Challenge 17 Roses are a Girl's Best Friend

Good morning and welcome to a brand new challenge!! 

This time our theme is

Roses are a girls best friend

You don't have to use PanPastels to enter although we love it when you do. Our lucky winner will receive some fabulous stash from Premium Craft Brands  - a gorgeous mask and a PanPastel too so don't miss out on your chance to win these (PanPastel colours may vary)

 

Before we check out the inspiration from our DT, a big thank you to everyone who played along with our last challenge, make sure you stop by next Sunday when we'll be announcing the winner and top 3!

Our talented Guest Designer Yvonne has used air dry clay coloured with PanPastels to decorate this stunning tag, pop over to her blog  to find out all the details

 

 

Doreen

I started colouring my background  with PanPastels, by masking off my moon and tearing some card to form the hills. I then sprayed some cheap hairspray over to seal the chalk.

When dry I stamped my images and sentment with black Versafine, I coloured my roses with Distress inks

I have used Black, Phthalo Blue and Chromium Oxide green shade PanPastels

Claire  I've used my PanPastels and a gorgeous Dutch Doobadoo stencil to create this card, I created the main image by applying Maimeri Glassy Gel over the stenciled image and then sprinkling on microbeads. You can find all the details on  my blog

here are the products I used

 

Terry Hiya guys, I was having fun altering a little square box, I worked on the background with lots of Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and the georgous stencil with lots of roses from Dutch Doobadoo, PanPastels and Crackle. |And to finish I placed the lace all around the box and some butterflies on top. They are colored with Pans too. 

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 12th July and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday  20th July!

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Flora and Fauna inspiration plus winners

Welcome back to another fab Pan Pastel challenge!

We've got some really exciting news but before we get to that its time to announce the winner and Top 3 from our One for the Boys Challenge!

Our lucky winner, chosen by random.org is ........
26. Angel North
Congratulations hun, email us quoting your winners code to claim your prize!

and our top 3 DT picks are
2 Butterfly
10 Jane's Journal
15 Nikki Acton
Well done ladies, your entries were gorgeous! Don't  forget to grab your Top 3 badges for your blogs

Today we are really excited to not only bring you more inspiration for our challenge but to also introduce our new Guest Designer who has joined us

Yvonne Froehlich

You are going to adore Yvonne's work!

So let's get to today's challenge, which is week two of our

Flora and Fauna

and you can enter the challenge HERE

So let's see this week's inspiration from the team...

Yvonne...I used an A4 sheet of white card onto which I blended a selection of Panpastels - I used Magenta, Violet, Orange and Yellow.  I drew around a size 8 tag (three times) to make the Triptych effect. I cut the tags out which left a strip of card which I used to die cut the butterflies so that the colours would tone in with the background. I also used the Panpastels to colour the seam binding. After stamping I added black Distress Glitter to make it pop.

Doreen... I first made my background using  Permanent Red, Magenta and Diarylide Yellow PanPastels while masking out the moon.I then gave it a quick spritz of some cheap hairspray to set the pastels. My images were then stamped  with Black Versafine ink.xxx

Terry, Hey there guys I had fun altering a heartshaped box, used lots of Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and the Roses Stencil from Dutch Doobadoo. Lots of Acrylic Paints and PanPastels to colour the butterflies on top and to cover the box.

Claire  I've created a summery scene with  my PanPastels, its so quick and easy to do and so much easier than brayering. You can find all the details on my blog 

Thanks for visiting, don't forget to link up your entry to our Flora and Fauna challenge 

here 

and we'll see you  next week with a brand new challenge

Challenge 16 Flora and Fauna

Welcome to another fabulous Pan Pastel Challenge!

We are really really excited today to announce a brand new team member to you - we have been stalking all her lovely makes for a while now and we just had to ask her to join us here when we saw how creative she is with her Pan Pastels! So were are really pleased to welcome the super talented 

Doreen

to the team - make sure you check out both Doreen's blog and the rest of the team too because these ladies are mega talented! 

Our theme for you this week is

Flora and Fauna

and obviously you can interpret this how you wish - it's a really great theme to use with Pan Pastels! 

You have until 29th June to enter and one Random Winner will be chosen to receive some gorgeous stash whilst the Design Team will also choose our favourite Top 3 (we are still looking for Guest Designers)....You DO NOT have to use ANY of our products to enter but obviously we'd love it if you did! 

Let's see what the team have made this week...

Anjie...I loved this theme, it can be interpreted in so many different ways.  I have used the 15 x 15cm Owl mask and the Orange - Pan Pastel and Violet - Pan Pastel through the mask and then outlined it with a fine black marker pen to make it pop. 

I then mixed the same pan pastels with the Maimeri Iridescent Paste and painted the flowers. Finally I added the little dots around the edge of the card to use the left over medium.

Doreen....Hello to you all, Well for my debut make here on the PanPastel team I have made a card that can be used for any purpose....

I have used PanPastels Phthalo Blue,Permanent Green, Permanent Red,Black and White for the background and light touch of black to define the hills. 

I used Black Versafine to stamp my images  and fussy cut the butterfly to add some dimension.

Nikky...I haven't been able to join in this challenge for ages but I really wanted to do this one because I wanted to make something for someone who's going through a really hard time at the mo and I think this will cheer her up.

I made this in about an hour and it was just made up with loads of bits and pieces I had hanging around...a 6" MDF heart and lots of Tattered flowers from Tim Holtz after I finally got this die about a month ago at a bargain price of £2! I coloured the centres of the flowers which were cut from an old book and used Permanent Red and Turquise, together with a bit of Burnt Sienna here and there. These 3 are my most used Pan Pastels, I think I probably use them every single time I craft - for me the Burnt Sienna has replaced ALL my distress inkpads and it goes everywhere with me for distressing edges. All the other embellies were hanging around on my desk - mainly all Dutch Doobadoo. You can see more about how I made this on my blog.

Claire  I've made a little canvas using the beautiful butterfly stencil from Premium Craft Brands, I've added lots of colour with PanPastels and then highlighted the butterfly with Maimeri Glassy Gel and microbeads, you can find all the deets on my blog

  

Terry, I was playing with some butterflies, I just love them and I wanted to give them a nice fresh and bright colour. So I mixed some panpastels together and this is what the color turned out to be. I played with the rosesstencil from DD and finished with Irisdescent Paste

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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 28th June and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 6th July

We'll be back next week with lots more inspiration from the DT and the winner and Top 3 from our 'One for the Boys ' challenge so don't forget to pop back next Sunday

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