Challenge 3 Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafters and welcome to our brand new challenge!! We'll be announcing the winners from Challenge 2 next week so don't forget to pop back. As usual our theme for the next two weeks is

  Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

You don't have to use our products to enter (but of course we love it when you do) and we've got some lovely crafty stash for our lucky winner thanks to our generous sponsors Premium Craft Brands

The challenge will run for two weeks so you've plenty of time to play along.

As usual our talented DT have been working some mixed media magic to inspire you so let's have a look what they've been up to this week

Claire C I've altered an MDF heart for this weeks project, using lots of my favourite products from Premium Craft Brands. I've used Panpastels on Clearly for Art film to create wings for my butterfly, love love love this effect :-)

I stamped my butterfly wings on Clearly for Art film with versamark and applied Magenta Extra Dark PanPastel with a Sofft tool. I cut them out and stuck them to a Stampbord domino that I'd coloured with the same PanPastel. I adore the Extra Dark pans, they look a bit dull in the pots  but once you start using them they are lush, some really gorgeous rich colours!

PanPastel Magenta Extra Dark	Magenta Shade Pan Pastel	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Metallic Pan Pastel, Pewter	Stampbord Assorted sizes
PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Dutch Doobadoo Softboard Art Honeycomb

Lou: I decided to create a canvas using mediums, stencils and off course pan pastels. I thoroughly enjoyed my messy time as I had no plan and just went with the flow ...

I created my background in different layers using Maimeri paste and adding colour using pan pastels. Shadows were created using black medium pan pastel. I added even more layers to my canvas (not shown in photo below) but the different stages can be seenon my blog.

I even used my pan pastels to water colour my stamped images, I love the rich colour depth you can achieve even though you have water coloured the images.

Even more photos, with step by steps can be found on my blog.

Products and links:

Magenta pan pastel	Phtalo Blue Pan Pastel	Titanium White PanPastel	Perm Green Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender	Pan Pastel bright yellow green shade
Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Turquoise Pan Pastel	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Premium Craft Brands, Heart of Flower stencil	Dutch Doobadoo A5 brick stencil	What′s Up Buttercup Stamp Set

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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. 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.

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

The challenge will run until  13th February  and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday  21st Feb!

We'll be back next week though with lots more inspiration and we'll be announcing the winner and Top 3 from our last challenge too so don't forget to pop back

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Halloween Colours

Good morning and welcome to a brand new challenge!! Our theme for the next two weeks is 

'Halloween Colours'

so you don't have to make a Halloween project as long as you use a halloweeny colour palette so we want to see purples, greens oranges and black!!

You don't have to use PanPastels to play along but we love it when you do!

Our lucky winner will receive a fabby prize from our generous sponsors at 

Premium Craft Brands

one lucky crafter will receive a mask and a PanPastel (colours may vary) so don't miss out on your chance to win!!

  

Now lets check out the gorgeous projects from the DT:

Yvonne - I've used  my favourite linen effect card again for this tag.  All details can be found over on my blog.



Titanium White PanPastel

Phthalo Green Shade

Violet Shade

Orange

Neutral Grey Extra Dark

Doreen- Hello to you all, I am sharing a bit of mixed media today. I have made a wall plaque using a canvas board. Full details of how this was made is on my blog.

Nikky....I'm always the first to get new products and always seem to be the last to get to try them out but I made this at a demo day in Preston a couple of weeks ago and sometimes the really simple things are the ones you like most. This was the first time I got to properly try out the Pearlescent Pan Pastels....

 I just used Versamark through the Tree mask, added some Black Coarse Sparkle Medium (*swoon*) and then layered the purple pearl pan together with a tiny touch of metallic silver...

Claire C I've made a quick and easy autumn scene using Halloween colours. This was a really quick card, I just applied the pearl PanPastel in bands across the white cardstock and then lightly applied the Black pearl medium around the edges for a misty effect. Then I stamped the images with dye inks and matted the scene on some black card

Black fine Pearl

Green Pearl

Orange Pearl

Violet Pearl

Tracy - Witches, Goblins and Ghosts oh my! I adore Halloween and was over the moon with the theme for this weeks challenge.

Out came a chunk of wood and a pencil to start my sketch before . . .

. . . grabbing a few Spooktacular coloured Pan Pastels, Pearl Mediums, cheap hairspray { fixes each colour of Pan Pastel } fine black liner pen, stamps and a Clearsnap Smooch Ink.

Black	Burnt sienna shade	diarylide yellow	Hansa Yellow Shade	orange
Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Orange Pearl	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Copper Metallic	Sofft Knife Oval
Sofft Sponge Bar

Terry, I had loads of fun working on a canvas. For the background I worked and played with Gesso and Light Modelling Paste with the Stencil from Dutch Doobadoo. The background is colored with Black COARSE panpastel. on top f that I played with the Orange, Purple and different kinds of Panpastels. The butterflies are colored with he Pearlescent Panpastels and on top a bit of crackle

Black	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	orange shade	Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10	Orange Pearl
Dutch Doobadoo Mask Art A5 Diamond	Dutch Doobadoo Softboard Art Honeycomb	Magenta Extra Dark	Gesso	Maimeri Light modelling paste

Lou: I decided to make a "tongue in cheek" Halloween inspired card this week and had great fun colouring everything on my card with pan pastels. Full details are on my blog ....

Pearlescent Pan Pastels

Pan Pastels

Studio 12 Shabby Owl stamps

Studio 12 Tree of Life stamps

GraphIt Shaker Pen (white)

 

A big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, we'll be back next week to announce the winner and Top 3 and lots more inspiration too!

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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

The challenge will run until Saturday 1st November and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 9th November

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