Floral Inspiration plus winners!

Good morning, well its a very wet Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK so perfect crafting weather! You've still got a week to enter our Floral Challenge to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous goodies from Premium Craft Brands so pop over an link up your entry 

HERE

You don't have to use PanPastels to enter but of course we love it when you do!

Before we check out the inspiration from our talented DT its time to announce the winner and Top 3 of our Pick a Colour Palette challenge so without any further ado ....

Congratulations to our lucky winner,

9. Jenny

Congratulations hun please email us quoting your winners code:  PPWK1301 and sit back and wait for postie to deliver your goodies!

And now our top 3, this week the honours go to

2 Sam21ski

5 Samantha Wade

14 Julia Sanders

Congratulations ladies, your projects are stunning! Don't forget to grab your top 3 badge for your blogs.

And now on to this weeks inspiration from the DT

Terry Hiya guys I had fun making the Floral inspiration card, used lots of floral papers, PanPastels to color the hearts and rose at the bottom. Worked with swirls, Honeycomb and hearts from Dutch Doobadoo to spice up my Vintage Floral Card.

Claire C I've made a little wall hanging using a  canvas board and lots of goodies from Premium Craft Brands

I've used Maimeri Light Modelling Paste through a gorgeous Dutch Doobadoo Stencil for the background adding colour with Hansa Yellow and Diarylide Yellow Tint PanPastels. I sealed the colour with Maimeri Matte Medium and sprinkled on some glitter while it was wet. The flowers are made from fabric and Maimeri Iridescent paste sprinkled with more glitter, I've done a tutorial on my blog if you fancy making some. I've also used some of the fabby new stamps that Nikky has designed for Premium Craft Brands and Dutch Doobadoo Laser cut swirls and buttons

Lou: I have used the new PCB stamp range to create my floral montage. All the images have been coloured with Magenta and Bright Yellow Green shade pan pastels. The butterflies are from Dutch Doobadoo laser art range coloured with black ink and then embossed. I have even created my own raised mini dots by adding metallic gold pan pastel to cosmic shimmer glue!

Don't forget you've still got a week to play along with our Floral Challenge,

click here to link your entry up!

See you next week with a brand new challenge

xx

Challenge 14 Florals

Good morning and welcome to an exciting new challenge! This time our theme is 

Florals

As always you've got two weeks to enter so lots of time, you don't have to use Premium Craft Brands products to enter As always our lucky winner will receive a fab prize of crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands and there's always the honour of a top 3 spot to play for too!

Before we check out the gorgeous creations from the DT, don't forget to check out the fab candy on our sister blog Graph'It Colouring Challenge where there is a fabby £200 Birthday Candy up for grabs

A big thank you everyone who entered our Colour Palette Challenge, wow so many beautiful project! Make sure you pop back next week when we'll be announcing the winner and Top 3 too!

Let's have a look what our talented teamies have created 

Anjie I hope you are all having a good weekend. I'm here today with my DT make for the Premium Craft Brands challenge blog. The challenge theme is Florals. Here is my make

For the background I have used the Dutch Doobadoo Mask/Stencil Art A5 - Flower Swirl. I went around the stencil with a black pen to make the design pop more. I then used the Magenta Extra Dark Pan Pastel through the mask just around the edges. I then use the Magenta Pan Pastel and went a little further in the stencil. Finally for the middle of the stencil I used the Orange - Pan Pastel. I took the mask away and went around the edges with the Black Pan Pastel. I then painted over the background with Maimeri Glassy Gel. I covered some die cut flowers with the same Pan Pastels and then painted over them with Maimeri Iridescent Paste for added sheen. Finally I stamped the frame and message from the Premium Art Brands Roses stamp set.

Claire C I've created a tag using PanPastels and the gorgeous new stamps that Nikky has designed for Premium Craft Brands (did you see them on C&C??)

I've done lots of versamark stamping and added colour with my PanPastels I've also used PanPastels to distress all the edges and to watercolour the roses. I've added some of my favourite Dutch Doobadoo embellishments too, Softboard Honeycomb, Laser cut butterflies and buttons.

Terry I have created a Mothersday card with a babypicture on it, yep that is me...lol...so I made this card for my Mom and worked on the background with papers, Softboard Honeycomb, swirls from DD, hearts from DD some lace and a sentiment. Lots of flowers were used and a little butterfly on the flower.

Lou: I have been collecting empty coffee cans with a view to alter them and this week have bitten the bullet. I have embossed the papers with the Crysanthemum stencil and then added Maimeri irreidescent paste on top for added depth and texture. All the papers have been highlighted with magenta and soft gold pan pastels.

I have also used the new range of stamps from PAB, colouring my images with Magenta or aw umber pan pastels. Even the diecut flower was embossed first, then coloured and finally cut out. Loads more photos and details are over on my blog.

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We don't really do loads of rules here but we do have a couple so please take note:

1. No back links

2. Only 2 entries to make it fair for everyone

3. We'd love you to TRY and play along with the challenge if you can although it's not a hard and fast rule but extra brownie points are awarded to those who do. 

4. The main prize can only be posted to a UK address - if the prize is not claimed within 14 days it will be offered to someone on the Top 3 from the same week.

5. You MUST be a follower of this blog to enter

And remember - our Top 3 is eligible for the running to be offered a place as a forthcoming Guest designer too!

Make sure you pop back next week when we will announce the winner of our last challenge and our talented DT will have more inspiration for you too!

The challenge will run until Saturday  31st May and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 8th June

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Pick a colour palette inspiration plus winners!

Good morning crafters, we've got loads of inspiration from the DT  for our 'Pick a Colour Palette' challenge for you today but if you want to go straight to the challenge linky, just click

here

Before we check out the amazing artwork from the DT though, I bet you're all waiting to find out the lucky winner and Top 3 from our 'Go Grungy' challenge so we won't keep you waiting any longer. Our lucky winner, chosen by Random.org is

4. Cazzy

Woo hoo, congratulations hun, please email us quoting your winners code: PPWK1201 to claim your prize

There were some gorgeous entries, you guys certainly don't make it easy for us to pick a top 3 lol. Congratulations to

3. Rachel Fisher

5.Carol Gill

14.Karen P

Great work ladies, don't forget to grab your top 3 badge for your blogs!

Time for some inspiration from the DT, they've really done us proud again this week so why don't you pick your own colour palette and join us?? Our lucky winner will receive a fab prize of crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands so don't miss out! Claire has done a step by step tutorial showing you how to create clouds using your Panpastels too so if you have time check out her blog for all the details.

Anjie - I chose this colour palette as it reminded me so much of my Maldives holiday. Oh how I wish I was back there right now!

Anyhoo, onto my project, here it is.

It started out life as a plain cardboard door hanger. I started by covering it in a layer of white Gesso and letting it dry (I used a heat gun to hurry it on). I then placed the Doobadoo Flower Swirl stencil over it. I mixed the Ultramarine Blue Pan Pastel with some Maimeri Light Modeling Paste and used it in random places over the stencil. I then did the same with the Turquoise Pan Pastel, and then the Permanent Green Pan Pastel. Finally I covered the whole thing with Maimeri Glassy Gel to make it look wet like the ocean. I then layered up some spiders web, a wide ribbon and a narrow ribbon and tied them around the centre. I then cut a set of flowers out of the Tattered Lace Lavish Blooms. I coloured the flowers with the same Pans and then coated them with Maimeri Iridescent Paste. I was just wanting to give them a different look but the paste made them really pliable and lots easier to curl and mold into shape. I can see me using this lots more now!

Terry, Hey there guys some more inpiration this week, my colour palette is the same as last week 

I got the colour palette for inspiration, from Design Seeds. I used the PanPastels with the purple, lavender, green colours. 

My project for this week is allmost the same as last week but also different heehe do I make sence....

This time I also made a Mobile but a Heartsy one, I worked with a DD mask and worked on the hearts with first Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and on top the colours from the palette. The backside of the hearts are worked on with the PanPastels and the fabulous stampset from Nikky. Especially the swirls work great on the hearts. On top I covered my hearts with Iridecent Paste.

 

Claire  I've used the same colour palette as last week too but this time I've created a  seaside scene using my stamps and PanPastels. I've done a tutorial for creating clouds using a pencil eraser and PanPastels, you can find it on my blog

I've used PanPastels in Turquoise Tint, Turquoise, Turquoise Shade, White, Paynes Grey, Neutral Grey, Burnt Sienna,, Raw Umber, you can find them here

Lou: I chose this particular colour palate as I just loved the blend of colours together and decided to use this as the inspiration to decorate a box. 

I primed the box with gesso and then set to adding some texture with a mask and Maimeri modelling paste. I have layered the paste very thickly to really create a raised effect. Once dry I used my pan pastels to add colour: soft gold metallic, diarylide yellow shade, yellow ochre, yellow ochre tint and raw umber. The box is to be used to store holiday memories safely until I get around to scrap booking them!

Using a mixture of stamped images and die cuts, I set about decorating my box top. All images have been aged slightly with my pan pastels and the large typewrite has been burnished with metallic gold pan pastel (hard to see in this photo).

I have even decorated the sides to match the theme. The butterfly diecuts have also been embossed with the same stencil as used on the lid and then pan pasteled!

You can find the challenge linky here

See you next week with another fun challenge!

Challenge 13 Pick a Colour Palette

Good morning we've got another fun challenge lined up for you but first a big thank you to everyone who entered our 'go grungy' challenge, we'll be announcing the winner and top 3 next week so make sure you pop back!

This time our challenge theme is

 'Pick a Colour Palette'

Some of the DT have got their inspiration from the Design Seeds website where you can find so many gorgeous colour palettes to inspire you but if you prefer you can pick your very own colour palette instead. As always our lucky winner will receive some gorgeous crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands, you don't have to use our products to play along but of course we love it when you do! 

You have two whole weeks to enter so plenty of time!

Now lets see what the DT girls have chosen for their colour palettes this week

Claire C  I've altered a door hanger using Metallic PanPastels, Maimeri gesso, Light Modelling Paste and 'pop art' stencil from Dutch Doobadoo I've added some stamps from the fab new designs from Premium Craft Brands and coloured the images with my PanPastels

this is the colour palette I used for inspiration, its from Design Seeds. I used PanPastels in Turquoise, Turquoise Shade, Burnt Sienna Tint, Orange Tint and Raw Umber. You can find all the details on my blog

Terry  I worked on wooden flowers, they were white when I started my project. First I used Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and worked on them with the DD maskes and stencils. 

I added Purple, Lavender and Greenish colours to it. To finish my Flowers Mobile I played with some crackle and stamped sentiments on top. Want to see more picture then you just click my name and it will take you to my blog. 

I got the colour palette for inspiration, from Design Seeds. I used the PanPastels with the purple, lavender, green colours. 

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We don't really do loads of rules here but we do have a couple so please take note:

1. No back links

2. Only 2 entries to make it fair for everyone

3. We'd love you to TRY and play along with the challenge if you can although it's not a hard and fast rule but extra brownie points are awarded to those who do. 

4. The main prize can only be posted to a UK address - if the prize is not claimed within 14 days it will be offered to someone on the Top 3 from the same week.

5. You MUST be a follower of this blog to enter

And remember - our Top 3 is eligible for the running to be offered a place as a forthcoming Guest designer too!

Make sure you pop back next week when we will announce the winner of our last challenge and our talented DT will have more inspiration for you too!

The challenge will run until Saturday  17th May and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 25th May

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