Love 2 Create - Nikky Hall using a digi image to create a journal page

We are very lucky today and have the very talented Nikky Hall (from Polkadoodles) sharing one her of her projects with us on Love 2 Create using a digi image called Oddella Twig to create a journal page ...

Over to you Nikky ...


I coloured this Oddella image up a few weeks back and when I looked at it the following day I suddenly had an overwhelming urge to make her into a journal page which I have not done for absolutely eons...and I mean eternity eons! So I didnt lose the mojo for her I rushed upstairs as soon as I got in from work and decided I was only allowing the time it took for the pizza to cook and no more - I'm trying to set myself time goals so I just go with the flow and didn't procrastinate too much as it's killing my melon, man ... this was the coloured image before and after ...

 I just got all my fave colours out and random stamps which just happened to be the nearest to hand which were all my textures from Premium Art Brands and threw it all on. I did actually spritz and seal between layers but because I was rushing they did get very muddied and I used a lot of yellow ochre pan pastel, (which I don't normally do). Not what I was aiming for at all but this was pizza journaling after all ...!

I just ripped the image off the paper and glued it down with photo glue then applied all the Pan Pastel colours around it, using a Versamark inkpad to overstamp - love using Versamark ink as they just stick to the Pan Pastels like glue and make it so vibrant...

A bit of doodling to finish off using a black Graph'It marker which will go over virtually anything and the must have Graph'It White Shake marker and voila ...

WOWsers, I'm sure you will all agree that that is one fabulous journal page and unless you were told, wouldn't believe that it was a digi image and not a stamped one.

We'd love it if you became a follower of our challenge blog, not just to join in with the challenges ... which would be way cool by the way ... but to check out all the fabulous projects shared.

Happy crafting everyone and don't forget to pop over next week as the winners, plus top 3 will be announced for last months challenge. REMEMBER you still have time to enter this months challenge and all the details can be found HERE.

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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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Tea Lovers

Afternoon lovely friends x
So I saw this beautiful teacup stamp and couldn't resist creating an outdooorsy style picnic, perhaps because at long last we have sunshne YeY!!!

And as usual I mixed all my various mediums and finished off with my beloved PanPastels - they grabbed perfectly to the mica sprays/paint base and the mica still shines through perfectly!  Tell a lie I added glitter over the top of my PanPastels!
(top tip - because I seal my PanPastels I always doodle with waterprool pens so they don't bleed)

Anyone thirsty now!!!
I am lol
I'm off then for a cuppa - I'll leave you with more close-up pictures

Mwah - Kassa xoxo