Challenge #3 - Anything goes at Love 2 Create Mixed Media Challenge

WELCOME TO A NEW 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 24th March 2019 so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2019 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.

WINNERS OF OUR LAST CHALLENGE ARE AT THE END OF THIS POST 

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, plus amazing new stamps, stencils and papers this month which are to die for! ...

Now let's check out the inspiration from our talented design team...

Corry  This time I used the stampset Hello friend...

For the background I used distress ink. and the leaves and branches stamped in the background afterwards I stamped the flower on another paper and colored it with ziggmarkers and glued it on the card. I blended the leaves with chlorine/bleach...

Polkadoodles collection Spring song
hello-friend-a5-clear-stamp-set

Scatty Jan I have made a set of ATC Coins, one of my favourite things to make at the moment . I used Distress Inks and paints on the backgrounds

Polkadoodles Goodies Used

Winnie in Wonderland printable collection

Accents stencil - Stars and Circles

6 x 6 Posy Doodles paper pack - Sentiment sheet

Nikky...Polkadoodles released a stunning new collection this week so I've been busy get all inky and watercoloury, check them all out HERE...

Jane - I have decorated an MDF tag with some of the gorgeous new stamps. I stamped and embossed in gold and coloured with watercolours.

Polkadoodles Essentials:
Pretty Perfect Clear Stamp Set
Perfect Wishes Clear Stamp Set
Every Wish In The World Clear Stamp Set


Terry, I have worked with lots of stampsets to create my background on the card that I made, I used soft colours such as lavender to create a Spring feel card. With lots of flowers that I colored with Zig Clean Color brush markers. And of course some butterflies xxx

The products that I worked with are:
Papillon Clear Stamps
Polkadoodles Tropical Flowers
Polkadoodles Hello Friend
Polkadoodles Heart Sing



Gorgeous projects as always! Thanks team, you're awesome!

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 2
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:

#80 Artery Crate

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 L2Cwk2001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES

We really could NOT only pick 3 this week there were some outstanding entries! 

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

#27 Craftartista

#12 Saras closet

#32 Maria F

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.
To enter 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 - see you next time!

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Challenge #2 - Anything goes at Love 2 Create Mixed Media Challenge

WELCOME TO A NEW 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 23rd February so there's loads of time to play along.

Our sponsor for 2019 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop below.

WINNERS OF OUR LAST CHALLENGE ARE AT THE END OF THIS POST 

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...

Now let's check out the inspiration from our talented design team...

Terry

For the challenge of this month I made a card with bright colors. It reminds me of spring.... I have colored the background with Distress Oxide. After I dried it with the Heat tool, I stamped some sentiments in the background with black ink. I stamped a few butterflies on the card and processed them with a water pen filled with chlorine. You get a very nice effect if you use chlorine.I also stamped a few small flowers and used a white pen to make the flowers jump out. Finally, I stamped a sentiment on the card. And my project was finished.

The products that I have worked with are:

Belle Papillon A5 large Clearstamp set

Tropical Flowers 1 Clear Stamp set

Time to bloom Clearstamp set

Corry 

This time I used the Tropical-underworld-clear-stamp-set 

I really like these stamps.

For the background I used Distress ink 

and sprinkled the card with water.

After this a stamped the fish and seahorse.

And stamped it and cut it out of Paper with Alcohol ink 

Then I glued it on the card 

And last I added Some details with glitter .

the stamp I used are:

Tropical Underworld Clear stamp set

Special Times Clear Stamps- Time To Bloom

Little Monsters Stampset Freaky

Jane 

I made my first EVER journal page for this month's challenge using stamps, stencils and dies. The gorgeous image was coloured with pencils and the background with Distress Oxides.

Products Used:

Believe in Angels Clear Stamp Set

Believe in Angels Stencil Collection

Accents Stencil

Heart Sing A5 Stamp Set

Time to Bloom Stamp Set

Fluffy Clouds Die Set

Nikky

I used products from our latest stamp & paper releases at Polkadoodles 'Spring Song'...

Gorgeous projects as always! Thanks team, you're awesome!

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 1
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:

6 Helen

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 L2Cwk1001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP DT FAVOURITES

We really could NOT only pick 3 this week there were some outstanding entries! 

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

# 1 Irene

6 Helen Liu

8 Ingunn

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.

To enter 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 - see you next time!

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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...

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

Posy Doodles Paper Kit 1

Posy doodles Splash of Summer 6x6

Doodle Dragonfly Stamp Set

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

Accent Stencil

Great Outdoors Stencil

Special Times Stamp Set

Honey Daisy Stamp Set

Belle Papillon Stamp Set

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

Poinsettia/Holly Stencil

Gnome Clear Stamp Set

Cute as Christmas Clear Stamp Set

Holly & Spruce Die Set

Fancy Snowflake Die

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:

Delicate Doodles Clear Stamps

Time to Bloom Clearstamp set

Belle Papillon A5 large Clearstamp set

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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Challenge #11, 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 28th August 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...

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

Katrina Hi there Katrina joining in for this month's Love 2 Create with a journal page  I created. 

Products from Polkadoodles

Paper:  Polkadoodles Winnie in Winterland 

Digi:  Polkadoodles Knowledge is Everything
Die Cuts:  Polkadoodles ~ Small Notes, Large Notes, and Flowers

Gemma - Sharing a door hanger with you all today using the small stamps from some great Polkadoodle sets and acrylic paint. More details can be found on my blog. 

Products from Polkadoodles

Time to Bloom

Special Time Stamps

Jan ~ Hi there Jan here to share a little mixed media tag, I really enjoyed making this , I used a stencil in the background randomly using modelling paste for bubbles, covered with Distress Oxide inks, then stamped, painted and played

Products used from Polkadoodles

Stamp Sets

Tropical Underworld

&

Wish you were here

Stencil  - Accents Stencil

Button - Mixed Vintage Seafaring

Julia I have made a page for my Journal. I used some Acrylic paints and dragged them across the page with a pallet knife. I used some of the gorgeous stencils available from Polkadoodles to build up the layers and added some details using some elements from the Blooming Posy Doodles Paper kit and some doodling, had a blast making this page.

Products From Polkadoodles:

Stamps:

Dragon Fly Doodles

Daisy Friends

Monster Messages

Stencils:

Accents 

Great Outdoors

Jane - I took a small canvas and covered it with texture paste, mica sprays and some of the fabulous Polkadoodles Clear Stamps, then created a tag for a 'walk in the winter' theme.

Polkadoodles Products

Special Times Clear Stamp Set

Great Days Clear Stamp Set

Trees Stencil

Terry: I made a simple but really colorfull card completely covered the background with waterpaint and worked with the sentiment stamp from the Stampset from Polkadoodles, love the sentiment stamp you can use it for anything you want too. I than colored the flower and the butterfly so they would fit in the background. A nice sentiment on it and my card for a birthday for example is ready to go.......to a friend lol.....

The products that I worked with are:

Belle Papillon A5 Clear Stampset Polkadoodles

Bella Fleur A5 Clear Stampset Polkadoodles

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 10
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:
94 Sara Emily # - 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 L2Cwk10001 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!...

34 Toni
64 Kate Yetter
69 Carol J
81 Nancy Hill
90 Paper Beauty AK

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 you entry below in Mr Linky and if you would like to appear as a GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add GDT after your name. The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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Challenge #10, 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 31 Juy 2018 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...

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

Nikky...I've used the fab Chipboard fairy door kit for this project, combined with our Posydoodles stamps. I find you barely need to add anything to the chipboard anyway, but all I did was paint it with gesso and then add a little Vintage Photo distress ink to the edges and glue down all the pieces, tucking in a little reindeer moss along the way. I stamped flowers and embossed with white embossing powder then just added a sprinkle of my fave Frantage powders and that was it...

... and this is a 2nd version of this kit - completely different when it uses bright colours! These papers and stamps were all from this Splash of Summer kit here....

Gemma- I have an altered house shaped chipboard blank to share with you all today that I used some wonderful Polkadoodles stamps on along with different paints and sprays from my stash. More details can be found on my blog.

Products from Polkadoodles

Special times

Time to BloomJu


Terry: I have made a card for you this month with Summer colors, I worked on the background with Distress Oxides and played with lots of stamps from Belle Papillon and Regal Peacock. Just love both stampsets especially the smaller stamps are very versatile. I have colored the butterflies with the same colors Distress Oxides and all the smaller flowers too, to fit everything together. I hope I am giving you some inspiration for this month's challenge

Julia I there I have made a little mixed media card, I actually went for a walk and picked up some sticks especially for this project. I also used some packaging to create a textured background. The card was inspired by Nikky's gorgeous new Critters collection which you can find here 

I used the Foxy Fun Felt kit for the little Felt mushroom and the Nuts about you stamp set to create the little Acorns and then the dies from Beary Hugs for the foliage. Full details on my blog.

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 9
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: 
#51 Meeta Bhelotia - 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 L2Cwk9001 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!... 

#51 Meeta Bhelotia
#23 Zahraa 
#1 Carol Gill (so pretty Carol!)
#6 Kathyk 
#12 papermona 
#71 Paper beauty 
#52 Creative smiles
 To be honest, we had to just end the list there as we could have had about 20, we have some seriously talented people who enter this challenge, thankyou all so much! 

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 you entry below in Mr Linky and if you would like to appear as a GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add GDT after your name. The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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Challenge # 7 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes at We Love 2 Create

Happy Easter Sunday everyone and welcome back!

Now we all know that crafters don't really need an excuse to 'play' with their crafty stash but just in case you do, why not play along with this months challenge. Our theme is easy peasy ...

Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes

Our sponsor for 2018 is Polkadoodles and you can check out all the wonderful selection of Polkadoodles goodies in the shop. Have you visited recently? If not pop over now as there are oodles and oodles of new goodies waiting to be re-homed 😇

  You don't have to use our Polkadoodles products to enter but we do a happy dance when you do lol. 
The challenge closes 29th April 2018 so there's loads of time to play along. Our prize isfrom Polkadoodles for our lucky winner, (chosen by random.org)...

Prize: $10 voucher to spend at Polkadoodles

Now let's check out the inspiration from our DT. As you can see our talented team have been busy working their creative/mixed media magic for you .....

This month we have a fabulous Guest Designer joining us! 
We love her creative work and are thrilled to have her with us, so here's a little insight into our fab Guest Designer:
Tina de Marche...
make sure you check out her blog HERE.....

Hi, I'm Tina and excited to be a Guest Designer this month​.


I'm a mom to 4 boys, so there's never a dull moment in my house.  I've always been surrounded by crafty people in my family (it's a big family), so my hands love to stay busy.  If it's not crafting, it's cooking or gardening that I enjoy doing.  I've been making cards for 14 years now, started in a Calligraphy group, then later on, I got into stamps.  I love to learn and try new things out, so I'm hoping to inspire you to do the same.





I used molding paste, stencils, tissue paper, inks and paints to create the background. Embellishments were also painted, inked, and sprayed to created harmony.

 

 Gemma.....
I had fun with this little canvas, it was complete and total play time for me, and I really like the end result. I threw so many different thin layers of mediums on it, I'm not sure I will remember them all pop over to my blog and see how many I do remember.

Polkadoodles Products

Belle Papillon Stamp Set

Jan For my tag I used Polkadoodles stamp set that I heat embossed I then used watercolour paints .For the background I used Distress Oxides. I love making tags so simple yet you can add so much

Terry,  Hey there crafters out there, I made a card for you this time, for your inspiration. I have worked on the background with lots of distress inks, mixed them all together to create these colors. Than I could use my Stampplatform for the very first time, I must say a Stamp platform is such a handy tool to use when you are creating WITH stamps, just fabulous. So I have created these flowers with the fabulous stampset  Regal Peacock and Bella Fleur. And I have colored the flowers and the Moth with Distress Oxide inks, on top I have worked with the Glitter Shake Markers, they work wonders on your stamps....The background was finished with a Sentiment and those cute little leaves. Wanna see more, than I suggest you come over to my blog and check it out.

Julia here, I Altered this watering can. First I primed with Gesso. I then used the gorgeous stamp sets, Blossom, Dotty about Flowers & Heavenly Bluebells http://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/stampin-unicorn/ & stamped onto rice paper. I then coloured using Ecoline pens & adhered it using a decoupage medium. Used a metallic finish paint for the rest of the can, & then added some string & created a little flower using stone paper.

Bella Fleur Large stamp set

Polkadoodles Regal Peacock A5 stamp set

Polka Doodles Belle Papillon A5 stamp set

Glitter Shake - Graph′It Markers

WINNERS FROM CHALLENGE 6
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: #55 Danielala
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 L2Cwk6001 in your email and allow 14 working days for a reply please.

TOP 3 DT FAVOURITES (no particular order): 
#67 Paper Beauty
#10 Alice P
30 Kakichka

Thankyou all so much for your wonderful entries, very creative, we loved them!

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 you entry below in Mr Linky and if you would like to appear as a GDT on Love 2 Create Challenges, just add GDT after your name.
The Love 2 Create team can't wait to see what you have created this month ...

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