Sunday, 25 October 2015

Challenge 22 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafty friends and welcome to a brand new challenge here at We Love 2  Create!! A big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, we'll be announcing the winners next week along with Top 3 honours so make sure you pop back!!
We're keeping it nice and easy for you and our theme is ...
Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes

You don't have to use our products to play along but of course we love it when you do! As always we've got some lovely crafty goodies up for grabs for our lucky winner thanks to our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands so don't miss out on your chance to win!!

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The random winner and Top 3 for Challenge #21 will be announced next week, so check back to see if it's you!

As always our DT have been creating some mixed media magic, let's check out what they've been up to this week:

Tracy Evans - We are approaching Halloween so it seemed appropriate to create something this week to celebrate!







Yvonne - A cheerful meadow scene for you today.  All details over on my blog.







Nikky...Autumn is by far my favourite season. This image is from Oddball Art and I just adore her, check out my blog for more details. I coloured this image with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils - I was a bit stupid and forgot as usual to write my colours down as I went along, needless to say it was a selection from the 72 set LOL! I had to make a really quick make as I had no time whatsoever so I literally just cut this out and threw it on a background...

When I came to do my photo I hadnt had chance to make a card and she looked really dull just cut out so I threw - literally - a quick little canvas together using a watercolour art board. I had all my stash in the car and couldnt be bothered to get it all out so I mixed up green, red, purple and phthalo green pan pastels with water to create a very watery wash and then just dripped and splattered it on the canvasboard, and stamped a little sentiment. As I was splashing about a bit I got loads of splashes onto the image but I like it - gives her character I think! As the pencils are oilbased they resisted most of the pastel which was very cool so it enabled me to sponge off the excess. I love mixing products together and sometimes making yourself just do something within 5 minutes and then not fiddling about any further can be quite productive. 

Claire C: I love to use my PanPastels to make scenic cards, they are so easy to use and give a lovely effect in just a few minutes. I love to use Memento Inks to stamp, they work beautifully over Pans





Terry: I had loads of fun with a canvas, at first I did not know HOW to start but when I made the background with Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and lots of colours PanPastels the idea that I had in my head came out the way I wanted too. I have worked on the flowerarrangement with Transparant crackle and colored the hearts that I made out of the empty cardboard Hearts from Dutch Doobadoo, with lots of Metallic PanPastels. To Finish I placed some sentiments on the picture of the family and underneith.


The products that I have worked with are:



Wow, beautiful makes girls, and we can't wait to see yours too!!

We'll be back next week with the winner and Top 3 from our last challenge so don't forget to pop back

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Sunday, 18 October 2015

Challenge 21 Inspiration week plus winners announcement!!

Good morning crafty friends and welcome to our inspiration post here at We Love 2  Create!! 
We're keeping it nice and easy for you and our theme is ...
Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes

if you're visiting to link up your challenge entry, just click here to go to the linky

You still have a week to play along and you don't have to use our products to play along but of course we love it when you do! As always we've got some lovely crafty goodies up for grabs for our lucky winner thanks to our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands so don't miss out on your chance to win!!

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Before we check out what our DT have been creating this week, we'd better announce our lucky winner from Challenge 20. This time around, Random.org has chosen

42 Avril B

Congratulations   Avril!! Email us (details in sidebar) quoting your winners code which is PPWK002001 and your snail mail details and we'll get your prize on its way to you asap.

it was no easy task to pick our Top 3 from so many awesome projects but this time around the Top 3 honours go to

33 Catherine

38 Chrissy

50 Janes/Journal

Congratulations, make sure you pick up your Top 3 Badges for your blog!

As always our DT have been creating some mixed media magic, let's check out what they've been up to this week:

Tracy Evans - I decided to get a head start on my seasonal cards this week using the wonderful Metallic PanPastels.








Claire C I've used lots of my favourite products from Premium Craft Brands to create this canvas, you can find all the details over on  my blog









Yvonne - A triple tag made using some of my favourite colours.




Terry: I have made and worked on another canvas, played with lots of Gesso, Light Modeling Paste and lots of different colours PanPastels and Pearlescent Pans. A few stencils from Dutch Doobadoo and Premium Art Brands are used in my canvas and I used the Gold Graph It Shake It Marker all around the leaves, the butterflies and Roses, to give it that extra look.






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We'll be back next week with a fab new challenge so make sure you join us!