Saturday, 30 June 2012

Challenge 24 Winner

The winner of Challenge 24 is entry number 82 - Princess Melus.



Congratulations, please email me within the next 7 days to claim your prize.  Your winning entry will be placed on our wall of fame.

Thank you to everyone who entered this week, the response was brilliant as always.

A special thank you to Ali Reeve for her guest design spot.

Our next challenge begins at 8.00 am Sunday so please come and join in.

Enjoy your weekend, and if your in the UK, I hope the weather is kind to you.

Pete
Blog Administrator
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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Challenge 24 - Anything Goes

Always a very popular theme, Anything Goes means just that, any theme, material etc. The worlds your oyster.

Please ensure that your entry has the following:
  • Your entry is linked to a post on your Blog (not to your Blog home page)
  • You link your entry back to our Challenge Blog (please refer to our How To Link page)

We are lucky enough to have the hugely talented Ali Reeve join us again this week as our Guest Designer, and as always, she has worked her magic to produce this lovely card.


Hi, I have been putting Pan Pastels through their paces recently, from water colouring to mixing with embossing and loving the effects.  But I choose this card as my anything goes because I love the effect. So the recipe for this one is as follows. Place your mask onto some dark card (dust your card with talc or an anti-static bag), ink through with versamark or perfect medium, remove the mask and sprinkle on white embossing powder. Tip off the excess and heat set, for a glossy finish heat from behind, for more texture heat from the front (I heated from the front!), allow it to cool. Now grab your pastels and sponges, and just apply the pastels over the embossing, really work it in, applying different colours to different areas. The pastels really make the design pop!


When our Design Team knew it was Anything Goes week...I think there was some extra creativity bursting to get out.














Please fully read our Challenge Blog rules before posting our entry.

1. Kathyk  32. Brenda  63. Pauline  
2. Maria Engelwinge  33. Desire Fourie  64. JorunnB  
3. Sue C  34. Caz W  65. kbrandy4  
4. Ruthie Lopez  35. Debbie S  66. Laurie  
5. Kalindi  36. Suze Bain  67. Peggy R  
6. Kym's Crafty Cards  37. Debbie S  68. Joanie  
7. Margreet  38. Lisa s  69. Mary C  
8. Melissa SunshineHoneyBee  39. alethea  70. Laura  
9. inkypinkycraft  40. Chris  71. Linda Simpson  
10. sam21ski  41. Lawren F  72. wynneth  
11. Luanne (Sisters Craft Cafe)  42. idontdostraight  73. sallysbitz  
12. Sarah-Stressedstamper  43. Deonna B  74. Hazel  
13. Yogi  44. Crafty and Green  75. Ellie Knol  
14. Diane W  45. Elaine  76. Bo  
15. Julie B.x  46. KIM  77. Happy Days  
16. Sande  47. Scatty Jan  78. Zoe Russell  
17. Maria  48. Katie Tate  79. Lorraine A  
18. HeidiD  49. MichelleJM  80. chanelle  
19. ScrappinwithZ  50. Catherine  81. Alyna  
20. Katherine S  51. Penni  82. Donemark  
21. Evil Edna  52. Jolanda  83. Mel (Princess Melus Crafts)  
22. Beth P  53. MJ  84. Kim Kutie  
23. Sue The Iron  54. Jen Leeflang  85. NanaConnie  
24. Pearl  55. Julie J  86. Tracy MacDonald  
25. Vivi Casale  56. Elena C  87. carlyann  
26. dawn louise  57. Shelly Schmidt  88. pinky  
27. AUNTY SUE  58. Hazel H  89. Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)  
28. Message Keeper  59. Craftin Suzie  90. chanelle  
29. sandeeNC  60. Doreen O  91. Lyla (10 years)  
30. Nikki C  61. craft room julia  92. LittleSunday  
31. Dawn Lancaster  62. Mervi  

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Thank you for joining us.  Have a good week.

Pete
Blog Administrator
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Saturday, 23 June 2012

Challenge 23 Winner

The winner of our Challenge 23 Summertime theme is entry number 18 - Avril B.



Your winning entry will be placed on our Wall Of Fame.

Congratulations Avril.  Please email me your details withing the next 7 days to claim your prize - panpasteluk@gmail.com

A big thank you to all our entrants, including those who had to be omitted as they did not link or meet the theme.  The standard is increasingly excellent all round.

Our next challenge is live at 8.00 am on Sunday, so please join us again.

Sunday 24th June, Ali Reeve joins us again as our guest designer, which is always worth a visit.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Take care.

Pete
Blog Administrator
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Sunday, 17 June 2012

Challenge 23 - Summertime

Summertime is usually when we have lots of lovely hot sunny weather, (wishful thinking here in the UK at the moment), so we'd like you to give us your interpretation of what encompasses 'Summertime' for you.

Our design team have come up with some superb inspirational ideas:




















Please carefully read our challenge rules before posting your entry.

Thank you.

1. Linda Simpson  17. Crafty and Green  33. Zoe Russell  
2. sam21ski  18. GinaA  34. JoanW  
3. kyms karls  19. Avril B  35. alethea  
4. kraftyk  20. Kate  36. Lisa s  
5. chanelle  21. Ellie Knol  37. Lorraine A  
6. Elaine  22. Brenda  38. Sonia  
7. Papersniffer  23. Paula Ponton (PEP)  39. Hazel  
8. Anne Lise  24. Shelly Schmidt  40. Katie Tate  
9. JorunnB  25. Craftin Suzie  41. Frea  
10. Ingrid  26. pinky  42. chanelle  
11. Janine B  27. Catherine  43. Rachel Fisher  
12. Fliss  28. Shar B  44. Rebecca  
13. MichelleJM  29. sandeeNC  45. michelle  
14. Deonna B  30. Jenn Zeeb  46. Sue The Iron  
15. Arabella  31. Caroline E  47. Caz W  
16. NancyD  32. Melissa SunshineHoneyBee  

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Saturday, 16 June 2012

Challenge 22 Winner

Congratulations to our winner this week - entry number 16 Zehra.


Your winning entry will be placed on our Wall Of Fame.

Please email me within the next 7 days to claim your prize:  panpasteluk@gmail.com

Thank you everyone for entering this week.

Our new challenge will be live at 8.00 a.m on Sunday so please come and join us.

Have a good weekend.


Pete
Blog Administrator
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Sunday, 10 June 2012

Challenge 22 - Boys/Fathers Day

Sunday 17th June is Father's Day here in the UK, so to head towards that special day, we thought we'd give you the opportunity to show us your designs.

Unfortunately, some of us have lost our dear Father's so we have accommodated for that by adding a 'Boys' aspect to the same challenge.  This hopefully gives everyone a lot of scope to think of a male orientated card.

Our newly extended design team are spot on again and as we can see from the following inspirational projects, the ideas can be wide and varied.
















Please ensure that you fully read and understand our Challenge Rules before posting your entry.  Essentially:

1 - Your entry must link to the relevant post, not a main Blog page.

2. Your entry must follow the theme of the current Challenge.

3. Your Blog post must backlink to our Challenge Blog.

Please see our 'How To Link' page if you require help.

Thank you.

1. sam21ski  21. Tracy MacDonald  41. Riti Banka Poddar  
2. Dawn Lancaster  22. Janis  42. Tine  
3. Starcyl  23. Anita kejriwal  43. Vivi Casale  
4. inkypinkycraft  24. Maggie  44. Vickie  
5. Sandie  25. Julie J  45. Pauline  
6. Chris  26. Janine B  46. Ciska  
7. Paula  27. Jen Leeflang  47. Maria B.  
8. Mags  28. JoanW  48. Rhonda  
9. huny  29. cindy groh  49. Judith  
10. Tip Top  30. Rachel Fisher  50. Craftin Suzie  
11. Yogi  31. Marc Ortiz  51. kbrandy4  
12. aunty sue  32. K of CardTimes  52. carlyann  
13. Fliss  33. JorunnB  53. judit  
14. Lawren F  34. Margreet  54. pinky  
15. Livert  35. Deonna B  55. Karen @ stampinginpink  
16. Zehra  36. Donemark  56. Didos  
17. Melissa SunshineHoneyBee  37. Maria Matter  57. jane middleton  
18. NikkiByrne  38. Laura  58. Beryl T  
19. Davi  39. Kim T  
20. JoanieMc  40. WOO  

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Saturday, 9 June 2012

Challenge 21 Winner

The winner of this weeks challenge is entry number 21 - BlackDragon. Your winning entry will be posted on our Wall Of Fame.



Congratulations - please email me within the next 7 days at panpasteluk@gmail.com to claim your prize.

A massive thank you to Ali Reeve for her amazing guest design spot project, brilliance!

Thank you to all our entrants, unfortunately again a couple had to be deleted as they did not adhere to the theme or were not linked correctly.  Please fully read our rules of entry and refer to our How To Link page.

We hope to see everyone back tomorrow for our newest challenge.

Enjoy your weekend.

Pete
Blog Administrator
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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Challenge 21 - Something Vintage

We have a double treat for you this week.

This week for our Something Vintage theme, we are honoured to welcome back the very gifted Ali Reeve who, as always, has used her brilliant imagination to produce this truly fantastic piece.  The recipe is pure magic.


Ali's Recipe
To acheive this aged vintage look, I took a lovely foliage stamp, inked and stamped with perfect medium and then brushed a dark green Pan Pastel over the image, this picked up all the detail and distressed the back ground a little. I then set this with some pastel fixative as I needed to ink all over the top with Perfect medium and did not want to spoil the lovely detail. After inking all over the image I applied Ultra Thick embossing powder, heat set and then repeated for 2-3 layers, so I had a nice smooth glazed covering. I then popped the glazed image in the freezer for 10 mins. This make the glazing go brittle and allows you to bend and crack the embossing to give it that aged look. This was then matted and layered on to the card. The final touch came from using the Pan Pastels to create my own vintage washi tape. I took a length of masking tape, stuck it to an old plastic bag, so I could work on it with out removing any of the stickiness. I then stamped the same image as the topper, along the masking tape in Perfect medium, again brushed on the Pan Pastels (using the same colours to ensure it all tones beautifully) working the pastels in well so they highlight the texture of the masking tape. I then tore the tape in to smaller pieces and applied the fixative spray again, as the nature of masking tape does mean if not fixed the design will rub off over time (remember to tear first as the fixative spray makes the tape harder to tear!) I then applied the tape as accents on the card as a nice alternative to ribbon.  

A huge warm welcome to our latest DT member - Amy Shaw

We are pleased to welcome our newest DT member, the talened and popular Amy Shaw.  You can read Amy's profile on our Meet Our Design Team Members page.  Here is Amy's first beautiful DT project using PanPastel's


Of course, our ever talented resident DT members have pulled out all the stops to bring their usual extremely high level of excellence.





Gillian





Please ensure that you read and understand our Challenge Blog rules before posting your entry.  Thank you.

1. Anesha  12. Karen @ stamping in pink  23. Dee  
2. Didos  13. Diane W  24. Beryl T  
3. Viv  14. Dawn Lancaster  25. H  
4. Anne Bente  15. vanessa  26. Chris  
5. Valerie-Jael  16. Sande  27. Lea L.  
6. Rachel Fisher  17. Claire  28. JorunnB  
7. MsPlum  18. Ruthie Lopez (Card #1)  29. JoanW  
8. sam21ski  19. miria  30. irit  
9. Cathy(Kraftykoolkat)  20. Calypso  31. D  
10. Shar B  21. blackdragon  32. Elaine LP  
11. Gini Cagle  22. Silvia/Barnie  

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Saturday, 2 June 2012

Challenge 20 Winner

The winner of Challenge 20 is entry number 4 - Kate.



Congratulations Kate, your winning entry will be placed on our Wall Of Fame.

Please email me within the next 7 days to claim your prize to:  panpasteluk@gmail.com

Thank you to all our entrants, regrettably we had to delete a couple that did not adhere tot he challenge rules. However, all the entries were truly stunning.

Join us tomorrow for our guest designer Ali Reeve and also Amy Shaw joins us as a resident DT member.

Enjoy your extended weekend.

Regards


Pete
Blog Administrator
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