Sunday 30 September 2018

Challenge #13, Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes at Love 2 Create Challenges

Welcome back to another challenge! 

As always, the theme this month is  
Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
You don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge.
The challenge closes 30th October so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.

PRIZE: $10 gift voucher 
from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org) - this voucher can be spent across the whole store, so you can use it on dies, stamps, papers, whatever you wish...make sure you check out their store below, they have lots of fab products including stamps, dies, papers, digis and much more...
http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/

Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT...


GDT Katrina  - Here's ULA Be a Mermaid in Swishy Tail mood!  This is a large bookmark for my planner.. you know, so I can mark those "swishy tail kind of days"! 
I started by adhering this adorable Polkadoodles ULA digi to a starfish die cut and cut it with my Cricut.  I then added some Copic coloring, gel marker to her tail and Liquid Glass to the shell.  I inked around the starfish and added some white gel pen to the smaller starfish.  I printed the sentiment onto the tag die cut from Polkadoodles Winston Collection and cut it with the Cricut, also.  
Now comes the messy fun!  I sprayed the tag with homemade mist.  I made this mist with ink, metallic paint and water.  I started with the light blue and then added green for the next layer of spray.  Next, I got out some Faber Castell Glass Bead Glitter Gel and applied it over a stencil.  I sprayed with the green again and then a light mist of Color Bloom Spray (Glistening Waves) by Prima.  
The sand was sort of an experiment.  I covered a sand die cut with Ranger Crackle Paste and sprinkled embossing powder over it.  I then heat set it.  I added a couple of layers to that.  I then applied some glitter glue and sprinkled some teal seed pearls over that.  Once dry, I adhered it to the bottom of the tag.
My net is a piece of wall repair tape.  I inked it and stretched it out of shape and adhered it.  I added some sparkles and twine/ribbon/cheesecloth to the top.


Jan For my project this time I made a tag, the background was made using Brusho's and Oxide inks, I also used a brick stencil and doodled around. 



Polkadoodles Goodies used
Daisy Friends Stamp Set

Jane - I have decorated a piece of grey board today using texture paste, stencils and metallic paint. I also added some of the fabulous Polkadoodles dies and this GORGEOUS Winnie stamp.

Polkadoodles Products Used

Julia Hi there, I have decorated a 8"v8" canvas using book paper, & watercolours to create a galaxy sky effect, I have then gone over it with heavy Gel Medium and some polkadoodles Stencils. I then highlighted the texture using gilding wax. Finally I added my unicorn from Octavia - Frosted Winter and blinged her up with some embellishments from my stash. If you would like to see the full process of how I created this you can find it here..


Accents Stencil



Terry: I have made my first Christmas card for your inspiration. I worked on the background with black acrylic paint, when it was dry I played with Purple, Blue and White Acrylic Paints. I have stamped the cute Robin Branch Stampset, this cute stamp comes with a Die set too did you know?? isn't it just fabulous....This time I used only the stampset. And the little stars that I embossed are from the Winter Flurries Stamp Set. The branch is from the Robin Branch Stampset too and I colored it with Pencils and after that I played with glitter frost. And last but not least I stamped the Season's Greetings and embossed it with white embossingpowder. 



The products that I worked with are:


 Cute Robin Branch Stampset and Die Cut set

 Winter Flurries Clearstamp set



And here is our NEW teamie, Corry's card. she will post herself in November but to make you curious what she makes, here is her first card.


Corry I want to show you my first card that I made for polkadoodles.
The background I made with distress ink and a mask .
At first I stamped the flowers on the background,
then I stamped another flower and cut it out of its paper.
I colored the flower with alcohol ink and placed it on the top on the stamping flower on the background.
The same thing I did with the butterfly. Then I stamped the little flowers and applied glitter accent.


Some of the products that I have used are:


WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 12
Thankyou everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to look at!


Our Random winner chosen by Random.org is:

#33 Veana R - Well done!



PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store.
  To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner' in the subject bar. Please include this claim code L2Cwk12001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES

#1 Alice
#13 Sara
#48 Margreet

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.
  Just in case you have missed any winners posts, previous winners, Top 3 and GDT's can be found on our 'Winners Page' at the top of the blog.


Just add your entry below in Mr Linky below!


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Sunday 2 September 2018

Challenge #12, Anything Creative/Mixed Media goes at Love 2 Create Challenges

Welcome back to another challenge! 

As always, the theme this month is  
Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
You don't have to use Polkadoodles products to enter the challenge.
The challenge closes 26/9/18 so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher 
from Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org) - this voucher can be spent across the whole store, so you can use it on dies, stamps, papers, whatever you wish...make sure you check out their store below, they have lots of fab products...
http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/

Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT...


Katrina GDT This is ULA ~ Don't Listen-Life Journal!  You can find her here
These images and sentiments are perfect for journaling.  I was inspired to use this in my faith journal with the twist of holding your tongue ~ something I sometimes have an issue doing!  I tend to open my mouth when it really should stay closed! 
ULA has eight other moods you can check out over at Polkadoodles ~ here

Julia Another Journal Page from me this month. I created the background just dragging some distress inks down the page. I added some details with stencils and stamping, I used some elements from the fabulous Posy Doodle collection to be a feature, finally I highlighted some of the elements on my page using the transparent Nuvo drops .. full details on my Blog:
Polkadoodles Image: ULA Don't Listen
Polkadoodles Paper:  Octavia

Accents Stencil


Jan I have been playing with one of my mini Pink Pig books , and this is page 1. Hastings beach
The sun was most definatly shining the day we visited. I have used Distress inks on the background, and then used lots of Polkadoodles Stamps and Stencils, Lots more details and photos can be found on my blog
Polkadoodle Goodies
Oceania Stamp Set
Starfish & Sancastles

Gemma I loved experimenting on this canvas board, I used Nikky's wonderful stamps to decorate and create my focal images, but I mixed them with tester pots of paint from my local DIY store because I really liked the colours next to each other on the wall. Pop over to my blog for more details on how I painted this canvas.



Jane - My MDF plaque is decorated with one of the amazing Polkadoodles stencils and clear stamp sets, with texture paste, metallic paints, waxes and mica flakes! Phew!! More detail and pictures on my blog.
Gorgeous Polkadoodles Products
Terry: I have worked on a card for you for this months challenge, I played with waterpaints in the background. This time I decided to go for blue's. I worked with the sentiments stamp and all sorts of tiny background stamps from Polkadoodles amazing clearstamp sets. The butterfly is colored with waterpaints also stamped on the background. Than I stamped another set of butterflies and glued it onto the stamped butterfly. Last but not least I stamped the sentiment onto my card.

Some of the products that I have played with are:



WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 11
Thankyou everyone who entered this challenge - we really loved looking round your blogs, you all left us some awesome work to pore over!

Our Random winner chosen by Random.org is:
#45 Carol J - well done!
PRIZE: $10 gift voucher to the Polkadoodles Store.
  To claim your prize please email Polkadoodles, quoting 'Love 2 Create winner' in the subject bar. Please include this claim code L2Cwk11001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES
no particular order, we couldnt choose just 3 this week there were some STUNNING entries, you need to check out all of these!...

82 Toni
49 Paper Whims
94 Sue Tarby - WOW!! EVERYONE really needs to see this piece of work, it's incredible, please take a look and leave Sue a little love ; )
36 Paperlotta (for making us smile)
39 Kate Yetter
22 Danielalart
81 Sara'scloset

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.
  Just in case you have missed any winners posts, previous winners, Top 3 and GDT's can be found on our 'Winners Page' at the top of the blog.

Just add your entry below in Mr Linky below!
We would love you to join us as GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add email us HERE if you'd like to join in the fun!. 
The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...
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