Wk 52 Dec 29 - Happy New Year

Good morning, I hope you've all had a very merry Christmas and enjoyed all the festivities! We've got a fun challenge lined up for you this week, we decided that our hardworking DT needed a bit of a rest over Christmas so they will be showcasing their favourite projects from the last year! Our challenge theme for you guys at home is a nice easy one and remember you don't have to use PanPastels to play along, this weeks theme is: 

Anything goes!!

Before we check out the DT's favourite projects though, how about the winners from Challenge 50,  Without any further ado, our lucky winner chosen by Random.org is

1. Carol Gill

congratulations Carol sweetie, email us to claim your fabby PanPastel prize!

And our top 3, as chosen by the DT:

2 Tracey V

9 Kym

10 Jane/'s Journal

Congratulations ladies, your projects were stunning! Make sure you grab your Top 3 badge for your blogs

And now on to the inspiration from our DT, starting with a beautiful new project from our guest designer Rachel who has been playing with the gorgeous metallic PanPastels for this stunning card! 

I'm sure you're itching to see the gorgeous projects our DT have picked as their favourites so we won't keep you waiting any longer .....

 Terry My favourite project from this past year that I made...an altered project that I made out of flowers, inks, Gesso, PanPastels, butterfly, lace, ink and Maimery.

Claire here with my favourite project from 2013. This is from our Floral Challenge in August and I made a collage frame using lots of PanPastels, Maimeri Glassy Gel and microbeads

here's a close up of the poppies, you can find all the details here on my blog

 

Tracy here with one of my favourite projects from the last year using Maimeri Mediums and Pan Pastels.

 Stamps can be used in so many ways and on many mediums including recycled wood.

 You can find out all the details here on my blog.

Zoe I have used a black tag, covered with versamark and the golds metallic Pan Pastels, run through embossing machine with a stars stencil and then inked through the stencil and added the bronze Metallic PP. Visit my blog to see more http://zoeblingcards.blogspot.co.uk/

As always we've got a fab prize from our sponsor Your Creativity Store so don't miss out!

You've got until Tuesday 7th January to enter and our lucky winner and Top 3 will be announced on Sunday January 12th.

We don't have many rules but we want to make sure its fair for everyone so:

1. No backlinking, new projects only please

2. Follow the challenge theme

3. Link to your blog post not just your blog, it makes it easier for us to find your beautiful projects.

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Wk 51 Dec 22 - A quick and easy christmas gift - use fabric in some way

Good morning time for our last challenge before Christmas, I hope you're all fitting in some crafting time with all the rushing around getting ready for Santa!! Our theme this week is 

Anything goes

but we challenged the DT to create quick and easy Christmas gifts and to use fabric too! Of course they rose to the challenge and have come up with some awesome projects but before you check them out I bet you want to know who's the lucky winner from challenge 49. Our winner is...

Number 1, congratulations Hazel Christmas has come early!

Please email us to claim your prize

Now on to our top 3, chosen by the design team .....

6 Mags

16 Jane's Journal

18 Craftyfield

Well done ladies, your projects were absolutely stunning!! Don't forget to grab your Top 3 badges

Our guest designer Rachel has created an amazing project again this week, creating these stunning flower brooches from PanPastels and felt! How cute are they?? Pop over to Rachel's blog to find out all about them

Now on to the inspiration from our lovely design team

Zoe I've used 3 tiny 3x3 inch canvasses to create this mixed media wall hanging of my three fostered baby girls who have all been adopted, please visit my blog to see more!

 Claire C I've made a pendant using fabric and PanPastels. It was a bit of an experiment but I'm pleased with the way it turned out. I've used Permanent Red and Gold PanPastels with Maimeri Glassy gel, for more details pop over to my blog

Here's another pic of the flowers

Terry I made a Christmas Tag, tried to make a snowy background with lots of Gesso, modelling paste and Metallic Silver PanPastels. The clock is made with modelling paste and used some shimmer on the bottom of the tag, some lace and sentiments and crackle to finish. 

What gorgeous projects, I hope they've inspired you to play along as our lucky winner will receive a fabulous prize from Your Creativity Store!!!!

We don't have many rules but we want to make sure its fair for everyone so:

1. No backlinking, new projects only please

2. Follow the challenge theme

3. Link to your blog post not just your blog, it makes it easier for us to find your beautiful projects

The lucky winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 5th January

Good luck everyone and 

MERRY CHRISTMAS from Nikky and all the DT!!

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Wk 50 Dec 15 - Snowflakes

Good morning all, where did the last week go? I can't believe its time for a new challenge already, it'll soon be Christmas at this rate. Before the new challenge though, its time to announce the lucky winner of challenge 48 as chosen by random.org ....

 (drum roll please) number 4, that you  Sam21ski, congratulations hun! 

Please email us to claim your prize. Its never easy to choose a top 3 and you certainly didn't make it easy for the DT this week but after a lot of ummmmming and ahhhhing, our top 3 for the Winter Wonderland Challenge are:

3. Kym

4. Sam21Ski

7. Joan W

Well done ladies, gorgeous artwork!! Don't foget to grab your Top 3 blinkie and pop it on your blog.

Now on to this weeks challenge which is

'Snowflakes'

A nice easy theme again this week and of course we have a fab prize up for grabs from our sponsor Your Creativity Store too! You don't have to use PanPastels to enter but we love it when you do.

Our guest designer this month is the lovely Rachel , she's soooo talented - check out her gorgeous project for this weeks challenge

Now on to the inspiration from our talented design team, 

Zoe I used phthalo blue tint Pan Pastel to colour then versamark to stamp and Pewter metallics PP over stamps, please visit my blog to find out more

Claire C I've created a little scene using Ultramarine Blue tint PanPastel for the sky adding silver and pewter PanPastels to create the moon and the snowy hills. To create the snow in the sky I stamped a snow stamp with versamark and then dusted over with white and silver PanPastels. I've used Raw Umber and Burnt Sienna PanPastels to add some colour to the stamped images and die cut reindeer

Lou: I have used the Doily 1 mask from Premium Craft Brands as my inspiration for this weeks challenge, embossing all my layers with said mask and then highlighted the raised areas with Versamark and Silver metallic pan pastel.

Terry I made three Christmas Tags with lots of snowflakes on them. Worked on the tags with Modelling Paste, embossingpowder and lots of Metallic Silver PanPastels, some lace and sentiments. 

Tracy - Hi everyone, so sorry for the delay in posting my project! A quick snowflake was created with a few wooden pegs, Maimeri Matt Gel, Yellow Ochre, Light Gold Metallic pan along with pretty paper and German Glitter Glass.

 Wow, I'm sure you'll agree the DT have done us proud again this week. 

We don't have many rules but we want to make sure its fair for everyone so:

1. No backlinking, new projects only please

2. Follow the challenge theme

3. Link to your blog post not just your blog, it makes it easier for us to find your beautiful projects.

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Wk 49 - All about paper/card Pan Pastel UK Challenge

Good morning and welcome to a brand new challenge with some wonderful inspiration from our lovely DT. 

But before we move on to the new challenge its time to announce the winner and Top 3 from challenge 47, drum roll please........... tada! the lucky winner, chosen by Random.org is: Number 6, thats you Doreen! Congratulations hun, email us to claim your fab prize of PanPastel yumminess. 


And now on to our Top 3, all the entries were stunning so it was a hard job for our DT but after a lot of deliberation, the top 3 picks are:

1. Rosie

     12. Craftyfield

     14. Barbara C

Congratulations ladies, your projects were awesome, don't forget to grab your Top 3 Badge for your blogs!

Now on to this weeks challenge which is

'All about Paper and Card'
of course, as usual for you guys at home you can enter *Anything Goes* to the challenge but we'd love it if you played along with us.

It's a nice and easy one for you to play along with. As always there is an amazing prize of PanPastel goodies so you won't want to miss out. You have until Tuesday 17th December to join in and the winner will be announced on 22nd December.

As you know, we pick our favourite Top 3 entries each week and we love to see what you all create...so we asked someone who's work we love to play along with the team and Guest Design for us during December and January.   Our guest designer Rachel has created this stunnning project:

What a fantastic job Rachel made with this - it's fantastic!

And now on to the beautiful creations from our Design Team .....

Zoe I used Ultra Marine Blue, Violet and Violet Shade Pans to create my night sky. Please visit my blog to see....

Claire C I've recycled some corrugated card to create my little wall hanging, I've coloured the image with PanPastels and then added lots of die cuts, all coloured with fabby PanPastels...

Terry I have worked with a few dies and made a Christmas tree out of it, I have coloured the background of the tree with Versamark and Metallic PanPastels and a christmas sentiment stamp, this time the Golden and Silver Metallic PanPastels. I also played with the Metallic Pans on the stars. 

Lou: After a wee absence due to illness, I am finally back! I have made my card using a selection of dies and folders to create my card. I have even been brave and made the background paper using my bronze and copper metallic pan pastels.

Tracy  Hi everyone, Christmas for me is all about Family, Heart and Home, so what better way than to make an alternative Christmas card using Pretty papers, Maimeri Mediums, Pan Pastels and Studio 12 stamp.

I'm sure you'll be inspired by such gorgeous projects, remember you don't have to use PanPastels to enter our challenge although of course we love it when you do! The challenge is open until Tuesday 17th December so you've plenty of time to play along. Don't forget the rules, we don't have many but want to make sure its fair for everyone

1. No backlinking, new projects only please
2. Link to your blog post and not just your blog address please, it makes it easier for us to find your project
3. Follow the challenge theme

The winner will be announced on Sunday 22nd December

Good luck xx

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Wk 48 Dec 1 - Winter Wonderland - use metallics ONLY plus ONE other colour

Good morning, can you believe its December already? Its also time for a brand new challenge here in PanPastel land but before we move on to our new challenge its time to announce the winner and top 3 from Challenge 46 so without any further ado, the winner (chosen by random.org) is........................................................................

Number 4, thats you Karen P!!!

Congratulations Karen, please email us to claim your fabby PanPastel goodies.

And our top 3,as voted by our design team are:

1. Julie Short

5. Sam21ski

7. Janesjournal

Congratulations ladies, we all loved your beautiful artwork!! Don't forget to grab your blinkie from the sidebar

Right then, on to this weeks challenge which is 'Winter Wonderland', using metallics plus one other colour. Our extra twist for the DT was to use the gorgeous new metallic PanPastels plus one other colour but as they are so new we know not everyone has them yet so that doesn't apply to challenge entrants. The winner will be announced on Sunday 15th December and our lucky winner will receive a fabulous prize of goodies from Premium Craft Brands

Before we showcase the gorgeous projects from the DT, we've got a very special guest designer joining us this month,the lovely and very talented Rachel Fisher! Rachel has created this stunning canvas for this week's theme

As always our design team have created some amazing artwork to inspire you

Zoe I used Phthalocyanine blue tint Pan Pastel as my base, stamped with Versamark and used Pewter Metallic Pan Pastels over it! Please visit my blog.

Claire C I've used silver, pewter and white PanPastels to create this wintery scene

Terry I made a Christmas Tag worked on it with lots of Modelling Paste and stencils for the background. Used the Silver Metallic PanPastels on my Tag and the Blue PanPastel.

Tracy - Snowflake Wishes
A quick and simple ornament to share with you all today using Metallic Pans, Phthalo Blue Shade Pan and a few other bits and bobs along the way. Please pop on by my blog to see more here. xox

Suzi - I created a Metallic Merry Christmas Card to share with you today, featuring black card stock, a festive embossing folder, Turquoise Pan Pastels, along with Silver and Pewter Metallic Pan Pastels.

I'm sure the gorgeous work from our DT will have inspired you to play along with us this week, the challenge will run until Tuesday 10th December and the winner will be announced on Sunday 15th December here on the challenge blog.

Don't forget to check out the rules, we don't have many but it makes it fair for everyone 

1. remember to link to your blog post not just your blog so our DT can find your projects and leave you some love.

2. No backlinking, new projects only

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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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