Challenge #8 - Anything Goes Mixed Media Creative Challenge at We Love 2 Create at Polkadoodles

WELCOME TO A NEW CHALLENGE!

As always, the theme this month is  

Anything Mixed Media Goes

Closing date for entries: 20th August, Noon. Max 2 entries per person, no backlinks.

You do not need to use Polkadoodles products to enter our challenges, use any products you wish... 

RANDOM WINNER 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...

Winners of our last challenge are at the bottom of this post...

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Our sponsor for 2019 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop.  Make sure you check out the POLKADOODLES store below, they have lots of fab new products in store perfect for all you mixed media lovers out there, make sure you check them all out! Some of their mixed media products are amazing!

So let's find out what the Design Team have made this month!...

Corry Hey there crafters.   This time I have made a card with the beautiful flower stamp pretty perfect...For the background I used distress inks and different stamps....At first I stamped the flower on the card.  I blended the leaves with chlorine bleach. After that, I stamped the flower again - I have colored the flowers and butterflies and then I cut it out and glued them on the card. Finally, I placed some glitter on the flower and butterflies...

Terry: Hi there, This time I made a couple of Art Journal Pages, just love to play around with stamps on the background, started with Distress inks, after that I played with all kinds of smaller stamps, from the Honey Daisy, Stampsoup Lemonade Fizz, Texture Gallore, Lavender Tea, Making Faces, Papillon. Bella Fleur, Regal Peacock and Funky Alphabet Stampset, stamped the girls on both pages and colored them with pencils and with inks. With a stencil I placed the swirls and used Modelling Paste for it and mixed orange acrylic paint in with it. And last but not least I stamped some sentiments on the art journal pages.

Irmelin: Hi everyone. Today I'm sharing a canvas I've made with one of the many digital stamps that are in the store. The one I chose was from the Stick & Bones collection. I colored this one with Copic Sketch. The colored image I glued to one canvas and started to add elements. I added fiberglass tape, wood bits from the canvas, string, and branches. I also made a mixture of art stones and glue that I adhered to the canvas. I colored the canvas with ink sprays and decorated with flowers. Finally, I added a title. Hope you will enjoy my project this month!

Jane – I love my art journals at the moment and played with my A6 version today. I used glitter pens and watercolours to create a crazy coloured background and added lots of lovely Stamp Soup stamps for interest. 

The focal point is one of the stunning Oddella digis coloured with pencils.

Here's the products the team used...

Gorgeous projects as always! 

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 7
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 is:

#31 Saras Closet

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 L2Cwk8001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES
Every month you blow us away with some outstanding entries! These are some that really made us oooohh and aaaahhh - thankyou all for your amazing creativity, you're just awesome!

SO here are a few favourites you all need to take a look at if you didnt already!

#5 Tammy A

#24 Kropki i Kreski

#34 Maria

#41 Cornelia

A big thank you to everyone who entered last month's challenge and winners, plus Top 3, will be announced on the next challenge.

Don't Forget to play along with our other teams too! 

All our challenges are Anything Goes!...
You could win some Polkadoodles Goodies and as always our Challenges are
**Anything Goes**.....Find us here:
Digi Choosday Blog
Polkadoodles Blog
Gem of a Challenge

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Challenge #7 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes plus WINNERS!

Oh my goodness ... it's April! Where has that time gone? However on a plus side, not long to "chocolate time" and the much appreciated visit from the Easter Bunny.

Firstly, we would like to say many thanks to everyone who applied to the recent DT call and we will be contacting people in the immediate future ... so watch your email ...!

After all that excitement it's back to business and  our new challenge where out theme is
 
Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

As always we have a fabulous prize of crafty stash for our random winner thanks to the lovely people at Premium Craft Brands.

 

You don't have to use our products to enter but of course we love it when you do! Our DT have lots of inspiration for you but before we see what they have been busy with this week it's time to announce the lucky winner and Top 3 from Challenge 4.

Our lucky winner, chosen by Random.org is ......

Lilian B #42

Congratulations Ann!! please email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and your winners code which is PPWK.05001

As always it was a difficult decision as we had so many beautiful entries but the votes are in and counted and this time around Top 3 honours go to .....

Annie #1

 Richa #41

Autumn #10

Congratulations! Please help yourselves to a badge for your blogs.




Right back to our new challenge,  let's see what beautiful makes our DT have created this week...


Terry: So this time I made a little something WITHOUT a butterfly lol....can you believe it? Anyways, I made a little notebook or I altered a notebook. I worked my way from a plain notebook to a colored one with the use of PanPastels, Gesso, Light Modelling Paste, Iridescent Paste, a stencil with flowers and some sentiments.

Iridescent Paste	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Gesso	Titanium White PanPastel	Magenta Tint Pastel
Soft Tools

Lou: I am so in love with the Belle Papillion and Bella Fleur stamps from Polkadoodles that I couldn't resist using them again. I have stamped the images either in grey or clear and then coloured everything with my pan pastels. All die cuts were also coloured with pan pastels too. I have even made my background the same way. More photos are on my blog.

Products and links:

Pan Pastel - Magenta	PanPastel Magenta Extra Dark	Orange Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel bright yellow green shade	Pan Pastels	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers
Polka Doodles Belle Papillon A5 stamp set	Bella Fleur Large stamp set	Polkadoodles Birdcage & Bird doublet die set	Polkadoodles dies - Flower Branch die set	Birdhouse Doublet Die set	VersaMark Stamp Pad

Claire C: will  be joining in shortly as suffering from internet issues.



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A NEW CHALLENGE #6, WINNERS ANDDDD A DT CALL!!!!!

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you're having a lovely creative weekend! We've got a new challenge starting and we've also got a DT CALL as we're looking for some new teamies to join our creative adventures!  

We're a wee bit thin on the ground and our lovely Alysha is a very busy bee so she is taking a short break from DT duties. We'll miss her very much but hopefully she'll be back before too long.As a result we're looking for new teamies to join us. You don't have to be an expert with PanPastels as we want a diverse mix of crafters in our team, in fact quite a few of us had never used Pans until we joined. We do need people who are reliable, creative and enjoy creating mixed media projects. We will provide you with products to play with and in return we're asking for crafters who are happy to:

• create a new project every two weeks using our products (occasionally we may ask for additional physical projects if we need samples for TV shows etc)
• Post your project on your personal blog
• Comment on challenge entries (we have a comment rota to share this between the team)
• participate in our facebook group and also the DT facebook group

IF you'd like to be considered for a place on the team , please just add DT after your entry to this challenge! We'll be in touch with successful  applicants in early April!! Good luck everyone!! 

After all that excitement it's back to business and  our new challenge where out theme is

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

As always we have a fabulous prize of crafty stash for our random winner thanks to the lovely people at Premium Craft Brands

You don't have to use our products to enter but of course we love it when you do! Our DT have lots of inspiration for you but before we see what they have been busy with this week it's time to announce the lucky winner and Top 3 from Challenge 3.

Our lucky winner, chosen by Random.org is ......

13. Kym

Congratulations Kym!! please email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and your winners code which is PPWK.04001

As always it was a difficult decision as we had so many beautiful entries but the votes are in and counted and this time around Top 3 honours go to .....

12. Jana K
14. Susanne
18. Made with love by Elli

Congratulations! Please help yourselves to a badge for your blogs


Right back to our new challenge,  let's see what beautiful makes our DT have created this week...

Claire C PanPastels are perfect for a quick scenic card as they blend so easily, especially with the colourless blender. I've used  my PanPastels to create the background before stamping the images and adding some colour with my PanPastels and Lyra pencils

Here are the colours I've used to make this card:

PanPastel Ultramarine Blue	Ultramarine Blue Tint	White Fine Pearl Medium for Pan Pastels	Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel
Bright Yellow Green Shade	Diarylide Yellow PanPastel	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender

Lou: I decided to use my pan pastels to help stamp and colour all my images, create backgrounds, and finally to also soften the edges of all papers. Full details and more photos can be found on my blog.

Pan Pastel - Magenta	Orange Pan Pastel	Violet Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel bright yellow green shade	Pan Pastels	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers
Polka Doodles Belle Papillon A5 stamp set	Bella Fleur Large stamp set	VersaMark Stamp Pad	Polka Doodles Ribbon Gift Frame

Terry, Hey there crafters I had loads of fun making this Spring Canvas, playing with lots of different spring colors and I made the background with lots of PanPastels. After the first layer I thought I would work with the fabulous Stencil A5 Victorian style. It is just amazing to play with this stencil. I sprayed water on top and made sure the stencil would show after I finished playing with PanPastels. Than I placed the stencil again on my canvas and played with some crackle. Next I rubbed the PanPastels on the background that was created with the stencil and this gave such a nice effect. Since I am just in love with butterflies I colored a large butterfly with PanPastels and placed it in the centre of the canvas. Last but not least a few sentiments were glued onto the canvas. 

Products that I have worked with are: 

stencil A5 Victorian	Panpastel Bright Yellow Green Tint	Red Iron Oxide PanPastel	Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel	Pearlescent Violet Pan Pastel
PanPastel Turquoise Tint	Pan Pastel pearlescent orange	Pan Pastel, White (fine) Pearlescent	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Panpastel Diarylide Yellow Tint
Panpastel Permanent Green Tint	Soft Tools	Soft Tools

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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  1st April and the winner and top 3 will be announced 

on Sunday 16th April 2017!!

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