Challenge 23 - 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!!

Before we check out what our DT have been creating this week, we'd better announce our lucky winner from Challenge 22. This time around, Random.org has chosen

3. Aunty Sue

Congratulations hun, email us (details in sidebar) with your winners code (PPWK002301) and snail mail address and your prize will soon be winging its way to you!

As always it was a difficult task for our DT to choose their Top 3 but this time around, the honours go to

8. Linda Simpson

22. aNNie Aussie

29 Suzanne

Congratulations ladies, your projects were awesome!! Don't forget to grab your Top 3 badge from the sidebar.

Now what have our lovely DT been busy with this week. as always they've created some stunning projects to inspire you

Tracy Evans - Still in love with those Autumnal shades this week, combining paints and PanPastels to create a mixed media backdrop!

Permanent Red

Orange

Soft Tools

Pan Pastel - Magenta

Claire C I've created a quick and easy winter scene using my PanPastels, love love love the pearl mediums, they give such a pretty sparkle!! You can find all the details on my blog

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue

Black fine Pearl

White Fine Pearl Medium for Pan Pastels

Silver Metallic PanPastel

Neutral Grey Pan Pastel

Terry: I have made another candlebox where 3 candles fit inside. I worked on the background with Gesso as a first layer, PanPastels as a second layer and Light Modelling Paste with the DD stencil stars to create a Christmassy background. The stars are colored with the Blue Pearlescent PanPastel and the top layer Iridescent Paste. To decorate a vintagy Christmas image and some lace to finish my project for the inspiration week. 

The products that I have worked with are:

Gesso	Maimeri Light modelling paste	Stars Stencil Dutch Doobadoo	Pearlescent Blue	Pearlescent Pan Pastels
Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels

Beautiful projects girls, hopefully we've inspired you to play along!

Just Click HERE to go to the linky for the challenge
We'll be back next week with another fun challenge, see you then

Challenge 23 Anything Creative/Mixed media goes

Good morning crafters 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 as always 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 #22 will be announced next week, so check back to see if it's you!

Our talented DT have been busy bees making some wonderful projects to inspire you:

Tracy Evans - A fun bright piece from me this week combining paints with the very versatile PanPastels.

Soft Tools	PanPastel Turquoise Shade	Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Permanent Red	Orange
PanPastel Phthalo Green

Yvonne - A birthday card for a friend who reaches 50 years old this weekend.  Details on my blog.

                                    

Black	Orange	Permanent Red	Phthalo Blue Shade	Turquoise
hansa yellow

Claire C I've used lots of Autumnal shades of PanPastels to decorate this texture paste bowl and made a matching gift tag, you can find all the details on my blog

Raw Umber PanPastel	Burnt sienna shade	Diarylide Yellow Shade	Permanent Red Shade	Copper Panpastel
Rich Gold - Metallic Pan Pastel	Light Gold PanPastel	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	White Blending Mop Brush

Terry: Had fun making a Box for candles. It is a present for Christmas. Worked with lots of gesso for the first layer, Pearlescent and PanPastels were used for coloring of the background. Light Modelling Paste to work on the Stars Stencil and last layer was Iridescent Paste. This time I placed the Iridescent Paste into the Spraybottle, mixed it with water and sprayed it onto my project. Last but not least I placed a Picture of a vintagy girl. And for decorations I placed snowballs lace around my candlebox.

Pearlescent red	Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Pearlescent Colours & Mediums Palette set of 10	Gesso
Iridescent Paste	Maimeri Light modelling paste	Stars Stencil Dutch Doobadoo

Lou: I decided to do a bit of upcycling to create a secret drawer project making the background from plain white card and colouring with my pan pastels and different mediums. More details are on my blog ...

Products and used:

White PanPastel	Violet Pan Pastel	Magenta Shade Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel pearlescent yellow	Hansa Yellow Pan Pastel
PanPastel - Exploring Mixed Media Set #2	Maimeri Gloss Gel	Premium Art Brands 12" stencils - Dots with edges

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You've got two whole weeks to enter your project but don't forget to pop back next week when we'll be announcing the winner and Top3 from our last challenge

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