Challenge 16 Flora and Fauna

Welcome to another fabulous Pan Pastel Challenge!

We are really really excited today to announce a brand new team member to you - we have been stalking all her lovely makes for a while now and we just had to ask her to join us here when we saw how creative she is with her Pan Pastels! So were are really pleased to welcome the super talented 

Doreen

to the team - make sure you check out both Doreen's blog and the rest of the team too because these ladies are mega talented! 

Our theme for you this week is

Flora and Fauna

and obviously you can interpret this how you wish - it's a really great theme to use with Pan Pastels! 

You have until 29th June to enter and one Random Winner will be chosen to receive some gorgeous stash whilst the Design Team will also choose our favourite Top 3 (we are still looking for Guest Designers)....You DO NOT have to use ANY of our products to enter but obviously we'd love it if you did! 

Let's see what the team have made this week...

Anjie...I loved this theme, it can be interpreted in so many different ways.  I have used the 15 x 15cm Owl mask and the Orange - Pan Pastel and Violet - Pan Pastel through the mask and then outlined it with a fine black marker pen to make it pop. 

I then mixed the same pan pastels with the Maimeri Iridescent Paste and painted the flowers. Finally I added the little dots around the edge of the card to use the left over medium.

Doreen....Hello to you all, Well for my debut make here on the PanPastel team I have made a card that can be used for any purpose....

I have used PanPastels Phthalo Blue,Permanent Green, Permanent Red,Black and White for the background and light touch of black to define the hills. 

I used Black Versafine to stamp my images  and fussy cut the butterfly to add some dimension.

Nikky...I haven't been able to join in this challenge for ages but I really wanted to do this one because I wanted to make something for someone who's going through a really hard time at the mo and I think this will cheer her up.

I made this in about an hour and it was just made up with loads of bits and pieces I had hanging around...a 6" MDF heart and lots of Tattered flowers from Tim Holtz after I finally got this die about a month ago at a bargain price of £2! I coloured the centres of the flowers which were cut from an old book and used Permanent Red and Turquise, together with a bit of Burnt Sienna here and there. These 3 are my most used Pan Pastels, I think I probably use them every single time I craft - for me the Burnt Sienna has replaced ALL my distress inkpads and it goes everywhere with me for distressing edges. All the other embellies were hanging around on my desk - mainly all Dutch Doobadoo. You can see more about how I made this on my blog.

Claire  I've made a little canvas using the beautiful butterfly stencil from Premium Craft Brands, I've added lots of colour with PanPastels and then highlighted the butterfly with Maimeri Glassy Gel and microbeads, you can find all the deets on my blog

  

Terry, I was playing with some butterflies, I just love them and I wanted to give them a nice fresh and bright colour. So I mixed some panpastels together and this is what the color turned out to be. I played with the rosesstencil from DD and finished with Irisdescent Paste

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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!

Make sure you pop back next week when we will announce the winner of our last challenge and our talented DT will have more inspiration for you too!

The challenge will run until Saturday 28th June and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday 6th July

We'll be back next week with lots more inspiration from the DT and the winner and Top 3 from our 'One for the Boys ' challenge so don't forget to pop back next Sunday

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One for the boys inspiration plus winners

Good morning folks, its definitely perfect crafting weather here in the UK this weekend so why don't you make the most of it and join our One for the Boys Challenge??

If you're visiting to link up your project, just click here to go straight to the challenge

You've still got a whole week to enter to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands so what are you waiting for?? Oh I know, the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 14 lol.

Without any further ado, our lucky winner (chosen by Random.org)  is.........

2. Butterfly (Alison)

wooo hoo congratulations hun, email us quoting your winners code which is  PPWK1401

As always you didn't make it easy to choose the top 3, a big thank you to everyone who entered, there were so many amazing projects. So the Top 3, chosen by the DT are

10 Shirley
16. Doreen
25 Susanne

Well done ladies! Don't forget to pick up your Top 3 badges for your blogs!

So back to our 'One for the Boys' challenge, the DT have created some fabby projects to inspire you!

Anjie - To create my card I used the Roses A5 stamp set. You wouldn't think that a Roses stamp set would suit for a male card would you! For the background I stamped the large splat in a dark blue ink, and then the smaller splat with a lighter blue and a dark yellow. For the front stripe I used the 3 different clock faces and a set of clock hands in the same colours. I used the Phthalo Blue Shade - Pan Pastel to give a distressed look around the edges. I then added one of the sentiments to the front and some bakers twine.

Claire C I've made a canvas using Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and PanPastels in Raw Umber plus Shade, Burnt Sienna plus Shade creating lots of texture to give a wood effect and sealed with Maimeri Glossy Gel Medium. I've used Maimeri Acrylic Paints on the cogs.

 

Terry I was playing around with a heart wallhanger for the Boys, the background is worked on with light modelling paste, the roses stencil. The roses are colored with PanPastels that I mixed together. The wooden butterflies underneith are colored with Pans too. 

 

Lou: I too have used the Roses A5 stamp set. as adore all the elements of this sheet. I created my background using Diarylide Yellow Shade, Raw Umber, Hansa Yellow Tint and Rich Gold pan pastels. For my background, I have over stamped with the clock image using Mustard Seed distress ink. On the main image, I have stamped my images using black Adirondak ink pad. Hearts have been punched out from red card and layered. Also for a change, I have made a DL card!

        

I'm sure you'll agree the DT have created some fabulous projects to inspire you. You can find the linky for the challenge 

here

thanks for visiting, we'll be back next week with another fun challenge 

xx