Challenge 10 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafty friends! The last two weeks have flown by and it's time for a new challenge, our theme as usual is nice and easy

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
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 Before we take a look at our new challenge we'd like to thank everyone who entered our last challenge, wow so many stunning projects! It's also time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 8 so without any further ado our winner, chosen by Random.org is

25. Katrina Bufton

The DT had their work cut out choosing their top picks this time but the Top 3 honours go to

10. Sara Emily  sarascloset
17.  Craftyfield
20. Gwendolyn

Right, back to business and our new challenge. Our DT have been busy bees creating lots of beautiful artwork to inspire you ....

Tracy - hey there gorgeous ones. Hope you are all well this week ???

This week I've used my PanPastels in all shades of blue and green and mixed with acrylic paints to make a fun random art journal page. The pans coordinate so well with acrylic paints and are a perfect surface to paint onto. I started with a layer of pans blended into the pagans then used a mix of pastel circles mixed with acrylics to create a completely random page. Get your pans out and give it a try !!!

Alysha - Happy Sunday! Its that time again, so get out your Pan Pastels and join in with us and share your crafty projects.

As always the theme is Anything Goes Mixed Media

This week I'm sharing a clean and simple card I have made using the pearlescent blue color, I have versamark stamped the flowers and brushed over with the Pans and then mixed with a little medium to paint onto the flowers and butterfly.

Really looking forward to seeing your creations this week

hugs Aly xx

Terry Today is Mothersday in Holland and I made a little something for my dear Mother....

What I have made for her is a Notebook....she allways writes in a notebook and I thought I would make one wth her daughter on the frontpage.Some cute picture eh? 

The background is made with Gesso and Painted with Pinkish Paint on top I stamped a sentiment stamp all over.....and last layer is Iridescent Paste to give it a shine....

The flowers are colored with Waterpaint and the top layer is Iridescent Paste. I placed a heart in the middle of the flowers and underneith the flowers I placed the word Mamma....that means Mother in Dutch....Underneith my baby picture I worked with lace and to finish decorating it I wrapped a little ribbon around the Notebook.....

The products that I have worked with are:

Gesso	Pearlescent red	Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10	Titanium White PanPastel
Iridescent Paste

Claire C  Hi there, I hope you're having a lovely crafty weekend!  I've blended my Pans into white gesso to colour this collage. PanPastels blend beautifully to give a lovely effect and it's so easy  to do. You can find all the details on my blog

Pan Pastel - Magenta

Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel

Diarylide Yellow PanPastel

PanPastel Light Gold Metallic

Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent

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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  21st May and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 5th June.

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Challenge 24 Anything Mixed Media/Creative 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!!

The random winner and Top 3 for Challenge #20  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:

Nikky....I've been dying to do something funky with this image for ages but havent had chance to sit down properly with my Stampbord and PanPastels for a while. I transferred this digistamp onto my Stampbord using a laser print and Acetone (just print with a laser printer then rub acetone over the image to transfer it onto virtually any surface). I didnt get a brilliant outline but I quite like that as I then traced over the faint lines with a fineliner to outline them more.
You can WIN this little mini piece of art - just go to my blog and follow the instructions there...

I then just coloured it up with various PanPastel colours, some went on dry, others I mixed up with a little water to paint on where I wanted a more vivid colour. I then scratched into the Stampbord to get some texture, scratched out the pink heart and some details as highlights and as we are all thinking of Paris this weekend, scratched out the word Peace as it just was the only thing that came to mind. 

The background is made using a star texture stamp and versamark ink, it just holds the pastel so well, and I sprayed with hairspray in between layers to seal them and enable me to layer the colour up properly. Finally I edged the square with the Graph'It Glitter shake gold marker and added a few white dots using my Graph'It Shake white marker (best white in the world). 

I used the following products on my make: 

Stamp: Polkadoodles Oddella Fairy

Permanent Red

Orange

Soft Tools

Pan Pastel - Magenta

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue

Black fine Pearl

Yvonne - This was such a fabulous project to work on as there is layer upon layer, which I love. I started with a piece of watercolour card which had a pattern made with silver acrylic paint through a stencil. This was a leftover piece from another project but much too good to waste.  I then used the same stencil, slightly offset, and popped through some light modelling paste. Once dry I coloured this with panpastels and was delighted to see that the acrylic paint still showed through! The background script was then added using modelling paste through a stencil, the depth is definitely building up nicely now! Once the script was dry I replaced the stencil and added the Coarse white Panpastel which gave it a lovely shimmering effect. The bits and bobs were then added, I did leave the centre quite open as all the layers were far too effective to cover up.  I've popped a photo step by step on my blog if you'd like to take a look.

White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels

hansa yellow

Orange

Raw Umber PanPastel

Black

Claire C  I've been colouring with my PanPastels this week, they blend so easily especially if you add the amazing colourless blender into the mix that they are perfect for colouring stamped images.

I find that Burnt Sienna Tint is a fab base skin colour and use Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber to add depth and shadows. Although these colours seem really dark I just use a little colour and then dip my Sofft tool in the colourless Blender and then they blend in easily. I coloured the image using Sofft tools, the teeny ones like eyeshadow applicators for the skin and one of the sponge bars for her hair. 

The bar applicators are fab as they can add a broad sweep of colour or if you use the edge you can add very fine lines. Don't forget you can use a pencil eraser with your PanPastels. I used an eraser to lift colour to create the highlights in her hair, removing the brown PanPastel and then applied Hansa Yellow Tint over the top

 The background was created with Turquoise and Bright yellow Green, blended and then overstamped with some background stamps. I framed her with a plastic frame from the poundshop that I painted with acrylic paints and then swiped with versamark and applied Light Gold PanPastel here and there before sealing with some matte medium

Burnt Sienna Tint	Burnt Sienna	Raw Umber PanPastel	Permanent Red Tint	Permanent Red
PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Turquoise Pan Pastel	Bright yellow green	Neutral Grey Pan Pastel	Hansa Yellow Tint
PanPastel Light Gold Metallic	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender

Terry: I have played with a canvas and made a wallhanger out of it. The first layer is Gesso, When the Gesso was dry I got the Light Modelling Paste with the Butterfly/Roses Stencil from Premium Art Brand and worked a bit on the background, the other half of my background was made with the Leaves stencil from Dutch Doobadoo. When everything was dry I was thinking about what colour I wanted to use. I really love the Metallic PanPastels, when applied and sprayed with water it gives such a very nice colour to the Roses. The leaves were colored the same way with the Lighter brown Metallic Colour. Everything was covered with the White Coarse PanPastel. The last layer on my background is Crackle, I love butterflies and was certainly going to use a lot of butterflies for this canvas. They were also colored with a waterpen and Metallic PanPastels. To seal the PanPastels I sprayed mixed Iridescent Paste with Water in my waterbottle. Last but not least I have placed a sentiment.

The products that I have worked with are:

Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Metallic PanPastel Set	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Copper Panpastel
Maimeri Light modelling paste	Gesso	Iridescent Paste	Mask Stencil A4 Butterfly

I hope you're going to play along with our challenge, you have two weeks to enter and if your mojo is missing we'll be back next week with lots more inspiration from the DT and of course we'll be announcing the winner and Top 3 from our last challenge too.

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