More inspiration and winners announcement!

Good morning, we're back with lots of inspiration for you again this week. If you're here to add your entry to the challenge just click here to go to the linky. As always our DT have been working their magic and have created some awesome projects but before we check them out its time to announce the winner and Top 3 from challenge 27. A massive thank you to everyone who played along, we had some stunning entries!!

The lucky winner, as chosen by Random.org is

34. Craftyfield

Congratulations!! Email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and your winners code (which is PPRW27001) and we'll have your prize winging its way to you ASAP.

Now this time around top 3 honours go to:

15. Dawn Louise

20. Kim Costello

42. Bev

Yvonne - this week I have an MDF clock which I made for my craft room.  Love the ombré effect you can achieve very easily with PanPastels.

                                    

                                

Permanent Red

Orange

hansa yellow

White PanPastel

PanPastel Light Gold Metallic

Terry, for this weeks inspiration I made a Notebook, yep the vintagy way....so that's my way lol...I worked on the background with Gesso, When it was dry I colored it with the Pearlescent Orangy PanPastel. Than I placed the Roses Stencil from DD on top of the Notebook and played with Light Modelling Paste. I dried it with the Heattool, took me way to long to wait untill it was dry, so heattool on it and I chose the Metallic brown PanPastel to color the roses a bit to make it look even more vintagy. Another Layer of Pearlescent PanPastel. Than I started decorating the Notebook, I love vintagy so I chose a Vintage girl image, Underneith the image I worked with lace and I placed some Sweetheart Blossoms. I colored them with Iridescent Paste and glued them on the Notebook. And last but not least I wrapped a piece of rope around the Notebook and wanted to place one word on it. And a little butterfly to finish my project for this weeks inspiration. You want to see more pictures, come on over to my blog by clicking on my  name.

Gesso	Maimeri Light modelling paste	Pearlescent Pan Pastels	Pan Pastel pearlescent orange	Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent
White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Metallic PanPastel Set

Claire C I've made a little box on a stand using Stampbord and my PanPastels this week. Stampbord is really sturdy so its great for making boxes, I just used strong PVA glue to stick the decorated Stampbord squares together to create this. The Stampbord tools are perfect for creating highlights on your projects.

Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel	PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Ultramarine Blue Tint	Premium Art Brands Roses stamp set	Premium Art Brands STOP stamp set
Pan Pastel bright yellow green shade	Graphit	Stampbord assorted squares	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Stampbord Scraper Tools

Katie I have made a mixed media card by using Magenta and Blue Pan Pastels to create a textured background.

I first blended Magenta with a little Blue and used it to colour the blank card base before applying a stencil. I then rubbed more of the Pastels over the stencil.

The image is coloured with Sepia and gold inks to create a metallic look

I then added the layers and placed the image over the top

Click here to go to the challenge post and add your project to the linky!

We'll be back next week with a fun new challenge .

Challenge 2 ...Anything Goes Crafting with Mixed Media at We Love 2 Create Pan Pastels challenge

Good morning crafty friends and a big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, we'll be announcing the lucky winner and Top 3 next Sunday but today we've got a new challenge for you. 

You don't have to use PanPastels to play along and our lucky winner will receive some fabulous crafty goodies from the lovely people at Premium Craft Brands

As always we like to keep the challenge easy and simple for you all so you can all enter so it is

Anything Goes

and you have until Sun 31st Jan to enter, just add your entry to Mr Linky - please follow the challenge rules at the top of the page.

So let's see what inspiration we have for you this week...

Nikky....Today I'm sharing a make I made a while back - now I'd love to say I finished this but the truth is it is still in this same, original state! ie about 15% done! To explain, this is one of my colouring pages from the Colour Therapy 1 Collection. I sent this off to a specialist printer online and had it printed off as a GIFREAKINGANTIC A1 poster (this only cost me about £13 which I thought was a bargain)...

AND then I decided to colour it in with my Pan Pastels. I LOVE the result! The paper is heavy but quite shiny and smooth because it's a poster print - I was a little worried the pastel would just dust right off but it seems to love this paper - so vibrant!

I used my Sofftt Tools to colour this - they're just the right size to get in the details with it being a large piece, and enabled me to get some lovely smooth swishes of colour down nicely...to give you some perspective on the size those leaves are about 5 or 6 inches long and the flowers are about 3 or 4 inches wide LOL...

I'd love to say that there was a whole lot of artisticness gone into this but I must confess I just let the paper and the pastel do the work here really... What I really adore about pastels is the ability they just seem to have to mix themselves which makes really unique colours...I'm so lazy I dont really worry about colour contamination because you actually CANT contaminate the pans anyway, so I just work away with one or two tools and just let it happen. It seems to give a real depth to your colour when you work this way.

This poster is so huge I really want it to go on my Living Room wall but I do need to find time to work on it some more yet. If I had space I'd mount it on the wall and have it as a WIP and work on it every time I passed but that is never gonna happen in this shoebox of a house!

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Katie here with a colourful journal page to share. I started off by applying bands of Magenta, Turquoise and red across the page. I then blended them in and added a bit of yellow over the red to create a sunset effect.

I stamped over the page with texture stamps and the new Papermania Geometric set and then sealed the page off with gel medium.

I love how the colours have melted together.

Products and links:

PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit

Diarylide Yellow PanPastel

Magenta pan pastel

Perm Red Pan Pastel

Phtalo Blue Pan Pastel

Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel

So we'll be back next week with more inspiration for you - so just add your entry to Mr Linky below!

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Challenge 27 inspiration and winners announcement!!

Good morning crafty friends! Winter seems to be arriving here in the UK so its perfect weather to keep warm in your craft room and play along with our 

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

challenge, you can link up your project here

You don't have to use PanPastels to play along and our lucky winner will receive some fabulous crafty goodies from the lovely people at Premium Craft Brands

Before we check out the inspiration from our talented DT its time to announce the winners from Challenge 26!  A big thank you to everyone who entered, we had some really beautiful entries!  There can only be one winner though and  Random.org has picked out

12. April W

Woo hoo!! Congratulations hun, please email us (details in sidebar) quoting your winners code which is PPWK026001 and your snail mail details and we'll get your prize in the post to you asap!

Top 3 honours this time go to

2. Julie Lavalette

9. Jane's Journal

18. Kezzy

Congratulations ladies, your project were amazing! Don't forget to pick up your Top 3 badges for your blogs!

Now let's see what the DT have been busy with this week

Yvonne - Today I have a piece which is very different from my normal style.  I started out with an idea but wasn't sure where it would take me - great fun!!  I started by stamping lots of different stamps in different colours before covering with different colours of panpastels.  I then used embossing powder and versamark to stamp two large open flowers.  I then erased the Panpastels from the inside of these flowers, highlighted around the outside edge and then finished the outer edges of the flowers differently.  My reason for making the background this way was because I wanted the stamping to show through the petals of the flowers.

The first flower I edged in black Wink of Stella and dotted with a white pen, I then coloured the inside of the flower.

The second flower I just edged with the white pen to give a different look.

The word "Original" is a Tim Holtz rub on which I think finishes the piece off well.

There are step by step photos over on my blog if you'd like to take a peep at the process I used.

orange shade

Magenta shade

Permanent Red

Phthalo Green Shade

Claire C I've used my PanPastels with my Twinkling H2O paints to create this project, I've blended my pans to create the background on a canvas board and then on a Stampbord panel that I made using an assortment of smaller stampbord pieces and added some detail with the H2Os. I love the contrast between the velvety matte finish of the Pans with the shimmer of the paints

Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel	Bright Yellow Green Shade	PanPastel Turquoise Shade	Turquoise Pan Pastel	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit
Stampbord Assorted sizes

We'll be back next week with another fun challenge so don't forget to pop back!

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Challenge 27 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafty friends and welcome to a brand new challenge here at We Love 2  Create!! We'd all like to say

 Happy New Year

 to you all and a big thank you for supporting our challenge, we've got lots of exciting plans for 2016 so there's loads more good stuff to come!! We'd  also like to say 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!!

As always our very talented DT have been working their magic to create lots of inspiration for you so let's check out their amazing project!!

Tracy Scott - happy new year beautiful creative people. Thrilled to be here today with my project. I'm loving using up all my scraps of papers, old tags, clothing tags, flash cards etc at the moment and have found that combining them with acrylic paints and PanPastels lets me create the most fabulous 'crazy towns'

Claire C Christmas is a lovely time but its a bit hectic so I've enjoyed a little peace and quiet in my craft room playing with my Pans and Stampbord to create this project using some of my favourite Premium Craft Brands stamps and lots of scratching with the fab Stampbord Scraper Tools. One of the fun things about stampbord is that no matter how dark the colour, you can add highlights and texture with these tools. It can be a bit scary to start off with but just go for it!! Another easy technique with Pans and Stampbord is to stamp with versamark to lift colour off the surface, that's how I created the dandelions and swirls on this project.

Stampbord ATCs	Stampbord Scraper Tools	Postcard A5 stampset	Premium Art Brands STOP stamp set	Phthalo Blue Shade
Black COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	PanPastel - Sofft Tools Kit	Metallic PanPastel Set

Terry: Happy New Year guys and hopefully you will have a FANTABULOUS CREATIVE YEAR....this is what I made...yep my Last Christmas Jars made for your inspiration. I worked on the background with Jute and Lace....on top of the Jar I placed some lace and snow. What I did next was color a few wooden stars with first Gesso, White Coarse and White PanPastel. The borders were colored with Metallic PanPastel. |The Wooden Star was stamped with a Christmas Sentiment and finished with Iridescent Paste. Than I got myself a string of rope and placed a brons bell on it. I did the same with the smaller Jar. Last but not least a few small stars above the big one and my Jars were finished. 

Some of the products that I worked with: 

Iridescent Paste

White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels

White Fine Pearl Medium for Pan Pastels

Metallic PanPastel Set

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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. 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  16th January  and the winner and top 3 will be announced on Sunday  24th January!

We'll be back next week though with lots more inspiration and we'll be announcing the winner and Top 3 from our last challenge too so don't forget to pop back

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