Challenge 7 - Anything Goes Mixed Media craft challenge

Good morning crafty friends and a very Happy Easter to one and all! Hopefully you'll all have a lovely weekend with lots of chocolate and of course some crafting too! A big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, we had so many awesome entries and we'll be announcing the winners in a couple of weeks. We've got a new challenge starting and as usual it's a nice easy theme for you

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

You don't have to use our products to enter but we love it when you do. Our lovely sponsors, Premium Craft Brands have got some crafty goodies lined up for our lucky challenge winner so what are you waiting for??



As always our DT have been creating their mixed media magic to inspire you but before we check out their artwork this week it's time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 5!

Our lucky wiiner, as chosen by Random.org is .........

4. Linda Simpson

Congratulations Linda!! Email us (details in sidebar) quoting your winners code which is PPWK05001 and your snail mail address and we'll get your prize on it's way to you.

As always it wasn't an easy task for the DT to choose their top 3 but the votes are in and the Top 3 entries for Challenge 5 are@

26 Niki
34 Teresa
37 Aisha

Well done ladies, your projects were stunning! Don't forget to grab your Top 3 badge for your blogs!!

Now let's see what the DT have been up to this week, as always they've got lots of inspiration for you!

Alysha   Happy Easter everyone! Its that time again, so get out your Pan Pastels and join in with us and share your crafty projects.This week I'm sharing a Spring themed mixed media postcard. I have used Turquoise PP Ultramarine Blue PP and highlights of Permanent Red Tint. I've then highlighted areas through a stencil, added some collage and gessoed some circles then finally finished with a spritz of PP Fixative.Really looking forward to seeing your creations this week, hugs Aly xxx

Claire C   I've used my PanPastels with the lovely new Stamp Soup stamps from Polkadoodles to make this project. If you stamp with versamark it really makes your PanPastel colours pop and it gives a lovely effect on vellum too. You can find all the details on my blog

Pearlescent Pan Pastels

Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent

White Blending Mop Brush

Raw Umber PanPastel

Sofft sponge bars

Terry; I had loads of fun making this Spring colored Frame. I have started with the background with one layer of Gesso, than I colored it with the Pearlescent Green and Orange, another layer of Light Modelling Paste and honeycomb stencil and another layer with Pearlescent Pans, for the next layer I played with White Coarse and Iridescent Paste, to give it a bit of a shine.

Than for the centre of the frame I colored the background yep again with the Pearlescent Pans and stamped a sentiment on top. Than finished it with the Gel medium. Also in the center of my frame I played with a few fabby butterflies and gave them the pearlescent green and orange colour. I worked on them with crackle accents and some 3D solution to give it a bit of diversity.  And to finish I painted the word with white paint Beautifull with the Graph It Shake Marker Glitter Gold and did the same with the tiny Dutch Doobadoo butterflies.

The products from Premium Art Brands that I worked with are:

Gesso	Pan Pastel pearlescent green	Pan Pastel pearlescent orange	Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10
Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Dutch Doobadoo laser art, butterflies	Iridescent Paste	Graph It Shake marker Glitter Gold

Lou: Yippee ... I'm so glad to back after my long, protracted internet woes. I decided to alter a large thick cardboard tag with pastes, pan pastels and the new Soup Stamps from Polka Doodles.

Started with my stenciled background, added my pan pastels and then stamped out all the images colouring them with my pan pastels. To add vibrancy to the stamped images, I add a layer of ultra thick embossing powder.

Magenta pan pastel	Yellow Ochre Pan Pastel	Perm Green Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel bright yellow green shade	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender
White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Pan Pastels	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Premium Art Brands, Characters stencil	Dutch Doobadoo A5 brick stencil
Maimeri Iridescent Paste/Gesso 200ML	Maimeri acrylic paint	Lemonade Fizz Stamp Soup, Polka Doodles	DaliART Butterfly Swirl Stamp The Moment

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Gorgeous makes girls!! We can't wait to see your projects for this challenge. Just link them up below, 

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  9th April and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 24th April.

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Add some bling inspiration plus winners!

Good morning crafters, its inspiration time here at PanPastel UK this week and our DT have come up with some gorgeous sparkly projects for our 'Add some Bling' challenge!

 If you're visiting to enter your project, just click here to go straight to the linky!!

You've still got a week to enter and our lucky winner will receive a goody bag from
  Premium Craft Brands

First things first though, its time to announce our lucky winner from our Halloween challenge! Random,org has picked out number 2!! 

That's you Cazzy, congratulations hun. email us to claim your prize quoting winners code PPWK2501 and then sit back and wait for postie!!

and the Top 3 honours go to .............

3. Yogi
5. Donna
14. Karen P

Congratulations ladies, awesome projects!! Don't forget to grab your top 3 badge for your blog!!

Now on to this weeks inspiration from the DT, gorgeous makes as always girls!!

Anjie - I've kept with the CAS these I used last time.

I have used the Winter Spruce stamp set for this card and have coloured the tree and the holly with the Permanent Green Pan Pastel. I have added some red pearls to the holly for my bling element.

Perm Green Pan Pastel

Winter Spruce Stamp set

Doreen

I have made my background using just two colours,masking off the moon,then stamped my images with Black Archival,the main image has also be silver embossed

Claire C I've used the  black Pearl Mediums for my card, they are really blingy and give a gorgeous twinkly sparkle. I've also sealed my work with a mixture of 1/3 Maimeri Glossy Gel Medium and 2/3 water mixed in  a spritzer bottle, loads cheaper than buying fixative sprays!!

Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels

Black fine Pearl

Maimeri Gloss Gel

GraphIt Shaker Pen (white)

Lou: I have used the Pearlescent pan pastels and Premium Art Brand stamps to create my card. I had great fun creating the background and all the details can be found on my blog.

Products I used:

Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Pan Pastels	Premium Art Brands, Postcard stamp set	Roses Stamps
Perfect medium	Dutch Doobadoo Softboard Art Honeycomb	Bright White WOW! Embossing Powder Ultra High

Terry I had fun making another Christmas card with lots of bling....I started out with the Shape art stencil and cut out my card, started filling it up with lots of fabby papers and on top of the paper I worked with the Stars Stencil, making stars with the Light Modelling Paste. On top of the stars I added some Coarse white Pearlescent Panpastel. I worked on the background using the Embossing Ink with the Blue Pearlescent Pans. And in the middle of the card I placed the sentiment A merry christmas to you with the Graph It Shake It White Pen. And a star from the Cardboard Craft Art was placed underneith the sentiment. The image was colored with the Graph It Markers. And to finish my card I have have placed some shiny snowflakes and the snowflakes from Dutch Doobadoo and some pearls.

The products I have worked with are: 

Blue Pearl	A5 Stars Stencil	Stars	Label Art Snowflakes	GraphIt Shaker Pen (white)
Graph′it Markers	Maimeri Light modelling paste	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Titanium White PanPastel	Dutch Doobadoo Dutch Shape Art 3 15 x 20 cm

Thanks for visiting, we'll be back next week with a fab new challenge.

Click here to go to the linky for our 'Add some Bling' challenge