Scrap 365 blog hop & Pan Pastel challenge...AWASH WITH COLOUR....

Hi everyone - we're here and it's Saturday!...

Hello and welcome to the Scrap365 and Pan Pastels 

Back to Basics Blog Hop...

Awash With Colour!

We have changed our challenge day for this week (so there'll be no post tomorrow) and have been playing along with the designers from Scrap365 magazine and sharing our love of Pan Pastels to show you all that colour is nothing to be scared of :) especially when it comes to scrapbooking but for all your projects, whether it's home decor, grungey distressed looks or even cardmaking - when it comes to colour just go for it!
Premium Craft Brands have donated a fantastic set of Donna Downey Pan Pastels for the lucky winner of our Blog Hop prize draw :)

To take part in the blog hop you need to follow the trail of our blogs to see all the amazing creations from everyone - we have some wonderful layouts and projects for you which will blow you away! Make sure you visit each blog and leave a comment so we know you've visited and you will go in the draw for that wonderful set of Donna Downey Pan Pastels which is worth £41.95!!! 

The random winner will be chosen from all the comments by Ali from Scrap365 and will be announced 20th March at 5pm on the Scrap365 blog and here.

The Scrap 365 team challenged the Pan Pastel team to go Awash with colour by asking us all to choose a specific colour palette which we then had to follow....the results are amazing! 

So, now you need to click on the link here and go to the Scrap365 blog and Ali's post HERE 

and then follow the list (it doesn't matter which order you visit us) - we would love you to please leave a little comment on each of the team blogs and then go back to the Scrap365 blog to let us know you've hopped - we will also give an extra little prize away to someone who leaves a comment on this page but we will check you've done that hop so don't be naughty now! ; ) 

Just to give you a little tease here is some lushness to whet your appetite, look at the colours on this! 

And here is what Nikky has for you....

Here is the list you need to follow just in case you get lost:

Scrap365 and Ali's post - HERE! .....http://scrap365.blogspot.com/
Nikky Hall - http://nikkyhall.com/
Riikka Kovasin - http://paperiliitin.blogspot.co.uk/
Lou Sims - http://lulucardmaking.blogspot.com/
Sandra Przbylska - http://sandrap2206.blogspot.co.uk/
Tracy Easson -  http://queeniesscrapmad.blogspot.co.uk/
Lisa Saunders - http://scrappyfairies.blogspot.co.uk/
Terry Wietsma-Girbes - http://cardscreativity.blogspot.com/
Tracee Provis - http://stresstickled.blogspot.co.uk/
Claire Chapman - http://clairescraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk/
Natalie Macdonald - http://njmacs.blogspot.co.uk/
Then you must RETURN to Scrap365 to leave a comment for the prize draw :) - http://scrap365.blogspot.com/

We do hope you have some fun and get some inspiration from both the teams - they really are superb! We'll see you back here next week for more Challenge fun! 

Don't forget there's also still time to enter our last challenge for Week 9 too you have until 22nd March to enter.

The random winner of our week 8 challenge FRAME IT is
#10 Hazel (Kbrandy) - well done!! 
Email us here to claim your prize!

and the DT's favourite Top 3 are:

#9 Butterflies #25 Sue the Iron and #20 Yvonne
Well done all of you and thanks so much for entering - all the entries were stunning but the DT especially loved your work this week : ) 

If you're not into doing the blog hop and are disappointed we don't have a Pan Pastel challenge for you this week, never fear! ....

We also challenge you to go

Awash with Colour

Do the same as we did on the hop - go pick a colour palette with at least 6 colours in it and show us what you can do - it's an open Pan Pastel challenge so no rules except the inspiration has to come from the palette you choose and you need to show us a pic for your inspiration next to your make on your blog. You can get some awesome inspiration from here http://design-seeds.com/index.php/search

You have until next Saturday 22nd March to enter this one as it's a little extra challenge we didn't have scheduled! Add your links below (this challenge has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BLOG HOP!)
Thanks for joining us this week and we hope you love the Blog Hop - we'll be back again next Sunday ready for a brand new challenge!

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Challenge 9 Pan Pastel Challenge . . . Use three textures

Good morning and welcome to our new challenge with lots of exciting inspiration from our talented DT ! While you're browsing you're bound to notice that a lot of our team are using some gorgeous goodies from Dutch Doobadoo on their projects. 

Dutch Doobadoo bring an amazing range of products including gorgeous masks, stencils and templates as well as beautiful laser cut paper art shapes and all sorts of other goodies. Premium Craft brands are proud to be bringing these wonderful products to you but they are so good they have their own challenge blog too, the first challenge started yesterday and there is a fab prize up for grabs so pop over and check out the new blog, We Do Doobadoo!! 

Right then back to business as its time to announce the lucky winner of challenge 8! Random.org has picked out number 7, that's you

Clare from Miscanthus Crafts

congratulations hun email us to claim your fabby prize of gorgeous Premium Craft Brands goodies! And now on to  our top 3, congratulations go to

6 Wiola

16 Yogi

20 Croms

Congratulations to you all, don't forget to pick up your Top 3 Badge for your blogs

Now on to our new challenge where we want to see

Three Textures

and as always our DT have created some amazing projects to inspire you

Terry Hey there guys, I had so much fun altering a simple box into a classy one, at least I think so....I used lots of Gesso, Light Modelling Paste on top of a fabulous Stencil from Dutch Doobadoo, even a bit of crackle and Irisidescent Paste to cover it all and to create the Texture on top of the box. And offcourse I have worked with the fabulous colours (psss my favourite colour) Magenta, Looks like purple and Magenta Tint, looks like lavender to me

Lots of roses and a few butterflies from DD, some lace on the hearts and a sentiment stamp to finish my project for this week. 

Tracy - Hello sweet friends, I have been doing so many layouts this week that I thought I would go with the flow and do one more for this weeks challenge.

I had so much fun using Maimeri Gesso, Light Modelling Paste through a Dutch Doobadoo Art Masks, adding Pan Pastels to tissue paper and . . . .

 . . .  a few stamps and stickers thrown in for good measure! More over on my blog here.

Lou: I have made a tag this week using the Doobadoo Fabric Art ( iron-on denim) as my base. I have lightly brushed the denim with silver pan pastel to create a soft sheen. I have used Haberdashery    stamp set from Studio 12 coloured with raw umber pan pastel and then embossed with clear detail powder. The background paper is from an old book which has been "antiqued" using raw omber pan pastel.

The gorgeous swirls, buttons and butterflies are from Dutch Doobadoo  and they have been lightly tinted with raw umber and white pan pastel.

Claire  I had loads of messy fun creating my project for the new challenge, creating different textures using Maimeri Iridescent Paste coloured with Gold and Copper PanPastels. I used a palette knife, a stamp and a Pronty stencil

 and then had a play with a texture tool around the side of my little book box. The butterfly is one of the gorgeous laser cuts from Dutch Doobadoo, love em! You can find all the details on my blog

Nikky....I am adoring the new Doobadoo products - they go so well with all the mediums and masks and - well, everything! It's a long time since I came across products which are so versatile in terms of the genre of crafts you can use them with...they're fab! I decided to make a simple tag this week.

I used Phthalo Green and a bit of Perm Red Pan Pastels to cover a white tag shape, then used the Faded dots Doobadoo mask, applied Versamark through it and then dusted over the top with metallic Pan Pastels. I cut a couple of strips of paper and stamped with Versamark again with the check background stamp and then coloured it with Perm Red again. I used a scroll stamp and stazon to stamp over the background and then just made a little embellie using the kraft heart and the laser cut wings which are just awesome. You can see all the products I used here.

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This challenge will run for two weeks so you have until  Saturday 22nd 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 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

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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