Challenge 13 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

Good morning crafters, and a big warm welcome to our new challenge! Of course we're keeping it nice and easy for you to play along, the theme is.. ..

Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

We've got some lovely crafty stash lined up waiting for our lucky winner thanks to

 Premium Craft Brands!! And you don't even have to use our products to enter.

Before we check out the inspiration from our DT, it's time to announce the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 11. A huge thank you to everyone who played along, there were some stunning projects!! Random.org has worked his magic and this time around the lucky winner from Challenge 11 is ...

14. Kelly Leese

Congratulations Kelly!! Please email us (details in sidebar) quoting your snail mail details and winners code which is PPWK01101 and we'll get your prize out to you as soon as we can!

This time around, Top 3 honours go to ...

4. Karen Dunbrook

12. Harriet

23. Elaine

Well done ladies, beautiful artwork! Please help yourselves to a badge for your blog and we hope you'll join us again soon!

Now on to our new challenge and as usual our DT have been working their magic to create some stunning projects to inspire you ....

Gemma 

For this challenge, I have created a journal page. I did a base layer using Orange Tint, Permanent Red Tint and Phthalo Blue Tint. I then mixed some of the Red and Blue Tints to gesso, this made me a paint that I could then stamp onto the background with bold background stamps.  I used Magenta Shade and Violet to lay colour onto my flowers and blended them together with a water brush, more details and photos can be found on my blog. 

Violet Pan Pastel	Magenta pan pastel	Orange Tint PanPastel	Sofft sponge bars	Titanium White PanPastel
Phthalo Blue Tint	Permanent Red Tint Pan Pastel

Claire C 

I've made another tag for my tag journal using my PanPastels, 

Hansa Yellow

Hansa Yellow Tint

Diarylide Yellow PanPastel

Bright Yellow Green Pan Pastel

Lou: This is part one of my project! You see I can't show the full project - only a sneak peek of the final piece - as it's being used for a new stamp launch on C&C (29th June 2017) for Nikky Hall of Polkadoodles. I've used stampbord and my pan pastels, (plus the new stamps) to create a mirror ...

More photos and details of how the mirror frame is made can be found on my blog.

Products:

Pan Pastel - Magenta	PanPastel Magenta Extra Dark	Phtalo Blue Pan Pastel	Turquoise Pan Pastel	Pan Pastel Colourless Blender
Metallic PanPastel Set	Pan Pastels	Panpastel Tool Angle Slice Sponges	PanPastel - Sofft Knives and Covers

Terry: I have made a few canvasses, the background was made with Gesso, Light Modelling Paste and a flowerstencil, I worked with a bunch of fabulous PanPastel colours such as Metallic PanPastels, White Coarse and crackle. The Butterflies were worked on with Crackle and Metallic PanPastels. the finishing touch was made with Gel Medium.

I have worked with the following products:

Metallic PanPastel Set	Metallic Pan Pastel - Copper Metallic	PanPastel Light Gold Metallic	White COARSE Pearl Medium for PanPastels	Gesso
Maimeri Light modelling paste

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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 8th July and the winner and top 3 will be announced 

on Sunday 16th July 2017!!

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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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