One for the boys inspiration plus winners

Good morning folks, its definitely perfect crafting weather here in the UK this weekend so why don't you make the most of it and join our One for the Boys Challenge??

If you're visiting to link up your project, just click here to go straight to the challenge

You've still got a whole week to enter to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous crafty goodies from Premium Craft Brands so what are you waiting for?? Oh I know, the winner and Top 3 from Challenge 14 lol.

Without any further ado, our lucky winner (chosen by Random.org)  is.........

2. Butterfly (Alison)

wooo hoo congratulations hun, email us quoting your winners code which is  PPWK1401

As always you didn't make it easy to choose the top 3, a big thank you to everyone who entered, there were so many amazing projects. So the Top 3, chosen by the DT are

10 Shirley
16. Doreen
25 Susanne

Well done ladies! Don't forget to pick up your Top 3 badges for your blogs!

So back to our 'One for the Boys' challenge, the DT have created some fabby projects to inspire you!

Anjie - To create my card I used the Roses A5 stamp set. You wouldn't think that a Roses stamp set would suit for a male card would you! For the background I stamped the large splat in a dark blue ink, and then the smaller splat with a lighter blue and a dark yellow. For the front stripe I used the 3 different clock faces and a set of clock hands in the same colours. I used the Phthalo Blue Shade - Pan Pastel to give a distressed look around the edges. I then added one of the sentiments to the front and some bakers twine.

Claire C I've made a canvas using Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and PanPastels in Raw Umber plus Shade, Burnt Sienna plus Shade creating lots of texture to give a wood effect and sealed with Maimeri Glossy Gel Medium. I've used Maimeri Acrylic Paints on the cogs.

 

Terry I was playing around with a heart wallhanger for the Boys, the background is worked on with light modelling paste, the roses stencil. The roses are colored with PanPastels that I mixed together. The wooden butterflies underneith are colored with Pans too. 

 

Lou: I too have used the Roses A5 stamp set. as adore all the elements of this sheet. I created my background using Diarylide Yellow Shade, Raw Umber, Hansa Yellow Tint and Rich Gold pan pastels. For my background, I have over stamped with the clock image using Mustard Seed distress ink. On the main image, I have stamped my images using black Adirondak ink pad. Hearts have been punched out from red card and layered. Also for a change, I have made a DL card!

        

I'm sure you'll agree the DT have created some fabulous projects to inspire you. You can find the linky for the challenge 

here

thanks for visiting, we'll be back next week with another fun challenge 

xx

WK 1- Anything Goes/frosty finish - Pan Pastel UK Challenge

Happy New Year! 
We hope you are all rested and recovered from all the festivities and ready and up for a whole brand new year of challenges haha!

Firstly the whole team would like to say a huge thankyou to you all for checking in with us each week and for all the lovely comments you all leave - you inspire us to keep trying new things so you are an integral part of what we do here on the blog. 2014 is going to be a great year for Pan Pastels and for Premium Craft Brands with lots of new products and exciting developments so we can't wait to get stuck in!

Firstly, let's get last year's business done and dusted...

The random winner of our Week 51 challenge is

#7 Mags - well done Mags! Email us here to claim your prize!

Our Top 3 faves from Week 51 are: #6 Craftyfield, #10 Julie Short and #3 Doreen

Well done everyone and make sure you all grab your blinkies from the sidebar! Thanks so much for entering the challenge!

Don't forget, you don't have to use Pan Pastels or any of the Premium Craft Brands products to enter our challenges but we'd love it if you could show us projects where you do use them!

So, onto this week...As always our challenge for you at home is 

Anything Goes, 

but for the Design Team they were all asked to create a 

Frosty Finish

This means really we are asking them to produce snow or frost effects using either Pan Pastels or any of the Premium Crafts product lines. 

They produced some stunning effects and we know you guys at home will have some great ones to show us too so let's see what y'all got!

You have until Tues 14th Jan to enter this challenge so you have LOADS of time and the winner will win a super stash of Premium Crafts goodies including Pan Pastels, Mediums, Masks and who knows what else!

We don't really do loads of rules here but we do have a couple so please take note:
1. No backlinks
2. Only 2 entries to make it fair for everyone
3. We'd love you to TRY and play along with the challenge if you can although it's not a hard and fast rule but extra brownie points are awarded to those who do. 
4. The main prize can only be posted to a UK address.
And remember - our Top 3 is eligible for the running to be offered a place as a forthcoming Guest designer too!

So let's see what the team made!...

Claire  I've altered a little wooden birdhouse, Its coloured with white and Raw Umber PanPastels and then added a frosty finish with lots of Maimeri Pearl white paint, glassy gel and gesso. The birdy was made with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and coloured with pewter acrylic paint. The icicles are a mix of Maimeri glassy gel and glitter, left to dry and die cut with an icicle die.

Tracy - Hi everyone, today I have a quick recycled tag to share with you all using . . .

 Maimeri Gesso, Metallic Pan Pastels, Phthalo Blue Shade Pan along with . . . 

 . . . a little sprinkling of German Glitter Glass for an extra frosty feel.

Lou: I've gone in a different direction with my "Frosty Finish" and my focus was on the colours associated with "frost". I have used different diecuts embossed with the Barok 12" border stencil and coloured them using a versamark pen, metallic silver and soft blue pan pastels. Full details are on my blog.

Terry I worked on a box and made it a Frosty one, I started out with Gesso, Modelling Paste, Glossy Gel, Iridescent paste, worked on it with the heartshaped stencil, embossing powder, lace, wendy vecchi butterfly, just loveeeeeeeeeee this one, Crackle accents, blue panpastel and the Silver Metallic PanPastel. 

Zoe   I've created my backgrounds with Pan Pastels check out my blog for more.

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