iridescent Paste, Magenta Pan Pastels and my Graph'It Markers. I used the Iridescent Paste to create my embellishments as well as to colour my canvas, such a wonderful versatile product.

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Pan Pastel UK team this week!... 
You have until Tuesday 3rd December at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! 
The winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday 8th December here on this blog. 

Please check our rules for all entries:  

1. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 

2. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.

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Wk 46 Pan Pastel UK Challenge - Embellishments and £100 Blog Candy Winner

Hello and welcome to another Creative Sunday!

Hi everyone! We have some more great inspiration for you today, but before we tell you the challenge let's first get the other business out of the way.....

Firstly, we had an amazing blog candy giveaway last month. We have chosen a random winner from everyone who is on the blog follow list and we are very excited to announce that 

Karen Pettit is our lucky winner! 

Well done Karen! 

Email us here to claim your prize, you've won £100 of stash from Premium Craft Brands, woohooo! 

Our Random Winner for Week 44 

is No 11 Rachel - well done Rachel, Email us here to claim your prize!

And our Top 3 favourites were: 4 - Doreen, 9 Carol and 16 Rosie

Well done everyone! Make sure you grab your blinkies from the sidebar and big thanks for entering the challenge.

We hope you all managed to see us on Create and Craft last Sunday - the show was a little crazy but those metallics flew out of the door so thanks to everyone who watched and we hope you all have your goodies now and are enjoying using them! If you need some ideas on how to use them check out Nikky's You Tube channel here, there are a couple of great tutorials you can use!

So, this week's challenge for the design team is

Embellishments

We have such great products to use and you can make all kinds of embellies with Pan Pastels and the Maimeri range together with other things too, so we challenged the team to show us what they could do.

As ever, YOUR challenge at home is Anything Goes, but we'd love you to show us your handmade Embellies too, we know loads of you make your own or alter them in some way so we're looking forward to seeing this week's makes!

Let's see what the DT have to show you...

Claire C I've used lots of Metallic PanPastels on my little canvas, The background was made with Magenta Shade and I've used Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and more metallic Pans through a gorgeous Pronty mask to create the background. I've used PanPAstels to colour lots of embellies: ribbon, lace, die cuts. I've also used light gold PanPastel to give a subtle shimmer to the main image too.

Zoe....

Terry The background of my MDF word HOME is worked on with Metall Foil which is embossed, on top worked on with the fabulous Metallic PanPastels and on top of that finished with Iridescent Paste, the little hearts and butterflies have a layer of Versa Mark ink and Metallic PanPastels. To finish the project I placed a piece of lace on the bottom.

Suzi I combined White and Kraft Card with Pastel tones of Pan Pastels, Light Modelling Paste, and a beautiful mask to create this pretty card.

Tracy - Hi everyone, this is my first time attempting this technique using Maimeri Mediums/Gels, Doily Mask Stencil, Metallic Pan Pastels and embellishments. More details can be found on my blog HERE.

Here is a closer look at my coloured embellishments -

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Pan Pastel UK team this week!...

You have until Tuesday 26th November at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize!

The winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday 1st December here on this blog.
Please check our rules for all entries:
1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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Wk45 Pan Pastel UK Challenge - Altered Media

Hi everyone!

Welcome to another Pan Pastel challenge!

Before we get to this week's challenge, a quick reminder that you can catch Nikky on 

Create and Craft TV TODAY at 2pm GMT 

with Pan Pastels and much more! 

She even has some new goodies to show you so make sure you don't miss it! I've seen her demo's and they are lovely! You can watch on Sky 671, Freeview 36 or online at CreateandCraftTV.net

The random winner of our Week 43 Challenge is

No 4, Traci 

Congratulations Traci! Email us here to claim your fab prize!

Our Top 3 faves are: No 1 Yogi, No 7 Julie and No 11 Tammie

Congratulations to you all - pick your badges from the sidebar!

So onto this week's challenge...

We'd love you to join in the challenge but if you're struggling with the theme then we challenge you to make

Anything Goes and/or Something Altered!

Yep, you can enter any make in this challenge because we just love to see all your makes each week!

The team were challenged to make

Something Altered

and we think they've done a fantastic job!

Don't forget you can enter some gorgeous Pan Pastel goodies as we choose a random winner and also the team picks our fave Top 3 each week

Lou
I've altered a box that used to once house nail varnishes. I have used Gesso to prime the box, Maimeri modelling pastewith my newest favourite mask from PAB, A4 flower (to create the raised pattern) and finally sealed everything with Glassy Gel. Everything has been coloured with pan pastels and metallic pan pastels. I have ecen coloured the metal letters with metallic pan pastels! Full details are on my blog.

   

Zoe 

I've altered some playing cards using Pan Pastels, various Maimeri mediums and Metallic Pan Pastels. Check out my blog for more info. http://zoeblingcards.blogspot.co.uk/.

Claire C
I've used lots of metallic PanPastels on this altered frame and little picture. I used gesso to prime the frame and gave it a coat of Bronze Maimeri Acrylic pant. I and then coloured the crackle medium with Rich Gold PanPasel. I stamped the image with versamark and applied Copper and Bronze PanPastel over the top, adding some glitter for a frosty sparkle. The little bird was also coloured with Maimeri Acrylic in Bronze, love love love this colour!!

Tracy 
Altered wooden Doorstop

I had so much fun altering this little wooden doorstop with a mixture of Pan Pastels, Metallic Pan Pastels, Maimeri Gels and Mediums, scraps of paper and words from book pages. You can see more over on my blog here.

Terry I had a blast with the fabulous Metallic PanPastels, love the colours and the shine they give. I altered a photoframe and used the Wendy Vecchi technique of stamping onto Modelling Paste and I can tell ya that works just wonderfulll. The borders of the frame are worked on with Gesso, Modelling Paste and the Roses/Butterfly stencil and a honeycomb stencil. The butterflies are covered with Iridescent Paste and on top Metallic PanPastels. To cover it all I painted with the Metallic Acrylic Paints.

Suzi I had lots of fun transforming an old ribbon reel into a pretty pin pot, using White Gesso, Glassy Gel Medium and Light Modelling Paste to create my embellishments.

So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Pan Pastel UK team this week!... 

You have until Tuesday 19th November at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! 
  The winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday 24th November here on this blog.  Please check our rules for all entries: 
1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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Wood Art with Pan Pastels Tutorial. . .

 Hi everyone, Tracy here today and I am soooo excited to be sharing a little of my wood art with you all!

 It`s so simple to create . . . honest . . . all you will need is a lump of wood, the piece I used was laying around at my allotment . . . I didn`t sand it as I love the roughness of texture, but I did give it a quick coat of Acrylic White Paint.

 In the picture above I`ve said "1 die cut star " but I ended up using 3 to give it more dimension.

I`ve used the

Wplus9 - Clear cut Stackers -Stars 
but you could just doodle a star and cut it out.

 The pretty papers are from 

Authentique Joyous 6x6 paper pad collection

beautiful, warm rich colors.
But you can use whatever scraps of paper you have!

I added some more of the papers down the sides and along the top to box it all in. 

 After getting messy with a mixture of Pan Pastels from Mixed Media sets 1 & 2 
along with a few of the new Metallic Pan Pastels

it was time to . . . doodle doodle doo all over with a fine black liner pen 

followed by some . . .

Pink Paislee - She Art{Christy Tomlinson}Border & Doily Rub ons

Loooove them, just saying!

Finishing with a few Word stickers and some Glossy Gel over the surface.

What once was a lump of wood is now a gift for someone`s Christmas . . . 1 down and more to go,lol!

I hope you enjoyed my makeover and if you have a go, we would love to see what you create.

Happy Crafting

Tracy

xoxo

List of materials and links  -

Pan Pastels Exploring Mixed Media 1
Pan Pastels Exploring Mixed Media Set 2
Metallic Pan Pastels - Light Gold, Rich Gold
Maimeri Glossy Gel 
Platinum White Acrilico Paint

Wk44 3 Nov - Pan Pastel UK Challenge - Mixing with Mediums

Hello and welcome to another Creative Sunday!

Hi everyone! We have some more great inspiration for you today, but before we tell you the challenge let's first get the other business out of the way.....

Create and Craft TV Sunday 10th November at 2pm

Join Nikky with an hour of techniques and inspiration using all our lovely products including masks, stencils, pan pastels, mediums and a few new goodies too which we know you'll LOVE! 

If you don't know Create and Craft it is the UK's dedicated 24 hour Craft channel with live shows between 8 and 6pm each day (Sky 671, also on Freeview and you can watch online at www.createandcraft.tv)  If you have any questions you can email into the studio and ask Nikky and also go in the spotty potty for a chance to win something she makes on the show!

Don't forget our Blog Candy which is up for grabs! 

Simply share our candy on your blog, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Mars and the Moon and back with a link to this blog 

PLUS

YOU MUST SIGN UP TO FOLLOW THIS BLOG

and leave us a comment under this post and we will choose one random winner on 7th November to win this gorgeous prize which is worth over £120!! WOW - that is a LOT of stash!!

Don't forget to leave us a comment - we will check that the winner has shared AND FOLLOWED US to be eligible so don't try and bend the rules now LOL! ; )

HUGE thanks to everyone who has entered the current Week 43 Shades of Grey challenge - don't forget you still have an extra couple of days to enter as it doesn't close until Tuesday! 

So let's announce  our Random Winner for Week 42

...Big Congratulations goes to No 21 Rachel Fisher - woohoo!!

The team also choose our favourite Top 3 entries too, which are:

2 Carol Tadden, 20 Irit and 29 Claire

Congratulations to you all! 

Rachel please email here to claim your prize and please grab your badges from the sidebar to wear on your blogs! Your names will go in our hat and you may be asked to guest design for us next month!

Remember to join our Facebook group too, Premium Craft Brands, where we have daily inspiration and share some of our favourite makes & hints and tips every day, it's a great place to be. 

So let's get to the challenge!....

ANYTHING GOES

This week we want to show you some of the amazingly great effects you can get when you mix Pan Pastels together with other Mediums...many people don't really understand what mediums really are and how they can be used in your crafting projects so hopefully we can show you some great ideas this week.

Maimeri have a range of mediums which are just brilliant. There are many mediums on the market but not all are equal and when it comes to quality you need to buy the best you can afford because the quality really does make a difference. Generally, the cheaper the product, the more watered down it will be. A medium is a 'liquid'/paste material which is generally multi-purpose. Here are the Maimeri mediums and what you can use them for....

1. Maimeri GESSO...Gesso is an art medium which basically acts as a sealer and an undercoat. Traditionally, artists have always used it to seal their canvas so that the paint doesn't soak through the fabric too much. Think of it in the same terms that you would seal or undercoat your walls and woodwork at home before you decorate. Use Gesso as a base coat on canvas, mdf, chipboard, paper, card, wood - anything which is absorbent. It's a low cost product which will help you to save on using too much paint or ink which costs more money. It dries to a matt finish and can be mixed with Pan Pastels, acrylics and mica powders to colourise it. Goes on white and dries white.

2. Maimeri LIGHT MODELLING PASTE...this is fantastic! This paste is like a liquid clay - you can use it in lots of different ways to make texture and embellishments. Try adding it to silicon moulds and allowing it to dry overnight - you can make your own embellishments! It is really lightweight compared to clays and other mediums.

3. Maimeri GLOSS Gel....this is similar to Gesso but leaves a glossy surface. Goes on white but dries clear.

4. Maimeri Iridescent Paste...Again, this has the same properties as Maimeri Gesso but will give you a pearl, iridescent finish - gorgeous! Goes on white and stays Pearlised white.

5. Maimeri Glassy Gel....we all LOVE this! Once dry this gel is completely transparent and gives a high gloss finish - you can apply it in a thick layer to make it raised and give an embossed look...again mix it with pigmented colour to change the colour of it - it's great for making specific areas on a project really 'pop'. You can really get dimensional effect with this, great for applying little glossy drops, water effects etc. Goes on opaque and dries clear.

6. Maimeri Matt Gel...The same as the Gloss Gel, but matt. No brainer! Dries clear.

7. Retarder Gel...this extends the drying time of Acrylic paints and increases the brilliance of colour - so if you work in a warm area and your paints dry quickly you need a retarder gel!

We hope this helps you understand the Maimeri range and why we all love them so much on the Design Team - they help us achieve some fantastic effects!

So let's get on and see what the team have made this week! Don't forget, our theme is Anything Goes and you have until Tues 12th November to enter! We pick a random winner so everyone has an equal chance of winning goodies but also pick our favourite 3 entries too. Go create!...

Zoe: I've mixed Pan Pastels with Matt gel medium, check out my blog to see more.

Claire I've mixed Maimeri Glassy gel with glitter, let it dry and die cut it to create sparkly snowflakes to embellish my card. The gelli plate background was made with one of the gorgeous new masks from Premium Art Brands using PanPastels and Maimeri Iridescent medium. I've made a frost edge around the image and the background by mixing glitter, shaved ice and mica flakes with some more glassy gel. The image is coloured with Graph'It Markers.

Terry I worked on the background with Metallic PanPastels and Gesso with Iridescent Paste. On top another layer with Metallic Pans.and to finish the background I played with Crackle....the flowers were made with Versamark Embossing ink and white embossingpowder. The background I made with the Metallic Pans and water, I love the effect it gives. The butterflies were worked on with Metallic Pans and Iridescent Paste.

 Tracy - Hi everyone, today I have an idea for my Christmas cards to share with you all using Maimeri Iridescent and Light Modelling Pastes to which I added Pan Pastels and Metallic Pan Pastels. I love the textures and age it has added along with a beautiful pearlescent sheen. This idea has been created in my old book that I journal in with a list of what I have used on the opposite page, want to see more? Then please stop on by my blog here.

 So there is our inspiration from the fabulously talented Pan Pastel UK team this week!...

You have until Tuesday 12th November at noon GMT to enter below by adding your creation to Mr Linky below - don't forget you have the chance to win a fabulous prize! 

The winner of this challenge will be announced on Sunday 17th November here on this blog. 
Please check our rules for all entries: 
1. All entries MUST follow the challenge theme. 2. Please link your blog post and not your blog address with the linky tool - this saves us from searching your blog for your entry. 3. No back-linking to previous posts - these will be disregarded from our voting.4. Please ensure you follow the challenge theme!

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