Challenge 8 FRAME IT (1 week challenge)

Good morning, Sunday again so here we are with a brand new challenge to inspire you!

As always our DT have created some amazing projects using all sorts of gorgeous goodies from Your Creativity Store but before you check out the new challenge, its time to announce the winners of challenge 7. As chosen by Random.org, our lucky winner is (drum roll please lol) .........

1. Debs M from Ribbon Dreams

Congratulations hun, email us to claim your prize and then sit back and wait for postie!

Now on to our Top 3, a difficult decision as always but our DT were up to the task and without any further ado, congratulations to 

5. Samantha Wade

12. Jackie Wallace

16. Katharina Wikholm

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

So on to  our new challenge and this week our theme is 

" Frame it "

although our challenges are now fortnightly, this is a 1 week challenge and no its not to confuse you, its because we've got something very exciting coming up so we needed to tweak the challenges a little bit so keep popping back to see what we've got up our sleeves!

Claire  I've used an mdf blank which had gone totally wrong and smothered it in Maimeri Light Modelling Paste, adding texture with a palette knife for my frame. Once it was dry I added colour with PanPastels (Raw Umber, Neutral Grey and white) and sealed with Maimeri Matte Gel. The image has also been coloured wih PanPastels, the fence was added using a White Graph'It Shake pen, full details are on my blog

Tracy - Hello sweet friends, I had so much fun creating and framing my art this week using Pan Pastels, Mediums and a Stencil Mask. First I created a little mixed media art . . .

. . . before turning my attention to the wooden frame . . . 

. . . applying touches of Metallic Light Gold, Pathalo Blue Shade and Titanium White Pan Pastels to blend it all together. More Pictures on my blog here. xx


 Terry Hey there guys, I had loads of fun with the Springfeel colours, used Gesso and Light Modelling Paste and a Stencil Mask on the background , PanPastels offcourse and butterflies from the wendy and her sentiment cause butterflies are fragile....More detaills on my blog......

Lou: I have made a traditional frame using dies to house my sentiment (new designs created by Nikky for PCB). I have created my background using a mixture of distress inks, pan pastels and stamped images .... however all my images have been coloured/painted using pan pastels!

The added embellishments are from Doobadoo paper cuts - buttons, feathers, swirls and butterflies. I have highlighted my flowers and leaves using a GraphIt white shaker pen. Full details of my project can be found on my blog and I would love it if you popped over to say "hi".

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You have until  Saturday 8th March to enter the challenge so you have LOADS of time and the winner will win a super stash of Premium Crafts goodies including Pan Pastels, Mediums, Masks and who knows what else! The winner will be announced on Sunday 9th March.

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 everyone3. 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.

And remember - our Top 3 is eligible for the running to be offered a place as a forthcoming Guest designer too!

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Wk 8 - Pan Pastel UK Challenge...Use a stencil

Good morning folks! 

Oh my goodness its such an exciting time here at Premium Craft Brands with lots of new products coming and and some changes too. 
First of all, the challenge is now fortnightly so you've got lots more time to enter. This means that our lovely DT ladies are going to have more time to share share some fab tutorials, tips and techniques to give you lots of inspiration to use your Premium Craft Brands products!!

So today we have some more inspiration for our Week 7 

Use a Stencil to make an embellie Challenge 

which closes at the end of this week. 

Click here to go to the challenge linky!

Before you check out the inspiration from our talented design team its time to announce the winner and Top 3 from challenge 6 so without any further ado, our winner (as chosen by Random.org) is 
22 Samantha Wade

wooo hoo congratulations Samantha, email us to claim your prize of gorgeous goodies from Premium Craft Brands!!

Goodness me you're such a talented bunch you don't make it easy to choose the Top 3 from such a beautiful array of artwork but our DT are up to the task and the Top 3 are

3 Shaz in Oz

8 Jackie Wallace

14 Angel North

Gorgeous work ladies, well done to you all and don't forget to grab your Top 3 Badge for your blogs.

So let's get to our extra inspiration for the Stencil Challenge! You have until Sunday 2nd March at noon GMT to enter and don't forget to Click here to go to the challenge linky!.....

Terry Hey there guys, so I had a hubby that was having his birthday and I did not know what to give him...so I thought of a large envelope and worked on it mixing three Pans, the green, lemon and blue pans. Stamped a Pilote image on top and lots of background sentiments. Then on top the DD stencil with the darker green pan. The Tag was made with a stencil, Light Modelling Paste and the mixed three colours Pans.

Claire  I've made a canvas using PanPastels, my favourite butterfly stencil and Maimeri Iridescent Paste. Guess what colours I used to make the purples on my canvas ......

Did you guess?? I used magenta and turquoise, adding a wee bit of magenta extra dark too!! Its so much fun to mix colours with PanPastels, they blend beautifully

The chipboard letters were coated with Maimeri iridescent Paste and sprinkled with silver PanPastel

and Glitter, I've also added a bit of crackle here and there for some texture

Tracy -Hi everyone, my inspiration for my little wood art today, came from pretty shades of blue Pan Pastels, touches of metallic Pan Pastels, lots of yummy Maimeri Mediums . . .

. . . along with a few new products,  Dutch Doobadoo Fabric Art Jeans and Art Masks.

 You can find all the information about how I put this together on my blog here. xoxo

Lou: I have used the pink mask stencil on my project with Maimeri Matt Gel, white acyrlic paint and soft gold metallic pan pastel.

I have highlighted all the sticker elements using the Glitter Shake GraphIt pens for an added "pop". The foam stickers were also covered in white acyrlic paint and then highlighted using a mixture of meatllic soft gold pan pastel and the Glitter Shaker pens.

Nikky...Last week I was busy making lots and lots of samples for the UK trade show at NEC and I made this as I was messing about playing...as you do...I am absolutely in love with the brand new range of Dutch Doobadoo products which Premium Craft Brands are now distributing in the UK and I cannot stop using them! I'm going stencil crazy but here I actually used the dot stencil over the top of one of the kraft hearts and also added some of the bricks from the brick stencil onto the little piece of denim at the top. I've had that watch face in my stash for years and not wanted to use it because it was too precious but I liked this enough to bring it out of the dark! 

Keep checking in to see the fab tutorials we've got to inspire you!! 

The DT have got some amazing ideas up their sleeves so you don't want to miss them.

Don't forget this is an inspiration post, you can find the linky for the challenge here and you have until Sunday 2nd March at noon to enter and win some lovely goodies! 

Click here to go to the challenge linky!